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The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
ton to-day with dispatches from the War Department for Florida. The Senate's Select Committee will report a Tariff bill on Friday. It is Mr. Morrill's bill, essentially altered. The warehousing feature is amended so as to allow goods to be in store three months instead of thirty days, before the duties are paid. They can remain six months thereafter, and when taken out for exportation the duties are refunded. From private accounts received here the indications are that Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, will be pressed for the office of Provisional President in the contemplated Southern Confederacy, the object being to conciliate the conservatives of the seceded States. The friends of the Pacific Railroad are congratulating themselves that the decided vote by which it passed the Senate secures its approval by the President. The amendments, however, have to be acted on by the House. Quite a scene occurred yesterday between the President and General Scott upo