New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-24

service viii not be held applcsSie to Am, aad 10
may r,tsin bis post at his pleasure, receiving mo
full pay Of senior captain.
Mr.. Buchaaan has now written Latter, saying
emphstcaIy that the election Of Col Forney to tho
Senate would be agreeable to him, and that the
n,,tv owes that acknowledgment 10 the latter for
seryices rendered. This Intervention has caused
commot;ou in various quarters, and Is assumed in
.oms 70 secure Gen. Cameron's success.
No orders have yet been ISSUED to renew the
exploration for the Pacific guano island, but the
nuInsse il fixed, and either one of the steamers
Hancock or Massachusetts,, engaged in the Oregon
service, or the sloop st. Mays at Panama, will b
detailed on this duty, soon as necessary informa-
ton is received. If Com. Mervine had not de-
yisted from the original instructions, this second
expedition would have been unnecessary.
Judge Roosevelt's decision as 10 the Bnck Church
property has disappointed some expectations here,
and the whole subject of POst-Od site viii be
reopened to sharp competition. The President as
sumed the whole of the recent responsibility, sd-
yersely TO the views of the Department, but will
hardly repeat the experiment in the face Of this
failure.
Special DispsteA to The N. Y. Tribune
WASHINGTON, Tuesday Dec. %, 1856.
The House dsmurred for to-day on the Pres-
dents Message and executed business with will
The Senate resolution, extending the time for
presenting the claims of the creditors Of the Re-
public of Texas to January, 1885, and repeating so
much of the joint resolution Of last session IS pro-
vided that the residue of the 100000 apprOpri-
ated for the payment of the Texas debt should be
divided among those creditors who had fedor would
file their releases on or before the first day Of JAN
uary next, was reported from the Committee Of
Ways and Means, and passed without opposition.
The bills appropriating for the expenses of the
Indian Department and fulfilling treaty stpulatiOns
with the Indian tribes $1,000, 900; the bill sppro-
priating for the support of the Military Academy
for the year ending June 30, 1855, $3.50 and
the bill applopriatng for the payment of invalid and
other pensions of the United States for the year
ending June -, 1853, $4,000, were severaly
reported by the Committee to the House and passed
The Committee of Ways and Means have re-
ported all the appropriations except for expenses
of Post. Office Department, which will be made TO-
morrow.
Several attempts were made to-day to procure
an adjournment over the holidays, but majority Of
the House was ayerse to it. Tomorrow the
House will adjourn until Friday.
Mr.. Woodson the Secretary Of Kansas, is to re-
ceive the fate his late coadutors. Mr. Spence, the
new Marshal of Kansas, is a dOuble-dyed-in- the
wool Hunker, Endorsed by such specimens of
Pro-Saveryism as Mr.. Medary, the editor of The
Ohio Statesman, Douglass organ, who is here en-
deavoring to get the Postmaster Generalship un-
der Buchanan. He is urged by Douglas with much
zeal.
The charge made by Senator Brown yesterday
that Senator Wilson had advised that slaves rebel
and cut their masters thrOats, is cOntradicted in
The Star to-day, by Mr.. +. II. Richard, who heard
the conversation at the Washington House where
it was alleged to have been made. Other gentle
men who listened TO the conversation referred to,
also assert that Gen. Wilson did not utter such
sentiment. BOSTON.