The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1860., [Electronic resource]

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Our country.

The intelligence from Washington this morning is of the most gloomy character.--Secretary Cass has resigned, the step, it is said, having been taken in consequence of the President having refused to reinforce the United States troops at Fort Moultrie. His place is to be filled by Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, of New York. The Committee of Thirty-three has adjourned until Monday, from the fact that at present there seems to be no hope of any compromise; indeed, our special correspondent telegraphs that it came near breaking up yesterday, and that it cannot, at the farthest, last longer than Tuesday. In Washington, all is gloom. A manifesto has been issued by some of the Southern members to their constituents, declaring that there is no hope of a satisfactory settlement; the Republican members still maintain their obstinate silence, and the Union men are disheartened and discouraged. It would seem, as eloquently and touchingly expressed by a distinguished divine of this city, that "the autumn of the Republic has come, and the States, falling away like leaves, are about to leave the bars trunk a mouldering monument of its former greatness."