The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-01-15
Special Dispatches to the n. Y. Tribune.
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r.. u, introduce
into the Senate a resolution to place five mil
lions of dollars at the disposal of President
Pierce, as provision for any exigence in our
foreign relations during the recess The vote
will be test of confidence in the incoming ad-
ministration. The discussion upon the matter
will open the whole subject of our foreign rela-
tions.
For the debate in the Senate to-day on the
Triparite Treaty, Messrs. Mason and Cass had
evidently made preparation, while the other
Senators were taken by surprise.
This was pOintedly alluded to by Mr.. Soule,
who observed that Mr.. Cass spoke from memo
randa. Cass' strong commentator Of the
course pursued by MIR. Mason in the Committee
of Foreign Affairs. is thought to point toward
the appointment of the latter to the Depart
ment of State. 1t is supposed that Hunter,
who is a prominent candid;t, for the Office,
will decline, and Cass will try to drive Mason
In.
Mr.. Everett's correspondence, adverse to the
measure of Tripartite Treaty. is very able,
and will make profound impression. Extreme
Southern men make no objection to the Barn
burners, not even John Van Buren,. An elo-
quent and distinguished Southwestern Senator,
when asked his opinion upon Van Buren's ap-
p0ntment, said, +" did we accept his services in
Battle to be separated in Victory?''
Sometime last session, proposals were receiv-
ed from the Government OF the Sandwich Is
lands for annexation to the United States. Mr..
Fillmore declined the proposal and refused to
lay it before the Senate, though called upon by
a resolution OF that body to do so. His reason
is supposed to have been founded in the fear of
reOpening the question of the WilmOt PrOviso.
A scheme is maturing among the Democratic
Senators, at an early date under the next ad-
ministration to take up and accept the propo-
sal. For this purpose the votes of two-thirds
of the Senators are required, all of which, save
hnc
Wilmot Proviso will again be discussed The
Democrats are angry that Douglas instead of
Benton, has been selected to deliver the address
on the 9Th of January, at the Inauguration of
the Statue of Andrew Jackson.
Mr.. Stewards argument in the Supreme
Court on the Patent case, between the Troy
Nail Factory and Corning, is pronounced by
the lawyers, superlatively able. EYE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. &c. 1852.
congress will meet tomorrow morning. but
probably only to adjourn over. There seems
little disposition to legslate at present.
A prominent reason for the refusal of the
President to publish the Sandwich Islands An
nexation Correspondence is the fact that it
would compromise several distinguished indi-
viduals who have born a part therein.
Fletcher Webster will retain his office at Bos-
ton, by virtue of a bargain between certain
prominent Webster men and leading friends of
Gen. Pierce.
Mr.. Everett's letter declining to be involved
In the proposed Tripartite Treaty guaranteeing
Cuba to Spain, is more decided than the Presi-
dents Message, on the point that we will per-
NIT no Foreign Power, under any crcumstan-
ces, to acquire Cuba.
Senator Soule prefers not to be Foreign Sec
rotary under Gen. Pierce. for the alleged reason
that he is of foreign birth, and might thereby
expose it to unjust prejudices. Hack gave
lar better reason for not eating his support
Senator Hunter is to be the Cabinet expon-
ent Of the State Rights wing of the Southern
Democracy.
Senator Mason's movement on Foreign At
fairs in the Senate will only delay Soule pro-
Ject of placing Five Millions of Dollars at the
Presidents discretion for Foreign contingencies
q few days. 1t is bound to pass
Alex. u. Penn. of Louisiana, is strongly talk
ed Of for POstmaster-Gener He don't seem
to want 1t. He will be offered the Collector
ship at New-Orleans. EYE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. q.
Senator Soule's s5,OOO,OOO project is not
abandoned. 1t is. however. deferred until the
wire-pullers can feel the public pulse. Fit be
not sooner proposed, it will come in answer to
the discussion on Mason's resolution calling for
the correspondence concerning the proposed
Tripartite Treaty on the 4th of January. 1t is
generally thought here that MesSrs. Fillmore
and Everett are using Messrs Cass and Mason
as tools, under the impression that the publica-
ton of the letter will relieve the Administra-
ton from the charge of mbecility as to our for
eign relations, The well known fact that the
letter has fiibustierng tendencies. eXcites here
the greatest desire for its publication, while the
LocOfOcO annexatonsts are unwilling that such
4 powerful document should influence public
opinion in advance of the inauguration of the
new Administration.
Secretary Everett has recently purchased
Governor Marcy's house in this city, which
looks as if he intended to stay here. His friends
think that the publication Of his letter will be
an inducemcnt for the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture to send him to the Senate. MasOn's move
mcnt for the publication OF the letter is to place
himself favorably before Gen. Pierce and the
country, and in this he is backed by General
Cass.
In the North Carolina Legislature, Gen. ROM
illus N. Saunders, Loco, has been elected Circuit
Judge By the aid of the Wings. No Senator
will be chosen. The Legislature adjourns to-
day.
Gov. Brown, of Mississippi, states that a dis
patch just received from Concord gives Hunter
Of Va. the Department of State Slidell of La,
the Treasury; Dix of n. u, the War; johnson
Of Ark the Navy Bright of Ind. the Interior;
MedaTy of Ohio. the POst-Office, and Nicholson
of Tenn, the Attorney Generalship. Thisnews
has created great confusion in the party, and
there is fun ahead We shall probably have
more definite intelligence tomorrow. Cabel
says that the South must have Cuba or the
Sandwich Islands under any pretext EYE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.
SENArE.-Mr. Underwood submitted a Reso-
luton calling for report of the Board of Off
GERS who surveyed the several plans for an en-
larged canal around the Falls of the Ohio
Adopted.
Mr.. Clark introduced Joint Resolution de-
claring that no part of the American Continent
be henceforth considered open for colonization
by any European Power, and that henceforth
no such colony shall be planted on this Cont
nent by any European Power, and if such shall
be done, the United States will feel themselves
free to adopt such measures as may be necessa-
ry to its honor. Also, that the United States
disclaim any design on Cuba inconsistent with
the rights of Spain, but they will regard any
att cmpt by any other Power to obtain it, by