, 1861-01-05

ats'- FloJd,s Uouapucltye with ths
r.. s:itoss-sn: % Seos:'s Rtan.aats Hsi-
8he Revenue Cutter yEAA ACapltulated-.
This Rescue Of tho Captain OF the Bo~
:. nata:.Th9d.. stexene'a Resolutions
: Conuedy-Bcnjanaan'a Speech. :.
from Our Own correrpondeut.1 :
~ WAauraoroz, Jan. !, 1861.
: Secretary Floyd closed out hi. guilty career
waththe year TINT has iust expired. The Old
Pub. Func- almost succumbed to the demands
Of Thompson and Thomas, who threatened 10
resign Il he accepted Floyd's resignation
Black snd Stanton vent to him while ha was
shivcring like IN aspen. undecided whattod do,
s,ad informed him thatn Anderson's command
wna removed from Fort Sumter they would
yacatc their scata in his Cabinet and take m
appcnl to tho country. Senator Blgler, and
other Penn1ylyanians ivsiaitea On him ana
pointed out the bottonlcss gulf into which he
was about plunging himself At last he &C.
cepted Floyd'a resignation, which sent q panic
through the flre-estess. Old Buck now says
that he bus been awfully imposed upon By the
disunionists, sna that be did not realizc how
far they had dragged him towards perdltlon.
He sent for Gen. Srott and offered him the
place vucated by Floyd, but the old hero re-
spcctfnl1y declined. The latest report entitled
to credencc ia that Holt will DO mnde sccreta-
r. Of War, aud Horatio King, Postmaster Gen.
erul- Holt is Union man, and would be N
immense improvement on Floyd, who, while
pretending that be Vas for the Union, was
plotting night and day for the disruption Of
the Republic The ground assigned By Floyd
for reslgning, was tho refusal or delay Of the
President to conscnt to an order Withdrawing
the troops from Fort Sumter, repzimAndipg
MAJ. Anderson, and apologlzing to the Carroll
IA rebels for the breach OF faith with them.
His letter Is very insulting to tho President,
who has not the spirit to rescutit>
By what right did Floyd enter into secret
treaty with the Carolina rebels, pledging the
Government not to reinforce It's forts, nor gar-
rison Fort Sumter, On the condition that the
insurgents would not attack the Government
property for certain period Of time. He
ought to be impeaehed for completely with
Carolina in the conspiracy to destroy the Un-
ion.
And why did Buchanan receive his resfgns-
ton? To ncccpt the resignation Of d member
at the Cabinet is equivalent to certifying that
he has faithfally discharged his trusts. 1t ia
the same as IN endorsement Of his Integrity.
lie should have been ignominlouslE dismissed,
and then arrested and brought to trial for mis-
prison Of treason, and for issuipg "aceept.
ances " to tho tune Of > million Of dollars for
services not performed by contractors, aud for
betng eugnged In various other jobs and swim
dies whereby the Government was cheated out
Of one or two millions more For months
past this man has been secretly Ut work trans-
ferriug the arms aud ammunition at tho Gov
ernncnt to the Slave States. He has been dis
arming the North and arming the South. He
has fostcred tho conspiracy to destroy the
Union, by every means in his power, and now
he resigns because sixty-slx soldiers Of the
Government hare been moved from place
where they could be massacred by the insur~
gents, to place impreguable to their assaults.
Like Cobb, he goes homo to Virginia to
openly advocate the treason he has secretly
aiacd with ill the power Of his high office
Does the history Of civilized nations furnish &
precedent?
General Scott has submittedto the President
| plan In writing for the reinforcement Of al
| the forts In the mcnaced section Of country.
| he advises that vessels Of war be placed in the
| harbors Of Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, No
| bile, Galveston, and off the mouths Of the
Mississippi He is opposed to leaving The
forts and Government property in their prce.