Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-07
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
e. The Prospects Of the Nebraska Bill in the
Houss.-We have time and again shown that
the defeat of this measure in the House is ut.
terly impossible. Nevertheless, its opponents
are lsboring manfully to that end. Their
main hope is now evidently upon the New
York Hards, whom they are plying with the
argument that the Union has formally an.
nounced that any member of the Democratic
party from the North may consistently vote
against the bill This, of course, is a perver.
sion of the editorial in the Organ to which it
refers. We make this remark, bee ause it il
we'll known to all in Washington, that 50 far
as the Administration are concerned, the presi-
dent has time and again int,mated in the broad.
est terms, that he regards the position of gen.
! tlemen on this particular BILL as the test of
support of the Baltimore Democratic Nations NJ
Convention Platform. At present we are net
prepared to say how far the enemies of the
measure will succeed with the Hards; as some
of them talk as though eager to "punish the
South" lin voting on it,) even If It shall be
requisite to stultify themselves to accomp,isb
that object. We must be permitted to add,
however, that we place higher estimate upou
their character as men and their intelligence
as politicians, (of the Hards) than to suppose
that they will faunt in the face of the world
the proof that they have been all along s'sham-
ming in what they have said and done upon
the slavery question since 1852; which they
will be doing, in voting against their declared
principles, on this, the first real question
which has come up since they separated from
the Administration on the ground that its
afinities were too freesoilish for their tastes or
association
The opponents Of the bill are certainly
counting on having Messrs Cullom and Ether
idge, of Tenn, and Mr.. Hunt, of La, with
them, we know not on what data or authority.
Their mouths are watering also for Mr. Mill
son, of Va. For him, they will certainly water
in vain When he is found voting on such a
question with Messrs. Giddings, Wade and De
Witt, the skies will fall, and we shall all catch
larks. We repeat, we have seen nothing to
change our belief that there is q clear
majority for the bill, in the House, of at least
thirty votes. r.a.s~..
The late Thos. Devin Reilly-John Mitchell.
The meeting of the friends of the late T.
Devin Reilly convened last evening, and ad-
journed to meet again this evening, at Cops
Saloon, at half past seven O'Clock John
Mitchell, who, we hear, arrived in Washington
this morning to attend the funeral of his late
| friend and immediate cO-labOrer and sufferer
in the cause of Ireland, is expected to be pr es-
| ent. We trust that there will be large
| attendance tonight, we shall be heartily
| ashamed of Washington City if there should
not be. The late Mr.. Reilly was eminently a
man of genius, geniality, public spirit and
patriotism. His heart was always ready TO
| sympathize with misfortune, personal and
| national. He made his marks on the times,
| and he leaves behind him a reputation as a
| man Of genius, Intellectual vigor, and right
impulses, public and private, of which his
| countrymen in America may we'll he proud.
We repeat, John Mitchell will be there tonight
The Badger Amendment to the Nebraska
Bill having been the subject of much CONVEX
sation in political circles here for soIae time
past, we have to say that it is understood to
| have been offered after consultation among the
southern Senator'S, by way of giving quietus,
or fat contradiction to the SANDER on the South
embraced in the New Hampshire Reporter s
| hat !, he n, :
ions of the bilD to legislate slavery into Ne
| braska. On consultation, they conceived that
the amendment in question in no manner
changed the import of the measure in any par
ticular, while at blow it destroyed the absurd
| argument with which its pretended friends at
the North sought to defeat the bills prospect
| It is further understood that the southern
Senators who voted against this amendment,
came in after it was agreed by their south
| ern colleagues to sustain it, and were ignorant
| of that arrangement.
The Heavy Payments under awards of the
Mexican Claims Commissioners.-Th follow
lean Claims Board, viz:
John Belden. .......... Sl06,431 90
John Baldwin. .................. II 400 90
Pierre Chateau Jr., Administrator
| de 5onis non. ................. s1,772 90
Ferdinand Clark. ................ S6,7S6 20
W. W. Corcoran, Assignee of Geo.
A. Gardiner. Observation-Disclosures. 10Y 1877 90
Ann b. Cox, Executrix of Nathan
Observation-Disclosures. l1O,355 35
| Geo. Douglass and Edgar S. Van
Wrinkle, Assignees Of VIM. S.
Parrot. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $4,000 90
| George A. Gardiner. ............. 32l ,562 80
Louis S. Hargouse.. ............. H. 900 90
Louis s. Hargous. $50, 6S2 20
| Calvin j. Keith, Administrator of
Samuel Elkins. ................ 129, 2S2 81
Aaron Leggett ........:.. los, 296 90
John H. Mears.. ................ 1925 90
| John Parrot. Observation-Disclosures. 63,541 90
Andrew Wiley, Jr., Administrator
Of Samuel Baldwin. ........... 10000 90
The Passage Of the Homestead Bill.-With-
| out taking ground in favor of that bill, We may
| say that the enactment of this important meas
ure, so far as the House of Representatives of
he nit I tot &c nil ho bo; Id