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approPriating $500, 900 TO arm the State
militia.
The Charleston Courier alleges that Ma.
jor Anderson destroyed $4,000 dollars
worth of Government property when he
evacuated Fort Moutrie.
Twenty-one Republican Senators have
protested to Mr.. Lincoln against the ap-
pointment of Gen. Cameron as one OF bis
Cabinet advisers.
Gen Cass remains in Washington. It
is bis opinion that our Government is not
strong enough to prevent its overthrow by
treason and the practices Of demagogues
Great excitement prevailed in Maryland
growing out OF political dissensous A
memorial is in circulation in Baltimore,
which is extensively signed by those who
voted for Winter Davis, requesting him to
resign Immediately.
The NaiionaI Iptcligeaoer advocates o
Convention Of all the States to revise the
Constitution. 1t advises that the peace
Conference recommend this instead of ac.
tion by Congress, which it thinks cannot be
had, and would be less eifeetual
A grand army" of 1000 mounted vol
unteer frontiersmen is rendezvousing in
Jack county, Texas, for an expedition Of
determination against the hostile Indian
tribes. They intend to push on to the
very headquarters of the enemy, and root
them out Of the land Of the living, if pos
sible.
In the Peace Conference, Virginia mem
bers have demanded Crittenden's resolu-
tions with Powel's amendment, providing
for the right Of transit through and sojourn
in Northern States with slave property
Mr.. Chase at once declared that this was
inadmissable, and that the Conference had
better separate if-such an ultimatum was
insisted upon. The Conference will hardly
be able to agree upon an entire plan Of set
tlement, but it will probably recommend
the calling Of 4 National Convention.
The Senators from Arkansas have be.
haved themselves well in the present crisis.
johnson has done no more than sign a Sc
eessiOn document or two. Senator Sebas-
tian has FeIused to do even that much, or
anything whatever toward influencing his
State to withdraw from the UpiOn. He
has received many letters from his constit-
uents complmenting him, aud saying that
Arkansas shall not follow the example OF
the Seceders r-l
The Tennessee election for delegates to
the State Convention Is over. Returns so
Tar are very meagre, but it is admitted that
the Union men have gained a victory with
as much ease as they did in Virginia.
Those who are elected are doubtless condi-
tioual Union men, as they are in the Old
Dominion, and will not secede If the North
will make them some such concessions as
are contained 10 the Tennessee Legislative
resolutions, which are much the same as the
Criitenden resolutions.
Nothing definite has been done in the
Peace Conference, nor was anything done
by the subcommittee charged with the
subject matter Of compromise, except to lis
ten to speeches A great many PROPOSE
lions are before them. Some are very long,
and embrace many subjects Of greater or
less importance. One or two are short.
and refer mainly to the territorial feature
of the complications.
The New York JoarnaI of Commerce says
it is reported in Wall street that certain
capitalists have addressed leading Republi-
cans at Washington In terms more forcible
than elegant, initiating that all the Loan
Bills that eau be passed will not extract
from the Empire City another million Of
dollars, until some compromise is effected,
Or at least profvred to the seeding States.
None Of the Southern Judges on the
bench Of the Supreme Court have proposed
resiguing except Judge Campbell, aud be
may he induced TO reconsider hasty COM
initial. Secessionists have labored hard to
induce them to Withdraw, in order to
strengthen their movement.
The enunciation Of the dogma, given re-
Gently in the New York Tribune, 10 favor
Of preferriDg the principles Of the Republi-
can party to fifty Unions, in the very teeth
Of Mr.. Stewards late speech has as might
have been anticipated, produced a serious
conflict in the Republican ranks, which can
ouly be healed by the prostration Of one or
the other division Of the party.
A Republican paper 10 the East tells Its
readers, quite exaltiugly, that 0l Dabo is
spneing up for his Washington visit. He
has been growing bis whiskers, curling his
hair, and waxing bis mustache to such an
extent daily, that he is now described as
looking very handsome.
Hon. John G.. Davis writes 10 q friend
IN Terre Haute, Indiana, that be sees no
escape from the horrors Of civil war. By
The 4th Of March every Gulf State will be
out Of the Union, and every Slave State
will follow. Mr.. Davis says that he will
support anything in reason to forever settle
this Internal question which has been
fraught with no good, bot serious aud
alarming trouble" lie prefers the Border
State to the Crittenden plan.
: 1t is good plan in eating oysters to
to throw away the shells, They lay upon
the stomach, aud cause Indigestion.