Southern standard., 1851-05-31
Important Political RumOrs.

Weextract from the Washington Correspondence
of the New York Herald, the following important
rumors which seem to portend a rupture in the
Cabinet:
WAsnINGToN, May 6, 1851.
Mr.. William D. Lewis, the Collector OF the GUS
toms for the District of Philadelphia, is once more
triumphant, and will retain his place, from which
there have been tremendous efforts made to have
him removed. Mr.. Senator Cooper and the whig
committee have been defeated
The Joint opinion of Secretaries Webster Gra-
ham, Conrad, and Stuart has been set at naught
by President Fillmore This has had its effect
and Mr. Webster, it is said, seriously thinks of re-
signing. To this course he is advised by Mr. Sen
ator Cooper and the whig committee.
The whg committee has learned from President
Fillmore the reason why he retains in office Mr.,
Collector Lewis.
Gov. Johnston has addressed the President also
and has declared that he will not be candidate
for re election if his friend, Mr.. Lewis, is not re-
tanned in his post as Collector To this President
Fillmore has replied, that the Collector shall be
retained Mr.. Cooper told Mr.. Fillmore that his
pledge to Gov. Johnston was pledge to coali-
ton with free soilism, and that the Union of
Pennsylvania would all so treat it.
1t is further understood that Mr.. Cooper and
his friends will now oppose no obstacle to the NOM
nation of Gen. Scott for the Presidency, at the
Pennsylvania State Wing Convention which will
be in session next month, while Lewis and his
friends have pledged themselves to prevent this
Mr.. Cooper told the President that Gen. Scott
would be nominated by an almost unanimous vote.
Mr.. Webster will not be party to this coalition
with freesosn, and will not remain to assist Mr..
Fillmore's cause but it is said he is determined
to resign-leave the Cabinet and set up for himself
The following letter addressed by Gen. Foote to
one of the Editors, (who was then conducting an
other paper, will show the manner in which he
expressed the ''disgust and m0rtsfcatlon' he now
pretends to have felt The article which called
forth Gen. Foote's ''aoarmest acknowledgements
was published when it was first bruited about that
he intended to disobey the instructions he had
called for of the Legislature, and oppose the scheme
OF the Nashville Convention. We discredited the
report that he would thus desert the south, and
vault from his position a sentinel upon her watch
tower, into the very camp of the enemy; and so
stated. He replied as follows :-MSsisSippian.
"WAsHINGToN, April 90, 1850
''My Dear Sir-Accept my warmest acknowl-
edgments for the prompt and generous manner in
which you have repeed, in a late number of your
paper, the absurd and unfounded charge that am
or ever have been, hostile to the scheme of the
Nashville Convention. Ny views have SO often
been declared both in Congress and elsewhere in
appreciation cf the whole action of our noble State
on the subject, that | should have been surprised
at the calumny, had it not been my lot to be the
object of gross misrepresentation of every kind
during the whole period of my Senatorial career.
<'Belleve me to be your faithful and cordial friend
"H. S. FOOTE."