New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-20

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r1TEsn.y MORNING. MARCH 20, 1860
WI : n 1870 & 81
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sqxsslrSarox, March Il. 1850.
s, lxa,4.,r. ne Homestead bin, which passed
.xs I,s3ss. ss saatssr d course, will meet with
v;srSns oppastion ia The Senate, although i viii
Ssfe portion 81 Democratic support there.
1As Rspahlicans are anxieus tc represent me olli
VI / parts measure, ard take every occasion 70
mil xiis impossured claim before ne country
altaouzh II y notorious shst Mr.. johnson Of ZEN
nsssea Hrs been tho constant and untirlng 81.
socaae Of lands for he landIeza n ana out o.
xAs senate u HE United States, tor NUMBER "
years past,
II i pro,,er " explain The motives which deter
mined In marked Southern opposition 70 this bill
ii lie Hosise. II y srae that many opposed II as
sa,l,tsos.s 1sasusa Of agraFianism, but the ma
;osity AZ a. oppcaltson appear to recognize in It
sscti1pxl measure, ~ peculiar and almost ex-
cl,sixt heaefa u the peole in the North and
NSFfIiwest, where our settlements are progress
III lid part 81 that system Of indirect taxation
~ sblch Southern people are hurdened for con-
triasious bounties and protection to their North
eru hrethzen
II il stated TINT the great diminution in the cash
reesipfs rom public lands Is due to The expecta-
fon which Is generally INDUCED in the public mind
81 The passage Of i Law making gratuitous dis
trihution III Tie public domain. The value Of land
Id ta new States has also been greatly deprecated
by Ill apprehension Of the passage Of such law,
and improvements retarded and local enterprise
rcprsssed n most remarkable degree. The re-
cefyts 81 Tho treasury for fra quarters, ending 30th
september, 1859, from tho public lands, we're only
4aI075 46, VIXEN they would no doubt have been Of
3esxt treble that but for the expectation of grafu
itous distribution of tie public lands. Until the
nqhlic mind Ii relieved from this expectation, no
reIinbIe estimate can be made of the income which
Mini hc received from the public lands which, with
he tariff are The only sources Of cur national rev.
caue.
ID my letter yesterday briefly alluded to a
current charge against Mr.. Haskin, of New York
IF corrupt completely in the contract for binding
cf books for The House, and especially to the ex-
haordinary circumstance of this charge having
been referred for investigation to the committee Of
which Mn. Hashin, himself, is the chairman, obvi-
cus1y for the purpose Of srnothering the matter
md saving d valuable ally Of Black Republicanism
from exposure. Recent developments, however.
have placed this charge prominently and distinctly
before the public. II appears that Mr. Haskin is q
member VI the Printing Committee, and that in
conjunction with Mr.. Gurley the chairman, who is
y red-nosed shepherd, and breaches the Gospel at
home, tho contract for binding was not LET ont to
IL Lowest bidder, but corruptly given to Mr.
Cock Of Ohio, one Of Gnrloy's flock. and Mr.
Alexander, u New York, one of the big Irish
mAn's pets. II who kills for Kirby, Yet the de-
linqneney and fraud Of Haskin, as member Of the
G0mnitsec on Printing, ID 10 be examined by Has
kin, member Of The Commute on Public Expendi-
tures, and Thus the matter ii to be doubled up to
fhe want ediRcation cf the country,
There are drag nets in every corner IF the Cap
itol to fsh hi the corrnptions Of the public print
Ing. and very pretty piece Of fraud has lately
been brpnght up III ths Senate. II appears that
the most enormous profits have been made on the
printing of post otce blanks BY the article Of only
tsee four orders for blanks being issued from the
Departmcnt per DAY, ana then charges for con
struetiva composition being allowed on other orders
fpr other numbers Of the same blanks, when
there was no real composition whatever, other
than now and then the change of the name Of a
postofice, It II said that this fraud notwthstand
ing its de6ance of the law and its efffontery, has
years. From the noaks and corners of the print.
ing ofaces, the lobbies Of the Capitol, the
shops where congressman are bought and sold,
ana the cribs cf the Department. there does. IN
decd arise in intolerable stencil Of corruption.
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re9e Ala eioanehs afgun'shl' al'nongh occupying
g. cAs1sihs svalic1n stoaha = ny ulscassion,
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$3.50 1le nonofapls seslsisinans felhaIks were
sAaa y slsas $500 u"sius sir Dong
- s1asn's oo'i'.asAiy Y II pos..on
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go lna, canaldate iof
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ao.llaa.on except upon .aat pia1lorm. mat nom
NV spsaher Woula regana g certainty a.
endorsement OF those doctrines, dishonorng to the
eVuAai so " W. party tnus succnmb-
We e menace. me Sontnem States, 4 true to
anenlseases, Nonid demand N positive and me
quiEocaa terms re repudation Of the heresy. Ala
DanA had Already spoken BY her Stats Conventions,
every Patty - that state having denounced the
aocfrlne. between Alabama and the advocates Of |