New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-08-07
THINGS IN WASHINGTON.
From OF, Regular Correspondent
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WASHINGTON. aug s I3i5-5P. NJ
In Senate to-day. NJ DIcKIysoy Of Ee~-iork
showed some lizzie remnant Of me 81 20 :eelin5
b. proposing TO have Great Britain pay one-ha4i
the expenses Of a Lighthouse at the mouth OF ne
Columbia RIver THIS proposition ne MAJ ".
proposed amendment 70 the C!yh ahG Oii'.'''-''''
bill Il received more laughte! than votes.
Mr. BYNroS got his amendment pro'!oiaS W
rho ra,r,ent nj certain Mexican Instruments en-
bodied In the same bill IN
Tho senate having passed the West POINT bA4
with amendments. went Iato secret sessi'i4' =" el
,be,, re,nained some time, engaged probably on me
Mexican matters 10 which 'eierreo 10 M ls''er
LOST night Il is generally believed that there !: no"
= -rono.;tion for Peace before the Senate.
The House seem bent upon doing nothing except
VIVA, is wrong They passed the Sub-Treasury bill
to-day as it came from the Senate. TINS, too may
he called now Il law Of the land. Mr. Polk is not
YER; likely 10 veto bad bill He makes objections
ouv 10 good bills title TO which this one has no
claim.
The House laid on the table in other words kill
ed the Land Graduation Bill and bill which pass
ed the Senate this morning renting the duties on
certain Railroad Iron used on the Mexican Gulf
and other Railroads.
Gen. ARMSTRONG, Consul al Liverpool arrived
here this morning with the ratified Treaty He
lett this City on the 23d OF June Il seems but yes
10 England since that ZINE. RicHELlEc-
The SLAVE TRADE-Ihe Liberia Herald Of The
! sth June says:
The Slave Trade about here breahngts last gasp
The British cruisers have closely invested these dens
Of blood and death that The Savers find impossible TO
send OF their victims. The Slavers az the Ga!i!nas
have given up their Slaves the Natives and some OF
them we have been informed, waiting with in1pa
tence ON opportunity 10 qu. the Coast Those at New
Cestos naing virue OF necessity. nave embarked N
the Palm OIL trade Success 20 his branch ci their ou
s!ncss'
This is the old song, but it can no longer deceive
persons Of any intelligence. Inc fact is that all the Ell
forts TO put down the foreign Slave Trade have been
worse than failure and will continue DC until the
,aarf for Saves broken up by the overthrow OF Sa
very itself One.half the effort that has been ex-
pended in this frutess operation upon the limbs and TO-
acc OF the tree would have suced destroyed the rec
itself root and branch il the OF reform had been d
rectcd TO the right spot This turning up ones eyes in
horror at the trade in human flesh while Slavery itself
of which that traffic is necessary fruit il pcttcd rs
divine or al the worst delicate and harmless nsttu
ton is about the taest kind of sraning Mt gnat and
swallowing camel that has been heard OF since the
time OF the old Pharisccs.
Loss OF THE ROWLAND HILL.-We do not learn
that the public authorities have ordered any invcshga
ton into the causes Of the late disaster the ST Law
renee coroners jury in Quebec in the case Of one OF
the men killed by the collision gave verdict OF acct
dental death merely. Capt Ross Of the Quebec gives
the following of the affair the accuracy Of which
we sec no reason TO doubt confirmed it Is by state
ments from other sources:
On the nigh, of the Doth July or morning Of the 3Oh
IA little after nidnight) the steamer Quebec arrived
within mile Of Three Rivers on her trip upward
rung the bell for the passengers 10 prepare Tor disen
barking at that plnce When approaching the usual
place OF sioppage rung the standby bell Tor the crew
and engineers to stand by their respective stations
then rlng the engine bell away the engine or
check the speed OF the boat which was Immediately
done then perceived the steamer Rowland bill! lying
at our wharf and rang the bell to stop the engine which
was done ind that moment Observed her leaving
the wharf again runC the bell 10 reverse the engine
which complied with.
At this time was opposite Mr.. Hughess wharf WITH
In sixty feet of il when the Rowland Hill, driving ap
pareny full speed and evidently trying to pass clear
OF US on the outside by the force OF the current
and her stern touching the wharf prevented answering
helm so expected and the result was an insth
tancous collision between the two vesscls-thc Rowland
Hill coming in contact with the Quebcc-and not t..
said the Quebec with her-the larboSrd wing and
wheels Of the Rowland Hill being carried away and hit
ed 10 the orccase OF the Quebec. where II was eit
She driited past us down the stream