New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-12-20
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.


lished in the New York Herald of yesterday, wOult
have forced blind man to that the right OF searc
had not been abandoned. But none are so blind a
those who will not see. The abolition of the right D
visit and search has all along been claimed as tri
umph of the Administration, and the recent amiab
curiosity of the British officials at San Juan in board
ing the steamers Washington and Catharine Maria
conclusively vindcates that claim. All loveI,
thing it was to see the American Mcintosh ten.
these insOent Brtishers that they had better not
it again
/ Various conectuTes are afoat here in reference tt
this renewal with aggravation of the outages commit
ted last spring in the Gulf. Some, with Senator Ma
son, (who ought to know contend that it is SINAI
matter aud will soon blow over. Others consider il
" ominous of id bad sign" as Gov. Barbour uset
to say. They think collision inevitable for the rea
that the British Government desire it to distract
public attention from the reform movement now il
active progress in England and because the American
Government no less desire it to take the wind out Of
the sails of Douglas. Only the springing of some
such new and dangerous issue can neutralze the eff
fects Of the terrible lambastiug which the Admins
traton received last fall at the hands of the Little
Giant. Cngman in the Senate and Clay in the House
called for information regarding these outrages the
latter was sustained the former postponed until to-
day. We shall have some blood and thunder patriotic
| peeches-nothing more, it is to be feared
| Now or never must the Cayton-Bulwer treaty be
abrogated, Its abrogation might have been accom-.
| plished while Mr.. Buchanan was Minister at the
Court Of ST. James, but he permitted Clarendon to
throw sand into his eyes upon the plea that the Rus,
sian war left the British Government no opportunity
toattend to minor matters. That was the very time
to have pressed it. And last session. while the abro-
cation was progressing rapidly III the House under
Clngmansauspices the old man buchanan to.wit)
permitted VIM. Gore Ousley to hoodwink him again
| Valuable Chief Magistrate
Napers recall is said to be the result of the usual
course of official promotion" Lady Napiers health
has much to do with it, quoth others-the climate of
Washington does not agree with her ladyshfp little.
atters urge that her adyship fears are not so much
for her own as for his lordshps health. The moral
atmosphere of this locality is said to exert a pecu-
larly baneful influence upon the susceptible organ.
ism of my Lord, who, it would SEEM has not suffi.
GENTLY guarded himself against the pernicious mi.
asma Of American (female p society. Take the
scandal for whatit is worth. Others willing to give
grayer aspect to Lord Ms removal, say that the
real object is to break off the negotiations which have
been pending between this Government and his own
in reference to the Clayon-BuIwer treaty which ne
gotiatons according to the message, were in such
state Of fowardness as to make it unadvsabe for the
President to do more than allude to them.
The success of the yatch Wanderer in landing a
cargo of negroes in Georgia. exces the fears OF the
oficehoders here. They believe it will stir up the
slavery question again Everybody knew what the
Wanderer had gone after, because everybody knew
Capt Currie The fact that the attempt would be
made was mentioned in my correspondence last win
ter 1t was bravely done-it was done precisely as
everything else that looks to Southern expansion and
progress will have to be done Thank you, for the ex-
ample Capt Bill If it stirs up the slavery excitement
what harm? Until that question is settled upon
basis far broader and deeper than any yet agreed upon
there will continue to be agitation Not much harm
in that, either The danger the South has to fear
not from agitation, but from the insidions corruption
Of our public men during a slavery calm. Agitation
has hitherto served only to confirm and Strengthens
in regard to our peculiar institution 4; but it has
not done all it may, ought, and must do. Let it
go on.
A little row is expected in the House today.
Steadman, the printer, talks of resgning. Why?
Because after selling out to Wendell for S34 600 he
wants more, and Wendell won't give Oliver Stead
man any moren Therefore will Oliver resign and
leave Wendell in the Iurch. He takes care to hold
the resignation in ter0rem over his victim head for
a few days in hopes be will give in and give more"
So great is the purity Of the picked men Of cur friends
the Democrats.
Much indignation has been aroused by the conduct
Of the Panama Company toward the passengers on
board the Washington, Making allowance for the
exaggeraton common in such cases. the behavior Of
the Company's officials was to say the least, shame
fully mean But corporations have no soul, especi-
ally those pampered by the Government Perhaps
when the great mass Of passengers and traffic begins
to seek the Tehuantepee route these Panama gentle
men will be as cringng aud kind as they have here
tofore been insolent and unieeling.
The proposals issued by the Tribune for coalition
of the Republican with the American party are
enough to excite derision. They have elected little
comment, 50 far as | have seen. The Republicans are
to choose the Presidential candidate, the Americans
the YicePresident, or the Americans may select the
President, the Republicans contenting themselves
with the Yice-Presdent and pledged opposition %
The existence Of siaocrg in the Territories. This is
cool 1t shows, however, the consciousness of North
ern power. Supreme strength coolIy dictates the
terms on which the South may submit quietly to in
evitabe subjngaton.
Yesterday Mr.. James Buchanan Henry, the Presi-
dents man Friday brought into the Senate Chamber
a roll Of paper about as large as small mans leg.
It was the Siam treaty, The cost of bringing it here
81 $50 1t costs 81 lis to bring similar roll of
paper from Peru, and ,GS6 from China. Rather
heavy postage that
Having lighted upon grain of Northern sense,
will giyeit Mr. Jno H. George, Democratic nominee
for Congress in the Concord district OF New Hamp.
shire, concludes a sensible letter with the following
have as little respect for that cheap philanthropy
which, while it clutches at and feeds upon the profit
and proceeds of slave labor exhibits itself in course
and seuseless denunciaions Of Southern institutions
as for that supreme folly which thus depriges New
England Of her Southern trade and her best markets.
An Alabama Planter writing to the National
Intelligencer says instead Of the crop being about
the same quantity Of last year, mot quite 600
baes) it seems to be ascertained that the present
crop will range between 3,3OO,G00 and 100000
balesH The crop, meaning the entire crop Of the
United States, has increased million of bales in the
last eight years according to his statement and he
assumes to be well posted.
The Union denies the statement about Gulicb. but
does not say why he was turned out
The weather has been putting on English airs for
the last few days, and Washington has been aping
London with its fogs and drzzle. We have had a Sc,
rfous case of knocking down by pickpockets, and
fatal Camphene accident Mr. Barry Sullivan, an
nounced in the play bills as " the most intellectual
actor of lineage has been doing Hamlet, King Lear,
and the like at the theaer Said TO be good actor.
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