Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-12-12
Correspondence Of the Times.
WASHINGTON, Nov. %, 1854.

WASHINGTON, Nov. %, 1854.
MesMs Edit0rs:-Familiar faces are again ma
king their appearance in Pennsylvania avenue,
which, like the migratory fight of the first advan-
ced party of wild geese in the fall, gives note that
winter is coming, and with it the ssnoise and con-
fusion" of session of Congress, levees, parties,
soress dinner partes and all the other ct ceteras
which follow in the wake Of members of Congress.
Fortunately the weather is bland and mild-a lit
tie crisp in the morning, when the earth takes a
fancy to cover her head with little hoar frost,
but pleasant and exhlirating during the day, so
that members will have an agreeable time in COM
ing up here from their various distant domicils.
On Monday next will take place the great reun-
ion of those who but a few months ago separated,
each to render an account of his doings to his
constituents and to the gauntlet of the people.
What political tornado has swept over the coun-
try since that separation and what q scattering
of dry leaves in the shape of 'honorable gentle
men" it has made! There will be some amusing
scenes on that first Monday of December. Many
sympathizing friends will then condole and mourn
with each other over their folly and faulty, and
indulge largely in the luxury of '' sociable sor-
TOW DOyo oOmOGAMCo PA"y WIN poWuoi3 Uue
old, cunning, shrcwd. sagacions, wary politicians
are seldom caught making playthings of explosive
missiles; when they commit such an egregious
purile folly they are almost certain to find them
selves blown to s' everlasting smash ,, and to meet
with a great deal of "noise and confusion" 1t
is my honest and confident opinion that some of
the politicians of the United States will long
member that bill which they played with so mer.
rily for seven or eight months, termed "Nebras-
ka )" and which turned out to be a Paixhan bomb.
Never was a greater folly committed than the in
PRODUCTION and passage of that bill, and never did
retributive justice more promptly reach the per-
petrators of crime, than has in the late elections.
They sowed the wind and instantly sprang up a
whirlwind, which, thanks to the people, they have
found as irresistible as it has been disastrous to
those who raised it. But what say the people of
Douglas and others were so anxious to propitiate
and serve? Listen to the voice of this section of
the country as expressed by the Charleston, S. G..
Evening News.
s'There never was a completer, or more disas-
trous miscarriage than the Nebraska bill. 1t has
not only blasted every expectation that was origi-
nally formed of t,but it has proved to its authors
positive and unmitigated curse. Instead of CIV
ing effect and confirmation to the compromise Of
1850, it has blasted that compromise into nothing
ness. Instead of securing two additional slave
States to the Union, it has secured two additional
free States, and instead of putting an end to the
freesol doctrine, it has given that doctrine pow
er and responsibility which it never possessed be-
fore, and which we believe it could never have
attained through any other medium than that
opopnd nv thiS hill Rut he
responsibility is not with us-our duty has been
thoroughly discharged. Able to do nothing more,
we can fifty turn the battle over to our former OPP
ponents of the Virginia school and enjoy smile
or two at the sight of their obstrcperous vowings
before all the stars of high heaven, they'll not
submit, yet all the while submissive.''
The south caught tarter in the Nebraska bill,
and they must do the best they can with it.
The Presidents Message is ready for Congress.
A writer in the confidence of the White House,
states that the foreign policy recommended in the
Message is that agreed upon in the Congress Of
American diplomats at Ostend. There is some
thing new under the sun, old Solomon to the con-
trary notwithstanding. For it is something new
for an American President to be instructed as to
what line of policy he shall recommend and pur-
sue by few foreign ministers of his own appoint
ing And who are these able statesmen who I'M
dertakc to meet and settle the foreign policy of
this nation? Why, such distinguished patriots as
Soule, Belmont, and Owen, all foreigners, O'Sul-
Ivan, the son of foreigner, and little better
than one HIMSELF Buchanan and Mason. The
latter, it is true, of experience and char
acter. The Soulo affair made some little talk
here, but the Administration were much annoyed
with it, and were unwilling to make national
affair of it. The truth is, they are tired of this
restless Frenchman, who was never easy or quiet
anywhere, and always kicking up a. fuss wherever
he happened to be. They would be really glad if
he would resign.
The imports during the last year have been
enormous, and the revenue from imports over sixty
millions of dollars. This is cause enough for the
stringcncy in the monetary affairs of the country.
There is now an almost universal cutlery against
the extravigance of American women in the arti-
Giles of Dress Dress and furniture, dress and fur
niture, parties, balls soirees, fashionable visits
to fashionable watering places, travelling in Europe,
splendid houses and splendid carriages,-in these
will be found the principal causes why in addition
to our cotton, rice and tobacco, we are compelled
to send to Europe from quarter to half mil
lion of gold per week. The ladies are getting
blessings in abundance, over the left, about these
days, in this quarter. The Bankers, Selden &
Withers, have stopped and shut up shop, though
both are very wealthy and will be able to redeem
all their liabilities.
The last news from the East is unfavorable for
the Allies, who are in a rather tight place. There
has been desperate fighting and bloody work, and
there will be much more of the same sort before
Sebastopol is taken. But it ,ciA be taken, and not
only the city, but the Crimea also. We shall
never see the Russian despot feasting upon that
Turkey, he has been so long looking at with long
ing eyes and watering mouth. Were he once es-
tablished in Constantinople, as the conqueror of
Turkey, such despotism would be established as
the world has never yet seen, and the patriots of
Hungary, Poland and Italy, might as we'll make a
virtue of necessity, and wear the chain of per-
petual bondage patiently and srbmssively for
wear it they would have to. And then the gallant,
brave, chivalrous Circassians, whom the Autocrat
has been, since 1927, endeavoring to reduce to
bondage, must either become serfs and vassals,
or make an exodus out of their country to some
other. Possibly they would be driven at the point
of the bayonet, as 10000 Armenian families of
the Crimea were, when that fell under the con-
quering arms of the brutal and savage Suwarow,