The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-09-01
Correspondence OF the Baltimore sun.l

WASHINGTON. August %, 1910.
Jsbjup toa otfsr tbc SeSson-CpI PoIk-Tjers If tbc
I01rcr Caiiforpiaas 0h's Reroirers -HeGiH ami
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have returned from a brief visit to the country.
and find Washington dull-as usual. week after
The close Ot the session. Still there some ACTIVITY
at the hotels and in tue Departments. The heads
of the Navy and Treasury are absent, and Messrs.
Buchanan and Marcy compose now the Cabinet
aided it is true, by Mr.. JOu"ey, the Attorney Gen.
eral though he intereres but little in matters of
State confining himself almost exclusively TO the
duties of his office. The President will be home
on Saturday, learn. and in time to occupy his
usual position in the FOur-and-a-halt street Church
on Sunday.
Col Polk, the Presidents brother, is vel here.
He is spoken of as Governor of California, but do
not believe he desires any such appointment. He
will return probable, 10 Tennessee and engage
in the practice of his profession Ihe law at Mem
phis. He had attained considerable emlneHce in
this profession previous to his appointment rs
Charge to Naples, and have no doubt, should his
present determination be perseyered in, will yet
occupy far more conspicuous position in the pub
lie eve than he has hitherto attained. The Colonel,
you will reCOllect, was married to an accomplished
lady in New York shortly before his appointment to
service III Mexico. who has not yet visited her new
home in Tennessee, and will accompany him
thither. She is now in the Presidents family, at
the White House.
learn, from an authentic quarter that the people
of Lower California are very much dissatisfied that
they were not, by the treaty of peace included in
the portion of Mexican territory transferred to the
United States. Like the citizens Of the territory
embraced within the imaginary new republic of the
Sierra Madre, they are already looking to a sepa-
rate organization, with a view TO anneNatiOn-l had
almost said re-annexatiOn-lO the United States.
As in the cases Of Texas and Upper California, in
1910, il is considered improper to speak of such
things or to predict in regard TO them, but will,
nevertheless presume TO say, that there is that at
work within Lower California which will sooner
be brought to a head, and produce important re-
suits, than in any other portion of the North Ameri-
can Continent not now part and parcel of our glO-
rOUs COntederaCy. And IN this declaration do not
overlook either Cuba. uCatan, or the quasi indie
pendent governments i'll the vicinity of the Isthmus
of Daren. All these are destined no doubt, by
the Newly Ork Sun and the distinguished Senator of
a Southern State, to become stars in our galaxy
but the shores of The Pacific are destined he the
next, as they have been the last theatre of great
events. Mark this.
Mr.. Samuel Colt, the inventor of Colts reviewers,
with W hich Capt Walkers company did so much
execution during the brilliant little campaign which
resulted 50 dsastrously to the personal prospects,
but so gloriously to the fame Of that daring and
ChlvalrOus officer, Is also here. Shortly before the
close OF the session, JOINT resolution intro
duced in the Senate by, and advocated with that
earnestness which always CharacteriZes the efforts
of Gen. Rusk, when conscious that he is performing
his duty to his country for the purchase by the Gov
eminent of 5000 of these revoyers, for the use of
the army. | think that ! then gave You a sketch
of the debate that it will not he necessary for
to refer to it more particularly than to say
that military men generally appear to think that
the Secretary Of War should not hesitate to make
the arrangement, and upon the terms proposed by
Mr.. Colt. The difference of a few dollars in the
article should not be taken into considerations when
its superiority is so universally acknowledged.
Five thousand of Colts revolvers, with the other
etceteras, in the hands Of the Irish patriots would
effect more for the Independence Of Ireland than
millions in the shape of money, etc, which have
been sent TO that country.
heard from Gen. Cass to-day, through dis
tingusEled member Of Congress, whose friendship
have the pleasure to enjoy. The General will not
| leave Michigan until after the result of the ap-
SprOaching Presidential election is known He is
IN good health and spirits, and, whether he is
elected President or not, will always be entitled
to and receive the homage and gratitude of his
country for the patriotic services which he has
dered through long and devoted public career.
| The lady Of Gen. Cass is now on u visit to Boston
and Vicinity, in company with a brother, who
passed some time at Washington during the recent
session of Congress. They return TO Michigan in
the course OF the present month H.
| Gs- A Mrs. Zimmerman was killed bylightniDg,
at ST. Louis, on the 18th uIt., and several others
seriously injured