Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-03-02
sonable expectation that be would belray
his trust at any favorable opportunity

ons has had great difficulty thus Tar IN re
.,noinincr e"a an assault on Sumter bat since the
cborre of the forts has been assumed by the
proyisional Government spirit Of iusob
ordination has been exhibited which the au-
tborities have found it difficult to check.
Before Withdrawing from the Senate, JEFF
erson Davis advised strongly against this
! attack. and now that he has new responsi-
bilities be is still more averse to il, as likely
to procpitate events, for which the South
is wholly unprepared. In all Mr.. Davis
disunion madness, there is considerable
method. .....
The Nsp Postal Biz -.
Mr.. Wade, by his resolule persistence and
tact succeeded in carrying the House bill,
authorizing the suspension Of the postal SER
vice in the seeding States, by vote Of "a
TO u, which now goes to the President for
bis signature.
The tariff bill passed the House with no
very material changes from the Senate bill
except refusal to concur in the amend
ment concerning tea and coffee.
The warehouSiug feature stands as under
the existing law. .......
TUESDAY, Feb. 20.
The compronis,rs
The "Peace" Convention to-day voted
down its own banlling, which was the Crit
tendeu Amendment slightly smoothed down
through the agency o. Messrs Guthrie aud
Franklin. Virginia, North Carolina, and
Missouri voted with the backbone Repub.
licans against it. IL was revived by
motion 10 reconsider, but exhibits low
state Of vitality. Ii is hoped the conven.
tion will adjourn tomorrow.
TIE Cabisd
The Cabinet remains in donbt.
Coz chase and Concession.
Governor Chase is represented in some
of the papers as having expressed willing
ness 10 his opening speech in the Peace
Convention 10 follow wherever Virginia
should lead and the inference has been
drawn therefrom that he too was taking
The concession tack. II is but simple JUS
tice to say that there is not the slightest
foundation for the inference.
TGtugas.
The large guns at Pittsburgh, which
Mr. Floyd intended TO ship down the Mis-.
sissippi for the use Of the disunionisis, are
to be seut to Tortugas, and employed q
gainst them in case of Recessity.
The coaspreey. II
Mr.. Floyd openly boosted, after leaving
| the War Department, that he had SO dis
, tributed the army that no considerable
force could be collected under two months.
This admission confirms the extent and
character OF the conspiracy.
! TIE TariE .F
o The two Committees of Conference Oh
J. the tariff met this afternoon, and the Sen
l ate members agreed to recede from theiI
. amendments, which will carry the bill to
+ morrow. Mr.. Buchanan will sign it, mo-
e withstanding the rumors to the contrary
J AforerasHts Of Mr.. Lizoolz.
Mr.. Lincoln visited the Senate this after
!, noon for the purpose of conferring with
" his political friends Of that body where ht
: could be free from interruption and the out
: side pressure which crowds upon him al
: the Hotel He sent for them alphabetical
! ly, and inquired as to the choice Of oact
: one for Secretary of the Treasury, noting
:, down the answer. 1t is easy to suppose
= that the vote was much scattered, as there
:, had been no previous concert lie will re
!, new this conference tomorrow.
a. While Representative Hickman was speal.
S ing in the House the other day, he was calle,
ID to order by Mr. Sickes which was not particu
- larly palatable, and Mr.. Hickman replied tina
;! he would not be PIT down by word from sue
al mouth as sckles'. .
Mt In conversation between q son Of Mass
r. chusetts, and a S. Caroliuian at the capitol
10 day or two since, the Southerner stated that b
~ did not believe there was an honest man
:; MASSACHUSETTS, but he meant nothing persona
,o The down easter replied that be believed theI
,r were many honest men in South Carolina, bu
IS he mea ut nothing personal
81 The PRrScE OF WALES has sent present OF
: pair of foe buck sheep, to Long JouS Went
WORTH, of Chicago, and pair of pointer dog
to a Mr.. SPENCER, Of the Chicago Alton
c, St. Louis r. r. These gentlemen paid specia
D attention to the Prince on his American tou
he KANsAs-The attempt Of certain parties a
as Leavenworth to throw discredt upon the repf:
IN sentations Of extreme suffering in Kansas, ha
a. called forth reafirmation, and rrefragible test
Il mony to the correctness Of the statements lir
u made There can be 10 doubt that the coud
: ton is pitable almost beyond parallel or COZ
ception.
le ANOTHER TRAIToR SMOKED OuT.-1he Hou:
'e Treason Committee have secuted another ira
IN tor in the Cabnet--Do less person than NJ
= roucey, Secretary Of the Navy. The coGmi
ct tee viii submit a resolution TO the Uonse shor
u ly, to the effect that be has been guilty Of
grave error in accepting the designations Of of
- GERS 10 arms against the government, being
At ware that the same were rendered with the ol
It. ect to escape the consequences of their trato
q Gus conduct.
a. EcoSoNY OF SEOEssIoS.-A gentleman wh
IN. is thoroughly conversau. with the affairs Of th
in PostOfice Department who occupies hig
on, Official position, states that without the post
md service OF the seeding states TO provide fo
ced the Post Office Department eau easily be MAJ
a., am se-sps'aining, at the present cheap rates
SaI postage. =.
nst There is some show Of sense among the s
90. cessionists, after ALL They wouldn't trust Cob
ises They had no money to spare and deemed