New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-02-05
Msm ORLEANS DaiIp Crsstent.
THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5, 1857.
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.

.s..|no -" WASHINGTON, Jan. IS, 1857.
The Senate, Thursday, passed the bill extending
aid to the Submarine Telegraph Company, proposing
wire between Newfoundland and Ireland, by vote
of 20 to IS. It met with considerable opposition from
Messrs. Hunter, Pugh, Thompson, Of Kentucky, and
others, on the ground that both termin Of the line
would be in British territory After quite an animated
debate in which Mr. Benjamin made strong argu-
ment in its favor the bill was finally passed by the
vote above given. Mr. Benjamin voting in its favor,
and Mr. Slidell against it. ts -"-'- .
The bill will be sent TO the House in few days, and
will probably pass that body without material oppo-
siton. 1t appropriates seventy thousand dollars
year for twenty-five years, and provides that national
vessels may be furnished to assist in laying down the
CABLE This is precisely the same arrangement that
the British Government has made with the company.
On Friday, the Senate passed the House BILL CON-
peng the attendance of witnesses before the Invest
eating Committees of Congress-there being three
votes in the negative, Messrs. Hale, Pugh and Wilson.
This bill is intended to guard against the recurrence
Of difficulty like that in which they were involved
the other day with Smonton. Simonton refused to
testify the gronnd that he could not do so without
violation of confidence This bill admits of no such
plea, and moreover exempts witness from any pen
atty he may incur by eliminating himself, if thereby
The Sergeant-at-Arms few days ago, went to
Philadelphia and arrested Chester, the contumacious
witness, brought him back, and yesterday had him
up before the bar of the House. Chester, unlike Sim
onton, preferred committing his reply to paper to
making an exhibition of parliamentary eloquence, as
simonton did in the very halls Of Congress, and in
the face of the enemy" On tomorrow, perhaps, we
shall have his developments.
many Of the lobby who had fed the city have been
induced to come back from their hiding places and
avoid the disgrace Of being pursued and captured by
the Sergeant On the whole, we have had lively
and interesting time among the lobby for the last
week or two. Most of the lobby, as is well known
are either exmembers Of Congress or newspaper
correspondents.
1t is now settled that neither Mr. villiers nor Lord
Elgin is to be the British Minister to this country
but that Lord Napier has the credentials in his
pocket, and will arrive and present them probably
before Mr. Marcy takes his final adieu of the Office
Premier. Lord Napier comes of long line of illus
trious ancestors-has served in diplomatic missions al
Vienna, Constantinople, Naples and St. Petersburg
and withal, is gentleman of literary turn of mind
and has issued from the press several very readable
and entertaining books. And herein does he differ
whom Mr.. Marcy dismissed unceremoniously last
summer for making unntentional mistake (of nc
consequence in the enlistment business
Champion was, in every respect, bon riuant. In,
stead of searching diligently the musty records of the
diplomatic service, he was far more bent on ascer
tanning at what place the trout were more numerou
in the pellucid waters ol the Potomac. Instead c
peerng curiousy into the mysteries and secrets of al
struce diplomacy it pleased him much more to crit
else the flavor of his PORT or the genuineness of hi
Chateau MargauX. With such Minister, no wonde
that the cautious, long-headed and astute Mare
discovered, now and then, flaw in his rather loos
diplomacy. For all that, there is no doubt ths
Champion meant well in his disposition towards tn
country, and would have succeeded admirably, had
paid little more attention to folios than to fish.
As for Lord Napier, versed as he is in the intrca
and complex diplomacy of the continent, and not pa
ticuarly devoted to the sports of the angle and IL
fowling piece there is prospect that he will hold
own creditably to himself and his country. In th
view of the case is almost pity that Marcy is abor
to retire-for the match being about equal betwee
them, their diplomatic digladiaton would perhar
have been most brilliant, entertaining and sharpl
contested. A tilt between them the Central Amer
can question for instance or the rights of neutral
would furnish, in all probability, the spciest episod
in the history of our foreign relations since the meme
rabe time when Webster so utterly demolished th
inscble chevalier Hulsemann.
The arrival of the James Adger at New York, o
Saturday, puts US in possession of later news fror
Nicaragua, and leads to the hope that Walker has b
this time gained substantial triumph over his enc
mics and firmly reestablished himself in his position
ESSEX.