New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-03-30
Washington Correspondence.

large amount Of work away from city. OBSERVER
Washington Correspondence.
ALL OPTICAL Matters" WE THALL SEE "
SOUTHERN NovEMENTs-MR. pEBow-copY-
= RIGHT-THE SENATE
Correspondence Of tbs gustsnt.
wAsnNeros, March TO- 1868.
Public matters have been statu quo bum the
past few days. After Senator Douglas brought down
the house., rather the Senate galleries with his anti
Uncle aud closed up by writing on his
jackson braze Of glory the four initials u s. k
"uncle SANS Kompliments to Kuba latter all this
storm and tempest and thunder, and lightning and hail
we have the calm Of more sunny day But how long its
duration will be it is impossible to oresee Gen Cass fred
his big guns and then obliged to leave fornot ex-
acty for parts unknown rbut parts distant on account
Of sickness in his family Senator Mason came on the
arena with his diplomatic array all dignity all circum-
spection, all Virginia abstraction to perfection Mr. ex
Secretary Clayton burly Falstaf looms up from under
the war-ike shadow OF the Blue Hen of Delaware
The Young Giant Of the West takes the field like David
among the Phistinesnot forgetting the sting And now
another distinguished exsecretary Everett the scholar
the statesman the Diplomat takes the floor and draws his
graceful bow. Champions all
1t goodly sight to see The rights honor and hap
piness Of dear America safe in such hands,
You hear much, by telegraph and among outsGers of
the scramble for Office But must do the democrats the
justice to say that, all things consideredespecay the
famine and fasting of the last four yearsthey behave
quite well The scramble is by no means as violent a;
would appear at first glance from the casual reports in
the papers. Honor to whom honor ia duen
Being one of the sovereigns carefully abstain from
expressing any opinion to the qualities and prospects
Of the different appointees and applicants. There
fifty sixty candidates, in ell, from Louisiana
to express any preference may just remark pas
sm THAT the contest the ooectorshp seems now to
be pretty much narrowed down to MessIs. Penn and
Dufive--with rather what l. outside observer,
should call home look for the former. But, terons
There really growing determination here to pay
strict attention to the varied great interests
the South The mail ronte to Key West the steamers
to Vera Cruz the California route by Tehuanepec the
improvements in the Mississippi the facilities of stage
transit through Mexico to Acapulco matters Of import
coming up here with power and potency that not
and viii not be gainsayed.
Mr. DeBow of New Orleans, entered to-day the du.
ties Of his important office as Chief of the Census
Bureau Ills talents stateian presumed TO have
recommended him to the post 1t is known to but few
persons here how far he will continue contribute to the
Southern Quarterly Review.
The Copyright Treaty ia about being introduced into
the Senate, 1t will be likely occasion lively debate
has prepared carefully dgested speech tho subject
Gen James Is scientific gentleman and of the mos,
practical statesmen of daysaying nothing of
Of his party politics He takes the view, informed
that the treaty desired will be likely operate much
to the advantage Of the large English book houses and
their agents in this country This is not tho reciprocity
we want Our American authors can not compete with
such powerful and long established monopoles in Eng
land, while the English -thors here will have the advnn
af, al
These British book agencies here by importing whole
editions as they published in England, will throw
hundreds of thousands of industrious American
ates out Of employ while the prices of the books will be
kept up to much higher standard than present Such
unequal law will not work we'll and for one shall
wage my humble pen against 1t.
The Senate will probably sit some ten days yet But
the principal foreign appointments may not be sent in
until it adjourns DEsoro
CONTINUED MINATIoNs-PRESIDENTIALP POLICY
FOREIGN APpoINTMENTs-EvERErT's SPEECH
DOUGLAS AND MAsoN--sPRING IN WASHINGTON
sENATES CLOSE.
WASHINGTON, March 81, 1858
We have had another batch some two hundred nomi
nations sent to the Senate to-day. Quick work. and
rather extensive
II s understood to be the policy of the Executive and
Cabinet to begin principally among the distant places
like farmers gathering up their heaps of sheed
the ground gradually approaching to the central and
highest part of the pile Doubtless this Is good policy
BY securing general approval from the Senate on COM
paratvely subordinate appointments President Pierce
will feel authorized to look to that body for more i'm
porant combinations and to the country ut large for
considerable appreciation This is aroit It shows that
the cute New Hampshire politician knows what he is
about and what he means to do. Trust Frank If he
don't dsappoint of the old stages only among
the wings but in the ranks of his own party won't
guess again. sts
There prospect days since that the principal
foreign nominations would all be made during the execu
tive session Of the Senate but this Is by no means as
probable as it was The conversations still turn on Bu
chanan for the British mission, Soue for the Spanish
Wise for the French Brazilian and Dix for the Rus
sian A.dsy or two more from this date will solve all
doubts. NJ
Mr. soue, who was approached with regard to an en-
bassy to Paris, peremptoriy refused He was candid
enough to assert in the most positive terms that he
could not bear to reside at the Court Of France and be
compelled perpeuay to draw unavorable comparisons
between the country of his birth and that Of his adoption
justice to Hon. Henry A. Wise, the proposed ap-
ponee for Versailles it should be stated that with all his
severity of style speaker and writer he possesses
great amenity Of manners as gentleman Mr. wise
would be faithful to American interests in France
On accounts, the most difficult posts just now are
those in Nicaragua Costa Rica, Honduras aud Mexico
Indeed the whole Central American country an
unwcnted interest at the present period Mexico Is in
state Of the most critical character and it is not too
much say that the missions TO those nations however
small and impoverished they may appear to now re-
quire and should enlist the highest order of diplomatic
talent There are some points in which the American
Minister to San Juan del Norte would hold power In
his hands would be more intimately connected with the
prospective peace Of the nations Of the earth than
the Minister to ST. James ST. Cloud or ST. Petersburg
The het6taes of the Senate chamber have enjoyed
splendid intellectual feast to-day in the speech of the Hoo
Edward Everett tbs Essscr..y VI state under rrss,