Newbern weekly progress. [volume] (Newbern, N.C.) 1858-1863, 1861-04-02
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
Peace PoIicy-Dictotion of President Da-
vIs-''The Boys have not yet got 'em''-
Office Seekers, &c.


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| Dear PROGRESS Recent information from
Washington confirms the belief of many that
peace is the policy of the administration yet the
gathering of the naval forces is regarded by some
as an indication of coercion. and it was thought
that the delay to fix upon definite date for the
evacuation of Sumter was made to give time to
try to reinforce it, but it seems that the de
lay was owing to the fact as stated in a Wash
ingtcn dispatch) that President Davis himself
dictated the terms of evacuation He having
"instructed General Beauregard not to aU0,o the
peaceful withdrawal of the garrison without first
obtaining by express stipulation, security, not
only against all ruses, but also for the delivery
of the post and all its appertenances in perfect
condition" This surely is additional ev
dence that the Southern COnfederacy has 1.-The
right man in the right place. But the terms
troubled the powers at Washington very much,
as the complying with them was an additional
humiliation which Will no doubt set Gl leeley and
Raymond howling anew. Yet to permit the
commander of Sumter to spike its guns and
otherwise cripple its usefulness. and leave i'll
apparent triumph would give cause for eXutation
among the Red Republicans that they should
not have. Mr.. Bayard, of Delaware, has offered
q resolution THAT the President by and with
the advice of the Senate be vested with tull pow
er and authority to accept the declaration of the
seeded States that they constitute an alien peo
pie, and that he conclude with them a treaty
knoactedging their independence q sepdrate
ndtiOn.'
Some months ago IN the grand procession of
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there was large delegation from Philadelphia
with banners and trans parences, and in alluson
to the triumph OF the Black Republicans of Penn
sylvia, (the Governors election,) the lettering of
several of the transparences read boys, wev
got en-" but if the ''ShadoW of events which
see to be significantly cast before by the
European feeling toward the Southern Rcpubic
the evacuation of Sumter, the terms dictated by
President Davis. and the resolution above quo
ted mean anything, the boys have not got them
yet.
1t :is said Lincoln greatly reioiced yesterday
at being introduced to man that not Seehing
CGics; and Notwithstanding the many appoint
ments already made and confirmed, it is stated
that aside from the horie of office seekers still at
W ashingtOn, there is also thirty bushels of
letters OF application, and among them is from
young lady up the Hudson, III which, with Ian
guage of touching supplicatien, she asks for the
appointment of her lover, "a young man, to be
keeper of Light House on the river She insists
that without this appointment for him they
not be married.
You remember i" Old Abe . told youth at the
City Hall here that he could not shake hands
with him, but he'd shake hands with his sister if
she there Hence we have hope of the pow
er of - Female influence " over him in the above
case
After all the hue and cry made by the Repub-
ican papers to convince the whole world of the
truth of the charges made against Gov. Floyd to-
day have Information from Washington that
'' the two indictments against him have been dis
missed untenable,' there evidence
to sustain the charges, and the District Attorney
asked leave of the Court to enter nole proequi "
1t seems he comes off far better than antci
pated
You have seen ere this that the I" chevalier
Webb has been. appointed . Minister resident
to Turkey but has declined the appointment
Bennett says Webb is no chicken to be satisfied
with Turkey and that when he puts his foot
down he puts it down FIRMLY as in the negotia
ton with the u. 5. Bank in the days of Mic Bid
dle-he put his foot down then $50, ,67o 371 and
Biddle had to come to it, hence he turns up his
at the paltry of seven thousand five
hundred year: minister to Constantinople
The variety of weather for the past :}6 hours has
heen,-that it has bowed, showed and rained frons
night till morning, and rained, blowed and snow
ed from morning till night.
Yours MAX. \