The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-02-15
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.


WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
The nimble correspondents of the New York
papers furnished glowing accounts of tho re-
ception of the news in Washington Of Mr..
Stewards reelection; but, somehow or other,
the band of music they talked about, was not
out that bleak night. We have no doubt it
was down in the programme, but the best
laid schemes of mice and men will fail" some
times.
John B. Miller of Utica, New York, having
been nominated as Secretary of Legation to
Paris, subsequently had leave to withdraw his
name. Some of the letter writers say it was
because he was an Anti-Nebraska Democrat :;
but the correspondent of the Ecening Post
acquits the Administration Of the illiberality
this would imply. The reason of the with
drawal, he says, was the opposition made to
HIM, on account Of letter he wrote during the
Nebraska struggle, rejecting personally on
Senator Douglas, and also because he gave
countenance in his paper to the insinuation
that Mr.. Westbrook, of New York, was bribed
to vote for the Nebraska bill. Samuel H. Cox,
an Ohio Nebraska man, was nominated in his
place, and, being found without spot, was con.
frmed. Our Senate is great on the point of
purity.
Mr.. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, nominated
| as Minister epan., uue Ie1rDerarIon,
has declined that honor. This decision he
communicated to the House last week Hav-
ing reaped all the advantages which such a
nomination could confer, he very prudently
avoided all the responsibilities its acceptance
would have involved-and made way for an
other distinguished parsonage, the Honorable
Augustus Caesar Dodge! This gentleman
whose name will doubtless create sensation
in Madrid, having been rejected by the People
Of Iowa. for his vote on the Nebraska bill. is
now, for this very reason, specially honored by
the President with MISSION for which he has
not a single qualification.
The Star has fallen out with the Union, and
says that it no longer represents the views Of
| the Administration, upon the Central Ameri
| can Question: or any other. 1t is pity to see
brethren of the same household falling ont.
1t is now said that the report that Dudley
Mann is to resign his place, as Assistant Score
tary of State, is utterly untrue; on the contrary
he and the Secretary always see eye to eve
OF course.
A Tribune correspondent is down upon the
Massachusetts, delegation, because it voted with
Houston, of Alabama, to go into Committee Of
the Whole on the state of the Union. for the
purpose of taking up his Tariff bill. and then
voted to take it up-thus separating themselves
from the Protectionists generally. The truth
is, we suppose some Of them had been con
suited with, and probably had succeeded in
obtaining as many concessions from the Anti
Tariff men as could be expected. This, and
| the reduction to be effected on raw materials
it is to be supposed, induced them to act mod
erately in the premises. The Tribune CORES
pondent denounces them quite as bitterly as i
they had betrayed the cause of Human Rights
Some of the letter writer's are very indignant
| at the action of the House in cutting down the
Texas Debt bill. The BILL as it finally passed
the House, provides for the payment to Texas
| of precisely the amount that has been lying in
the Treasury since 1850, subject to her order
| Texas, on various pretexts, wanted some three
or five millions more, and letter writer's, who
| generally go for the most liberal expenditure
backed her up.
The rumor is, that the Fiibusters, having
lost their Presidential ally, have taken the mat
ter of Cuban annexation into their own hands
the Junta of New York having made arrange
ments to buy the steamer United States, besides
keeping an eye upon another one. 1t is prob
able that they may capture Cuba with one
steamer; certainly, with two, they could carry
| it by coup de main,
ak" says that the news from Mexico is
"disparaging that Santa Anna is on his
last-his only leg-and that he is ready fol
another sale to the United States A Washing
ton correspondent of the Detroit Adrertise,
gives some particulars about the last item
Most of the proposed purchase will lie to the wes
Of that lately acquired, and will stretch long
way on the Pacific ocean. The design is, tc
further the scheme for dividing California, and
organizing its Southern half into Slave State
Another design is to facilitate the Southern
route to the Pacific for railroad. San Diego
is TO be the capital of the new slave State, and
to be put forward as the rival of San Francisco
Marcy grumbles, but Gadsden, the negotiator
| appeals to Jefferson Davis. So runs the story
General Shields, it is said, declines the can
didateship in Trumbull's District, for Congress
This is prudent.
| Ohio having been divided into two Judicial
Districts, Mr.. Robinson, editor of the Cincin.
matt Enquirer, has been appointed marshal Of
the Southern District.
The New York Herald calls the Know Moth
ings the practical Temperance party of the
present day.