The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-11-05
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
EVENTS IN WASHINGTON.
lntrigues Of Political and other Finaneiers to
Extract Funds from the Treasury.
EXCITEMENT AMONG THE MASSACHUSETTS,
COALITIONISTS.
MARINE DISASTERS AND Loss OF LIFE,
Sc Sc. Sc.
Affairs In Washington

THE CONVENIENT OF GEN. PIERCE AND THE IN
TRIGUEs OF MARoy-coL. BENTON AND HIS BOOK
WORK FOR THE LOBBY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
CHAMPAGNE AND CONTRACTS.
SPECIAL coRRFsPoSDEScE NEW YORK HERALD.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 1853
lam preparing the revelations relative to the French
mission and also Marcy, intrigues and will be
ready in a day two to give you full particulars My
materials accumulate my hands all sides. In the
meantime sometimes call up to the White House and
see the President gets along; and must say that
think Cen Pierce to be the only tranquil quiet
peaceable, contsnted in Washington All the fac.
tions-and have several of them hers-are in
great excite nent and the intense war between the
two sections of the Cabinet be about breaking
out The President alone quiet and smiling apon every.
body.
Benton is busy with his book still He put on his
glasses the other day ard read Gen. Duff Green's letter
cutting him up, and after he got through he folded up
the paper and said, very deliberately
81 shall tie up Cen Duff Green and Gen. Foote and pass
them both by without any notice my part. have
time to waste on such men. have my book to finish
and my duties to attend to in the House of Representa-
lives, and that will be enough for me-
There every appearance of prodigous accession to
the class of lobby members during the session of
Congress- The hosts of members of Congress- and of
disappointed Office seekers from all parts of the country
coming to Washington look after the jobs
tracts and other matters, besides various pieces Of e
gsation to be introduced into both houses The mail
steamers, the Pacific railroad and various other mea
sures involving the outlay of of money will
be before Congress, and win be pressed outside in the
lobby, by various members of that respectable body
House rent increasing very much in consequence of
the pressure of the lobby members Indeed these
lobby members the fashionable exclusive and
splendid In their of any set For several
years past, of these gentlemen, by the name of
Potter, from Pennsylvania, has actually kept two
splendid houses here entertained in the most elegant
Btyle-one for society Of the first rank and the
ether for the outsiders How these live and spend
80 much money has been mystery TO great many peo-
pie not in the secret Of Lobby memberng at Washington
The truth is the thirty millions surplus to expended
in mode by contracts and government grants win
bring together during the next and following
Congress- all the polite the fashionable the esutem any
the card playing and the elegant throughout the
country, who have any political tact diplomacy in
humbuggng both Houses Of Congress into and
projects calculated to take money out of the Treasury
We expect half Of Wall street. with plans and circulars for
this purpose reach Washington and there doubt
that the Van Buren, party in New York. Notwithstanding
the noise they make about economy will be the first to
put their hands into the Treasury through the action of
Congress- they did during the last period in which the
government had surplus Of about thirty millions which
they expended in very short time, BY defalcatons and
otherwise. ALERT.
INSTRUCTIONS TO OUR FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES
DEATH OF MR.. STUART, ETC.
FROM TIE REGULAR NEWSPAPER AGENT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 1858.
We understand that Messrs Spence, Minister to Turkey
Mason Minister to France and McIane Commiss to
China, expected to receive their instructions to-
The former to SAIL with his family, in the o.
g. steamer Saranac direct for Constantinople, Monday
Tuesday nsxt The latter sail the 10th inst.
Governor Seymour Connecticut, is expected here in
few days. to receive his instructions for St. Petersburg
Master John Stuart, Of Michigan, brother of Senator
Stuart died at Detroit the 9th ut
The Star publishes order from the Adutant Genera
aboshing the geographical divisions of the military de
partment, and substituting the following
Department of the Fast Country east Of the Missis
sippi, be ad quarters Baltimore
department of the West-Country west Of the Mssis
sipp of the Rocky Mountains head quarters st.
Louis.
Department of Texas-headqua Corpus Christi De-
partment OF New Observation-Disclosures, Albuquerque.
Department OF the PaciHc-Counry west of the Rocky
Mountains Utah and New Mexico, headquarters, San
Francisco.
The order concludes-'And the President further d.
reefs that officers Of rank and experience be pla led in
command Of the several departments established