Newbern weekly progress., 1861-01-01

" ASI'IN: "N'i, Dee 2S,l i}t Ts2wS OF tac OC-
cupatinn of Fort NuslItiie sa<, sstlc l'nkncy,
reached the Administrator: t,.day. The Cab
met is in session to~taay, anil the Carolina Com
missionclS are in couierente with them.
The Senate Select Committee broke no to,
day without any concert OF actiol with re
lation tn the crisis. 1t will request to be dis
charged next week. The House Committee
will make similar request
The South Carolina Commissioners in view
of the alleged stipulation on the part of the
President that the garrison in Charleston har-
Dor shall not be augmented, nor the military
status Of the post changed, have requested IN
formation Of the President whether Major An
derson acted by authority or in consequence of
any order,
The President spondeG in the negative, and
added that Anderson had acted contrary to
the well known wishes of the Government
The Commissioners then requested the PrcSi-
dent to remand Maj. \. to Fort Moultre. but
after six hours Cabinet session, no definite
course was resolved upon.
1t is understood that the Commissioners will
resign theis mission and return home if Mai.
Anderson IS not remanded.
Rumors are rife that troops have been or
dered from Boston to Charleston, but they
are discredited in high quarters
Ball and Kelley, cadets at West Point, from
Alabama have resigned.
About seventy five lCongressmen from the toT
der States met in caucus to,night-Mr. Critten-
den Chairman, and Colfax, and Barrett Secre-
tares. Mr. Corwin's proposition was offered
by Mr.. Barrett To this there were eleven
amendments to the Constitution offered; one
by Mr.. Pryor, asserting that attempt to
preserve the Union between a State and the
Confederacy by force would be equally uncon-
stitutional and impolitc. and the destruction
of Republican liberty one by Mr.. Vallandig-
@Io Trif+ ol,,+;o
one by Colfax, that the laws of the Union
should be enforced, and the Union of the States
maintained and that it is the duty of the Pres
ldent to protect the U. S property with all the
power placed in his hands, and one by Morris,
of ILL.,, that in pursuing any plan for the ad
justment of the existing difficulties we will
keep steadily in view the preservation of the
Union under the Constitution paramount
consideration.
After desultory debate, in which Messrs.
Cox, Pryor, Smith of Va, Jenkins Sherman,
Stanton, Colfax, Noe, Hinchman, Montgomery
and Harris of Va participated,
all pending propositions were on motion of the
gentleman, referred to committee
of fourteen-one from each State represented
to report on at future meeting to be called by
it, if 1t agreed upon any plan.
After this action, the meeting adjourned.
SENATOR TooNBs MANIFESTO. The tele- |
graphic address of Senator Toombs to the peo-
pie of Georgia is to be regretted, coming as it |
does, at time when there was hope of concili- |
tory action. And yet, it Ia not surprising
that he should feel indignant that the Republ-
can members of the committee Of thirty three |
refuse to accede to any Southern propositions |
in their behalf. The policy of the Republicans |
in Congress, so far as it is developed. seems to I
be to force the border slave States into cooper
alton with the disuninnists. They seem equal I
" Indifferent to the plans of conservative men
from both the South and the North. If |
this is to be their programme, we are on the
verge of revolution and civil war The leading
dea of Republicanism seems to be hatred Of
.he South. Is there no statesman among the
Republicans. says the Buffalo Courier, who
owes the Union better than his party ?-States