Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-04-09
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Washington, April 5.
1t is understood that the Secretary of the
Treasury will receive offers for treasury
notes redeemable in two years, for the bal
ance Of the loan not taken under the last
notice. An offer has been made for two
millions at per cent. premium.
b. w. Cheesuan has been appointed
Assistant Treasurer at San Francisco;
Thomas H. Turner Marshal for the East
ern District Of Virginia Chas. S. Loring,
Chief Engineer in the Navy.
The lnteriGr Department has under
consideration the subject of the organic.
alton OF the land Offices in the new terri
tories of Daootah, Colorado and Nevada.
Ii is not true that the Southern CommIs.
sioners have taken house in Washington.
tits well understood that the length of their
sojourn here will be dependent on circum-
stances.
Much alarm exists here on account OF
tue military preparations of the govern
meut
Lieut.. Gilman had an interview this
afternoon with Secretary Cameron and
Gen: Scott, and lett Immediately for Pen
sacola.
John Minor Bolts arrived here with a
large delegation Of Virginians, to ascertain
by personal conference, the exact intentions
Of the Government.
Bolts visited the President and advised
the evacuation Of Ft. Sumter
Ar officer of South Carglina has also
arrived to recruit for the Southern Army.
The government is still without inteIli-
eence whether the reinforcement of Fort
Piekens has been effected. and is naturally
very anxious, as orders were sent weeks
ago
A dispatch from Baltimore states that a
large body of volunteers left that city 10
rally around the flag Of the Union in Texas
under Houston.
Washington correspondents assert that
the President is daily receiving numerous
teIegraphic dispatches, FROM ali parts Of
the country, urging no surrender of anv
forts, and Offering to volunteer attempts at
reinforcement. One man cffered 10 rein.
force Sumter at ten days notice for five
/ thousand dollars.
Gov. Curtin, Of PENNSYLVANIA. had a long
interview with Gen. Scott and Sec. Cam
eron. 1t is rumored that Pennsylvania
will Immediately assume a war footing.
New York, April G.
Government has chartered the steamer
Illinois, which will 90 to sea under sealed
orders to day OF Monday. Her mails and
passengers for Europe 60 in the City Of
| Baltimore.
The Tribune's Washington correspondent,
says no official intelligence has been re-
! ceived that Major AndersOn's supplies have
been stopped-that the authorized state
ment is made that the Spanish government
IL not responsible for the demonstration at
St. Domingo also, that no orders have
been issued for the blockade Of Southern
ports. COMMODORE Stringham's commission
has different object.
New York, April G.
The Times Washington correspondent
says that DR.. Fisher, of Farqnier. has been
appointed Marshal of Eastern Virginia
The same au thority says dispatch receiy
ed from responsible person in Charleston
states that Gen. Beauregard has left for
Morris lslard, lie is reparted to have
stated that Maj. Anderson now had.but two
alternatives-to evacuate Fort Sumter in
4S hours, or suffer bombardment.
| The Times dispatch also saws the South
ern Commissioners express the belief that
peaceful policy will prevail, bat if the
policy Of the Federal government is the
enforcement of the Federal laws. the So
eeded States are ready to resist to the bitter
end.