Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-08

"AsHlNGroN, Feb. 7.-Colonel Hayne, the
Commissioner from Sonth Carolina. received
from the President yesterday his reply TO the ul-
umatum Of South Carolina prepared by Mr. n olt,
the Secretary Of War. He communicated his re-
| joinder today. -
| The President rejects the demand of South Car
oiina on the ground that the Federal Government
has exclusive jurisdiction in Fort Sumter, which
s Incompatible with the right Of eminent domain
As TO selling Fort Sumter to the State of south
Carolina, as suggested by Col. Hayne, the Presi-
dent saws he would no more cell Fort Sumter to
that State than he could sell the Capitol of the
United states to tie State Of Maryland He con-
laration:
'.If, with all the multiplied proofs which exist,
OF the Presidents anxiety for peace, and of the
earnestness with which he has pursued it. the
authorities Of South Carolina shall assault Fort
sumter and peril the lives Of the brave and loyal
men shut up within its walls, and thus plunge
our common country into the horrors Of civil war,
then upon them, and those whom they represent
viii rest the responsibility.
dispatch from Raleigh, received here to-day,
says tnat forty-t thousand pounds Of powder
and ball passed through thai city yesterday for
Atlanta, Georgia
The following statement In relation to the sur-
render OF the revenue cutter Robert McClelnnd.
| is derived from an oficial source:
The cutter Is one Of the largest and best in the
revenue service, just rebuilt and Ie-htted. Her
Commander was Captain Breshwood, Of Virginia
On the 10th Of January four DAYS after Secretary
DIX took charge Of the Treasury Department, he
| sent Mr.. William Hemph.lI Jones, Chief Clerk
In the First Comptroller's once, to New Orleans
| on service there. Captain Morrison, a Georgian,
commanding the Lewis Cass, at Mobile must
have surrendered her before Mr. Jones arrived
On the 10th Of January the Secretary received the
| following telegraphic dispatch from Mr. Jones:
NRw ORLEANS, Jan. 29, 1861.
Hon. J. A Dir, Secretary Of the Tyeaspy:
Capt. Breshwood has refused positively, in
writing, to obey any instructions Of the Depart
ment. In this 1 am sure he is sustained by the
Collector, and, | believe, acts by his advice.
What must do!
w II. JONES, Special Agent.
To this despatch Secretary Dix Immediately re-
turned the following answer:
| TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Jan. 30, 1861.
Wa. HsmphiH Jones. Nsp Orleans:
Tell Lieut.. Caldwellto arrest Capt. Brentwood
assume command Of the cutter, and obey the order
through you. II Capt. Breshwood, after arrest
| undertakes to interfere with the command Of the
cutter, tell Lieut.. Caldwell 70 consider him as
| mutineer and treat him accordingly fanny one
attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot
him on the spot. JOHN A. Dix,
Secretary of the Treasury.
This dispatch, IL Is said, must have been inter-
cepted, both at Montgomery and New Orleans,
| and withheld fforn the press, and doubtless the
conduct Of Captain Brentwood was consummated
by means Of completely with part Of the tele-
graph line in the States Of Alabama and Louisi-
ana, which latter State has accepted the cutter.
Generals Doniphan and Coulter, and Judge
Johnson, Commissioners from Missouri TO the
redce congress, nave arrived mere. This Dody,
| after short session to-day, adjourned 10 pay
visit to the President, and attend the Capitol
The object Of Mr.. COrwin in deferring action
| on the report OF the Committee of Tbirty-three
for week longer, was TO see what tine Peace
Congress will do meantime
The resignation of Captain Ingraham has been
| accepted. Capt Shubrick is not now likely, as
heretofore designed, to pursue a similar course.
Major John q. Heiss, formerly Of tennessee
and more recently of this city, has returned to
Nicaragua to settle there permanently. So salts
fed is he with the cotfOn-raisng experiments
| made upon the high and healthy interior lands Of
that region, that 1t was his purpose Immediately
to put hundred acres under cultivation for that
staple. There is no longer any doubt that large
districts of Central America are well adapted to
lands, away from the coasts and river bottoms are
| as healthy and salubrlous as they are rich and
fertile.