From Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.

(Tribune’s Correspondence.)

Senator Sumner’s resolutions on the relations between the U. S. and the rebel territory were laid on the table at his motion, where they can be called up whenever he thinks best.

A bill organizing the rebel territory into territorial governments, on the principle of these resolutions, will soon be reported by the territorial committees of both Houses.

Another bill establishing a provisional government in South Carolina has been sanctioned in an important quarter.

No decision has yet, it is believed, been reached by the War Department in the Hunter and Lane matter.  Gen. Lane is still waiting at Leavenworth for news from Washington.  We have the authority of Mr. Covode for saying that he made the original arrangement with Secretary Cameron, by which the Government agreed to furnish Gen. Lane with the troops he wanted; that throughout the negotiation Gen. Hunter’s name was not used, and there was no intimation that any one except Gen. Lane was to have the command.

D. C. McCollum, formerly manager of New York and Erie R. R., Confessedly among the first in his profession in this country, was to-day appointed by the Secretary of War to take charge of and operate the railroads taken possession of by the government.  The office being military, the rank and pay of Colonel were conferred with the appointment.

President Lincoln to-day voluntarily appeared before the House judiciary committee, and gave testimony in the matter of the premature publication in the Herald of a portion of his last annual message. – Chevalier Wykoff was then brought before the committee and answered the question to which he refused to answer yesterday, stating that the stolen paragraph was furnished to the Herald by Watt, the President’s gardener, who was reported as disloyal by the potter committee, and whose nomination to a Lieutenantcy the Senate so decidedly refused to confirm.

Gen. Sherman, at Beaufort, proposes that the government shall take charge of the plantations coming into its hands, and shall raise the cotton, employ and pay the negroes, keeping the latter under a strict, but mild, discipline of overseers.  He also proposes that suitable teachers be provided for the blacks, and that religious instruction be given.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, February 15, 1862, p. 1