Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-06-17
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

ucoSuio III Puplic lte. entertain tne suo" -
having the United States Government ofer
hree hundred millions of dollars tor the
island No one has better opportunity 'Han
| Oursef to ascertain precisely the views u inc
nds of Yhe measure en- such q point. fer =
d,vrarelv indeed passes. in the course of which
We 40 not converse with some one on tho cub
iect who is as we'll posted upon it a it is pos
sibIe for any one TO be. Upto this tins, We have
get to hear the first suggestion from any such
party, leading to the impression that the idea
If going mach beyond the original offer of Mr..
Buchanan is dreamed Of by any Of them
That offer was one hundred millions Of Il liars,
it will be recolleated Among the unthinking
advocates of Cuban anne ration around US,
the notion Of pay ing III American money for
he island is very unpo ular; the teiief beng
| very general, that it we wait time, the lnev-
| table tendency of approaching events will
sause the ripe pear to drop into cur lap with
| Gu, money, and without price. As that policy
| involves tacit encouragement of 6Ilibustering
On the part Of this Government, those who
value that pearl above priee-nus national
/ honof-however.. lis'en to 10 such suggestion.
We need hardly add, that this class com re-
| bends nine-tenths Of ths pablis men. Of lie
country who are for the acquisition.
| The fact that every succeeding steamer from
! Havana is now bringpgto Cur saor' plumbers
| Of old Spaniaris az we'll as Creoles, with their
hearts blistering with issatisfaction with thei'
Government, has opened The eyes of all the
| public men here 10 the fact that, at ,eis mo
nent, the feeling for revolution i v,, ...
| ith OF July, l775. Helc" N. ;,a;snns;,;oa -,
those first above refe fred to. to nav far n ..
"n'ch they ieei -ssu-ed We may soon e,sily
sec,dre through a revolution on tho Island
den of pfu iepcs and true national chivalry.
however, take very different view of the sub
ject and are willing to have the American
Government pay quite up to, If not a little
beyond, the mark of tho islands true value,
as denoted by Dir. Buch sEans tender. Their
wish Il to clear our national shirts of the dis
, DONOR OF even Sesntng to seek to oefraud
Spain Of what she has so long possessed. more
+, especially at Season in which she stands
perhaps, in greater need of available means
than at any previous period of her history.
icaequered as that has been We bought the
louisiana territory for twelve millions, and If
but by way of showing Spain that we are not
what she may take Us to be, we have 10 doub
mat American public opinion which desires
Cuba 50 unanimously, viii be quite willing To-
have this government pay even eight or ten
times as much for that island as tie great
and important purchase from Napoleon COS. us
Tho Fato Of the Bill tc alter the Rate Of
Postage conveys, practically, full information
to he county concerning the ten per Of the
House npon the subject of pos,sgr1e orm. The
substitute was the point for which a real con
test was made, ami that ives defeated in the
House by 1--WE majority only. 1t did not pro-
pose to a60<tSA the franking privilege, blythe
by, as enormously conceived by mapy pc ,ps
I even N Washington city. Thus. 1t eontem
plated permitting Congress to continue to en-
Joy 1t, but TO make its cost to the Post Office
Department direct charge on the Ma; ional
treasury. The f,ienls of its ahClishment
therefore, voted Against it, as involving merely
The transfer of the burden from ore Govern
uent account TO another. We are satisfied
from the conversational denonst. ation in the
House Hail. ocourr o. yesterday, Tia. the sen.
ament In favor Ct lis total and rea! abolis h
ment Is increasing, however, among the mem
oers As for ever increasing the postage
charges, that's an impOssl biilty under this
government; 1t being as clear to q close OBJ
server, as the sunlight, that aconsiierable and
growing maj 1rity are in f.vor of charging t. G
revenue culiec' ed from ether sources with al e
defcie ney to arise in postal revenues a present
postage rates. The postal reforms which are
evidently most popular. and are likely, 10 time
to come to fud most favor before Congress
are the abo' ishment Of the franking privilege
Ind to require alt letters posted in United
States nails to be prepaid
kanzas and Nebraska appointments Ii
appears to be we'll settled in Democratic polit
ictl circles here, that no appoint. Is for either
Of the two new territories are I'd come from
Missouri This Determination, wilh whi h The
Administration is credited, is said to arise from
the fact that nearly all The Indian Depar men
appointments there were made from Mi sspu,i
aud that, also, the general sdperinte nieucy of
North " estern Indian affairs, nov filed BY
Missourian and located At st Louis, is to b.
movedu up into kanzas These Indian appoipt
ments alone, remaining filed as they arc. will
give Missouri far more tLan pro-rata share
Of the Government patronage to exist in tie
new Territories. Under such circumstances il
| is by no means remarkable that the Ms.omi
/ applicants for other places there have bee,
res pectfuily, but unhesitatingIy declined, as
runor with her thousand tongues insists the,
| have been.
Wills to be Probated.-In the settlement f
accounts of deceased persons at the Treasury
where they have made W lis it is held that they
must generally be admitted t., probate efo,e
payment is made by Government to a, exe.u,or
In case recently presented by the exeeu,o,
Ut the will of a deceased creditor of the JTn;ted
States, in which there we're several Ie ,a.ees !,
was held that as the accounting Off ;s.s eoul6
take no security from the executor that tb.
trust created by the will should be- fulfilled
AMI as It would be improper to paw him tb.
'aiah'e que Without such security unless il
vas waived by those interested ID the trust 8
aust be required to have. the will duIy nro
| Dated IN the county where the deceased w..