Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-01-02
Correspondence of the Richmond Enquirer
WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. %, 1915.

/ understand, that the Senate today passed
an act to extend the jurisdiction of the U. S.
Courts over Texas, and to authorize the Pre-
sident to institute snch ports Of entry, post Of
fees and post roads, to appoint the necessary
collectors of the customs, postmasters, &c., as
may be necessary to bring Texas practically
within the influence Of our laws. This is the
enactment for temporary purposes, Of which ]
wrote you on the day before yesterday. They
also reelected their late Chaplain, the Rev.
Mr.. Tustin, and then adiourned over until
Saturday next. The House merely met and
Immediately adjourned until the same day.
Their haste to commence the holY-days is nn-
fortunate; for they did not remain sufficiently
long in session to allow the speaker an oppor-
tunity to sign the joint resolution for the an
nexaton of Texas, which must be done, &C
cordng to law, while in session. They, there
fore, cannot receive the Presidents signature,
and be dispatched to Texas until Saturday
evening next.
The speech Of Mr.. Webster, at the supper
given last night by the New England Soc ETY.,
was decided failure; so say all of either po-
litical party whom have heard speak Of it.
Sons two hundred and fifty persons partook
Of the entertainment; and of the many address
ses made, those of Messrs. Woodbury., Dix
and Fairfield most highly spoken Of. The
whole affair, however, was considered exceed
ingly fiat, tame and stale. Mr.. Calhoun's
entree was marked by very decided and
agreeable sensation, which is harbinger of
good feeling among the Democratic members
of that body, and, trust, liberality on the part
! of their opponents.
said nothing in my letter of last evening,
relative to the news of new revolution in
Mexico, Concerning Which there were all
Of in no \ I \
not trace it TO reliable source. | have since
learned that the information is to be depended
on, and that Paroles had doubtless declared
against the government of Herrea. He had
marched his army of eight thousand men to-
wards the Capital, with view of upsetting
the existing order of things; because, forsoo:h,
the government were about to acknowledge
the legality OF the annexation of Texas. From
the accounts received, there is little room to
doubt that the agents of England are at the
bottom OF his movement; supplying him with
the means of carrying through his plans, &c.
Herrera is not in situation to offer resistance:
so the next arrival will proclaim the former a,
the head of the government England is Ger.
tainly aiming to keep US in trouble with Mex.
leo, SO long as the Oregon question is in abey,
ance: Such is plainly her policy. and she is
not likely 10 scruple in the selection of means
TO carry it through.-Rer rulers could not have
!, fallen upon plan more likely to ensure war
If her interference in our affairs was offensive
ere Texas was annexed, it is bonblv so now
as she is Invested of the mawkish pleas BY
which she attempted 10 justify her late course
President Polk Is not the man take him for
if he does not sift this affair to the bottom. and
promptly check this application of M. Guizot's
theory to our immediate concerns.
!, BY way of redeening my late promise tc
write you chapter on the public PRINTING. le
me call the attention of the readers of the En-
quirer TO few fixed facts'' connected with
the late contest for it. =. -,.-