Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-08-06
MATTERS PERSONAL AND OFFICIAL.

of great importance We select the following
learn that the order for increase Of the United
States force the RE Grande has been issued The bali
is fairly Open and shall have exciting times ere ID
closes Among the good results likely be recorded in
this chapter Of our history is settlement of claims
of citizens Of the United States against Mexico to ndem
nifty for ouages and suffered by them at the hands
of Mrcda officials also, for losses incurred through the
hlessness of Mexico with respect her grants TO par
ties in the United States with whom she had entered into
for the right of way and the construction Of
railroad across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec The lamb
has been muddyng the stream again-Nat INTEL
The Democracy is not likely to have smooth time of
it on the Pacific railroad question The construction Of
that great work by Government is the broadcast possible
yndcaton Of the principle upon which the Wing party
has maintained the doctrine of ssnternal improve
mens" 1t was natural to expect the Wings therefore,
to take up this subject and press it the attention Of
the country and stand fall upon it, as the sentiment
of the country might prove.
Senators Mason and Hunter repudiate the doctrine
in toto, declaring they will have of it, but will de-
vote their every energy to defeat its practical exempf
cation This opens serious division in the party
great question: and the speeches of Mason Hunter
and others who think with Them against the doctrine,
will show the country how little claim the Democracy
have to credit for its advocacy Wings will unite on the
question naturally water down hill, and pre-
sent unbroken front in favor of the great work
G. G. Burr editor of the National Democrat it is sad
win be appointed consul at Tangers if Forney succeeds
4 him in the editorship of his journal
! A. G. Seaman, in the Treasury Department it
is understood win receive the appointment of Superin-
endent Of the Public Printing, vice John I. Towers.
| Iperceive that Lieutenant W. d. Porter is out with q
card denying that he obtained ga furlough for two
years" and has been placed in command of squadron
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interested in the proposed expedition have good
to believe that he became satisfied of its lille
gality he gave up all idea of attaching himself it in
any way
This subject involves more than the public
Prominent merchants of New York DESTROYS open
ing trade with the countries watered by the tributaries
of the Amazon. They argue that Peru, Ecuador, Boil
via, and Venezuela owning these tributaries have
right to the great highway of the Amazon get
to the and, upon the invitation to those countries
they propose to vndicate that right by forcby passing
the Brazilian jurisdiction. Armed with this argument
and armful of Vatte showing the rghts-of Peru &C.
to navigate the Amazon, Lieut. Porter-the New York
merchants at the head of the movement-and other
parties interested held consultation in this city not
long since, and presented the project the Government
asking its sanction to their proceedings Lieut. Porter
declaring his readiness to fight against any odds if his
country would but say it was right do The sub
ect fully considered in Cabinet session. and the
the expeditonsts was that however perfect the
right of Peru and the other countries named it was by
clear that they could transfer that right
other Power and that before the proposed expedition
could be legal those engaged in it would have to dena
onalize themselves, become subjects of Peru Ecua
dor Bolivia when, of course they would lose their
right protection by the United States At this point
believe, Lieut. Porter broke off his active connexion
with the project.
The Governments of Sweden and Norway have prompt
ly adopted the suggestions of Lieut. Maury proposing
simultaneous meteorological observations by the navies
of different nations, with view to the perfect de-
velopment of Lieut.. Maurys system of wind and
rent charts The respective Governments express their
readiness to issue orders their nayes and invitations
to their merchant vessels, at such time Lieut.. Maury
-l-ll ai-ei, tnr commencement obsery ATOMS
Lieut. G. A. Pattison, the part of Swedish navy,
and Lieut. Ihlen, the part of the Norwegian have
been detailed to meet Lieut. Maury the Brussels sen-
tifc conference
Proposals for the custone and brickwork of the
Louisville cusomhouse building opened in the Of
fee Of the Secretary of the Treasury day SINCE
but the bids so "wild as to excite suspicion
that of the bidders If all of them
ally what they bidding for. The Secretary
will decide in few days what to pursue with re-
ference to the matter.-RepuJiic.
AN INTERESTING MISSIONARY QuEsrIoN.-The friends
of the Catholic Missionary establishments in Oregon have
just appealed to the General Land Office for reversal of
decision of the Surveyor General of that Territory In
the organic law Of Oregon Territory there is clause
saying And provided also that the title the land not
exceeding $40 occupied by missionary stations
among the Indian tribes in said Territory together with
the improvements thereon be confirmed and established
in the several religious societies which said missionary
stations respectively belong" The Surveyor General
convey grant of GAO for each such missionary
station but single grant Of GAO each denomina
ton having missionary stations in Oregon, without re-
ference the number Of such stations each may have in
that quarter.
ThE CONDITION OF PRNcETos.-We learn that
Commodore Shubrick, writing from Eastport, Maine
where he is temporarily detained by fogs informs the
Department that Engineer Martins alterations in the
machinery Of the Princeton have SO far improved her as
to render her t for her present voyage She however
requires twenty-five tons Of coal for wenty-four hours
steamng, which will prevent her from being used whore
she cannot get coal at very short intervals Commodore
s. agrees with Engineer Martin in the opinion that al
toraons may be made in her boilers which will obvate
her present enormous.consumption of coal.
THE New Custom HOUSE, TO DE BUR- AT wrLarSeroS
DELawARE.-The proposals for the construction Of this
work having been opened, hear that all Of them
four FIVE in number-are found to be above the
amount appropriated by Congress for the purpose and
further that the Secretary of the Treasury now consi
derng what he well do for the public interest under
such combination Of circumstances.