Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-03-18
THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
MONDAY, MARCH ID, 1854.
IN SENATE.

limited States transmtng report from the Secretary
Of State in to resolution OF the zotn March
1853, calling for the correspondence between ~ Y.
Schenck Minister to Brazil and the Secretary OF State
The documents transmitted are extracts from Mr. Web
ster to Mr. Schenck dated May g. 1851 Mr. Schenck to
Mr. Webster dated April 26, 1852, with ncosures same
10 Mr. Everett extract dated January ID 1853; same
ts same dated February 5, 1853 with Enclosures
TThis correspondence relates the African slave trade
and is not Of enough interest to be given.
The documents were referred to the Committee For
esu Relations and ordered to be printed.
Also a message from the same covering report from
the Secretary of State made in compliance with resou
ton Of March o. 1858, requesting the President to com
municate the Senate any correspondence relating to
the imprisonment detention in custody of James H.
West citizen of the United States tSagua lie Grande
In island of Cuba and of the seizure of his property
by the authorities of said island which read and
referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
1.-THE correspondence is voluminous and Of little inter-
est the greater part having been before published
The President of the Senate laid before the body
communication from the Secretary of the Interior made
in compliance with resolution of the 23d utimo calling
for the report Of the examination and made
of the work and materials furnished by contract for the
construction of the wing Of the Patent Office building
which was referred to the Committee Public Buildings
and ordered to be printed
RESOLUTIONS OF STATE LEGISLATURES
Mr. HOUSTON presented sundry resolutions passed by
the Legislature Of Texas nsructng their Senator's and
requesting their Representatives to procure the passage
of law changing the port Of entry for the collection dis
tct Of Brasos dc Santiago, making Brownsville, instead
of Point Isabel the port Of entry for said district.
Also in favor Of appropriation to pay Messrs Cooke
Lockwood for damages sustained by the destruction or
their property by the United States soldiers in 1850
Also in favor Of increase of compensation to the
contractor for carrying the mail from Austin to Waco
Village, in the State Of Texas
Also in favor Of trweekly mail between the mouth
of Rio river and Huntsville.
Mr. CLAY presented resolutions Of the Legislature of
Aabamba nsructng their Senators and requesting their
to vote in favor of or suspension
of all duties on the importation Of all foreign rails that
have may hereafter be required for railroads now
in process Of construction that may be constructed
during the next ten years.
Mr. BRODHEAD presented resolutions Of the Legisa-
ture of Pennsylvania nstrucng their Senators and re-
Quesng their Representatives to vote for an act granting
to each soldier one hundred and sixty acres OF public
lands in accordance with the request of the old soldiers
convention held in Philadelphia and that the Government
of the United States should extend to the soldiers and
widows of soldiers who served in the last with Great
Britain the benefits of the pension system that created
for and enjoyed by the soldiers and widows Of the revo-
luton.
Mr. SHIELDS presented resolutions Of the Legislature
of the Of 1872 declaring that they deem it act Of
justice due to those who faithfully served their country
in the Of 1872 which has too long been withheld
MEMORIALS AND PETITIONS
The following memorials and petitions presented
and appropriately referred:
By Mr. EVERETT: From Lieut.. NJ. F. Maury, on be-
half of the convention which assembled at Memphis in
june 1853 asking that be adopted to pro-
the opening Of the river Amazon the free navga
ton of the world.
trict Of Columbia, asking that Congress will adopt mea-
for the formation of good harbor for the port OF
Washington.
The memorial says that q good harbor may be made
by constructing o levee from Easby's wharf, along
chain of islands in the middle Of the Potomac to Green
leafs Point and building wharyes the western side of
the eyee. In order to make the contemplated improve
and purchase private rights it would be necessary
to form company, and asks that act of incorpora
ton may be passed, with power to receive subscriptions
to stock to the amount of million, with such other
rights and privileges as the case may require
By Mr.. SEWARD: From VIM. Rees, on behalf of the
Pacific Airline Compromise Railroad Company, relative
to the construction of railroad to connect the waters Of
the Atlantic with those Of the Pacific ocean.
Also, from citizens of Auburn New York. in favor Of an
increase of the duty on cigars.
BY Mr.. SEBASTIAN From Lewis Ralston, asking re-
enumeration for losses sustained by him contrary to the
provisions Of the treaty of 1885 with the Cherokee In
dams.
BY Mr.. BRODHEAD: From members Of the bar of
Psburg asking that the salary the United States Dis
trict Judge of the Western District of Pennsylvania may
be increased
By Mr.. JOHNSON: From convention held at Wash
ington Arkansas in relation to the removal OF the Red
river raft s. IL.
By Mr.. HOUSTON: From Denton ofutt offering to
Congress to make public his system of treatment Of do
mesc animals and his mode Of improving their breeds
for the general good, for fair equivalent.
[Ths memorialst says that by patient investigation
and experiments he has become perfect master
of the secret laws that control their action and that they
oan be greatly improved in their physical adaptation
and their social affections whereby they be made
perfectly submissive the will of man. that the stint of
growth, defored limbs, bad disposition, and diseased
bodies Of animals is caused by ignorance and neg
gence Of the laws of propagation peculiar to their ma
ture that his system has been reduced to perfect
sciences and like all great and useful discoveries very
simple, entirely practicable, and Of easy acquisition
by all
By Mr.. FISH: Two memorials from citizens Of New
of a shin the Falls of Maya
Mr.. F. moved the reference to the Committee on
Commerce.
Mr. STUART moved to lay thememorials on the tables
and it decided in the negative by yeas and nays 16
to o. and Mr. Fs motion refer it to the Committee
Commerce agreed to after considerable discussion
in which Messrs. STUART, FISH, SEWARD, WALKER,
SHIELDS, DOUGLAS, DODGE, Of Iowa. and others par
'ticpated.
Petitions of private nature presented by Messrs
HAMLIN, WELLER, MASON, and others; and large
number Of documents withdrawn from the files for
the purpose of being again referred.
vast mass of petitions we're presented by Messrs.
SEWARD, FISH, SUMNER, EVERETT, FOOT, TOU-
CEY and others against the passage of the Nebraska bill
and violation of the Missouri compromise line.
Also number Of petitions in favor of the security of
religious liberty to American citizens abroad and several
demonstrating against the ratification Of any treaty by
which international copyright with agreedo
RAILWAY TO THE PACIFIC
Mr. GWIN from the select committee appointed the
subject reported bill for the construction Of railroad
from the valley of the Mississippi to the Pacific ocean
Mr. g. said he instructed by the committee to say
that the bill report in part from the committee;
and that he further instructed by the committee to
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