The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-03-28
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Warrington News. -
In the Senate on the 14th, on motion of
Mr.. Thompson, Of N. j., committee was APP
pointed to wait on the President and inform
him if he had no further communication to
make, the Senate was ready to adjourn.
Onmotion of Mr.. Stuart, the Journal of a
former day was corrected, striking out that
portion which said Bright's credentials were
referred to Committee on Judiciary. Bright
said his credentials were on file, and if mo-
ton be made to refer them he wished to be
heard. 1t was the case of his colleague.
Fitch, which was under consideration, and
not his.
Mr.. Trumbull Intellectually sought to have
the Indiana election cases considered.
The Vice President retired from the Chair.
calling on Stuart to preside. :.
Fitzpatrick said it was necessary to have
a President pro TEN, according to usage,
and moved that Rusk be chosen to that sta
ton.
On motion of Mr.. Wilson, the Senate pro-
ceeded to ballot, and elected Rusk, who re-
ceived % out of Al votes.
Mr.. Rusk having been conducted to the
chair, returned thanks for the honor con-
ferred upon him, and promised to discharge
impartially as he could the duties devolving
uponhim.
Mr.. Seward offered resolution, which
was unanimously adopted, rendering the
thanks of the Senate to Mr.. Breckenridge,
for the dignity and impartiality with which
he had discharged the duties of presiding Of
ficer.
Five thousand copies of the report of the
army officers in relation to their mission to
the war in the Crimea was ordered printed.
The New York Herald's Washington dis
patch of the 10th says that the President
received late last night telegraphic dispatch
from Gov. Geary, dated st. Louis, informing
him that he had resigned the Governorship
OF Kansas Territory, to take effect the last
of this month. He does not state the rea-
sons which had induced him to pursue this
course, but the President is perfectly aware
what they are. He has encountered difficult
ties and endorsements ever since he had
the row with Judge Lecompte, and asked
Gen. Pierce to remove him. Gen. Pierce
promised to remove Lecompte, but did not
do it. Gov. Geary performed all the func-
tons of his Office in that Territory.
Gov. Geary will be here in few days,
when the Administration will urge upon him
to change his mind and go back, and, if he
desires it, Lecompte and every other office
holder in the Territory who has thrown any
embarrassment in his way, will be removed.
A distinguished Pennsylvania Office holder
was presented to Mr.. Buchanan on Saturday
by several prominent Democratic friends,
the request that he should be re-appointed
The reply was emphatic that the North and
West demanded rotation in Office, and that
that would be the rule of action. In the
South it was different. This was poser.
At the reception of the British Minister,
Lord Napier, on the 10th, in addressing the
President he said he was instructed to con-
vey to him the earnest desire entertained by
the Queen to preserve and advance, on all &C.
casions, the interests and happiness of Eng
land and America, which are so deeply in
volved in their amicable intercourse, and to
manifest to him the hearty good wishes
which her majesty cherished for the pros
perity of the U. S.
After long congratulary address, Lord
Napier delivered the credential letter which
her majesty had been graciously pleased to
entrust to his care.
The President, in reply, offered to Lord
Napier hearty welcome, as envoy extraor-
binary and Minister plenepotentiary of her
Britanic Majesty to the United States.
Your sovereign, he said, 1 am convinced
could nothave selected more acceptable rep
resentative than yourself to renew those re-
lations of international friendship which may
never hereafter be interrupted. The friendly
wishes of her majesty are cordially recipro-
Gated on my part, and will elicit an enthusi-
astic response from the hearts of the Ameri-
can people. No independent powers have
ever been bound together by material inter-
ests of such magnitude as those which unite
Great Britain and the United States. In
deed, the prosperity of one is necessarily in
volved in that of the other. But mutual in
terests, however vast, without much regard
are not always sufficient to preserve friend
ship between nations.
How happy then am to receive the assu-
rance that your Sovereign, her Ministers and
every order of her subjects are animated by
sentiments of benevolence towards the good
people of the United States. During NV
administration, it shall be my agreeable duty
as well as my earnest desire to increase the
friendship and good will'.now so happily sub
sisting between the two countries, and to
render these sentiments strong and enduring.
With such sincere and friendly dispositions,
on both sides, should difficulties ever arise
between the two governments, they will. be
easily adjusted in spirit of mutual forhcar.