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, and hear your voices, your cheers, I feel that I have that reward. [Applause.] The party then, after giving three cheers for General Scott, three for the Union, and an indefinite number for everybody else, proceeded to call on Vice President Hamlin. The Diplomatic Corps, in full costume, Thursday afternoon, paid an official visit to the President by previous arrangement, as is customary on the incoming of a new Administration. They were accompanied by the Secretary of State, Mr. Seward, to the White House, who first presented to the President Commander Fegauiere, the Minister from Portugal, and the longest in the diplomatic position in this country, who made an address in French, a translation of which had previously been furnished to President Lincoln. It was of a complimentary character, and expressive of the good will and feelings of their respective Governments, toward that of the United States, and for the success of the Administration. All the Diplomatic Corps, h
and tendering them lucrative offices. Chas. Jones, late of the Register's Office, has left for the Southern capital, to take office there. The large crowd at the State Department this morning was much disappointed at the absence of Secretary Seward, who is detained at home by sickness. [second Dispatch.] Colonel Lorenzo Thomas has been appointed Adjutant General in place of Col. Cooper. Secretary Seward is quite unwell to-day. No official intercourse has yet taken p the Register's Office, has left for the Southern capital, to take office there. The large crowd at the State Department this morning was much disappointed at the absence of Secretary Seward, who is detained at home by sickness. [second Dispatch.] Colonel Lorenzo Thomas has been appointed Adjutant General in place of Col. Cooper. Secretary Seward is quite unwell to-day. No official intercourse has yet taken place between the Confederacy Commissioners and the President.
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The Coming Assault on Fort Sumter. The Commissioners from the Southern Confederacy, now in Washington, held a conference on Thursday evening, and determined to postpone action for a few days, until Mr. Seward's policy is developed. It seems to be generally understood that but a few days will elapse between the President's refusal to recognize them, (should that be the case,) and the storming of Fort Sumter. The formidable character of the undertaking may be well gathered from the following graphic grouping of the "obstacles" to success by the Charleston correspondent of the New Orleans Delta, who writes on the 26th ultimo: Very few, I apprehend, realize to their full extent the almost insurmountable difficulties which lie in the way of the reduction of its massive granite walls. In truth, with an adequate garrison, it can hardly be doubted that the Fort would be altogether impregnable to any force that the State of South Carolina would be able to bring against it. Even w
Number one. --The heads of the new government indicate an inclination to take care of number one first, before attending to the wants of outsiders. Mr. Seward's son is made Assistant Secretary of State, and the first foreign mission Mr Lincoln has given away (the mission to Berlin,) is to a politician of his own State, Mr. Norman B. Judd.