New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-06
FRON WASHINGTON.

From Our Own Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Monday, May 3 1853.
In the course Of the debate on Engh.h's bill on
Thursday Last, Mr.. Seward made apersonal expla-
nation in relation to passage in The TRIBUNEs
Geographic dispatches from Washington, giving an
account of q conversation between himself and
Mr.. Green of Missouri, Chairman Of the Senate
Conference Committee. As reported in THE
TRIBUNE, the conversation was this:
"Mr search OF Mr. Green aud fonnd him
much down He inquired Th. the mf Nj Green
portion Of the party kicking the Do you
report to-day Inquired Seward No aid Green, not 70
a1 m ' So1inap No S whsn then Can't e
said Green. modify Il will let you know when we are ready to
Mr.. Seward remarked Of this statement:
every nearly that conversation occurred, but
altogether in spirit entirely different from that
have authorized nobody to say that the honorable
"Ser ator from Missouri acted modify
4" 1t was said in the kindest spirit
Mr.. Seward does not appear to have any definite
ground Of complaint against the report IN THE
TRIBUNE. The conversation, he says, very nearly
occurred as reported, "bu. not in that spirit"
What spirit! The report merely gives the dialogue
without comment, except the introduction OF the
word "mOOdily." That word was obviously used
exclusively with reference to Mr. Green's own feel
ings upon the intracticablity of portion of his
party and not with reference to his demeanor
toward Mr.. Seward. Nothing in the report implied
or was intended to imply that Mr.. Green did not
speak in kind spirit and with courtesy.
Mr. Giddings's new book 1.-THE Exlles OF Florl-
d." will appear about the let of June next. 1t
makes volume of about four hundred pages and
will be published by Foster, Folett & Co., Column
bus, Ohio. 1t is an authentic history OF body OF
exiles of African origin who one hundred aud fifty
years since fed from their Oppressors in South
Carolina and established themselves as cOmmu-
NIFTY in Florida. 1t exhibits the outrages to which
for half century they were subjected by the Fed
eral Government. Many OF them were m4ssacred,
many were enslaved by the operation OF the army
and navy of the United States. The treachery that
was used toward them the violations of flags of
truce and of pighted faith the part of our Gov
ernment related with constant reference to the
documentary evidence by which the entire MARIA
ton is sustained. 1t gives full and animated ac-
count of the Seminole ware and is likely to be Gu
rious and valuable addition to the political history
of the country.
I'm all the discussion on the Kansas question the
peculiar wording Of the preamble to Englshs bill
seems to have been overlooked After rehearslng
that whereas the people OF Kansas, by Conven,
ton of Delegates assembled at Lecompton did
form for themselves Constitution and adopt an
ordinance, it goes on: and xhereds, the sad Con-
.situion and ordinance hare been presented to Con-
"yress by order of said Convention, and admission
"Of said Territory into the Union thereon as a
State requested: and rherodS, sad ordinance IS
"not acceptable - Congress, and it is desirable to
"ascertain whether the people OF Kansas concur
"in the changes in said ordinance, and desire adj
mission into the Union as State" &c.
The last clause in italics, means, by every rule OF
language and of logic, that the LecOmptOn Constr
tuition is acceptable to Congress, although the ordl'
nance is not 1t is an admitted rule of construction
that if two objects are mentioned together, and only
one ia expressly objected to, the other is presumed
TO be free from objection. Messrs. Cox, Groesbeck
PendIetop, Lawrence and the rest who voted for
the English bill, implicitly sanctioned the Lecomp-
ton Constitution in terms, at least.
ExHuMATIoS OF VALUABLE Books AT WASHING
IONA great discovery Of books and documents was
made during the last week by the House Committee
on Accounts whereby some thirty thousand volumes
and numbers Of valuable works have been brought to
light from the " catscombs" or vaults under the
great rotu1da Of the Capitol Valusbs as these works
Undoubtedly are some Of them are go modern that as
il would scem, they could not have been very long
lot TO the von and Wedge Of persons about the
Capitol having charge of such matters Thus there
Were packages of the Pacific Railroad Expedition,
Japan Expedition" United States Ststutes a.
Large" &C. Other works are mentioned which may
have been set aside at more distant dstes thus com.