Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-03-23

''In anticipation of that contingency,
l suggest to Congress the propriety OF
adopting such provisional measures as
the exigency may seem to demand"
WASHINGTON NEws.-The correspon-
dent of the New York Times from the
seat of Government says:
Depend upon it, the Administration is
disposed to embrace this opportunity,
and let fillibusters work their will on
Cuba. A special message from the
Presidents expected tomorrow, recon-
mending a suspension of the neutrality
laws. The greatest objection to this
course is the danger of fillibustering
against Mexico.
Gen. Cass is quite i'll. He is confn-
ed to his room, but it is hoped his illness
will not prove serious.
/ am not mistaken in supposing that
we are approaching crises in relation
to Cuban affairs. The Cabinet has had
a long sitting, in which the whole ques-
ton was fully considered. The Admin
istrator is perfectly satisfied that Spain
is so bold in her insolence and outrsges,
simply because she is aware that Eng
land and France are at her back
These facts have existed too long al
ready. The patience of our Govern
ment is exhausted at last. The kicks
and cuffs we have received from i'm
beetle Spain without resentment are
now rising up against her; and her day
of reckoning has come, if l mistake
not.
The Washington correspondent Of
the New York Times, of the d Ute of
March 18th, says:
Notwithstanding the denials made in
certain quarters, you may depend upon
it that the Gadsden Treaty was reported
back to the Senate from the Committee
of Foreign Relations on Friday last
without material amendment. From
what 1 can learn, there is little doubt
of the ratification of the Treaty.
The Pacific Railroad bill, reported
by DR.. Gwin to-day from the Select
Committee on the subject, is a very
practical measure-one that will recon-
mend itself, l doubt not, to Congress
and the country. 1t leaves the selec-
ton of the route to the capitalists who
build the road, and so avoids local OBJ
jections. 1t gives no money from the
public treasury for the construction of
the road, and so evades the possibility
of the Presidents veto; and it proposes
to give the contract for the road to the
parties who will carry the mails at the
lowest rate and will build the road in
the shortest time, and thus avoid the
charge of special monopoly. The COM
mittee was nearly unanimous in favor Of
the bill reported, if indeed there were
more than one person dissenting. This
gives the bill great strength to start up
on, and, have little doubt, it will read
lily pass the Senate. The House bill on
the same subject. designating two spe
cifc routes, one North and one South,
will fail.
H The Washington correspondent
of the Philadelphia Ledger, one of the
shrewdest and most experienced of that
class, writes as follows:
The Nebraska bill will be referred to
the committee on territories, and by the
chairman Of that committee reported to
the House. An effort will be made to
put it at once on its passage under the
previous question, but that will signally
fail. The bill will, beyond doubt, be
referred to the Committee of the Whole,
and debated for the space of three or
four months. As l have already OBJ
served, on several occasions, there is
vast deal of talent in the present House,
and members are not willing to hide
their light under bushel. They will
speak on the bill, and editors viii write
about it, and, between speaking and
writing, weshall at last get at the truth
of the matter toward the close of the
summer months.
With reference to the fate of the
Homestead bill in the Senate, the same
correspondent expresses the following
opinion:
l doubt much whether the bill will
pass the Senate, especially after the
epithets which have recently been be-
slowed in that body by Southern MEM
bers on our adopted citizens. Judge
Butler, for instance (Senator from South
Carolina, disclaimed frankly, in his seat,
that he should prefer negroes in Nebras-
ka to the ''emigrants from the land of
krout"