The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-04-15
WARRINGTON ITEMS.

Mr.. Collins, the United States commercial
consul for Amoor river, has completed his ex-
ploration, and submitted the result to the State
Department, together with two maps, one of
the AMOR river, and the other showing the rela.
tive position of Northern Asia and our Pacific
coast. A company has been formed, sanctioned
by the Emperor Of Russia, and placed under the
special care of the Governor General o. Eastern
Siberia, to promote and develop the CONNER.
cial and industrial pursuits on the basis of the
Amoor. Mr.. Collins shows the prospective i'm.
portance Of that trade to our own country.
Enough is known to warrant the assertion
that Gov. Powell and Major Mccullough, the
peace commissioners to Utah, will be instruct.
ed to assure the Mormons that it is not the de.
sire of the President and the United States au.
thoritieS to make war upon them, but to secure
the enforcement of the laws, to which end they
will be counseled to participate. The commits.
sioners will also inform them that some troops
will be retained in the Territory, to protect EN-.
igrants to the Pacific against attacks from the
hostile tribes. They will go out with the next
reinforcements.
The appointment of General Smith as first in
command of the Utah expedition has greatly
exasperated General Harvey, who is determined
not to serve as second, and besieged the War
Department with his friends, to get appointed
to a separate command elsewhere. The De.
partment was crowded with officers in excite
ment, and the Cabinet had meeting ON the
subject.
Col. Colt is understood to have made con.
tIaot With the War Department for one hundred
thousand dollars worth of his arms.
On the representations of Gen. Robes, the
Mexican Minister, the State Department has
reissued its former instructions to prevent the
organization or fitting out of unlawful expedi
tons, within the limits of the United States, for
the invasion Of the northern States of Mexico.
B til Governments in Mexico have written to
him on this subject, but he officially cores
ponds only with the one recognised BY our
own.
lie washington correspondent OF The New
York Times writes to that journal:
"There is no doubt that Senator Douglas has
finally left the Democratic party. he speaks
with great bitterness of the President, and con.
siders his Administration responsible for the
UBIQUITOUS proceedings in Kansas, resulting in
the Lecompton Constitution. He says the irst
thing TO be done is to break down an Admins.
tration that has shown itself false to Democratic
principle, and which manifests incom potency in
all i,s proceedings.
"Upon his side, the President is equally en-,
ergetic in condemning Senator Douglas II
the Senator should hesitate to go out, the Pres.
ident means to push him out of the party. To
that end, all his friends remaining in Federal
Office in Illinois viii be turned out during the
present month.
"The idea that the Ssuth Americans viii re-
cede for this reason, is one of the stupid notions
of Senator Bigler, and merely illustrates the
general want of ssgscity which has been mani
fest on his part in the management of the lead
ing measure Of the Administration, 30 far
Between ten and eleven o'clock last Tuesday
morning, an attempt was made on the life o.
Hon. Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Int
Iior, b Peter Besancon, of New Orleans.