New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-08
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The Committee Of Ways and Means will hold
-, er.t meeting tomorrow The Tariff Bill re-
80 hv them last session is set down ten days
r.. Int will hardly be called up for consideration
It'll after the Holidays. 1t proposes reduction
:. ,hs aggregate of the revenue Of about six mil
-. hut in different form as TO wool from the
.o,,,oendstion Of the Secretary Of the Treasury.
IN. President decided in favor of the selection Of
A.. Rick Church property for Post-Ofioe site
.r.;n,t the wishes Of the Department and against
Zion. known committas, it having been suthon-
- announced that the dimensions constituted
an insupersble objection.
n Il understood here that Gov. Hamlin will be
..,nrn,d TO the Senate from Maine after formal
ABDUCTION as Governor.
According to the last intelligence there is a rea-
.ousble prospect that both England and France will
,,;,s AZ the next Conference n affirming the prin-
;r,e ofmaritime law announced by this Government
% which Russia has already given in it's adhesion.
"a. step forward will give more influence to the
Tinted States in international counsels than has
over before been exercised,
The recommendation ofthe Virginia Electors for
Cabinet places is regarded by Mr.. ,Buchanans con-
fdentsl friends as decided obtruson of gratuitous
advice Ore significant fact is felt and commented
upon BY the South in regard to the composition Of
the new Administration. No man from that Sec
tion in Congress has either been consulted or en-
Ightened, not even Mr.. Cobb, TO whom opinion most
confidently turns in this connection, while certain
reliable inferences have been formed from previous
- - NJ Ahana ia in
condition to assert that he has incurred no positive
obHestiop. and is even indirectly unembarrassed as
20 his future advisers. This reserve has been pru
IDENTITY maintained to provide against contingencies
threatened in some quarters and yet meditated in
others.
Mr.. Nicholson Of The Union is arranging bis
private affairs to retire from that paper afser the
4h of March. Being absent he had no connection
with the recent fabrication against Col. Fremont
which was concocted by the acting e,itor and
never has been reracted not wthstandng the denial
Of Mr.. Newton, the witness who was named.
Special Correspondence Of The N. Y. rhbspe.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Z, 1856.
few Republicans caucussed last night relative
to the proper course TO be pursued in the case of
Whitfield. The prevailing opinion seemed to be
that the minority combination of Democrats and
Americans in sitting for five days by fllibustering
the expressed will of the acting majority, was an
act of usurpaton. That it has met the universal
condemnation of Republicans everywhere and
therefore should not and ought not to be copied by
them. That Whitfield, if admitted, becomes but
q silent member, without vote on any question,
and to fhbuster him ont of his seat would be at
The expense of highly important business before
Congress the execution of which is of greater i'm
pertance to the cause of Freedom. Another and
fuller caucus may be held on Monday evening for
final decision on the subject.
The House will probably be bored tomorrow
with the reading of the last will and testament of
franklin Pierce, entitled "message."
At about the same time Senator Wilson will be
dissecting the said instrument on the floor of the
Senate. He has happy faculty of responding to
the President of the United States, as was shown
in his recent speech at Montreal. The letter and
spirit of the message has melted bitter opposition,
which will show itself upon the floor OF the House
most if not all, of the present week. There are
differences of opinion about the authorship OF the
message. Learned gentlemen who have practced
at the bar with Caleb Gushing, recognized In
il many of his "crushing-out pecuEarities.
Others see the hand of Mr.. Walach of The Star.
The report that cent pieces have been coined and
await orders to be Issued, is erroneous. bill to
that effect was reported at last session. bus did not
pass.
have the most positive assurances that Frank
lin Pierce intends running as candidate for the
Senate of the United States in place of Mr.. Hale
In 1853 BOSTON.