The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-03-05

| OPINIONS AND RuMoRs.-Tlere was n rrmo
about town last night, that news had been received
from The Morrill, of the rejection of Mr. Trists treaty
by the United States Senate a mere rumor how
ever, which it will take two or three days, a,
least, to settle tne way or the other We have nc
reliance on it az yet.
We present our readers with some Of the opin-
ions of the Northern press relating to this treaty.
The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore
Sum- who is understood to be the game " semi Off
cia gentleman who writes for the Philadelphia
Ledger, writes (Feb. 23,) regarding the treaty as
follows
Yesterday counted some twenty Senators who
were pledged to vote against the ratification. To-
day count sixteen. falling off Of four. They all
avoid quarreling with the Administration, and es-
peclally those who look TO the Presidency. Sam
Houston, who knows the Mexicans better than any
one here, will denomnce it, and I hear that Col.
Benton himself feels Disposed TO oppose it. If the
latter will apply his master mind TO the subject and
Use his tyrannical powers of persuasion, in cause
which at this moment seems to require such aid,
the country will be laid under deep obligation to
him. The masses forgive tyranny sooner than
weakness. What a pity that the Vice President
has not a chance of interposing his casting vote
In his hands all would be safe.
/ think the probability of the treaty being rati-
fed, only slightly dissented from, ia increasing
but the friends of the treaty must not haoo before
they are out Of the woods.
The New York Tribune of the 25th ult has the
following editorial on the subject:
All accounts represent Mr.. Polk as favorable to
the ratification of the treaty--most of them make
him anxousIy 60 We therefore cherish little doubt
of its acceptance and the prompt restoration of
peace. though the terms anything but favorable
We acquire far too much land. unless we were to
have still more New Mexico is a dead weight );
and the more Southern boundary should have been
either the desert wilds dividing the waters of the
Nueces from those of the Rio Grande on the one
side or the Sierra Madre on the other. Still, we
hope the treaty will be promptly ratified and peace
secured. We cannot credit the report that Senator
Baldwin. of Connecticut, will oppose the treaty.
Most certainly. we would have preferred the boun-
diary offered us last year by Mexico, and thereby
avoided the payment of the fifteen millions but
peace must not be rejected account of a few
beggarly dollars. We implore that no wing vote
against peace, however hard the conditions.
The Washington Union, of the 23d ult, suggests
that the press wait little before expressing any
decided views of the treaty The Union is very
cautious, and adds
We agree thoroughly with tie Baltimore Clipper
IN the statement that If " cannot agree with the
New York Herald, that the treaty is sllam-work-
trick got up aid the negotiation of the sixteen
million loan, and to be rejected as that
OBJECT shall have been accomplished. 1t is rather
too serious matter to trdc with. and we do not
suspect the President of any such design" We
are satisfied that the New York Herald does great
injustice to the President by any such gratuitous
and idle suspicion He is incapable of any such
design. 1t is ridiculous to suspect it,
CRUEL MURDER.--A man named Aaron McNTiI-