Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-01-25
From Washington.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 20.

Thirty three, signed by Taylor, of Louisiana
Phillips, Of Missouri, Rusk, Of Arkansas
Whiting, of Delaware, and Winslow. of NortI
Carolina, embraces in substance the following
The report says the present difficulties cal
only be rcmeded by amendments to tn
Constitution. and suggests that the amend
ments proposed in the Crittenden resolutions
if adopted, would restore tranquility to thu
country, ane! place the Union Oh such found
alton that it could never be shaken. These
amendments, the report asserts, would not ir
reality change the Constitution. They would
only have the effect Of restoring it by The
added provisions to what it was in point o.
fact on the day of its adoption, through the
operation of the circumstances which then
surrounded it, and which erected barriers
against the present sectional contest as con-
stItutional provisions would now. If con-
stitutional majority cannot be united In
support Of the Crittendea resolutions, or the
substance of them, then dissolution Of the
Union is inevitable. The report recommends
that steps be taken for calling Convention
Of the States, with view to peaceable sepa-
ration, by providing for a partition OF the
property Of the United States, settling terms
by which the commercial interviews between
the separated States shall be conducted, and
making permanent arrangement with respect
to the navigation of the Mississippi. The
report gives what the sisners Of it consider
full account Of the rise and progress OF the
slavery agitation which has produced the
existing difficulties.
Washington is now more free from excite
ment than it has been at any time since the
opening of the present session Of Congress
Approximations of any difficulties attending
the Inauguration of President Lincoln exist
but to limited extent. However, to guard
against possible disturbance. ample means
have been taken to preserve the public
peace.
With the probable action this week, the
secession movement will be retarded as to the
Southern States.
A company of sappers and miners, from
West Point, acting as infantry, arrived
here to-day and are quartered at the Column
bian Armory.
Last week large number of Republican
members of Congress, from New England
the Middle and Western States, united in
strong recommendation to Lincoln to ap-
point Mr.. Coltax, of Indiana, as Postmaster
General
Bailey, connected with the abstraction of
the Indian Trust Bonds, has been released
from prison on bail to the amount Of s., 200.
He will appear before the special committee.
There is no donbt that instructions have
been sent to the commander of the Gull
and Home Squadron for speedy return o
some of the vessels ON that station, their
presence not being required there since the
success Of the Liberal party in Mexico.
New YORK, Jan. 49,
A special dispatch to the Commercial ID
certiser says Col Huger, Of the army, and
Com. Shubrick, of the navy, had an inter
view with Col Hayne in which they advised
him to consult farther with Gov. Pickens |
before making demands upon the President
for the surrender of Fort Sumter. 1t is IN
dsrstood that he has taken their advice.
The previous reports that be already had |
made such demands is, therefore, entirely |
without foundation.
Hon. Mr. Rives left Washington for |
Virginia and protested himself to be greatly !
after interviews with prominent |
Northern politi :ians, at the prospect of ad |
justment, at least 50 far as to retain the |
border States in the Union. He was also
hopeful of a final and pacific settlement of
the controversy that has so nearly rent us in
twain.
WASHINGTON, Jan. u.
While derrick was in use on the dome of
the Capitol, this morning, the train shaft
broke. Tho falling materially damaged
portion of the cornice of the iron dome, and
injured several workmen-~-one Of them seri
ously.
Gen. Dix states in letter to the commit
zee of Ways and Means, that after careful
of the condition Of the Treas
ary, 80 far as is now practicable, that twenty
million dollars will be required to carry on
the Government till the LIST of July, in add
lion TO the ordinary revenue from all sources
and Treasury notes already granted. This
am cunt is provided for in Mr.. Morrill's bill,
in the shape of {. loan, which the Secretary
Of the Treasury will probably be authorized
by joint resolution to convert into Treasury
notes at his discretion. Mr.. Cobb's report
entirely misrepresents tho state Of the
Frances and even now there may be other
heavy liabilities discovered, which will swell
the aggregate still more.
The party who has unde rtaken the trea-
sonable job Of supplying Mississippi with
rifles has been detected He had nearly, if
not quite, completed Il bargain with an
agent of Northern rife manufacturing
company when he was exposed.
In Anticipation of official information of
tho secession Of Georgia. a majority of the
have already signed . letter
of withdrawal from the House. Hill and
Haldeman have not yet assented
WASHINGTON, Jan. %.
Suspicious have beeu excited in official
circles here relative to the manufacturing at
Chicopee, and elsewhere in Massachusetts,, Of !
O battery of James ri1ed cannon for South |
Carolina, and believed to be designed for |
the reduction of Fort Sumter. Measures
will be adopted to verify the fact and arrest
the reasonable works.
Bills are being prepared by military AMI |
naval committees Of the House or by the com |
mittee Of Ways and Means for Immediately |
placing the country on q war footing. The |
President will be authorized to cali for the
enlistment of volunteers and and a conside-
rabe number cf war steamers will he forth
with ordered to be constructed.
Important Railroad Convention.
WAsulNGroN, Jan. %.
The Railroad Convention of the Eve east
ern and western trunk lines has adjourned
to meet in New York on the Goth of Febru-
ary next. 4 schedule of rates for freight
between eastern and western points was
adopted and restores the tisures Of the ST
Nicholas Hotel and Saratoga meetings, with
slight variation in regard to passengers.
The first and second sections Of the agree
ment there, making the fares uniform and
dispensing vita runners, were re-attirmed
The fact was developed, in the course of their
deliberations, that freight from the South and
Southwest, with the exception of cotton, had
greatly decreased, while the movement OF
produce from the northwest and central
west was unusually large, All the roads re-
port increased receipts over tho e Of January
lS60--some OF them very heavy. The 9th
ers show an enlargement in revenue on
all eastward freight Of 900 for the first
twenty two days of the present month over