The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-03-30
Correspondence of the Courier.
WASHINGTON. MARCH 10

~o11eSPouoeuCS OF the COur16T.
WASHINGTON. MARCH 10.
Governor Jones, of Tennessee, de-
livercd his first speech in the Senate,
to-day, and drew u considerable num-
Der of auditors to the chamber. His
subject was the resolutions against IN
torvention, offered by Mr.. Clarke.
Coy. Jones has had high reputation
as an orator in the West, and he was,
therefore, well attended to, though
little interest is felt in the subject.
Kossuth may speak and M. Pulskey
write, but tho people are farther from
Intervention in foreign affairs than they
were, even, in the time of Washington.
Mr.. Jones delivered the same
views. on the subject, which Mr.. Clay
cntertains, and has expressed. The
resolutions offered by Mr.. Clarke,
were shown to and approved by Mr..
Clay before they were offered. The
Senate will soon drop a discussion
which is no longer of practical
character.
The House is engaged, nominally,
in discussion of the deficiency bill,
but the speeches made are upon the
subject OF party politics.
There are two hundred bills already
before the Senate, and as many ON the
calendar of the House, and many more
are to be added.
The loss OF Mr.. Clay's medal can
be easily repaired, because the die is
in existence. A duplicate ofthe med
al can be struck for the mere cost of
the gold. The expense and merit of n
medal is III the dic--which is cut with
u diamoncd on hardened steel. The
die of the medal presented by Congress
to General lay ylor, cost three thousand
dollars. The die of the Clay med
al cost two thousand. 1t is u singular
circumstance, though, that the medal
should be exposed to the chance of
being stolen. Some suppose that
the thief must have followed the
carpet bag, in which it was deposited,
from this city, till he saw it thrown on
the top of an omnibus or some other
place whore it could be captured.
The bag was found cut open and the
medal gone.
Mr.. Clay's letter, urging the NOM
nation of MIR. Fillmore for the Pres
idency, was addressed, it is said, to
Mr. Ullman, and transmitted to him
mt the same time that the medal was
sent to him. Mr.. Clay wishes it,
undoubtedly, to be published, for he is
not Il man who wishes to conceal his
views. He has many devoted personal
and political friends III New York who
would wish to know and would respect
his opinions on this subject; and the
vote of the New York delegation in
the Wing Convention, will, no doubt,
govern the selection by that body.
WASHINGTON, MARCH 20.
Gcnl. Cass has explained ut length
his Nicholson letter, and vindicatcd it
from the structures of Coll Jefferson
Davis, who, in letter recently
published, puts upon tho Nicholson
letter n construction which Gcnl. Cass
does not assent to. When the Mich.
olson letter appeared Mr.. Calhoun and
and Mr.. Rhctt took widely different
views of it. Mr.. Calhoun put a
construction upon it of character un-
favorable to the South. Mr.. Rhctt, as
| have understood, took another view
ofthc meaning of the letter, and it is
evident that South Carolina had also,
for she gave her vote to General Cass.
The Nicholson letter is capable of
two constructions, but it is now quite
certain that Gen. Cass is to be ln-
dcrstood as taking ouch ground as will
be approved by the South.
Gen. Cass is now the leading can
didatc of the democratic party, as
every one here admits.
lie will undoubtedly have ma
jority on the first ballot; but it is not
question whether the two-thirds
rule is to be adopted or not, for it was
adopted as n permanent rule at the
last Baltimore Convention, and must
be rcscindcd, if not applied. Thus,
Gen. Cass may be thrown out of
the lists.
The public will be glad to learn that,
after long hesitation and delay, Con.
grcss have finally passed bill rem
dering the bounty land warrants as
sisnablc.
The Government of Mexico has
rendered to this Government project
OF Il treaty in regard to the right Of
way across the lsthmus ofTcnuamtepcc.
The terms are different from those of
the unratitied treaty.
a treaty is now near about to be
concluded between the British Minister
and this Government in relation to the
interests of the parties in Central A
mcrica.
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Correspondence Of the Southern Standard.
AsnINGToN, March II, 1852.
The Senate have Mt last passed the
bills granting alternate sections of the
public lands to aid in the construction
of railroads Nearly all the States
having public lands within their limits
are included in the bills.
Gov. Jones. of Tennesscr made h;s