Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1861-02-21
FROM WASHINGTON

The Pres ident has appointed Senators Foot,
Foster and Pearce, a Committee to wait on Mr.
Lincoln and attend HIM 10 the place of Inaugural
ton.
The committee appointed 10 prepare matter
for the consideration of the Peace Conference, on
Friday reported plan of paciiicatiof IL is an
dersto0d to he compounded nf propositions OF
the 'rittenden and Guthrie end Border State
Committee resolution and among other things,
applies the principle OF the Missouri oInpro-
mise line north of go 30 and popular soYer-
eighty south Of that line
Reliable tdngs from Richmond state that a
highly conservative feeling revais in the Vir-
gInia Convention, and that no hasty or ili.con-
sidered action may be anticipated
The army supplies recently seIzed at Napoleon,
Arkansas are worth between $4,000 and 50 600
and consist in 100 boxes, containing small arms
and ordnance stores, destined for troops on the
frontiers of Texas and Arkansas solely for pro-
tecting whites from lndsn ncursions. There
are two thousand regular troops on a line of a
thousand miles, but now there is safe route
for renewal of such supplies
Ii is said that assurances have recently been
received that no attack will be made on either
Fort Sumter or Fort PickenS and as soon as
Mr. Davis shall have been inaugurated as Pres
ident of the Southern CoDfedrracy, he will send
Minister to Washington, with power to
negotiate with this Government concerning va
rious matters in dispute However this may be,
source, that Major Anderson feels himself secure
in his position, and, should he be assaiIed, no
doubt is entertained that he can re tain it until
succored by the Government
w. h. Jones, who dispatched South, by
Secretary Dix, as Special Agent to look up facts
of seizure Of public property at New Orleans has
returned TO Washington. The report will be
made public at an early day
The Kansas relief bill has passed.
The Republicans have agreed, in caucus, &c
support Mr.. Bngham's force BILL in regard tC
seeding States.
A fracas occurred in the National Hotel Fri
| day evening between Mr. Kellogg, representative
| from Illinois, and Mr.. Medl, editor of the Chi
| cago Tribune. The latter was knocked down
| when the bystanders parted the beIhgerents.
Col. Jones, sent south by the Government, re
| ports that Il Telegraph Lines south are unde
| the control of the rebels, and that nothing cal
| pass over them unless it is in consonance witt
| their ideas. Everything is tending towards
/ national convention of all the States, and thu
| members of the peace conference seem to thini
| this will be the only way of adjusting affairs
| Private advices received here assert that Nortl
/ Carolina is sound for the Union.
Mr. Dix, Secretary of the Treasury IN a let
ter to John Sherman, chairman of the Hous
| committee OF ways and means, states the liabili
| ties of the government due on the 4th Of March
| TO be ten million dollars, while the revenue &C
cruiDg is estimated at only two millions, leaving
| eight millions to be provided for. The amour
| now in the treasury is half million while draft
| for about two millions remain unanswered
| President Buchanan has issued the usual proc
lamation declaring that an extra ordinary coca
sion " requires the Senate 10 convene for tn
transaction Of business on the 4th Of March a
noon TO act on such communications as may b
made on the part of the executive.
Several States having seeded since Mr. Nc
Kean's bill 20 close the South Carolina ports wa
introduced into the House, John Cochrane G
the committee to whom the subject was referred
has reported bill applicable to all cases of sim
| liar treason
Lieut.. Sayre of the Marine corps, formerly Q
Alabama has resigned.
The navy department has received no intel
gence from the Leyant.