Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-14

them CQlS aIGeEnOO0 MT. hOulau Han uoI
arrived.
understand that it is intended to post
pone, for few days, the opening of nego-
tiation, although Wigfall was in favor Of
immediate action, in order to givethe South
fair chance to take Forts Sumter and
Pickeus before they are reinforced. But
whether the Commissioners present their
credentials, late Or early, the result will be
the same they will not be recognized.
The new Cabinet was in session all day.
A large number of nominations we're agreed
on, which are to go to the Senate tomorrow.
The removals have already begun. A
brotber.in.law of Senator Douglas, General
Granger, Recorder of the General Land
Office, was the first to be decapitated.-
This was ungrateful, after Douglas defence
Of the Inaugural.
The rumor that Judge John A. Camp
bell, of the Supreme Court, had resigned, is
premature one. COL Lay, whose resigna.
tion has been a source of deep chagrin to
the Aboltionists, is son.in-law of Judge
Campbell.
Critteuden has not been nominated to the
vacant Supreme Judgeship; nor if nomina-
ted, is it certain that he will accept. He
fears that the Abolitionlsts might defeat
his confirmation, because he upho!ds the
Dred Scott decision.
Seward says that he is willing to make
arrangements for the recognition of the South
ern Confederacy at some future time ; pro-
: vided in the mean time, no settlement can
be effected.
Reliable dispatches received here to-day
from Texas, state that Governor Houston
had resigned.
In the Senate to day (extra session.,
Wigfall spoke in reply to Douglas. He
said that it was nonsense to talk, as Lincoln
did, of an "unbroken" Union. Seven stars
were out, never, never, never to return -
He said that if the United States Govern
ment did not remove it's troops from Forts
Sumter and Pickens, the Confederate States
would. 1t remained to be seen whether
the old Union should have decent funeral
or an Irish wake.
Douglas replied, reiterstiug that the ln'
augal was indicative of peace.
Wigfall asked whether an attempt to COL
lect the revenue or to reinforce Fort Sum-
ter would be considered coercion =?
Douglas replied that he had learned from
the best military authority that it would re-
quire 10000 men aud the whole American
navy to do it, and that Fort Sumter had,
yet, abundance of bread and salt meat, suf-
fcient for 81 days.
There was no secret session.
WASHINGTON, March Sit is now in.
timated in the best informed political cir
cles here, that if Seward should get con.
troll of the Cabinet, the Commissioners of
the Confederate States will be respectfully
heard.
The Commissioners say that they are
quite hopeful to-day. The communication
with the new Administration, for pruden-
tial reasons, will be postponed for few
days, until the terrible outside pressure of
the office hunters upon the Cabinet shall
have diminished somewhat. Hon. A. B.
Roman has not yet been heard from. He
Is, l believe, Oh his way to this city.
Adjutant. General Cooper, citizen of
New York, and relative of Senator Mason,
also Assistant Adjutant.G General Withers, a
citizen of Tennessee, have resigned.
Charles Jones, ESQ.,, lately connecte9
with the Registers Office of the U. States
Treasury, has left for Montgomery. 1t is
believed that several other prominent off.
GERS contemplate rendering their resigna-
tions
1t is said that the leading men of the
Confederate States are quietly selecting and
making overtures to some of the best off,
GERS in the Z. S. service.
x-Attorney- General Black remarked
yesterday that he would not be surprised to
see President Davis and lady dispensing
the bospitalites of the White House in less
than ninety days.
The nomination of Hon. j. j. Crittenden
to the vacant Supreme Judgeship was a.
greed on in Cabinet meeting last night
This is decided Seward victory Chase
violently opposed the nomination.
Norman B. Judd, of Illinois has been
nominated Minister to Berlin.
Col. L. Thomas has been appointed Ad-
jutant- eneral, in the place Of Cooper, re.
signed
1t is stated that one of tho reasons why
the Southern Commissioners have not claim
ed recognition at once, is because Seward
has been quite unwell. | hear that an in
formal notification was given to Messrs
Crawford and Forsyth that little time
would be agreeable to the Administration
Meantime the Commissioners are actively
engaged in consulting Southern men here,
and in effectual intercourse, having refer
ence to the object of their mission. Great
efforts are being made to effect peaceful
solution of the question of the forts and
revenue.
In the Senate to day, Foster (Abolition-
ist) offered the following resolution
Whereas, Louis T. Wigfall has declared
in debate that he is foreigner, and owes
his allegiance to Texas and foreign gov
ernment and mt to the limited States.
therefore
Resolved, That he be expelled from the
Senate of the United States
Mr. Clingman, of North Carolina, offer.
ed substitute, declaring that, as Texas is
no longer one of the United States, she is