Dec. 3. The Second Session of the 36th Congress opened at Washington.
10. U. S. House of Representatives appointed a Committee of 33 on the State of the Union.
10. Howell Cobb, of Georgia, Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, resigned his office. John A. Dix, of New York, was appointed his successor.
14. Lewis Cass, of Michigan, Secretary of State, resigned.
17. Meeting of the South Carolina State Convention at Columbus, and adjournment to Charleston.
20. The South Carolina “Ordinance of Secession” passed.
23. Discovery of a large embezzlement of the Indian Trust Funds, in charge of Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Department of the Interior.
24. Resignation of the South Carolina Representatives in Congress.
25. Intervention of citizens of Pittsburgh, Pa., to prevent the removal to the South of ordnance in Alleghany Arsenal.
26. Major Anderson removed his command from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter.