The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-07-29
From Wa Washingfon.

| General Scott declines going to LuHdy's Lane
! Minister to Mezico-7He Nary Department.
! Minister TO England-The Fisheries, &c
WASHINGTON, July 90.
General Scott, am enabled to announce oil
the best authority, has, at the solicitation o
some of his most thoughtful friends, abandoned
his intention of being present at Niagara Falls
( 9th inst.
Hon. Alfred Conklin, United States Judge O.
the Northern District of New York, has beer
nominated Minister to Mexico, in place of Mr.
Letcher, resigned. 1t supposed that thi:
appointment would have been given to distin
guished Kentucky member of Congress.
Judge Hall, at present Postmaster General,
will get Judge Conklin's Judgeship. 1t is said
the Hon. Francis Granger will be appointed
Postmaster General
Judge Chambers on Saturday, forwarded his
delination of the Navy Department. To-day il
was determined in Cabinet Council to offer that
department to Mr.. J. P. Kennedy, of Maryland
His appointment was accordingly sent him by
this afternoons mail, and there is no doubt OF
his acceptance.
Mr. Webster's declination of the mission to
England, being regarded as final, Mr.. Critten-
den will positively receive the appointment.
The trouble with regard to the British coloni-
al fisheries is viewed well with unconcern, and
will amount to nothing. 1t is merely the en-
forcement by the English government OF the
treaty stipulations of 1918, interpreted by
the British law officers in 1S4l. Lord Stanley,
in 1915 in consequence of the complaints made
by our minister of the attempt of the govern
ment of Nova Scotia to carry out this decision,
directed the Governor of that province to relax
the strict construction so far as entering the
BAYS was concerned. The present British cabin et
choose TO enforce the strict letter of the treaty
probably as means to compel this country IN
to an acceptance of the Canadian reciprocity
scheme and it is probable, If Congress viii
consent to the reciprocity, the fisheries may Dc
left open to our fishermen upon the same under
standing which prevailed prior to the advent Of
the present administration Mr.. Webster, OF
Saturday telegraphed to Mr.. Andrews, our Con
sui at New Brunswick, who happened TO b'
here, to proceed at once to New Hampshire anC
report himself in person.
Three or four of the most meritorious railroad
bills will probably be made an omnibus of to
morrow, and offered to the House.
Il No decision has yet been arrived at as to VIII
is to get the vacant Judgeship of the Suprem
Court. 1t will be given to Louisianian.
Hay-The telegraph announces the death c
the Hon. John Mckinley, one of the associat
justices of the Supreme Court of the Unite
States. He was appointed to office in 1887
His circuit was Alabama, Louisiana, and Ker
lucky.
MORMON PoLYGAMY.-W. W. Phelps of Utal
leading Latter Day Saint and elder in th
Mormon church, has written letter to the Ne
, York Herald, acknowledging that polygamy
practised among them, and defending it.
The Rochester Advertiser says there was
o heavy frost in Niagara county, N. Y, on Sun
day night last SO that it quite thick on IL
I grass, and corn and other crops were severe
injured