Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25
Affairs at the National Capital.
Especial Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazettc.I

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.
The Alabama IIous'. deicgaton has just
withdrawn, except Cuhb. The Georgia dele
CATION will wait for official information.
Ex-Secretary Tompson is before the Grand
Jury this morning, in regard TO the abstrac-
tion of Indian Trust bon,Is
Jefferson Davis opposes any attack on Fort
Sumter. He leaves for Mississippi to-day.
Holt has received no reply from Gov. Pick
ems relative to his demand that Anderson
should have his letters promptly delivered. Ii
this is not done invariably and in all cases,
postal facilities will be withdrawn from South
Carolina.
Cox of Ohio will shortly address the House
again, versus secession, his main objection be-
ing the danger of Louisiana reyerting TO
France.
Yulee and Mallory of Florida, have just tl-
ken leave of the Senate. The latter was
affected to tears. Clay is now doing the same
IN behalf of Fitzpatrick and himself and is
much agitated.
The Sece>sionists have written to the au-
thorities in all the States to take measures tC
prevent u collision. Northern men say that
LIE shedding of blood by the Seccssionists will
prevent Il compromise Of any sort.
The Post Office Department has resolved tc
suspend the contracts for the transportation oi
the mails, and discontinue all postoffices wher
ever mail matter is tampered with, as in tn
case of Pensacola.
Vice President Breckenridge has appointed
! Senator Pearce Of Maryland Chairman of the
Finance Committee, Uiee Hunter of Virgins
resigned.
Senator Iverson has received this evening
an official notification of the withdrawal o
Georgia from the Union, and he will resign
his scat in the Senate tomorrow.
! Lieutenant Hall is still ir the city and will
remain several days, returning, most probably
/ in company with Mr.. Hayne. In the mean
| time full instructions will be prepared for Ma
| jor Andt fson. A Cabinet meeting was held
this afternoon with special reference to Haynes
communication, bat nothing definite has trans
pired.
Quite a number of military men may now be
seen about the streets of Washington. learn
that two rifled cannon are TO be planted OF
the hill near the White House, which will
| effectually command the Capitol.
The Senate passed the bill for the admission
of Kansas, with an amendment offered by Mr.
/ Fitch of Indiana. The latter is of great i'm.
portance, as it viii keep alive the case testing
the power of the Territorial Legislature to
| prohibit Slavery in the Territory. This a.
mendment takes the bill back to the House
where it will doubtless be pruned down to It's
original shape.
The Committee of Five on the late special
message of the President, are pressing matters
vigorously, and will shortly report bill great
| ly increasing the power of the President for
! the collection of the revenue and the enforce
ment of the laws.
The Republicans regard the speech of Mr..
Cameron, in the Senate to day, as an indica-
lion of disposition to yield too much The
bulk of the Southern members received it in a
spirit quite different from that in which it was
delivered. This exhibition on the part of the
Secessionists, was promptly referred to by Sen
ator Salisbury of Delaware, who contended
that the olive branch should be received in the
spirit of sincerity in which it was rendered.
The question of National Convention is
now being seriously talked about, and the in
dications are, that the Republicans will vote
to call such an assemblage at an earlier day
than that proposed by Senator Seward.
The Hon. Thos Corwin delivered his speech
to-day on the Pacfcation measures proposed
by the Committee of Thirty-three. The gal
leries were crowded. He took essentially the
positions laid down in his report recently pre-
sented to the House.
WASHINGTON, Jan. %.
Mr.. Faulkner, Minister to France, writes
home that Louis Napoleon officially stated to
him his disapproval of the Secession movement
in this country, and that he hoped the Union
would be preserved.
the South, therefore, need expect no sym
pathy from that quarter. The official report
of the Secretary of War shows the amount of
arms seized by the South, exclusive ofthose in
Florida, to be sixty thousand nIuskets and six