Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-29

WASH1N61O0 08W8 AND 0O061R.
Rumored Dusl.-Thc whole city being ex-
cited over the fact that preparations were made
yesterday for hostile meeting between
Messrs. Cutting and Breckinridge, our duty to
the public as Journalists renders 1t obligatory
upon US to state the general understanding of
the progress Of the affair, to as late an hour as
we have been able toIearn anything apparent
ly reliable concerning it. Thus, the under.
standing among the public men in the city is,
that Immediately on the conclusion of the per-
sonal controversy in the Hall, on the day be-
fore yesterday, between Mr. Breckenridge and
himself, Mr.. Cutting, on advising with Messrs
Hunt, of Louisiana, and Bissell, Of Illinois, az
to what course it might be his duty to pursue,
addressed Mr.. B., through Col Munroe, of
New York, for an explanation, which merely
led to negotiations between the friends of the
parties; Messrs. Munroe, Bissell and Hunt,
on the part of Mr.. Cutting. and Messrs. Slidell
of Louisiana, Preston, of kentucky, and
Hawkins, on the part of Mr.. Breckenridge
Every effort to accommodate the affairs is said
to have been made, and at 10 p M, it was
generally believed, that a meeting had been
arranged to take place this morning. General
Lane, of Oregon, it is also understood, was to
accompany Mr.. B. as his friend on the field.
P.S. Up to the hour "a p n.y. at which we
go to press, We are satisfied that the parties
are still in Washington; and, of course, that
they had not yet fred shot. And, further.
that as We write this paragraph, the affair
has not been adjusted. though friends of the
principals are still laboring to effect an ami
cable settlement of the difficulty.
Ex-Consul Sanders Speaker Boyd, &c.-The
funny letter of Mr. George N. Sanders, ad-
dressed to the New York Herald, on learning
that the American Senate tabled his nomina-
ton, has been much commenced on in political
circles here, inasmuch as it displays the
writer's peculiarities in stronger light than
that in which they were ever before seen.
Though coming from the responsible editor of
the Democratic Rer,ev during the times when
its policy was to assail, with gross personali-
ties. nearly all the veterans Of the Democratic
party who had fairly and patiently worked
their way into the confidence and esteem of
the country at large, its statement of facts
creates no little surprise in Washington. That
is, its allegation of the grounds on which the
nomin alton Of the writer was rejected. 1t will
be remembered that it credits Speaker Boyd
with interfering to bring about the result be-
fore the Senate, basing his opposition on what
Mr.. Sanders permitted the Reriey, in his
hands, to say derogatory of that gentleman's
wife. Now, it is we'll known to all in Wash
ington who have taken the trouble to make
the inquiry, that Speaker Boyd (however much
he may have conceded with the large majority
of the Senate, in the belief that the nomination
was one the confirmation of which the public
interest imperatively forbade) did not open his
lips to Senator, or any one else, on the SUBJ
ject; taking NO part for or against the enter
prising Young American. The truth is he
was rejected because his course in the Con-
sulate threatening, in the end, seriously to in
volve the American Government in European
troubles, admonished the Senate that he should
be replaced by some one Of ordinary discre-
tion-by some one who could understand that
no Government functionary abroad could be-
come mixed up in the affairs of other nations,
without dragging those response BILE for his &C
tons directly or remotely, into at least most per-
picking difficulties. While it is highly proba.
BILE that individual Senators, in considering
his nomination, remembered that his Rertep
had most grossly and unjustifably assaulted
them, individually, in all conceivable ways,
it is nevertheless true that the main cause of
his rejection was the so manifest fact, that he
lacked the ordinary discretion absolutely ne
cessary for the proper discharge Of the func-
tions Of an American Consul at London in times
like these. He was sent abroad 10 attend to
certain public duties in connection with the
details of American commerce with England.
Yet, to judge by his own newspaper writings,
and other newspaper articles to which his con-
duct fairly gave rise, he seemed to have TURF
ed his Office into sort of American general
superintendency of all the many fillibuster-
ing and revolutionary schemes against Gov
ernments with which we are at peace, now
being mooted among half-crazy refugees in
the English capital.
Col. Sam. xedary, Of Ohio, some time since
paid back the $4,000 which he drew from the
U. s. Treasury as his outfit, after originally
accepting the mission to Chill, which he was
compelled subsequently, to decline, owing to
the condition of his private affairs. 1t is due
to him further to state, that on drawing this
money, he.apprdfriated it solely to its legiti-
mate purpose of fitting himself and his family
out for their contemplated residence in Chill.
and to 50 arrange his business affairs at home
as that he could absent himself from then.
On finding that it would be impossible for him
to leave the United States, without making
too great a sacrifice for one of his pecuniary
means, he resigned the position, and made all
possible haste to return the money, which he
has accomplished.
We trust that it may not be long ere we can
announce that all who have of late years
drawn money from the United States Treasury
under similar circumstances, and have after
wards declined the missions to which they
were named, have followed the Colonels ex-
csllent example.
The Proposed Increase Of tho Navy-There
can be no doubt that the House will promptly