Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-05-01
From Warrington.

From Washington.
7riekery Of an Ensiopiam--Em glfJ!e's plum Of
Ga9mPromise. Seniement Of Central Aanerica-
The Friting COnmihe.
Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune.
WASHINGTON, April 81.
Mr.. English has unrolled his tail. lie has
developed. He peels WELL No member Of
The iancy ever did the thing more neatly
Mr.. English has come. 1t is to the credit of
Douglas sagacity that he always said that lie
was apassenger between both camps. At the
third reading OF the Conference Committee,
MIR. English proposed as follows:
he took out from the Crittenden and Mont
gomery amendments the usual land grant Of
tered to Kansas, which is the same as is offer
ed to every new State,and appended that sec
ton to the Lecompton Constitution as an
Ordinance" then he proposed to pass the
constitution and Ordinance" here in Congress
and to refer the ordinance alone to vote of
the people. If they adopt tho ordinance
Kansas is to be ipse .factO, a State of the
Union if they reject it Kansas is to be kept
IN territorial condition until she shall have
at least 5000 inhabitants, when she may
hold Constitutional Convention, and pre-
pare for admission.
| This is bride to adopt Lecompton, and
penalty if it be rejected. The election is to
be conducted under boird of three Demo-
cratic office holders and tw, Kansas Repub-
leans. That is entirely Border Ruffian ar
rangement.
Mr. Seward and Mr.. Howard instantly re-
jected the insidious plan the four African
Democrats of the Committee Instantly accep-
ted it. But the two Republicans obtained
recess of the Committee for two hours for
consultation, and a reassembling was agreed
| on at two o'clock. At that hour the four
| Africans were non s,nt. There had been a
row. Quitman, Barksdale, Shorter, Garrett
and other colored fanatics utterly refused the
| form of submission, notwithstanding it was
transparent swinde. So for that day the
castle of Cancellation evaporated into thin
air.
Eli Thayer's scheme for the colonization of
Central America has taken practical start
a tract of land has been purchased on the
Bay of Fonseca, on the Pacific, which will
be divided into lots of suitable size for set
tiers. A town will be built, regular freight
and passenger lines will be established, con
meeting the new colony with California and
New York. The State of New York has
granted the company charter, whose cap
ltal shall not exceed 100000.
The robberies perpetuated by the Demo-
Gratis under the disguise of printing books
and documents, are hey all previous sus-
picon. Mr.. Cragin, of N. H., (Republican.)
member of the Printing Committee of the
34th Congress, has called for the items, and
| they show a combination between honora-
ble' politicians and punderers bv trade, with
out previous example. The following is the
| statement
| THIRTT-THIRD CONGRESS.
| Senate. House.
| Printing, dry pressing, folding
s177 O75 90 $2S4s67 76
Paper. ................... 1915? SO 3OO,696 60
Binding, preserved and extra
copies). .................. 227,56O II SIO,s9s As
Engravings, Autographs, and
electrotypes ............. 49,, PCS So 441,5s9 Al
Total ................s 92, s6s 80 2,lss,o52 40
TnIRTY-rOURTH CONGRESS.
Printing, dry-prcssing. folding,
etc. s142 599 so $25464, IS
Binding, Preserved and extra
Engravngs Autographs, and '''' -'''''' IL
electrotypes. .............. 12416s 81 2a1,6s5 rs
Total 579755 80 1O3s,537 "a
| Aggregate cost of printing, ETC., ordered by
the Thirty third Congress s22sO715 90
Aggregate cost of printing, etc, ordered by
the Thirty -fourh Congress. ........ 81 ,29f GA
! This statement though apparently fair is
grossly unjust to the last Congress, in which
| the Republicans had for tt rec or four months
a small plurality in the House. When the
Democrats (f the ODD Congress saw or feared
! flat they had lost the next House in conSe-
quence of the Nebraska bill, they proceed
at once to rob the Treasury of more than
ONE MILLION Of dollars, in favor of a crew
of pecuators who were hanging upon the
| Government and the party. Prominent among
! them were A. o. F. Nicholson, then prior t.
the House. and now Senator elect from Ten
nessee. Corneiious Wei dell, Beverly Tuck
err, F. T. v, now Consul to London; Joe
Berrctt, brother of the Postmaster of his
city j. G. McGuric, an auctionecr and
list Of very honorable and distinguished pro-
slavery members Of Congress and outside
cliques, chiefly composed of Southern lobby
men. They ordered more than four hundred
thousand quortO volumes of books, which
they hal never seen, and of which they had
never seen and of which those who were in
the secret knew the printing, engraving, bind
ing and paper would cost S2,00O,OOO The
books and reports which were thus ordered
were not completed some OF them were
not known to be commemorative the whole
of the work was Immediately put in the
hands OF the pundeners for whose benefit it
was ordered. Among these works we're
Probable cost.
The Japan Expedition, volumes ..... .S6O00O0
Explorations for the Pacific Railroad 10 vols. 900 900
ellis Astronomical Expedition to Chill, G" 100000
Total cost of the three works 81 500 O0o
There are many others of the same stamp,
as to extravaganza. As l have sa d, not one
of these books was before either II ouse when
the printing was ordered, and it was only
known TO the vast Democratic majorites
who voted them, that they embraced enor-
nous inhS for the benefit of their frienhs of