New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-06-07
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WASHINGTON, May 20, 1858.
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The RELIGIOUS appropriations Of this quotation mon
the Irish Lion will at once strike you when yot
learn that on yesterday the House OF
actusIy passed three appropriation and eieh'yhs
private bilsdisposng at blow Of the entire private
calendar or at least 80 much Of 1t as was notobjected
II 10. Remember what told you about object
Besides passing the above bills. the house ap-
pointea Committee Of Conference on the disagree
mo votes Of the two Houses on certain amendments
d tbe Legislative, executive and judicial appropria
tim bill splendid days work. wasn't Il But who
shan say how much injustice has been done BY delay
jre these bills on the private calendar which were
.objected ~ O let rs be joyful over what we
| have got and not make ourselves miserable ever
what we didn't get.
/ So, notwithstanding Stewards attempt 10 prolone
the session two weeks, to the 2lst June ii seems we
shall be of on a general stampede on the 7th
Hooray for hurrah It occurs to me that certain
| correspondent of the New Orleans Daily Crescent
will betake himself very Immediately to certain rural
If not classic shades Of Virginia. there to appease his
longunsatisfied appetite by eating eighteen fried
chicken legs day, and to ease his soul by sleeping
under locust tree, by smoking corncob pipe, and
by carsing Washington, its politics. its politicians its
newspapers, its newspaper correspondence its hdeous
women, its dusty streets, its abomnable hotels its
internal BUTTER its wretched society and its damnable
weather.
| Didn't bet when that Irish girl took down my
stove that it would snow before morning 1t didn't
exactly snow but it has done great deal 1t
has rained and rained and rained-a horrible cold
rain, that has kept my body CONCEALED and my mind
az hot as ginger-m and as fretful as an iniiamed
eye. For one solid week we have not had drop OF
sunshine--scarcely enough daylight to enable Demo
crat to traverse the broad and beaten pathway to
public plumber And devilish poor consolation is it
to to know that, whereas in the months of April
and May, 1858, have had forty alternate days of
rain my grandfather Qf | had one in 1885, suffered
from "a continued storm Of fortytwo-days, being all
the time cold northeast storm, and sight Of the
sum-" Still less consong is it to learn that even
worse state Of things existed In the spring Of 1793
and that in the summer following the land was desc
lated with the yellow fever.
II the Senate was behind the House yesterday in
the quantity Of work, it went ahead ia the quality
thereof. Mason introduced an extremely strong and
salty report concerning the recent British outrages
the substance OF which you will find concentrated in
the following resolutions
Resolced, las the Judgment of the Senate,) That
American vessels the high seas, in time OF peace
bearing the American flag, remain under the jurisdc-
ton Of the country to which they belong and there
fore any visitation, moestaton detention OF such
yecses by force or by the exhibition Of force the
part of foreign power is in derogation Of the SOW
ereignty OF the United States.
Resofred. That the recent and repeated violations
OF this immunity, committed by vessels-of-war be-
longing to the navy Of Great Britain In the Gulf Of
Mexico and the adjacent seas by firing into, inter
rupting, and otherwise forciby detaining them on
their voyage requires in the Judgment Of the Senate,
such unequiyoca and final disposition of the subject,
by the Government of Great Britain and the United
States touching the rights involved, shall preclude
hereafter the occurrence Of like aggressions.
RESOLVED, That the Senate fully approves the ac'
ton OF the Executive in sending naval force into
the infested seas with orders to protect all vessels
OF the United States the high seas from search or
detention by the vesses-ofwar Of any other nation
comes necessary, such additional legislation should
be supplied in aid of the Executive power as will
make such protection effectual.
Pretty tolerably tart are they not These resolu-
tons come up for discussion to-day and must hasten
through this letter to listen to the debate It is un-
derstood that the instructions given by the President
to the vessels ordered TO the coast Of Cuba are put
stop to the outrages at all hazards by peaceable
means II possbe-if not by force OF shot and she'll
1t is not thought there will be any fighting. Should
fight occur, the probabilities are that we will get
most beautifully thrashed. Put our entire Gulf fleet
together, 1t numbers only eight vessels and one
hundred and forty guns the British have seventeen
vessels there and three hundred and ftyseYen guns
a lovely disparity and only too tempting to an am
bilious officer Of the American navy
said in my last that we had no navy compared
with the navy Of Great Britain and France, oui 8
amounts to minus nothing and the statement is
literally true. In compliance with resolution, the
Secretary OF the Navy has transmitted to the House
Of Representatives a comparative statement Of the
American, English and French navies, to-wit Eng.
iish navy, s27 vessels, l6 ,2s4 guns French navy
1853 vessels, 10000 guns American navy 70 vessels
| 2,2s7 guns.
OF this immense number of American vessels more
than one-half Of the 70 are totally unfit for service
indeed, the exact number of seryceable vessels is
Irecoect Alright only 81, and the majority Of the
are small, carrying only one or two guns. With this
despicabs show before him, John Bull is eminent,
fool II he don't avail himself of the occasion to pay
principal and compound interest for the ihrashinC
we gave him in the last war.
| If the Senate sustain Masons report and abolish
the right Of violation and search one beautiful re
suit must inevitably follow, namely, the reopenng
the slave trade 1t is argued that piracy will also re
yive. But the day for piracy is hopelessly past
commerce can command to its service the combined
nayes OF the world, whereas humanity, common
sense, the necessities of labor, and the interests
commerce demand the revival and protection of til,
slave trade, which, in its worst estate, has never
equaled the horrors Of emiGrant transportation.
Continual humbuggish reports come to us from
Kansas, We don't care two cents about Kansas
Beorew can pay the least attention to telegraphit
dispatch from Kansas, must be convinced that tn.
devil 10 not Black Republican.
| Sumner has beslimed his passage to Europe with .
letter to his constituents. And such letter. A
female sheep afflicted with hysterical megrims and de
stitute OF even so much pride and conscience as .
sheep may be supposed to have, would have rejected
the proposition TO pen such memorial of falsehood
aud shame with unutterable loathing and ineffablt
| scorn. II Sumner has soul or even the semblance
Of soul the devil will refuse to disgrace his brim
stone BY burning It, He viii shut his doors against
It, and it will forever wander about the void an IN
accepted and outcast ignis fatuus of cowardice.
The Homestead bill, defeated in the Senate by q
majority Of seven, must eventually pass. II is only
question Of iime the incoming Of Kansas and Oregon
win settle the business.
To show how squeamish and tender Mr.. Toucey
was with Pauldng, insert couple of letters, the
first OF which waiwithdrawn lest the order for the
detachment Of Commodore Paulding might be mis-.
understood" The italics are not In the original:
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