The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-03-02
NORTHERN aExAroR on RECORD


"Ny Dear Gorer,3or-(foyern5r bingham and |
myself telegraphed you on Saturday; at the re- |
quest of Massachusetts and New ork, to send |
delegates to the Peace or Compromise Con
gress. They admit that we were right, and
they wrong that no Republican State should
have sent delegates but they are here and
can't get away. Ohio, Indiana and Rhode
Island are caving in, and there Is danger of
Illinois and now they beg us, for Gods sake,
to conV TO their rescue and save the Republi-
can party from rupture. hope you will send
stiF backed men or none. The whole thing
was gotten up against my judgment and ad-
vice, and will end in thin smoke. Still hope,
as a matter of courtesy to some OF our erring
brethren, thatyou will send the delegates.
Truly, your friend,
81. CHANDLER.
His Excellency Austin Blair
''P. S.-Some Of the manufacturing States
iiHI. blood fetfiag pfs t7sson ,otss not, ia my
estimation, be 1orh q rush -
now THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST LINCOLN WAS DIS
COVERED.
| The New York Herald furnishes an account
| of the manner III which the plot against the
| fugacious Abe was discovered 1t says
| 1t appears that there We're two sets of most
| effective detectives sent 10 work upon the
! matter. MIR. Fouche Kennedy, of New York,
| at the instance OF Thurlow Weed, dispatched
| one band of detective police to Baltimore and
| the in terrifying points between that place and
| Harrisburg, to ferret out the plot and the vi
| ed in the same localities, neither chief being
| aware of the action OF the other. If there was
| anything TO be discovered this efiic lent com
| bination of detective talent would be sure to
| find II out; and SO ii did, for il happened
| that the detec tives from New York came into
+, frequent communion with the detectives from
Baltimore, and, not knowing one another,
| each supposed that he had found Il conspra-
| tor in the other party, and forthwith COM
/ menced to symlnthiZe with the plot and draw
| his communicative companion out, tor the
| purpose of getting information, as these wise
| officials are wont to do; and so between them
| they unravelled, if they did not concoct, the
| whole terrible conspiracy against the life of
Mr.. Lincoln, which compelled him to resort
| TO the Scotch cap of the Camerons and the
| long military cloak in which undgniiied dis
guise he reached the Federal capital with
! whole skin. No sooner did Mr.. Fouche Ken
nedy succeed in discovering this awful
| spiracy than he turned up at Washington in
| search of an office, we suppose, to which he
| is undoubtedly entitled at the hands of Mr..
Lincoln, whose life he so niraculously pre-
| served.
HEsoUrHERS CoSFEDERAcr.
The Montgomery correspondent of the Co
lumbus Times, writing on the 25th, sends the
| following intelligence
The following advertisement from the Ad-
| vertiser of yesterday morning, will show that
the Treasury branch of the Government is
now in operation. II. ID. Capers, l learn, is
Chief Clerk:
An
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.,
| Montgomery. February 20. 1861.
| ne THIS DEPARTMENT Is now ready for The
The Secretary viii be found at the Executive
| Building, corner of Commerce and BIbb streets.
| Gen Davis on Yesterday attended divine
service at the Episcopal Church. l learn
| that the President daily receives letters from
| Maine, necticut, and other New England
States, which, doubtless, contain terrible
| threats, with view of menacing and soaring
! he herr Government. Fortunately. +.
Davis is not the man TO be annoyed by these
missiles of the fanatics.
Mr.. Davis has sent 4 special messenger with
dispatches to Gov. Pickens, OF South Caro-
lima. As to the purport OF these dispatches,
there are many conjectures, ''wise and other
Wise,' which do not consider worth the ink
| and paper that it would require to detail
them. 1t is impossible for any outsider TO
know the contents OF secret dispatches.
Florida will certainly get the Secretaryship
of the Navy, rs she is the only State in the
| Confederacy that has Navy Yard. 1t is
intended, / learn, TO make the Pensacola
Navy-Yard to the Southern Confederacy
what the Gosport [Va.) Navy Yard is to the
, Northern-a great ship-building and naval
station.
STRONG GOVERNMENT.
| The Augusta (Ga.) Sentinel is out again III
favor of a strong thing ir
the form of an Elective Monarchy-upon tn,
principle originally advanced by Alexander
Hamilton, the great head of the old Fedora
school of politics-the chief of which shoulC
be elected for term of twenty-one years
= The Constitur rionalist, published in the same
place, joins issue with its contemporary, ant
after ably pointing out the elements of dan
ger, discOrd, and of possible despotism, will
t which the idea is fraught, very justly adds
, There was no want of strength in the Gov
ernlnent-no thing imperfect i'll the Instrumen
which bound us together. But there was cor
undermining,
main pillars which supported one part of th
edifice; there was fanauclsm winch was en-
a deavoring TO destroy another Had the hea'
| of the Illustration, tor the Time being
possessed the moral courage to do its duty
during all of the sectional controversy, tn
7 Temple would have been still standing i'll al
4 its original strength and beauty.
THE OLD PARTIES Is TIE NEW c0YFEDERACV.
< The Columbus (Geo) Enquirer is not salts
: fed wi tn the Cabinet appointments of Presi
! dent Davis. 1t says they are ob)ectionabl
, | on the score of their exclusive party eharac
. ter:
Every member of the Cabinet, we believe
0 | was q Brec kinridge Democrat and an orgina
= sseCcssionist. The Bell and Douglas men hay
Q been entirely excluded from share In tn
5 admins trait of the new government
e | Even such men as George w. Crawford, O
4 Georgia, and Thomas III. Watts, OF Alabama
a | who supported Bell but sustained secesslo
z soon as il was made an Issue, are passed by
| with the people selected. Presen ting, as tn
n Bell and Douglas men did, such fine materia
1 for Cabinet appoin tments, their total exciu
Il | sion cannot be regarded other wise than a
d prescription ON account of their course pre-
0 yiors to the secession issue. Ihe new tToN
erament we believe, has made q great erro
: by this exclusive promotion OF parteuia
v party-a party that was in m minorny In tw
II of the seeding States. II has, however, ses
r eral very excellent and able men in its admin
Is istra tive depaT tments, and we may yet hop
|, from them reputation of the partisansh
y thai appears to have influenced their own Sc
c lection. Such men are Hon. q. G Memmin
= ger, of South Carolina and Hon. l.. z. Walker
& of Alabama, gentlemen who have ever exhit
= tied an Independence of party in emergencie
II requicing devotion to their country alone.
Il CAPTAIN ARMSTRONG.
: The result of the Court of Inquiry In tn
n matter of Capt. Armstrong has been the order
= ing the Navy Yard at Pensacola. The officer
g to compose the Court have not yet bee
named.
FATHER VS.. Sox.--The Boston Courier pro
duces the following extract from an CRATIC
u delivered in Boston the 4th of July, lSo
: by the father of Charles Sumner. The son {
: his father had better read II.
: "There is indeed no diversity OF interest bt
a tween tile peop1e Of the South and Trey a'
4 no friends to either toho endedeor to sftMEld
q and sn,biffsr the one agatast fhe other: W nj nj
n il the sons Of Massachusetts, rank hign ON III
!. roll Of revolutionary fame! The WISDOM an
i heroisin Ton which they have been disunguishe
i will never permit them To indulge u ingie
: rious boast. The independence and hnert
4 and joint efforts--of common dangers, suuel
Z. ings aud gueeesses and God forbid thai tnos