New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-02-28
Dom : .tio Intelligence

WAEHrHGroN Feb. 25.-Yesterday The minority
resolntions AZ sse Naval Fraud COMMITTEES were pre-
that neither the personal Official integrity Of th
Secretary has been impeached, the Committees in
ves,agations having been extended to every item o
s:ne Naval Appropriation bill.
gate the charges against Soaring neither exculpat.
him nor recommend his expulsion.
The House agreed to adopt the report Of the Com
mittee OF Conference on the Indian Appropriation
The Committee Of Ways and Means asked suspen
sion Of the rules that Phelps Tariff bill might be
first submitted, next Aorrills, and afterwards any
member 10 offer such substitute as he may have pre-
pared.
The Post-oAice Appropriation bill came up, but
nothing noteworthy was done.
In the Senate the Cuban bill was discussed. Sena-
tor Wilson's amendment to the bill appropriates $50.
600 for the President 70 expend In negotiating the
removal Of commercial restrictions which burden our
trade with Cuba and various States Of South and
Central America.
Il is probable that the Cuban bill will pass the SEN
ate by about nine majority bnt its chance of being
acted on in the House is small. *
"A test vote on the Cuban bill was taken in the
Senate, with the result yeas 80, nays Is.
Senator Slidell stated that he would not press the
BILL % he feared i might cause the loss Of other ap-
preparation bills but the sense Of the Senate had been
distinctly expressed and be should present the bill on
the first day Of the next session.
The Army Appropriation bill was then taken up.
Y the House The Post Office Appropriation bill
i was previously offered. The amendments giving
Butterfeld Il Co. choice in selecting the route for
the overland mail, was rejected.
WASHINGTON, Feb 26.-Considerable excitement
lands to States for the endowment Of Agricultural
Colleges, etc.
The House tariff bill provides that the first three
sections Of act fortyseyen be suspended for three
years from the 30th Of june 1853, and that duties be
piodd ttrrno <rkt
cifcatons Of act fotysix Warehouse goods for con.
sumption are subject under this act.
The House refused to suspend the rules for the in.
PRODUCTION Of this bill by vote Of hundred and
twenty eight to eighty being necessary to
carry motion of the kind.
The Speaker stated thatthe alternative was thatthe
bill would come before the House in Committee Of the
Whole.
and recognize the Juarez Government.
!. New YoRK, Feb. pa heavy gale is raging on
the neighborng and coasts Il is reported that
the Black Warrior is waterlogged, and is breaking
up. The Danish brig Jurgen Raplif is in danger Of
The steamer Fulton, from Southampton, the Kar.
mac, from Havana and the steamer Bremen, are sig.
nailed below.
An arrival from Nassau, goth inst, brings accounts
OF the wreck Of the schooner Altoona, st. Marys,
bound 70 Aatamoras-c saved. The brig Francis
g. Beck from New Orleans bound to Providence was
wrecked on the Riding Rocks crew and part of the
cargo saved. The brig And0ver, from Boston bound
TO Galveston, put into Nassau dismasted. The ship
Elizabeth, from New Orleans for this port is ashore
at Sctuate, Mass she has hole stove in her. Crew
safe.
Showing hard here and Eastward.
The convention Of Railroad Presidents, called for
the consideration of matters relative to the deter
mination OF uniform and equitable tariffs of freight
has concluded its session, after amicably agreeing
to reduce freight rates to Western points 10 per cent
BosTON, Feb. 26.-The steamship Canada, the in
teliigence per which was received via Halifax, il in
port
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 25.-Ex-Senator Hannegan died
to-day.
Sr. LoUTs, Feb. 26-The steamboat McGill arrived
on Thursday. On Friday the Hiawatha left
BATON RouGE, Feb. 26.-The Senate this morning
concurred with the House as to the appointment Of
Conference Committee, and Nessrs Taylor Goode
Withers, Gardere and Kidd were appointed to serve
on that committee on behalf Of the Senate.
The committee met, and being unable to come to
any agreement, adjourned to Monday.
This evening M0ut0n resigned bis position, and
great exciterent was the consequence. The Cover.
nor sent in notification Of Mr.. Mouton's resignation,
but it was not read.
NJ. st. Paul to-day introduced resolution appro-
prating $40 900 for the relief @ widows and orphans
Of persons killed during the Vigilance Committee ex.
element in New Orleans, but no action was taken,
the House manifesting very little interest in the
matter.