Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-31
wAsHIHaroH NEWS AND eossrr.

| WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
!, The Cutting and Breckenridge Affair Set
tled.--Last evening, at a late hour, this affair
was, happily, satisfactorily accommodated be-
tween these gentlemen, by the advice and as
sistance of the friends of both, who had the
management of it from the beginning. From
all that We can learn up to the hour at
which we pen this paragraph, both par
ties are satisfied with tho settlement, and
will resume their former relations The
negotiations to arrive at the conclusion at
tanned, were long, difficult and painful, we
apprehend. The result is exceedingly crafty
ing to all honorable men here, who are sincere
friends Of the gentlemen directly or indirectly
involved in the unfortunate difficulty. -
/ P.S.-Shortly after 1 p. m to-day, Mr.. Pres
ton rising in his seat in the Hall for the purpose
Of making apersonal explanation with reference
to the matter, alluded to tho debate occurring
on Monday last between those gentlemen, lead
ing to the personal difficulty and said that so far
as Mr.. Cutting was concerned, the affair had
been referred to Mr.. Munroe, of New York
and Senator Shields; and on the part of Mr.
Breckenridge, to Col. Hawkins and himself
| (Mr. Preston.) He added that he was
authorized by these gentlemen to state
that the matter in controversy had been
| settled in a manner mutually satisfactory, and,
| they conceived, mutually honorable to both
parties. He also expressed, on behalf of both
Messrs, Cutting and Breckenridge, their mu-
tual regret for the violation of the House rules
Of order involved in the affair. ~
1t was, he said, source of graft alton that,
as for these gentlemen (who gave strong prom
| Use of future usefulness to their country, and
who were admired by a large circle of friends)
this matter had been SO adjusted as to prove
entirely satisfactory to their friends.
Mr.. P. then took his seat, after thanking the
House for the privilege of making this ex-
| PLANTATION -..-.1.-e. .-.-
The Southern Convention in Washington
| We find great interest manifested among
southern members of Congress, without dis
tinction of party, concerning what may trans
pire during the second week of April, in the
Southern Commercial Convention, to meet in
Charleston, S. G. Though assembling in good
faith, to consult simply about the commercial
interests of the South, it seems to be under
stood in Washington, that politics are destined
to absorb much the largest share of the con-
situations Of its members, however successful
! they may be in keeping what they say and
what understanding they may tacitly come to
| on that subject, out of the newspapers The
fact that there are at this moment no two
parties in the South upon questions appertain-
ing to her own future, leads, in this city, in
the existing condition of Northern popular
sentiment, to the belief that measures will be
taken there, for initiating system of anti
| northern associations in every county of every
southern State, based on the idea that the day
| has arrived when such means must be resorted
to, to stem the apparent general disposition of
| northern people to break down the barriers of
the Constitution, that they may work the will
OF the anti-slaverytes, sooner or later, upon the
institution of American slavery. Some talk of
preparing to set the laws Of the United States at
defiance there, by way of reprisal for Mil
waukie, New Bedford, and similar acts-of
visiting upon Northern shipping in Southern
ports, and upon the causes of Northern credi-
tors in Southern courts, quite as signal acts of
iDfdelity to the law, as those by which the
South is now being constantly and most fla
GRAVITY robbed of slave property, in the face
of the current disposition Of the north (aboli-
tonists included) to cry aloud for the obser-
vance Of past compromises and the laws Of the
Union, on the part of the South.
We feel assured, from what we hear in pri-
vate conversation, that means will be essayed
at this approaching convention, to teach all at
the North disposed to set at defiance any ex-
listing United States law which may be section
ally Objectionable to them, that the practice
cannot be indul ged in hereafter, without the
payment of penalty equivalent to the injury
thus being inflicted on the South So they 90
A Nuisance and a Gerious Evil to the Pub.
lie Service.-We have so often pointed out the
embarrassment to general legislation in the
House, resulting from the consideration of the
bills Of the Public Lands and other committees
without reference to the Committee of the Whole
that we do not feel called on to accompany the
subjoined letter with single comment 1t
speaks for itself:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
March 30, 1854.
10 tie Editors of The Star:
GENTLEMEN-To save the trouble of reply
ing to numerous letters, permit me to say to the
twenty-three thousand postmasters in tie
United States that for more than two months
the committee of the House on the post office
and post roads has been ready to report bill
for their relief That for more than two months
such has been the pressure for making speeches
upon the Nebraska BILL not yet legitimately
before the House for discussion, that not more
than one hour in each week has been devoted
to hearing reports from committees That for
two months the committee of public lands has
been the only committee that could make re-
ports, except by the unanimous consent of the
House. That for more than six months at one
time, during the last Congress, the committee
on public lands, with their bills granting lands
to railroads, occupied the morning hour to the
exclusion of reports from all the other commit
tees of the House. That the prospect now is
that the committee on public lands will be able
to mature and report bills faster than they can
be considered during so much Of the morning
hour as is devoted to reports from committees
That understanding that the committee on
public lands have determined to put their
bills, as they report them, upon their passage,
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