The New York herald., 1851-09-12
dNTERES TING LETTER
Oar Washington Correspondence.

At~su@o " s"e nuWH"tMEOftOH-f fNe fieslieHcy-
Georgia Wings against the Administrator
Mfssrs. Scott aad Douglass, and the Hpes of
their Nians-7Hs Gardiner Claims, $c.
Talleyrand's declaration that blunder in dip
a6mscy, was worse than crime, had much Of
-neaning and truth in it,
Ar. President Fillmore and his cabinet seem to
be committing blunders all the time. 1t was a
bluneer for nearly the VIII ls administration to go
of pleasure and popularity hunting, after receiving
positive information that Lopez, and party acting
under him, were about to make another descent
upon the island of Cuba. 1t was biunder to take
Mr.. Owen from his Congressional district in Georgia
and send him to Havana as consul, in tie hope of
thereby appeasing Toombs & Co., and saving
Georgia to the support Of Mr.. Fillmore for So
cond Presidential term. The sequel is, Mr.. Owen
has made himself unpopular and odous as Consul,
and will have to be removed; his distic. in Georgia
will be represented in the next Congress by Mr..
@Chappell, democrat; and Toombs & Co., AMI the
whig party of Georgia, now repudiate their old po-
tical ties, and come out in open opposition to Mr.
EillmOres administration, since its aliliation with
the Johnston free solers of Pennsy lyania aud tho
Seward free soilers of New York. An officer of the
governments head Of burcau-appoioted as a
Southern whg, openly declares that he Is for the
election Of Judge Douglass 20 the Presidency, aud
that Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Loulsiaua,
Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mary aad, will all 60
for him, if he should be tho nominee Of the Demo
cratic party. He even keeps in his Office ST of
the states which he declares will elect Judge Doug
lass President next year. Ina; list. which he mas
exhibited to this writer, among Others contiins
each of the above named States, watch voted, in
1S48, for Taylor a1d Fillmore.
The late removal of Mr.. FIeret, the collector Of
the customs at New Orleans, upon the ground that
ne, like the President ard mos; OF the cabinet ne.
elected his duty to watch for aud prevent the sail
ing of steamer file with armed men destined for
Cuba, will prove blunder, although Mr.. f,eret';
place may be wanted for some favorite OF the al
ministration. Every step the administration now
takes in dismissing public officers for sympathizng
with the Cuban revOlusionists, particularly in Nav
Orleans, will prove blunder. Every move it
makes in the matter of calling upon the English
and French governments to send their war vessels
and cruist rs to the region Of Cuba, to help our
vessels breast the tide Of freedom waich the inhu
man butchery of American citizens, by the Gu
ban authorities is obliged to set in rushing
current toward Cuos, will prove bunder. 1t is
blunder to call upon or to invite England aud
France to aid US in preventing our people from re-
vengiDg the bloody ATROCITIES OF the Cuban autho
rites upon noble and gallant, though mised, Ame-
rican citizens.
1t is a blundcr in the administration to suppose
that either one of It's members can begin TO get
tho nomination OF wdig natonal convention for
President, or begin to be elected President
MIR. Fillmore, since his aiii iation with the
Johnston free soilers Of Pennsylvana, or tho Sew
IA,
vote of a single Southern State; aud for tho
Northern States, he can get no one Of them against
General Scott. So, his Presidential jig is up Mr..
Webster may repudiate some of the oiandeis. We
shall see.
General Scott or Judge Douglass, most unques.
Vonably, is to be the next President. The friends
cf General Scott, here, are very sanguine of his
carrying New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, aad
enough other States to elect him by ar overwne,m
ing majority. The friends of Judge Douglass, here,
equally sanguine that he wi be triu n ohantiy
elected.
Some Eve steamers have arrived in this country
ffom Liverpool since the time set for the arri-
val Of DIR George A. Gardner, by his champions
who had received letters from that conspicuous
lslexican claimant, and yet the doctor comes not.
Il Was q blurder for the administration to have
entrusted the inyestig iticn Of the Gardiner claim,
the Mears claim, the Hargous claim, Sc, 10
Mexico, TO our Minister, Mr.. Letcher, who, when
he arrives there will have his hands more than full
IF other matters Of the greatest import
1t was q blunder to lot Messrs. Corwin, Tho mp
SON. Sc, the counsel and attorneys for ths Gai d.
-er and Mears claims, sesd out to Mexico John
Carlos Gardner to get voucaors to sustain thcso
claims, in advance OF q government agent OF nish
character, ability, aud integrity, who would probe
.he whole subject to the bottom
One of the items in the Gardiner claim, which
ought to have arrested the attention Of the Board
of Commissioners, was that OF $4,000 tor an en-
pine purchased in England, and transferred 10 the
,nine at San Louis Potos, at cost Of $4,000, with
which the great lake Of water 10 the mine was
jumped out The engines cost, including alleged
cost of trsnsp >rtation charged, but no charge
was made for the fuel consumed iu keeping the en-
CINE going while it was throwing ou. the vast lake
of water! The question is, could IN engine OF such
.capacity be purchased in England and transported
20 and set 10 work in n mine at San Louis Potosi,
Tor eight times the amount Of $50, 0OOl
Another i'm portaut fact in relation to the line o.
conduct laid down by the Beard Of Commissioners,
iswoIthy OF comment. The mopeiials signed, re-
spectively, by George A. Gsrdirr, John Carlos
Gardiner, and John Il. Mears, were each sworn to
by the person signing each. The three memorials
sppe ar TO be all IN the same hand writing, and the
:wo signed by the brothers Gardiner are nearly
word for word the same.
A fourth memorial was before the Board, signed
by William w. Corcoran, the banker, who asked
as tho purchaser, to have awarded to him one quar-
:er Of the sum awarded on the claim OF DR.. George
A. Gardiner. But Mr.. Corcoran was not required
by the Board, to swear TO his memorial, and 80 nc
oath was appended thereto The quarter Of th,
o s Why '' 1 the
make this distinct0nI VIII either OF its inember
answer Mons cGroHS.
WAsniSeros, Sept 6, 1851.
Tie Administration and the Cebf Qaesfi1n--1h
Democratic Organ on he Sulgect--Irojea for III
Campaign Of 1862.
From all that We can learn, the administration u
eopGdent that Lopez aud his whole force have beer
destroyed or captured by the Spaniards, and thai
all further trouble, for some time to come, with
the fltbusiuos, is over-that the ontents cordial
will be restored with Spain that mutual explana
lions will make all smooth again bet veen the two
goyernmonts, aud that the horrible hobgoblin o.
the re annexation of Cuba may yet be successfully
svaded as q question for the approaching Pfesi
DENTAL campaign.
These are comfortable assurances and conclusions
no doubt Cor the Of Lopez for ten days longer
from the preparations in New Ofie,ns, would b
equivalent to the independence Of Cuba. That Il
would have resulted in triple alliance between
Great Britain, France, ard Spain, sg ainst the
United States, Is simply rreposterous The cottor
question is more important to England than Fifty
islands Of Cuba; and the portentous signs o.
another continent Al conyulsicn are too momentou
Tor France to admit for n moment, of the ridiculous
cotton that che could be, upon any pIetext, o.