New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-12-15
One Day in Advance of the Mails.
A PERSONAL DIFFICULTY IN THE HOUSE.
The President and Senator Douglas.
THE FORTHCOMING MESSAGE
THE FORTHCOMING MESSAGE.

From the special Washington dispatch of the
9th instant to the n. Y. Herald we extract the
following:
| Mr.. Greeleys attack upon the members of his
own party resulted in personal difficulty in the
| House to-day, which came near being fatal
weapons being sought for on both sides.
1t is reported, and i not denied by the Anti-Te-
| compton Democrats, that Mr.. Douglas last evening
obtained an interview with Mr.. Buchanan for the
purpose of reconciliation. One report is that the
| differences between them were settled by mutual
agreement, and hence the boldness of Mr.. Logan,
| III the House to-day, in advocating Mr.. Douglas as
| true Democrat, which declaration was assented
| to by the Administration Democrats on the floor.
But it is most likely that the report that Mr..
Buchanan repulsed Douglas is true, from the fact
tlat an interview between certain gentlemen and
| the President yesterday concerning the nomina-
ton of a Douglas Democrat in place of Mr.. Cook,
the Postmaster of Chicago, who is reported as a
detaulter, Mr. buchanan became quite indignant,
ana expressed the utmost scorn and contempt for
Douglas and refused for moment to consent to
the proposition, although some of the delegation
who waited upon him were not only Douglas DEM
ocrats, but influential merchants of the city of
New ork, and one was Il conservative member of
Congress.
1t is true that Mr.. Douglas has actually embraced
MIR. Buchanan, it is said that Mr.. Forney will dis
Republicans will nominate the latter for clerk. But
nobody believes the President has allowed his Gar.
ments to be thus soiled
Ihc ! Presidents message is in type, but only
proof sheets have thus far been struck off, 1t will
occupy one page of the Herald. 1t is not as long
AS his first message, but a little longer than the
second. 1t will undoubtedly be The most important
document that ever emanatcd from the White
House. 1T will refer at considerable length to the
present political excitement in the country grow
ing out of the affair at Harpers Ferry and other
causes: 1t will also show that our foreign affairs,
with the exception, perhaps, of the dispute in re-
ference to the San Juan matter, were never in bet
ter condition than at present.
The President will repeat his recommendation for
the purchase of Cuba and it is believed that he is
already Ill possession OF information which renders
1t pretty certain that the Spanish Government nav
yet consent to enter into negotiations looking to
the sale of the Island to u.s.
Although the message is completed, vet the fail
ufe 10 organize may make change necessary.
In regard to the affairs of Mexico particularly the
President may receive information to compel him
to alter that part OF it very materially That coun.
try remains still in distracted and unsettled con
ul'lon, ana should the treaty, which is daily ex-
pectcd, arrive before the message is sent to Con.
gress the entire aspect of affairs may be changed
The President will rcitsrate many of the recon-
mendations of last year.
Another American Vessel Roarelcd by u
British War Steamer.
we have received the following letter from the
captain of the bark Isla de Cuba dated
~, loANpo, West Coast of Africa, Sept 16 1850
The bark lsla de Cuba was boarded by the British
war steamer Nesuvius, Commander Wise, and
taken along the coast of Africa in search of an
american man-of-war. After having the bark
under seizure for twenty days, during which time
they broke open her matches, and used abusive
language, and failing to fall in with United
States vessel, the Vesvius finally allowed her to
proceed.
The Ninans Steamer.
The New York Herald publishes the following
letter of the 9th inst, from Norfolk
This steamer put to sea yesterday during gale
of wind and heavy sea, Of kind particularly
calculated to test her sea-gcing qualities The re-
suit was satisfactory in the highest degree. This
was The more confirmed from the fact that there