New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-10-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of The N. Y. Tribune.
w ,SIuNcToN Oct III IL


WASHINGTON, Oct. III, 1857.
Messrs Page d Allen, shipbuilders Of Nor.
folk, feeling agrieved by the award of the contract
for constructing q steam sloop-of-war to Mr.. Yves
tervelt of New York, have applied to the Secretary
of the Navy to order another of the five to be
built in private .hipyards They are supported by
number of Virginia politicians, but it is scarcely
probable that the Secretary will feel authorized to
grant their request.
The affairs OF Mexico excite much interest now
from the strong desire of the manifest destiny
men to acquire fOOthO,d in the isthmus of Tehu-
aDieptc. The young South looks to this project
with confidence. A cOl'ny of nominal working
men from our Slave States once located in the
South Of Mexico would become nucleus whence
would radiate through all that region an influence
from which propagandlsm could not fail to reap the
largest advantages This is the real capital of the
various companies formed from time to time for the
exploitation of the various grants obtained from
Mexico, covering the roadway between the two
oceans. They logically enough expect to bully or
caOle the General Government into the adoption OF
their schemes when not only will the political OBJ
ject they have in view be consumm,ted, but they
will grasp real return for their money IN their
share of the indemnity, which will of course be
paid to Mexico.
In the mean time the anger and disappointment
the SloO faction is ecitiDg some ial which good
policy should have suppressed. Thus they MAINTAIN
that Mr.. Buchanan sent La Sere and Benjamin u
Mexico for the express purpose OF procuring the an
nulmeDt of their grant, and the making of new
one in order to reward and repay those Democratic
capitalists who advanced the money necessary t
carry Pennsylvania in 1856. The new grant is 10 be
cut I'D into 100 900 shares of 500 each, Of WHICH
certain portion will be distributed among gentle
men who have earned such favOrs by political SER
vices This is not my statement, and l wish 10 De
considered as not responsible for it, but It Is the SUB
stance of the charge which the principal associates
of Mr. Sloo are making here and elsewhere. The par
ties are all Democrats Of the most approved ebony hue
1t is further alleged that firmly convinced are they
of the wrong that has been done them, they con-
template seizing the President upon writ OF al
ouod damnum, and compelling him to answer In his
character of private citizen for the almost meal
cuable losses they have suffered by the failure to
get the enormous profits they expected Inc SloO
embassy in the capital of Mexico, though aided by
the fiery genius of Pierre Soue, was altogether too
slow for the adverse dplomatists; as Soule was
outwtted at OsteId and bamboOzled into resigna'
ton by Marcy, he was on this occasion completely
outger eraed though be plowed with the heifer, Mr.
FoTsythe. who was officially bound to cooperate
with Mr. Buchanans friends This will stimulate
him TO fresh efforts and the struggle is but fairly
begun. -
I'm the mean time, Mr.. Forsythe will 90 on negc-
tatinp. la Trist and will soon seDd treaty here
which will open new vista Of Slave States, and
will aid IN the discontinue ofths ant-Sfoe men.
The revenue 10 going down, down. Last week,
il was less than half Million though we are III the
midst of the importing season. This represents b
current rate of revenue Of less than S25, 100000
year. while the aggregate expenditures are $50
600. 600. The surplus has reached q point under
SIS 600 000 and by the end OF lSoc will be at zero
Periodically, under Democratic rule, the country
els bound" TO be ruined. In 1S4l, 'i2, the
Tariff of 1888 reached the last round of the
ladder and all duties came down to the uniform 20
per cent standard. BY very singular coincidence
at that very time the country also reached the last
gasp Of prostraton, and the protective men and
theory were called in 10 extract it from the gull
yawnirg before it. In ls46 the Democratic tink.
erers recommended their assaults upon domestic IN
dustry. California gold came in to postpone the
crash that it required the Democratic tariff OF
Ic46 in eleven years to do what the tariff of 1893 did
in nine. Now, however, We are fat again, and the
next Congress will be called upon by Mr. Buchanan
to provide protective tariff for revenue. But the
people are gullble and quacks and chsrlatans will
| have their way.
The Federal City is fast following in the wake Of
Baltimore. Last night John Linton, esq., proml-
Dent politician, and Republican, was shot st three
| times by rOwdies. The same gang broke into two
private hOuses, and fired several shots at the in
mates. The massacre by the Government troops on
the LIST of June has embOdened the disorderly char
scters of the Democratic party to the commission
of all sorts of outrsges. few nights since party
of them set upon procession of peacesble iremen,
and regular engagement took place on Pennsyl
ysna avenue One hundred shots were fired and
seven persons were wounded one it has been report
| ed fatally A Vigilance Committee Is spoken Of
| PEMAQUID.