New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-04-20
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The Gadsaen Treaty dies hard the Senate
has sat with closed doors again to-day, 81.
though. as ] stated yesterday, the present treaty
is virtually defeated, and nothing more will be
done than to agree upon the basis Of new one.
1t is understood that yesterday a new boundary
line was proposed, and the money consideration
to be paid reduced to $s7.000000 instead of
$40, 100000. No doubt q proposition of this
sort, embracing q settlement of Mexican claims
against US arising from the 7th Article Of the
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Cd Locofoeo
blunder) would be cheerfully acceded to by
the necessary two-thirds; and the settlement
OF the Mexican claim would be here the moving
consideration, for there is majority of the
Senate opposed to any more land speculation
AS went to the Senate Chamber this morning
1 encountered numbers of the lobby agents for
this treaty lingering about the passages--the
occasion for their presence will soon pass away,
and they mnst resort to some new scheme for
plunderirg the Treasury.
/ forgot to mention that Truman Smith, of
Connecticut, sent in his resignation yesterday,
to take effect next month, OF his seat in the Sem
ate q letter to his constituents to this effect
had already been published in the 1ntelligen-
GER Mr.. Smith is a man of sterling sense, and
really q loss.in the Senate, and this body is not
overstocked with wise men; indeed, 1t has sadly
degenerated since the days of Clay, Webster,
which King presided over the body is sadly lost,
too, in his successor. The g noise and confu-
SION which so often pervades this chamber, is
such that Cass himself cannot be heard occa-
sionally, and the business of legislation is con
Quoted in free and easy way, quite shocking
to one who remembers its former character. /
have seen Senator address a question to the
Vice-P President without rising from his seat. It
is little remarkable that Mr.. Benton has not
crossed the Senate's threshold, to my knowl-
edge, since he has been member of the House
The old man has some singular pride, Isuppose
and does not like to see his seat occupied by
another, and this other an Aptagonist, for the
seat he kept SO many years IS now filled by
Gwin, of Cal. ,x
The House has been engaged "a Hay in consid-
ering bill from DR.. ODDS, Chairman of the
Post-of6ce Committee, for incR&ing the rates
Of postage! Yes, it is proposed n increase the
letter postage to rates of FIVE and ten cents,
because the present arrangement fails to meet
the expenses of the department, and does not
mete out even justice to the rural dissfiets; the
cities are well provided for, but the rural dis
tricts suffer, in the opinion Of the@Doctor.
although no complaint has been heartfsFom the
patients themselves. The great ARGUMENT for
taking the back track in this business ID, that
the Treasury has to bear about ~ 900 700 per
annum under the present system, IN which the
Post office Department. is only partial f%eelf-
sustaining; but this will not last Iniger than
some Of the absurd mail contracts now in forces
large number Of mail contractors from fIiie
South and West are now here awaiting, their
fate CHRoNICLER.
SPEECH or SENATOR GwIN UPON THE AcIFIc
RAILROAD BELL--The speech of Senator Gwin,
of California, upon the Select Committee Pacific
Railroad bill is exciting considerable comment.
He deVotes much of his argument to an effort
to prove that Congress has the power to make
the necessary grants Of land and the right Of
way proposed in the bill. It establishes no
eastern terminus, and gives no preference to any
State in the Mississippi Valley. Mr.. Gwin
says that BY the bill the mail will be carried
daily both ways, in less than a week, from our
Atlantic and Pacific borders, for little more
than it now costs for semi monthly mail, occu-
plying nearly four weeks in the transit. With
the construction of the road, he predicts that
the alternate sections Of lands now yalueless,
will bring millions into the treasury, while an
enterprising population will cultivate and fill
up both sides Of the route from the Atlantic to
tho Pacific. He advocates the road also as q
great military road, by which we can keep the
Indians in check, and, in case of war, protect
California He speaks of the tremendous efforts
Of England to secure the Eastern trade. She
has established no less than three overland
routes to India. She is also contemplating a
stupendous scheme for q railway by which
London and Calcutta, the capitals Of the West
ern and Eastern worlds, will be brought within
q weeks journey Of each other The proposed
route, says Mr.. Gwin, is from Calais to Ostend,
thence TO Cologne, through Augsburg, LON
hardy, to Trieste on the Adriatic; thence along
the valleys of European Turkey to Bassorah on
the Persian Gulf, passing along the northern
shores of that Gulf, through Persia and Beloo-
chistan to the Indus, and thence to Calcutta,
on the Eastern coast of Hindostan This route
from London to the capital of the Bengal Pres
idency, would be about five thousand six hun
dred miles in length, and, it is supposed can be
constructed in fourteen years.
The New York Herald, while acknowledging
the interest Of the facts which Mr.. Gwin has
collected, thinks there is no probability that
this bill any other bill will give us railroad
from the Mississippi to the Poetic, for the next
fifty years. Two thousand miles Of railroad 2
says the Herald, sand fifteen hundred miles of
this distance through a continuous desert Of
barren plains and volcanic mountains; without
inhabitants, except Indians; without timber,
except stunted thorns and desert cbapparal;
and, to . great extent, without even water
suppose that over such route the first Ave
hundred miles OF a railroad. single track, were
constructed from the Mississippi riyer-what,
from the said river, would be the cost for the
transportation of the timber, iron and other
materials, men and provisions, required for the
next five hundred miles,"
NAVIGATION OF THE AMAZON. The New York
Post publishes very important correspondence
in relation to the much vexed question whether
Brazil has right to control the navigation of
the Amazon. This correspondence, the Post
states, is from the fears Of two prominent for
eign functionaries at Para The pretensions Of
Brazil to the right to obstruct the navigation
of the Amazon by foreign bottoms. is scoffed at
in q most bold and unqualified tone An ex-