Arkansas intelligencer., 1845-03-29

sigh. into the doings at Washington city. Truly,
great questions have been brought before the pres
ent Congress, and great measures have been per.
fected. The Annexation resolutions--she Post
Office Bill-,he admission Of two new States into
our grand Confederacy, and the question Of Tho
armed occupancy of Oregon.
Wha, that queruous, grasping power, England,
will do, is more than We can safely predict. II
will create immense excitement amidst her minis.
Try, and will light the flame Of great moral,
newspaper and parliamcnt.harangae war, which
may eventua,e in war Of a severe cast Santa
Annals fall has checked her schemes for the &c.
QUESTION Of California; the annexation Of Texas
has defeated her views of commercial treaty Of
mutual amity with that territory; and the spirited
stand we have taken in regard to our Oregon pos.
sessions, will all result in throwing her into
complete fume; and we may shortly expect 10
SEQ the English journals filled with wordy flames,
in comparison with which those called up by Mr..
Calhoun's letter shall shrink into dying embers.-
The British envoy at Paris has for long time
been ondeavoring to wheede the French kngin.
to an alliance with England, for the sole and sin.
gle purpose of opposing the endeavers of our Peo-
pie 10 receive the territory Of Texas into our con.
federacy upon her application, and now that that
measure has been effected, it is not to be mo-
ment supposed that England will tamcly suffer it;
that is, if she can any way prevent it. Therefore.
q II # m
to lesislate acco riding 10 our own judgment re.
gardIess whether England or any olher power is
pleased or not, we mus! in time prepare for war,
whether that war be moral or ar actual ono:
we must be prepared to sustain and maintain the
sp.cndor and briIancy of such an era as the pres.
ent, and not allow i. to bo any wise dmmed by suf.
fsring tho 'bulIyngs' Of dspleased, intermeddIing
England.
The following letter from Washington city,
though it has been some time upon the way hith-
er, still contains matter of interest and news Of
the stirring scenes of the Capitol:
W.snrSGroN CRY, March 2, 1916.
Mr. EpIroR 1T is with considerable Inconvenience
that appropriate to correspondence any portion Of
my time and it is equally difficult to select from the
multilarious subjects any for my epist!es.
Babel certainly exceIled this city in variety of
tongues but Washington exceeds all other places for
its variety in every thing ese-men, costumes and
customs-women, manners and fashions-satesmen,
oeegar.poticians and political mountebanks, inter
spersed with smart sprnklng of all other sorts oil
quacKs anu charatans But here must cease any at
tn eta he aript n he m.
su med ere the thing could be half done.
The city is now filled to the garret with strangers,
and more constantly arrive in every conveyance
Whittier they will go or how they can be commodat-
ed, cannot conjecture-uncss they adopt the nau.
tical custom of watch and watch; where one half
turn in while the other half'turn out
Pennsylvania Avenue with its gay thousands upon
the prom enade fair and beautiful day, far exceeds
the picture, in my Imagination, of the celebrated
Boulepdrds of Paris.
Cabinet making is still an interesting employment,
though as yet Mr. Polk has not thought proper to pro-
mulgate the great secret 1t is settled thing, how
ever, that Mr.. Buchanan will be Secretary of State
John Y Mason will remain in the Navy Department;
the War Office is assigned to Cave Johnson, and r. J.
Walker will be Attorney General. The Treasury and
Post Office Departments remain open to the exercise of
Madam Rumor's oficous tongue
Gen Butler Of Kentucky, will, It's believed, go to
Mexico to the relief Gov Shannon Gen. Armstrong
will go consul 10 Liverpool.
The Texas question is decided; the joint Resolutions
s amended in the Senate have passed both houses and
they are this moment approved by Mr.. Tyler Agreat
and glorious measure has been achieved, one which
will render March ls45 memorable epoch in the his.
tory of Time one which will be looked back upon by
posterity with profound pleasure mingled with won
der that any should be such enemies to their country
grandeur prosperity and renown, as to cast obstacle
the very path which leads to grandeur prosperity and
renown. They will wonder at such spirit, and won
deriny will estimate the true cause and promoter of
such an opposition, that o! an unholy and fraclvus
war against the good OF the whole, which initiates
against the cmoluments and purses Of the few, who
would make the sweat Of the many conduce to their
enlargement of purse and emolumcnt.
The Post Office bill has passed. 1t goes into effect
after the st of July: cents under 800 miles, 10 cents
over that distance The Bill for the admission of Iowa
and Florida passed the Senate last night-36 10 g.
These States give US four democratic Senator'S Hura!
for the twenty eight States, and Texas will swell the
number to twenty nine! Twenty nine Stars will now
wave upon our National Flag.
The Bill to establish Van Burcn Port OF Entry has
passed the House, but with an obnoxious amendment