Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-03-23
Later from the Atlantic Side.

HIS CiN Ill
warmly reccivrd at every place he WIS.,
tied.
4 plot is said to have been discovered
ot Washington, having tor its object
tlc assassination of Mr.. Lincoln.
Nr. Lincoln has been waited on at
Ills residence by President Buchanan.
~,;cncral Scott. and other distinguished
rcr>onaycs.
The Foreign Ministers also paid their
The new Cabinet will be, Seward,
secretary of State : Bates, Attorney
General: Gilmcr, Of North Carolina,
Secretary of Navy; c. b. Smith, Sec
r.t,ry Of the Interior; Wcllcs, Post
master General and Cameron, Sccrc-
tarv of the Treasury.
j;cn. Twigs, of Texas, has proved a
traitor. lie has delivered everything
in Texas belonging to the U. s., into
the hands of the Scccssionists. 1t is
considered one of the most atroclous
acts committed by the sccessionists.
The Peace Conference has not yet
reported.
Virginia seems striving for the In
ion. An attempt was making to get
up a counter feeling, but so far without
success. .
Lincoln at New York, speaking of
the Union, said: "Thc ship was made
to carry the cargo, and the ship would
never be abandoned 50 long as it could
he saved, without throwing the passcn-
,,,I oor,ro n~vorhoor1
JET. Davis, President of the South
rrn Confcdcracv, is calling together a
Cabinet.
The New Orleans scccssionists have
refused to give up any portion OF the
treasure stolen from the L. 5.
Fort Sumter was to have been at
tackled on the Goth.
The French Government is reported
to be encouraging the seccssionists.
Explanations have been asked by the
I. 5. authorities.
The Russian Minister. StOcke!, is
also said t, be in favor of the South.
Agents from the South are at New
York purchasing steamers.
1t is reported that England will not
recognize the South.
Congress has done nothing with the
report of the Committee OF Thirty
three.
The Tariff bill passed the Senate
with Il multitude of amendments, which
will defeat it in the House, from want
of time. 1t is understood that the
warchousing system is left standing as
at present.
The Senate has refused to act upon
the appointment of Black as~judgc of
the supreme Court. Latham voted
no."
The California War Debt bill has
passed the Senate.
The work of the organization of the
Southern Government is progressing.
Toombs has been appointed Secretary
of State; Mcmmingcr, Secretary of the
Treasury, and Walker, Secretary Of
War. The question of the Tariff, and
tie cxpcdicncy of laying an export duty
on cotton, are under consideration.
The Virginia Convention has adj
.j%ourncd over the 22nd.
The Missouri Convention asccr-
tanned, and the Arkansas Convention
supposed to be largely conditional I'M
ion in sentiment, though few additional
returns arc received.
The following comes from Washing
ton of date of February Goth: The
Peace Conference was in session until
two o'clock this morning. The spir-
tied debate previously commenced o II
tinued, during the night proceedings,
many, if not all, the amendments were
voted down, leaving, substantially,
Guthric's proposition, with modified
vcrbiagc. This was in Committee OF
the Whole, but it will be voted on def
initcly to-day.
Dispatches to Government report a
large expedition leaving Galveston for
the Rio Grandc, consisting Of six COM
panics from Galveston and Houston
and two from the interior. The object
is declared to be protection to the from
tier, in the event of United States
troops being withdrawn. Col. Former,
an old ranger, commands the regiment.
1t is presumed in army circles that
Col. X. V. Sumner will be promoted
tothc commission dishonOrcd and ADAM
doncd by General Twiggs.
Government seems to have made
more than onc effort to get possession
of the bullion fund in tile New Orleans
Mint.
Postmaster General King, on the
18th, drew OH Guriot, the Assistant
Treasurer of Louisiana, for $500, 600,
but his draft, like that of Secretary Dix,