New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-02-24
WasH1NoroN CoRaEsroNpENCE 3

j Eds. C,vscest Well, there ~ now thirtythr
Statss In this glorious Union. Oregon nay be co.
sidered the great Valentine presented BY Congress-
! the nation. Think OF the POSTAGE the wardeot,
have to pay on this Valentine. Al IS o'clock on So
: urday evening, the Senate bill for the admission
4 the new state passe TIE House without amendment
by majority Il slevsn. Fifteen Republicans vote
!. for it. and twenty Democrats against it. Alabam
3 and South Carolina went IN nsdsse against II, wit
i three members from Virginia and one (Bryanl fror
. Texas
OF course there was . serenade and perhaps Chan
payne didn't dow like water in the rooms Of Ger
. Joe Lane and Delaxon or Delnsion Smith, as be i
called. Your indefatigabe correspondent heard th
sssenads and the speeches. at least SO many of then
a were made from the balcony Of Browns hote
Gen. Lane isnot Haent speaker. While he was get
ting along in somewhat hating and hestating way
fellow at my elbow said, soto roee, /" Old Joe i
mighty good on the fight, but not much on th,
speech" Thetrump card of the evening was MI
VOORHEES,, Of Indiana, gentleman with voice nearl,
IS astonishing Is that Of Delusion Smith, who, &C
cordng to the views Of celebrated wit Of this city
ought to stand in Oregon when be addresses the PEG
pie Of the Federal metropolis. Mellowed by thai
distance, II is possible his voice might not be dis
! agreeable.
Stephens speech on the admission was pronounced
one Of the best efforts Of his life regret that did
not hear IT, it was perhaps his last set speech in
/ Congress.
Hunter delivered himself Of tariff Grafton on yes
terday morning in the presence Of densey crowded
gallery The body Of the speech was statistical and
dry, but the conclusion was splendid. he opposes
any change Of the present tariff thinks that the sys-
TEN Of specific duties is wrong, in that it makes the
consumer pay most when he is least able, and Uice
persa, believes 10 ad calorem, and goes in for re-
trenchment, increase of postage cutting off unneces
sary mail routes, etc. etc. In the course of his re
marks he gave side wipen at Cuba, showing that
he did not altogether concur with the President, but
at the time leaving the inevitable inference that
when the thirty million projet gets fairly before the
Senate he will first pity, then endure and then en-
Brace Indispostion to stand alone, and too great
willingness to go with the current-in a word, too
much caution--is Hunters infirmity and almost the
only one. 53s vi
The Committee Of Ways and Means in the House
is at loggerheads about the tariff. Six go for a
change three Of the six have one scheme, two have
another, and the sixth man has third. The three
remaining members are Democrats and opposed to
any modification. Mr.. Phillips Of this Committee it
il said will tariff iron it costs an extra
session, and it is believed that he speaks for Mr.
Buchanan.
Sixty.two thousand five hundred dollars have been
proposed as nm appropriation for carving the mails
from New Orleans 10 San Francisco bv wav of Tehu.
antepec. This is the only new route specially pro.
yided for, Speaking of mails. reminds me that
Hunter said that no less than forty thousand men
were directly or Indirectly connected with the Post
Office Department. and that owing to the extraor.
binary powers granted to the Postmaster. General by
which be may at discretion enlarge or diminish the
expenses of his department at the rate of millions
this army OF the Postotce greater than our entire
army and navy combined, could be Influenced in such
way as to control the great elections and produce
infinite mischief Not that this had ever been done.
or even contemplated, bnt it might be done. He
therefore proposed to FIX limit to each annronr;a
ton for this Department.
The Cass Irissarri treaty has at last been ratified
and so likewise the Ousely treaty-that is to saw,
Lord Gore Ousely has done all the work appropriated
the main profits, and we come in for his "leavings"
First Great Britain, next France, and lastly the
United States-this is the order of things on the
american Isthmus. So also in Mexico. Charge it
all to an imbecile and corrupt Administration, and
make your comments at the polls in $780, It is idle
to talk.
They have got Captain Corrie in JAIL and that Jail
is in Savannah. Then the importation of apprentices
Is piracy. Elsewhere in the world it is lawful-Gov
eminent carries IL on. Here the Government i'm,
WILSON'S ono &c n. hast o;t;rans t.,o aaat,e.,a.
nnu =. !. - m- - ,u. sen"enian
- H"e 0e AuDs LEY IL good Mr. bucnanan TRY IT,
by all means We want the question settled. English
menofwar are capturing our merchant vessels on the
coast of frca ana conf ti,n, ,hop, Th;nns ~
~ a.o
ooiog W neau-tne oetesIaDie Aoolitlon aoscess is
Obliged shortly to burst The inevitable result will
be the removal of the African squadron and the re-
moval If al, E.der., rostr;ct;o,. o, th ;,,o....;.
- =. up'1 WIG
into sne soutnern states OF this
Confederacy. Mark it.
me homestead Agricultural College and Pension
DIS WIN DC vetoed they ever reach the President,
Wnlcn Is oouo!'ni. Inis' az least, is positively as
serted.
lo'oay y Dig WIN expectation. Old Crlt" is
so.pg ~ maze speech on CUBA ana Arizona is
sos, perhaps, 70 pass tne house. Fity IT is ram
ing oio orit won nave crowd, and as for the
'resniza.ion OF arizona Lieutenant Mowry has been
pleaicIing u would take place every day
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