New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-23

directly, in all such cases We're this granted
it would be giving that officer sort Kingly
prerogatiye.
FROM W.asHLNGToN
Special garrrsponusnse oi the Nan Orleans grssssnt
WAs,irseTor, March 49, 1854
alluded very cursorily in my letter of Mon
day to the personal affair, in the House, be-
tween Messrs. Hunt and Lane This has been
the subject Of d great deal Of conversation in
i political circles here, and the uniform opinion
4 expressed, so far as can learn, is highly COM
mendable to your representative Mr.. Lane
| plumes himself upon his services in the Mexican
campaign, and has put on airs that do not wear
4 we'll here, however they may have made a hero
Il Of him DIT his home. Tho lesson he has received
from Col Hunt will probably improve his de-
pertinent. A full report of what passed, which
IL rather too extended for my letter, will be
found in Tuesdays evening Globe.
| The Senate to-day passed the bill, introduced
sometime since, providing for a retired list Of
the Army. 1t is doubtful whether the House
will concur in this measure as the present ma
jority in this body is more than usually radical
Mr.. Foot, of Vermont concluded his speech
insupport Of his colleagues right to sit with him
until the Legislature Of his State elect asuc-
eessor, but as the Senate was thin no vote was
4 taken.
\ AT an early hour the Senate passed into Elk
ecntive session to consider the Gadsden treaty
| No response has yet been given by the Presi-
dent to the inquiry concerning the case of the
Black Warrior, but the Cabinet have had the
| subject before them, and conclusion had been
arrived ut which Information subsequently re-
ceiyed may modify, The President, so says the
Star this evening, will ask Congress to empower
him TO enforce reparation.
| The House has spent the day in Committee of
1 the Whole listening to speeches on what you
very truly term the e pes lent Nebraska bill \
| The Richmond Enquirer has g pronounced .
against the bill in its present g enasculated ..
shape with squatter sovereignty and Badger
proviso.' Quite number of the Virginia mem
bers are likely to go with their monitor
1 The city is all alive to hear from New Hamp-
shire; the latest Geographic accounts make it
doubtful, with probabilities for the President.
\ Yesterday Mr.. Slidell introduced two resolu-
tiens in the Senate, which were read amidst
| such confusion that could not catch their pur.
| port, they were as follows, to wit
| The first, directing the Committee on Com
merce to inquire into the expediency of making
appropriations for buays or beacons TO mark the
channels through Atchafalaya Cote Blaneo and
Vermillon Bays; also for the erection of light
houses on Raccoon Point in the Parish of Terre-
bonnie, and at or near Proctorsville in the Par
lshof st. Bernard; also to inquire into the ex-
pediency of removing the Custom-house from
franklin to Pattersonyille in the Parish of ST.
Mary's. The second, directing the Committee
| on Military Affairs to inquire into the expe-
diency OF an appropriation for a fertilization at
or near Proctorsville, Parish of ST. Bernard
1 Those of your citizens who are interested in
the several bills donating lands in Louisiana for
I railroad purposes, must not be dishearted by
the action of the House in the two cases already
decided; unless, as in these cases, there are
parties among You ready to be telegraphed to
come on here and lobby against their passage
CHRoNIcLER
WAsHrsaros, March 10, 1854
After some unimportant morning business the
Senate again required to the question of Mr.
Phelps's claim to a seat This subject, involving
no controversy about facts, had been decided
some time ago, by a sort of private canvass, but
more recently it was thought that some Senators
had undergone charge Of opinion on the con-
stitutional points involved in the case but the
result proved otherwise. There was but a
scanty attendance, and when the final vote was
taken 1t was necessary to drum up quorum,
very few Of which sustained Mr.. Phelps A re-
solution was adopted allowing him his mileage
and per diem to this date. The Legislature Of
Vermont does not meet again until October, SO
that for this session that State will be only par
tally represented in the Senate
In the House Mr. Giddings moved reconsd-
GRAFTON Of the vote by which the message Of the
President, relative to the Black Warrior tsent
in late yesterday, was referred to the Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs Mr. G. attempted to
show that no case of outrage could be made out
against the Cuban authorities, and in the coarse
| of his speech alluded to a statement he. had
read in some newspaper.
Mr. Jones, Of La, interrupted Mr. G. to deny
the statement. and ssdid not believe that he
l. n md ofp
Mr. Giddings replied sharply to this piece of
rudeness and refused to yield the floor to Mr.. j
Mr. Bayly, of Va, answered the argument of
the g free democrat from Ohio, and highly
lauded the President for the position he had
| taken in the premises
The motion to reconsider was of course re-
jeeted, khaying been made only to hang speech
onl and the House went into Committee Of the
Whole on the Deficiency bill
In reference to the Cuba difficulty / may saw
| that, upon the state Of the case which we have
there 10 very little difference of opinion to the
PRESIDENTS message--its tone is generally an
proved, You, no doubt, have more detailed in.
formation of the circumstances in this case than
is possessed here; but to us it seems almost in.
credible that such fatuity should exist among
the Spanish authorities as marks their conduct
in this matter They have certainly put strong
weapons into the hands Of Filibusters. The N
I. Herald is already upon them with the cry
( that now is the time, while France and England
are engaged with Russia, for us to look after
Cuba; and what the Herald puts, without
shame into print, is doubtless the cherished
idea Of many less willing to avow it,
Mr., Speaker Boyd has been generally unfor-
tunate in has selection of Committees. Mr.
breckenridge, of Ky, will probably manage to
pilot the Deficiency bill through, but there is a
sad want of harmony in the democratic major
lty, large as tits, with regard to most legisla-
tive measures; the defeat of everything but the
Homestead bill, thus far, and nearly four months
Of the session gone, shows plainly enough that
the House wants confidence in It's Committees.
Mr. Gwin has reported to the Senate, the Pa
chic Railroad bill, FROM the Select Committee Of
that body but where minor enterprises fail
what hope can be entertained for this. There
ID good chance for log-rolling
CHRoNIeLER.
0DD FELLOWS HAIL.--To-night at Odd Fell
lows Hall will be performed Rossini's grand
oratorio of the Stadat Mater by Madame Son.
tag and Madame Deyries, assisted by the force