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The News.
The steamship Europa is ncady due at this poi^J
with two days later advices from Europe ? however,
like the majority of her compccrs, she will probably
ke detained beyond her time by the immense masses
?f ice encumbering the track between here and Eng
land. Nothirg has been heard of the steamship
City of Glasgow, which left Liverpool for Philadel
phia thirty-sev :n dayH ago. It may be possible that,
like the steamers Charity, Atlantic, and various
other vessels, slie got wedged in among the ice, but
did not experience their good fortune in finding her
way out. The 8t ip Tuscarora, just arrived at Phila
delphia, reports that she was fast four days in the
ice. Under these circumstances there is still a hope
that the City of Glasgow is yet safe.
Mr. Bright has nearly recovered his health, and
was able to rcsum-.* his seat in the United Senate yes
terday, after an .absence of several weeks. A bill for
the relief of \Villia.n C. Jones was passed, its was ulso
one supplementary to the act confirming private land
claims in Missouri. Bills were introduced for the
recovci y of the assets of bankrupts who have ren
dered fraudulent schedules, and granting Undo foi
the construction of certain railroads in Missouri.
The remainder of the seeeion was devoted to execu
tive business.
The House postponed the consideration of Mr.
Bennett's I.and Distribution bill till Tuesday. Tire
President was requested to furnish the official cor
respondence in relation to the rejection of the exe
quntor of the consulate of Trieste, and also concerning
the arrest of the Rev. Mr. Richmond by the Austrian
authorities. Messrs. Chandler, Wasliburne and j
Jiichols spoke in opposition to, and Mr. Smith, of
Tennessee, in favor of the Nebraska bill.
We learn that the first batch, consisting of aboot
one thousand pages, of the supplements correspon
dence relative to the outrages of the Cuban authori
ties upon American citizens during the last ten
years, was received by the House of Representatives
yesterday, with a promise from the Secretary o
State that he would furnish the continuation of the
documents as soon as they can be copied. The
principal outrage alluded to was that upon the
Crescent City and her Purser, Mr. Smith. In tead
of taking a firm American position in that
affair, it now appears, as was intimated at
the time, that the administration then in
power smoothed the matter over with the Captain
General by authorizing Minister Conkling to assure
him that he would not again be .annoyed by the vi
sits of Captain Davenport and Purser Smith to
Havana. Happily, the owners of the line were pos
sessed of more fearless independence than the Presi
dent and his advisers, and would not submit to be
deprived of the services of Mr. Smith. Now that
Congressmen are in possession of the necessary do
cuments for their instruction, it is expected that they
will adopt such measures as will forever after pre
vent a repetition of the offences.
The United States Senate still spends most of
each day in executive session on the famous Gads
den treaty, which, it is supposed by those con
versant with the sentiment* of a majority in that
body, will be rejected, despite all the pressure in the '
shape of lobby influence that spoilsmen, speculators, i
and monopolists can bring to bear. In the meantime, '
Banta Anna and his imperial court arc understood i
to be busily engaged in parcelling out the fifteen
millions they anticipate receiving in exchange
for their barren deserts. Should his Serene
Highness be disappointed in this extraordinary
project to reimburse his bankrupt treasury,
as it is now somewhat probable he will, there is
no doubt he will be speedily hurled from power, and,
if he escapes with his life, sent once more into igno
minous exile. The people of Mexico are ripe for
another revolution? they are again panting for
a republican form of government; and all that pre
vents them from immediately carrying ont their de
signs, is the illusion held forth to many of their
chief men that they will each and all be enriched by
the money now locked up in our treasury. The let
ter elsewhere published throws much Additional
Mght on the existing state of affairs in that sadly
misgoverned and unhappy country.
lfow that only six more working days are left of
the sesiion, the members of our Legislature are be
stirring themselves at a rate that is truly astonish
ing, as will be seen by the letters from our corre-*
pondent and the regular reports of the proceedings.
A large number of bills were passed in both houses
yesterday, many of them of considerable importance
to the inhabitants of this city and vicinity. By tlio
way, we observe that the bill making the New York
Chief of Police completely subservient to the politi
cal prejudice or social caprice of the Mayor, waa
taken up and rushed through the Assembly on Tues
day evening; yet this important fact escaped the
attention of all the telegraphic agents of the
city press. They merely mentioned the cir
cumstance that the bill wa< defeated in
the early part of the day, and there left th?
matter, thus leading nearly everybody astray. Cor
respondents should be more careful, particularly in
cases where the interests of our citizens arc s >
deeply involved as in this bill, which seems to have J
toccfl concoctcd for the <. special accommodation of I
ex-poli' emri &nd dila- . ?J po!iti< ianr. Rewl the
commanii a !? n ;i s'lotlsBr cO'Omn relative to this
aboTninu' '? m' uM.re. wlri h the o li reason to hope
will receive its quietus in tl e Fe a'e.
The Maine law is meeting with defeat in all
quarters. A oli b tory liquor b il, Wilh a i roviso
submitting it for mtificatioa to the people, was re.
jecttd in the lower branch of the reimcylvan a Le
gislature yesterday by a vote o> thirty-seven to
f ixty-o' c.
Ex President Fi'in o. ? met with a highly flatter
ing ie< eptlon at New Oilea! h. us will be seen by the
account in another column. \V learn that it is his
intention to visit Charleston, where he ' as been in
vited and ia expee'ed i"nr i g the sitting of the
Fouthern Commercial Convention, wlrich is to a<}
Hmb'e in that city n*xt Monday.
i Earth .1 alwx a e a .ain ) eccming quite frequent in
| the foo l.eru hemis; here. Tl e buildings and ship
! ping at Ft. Jago w e e consi lei ably shaken by
h \ti a! >e*ere shoe . oa tl e ni 'lit of the 17th ulU.
a <t two da s a ter ti e 1 eo:>'e ofBiracoa were
b! t ? ! by s'milar t rrestrial liistnrbauces.
'1 he Sing apt re Bi-Month 'y Cintu'ar to January
30 has been rcce've 1. It reports the receipt < f
; large mjorts of ; old dur n: the . ort night, coin
; prising 14,834 ounces from A istia'.'n. The rates
were $20 to $29^ for bars and $28 lo $28 J per bun
kal for dust. The expo:ti amoun c 1 to 1,005
j ounce-. Theimports from the a.ihipelugo did not
exceed 310 bnnkals; ar.d the exports wero 1,071
bunkals; prioes for each descrption varying from
$27 to #28 per bunkal, two dollars weight
Property to the value of fifty thousand .dollars
v.tis eunMiiued by tire in Patcrson yesterday morn
ing. It consisted chiefly of mauufacturing estab
lishments.
Flour being in light stock, with a g:>od Eastern
demand, yesterday sold at about the closirg rates
current before the receipt of the Baltic's news.
There was very little if anything s >ld for-export.
Cora exhibited a very slight change from previous
quotations. There was no alteration in pope white
Genesee wheat, which was scarce. Cotton was un
settled, and fee sales too limited to establish prices.
American dew rotted hemp was held at $105 a $210
per ton. The lust sale of water rotted was made at
$275. There was no Russian 011 hand, exoept that
held by manufacturers. It is said the crop to come
forward from Kentucky will be deficient, while that
from Missouri will bo so large as to counterbalance
t he J ailing off in t!ie former State. The winter had
been unfavorable for the rotting of hemp in Mis
souri, and a considerable portion of the crop, it was
f>aid, would be stacked out, and remain over without
rotting until the next season. Heavy snows pro
vince the best rotted aid bleached hemp.
The Board of Aldermen passed a great njacy pa
pers last evening, and or the question of concurring j
with the G'ouncilmen in f, resolution to apply to the
legislature for the establishment of an additional
criminal court there was i-ome debate, in the course
of which there were symptoms of a minor Brecken
2-idgc and Cutting affair. Cut, like the original, it
?ended in a manner quite satisfactory to all parties.
?Quite a spirited debate occurred in the Board of
CounciJlmoE on a resolution deprecating the action
a'' the State Senate concerning a proposed railroad
in Broadway. Interesting discussions also took
place on the Central Park question and the contract
for removing dead animals, for a graphic sketch of
which see the special report appended to the official
minutes of the proceedings.
The report of the Committee on the Annual Ap
poitionment was adopted at the meeting of the
Board of Education last evening, and a large amount
of routine business was passed upon. Our report
will be found elsewhere.
The Cutting .ami Bmkenrldgc Corrfipon- I
device.
We publish elsewhere the correspondence
which passed between Messrs. Breckenridge aud
Cutting, and their seconds, in relation to the
rcccnt misunderstanding between them. So far
as pnrtioo tfaciuxelvua ?uc concerned we have
of course no comments to offer on the conduct
each has thought fit to pursue. Both Francis
B. Cutting and John C. Breekenridgc are well
knewn to be men of honor ; and without a
knowledge of the circumstances of their reccnt
dimffi, any one would be entirely justified in
asserting that each had demeaned himself as
became a gentleman. We may safely leave the
corre pondence itself to tell the tale of the ne
gotiation which happily averted the duel.
There is a portion of the quarrel, however,
and a most material one on which that corres
pondence sheds no light. In none of the letter^
wc now publish is the slightest reference made
to, the real origin and cause of the dispute.
From the time the offensive words were uttered
to the tinal settlement we are placed in posses
sion of every occurrence in minute detail ; but
what took place before the utterance of Mr.
Breckenridge'p speech, what motives inspired so
unusual an attack on a meinberof the House.
*
what agency set in motion the contending pas
sions. we are still left to conjecture. The
omission is the more to l>e regretted, a*
in comparison with these facts, the subse
quent debates as to how the parties were to
shoot one another sink into absolute insig
nificance. It is of very little consequence to
the world at large whether Mr. Cutting or Mr.
Breckenridge was in fact the challenged party:
the time and place of meeting, the weapon
with which the deed wa^ to be done, and the
distance at which the parties were to stand,
are all matters on which Colonel Hawkins may
expatiate with the gu^to of a veteran amateur,
but which are entirely devoid of serious in
terest to the public. Not -o th" original injury.
It is of consequence that the origiual cause
which so nearly exposed the lives of two of our
be t men . hould be known. This is the only
point worth ascertaining in the whole affair,
llad the quarrel ended, as it very nearly
did. in a meeting, and had one or both
I of the parties been killed, the question
would then have l>een, not what nego
tiations intervened between the insult and
its fruit? but what caused the insult, which
caused the death of Cutting or the loss of
Breckenridge? And wc must not allow the
lucky result of the good sense of the parties,
the judicious services of their friends, or the
uiiteen hand of fortune, to divert us from this
proper inquiry.
To us it is as clear a< noonday th.it a man of
Mr. Hrcckenridge's character could not have
been betrayed into th > gross attack he made
upon Mr. Cutting by the natural impulse .of his
own heart, lie mu?t have ?een as well as we
do that Mr. Cutting's motion was strictly par
liamentary and correct: that thj mover was
as he said in favor of the great principle
of (he bill ; and that to impute to him
treachery in what he did, or in othsr words
to charge him with the basest duplicity
wne neither justified by his character nor by his
act. Wo cannot believe that Mr. Breckenridge
was wilfully blind to those very obvious fact .
He must have had -omo unseen motive ? some
stimulus urging him forward insidiously to d >
what his letter n tturo reproved ? :;om> maligi
prompter beguiling him to play unconsciously
the very part of which ho occusod his ant.igo
nist. JSuoh a coincidence as this Mr. Bracken
ridge coming forward voluntarily of his o-,v i
accord just in the nick of time to try to crush
the most dreaded leader of the national demo
rat s. and with the panic How to throw the re
sponmbility of the defeat of the Nebraska bill
from the shoulders of the President to those of
Mr. Catting was never heard of before, and may
well be doubted.
\ To speak plainly, in fact, no man of sense
coull be persuaded that Mr. Brc kemidge's
attack on Mr. Cutting was not made at the
instigation of the President and to serve his
purpos h. In this meridian at all events we
see the hand of Pierce throughout the affair.
We who know the man, and are familiar with
hip tricky underhand mode of dealing, Haw his
finger move from the beginning, and nailed it
to the Fpot. It is characteristic of the class of
minds to which Mr. Pierce's belongs to resort
4o low cunning where plain candor would an
swer as well ; <uid to disregard with sovereign
contempt their own and others honor and even
the lives of worthy men when placed in the
opposite scale to their own intercuts. It was Mr.
Pierce's interest to revenge the tremendous les
sons he has received from the national democrats
on one of their conspicuous leaders. It was to his
interest to divert public attention from his own
share in throwing the Nebraska bill overboard
for the pit-sent, and to make it appear that that
result v.as due to another. Both these interests
were served by inciting the fiery Brer ken rid-e
: to the attack. They would have been still
better served had the duel been fought and Mr.
j Cutting left upou the field. We -sympathise
j w th Jfr. Pierce on this disappointment.
To those who know him her.-, these
things are neither new nor surprising. To
IhofQ who still believe the pitiful sto:-y tliat
his assailants arc animated by personal rtvenge,
Ave c< mmend the moral of the Cuttirg and
Breckenridge quarrel. Let the denocratic
I party in Congress ponder it well. Le them
! say ? for there are men of honor and worth a id
! character among them ? whether they can cn
: dure the burning shame that the mere suspicion
of attachment to so bad a man must inspire.
If they can, the country can afford to overwhelm
them in the same torrent of contempt bat is
now threatening their master. If they -annot,
in heaven's name, let them say for oice in
tones that none can mistake, that they enow
Pierce, and hold him as cheap as tbe.rest cf the
world does, and add one more lesson to fhose
which have already fallen on the head >f the
creature,
YVlurt Hm Congress Done 1
What has Congress done ? From the first
Monday in December last, to the first weet in
April, inclusive, we have a period orfouricden
dar months, during which the two housee lave
been ostensibly engaged in the public butness
assigned them ; but in footing up the resutsof
their patriotic labors thus far, we find that hey
amount to nothing ? substantially to nothii. |
The deficiency bill, which passed the House, las
been passed by the Senate after being saddad
with the additunal burden of about two m!
JLions of extra appropriations, for the furthr
consideration of the House ; the six war steamer
bill has passed both houses ; and these, ?c
ccpting a few unimportant local .or privae
bills, constitute our report in answer to tlx
question. What has Congress done ?
With the meeting of the two houses in Decem
ber last, the schedule of the public plunder
laid down for their consideration was of the
most tremendous and imposing dimensions,
involving a grand aggregate of the spoils
equal to live hundred millions of dollars, upon f
a general cla.-siricatinn foikmo ? -
Tor railroad I. nd s^emes, including Pacific
Railroad '. . . .... ... . . . .$?-r.,00<VQt)
lTWlMtl '11 land dUtitluiticn bill 75,000,00
Miss Ilix's land bill for lunatic asylums 12,500,00
Regular ?ppropriatio9i 00,000,00
Potent extensions of all kind* 2.1,000,00
Gadsden treaty "20,003,01
French spoliations 6,000,00
?ix war steamers, sny 5,000,00
Siqj'J. jobbing conti. ct.J, public debt, extra ap
rr< ' riatious, mi i-eiiancout lind pchcinei,
if. vav.. 22,500,03
Total $600,000,00*
With such a magnificent schedule befor<
them, the spoilsmen of nil kinds had the rlgh'
to anticipate a perfect carnival over the pre
jected distribution of the spoils. Their plan
of operations were accordingly laid down upo
t* scale commensurate with the prodigiou
prizes involved in this grand Congressional log
rolling and stock-jobbing lottery. The Senut
commenced the work in good style, passing ii
a single morning railroad stock-jobbing lam
grants to the amount of twenty millions of dol
lars or more ; and they have now upon theii
table awaiting the action of the body, a Pacific
railroad bill, which contemplates a grant of lands
that can only be summed up at so many hundreds
of millions of acres, such as they are. Bennett's
land bill and Miss I'ix's bill are both before
the House, aud a lot of local Western railroad
speculating projects, equal, perhaps, to thirty or
forty millions of dollars. Colt's patent exten
sion. Wood worth's patent extension, and various
others, arc also before the House, awaiting their
turn upon the calendar: aleo, the French spoli
ation bill, and a variety of private jobs and
contracts in addition to the regular appropria
tions. The Gadsden treaty is under the earnest
discussion of the Senate, from day to day ; and
close behind it lies the Homestead bill, which
contemplates nothing more nor less than the
giving away to actual settlers nil the available
public domain, probably equut to four or five
hundred millious of acres.
Thus it will appear that the work cut out by
the two houses, exclusive of free farms to every
body, covers the entire schedule of the five
hundred millions of dollars of the grand pro
gramme of the spoilsmen; nnd yet a lew privat :
bills. the six steamer bill, and the three or four
scattering millions of the deficiency bill, are all
that the o Sice-mongers, stock-jobber*, land
speculators and lobby men and lobby women
of all the vast interests involved, have thas far
>?een enabled to lay their hands upon. Even the
Deficiency bill still hangs fire in the House,
upon the perplexing amendments of the Senate,
and will probably be cut down a million or two
l?cforc it is finally passed. Here, then, at the
end of four months of the session, we have only
excavated six war steamers and some two or
three millions of deficiencies out of the federal
goldmines at Washington, positively known to
contain the substantial treasures of live hun
dred millions of dollars.
Why this delay ? The lobby has been well
organized, w< U trained, pretty well provided
with the sinews of war for a month or two, and its
cohorts attending both houses have been work
ing like beavers. Why, then, this delay in get
ting out the spoils? The reason is plain as day
light. The working mac inery lias been knock
ed out of gear by the spoils policy of the Cabi
net, nnd by the wrangling* of t he spoilsmen in
Congress from the opposite sides of the Alio
ghanies. It is a trite old maxim, that "when
rogues fall out honest men get their own;" but
as applied to Congress, it appears that wh^n th:
spoilsmen fall out, nobody gets anything. The
consequence is, that things in Washington, just
now, are excessively flat and stupid. Tbvre are
! no ppoils ftffoat ? obm'ness on bard, n lifj n
I the lobby, 4o sprigl.tlinees in socUty, no f*ah
I ionable weddi g- an 1 match makiigJ, no car
! nival of nightly fiol cs on I < iraip it < ns on the
scale anticipate 1 at the beg'nn'ng f the nes
Bion. Even the gamblers of Pennsylvania
avenue i re sai I to complai i of the dull times,
and arew itngl ke the California miners for the
spring ttoo lis whi h aie to wash out the gold
dust by hu if re s, and thousan 's, m i millions
at a haul.
The defeat of the Wise nsin railroad land
jobbing bill in t e II.ubp, through the casting
vote of the Speaker, was a stuuner to the land
sharks; the long sleep of Colt's j atent exten
sion is ominous of bad luck to that class of
the gold hunters; but t' e most disastr us mis
fortune to tie administration und nil the
other spoilsmen, insiders and outsiders, has been
this " infernal Nebraska bill," for thus, we are
: informed, some of tliem h ive < penly denounced
i it in the Rotunda of the Capitol, within three
feet of the statue of Washington. And Veil may
they execrate it as " this infernal Nebraska
bill," for it has been working a famine among
them, melancholy as the potato rot.
How mysterious are the ways of Providence!
how instructive the miscalculations and disos
ters.of scheming two-penny politici <ns! This
Nebraska bill was designed to place the
administration " right Bide up with care"
j in (he South; to neutralize the free soil
' antecedents of General Pierce ? the free soil
c mposition and associations of the Cabinet; to
take off the rqygh edge of "the Scarlet letter,"
and to reunite the democratic party upon the
platform of the Cabinet and the repeal of the
Missouri compromise. But though this expe
dient involves the great constitutional prin
ciple of popular sovereignty, it has proved a
Trojan horse to the administration and the
Bpoilsmen. It has been breaking up the de
mocracy most horribly in Congress and in the
North. It has left the administration with
Cnptain Uynders as their leading champion in
New York, and Mike Walsh as the rank and fde
of the administration party in Congress from
this great commonwealth, with thirty-three re
presentatives in the House. The worst of it is,
that in absorbing the attention of the two
houses up to this time, the Nebraska bill has
suspended the operations of the spoilsmen.
The prospect, however, begins to brighten.
The Nebraska bill lies quietly in Committee of
the Whole. The wastage of debate has been,
we trust, pretty well exhausted. Longer days
and warmer weather are approaching. The
rubbish will soon be cleared out of the way,
and then we tfhnll have a fair field for larger ex
periments of the land jobbers, patent jobbers,
contract jobbers, .and all the spoilsmen. The time
is.at hand for the consideration of the Home
stead and Pacific railroad bills in the Senate,
and for a host of Western railroad projects, lu
natic asylum**, Bennett's land distribution
Bcbeme, French spoliations, patents, and the re
gular appropriation bills in the House. Let the
Senate, in the meantime, ratify the Gadsden
treaty, and give the lobby a lift. A million or
two from the speculators, including Santa Anna,
concerned in the Gadsden treaty, will give a
powerful impetus to the lobby.
The Gadsdeu treaty is now the key to the
Congressional gold mines. Give the miners a
start. Ratify the treaty, and call in the whole
army of the spoil ?m?m to xne grand scramble for
ims residue of the five hundred millions of the
public plander. Ratify the treaty, pass the
treaty appropriations, and the roughest of the
work is done. Things will continue flat, dull
and stale at Washington until there is a break
into the spoils. Ratify the treaty, and let the
sport begin.
Tuk Gadsden Treaty ? Woiwe and Worse. ?
It hae been reported, for some days past, that 1
tie correspondence connectcd with the concoc
tion of the Gadsden treaty, on being laid be
fore the Senate, disclosed such an extensive and
complicated conspiracy t? plunder the treasu
ry, that the Senate, from a sense of shame and
self-respect, refused to allow the correspon
dence to be printed, for f<.ar that through some
mysterious agency or other, it might find its
way into the newspapers. Tn addition to this,
the St. Louis Democrat says : ?
We licar a rumor from Washington tliat the instruc
tions called for bv the Senate were obtained under nn
injunction of secresy, nnd thut the Senate refused to
print them for the use of its members, or to allow ex
tract! to be taken from them. Wli.it kind of instruc
tions were these, which require so much secrecy 1 It is
rumored, moreover, that the instruction* authorized the
purchase of three lines of railroad, nil outside of the
United States and propose to give fifty millions for one,
thirty-five millions for another, nnd fifteen millions and
five millions to the (iaray plunderers for the third. Tho
instructions authorize all this money to'bo paid for a
railroad truck, which it is deemed unconstitutional for
Congress to make.
Yet notwithstanding all this according to
all our advices from Washington, the lobby
count upon the ratification of this Gadsden
treaty ; and not without a good show of success.
It is the great question amnng the outside le
gislators and diplomats at Washington just
now. The Nebraska bill is considered dead,
and the correspondence upon the Cutting and
Breckenridge imbroglio may thu* be read as
the epitaph of the Nebraska bill, so that that
bone of contention is substantially, for the in
terim, out of the way. But in point of fact,
the Gadsden treaty among the lobby members
ais always been considered of infinitely higher
inportance than the Nebraska bill. Upon the
litter measure there are only a few little
torthless Territorial offtccB depending, while
io Gadsden treaty involves the magnificent sum
" twenty millions of dollars, hard cash. Some
?e millions of this amount is to be set aside for
?other schedule of Gardner claims, to be ad
vert before another board of commissioners ?
)st likely like the Gardner board; live millions,
rhaps. are to go to the relief of the lobby
cnts ; others. Io brokers of Santa Anna in
ishington and in Mexico ; while ten millions
i to be used in putting down Gen. Alvarez,
1. Walker, and the Mexican people, and in
]ting an emperor, under the protection of the
<wned heads of Europe, over Mexico and
Ural America ; and that emperor, the un
ftpulous and ambitious Santa Anna.
orrupt as this treaty is, yet, under the
psure of the lobby, or under mistaken no
th of public policy, it is possible that it may
Intified ? yes, it is possible that this grand
hi of twenty millions may be confirmed, un
dthc delusive un<l preposterous idea, of llx
inhe landmarks of a lasting peace and fricntl
flwith Santa Anna. But though the Senate
mratify this monstrous abortion ? this naked
aiahominahle iniquity ? though the country
mbe kept awhile in the dark as to the of
tW log-rolling and stock-jobbing in
Ih thing for the pubHc plunder, it has
y< to pass through the crucible by
Uilousc of Representatives. The House
mi appropriate before the money can
bataincd. The three millions, cash down,
rered by Santa Anna on the ratification,
wklbrd the proper occasion lor demanding
all the fact*, all the paper*, all the correspon
dence upou this Gadsden bargain and sale. We
shall then see whether the House u willing or
Qot, for another appropriation of live millions,
to settle another pack of Gardner claims ? of
five millions for Santa Auna's lobby agents in
1 both countries; and ten millions to enable the
Dictator to lord it over Mexico, under European
j protection, in the disgusting mockery of the
; Empire of Faustin Soulouque.
Let the Senate pass the treaty, an 1 let it be
laid bare before the House, upon the question
of appropriating the money; and then we i-h.ill
be enabled to judge whether the whole of the
public plunder is to be exhausted this session,
or whether a portion is to be left over for the
next. Let the Senate pass the treaty, and turn
it over to the House upon the question of pay
ing over the cash. We want to get at all the
Gardner correspondence connected with this
Gadsden treaty. We want the public to know
all about it. Twenty millious are around sum
of money.
Oi'R Nkxt Statk Election. ? Our State elec
tion next fall will be a curious, knotty, per
plexing and astonishing afiair. We shall have
a great variety of parties in the Held. There
will be the liquor law party and the anti-liquor
law party ; the democratic hard shell party and
the democratic soft shell party : the Seward
free toil abolition whig party, aud the Fillmore
conservative whig party, to say nothing of the
free soil party proper, which give us seven po
litical parties or factions on' the course ; and
then there are the Know-Nothings, who will
probably constitute another independent out
side faction, making eight contending cliques in
the field. The three leading issues in the con
test will be the Maine Liquor law, the Nosbra^ka
bill, and the political destiny of W. H.
Seward. It is clear that he cannot have the
election all his own way, as he had last fall
with the help of the administration. But Lav
ing been put up by one of his organs as candi
date for Governor, his faction may probably
nominate him for the oflice, as a stepping stone
to the Presidential arena in 185 6.
If this shall be done, there will be an awful
" noise and oonfusion " in this State next No
vember. Such are the present indications. The
European war and the Cuba question may work
great changes in the course of the next six
months. God only knows where we are all
driving to. We are in the midst of a mighty
epoch of revolutions to states, empires and poli
ticians. Seward and the Van Burens, Fillmore
and the Bronsons, may all be swept off in the
course of events, with the Cabinet and the ad
ministration, like chaff in a high wind. We
can only watch the signs of the times, and, note
them from day to day. In the meantime, let
all hands begin to cut out their work for our
next election.
The Connecticut Election. ? The result of
the late terrible election in Connecticut is but
another bombshell thrown into the camp of the
administration. The imbecile establishment
at Washington is tumbling to pieces; and if the
democratic party do not soon prepare to aban
don the administration to its fate, they must
be swamped with it among the breakers. The
democrats in Congress should begin to delibe
rate npon the ways and means for saving the
remnants of the party, with ti?c view or some
ming like a nucleus to rally upon in 1836. It
is very evident that Gen. Fierce is a failure ?
that his administration is already Tylerized ?
that he is but the instrument of a miserable
Spoils coalition of free soilcrs and secessionists,
and that the democratic party of the Union
can never be re-united except upou a new set
of men and a new arrangement of tilings all
round. Let the democratic leaders in Congress
look at the New Hampshire election and the
Connecticut election, and then decide upon the
question whether it is expedient or worthwhile
bolstering up the administration any longer,
or whether it is not advisable at once to cut
adrift and begin to clear away the rubbish for
a democratic re-union in 1856. No time to be
lost.
A Sick Man. ? The Emperor Nicholas in his
familiar conversations with the British Minister
at St. Petersburg, aptly describes the empire
of Turkey as a sick man on his dying bed. and
thinks it wise to arrange the division of his es
tates among his heirs, while he is yet alivet so
as to prevent the fearful squabble which must
otherwise ensue after his death. So with Presi
dent Pierce at this time. He, too, is a sick man.
and the sooner the democracy arrange the dis
tribution of his politfcal effects, the better. The
Emperor Nicholas is a long-headed politician.
Let Ihe democracy reflect upon his advice, and
act accordingly.
Marine Affairs.
SAILING OF THE CALIFORNIA PTEAMSIIIP3 ? SMUG
GLING PASSENGERS MSCOVEREO.
The Illinois, North Star and Northern light, sailed
yesterday afternoon for their respective destinations on
the Isthmus. All three were crowded, as usual, with
passenger* for California. The former vessel had on
board two companies of the Third Regimes#** MMUery ,
an account of whose departure we have give* ta aaother
article. A despatch received from Handy Hook last
night announces that the North Star and Northern Light
discharged with their pilots nineteen persons who had
stowed themselves away among the freight. The pilot
boat No. 8 landed them on the point of the Hook, where
they would have to wait until the next steamer c.iiuo
up. It is said that a portion of tlio crowd appear to be
q uito respectable. Amongst them arc three I idles ? one
of whom >ays she was seeing some friends olT. and the
steamer started before bhe could get ashore.
u*UKcn. ? l here will be launched from the yard of
Mr. William Perine, at Oreonpolnt, this afternoon, at
half-past one o'clock, the ship Henry Harheck, of SrtO
tons burthen, built for Messrs. HarbecV A Co., of thU
city, and intended for the general freighting business.
Mie will be commanded by C'apt. Henry True, JrT, un.ler
whose superintendence the vessel was built.
Pfparttrk OF Caijfornia SrRAMKRs. ? The mail steam
ship Illinois, and the independent steamship North Star,
lor Aspinwall, with the steamship Northern Light, for
Nicaragua, went to sea yesterday, each with a large num
ber of passengers bound to California.
Tns Stkammiip Africa left at noon yesterday for Liver
pool, with 112 passengers, and $101,081 in specie on
freight.
Tn? Stbamphip Baltic.? The following letter was pre
sented to Captain Briggs, temporarily in command of the
Collins steamer Baltic, on her arrival 4th inst. : ?
SnUMBt Baltic. April 4, 1854.
Capt. Cto. Brkmis ? Dear Sir ? The undersigned, poaaen
gers by the Baltic on her present trip from Liverpool, at
the termination of an unusually rough and boisterous
voyage, are desirous of expressing their appreciation of
the manner in which you have contributed to r-nder siHi
voyage a most agrcttuhle one to them. Aside from the
strictest performance of your duties ns master of tlie
ship? duties which kept you on deck the wlioh- of five
successive nights ? you have been unceasing in your ef
forts to mnl.o your passengers not only comi'ortablo but
happy. You have performed the part of an experienced
and skilful and safe commander, und also Lh:it of the
generous host, the kind, obliging friend, ond tho cour.
teous gentloman. Your personal attention to the wants
and conveniences of us all has endeared von to all of
us. You have laid us under a sense of obligation which
we shall always cherish, and can n<ner forget; wo part
from you as from some old ond long valued friend, while
we beg you to aecept onr earnest wishes lor your liappi- I
net, sand well bclu;;, now and always.
[signed by nil the cabin passengers, hotli talioi and
ge ut It me n . ]
Tin I:kvk: ux Citter O.uct ('u.-t!i\o returned to this
port yesterday, after a cruise of four months on the
Kaaieru ceasl lor tho purposm of relieving vessels in dis
tiefs. During that time niiO has s.iilel two thousand
three hundred and forty miles, and has hoarded two
hundred and thirty vessels, as follows: ? Korty ships,
thirty brigs, and one hundred and slity one sohoone.-s. '
Of this number, she has relieved and assisted o'ghteon, ]
namely? cue ship, seven liuiks, fo.ir brigs aud si* ?.:hoon- I
ere ? ?*'ter->t Argut (J'ortiand), April 4.
THE CUTTING AND HRECKENRIDGE DIFFICULTY
Tine Rtccnt Eicl(ti>g Corre?p*nide?cc be
tween those Gentlemen? The Armngtmentt
for a D net? Filial Settlement of the Dis
pute, ?t;c.
As might Lave been expected, the telegraphic synopsis
which we gave yesterday f the Cutting and Breckenridge
correi pocdence, has led to the publication of that corres
pondence i tee If. It is as follows : ?
ko. I.
MM. CUTTING TO MB. lUtECKENKlDGE.
Washwotok, March 27, 1844.
ricm. J. C. RiuscKKMurrE?
Sir? Iu the conrte ?f the debate in the House this
morning, iu reply to what I considered tq bo a legitimate
criticirm upon your argument, you asserted thai what 1
had said ?a? false.
I now call upon you to retract this assertion, or to make
the explanation due i rom one gentleman to another.
This will be banded to you by my friend Mr. Maurice,
who is authorized to receive your answer, and to act fur
me. Very respectfully, your obediont servant.
F. B. CUTTING.
[Endorsed] Correct, T. T. Hawkins.
no. n.
MB. JJRKCKENR1 t'GE TO MB. CUTTING.
Washington Citt, March 27, 1864.
c,R _Your note of this date, by the hands of the Hon.
Jam< s Maurice, is thin moment received.
llio word to w)iich vou except, having been founded
on one personally applied by you to me, which I consider
ed improper and offensive, cannot be withdrawn while
the cause of it lcmains. *
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN C. BRECKE.VRIDGK.
Hon. F. B. CrmNO, Washington City.
[Fndoreed] Correct, T. T. Hawkins.
ko. m.
MR. CUTTING TO MB. BRECKKNIUTH5K.
Washington, March 28, 1854.
Ho*. J. C. Brbckknridce?
Kir? Your note of last night, in answer to mine, waa
handed to mo at too late an hour to admit then of a rc
^ Vhe rxprcs.-don to wl ieh you object wa? applied by rue
in the course of what I considered to bo a legitimate criti
cism upou a part of your argument, and was not intended
to te personal in Ms character, nor, in my opinion, whoa
considered In connection w ith uiy remark"', docs it justly
admit of that construction
1 therefore have to reiterate the demand already made.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
K. E. CUTTING.
[Endorsed] Correct, T. T. Haw-kiss.
[This letter was show u by Mr. Maurice to Col. Haw
kins, who declined to receive it.],
KO. IV.
MB. BRBGKXMRIDGB TO MB. CUTTING.
Wa-uingtox Crrv, March 28, 1864.
non. F. B. Ccmsa ?
Sir: ? Having received your nnte last night at a very
late hour, 1 bad no time to consult a friend to whom 1
would refer the Hon. Mr. Maurice, to embrace the alter
ative offered by your note, and arrange the terms of our
! ceting, until thiB morning.
j My friend Col. Hawkins will present tins note, and act
1 for me in the matter.
I I have the honor to remain vour obedient servant.
JOHN C. BRECKENRIDGE.
[Endorsed] Correct, T. T. Hawkiks.
! NO. V.
MR. CUTTING TO MB. RBECKENRIDUE.
Washington, March 28, 1854.
HON. J. C. BRBCKKNRIDGE?
Sir ? 1 have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of
your note of this morning, in which you refer me to your
friend Col. Hawkins, " to arrange the terms of our meet
ing."
My friend Col. Monroe, whom I have chosen for that
purpose, will confer with Col. Hawkins on the subject.
1 have the honor to remain, your obedient servant,
F. B. CUTTING.
[Endorsed] Correct, T. T. Hawkiks.
no. VI.
COL. HAWKINS TO COL. MONROE.
Washington, March 20, 18&4.
Coi.. Jambs Monro*:
Sir: ? Below 1 submit the terms regulating the meeting
between the Hon. F. B. Cutting and Hon. J. C. Brock -
enridgo : ?
The time of meeting shall be this afternoon, between
the hours of 3 and 4 o'clock.
The place of meeting shall be at or near the residence
of Mr. F. P. Blair, in the State of Maryland, and about
six or seven miles from the city of Washington.
Ihe weapon shall be the ordinary rifle, commonly
known as the Western rifle, which shall be charged with
one charge of powder and one round ball.
The distance shall be sixty paces.
The parties shall stand erect, with their feet not mora
than twelve inches apart.
_ Ihe weapons shall be placed In the hands of the prin
cipals by their respective ,-econdB, cocked, with the butt
to the shoulder, the muzzle pointing to tne ground, not
more than three feet from the left toe.
The word shall be given In the following manner: ? Gen
tlemen, are you ready? ? Fire? one? two? three ? with a
pause of at least one second between the words. Neither
party shall be at liberty to raise iii* piece before the word
lire, or tire after the word thr.>n. If the parties are
ready, r.o response shall be given; if not ready, he will
respond promptly, not ruuiy.
befoie tLe paTties arc armed, the word shaU be give i
in blank by the second wbewhas won it, in nearly th >
tame manner as it will be given when they are to Are.
The choice of position and the giving ef the word shal
lie determined by lot; the parties holding th? same posi
t'on so long as the tight may continue. But previous to
each fiie the seconds shall aghin east lota for the word.
Respectfully, your ob't servant,
T. T. HAWKINS.
[Endorsed] Correct. T. T. Hawkins.
COL. MO NECK TO COL. HAWKINS.
?\VA.-m*GTON, March*', 1851.
Pip. ? I requested a htatcnicnt embodying your view* ?(
the terms of the meeting of Jlr. Bi-eckenriOuc and Mr. Cut
ting, with tliu hope tli?tt our views would coincide h.h to tli(>
weapons, distance, &c. But us the weapon selected Is
one with which m.v principal is wholly unacquainted,
and the terms otherwise object ionablo, it becomes my
duty to sfand on our right-' us the challenged party, anii
I am under the neces' ity of proposing the following : ?
}'io) osed terms of the meeting between the Hon. J. C
Breckt-nridge and the Hon. V. B. Catting ?
1. Tho parties are to meet at , in the State of
? , at ? o'clock, on the ? day of March, instant.
2. Weapons to be the ordinary duelling pistols ; dis
tance, ten paces' ; pistols to he held downwards, In a per
pendicular direction.
8. The choice of weapons and giving of the word are
each to be decided by lot, in a manner to be agreed upon
by the seconds.
4. The word in to be given in the following manner
"Gentlemen, are you ready?" (upon each party re
sponding " ready,") " flr< ? one, two, three, halt"? not
less than cne, nor more than two seconds to elapse be
tween each word from " fire " to " halt."
5. Neither partv shall l>e permitted to elevate his pis
tol from a perpendicular position before the word 41 flre,"
nor lire alter the word "halt," under the penalty of
being shot down by the second of the adversary of the
offending party.
6. The pistols are to be loaded with the ordinary
charge of powdor and one round ball, each to be loaded
alike, by some person or persons to be selected, by and
under the supervision of the respective seconds.
7. Tl.e positions having been marked out by the
" seconds, the choice thereof is to be decided by lot.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
' J AS. MoNttOE. '
[Endorsed] Correct, T. T. Hawkins.
no. VIII.
COL. HAWKINS TO COL. HONUOR.
Washington, March 29, 1864 ? 10 P. M.
Col. J/s. Monroe: ?
fc'w ? 1 have the honor to acknowledge the receipt ol
your note of this date.
There teems to be a misapprehension as to the relative
rositious of Mr. Brocktnridge and the Hon. Mr. Cutting.
Mr. ISreckcnridge, I am contideut, considers himself the
challenged, not the challenging party. I never enter
tained ti e idea that iny principal occupied any other
attitude.
Under these circumstances, I conceive that the right.*
appertaining by custom to the challenged party belong to ?
Mr. Breckenrldge, who stands only in a defensive posi
tion, and not to Mr. Cutting, who addressed the orijin il
note to him on which this correspondence is bated.
I have the honor to remain, with assurances of hlglv.
rcspcct, your obediint pcrxiiiit, T. T. HAWKINS.
[Endorsed] Correct, T. T. Hawkins.
NO. IX.
COL. MONP.OK TO COL. II A WHIN'S.
Washington,- March 29, 1854.
Col. T. T. Hawkins ?
Sir ? In reply to your n-te of this date, 1 have the honor
to say that, in my opinion, the misapprehension to which
you allude has arisen from a misconception of the exact
character of Mr. Cutting's original note.
On referring to that note, 1 find that Mr. f'.itting use?
the following language: ? "In tbe course of the debate in
the House this morning, in reply to what 1 considered to
be a legitimate criticism up< n your argument, you assort
ed that what I had taid was false. I now <ji?U npon yott
to retract this assertion, or m>?ko the explaiiation du"
from one gc-ntleman tosnother."
1 am not able to regard this In the light of a -hall?nge,
and I am confident it was not so regarded by my princi
pal, nor did it seem to bo ro considered by Mr. Breckon
ridge in his reply of the same date.
1o enable me, however, to speak with certainty an this
point, I wish to confer with my principal, and will apprise
you of the result of thut conlorence to-morrow morning
1 have tho honor to be, your obedient servant,
J AH. MONROB.
[Endorsed] Correct, T. T. Hawkins.
no. x.
COLONEL MONROE TO COI.ONKL HAWKINS.
Washington, March 30, 1864.
Col. T. T. Hawkins ?
Sin ? I have the honor to apprise yon that on oon/er
ling w it li my principal, I am authorised to Bay that the
view tal;en by me of Mr. Cutting's original note as ex
pussed in iny note to yotf last evening, is correct.
1 ha\e tho honor to be, your obedient servant,
' JAS. MONROE.
[Endoned] Cornet, T. T. Hawkins.
no. XI.
COL. nAWKINS TO COL. MONROE.
Washington, March 30, 1854 ? 2 o'clock.
Col. .Iah. Monri K: ?
?ir_.\s you inform me in your note of this date "ihat
neither the Hon. Mr. Cutting nor yoursell considers his
miginsl noto as a challenge to Mr. Breckonrldge, but
meiely a demand for verbr.l explanation of I < n ;unge use'',
in i'.ebats, 1 have merely to refer you to Mr. Breeken
ridge's note to Mr. Cutting of the 29th of March.
1 remain, with assurances of high esteem, your obedi
ent servant. J. T H AWKINS.
[Endowed] Correct, T. T. Hawkins.
No. XII.
COLONEL MONROE T;? COLONEL HAWKl*iff.
Washington, March 1854.
Coi. T T. Hawkins?
Sin? In anewe.r to your not'- of this date, referring me to
Mr. Fnckenridge's of the 27th inst. to Mr. Cutting, I havp
he honor to enelose to you the reply which Mr. Cutting