Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-01
NEW York. Jan. %.

New YORK, Jan. %.
The Iri6une's Washington correspondence
says that arrangements were made, yesterday,
for the protection of the city, which will
secure it from any hostile attack, against |
conspiracy within or invasion without.
A gentleman Just from Texas states that |
the vote cast for a Convention, which was
called by the members of the Legislature over
Gov. Houston's head, will not exceed che
third of the aggregate vote of the State.
Mr.. Towards committee on the Presidents /
special message relative to secession will |
report Immediately, with bills placing at the |
disposal Of the Executive all the necessary |
force to maintain the Government and execute |
the laws.
The President has nominated Mr.. Gilmore
to be Postmaster at Marysville, California, |
from and after the Sd of next March.
Secretary Dix has issued orders that cap |
tains of revenue cutters shall not deliver ND
their vessels to rebels, but defend them to the |
last and, if overpowered, blow them up.
So many military companies are arriving
here that it is impossible to find quarters.
Additional troops are expected tomorrow.
Senator Mallory, at Pensacola, telegraphed
Senator Bigler, last evening, that 100 men
of Fort Picklns, and that, if the Brooklyn
attempted to relieve the fort, bloody fight
will follow
Owing to the urgent circumstances Of
Secretary Dix, the Marine Hospital affair at
New Orleans has been satisfactorily arranged.
Capt. France, of the revenue cutter Harriet
Lane, is i'll Washington.
Union men are much encouraged by the
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missloners to meet here On the 4th of Feb.
ruary and it is believed that its action will
command the support Of a large majority Of
| Congress.
The fugitive slave law introduced to-day
by Mr.. Douglas is considered as thorough
and efficient measure, obviating the OBJ
jections of the present statute.
Slidell and Benjamin will formally vacate
as soon as they receive official information
OF the secession Of the State of Louisiana.
| 1t is not now believed that majority Of
secessionists will be elected in any of the
border State Conventions.
| The great point now aimed at by Union
men is to avoid all pretexts of commission
by seeding States in the hope that the
sober second thought of the people, if ad-
Justment measures are presented, will induce
them to resume their places in the Union.
| The repeal of the Personal Liberty bill in
Rhode Island and the action of the Ohio
Legislature were hailed as the harbingers of
peace. Affairs were in more hopeful
aspect.
Secretary Dix has instructed the revenue
cutters if attacked to make the best defense
In their power, and if assailed by superior
force to run tIeir vessels ashore and blow
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lector Of New Orleans to apply to the Gov
ernor OF Louislan' to revoke the secession
OF the government hospital, and ordering
260 patients TO be removed. Dix denounces
it as traitorous, outrageous barbarism, and
disgrace to any age Or country.
! The Mayor of Washington has been sum-
moned before the select committee to testify
relative to the conspiracy to seize the Capt.
tai, He privately says he knows nothing
alb out it.
Col. Hayne does not believe the truth of
| the dispatch from Charleston as to the re-
ported business which occupied the atten-
ton of the Legislature in secret session
yesterday he has received no dispatch or
communication from Gov. Pickens on the
subject The report is believed to be equal
" erroneous as that which recently repre-
|
been fired into from one of the Charleston
| forts.
| Col. Hayne has made no demand on the
Federal Government for the surrender of
Fort Sumter, and is patiently awaiting the
action of the Southern Congress at Mont
gomery, which will assemble next week
| The errand of the sloop- of-war Brooklyn
is believed to be of peaceful character, with
| a NJ int n hos do,
on the part of the Gulf Squadron.
| Mr.. Reynolds, of New Jersey, from the
committee on the Presidents message, will,
tomorrow, report bill, not only giving the
! Executive the power, but making it man
datory upon him, to call out the volunteer
militia for the purpose of suppressing insur.
rection, &c.
WASHINGTON, Jan. %.
The Chicago and Milwaukee Boards of
Trade visited the President, Mr.. Seward and
othess, to-day. The President said, in the
interview: eff Mr.. Lincoln shall enjoy his
accession to power as much as shall retire
ment, he will be happy man.
| Mr.. Seward said: Heretofore, the cry,
save the Union has been raised when there
was no danger. I tell you, my friends, the
question of slavery will not now be taken
into account. We are to save the Union
| the save all the rest worth saving"
| WAsHINaToN, Jan. 20.
A delegation Of thirty three. represent,
ing $4,000 working men of Philadelphia this
morning waited on Senators Crittenden and
Cameron, at their respective residcnces.-
They were introduced by Senator BigIer in
q brief and appropriate address. ]. B.
Nicholson responded for the delegation elo-
quently and periodically. He stated the
object of the visit to be to testify to the appre
| citation OF the Union by themselves and those
they represented, and their desire for a set
| Element of our national difficulties on q sat
isfactory basis, and that the proposition of
the Senator from Kentucky, whose charac.
acter they revered, whose patriotism they
admired, was heartily endorsed by Them
and that they wished its adoption urged and
secured. The Senators feelingly and hope
fully responded.
Tho number of Federal troops who arrived
here last night is so, making in all less
than 300, These are divided into three CON-
panies of artillery and one of infantry Ar
rangements have been made for concentrating
them at any particular point in case they
are necessary to quell the disturbance of the
public peace.
Acting Postmaster General King has re-
ceived complaints from Northern gentlemen
that their letters from the South have been |
violated. One writes that SIX letters ad- |
dressed to him by lady in Mobile, not on |
political subjects, have evidently been open
ed by unauthorized parties The Depart |
ment has promptly instituted an investiga-
ton.
ElncO1n's Route to Washington.
SPRINGFIELD, Jan. q.
Special dispatch to the Herald 1t is now
positively settled that Mr.. Lincoln will depart
for Washington on the 18th of February. He
will go hence via Lafayette to indianapolis,