Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-12-06
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| Ihere has little t,suspited IN this Guy since
wrote my last letter. worIhy OF record. The membs
%, C"ns'ess are coming IN about ropidly ~ usu-
al, and few conferences have been heldtouehins
men aud places, end some preparatory converse.
Tons have been had as 10 principles and conduct
| The message Of the President " 40 be sent I sun
pose, nj the usual time, VIZ; on Tuesday, the Sc
Good day OF the session. One OF the most impor
tant measures to which the President will refer Is
hat Of the rail roads along the main route fsom
Georgia to the Lakes. Hitherto the government
| mas not been able TO derive the advantages from
tlese roads TO which II has thou ght entitled. he
cause the proprieiorS having expended millions and
millions otdoliars upon them cannot comprehend how
the National Government may W it'll propriety thrust
ITS mail upon their roads and derive all the ben,
without contributing TO the cost, and without having
sanctioned the work. The message will, therefore.
ss hear, refer to the relations which The government
holds To these roads, the advantages which it now
nerves from them and the greater advantages she
might possess, it she could have greater influence
IN using them for the mails, and still greater ad.
vantnges, II they were needed IN time OF war
thlnk that the suggestion will be made, that the
government shall, IA some way, DO n holder Of a
portion OF the stock, under some conditions winch
SHALL give II the command for the uses of the mail
anu the transportation OF the psrseEsl and the mu
nltions OF war; Tor the navy and the army.
IL Is believed, also, that the Postmaster General
VIII recommend this course in hs report a. e,,. |
nenily calculated TO facilitate the progress of tbe |
great mails, and TO insure their regularity the la,
ter being Of quite much Importance as "a pid,y of
conveyance. -
The Secretary of War will, in his renor, :, :; !
said concur in the opsnlon OF the Postmaster en-.
eral, and advise a course " hich will give the Co.
rernn;-nt all the right which Mr.. Kendall 30 pom.
pousiy, so unjustly, and So vuinly claimed for the
government touching the conveyance of the Mi /
or course the War Department has a deem intr,.,i
IN all this; and the Navy Departmen can be scarce.
Iy less concerned We all remember-that -
those OF US who were old CROUCH TO obserye-wbaf
were the difficulties encountered in eonysvin. me-.
he Iaef
post 10 another. bushel vt corn IL was sad COS,
al the place OF delivery ten times the FIRST nr,r. |
and men fingered on the march in snow hanks =, |
awaited the subSidng OF foods until the posts We,
lost which they were destined 10 defend. Bur epoueb
OF this As have seen neither the message tor H.
reports 10 which | refer, II may be well for me !
10 spare my notes and anrcIaiOus lest thc teYt
should never appear.
see a repetition of the remarks that ths,s q. ., |
be no war and that Mr. Stevenson never tbourb,
there would Ue-and this in contradiction OF nv a.
serton touching Mr. Slevenson's remarks. So,, /
neither know nor believe that there will be A war
Stevenson, before he left Eng, and after his r, |
turn, endeavored TO belief that the star. nj
negotiation between the two countries was sue, as
TO leave Just apprehension OF 4 rupture. While IN
LONDON, unot TSAnd he declared that the settle
nent OF the Mcleod case was "A Yerv small stf,ir |
compared with the actual situation of things on the
African coast The asgreSSlonS there penetrated
would be more likely 70 lead 70 a rupture thai the
Boundary Question or the Mcleod case.
Thus opinion, TOO, believe Mr. 5. expressed in
New York, while he was sick there Ard Torn
tune, have reason 10 believe tina, the Secretary oil
State did not see the horizon perfectly clear Indeed
It is said, as have already limited, that MIR Steven
son seemed rather TO eSulI In the pro5ibe conse- |
quenc.s Of his latest letter 10 Lord Palmers,on So
much for all this II MIR Stevenson finds f,uIt vim
the rumors, he can, Of course, trace thsm-perhnps
u himself. There is much gossip here at present-
much very small mara-vrIns with some very small
men. There are people who come to Washington.
and spend time and money in the mos. Shameful
manner-tood eating with the SECRETARIES, and small
courtship with their clarke --