The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1847-01-14

always SubSlSied between The two DIVISIONS.
THINGS AT WAsH1NGToN.--The Baltimore
Sun has a locofoco correspondent at Wash
ingion who is said to have recently held an
Office abroad under the Administration, and
is now about TO receive another appointment.
AT any rate, he seems uniformly TO have au-
lheniic information as to the designs of The
President and his Cabinet. The following
letter from bis pen is interesting:
sWAsHINGToN, Jan. 3, lS47.
"TMpoRTANT. .-To4norrow will, in all prob
ability, be one OF the most remarkable days
Of the session. A message from the Pres-
dent will be received, recommending the
creation of a lieutenant-g eneralship in the
army Of the United States. mentioned nI
my last that the message considering thai
il is doubtful whether the measure will be
carried) will not 60 in; but il is now decided
that il shall, Notwithstanding the opposition
with which il is likely to meet in the House.
Two or three votes is also wanting in the
Senate; but it would seem as If these had
been promised. can assure you that many
will vote for the creation OF the rank who alb
hor il internally: but they will swallow The
bill because it purports supporting the war.
Ii would, perhaps, be best 10 manage that
feeling in order not to lessen il by TOO fire.
quent applications
"None leel more disposedto do The veteran
Senator from Missouri full Justice than my
sell; no one can be more willing than myself
TO see Col. Benton at the head of our gallant
army; but the question does arise, whether
such an appointment is necessary, and if so,
whether the person of Col. Benton is as suit
able to the army as il is 10 the Cabinet and
Congress.
sin the first place, where is the imperative
necessity of the appointment? 1t is usual
TO concentrate military power when an army
is defeated, when its position is critical; when
the confidence of the troops in their leader
is shaken. Is that the case with the troops
under Scott and Taylor? Is it that our POI
stion opposite the enemy is so desperate that
we must create and employ extraordinary
power 10 meet him?
"The vote yesterday on the tea and
coffee bill was another important event. BY
| il the House has, TO a certain extent, pre-
judged the tariff of 46, without judge or jury.
They have thrown open the whole question
with special view 10 Pennsylvania coal and
iron, as if would appear; but the south has
taken warning; and, for the remainder of the
session, we shall witness fierce strife be-
tween contending interests.
Mr.. MARCY AND THE SUB-TREAsuRY.-
The very able Washington correspondent OF
The Philadelphia North American, who, du-
ring former sessions of Congress, gained a
high reputation by his letters under the sig
nature of ''lndependent," has resumed his
communications to that paper. From his let
ter in The North American of the ID inst,
we copy the following paragraphs, from
which il appears that the Secretary Of War
has been guilty of direc! and papable in
fraction of the Sub Treasury law:
"lti is stated, with much confidence, thar
Mr.. Marcy is in no pleasant predicamen
facts having come TO light which convict him
OF a violation of the Sub-Treasury law. /
appears that he, recently, called upon Mr.
Walker for million and half Of dollars
which he designed TO use in New Orleans
TIE Secretary informed him thai. he was nc
prepared to supply such an AMOUNT at tha
point. but could at New York, where the bull
of his resources was on deposite. There be
ing no alternative Mr.. Marcy accepted the
proposition, and undertook The arrangement
of getting the funds 10 New Orleans himself
Upon application at the banks, he ascert ain
ed it would cost between $4,000 and 81, 900
to transfer the specie and to fulfill the law.
Iastead, however; ofexecuIing his trusts, as
in duty bound, he negotiated the transfer by
drafts on New OIleans, redeemable in the
currency of the banks there.
This is palpable infracton of the act, and
one which, if proved TO be in accordance
with the representation made to me, ought to
disqualify Mr.. Marcy from holding seat in
the cabinet. 1t is strange pass we have
come TO, when administrative officers, 'dress
ed in lite brief authority will unde rtake
on their individual responsibility to set at de-
! iance the very laws which they have been
instrumental in enacting. If this sub-treasury
/ had not been guarded by the restrictions now
imposed, through the vigilance of The Wings
in the CommiIee of Ways and Means, we
4 should have had Government bank, con-
trolled by the Executive for the benefit of bis
minions, the parallel of which has never yet
been attempted. This case of MIR. Marcy
will undergo an investigation by the appro-
pirate committee.
"A1D AND COMFORT. "a Wing member