New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-29
TIE PACIFIC RAILROAD-A CHILLY BLAST
FROM WASHINGTON.

The Mar York FTtemGn's Journal is not frs.-ra5e
authority in T. ines whatever it may be in Theology
bu Our own eGyces ircln US 20 regard the following
letter a. il the nsu authentic. There has evidently
been a change a. the White House since the utter
arce Of JEFF Dasiss Metropolitan speech aud the sp
pearsnce OF tn So Railroad leaders IN TIC Union TIE
Virginia msenat, have been brandshiog the Resolves
of o il the Pr sidepts face and threatening bin with
rebellion IN of bis persistence ia fayofing the
great Nsticna Rslosd aud they haze backed MIN off
the He bas never personally committed him.
sell 10 public 10 the enterprise 70 that he throw
oy,r Davis dissyOw Tie Union aud stand all right with
Gracious Brutus, Tmoecu aid al that class of earaes.
lu iatte tedious esa ISIS whose fgc-c ,Iumn dssera-
tons N Tile EicLmond Enquirer are among the most
sopCdic OF boy hooJs memories But let US near
Tie FneaGhs Journals correspondents
WASHINGTON, Friday, Alsust g. 1853
Mu,l has ben said, wfhten and c01jsctured IN re-
Pad "a the great Pacific road scheme which hss been
So ttdetlJ and so sogulrly sprung upon the county
Il C. flf Il Mach has since iis lrOmulga
ton Orbed much o the public attention. Bat the
sequel OF tbe affair all to be astonishing
hl II fst cL Of the CABINET upon this import Mt SUD
let. Ia Of my letters published several weeks ago
The opinion that The declaration OF hesrs DAVIS
and Gu bris, committing their iustrcus cniri snd ths
Cabinet il faY or Of tho Ps R4ro 40, Sa staPsns qgn
anC ilat The Administration VAS emoarrSsed hsfeDy.
sud- nos ont e. be Tho facit iapsus HsguT,
fo VII Oh her the Presdut he other members OF
Il tatT 81 toe people prepared The country
btaro tie am ouucenent with a-tOnishmr and many
tiCus the COunI! wih great alarm But when after the
ur Of the President hs ministers the sea OF ~
erIp j. H. astounding declarations Of the Ministers of
VIZ and Fn4oce followed 10y long and able series OF
ectCals published 10 The LiO edited under the very
esves If the White House, and generally recognized
,lrcugi ut he country The Official and confidential or
g. a. the Administration, in which The Pa,ilc Railroad
scheme defended advocated and declared TO os
Den ,Cric 1easure and OF the pet OF the reign
"A A. =
settled assigned tie Pao c Railroad prominent and prn
Cps poe the fret Preside Pierces annual Messages
10 Coz sIo then the W g patty rroced IN the GER
tin pshmelt Of q cir f.yore Pc 10y under ID TAO
crstic Aduu ton At this stage the progress OF the
work n. loyal aud aiiSe Democracy of the South
ever fLlu TO stI.d construction Cf the Constitution,
took the aiAIm have arisen ia SOLID IN o1pO
sit to the newborn pet OF the Administration. stated
in pifv Letters that the Senator's from Virginia, who
together wielo powerful influence than any other
State the fOcr OF the Senate, had declared their
NIT gated opposition ~ tie prCjec-aLd II IS shown
that they VII be followed by the great body Of the nth
TN Demo racy. The opposition which has, wthiu three
week. brought 10 bear this subcc aud in oppos
ton to The heme divUged by Nessrs DAVIS and Guthrie
has beer res bic ard yerw homing Many ofhe princ
psl and oifiDgUished politicians aud g4tOrs the
South have person been oloseted with the President
this subj ~ other have iLeIyered otherwise 10 pre-
vail upor tie President 20 abandon this policy and nOld
linsel sloOi nom the rAr ad This have ascertlmei
to be the case upcl the most reliable and direct means Of
il formation Now while the two ministers and the organ
herAloiTg The Pacific Railroad forth measure of
the Administrator, did net strike you singular that
the President the "lustrioUs chief to whom the two
EiI sers appealed in their railroad station and hotel
sIeec had opened his mouth upon the subec;
Nssi guar that neither the premier Mr. Marcy
lte al rrty GereIsl Mr. Cushing the two leading
uivu b, Cabinet said word TO Orse or confirm
svcwals OF Mess7s. Davis and Guthrie Struck with
this ri,us becoming silence, concluded 10 write
nonii upon The subject While all the papers and cor
IfpOId in lie Union we're able TO write about nothing
else Until should bs able to derive from reliable
the and suf entc position OF this subject before the
Cabinet Ills have done, and now you shall have it.
1te President has determined 10 adopt father or
rtcemmend NE Pacific Railroad ia any rlasaer
Skofr policy ef tee Administration, and this
DIE aaotion e. IS raImiy and decidedly Hacked and
sAEIorssd ten The Secrtary of State AtorHeg
GeHeroI Iais y0u zcy reg upoE a.certGi.ed fact
Nov, beyond this important fact. do not pretend to
state anything as certain but many thpgs viii b. ccniec
tsred from it. Tie fret lecture that the Pesiaen.
viii the whole subject 10 be de oded by the wisdom
81 good judgment Of the Congress o. he United States
The important fscts disclosed By yosr correspondent
en- confirm the impression that the Administration
v leave tie Pacific Railroad to be constructed by pri
enterprise the route designated By "Qaisiaa
1nd sss s aSe SsS Tsa Psy S ar 9s
be stu Aeo would have been the T-huantepsc route IL
TIE treaties negotiated between the United STATES sud
MEXICO on that subject hsd been rataed b all this
however as sy, ne Pdctnc QAr0dG rti not be trough
crEaTd AC1giaiofI0n n4elsErs L. IS said ths,s IS
sbuDc If capital ready 70 &c invested IA tue road %
pnVNs srit prise. 10 b. protected BY tie Governns1t
and seems FEM the present ascerainsi position Of Ia
eurs suffice, that such viii be the rssuli Of the affair
) utbtEr capitalists fesdy 10 embark in Il, and the
scheme hus presented meets with universal favor 81 TIA
south ihs tIecis Of the dec ar-ton made By Nessrs
Davis ana Guthrie and the President nc. sustaining them
usy viii in the OF uion ii SONS ell informed o. the
subject lead 20 The reirsy o. these tro g-Ii.emen iron
the tSbLet 90 not propose to predict changes IN the
Cabinet but it ;he present Cabinet IS 10 be broken M il
v be upon this very P4cisc Railroad project ana tns "a
nriIg Ministers all be Aessrs Davis snd Guthrie