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N E WAmuxoroH, Feb. /, 1856.
Monday and Tnesdsy 81 this week having been
ST apart for Territorial hsaiaess, Mr.. Cutting,
from the Committee on the Judiciary reported two
or three joint resolutions relating to the Minneso-
ia & Northwestern Railroad Company, the most
dissent of Congress from, and its disapprobation
of the Territorial act incorporating said Comp
any, which is intended to dissolve the whole con-
osrn into it, original elements and deprive it Of
existance.
In reporting these resolutions, Mr.. Cutting said
he had been directed by the committee to make
statement of the facts relating to the passage
of the bill granting over $4,000 acres Of land
to the Territory of Minnesota, as Congress in
tended and supposed, and its repeal upon disoov-
ering the fraud that had been practiced by the
secret, clandestine, unauthorized alteration of
the bill in its passage through the House. He
accordingly gave suscinct history of the whole
matter-passage of the bill, its fraudulent alter
ation-investigation by special committee-its
repeal-the passage of the act by the Minnesota
Legislature chartering the Company,-their or
ganization immediately after the passage of the
fraudulently altered bill by Congress-the claim
set up by said Company to the lands, notwith-
standing the repeal of the bill making the grant
the extensive suit and voluminous pleadings
before the Territorial Courts--the extraordinary
expedition with which the pleadings were made
up, the case argued, and the Judgment of the
court was rendered, the appeal taken to the Su.
preme Court here, and the docketing of the case
here on the 2lst of January. He also felt him
self called upon to notice other matters of o
somewhat extraordinary character, connected with
these transactions, and relating to the course of
conduct officers of the government in Minnesota,
upon which he commented briefly but somewhat
severely. All this history is, however, matter
of public notoriety with you. 1t may be found
as officially reported, in the Globe of Tuesday
evening. ~ .ii4 a,--.I JlYf.l1l 1lf.f1
You will readily suppose that after listening to
this recital of what people here are simple enough
to think has very much the appearance of fraud
and rascality, but which in some parts of the
country, where s'the standard of morality''-as
Garish wrote to Secretary Woodbury. about the
public robbers in Mississippi-"is not as high as
with you, and there is a certain looseness in the
manner of doing business which does not prevail
elsewhere may be considered only as talent,
smartness or tact, the House did not need much
persuasion to bring it to vote upon Mr.. Cut
ting's resolutions, which we're passed almost
unanimously.
give up the ghost, nor the lands, if they can help
it, but will hold on to both with the grasp of death.
The question whether they are dead or alive, as
company, will probably be decided by the Su-
preme Court, when the case brought up here from
the Minnesota courts comes up. When the case
is called, the Attorney General will probably
move to dismiss it, on the ground that there is
no such company in existance, the act incorpora-
ting it having been dsapproved and dissented to
by Congress, which will open the question wheth-
er such company exists or not. This course of
procedure is, however, merely surmised, as
have no information what the Attorney General
intends doing.
1t is extremely unfortunate for the people of
Minnesota, that such transactions should have
happened and in connection with her beautiful
and euphoneous name they have brought dis
credit upon, and tarnished what should have been
her fair and unimpeachable character. &c So
young, and yet so corrupt" exclaim members
but the answer is, the people are not corrupt;
they had no hand, part nor lot in these transac-
tons. They condemn them as much, and as in
dignantly as you possibly can, and they feel NOR
tilted that they had their origin in their own leg
islative assembly; rather, that that assembly
was made use of to hatch out the egg Of rascal
ity which was carried to St. Paul from that no.
torious den of cockatriccs, Wall Street. The
people of Minnesota had no more to do with the
affair, and no more knowledge of it till it had
been bruited over the whole country, then the
people in the planet Neptune, who, take it upon
me to say, have not heard syllable of it.
The army appropriation bill has been under
consideration the whole of this week in the SEN
ate. There is proposed amendment to author
ize the calling out of 5000 volunteers to suppress
dcpredations and hostilitics, which meets with
strong opposition. Upon this subject q number
of Senators have spoken-namely, Gen Houston,
warmly against-Mr. Bell, Mr.. Jones Of Tenn,
Mr.. Fitzpatrick, Mr.. Dodge of Iowa, and others.
1t is quite doubtful whether this force will be au-
thorized, as the opinion seems to prevail that
volunteers would be more likely to create or pro-
woke, than repress hostilities. 4.
The French Spoliation Bill having passed the
House-it passed the Senate last session, has been
sent to the Senate in consequence of the House
passing their own instead of the Senate bill
This gives its opponents another chance of de-
feating it, since it has to 60 through all the forms
of legislation in the Senate as if had never pas
sed that body. Great interest is therefore felt
for its fate, but it has an able advocate and ex-
perienced parlimentarian as its manager, Mr..
Clayton, who a few years ago made the ablest ar
gument in favor of it ever made by any one in
either House, and which is unanswerable.
Collins is again an applicant before Congress
for the continuance of government aid to his line
Of steamers; there is another proposition how
ever, for different line to Europe, by a man
named Hanson, who proposes to carry the mails
on far more favorable terms. The latter line is
rather the favorite one with members and the
Post Master General. Mr.. Hanson proposes to
run from New York to Antwerp, touching at
Portsmouth, England, and thus saving British
postage on American letters to this continent.
Lieutenant Hunter, of ssAlvarado" memory has
been dismissed from service by the President for
leaving his Station-the Brazil Station.-with the
Brig Bainbridge, under his command, not only