Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-04-02
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.

The IHfeuigeneer says Of the prospect of
peace in Europe:
"A All the late accounts from London and
Paris speak confidently Of an early peace.
The Paris correspondent of the New York
Post, in a note TO a private letter dated the
1lth ultimo, says:
"tYou may state to your readers that COM
smittees have been appointed by the Peace
Congress to whom to be referred all
questions Of mere detail, and that the prin-
'cipal treaty will be signed next Saturday or
Tuesday at furthest'
"a postscript to another private letter re.
ceived at New York, dated two days later
and coming from an American gentleman resi-
dent at Paris, says:
"'1 have just received from what is thought
good authority that peace will be proclaimed
within three days. You have it as I got it )
"Our own London correspondence also in.
spires the hope that the deliberations of the
Peace Conference will terminate auspi.
ciously."
Commertng upon yesterday portion of the
present heated term in the Senate Of the
United States over the action of the late Ma
val Retiring Board, the same paper says, with
Pickvickian gravity:
But the debate has, for the most part,
taken a wide range, and from the peculiar
upon which investigation must necessarily
concentrate, if discursive discussion be in
dulged, considerable personal feeling must
ningle with the deductions of reason. So it
Is tc be feared, in the progress of a somewhat
vague debate on topics so delicate, that more
aerlmony may be engendered-to be sure, of
temporary eharacter-than is usually pro-
duced even by discussions upon the strongest
party topics. We are certainly glad that no
such regretable incident has yet occurred"
Now, the truth IL, there was /" high time"
there, yesterday. between Messrs. Bell and
Clayton. The latter, in his defence of Captain
Dupont, toek occasion to compare the allega-
tions made by Lieut. Maury in his suit against
the company owning the stage by the upset
ting of which he was made a cripple for life,
and these of his application for q pension, with
the allegations embraced in his memorial to
the Senate against the action of the Naval
Retiring Board in his case. Commenting,
with freedom, upon what he conceived to be
theirvery striking discrepancies, he said things
highly offensive to Mr.. Bell, the senatorial
friend Of Lieutenant NJ. The latter retorted
with warmth" so vehement, as to excite
both himself and Mr.. Clayton, until many of
the large audience present would have bet
even on broken heads and bloody noses ere
their session of the day came to a close
The Union quotes the Pennsyipanian's
late ten-column article, wherein it is held tt at
Mr. Buchanan is in effect uncommitted unon
the proPriety of repeating the Missouri coz
promise and enacting the Nebraska bill, and
argues that those who advocate his nomina-
ton On such grounds are doing him irrepara-
BILE injury The editor scouts the idea that
they can be speaking by his authority in as
suming any such position for him. The Union
and PsEHsylUantan affair is what is termed
Ga very pretty quarrel, ss it stands" and its
progress is viewed by the Democratic, and
Indeed all other public men in Washington,
with Intense interest, as being likely greatly
TO effect the solution of the problem Who is
is to be the nominee of the Cincinnati Con-
vention2