New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-04-07
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| spfetaI Correspondence Of tbs Crescent.
WAsHINGroN, March 49, 1854
The city has been on the gtti yiue good par
Of the day, Interpretation Of duel betwee,
4 Messrs. Cutting and Breckenridge; at one tim
| it was rumored that meeting had taken place
and, the rumor having reached the Court nov
in session, the officers left for the supposed seem
/ of action. TWAS Enthusiastically stated thai
| Mr.. Breckenridge had been shot in the neck
but not fatally. The last, and most likely YER
/ sion of the matter in question is, that Mr. Ben
ton holds the whole subject under adgisemen
4 and that the parties are to abide his decision
| II this be so, there will be no hostile meeting
Some doubt seems to rest upon the position O
the belligerents in respect to whom belongs the
burthen Of the challenge.
| Mr.. Cutting, although q New Yorker lis a gal.
liant gentleman. who will shrink from no re-
sponsibility arising from his present acts. 1t is
certain that for exercising clear parliamentary
right, viz: moving the reference of the Senate
Nebraska bill to the Committee Of the Whole on
the State of the Union-he was violently assailed
by Mr.. Breckenridge, in language that was any
thing but moderate he replied with equal
asperity, and hence the quarrel Mr.. Cutting
has revolutionary blood in his veins, and his
wife is South Carolinian.s I mention these
facts because it is rare that any Northern man
feels II incumbent upon him to resort to the
duel
In the Senate, this morning, Messrs Foot,
Everett, Thompson, Sumner and Jones, of Iowa,
severally presented remonstrances from their
constituents against the Nebraska bill
Mr. Thompsons of KY, presented a memorial
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to the Finance Committee
The Deficiency bill was again taken up and
discussed and amended until late hour. The
amendments calling forth the largest debate
and difference of opinion had reference to pen
sioners. 1t was proposed that in future no per-
son holding any civil Office should be in recent
Of q pension; and that hereafter, once in two
years, pensioners should be examined by sur
geons to ascertain if the disability continued,
ETC., etc. These restrictions, after much debate,
were adopted by close vote-22 to 90
Il Another amendment proposed disseminating
the pensions allowed to privateersmen, and
after long debate, this also was adopted by
q to 49,
Mr.. Mason, Of Va, moved to postpone the
bill, and 90 into Executive Session on the
Treaty, but the Senate refused to do so.
Mr.. Pratt, of Md, proposed an amendment,
giving half million towards carrying on the
works for supplying the federal CITY with pure
water from the falls of the Potomac; and after
debate, this was agreed to by a vote of 81
to 49,
The House has been further RECALLED with
speeches from Messrs. Norton and Miller upon
the Nebraska bill, which, though it be at the
foot of the calendar in business-bad cess to it
lis at the top Of the pot in blarney, as Pat
would say.
We learn by telegraph that you have had an
exciting election, and that three persons were
killed at the polls; this is worse than bribery
NO election in this country is worth contending
at such cost. CHRoNIoLER.
WASHINGTON, March 80, 1854
Neither of the bellgerents, Messrs. Cutting
and Breckenridge, have been in their seats TO-
day; but il is probable that they will return to
is settled, excepting as to the form in which the
publication OF this fact is to be made.
In the Senate, to-day, Mr.. Bell presented
oitition from one hundred and twelve colleges
5houghout the country, asking for each town
,hip of land. Also, from a Baptist association
n Tennessee, petition that the right of wor-
ship and the rites of sepulture abroad may be
secured upon reciprocal terms to our citizens.
Mr.. Badger then presented remonstrance
from some OF his own constituents against the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise as a violation
ot good faith, etc. Mr.. Badger said he recoe-
nized the names, and believed that the signers
were reasonable and just men. and so believing,
1e thought they had or would change their
minds upon this subject when they come to read
;he debates
A bill was passed for the relief of John Guz-
nan, of Louisiana.
The Deficiency Bill was again taken up, and
he greater part Of the day was spent in consid. |
ring the question of repeal of the 7th section
If the act of 1852, whereby the printing of any |
document was to be done by the printer of the |
louise first ordering it, On this point diff. |
'ulty had already occurred between the Senate
Ind House printers, and it was pretty clearly I
hown that the Departments could, by indirec-
ion, throw the printing into whose hands they
hose. The cost Of double composition was
stimated at about $4,000 each session. The
lause IN question was repealed--yeas "a,
lays ID
MIR. Thompson, of KY, then renewed promo
itlon to make appropriations for various Gus
ON houses at Portland, Bangor, Washington,
It, Louis, etc.
An animated discussion followed This was
he load that broke the bill down in the House,
nd it was feared would lead to its defeat again,
he Senate adjourned without deciding the
question.
In the House, after speech from Mr.. Keitt
I s. G., in favor of the Nebraska bill, In which
hiS SCllleiuau bluWtu himself 10 De about 4
lnatical as those he denounced at the North,
The bill to build six naval steamships was
AIKEN up.
Mr.. Benton opposed the measure in a speech
half an hour. lie oontended that naval bat
les never decided any thing,and that the ex-
,nsion of our naval defenses was uncalled for.
e built ships and they rotted, and we built
hers to rot again, and this was all aboutit
be only parties benefited, were the ship car
snters. lie told n conversation which he once
bid with Mr.. Jefferson, (not about the gun
'ats) and the House paid him the compliment
a very attentive audience.
Mr.. Boeock, OF Va, Chairman Of the Naval
followed in defence of the bill and
AIDE a lucid statement of the past and present
ndition of the Navy. Il
Various five minute speeches wound up the
y sitting without any final vote. 1t Is not
ubted, however, that the bill will pass
see that some writers from here contend that
obstacles have been removed to the ratihca-
IN of the aadsden treaty. 1 think differently
CHRoNIcIER.
The CUTTING AND BRECKENRIDGE DIFFICULTY. ]
le Washington Star, reporting the proceedings
this affair, states the understanding in that
~ to be, that Immediately on the conclusion /
the personal controversy in the Hall, between !.
r Breckenridge and himself, Mr. Cutting, on I
wishing with Messrs Hunt, of Louisiana, and :
ssell, of Hlinos, as to what course it might be G
l,A., a