The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-13

OmelaI Explanations and Lame RtStiSns.
We extract these BY Authority" items from
the Republic of yesterday, relating to alleged
acts of commission and omission on the part
of the administration:
Mr.. RIvEs.--We observe in the correspond.
ence Of Northern journal an intimation that,
notwithstanding an authorized contradiction of
the report, the writer had reason to believe that
Mr. Rives our minister to France, had been re-
called, or was expected to return. As the re-
affirmance of this story seems TO have given
new currency to the fabrication we think it well
enough to say that, as far as the administration
knows, there is not the slightest foundation for
it in fact II the writer intends to intimate that
DIR. Rives contemplates returning to this coun
try, we have no means of confirming or contra
dieting the allegation but it is not true that
any such intention has been communicated to
the administration, nor that the administration
entertains any purpose of his recall.
Mr.. THRAsHER's CAsE.-Some of our con-
temporaries continue to assail the administration
for not " doing something" in the case of Mr..
John s. Thrasher, the editor who has been ar.
rested and imprisoned at Havana
1t would be more satisfactory, perhaps, if they
would point out what they propose should be
done by the administration, that the administra-
ton may consider and decide on the propriety OF
doing it.
We know that Mr. Owen, our consul at Hav-
ana, has made application to the captain-general
in regard to Mr.. Thrasher, and that the captains
general has replied that the case was in the hands
of the judicial tribunals, and that he could not
interfere, but that the trial OF the prisoner should
be open and public. Beyond this there is no
thing in possession of the State Department; no
complaint has been made by any one on behalf
of Mr.. Thrasher, and no intelligence, accurate
or otherwise, has been communicated in the
premises As soon as reliable information on
this subject is received from any quarter at the
Department of State, we have reason to know
that it will command the attention it deserves
In view of the recent discontinue of the gov
eminent forces at the North, the unfriendly atti-
tude of the Southern compromisers, and the
endorsement in Virginia, and elsewhere, of the
strongest denouncers of that batch of bunders
in view of all these portentous signs, the or
gan becomes "most musical and melancholy"
The head of MEMNor never gave forth a strain
mere sad than this from yesterdays Republic
breathing the very soul of dependency for the
future, and apprehension for the things which
"remain to be SEEN" 1t is very evident that
the editor, when he penned it, was troubled with
misgivings and fears as unutterable as those
which haunted that ancient governor of the New
Netherlands, "Walter the Doubter:"
POLITICAL PARTIES AND OPINIoNs.-We have
this morning devoted the space usually occupied
by editorial matter, to the specuations on public
affairs of various journals, of different political
shades and compilations. These we publish, of
course, merely as the expressions of the journals
from which they are derived, without adopting
the views of the papers which may be fairly con-
sidered WING. 1t is very diff
cult to give all our exchanges an accurate politi-
cal denomination; but we have sought to indi-
cate the precise shade of opinion in the journals
from which we have quoted by an appropriate
name. In ,ohat manner a party strong enough
10 carry on the government spite of the balance.
ofpo,oer factions that piA Of course seek TO en-
barras The administration, and prevent useful
legislation, is to be euoiped from this chaos and
confusion, remains TO be seem
We shall probably see strange sights during
the ensuing session of Congress; and curious
combinations and coalitions will doubtless be
evolved from that " chaos and confusion" But
it may perplex the party" that has carried on
the government" 80 far towards consolidation,
to perpetuate the power so unjustly gained by
the North, and make further capital out off " set
Element" that has only unsettled everything
Presidential prospects Of patriot" politicians in
cuded
This wailing cry of The Respondent organist
is prophetic. 1t comes TO our ears like the faint
and feeble echo of that memorable appeal made
once by the Ajax of the present administration,
WHERE AM TO Co"