The New York Herald Newspaper, April 6, 1854, Page 4

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Notlee to the Carriers. o obviate the delay in serving the New Yorx Herawy to subscribers, after the carriers receive their papers from ‘the press, the proprietor will allow but two hours for much delivery; and any earrier.who consumes more than Shat time will be dismissod, and # more active man en- gaged. The News. ‘The steamship Europa is nearly due at this port} with two.days later advices from Europe—however, Bike the majority of her compeers, she will probably ‘be detained beyond her time by the immense masses of ice encumbering the track between here and Eng- Jand. Nothing has been heard of the steamship City of. Glasgow, which left Liverpool for Philadel- phia thirty-seven days ago. It may be possible that, like the stcamers Charity, Atlantic, and various other vessels, she got wedged in among the ice, but did not experience their good fortune in finding her way out. The ship 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 resume his seat in the United Senate yes- terday, after an absence of several weeks. A bill for the relief of Willian C. Jones was passed, as was also one supplementary to the act confirming private land claims in Missouri. Bills were introduced for the recovery of the assets of bankrupts who have ren- dered fraudulent schedyles, and granting lands for the construction of certain railroads in Missouri. The remainder of the session was devoted to execu- tive business. The House postponed the consideration of Mr. Bennett's Land Distribution Dill till Tuesday. The President was requested to furnish the official cor- weepondence in relation to the rejection of the exe- gquator of the consulate of Trieste, and also concern the arrest of the Rey. Mr. Richmond by the Austrian authorities. Messrs. Chandler, Washburne and Nichols spoke in opposition to, and Mr, Smith, of Tennessee, in favor of the Nebraska bill. We learn that the first batch, consisting of about ‘one thousand pages, of the supplemental correapon- dence relative to the outrages of the Cuban authori- ties upon American citizens daring the last ten years, was received by the House of Reprosentatives 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 Crescént City and her Purser, Mr. Smith. Instead of taking a firm American position in that affair, it now appears, as was intimoted 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 sentiments of a majority in that body, will be rejected, despite all the pressure in the shape of lobby influence that spoilsmen, speculators, ‘and monopolists can bring to bear. In the meantime, | Santa Anna and his imperial court are understood | 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 out 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 light on the existing state of affairs in that sadly misgoverned and unhappy country. that only six more working days are the session, the members of our Legislature av td | jected in the lower branch of the Pennsylvan'a Le- | 30 has been rece've!. - the falling off in the former State. ex-policeme> and ditapita’ed politician. Read the | communica ion in another column relative to this abominal’e measure, ch the e is reason to hope | will receive its quietus in the Senate, | The Maine law is mecting with defeat in all | quarters. A y/oh'btory !quor bill, with a proviso submitting it for ratification to the people, was re. ature yesterday by a vote of thirty-seven to one. *x-President Fillmore met with a highly flatter- ing reception at New Ovlea: will be seen by the | account in another column, We learn that it is his intention to-visit Charleston, where he ! as been in- vited and is expceted curing the sitting of the | fouthern Commercia! Convention, which is to as- semb’e in-that city next Monday. gi | see the hand of Pierce throughout the affair. sponsibility of the defeat of the Nebraska bill from the shoulders of the President to thoe of Mr. Cutting was never heard of before, and may well be doubted. To speak plainly, in fact, no man of sense coull be persuaded that Mr. Bre:kenridge’s attack on Mr. Cutting was not made at the instigation of the President and to serve his purposes. In this meridian at all events, we We who know the man, and are familiar with his tricky underhand mode of dealing, saw his | finger move from the Beginning, and nailed it to the spot. It is characteristic of the class of minds to which Mr. Pierce’s belongs to resort Farthquakes ave azain Lecoming quite frequent in the Seu’ Lern hemisy here. ping at St. Jago wee considerably shaken by several revere shoc\s on tle nisht of the 17th ult, acd two days a'ter the yeop'e of Biracoa were tod by s'milar terrestrial disturbances. ‘The Singapcre Bi-Month’y Circwar to Januery It reports the receipt «f large imports of gold durny the ‘ortnight, com- prising 14,884 ounces from Australie. The rates were $29 to $ for s and $28 to $28) per bun- kal for dust, The exports amoun‘e! to 1,606 ounces. ‘The imports from the archipelago did not exceed 316 bunkals; and the exports were 1,071 skals; prices for each description varying from $27 to $28 per bunkal!, two dollars weight. Property to the value of fifty thousand dollars s gonsumed by fire in Paterson yesterday morn- g. It consisted chiefly of manufacturing estab- lishments. : Flour being in light stock, with a good Eastern demand, yesterday sold at about the closirg rates current before the receipt of the Baltic’s news. There was very little if anything sold for-export. Com exhibited a very slight change from previous quotations. There was no alteration in prime white Genesee wheat, which was scarce. Cottan was un- settled, and tee sales too limited to establish prices. Ami per ton. The last sale of waier rotted wasimade at $275. There was no Russian on hand, exoopt that held by manufaciarers. It is said the crop to come forward from Kentucky will be deficient, while that rom Missouri will be so large as to counterbalance ‘The winter had been unfavorable for the rotting of hemp ii Mis souri, and a considerable portion of the crop, it was said, would be stacked out, and remain over without rotting until the next season. Heavy snows pro- duce the best rotted axd bleached hemp. The Board of Aldermen passed a great mary pa- pers last evening, and az the question of concurring with the Councilmen in g resolution to apply to the Legislature for the estabiishment of an additional criminal court there was some debate, in the course of which there were symptoms of a minor Brecken- ridge and Cutting affair. But, like the original, it ended ina manner quite satisfactory to all parties. Quite a spirited debate occarred in the Board of Councijmon on a resolution Geprecating the action of the State Senate concerning a proposed railroad in Broadway. Interesting discussions also took place on the Central Park question and the contract removing dead animals, for.a graphic sketch of which sce the special report appended to the official minutes of the proceedings. The report of the Committee ov the Annual Ap- portionment was adopted at the meeting of the Board of Education last evening, anda large amount of routine business was passed upon. Our report will be found elsewhere. st ar The Cutting am! Breckenridge €orrespon- dence. We publish elsewhere the correspondence which passed between Messrs. Breckenridge and Cutting, and their seconds, in relation to the recent misunderstanding between them. So far as the partion themselves exc vuncerned we have of course no comments to offer on the conduct each has thought fit to pursue. Both Francis B. Cutting and John C. Breekenridge are well known to be men of honor; and without a knowledge of the circumstances of their recent démélé, any one would be entirely justified in asserting that each had demeaned himself as became a gentleman. We may safely leave the correspondence 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 letters we 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 final settlement we are placed in posses- sion of every occurrence in minute detail ; but what took place before the utterance of Mr. Breckenridge’s speech, what motives inspired so unusual an attack on a member of the House, “what agency set in motion the contending pas- sions, we are still left to conjecture. The omission is the more to be regretted, as 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 pa the time and place of meeting, the weapon with which the deed was to be done, and the distance at which the parties were to d, are all matters on which Colonel Hawkins may expatiate with the gusto of a veteran amateur, but which are entirely devoid of serious in- terest to the public. Not so the original injury. It is of consequence that the original cause which so nearly expozed the lives of two of our best men chould be known. This is the oaly point worth ascertaining in the whole affair. Had the quarrel ended, as it very nearly did, in a meeting, and had one or both of the parties been killed, ‘the question would then have been, 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 we must not allow the lucky result of the good sense of the parties, the judicious services of their friends, or the unseen hand of fortune, to divert us from this proper inquiry. ° To us it is as clear as noonday that a man of Mr. Breckenridge’s character could not have been betrayed into the gross attack he made upon Mr. Cutting by the natural impulse of his own heart. He must have seen as well as we do that Mr. Cutting’s motion was strictly par- stirring themselves at a rate that is truly astoui ing, as will be seen by the letters from our corres- 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 the 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, was 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 prese. They merely mentioned the cir- cumstance that the bill was defeated in the early part of the day, and there left the matter, thus leading nearly everybody astray. Cor- respondents should be more careful, particularly in eases where the interests of our citizeps are ro deeply involved as in this bill, which seems to have been concocted for the especial accommodation of liamentery and correct: that the mover was as he said in favor of the great principle the bill; and that to impute to him treachery in what he did, or in other words to charge him with the basest duplicity was neither justtied by his character nor by his act. We cannot believe that Mr. Breckenridge was wilfully blind to these very obvious facts. of Ile st have some unseen motive—some stimulus urging him forward insidiously to do what his better nature reproved—som> maliga prompter beguiling him to play unconsciously the very part of which he accused his antago ni Such a coincidence as this Mr. Brecken ridge coming forward voluntarily of bis owa accord just in the nick of time to try to crush the most dreaded leader of the nationat demo- rat.a, and with the same blow to throw the re- ‘Tl e buildings and ship- | ‘an dew rotted hemp was held at $195 a $210 | | ¢o low cunning where plain candor would an- swer as well; and to disregard with sovercign contempt their own and others honor and even the lives of worthy men when placed in the opposite scate to their own interests, It was Mr. Pierce’s interest to revenge the tremendous les- sons he hasreceived 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 present, and to make it appear that that resull was due to another. Both these iaterests were served by inciting the fiery Breckenridge | to the attack. They would have been still better served had the duel been fought and Mr, Cutting left upon the field. We -sympathise w th Mr. Pierce on this disappoiniment. 1 De: who know him he these things are neither new nor surprising, To who still believe the pitiful story that his assailants are animated by personal revenge, | we commend the moral of the Cuttirg and | Breckenridge quarrel. Let the democratic party in Congress ponder it well. Lei them say—for there are men of honer and worth and character among them—whether they an en- dure the burning shame that the mere suspicion of attachment to so‘ad a man must inspire. If they can, the country can afford to ovewhelm them in the same torrent of contempt shat is now threatening their master. If they sannot, in heaven’s name, let them say for oice in tones that none can mistake, that they cnow Pierce, and hold him as cheap as the.rest of the world does, and add:one more lesson to those which have already fallen on the head of the creature. “those thor ‘What Has Congress Done? What has Congress done? From the first Monday in December last, to the first wee in April, inclusive, we have a period of four cden- dar months, duriag which the two houses lave »been ostensibly engaged in the public butness -assigned them ; but in footing up the resutsof their patriotic labors thus far, we find that bey amount to nothing—substantially to nothi),J The deficiency bill, which passed the House, las been passed by the Senate after being sadded with the additicnal burden of about two ml- lions.of extra appropriations, for the furthr consideration of the House ; the six war steamr bill has passed both houses; and these, «- cepting a few unimportant local .or privae bills, constitute our report in answer to tl\ 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 five hundred millions of dollars, upo a general classification oe folluw « - For railroad Lind sabemes, including Pacific BAMCONG. sosens pote 275,009,00 Pennett’s land distrébntion 75,000,00 Miss Dix’s land bill for lunatic asylums, .... 12,500,00 Regular appropriations... seresee 60,000,009 Patent extensions of all kin 2 25,000,0 Gadsden tr . 20,009 French spoliation: 1 “5,000, 0 i teamers, » — 5,000,00 public debt, extra’ neous land schem ap SOY the lobby, 50 sprightliness in society, no fash- ionable weddi g: ani match makiogs, no car- nival of nightly frol'es an | ¢isaipit ons on the scale anticipated at the beginn'ng «f the ses- sion. Even the gamblers of Pennsylvania avenue are sail to complain of the dull times, and are wait’ng | ke the California miners for the spring flools which are to wash out the gold dust by huacre’s, and thousan’s, end millions at a haul. The defeat of the Wisconsin railroad land jobbing bill in the House, through the casting vote of the Speaker, was a stuoner to the.land sharks; the long sleep of Colt’s yatent exten- sion is ominous of bad luck to that class of the gold hunters; but tle most disastrous mis- fortune to the administration und all the other spoilsmen, insiders and cutsiders, has been this “infernal Nebraska bill,” for thus, we are informed, some of them have cpenly denounced it in the Rotunda of the Capitol, within three feet of the statue of Washington. And Well 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 disas- ters.of scheming two-penny politicians! This Nebraska Dill was designcd to place the administration “right side up with care” in the South; to neutralize the free soil antecedents of General Pieree—the free soil c: mposition and associations of the Cabinet; to take off the raggh 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 spoilsmen. It has been breaking up the de- mocracy most horribly in Congress and in the North. It has left the administration with Captain Rynders as their leading champion in New York, and Mike Walsh as the rank and file 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 lics quietly in Committee of the Whole. The wastage of debate has been, we trust, peatty well exhausted. Longer days and warmer weather are approaching. The rubbish will soon be cleared out of the way, and then we shall 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 asylums, Bennett's land distribution scheme, 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 millioa or two from the speculators, including Santa Anna, concerned in the Gadsden treaty, will give a powsrful impetus to the lobby. The Gadsden 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 spoilemen to tne grand scramble for ime residue of the five hundred millions of the public plunder. 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. Tue Gapspen 'Taeaty—Wonse axp Wonse.—- It has been reported, for some days past, that the correspondence connected with the concoc- tion of the Gadsden treaty, on heing laid be- fore the Senate, disclosed such an extensive and complicated conspiracy te 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 fear that through some mysterious agency or other, it might find its way into the newspapers. In addition to this, Tot sass.teorke srs Sacsasieiscnneseved «$500,000, 004 With sach a magnificent schedule befor¢ them, the spoilsmen of all kinds had the righ’ to anticipate a perfect carnival over the prc jected distribution of the spoils. Their plan of operations were accordingly laid down upo scale commensurate with the prodigiou prizes tavolved in this grand Congressional log rolling and stock-jobbing lottery. The Senat familiar conversations with the British Minister dence upon this Gadsden bargain and sale. We thall then see whether the House is willing or not, for another appropriation of five millions, to settle another pack of Gardner claims—of five millions for Santa Anna’s lobby agents in both countries; and ten millions to enable the | Dictator to lord it over Mexico, under Karopean protection, in the disgusting mockery of the | Empire of Faustin Soulonque. Let the Senate pass the freaty, and let it be laid bare before the House, upon the question of appropriating the money; and then we shall 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. Our Next Stare Evectroy.—Our State elec- tion next fall will be a curious, knotty, per- plexing and astonishing affair. We shall have @ great variety of parties in the field. 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 soil abolition whig party, and the Fillmore conservative whig party, to say nothing of the Tree 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- teet will be the Maine Liquor law, the Nesbraska 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. ing been put up by one of his organs as candi- date for Governor, his faction may probably nominate him for the office, as a stepping stone to the Presidential arena in 1856, If this shall be done, there will be an awful “noise and confusion” in this State next No- vember. Such are the present indications. The European war and the Cuha 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 today. In the meantime, let all hands begin to cut ont their work for our next election. Tue Connecticur Execrioy.—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 upon the ways and means for saving the remnants of the party, with the view of some- eng like a nucleus to rally upon in 1856. It is very evident that Gen. Pierce is a failure— that his administration is already Tylerized— that he is but the instrument of a miserable Spoils coalition of free soilers and secessionists, and that the democratic party of the Union can never be re-united except upon a new set of men and a new arrangement of things 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 worth while 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 2 cena re-union in 1856. No time to be A Sick Man.—' ‘he Emperor Nicholas in his But hay- Pendicular direction. each to be decided by | Whe Recent Exciting Correspondence be- tween those Gentiemen—The ita fora Duel—Final Settlement of the Die pute, &e. As might bave been expzcted, the telegraphie synopsis which we gave yesterday of the Cutting and Breckenridge correspondence, has led to the publication of that corres- pondence itself. It is as follows :— XO. 1. | ‘MR. CUTTING TO Mit. BRECKENRIDGE. « Wasnrvaros, March 27, 1854. Hon. J. ©. Breckmyncr— Sm—In the course of the debate in the Honse this es comers to what I considered tq, be a legitimate seitolars pe neat argument, you assei that what I Tnow call upon you to retract this assertion, or to make the explanation due from one gentleman to another. ‘This will be handed to you by. my friend Mr. Maurice, who is authorized to receive your answer, and to act for me. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, ¥. B. CUTTING. [Endorsed] Correct, T. T. Hawxrys. ‘NO. I. MR. BRECKENRIDGE TO MR. CUTTING. Wasuixeton Ciry, March 27, 1854. £m:—Your note of this date, by the hands of the Hon. James Maurice, is this moment received. The word to whieh you except, ‘having been founded ‘on one personally applied by you to me, which I consider- ed improper and offensiye, cannot be’ withdrawn while the cause of it remains.” Respectfully, your obedient servant, JOHN C. BRECKENRIDGE. Hon. F. B. Curnxa, Washington City. [Endoreed] Correct, 'T. T. iawsixs, NO. TL. MR. CUTTING TO MR. BRECKENRIDGE. Wasmxcrox, March 28, 1854. Hox. J.C, Brno /ENRIDGE— Sin—Your note of last night, in answer to mine, was handed to me at too late an hour to admit then of a re- ply. Tho expression to which you object was. applied by me in the course of what I covsidered to be a legitimate criti. cism upon a part of your xrgument, and was not intended to be personal in its character, nor, in my opinion, when considered in connection with iy remarks, does it justly adunit of hat construction. ‘ I therefore have to reiterate the demand already made. Very respectfully, your obedient servant FBC G. erger Correct, i. T. Hawnrss, is letter was shown by Mr. Maurice to Col. Haw~ kins, who deelined to receive it-]y No. IV. MK. oes TO MR. CUTTING. ASHLNGTON Crry, March 28, 1854. Hoon. F. B. Cornxa— Sr erg 1m:—Having received your note last night at a ve late hour, Thad no time to consult.a friend to. whom. would refer the Hon. Mr. Maurice, to embrace the alter. native offered by your note, and arrange the terms of our- eeting, until this morning. My friend Col. Hawkins will present this note, and act. for me in the matter. T have the honor to Temaln your obedient servant, C. BRECKENRIDGE. [Endorsed] Correct, . 'T. Hawkins. vat NO. ¥. MR. CUTTING TO MR. BRECKENRIDGE. ‘Wastrnator, March 4 Hon. J.C. BREcKEXRIDGE— wae owledge the receipt of Sir—I have the honor to ackn your note of this morning, in which you refer me to your arrange the terms of our meet- friend Col. Hawkins, ‘to ing. ly friend Col. Monroe, whom I have chosen for that purpose, will confer with Col. Hawkins on the subject. Thave the honor to remain, your obedient servant, F. B, CUTTING. [Endorsed} Correct, T. T. Hawxms. 3 : NO. Vi. COL, HAWKINS 70 COL. MONROF. Cou. JAMES MONROE: Scene Sim:—Eelow I submit the terms regulating the meeting } between the Hon. I’. B. Cutting and Hon. J. C. Breck SRA Ga Oe cobsting ah 70001 the time of meeting shall be the hours of 3 and 4 fuk e pl meeting shall be at or near the residence of Mr.{F, P. Blais, in the state of Maryland, and about six or seven miles from the city of Washington. ‘the weapon shall be the ordinary rite known as the Western rifle, which shall be charget ont, one charge of powder and one round ball. The distance aball be sixty paces. e parties shall stand erect, th : than twelve inches apart. ee e weapons shall be placed in the hands of th . sipala ‘their respective veconde, cocked, with the vate e shoulder, the muzzle int! more than three feet from te left tees Tuas BOE ‘The word shall be given in the following manner:—Gen- iegeph shed ready?—Fire—one—two—three—with a pause of at least one second between th party shall be at liberty to r piece Waters tie ron raise his word fire, or fire after the Word three. eee are ready, no response shall be given; if not ready, he will respond promptly, not reaty. __ Before the tart ied, the word shall be give. 48 won it, in ’ tame manner as it will be given when they are ta ae. The choice of position and the giving ef the word shal be determined by Jot; the parties holding the same posi ton so Jong as the fght may continue. But provions to each fire the seconds shail again cast lots for the word. Respectfully, your ob’t servant, T. 1. HAWKIN: [Endorsed] Correct, T. T. Hawrims. | _ RE. NO. Vil MONROE Wr COL. HAWKINS. "ASIINGTON, March 20, 1854, Sin—I requested a statement embodying your views of the terms of the meeting of Mr. Breckenridye and Mr. Cut, ting, with the hope that our views would coincide as to the weapons, distance, &e. But as the weapon selected is one with which my principal is wholly unaequainted and the terms otherwise objectionable, it becomes my. duty to sfand on our rights as the challenged party, and col. Tam under the necessity of proposing the following Proposed terms of the mecting betwee Breckenridge and the Hon. I Be Cuttings oe om © 1. The parties are to moet at in ay 6 = Olek, On the tay el Marsh tae 4 2. Weapons to be’ the ordinary duelling pistohe y dis. tance, ten paces’; pistols to be held downwards, in & per. 8. The choice of weapons and giving of the word are commenced the work in good style, passing ii a single morning railroad stock-jobbing lan grants to the amount of twenty millions of dol lars or more ; and they have now upon theit 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 f land bill and Miss Dix’s bill are both before speculating projects, equal, perhaps, to thirty or forty millions of dollars. Colt’s patent exten- a! giving away to actual settlers public domain, probably equat hundred ions of acres, 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; and yet a few private bills, the six steamer bill, and the three or four scattering millions of the deficiency bill, are all that the office-mongers, stock-jobbers, land- speculators and lobby men and lobby women of all the vast interests involved, have thas far been 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 amillion or two before 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 gold mines at Washington, positively known to contain the substantial treasures of five hun- dred millions of dollars. Why this delay? The lobby has been well organized, well trained, pretty well provided with the sinews of war for a month or two, and its cohorts attending both houses have been wouk- ing like beavers. Why, then, this delay in get- ting out the spoils?’ The reason is plain as day- light. The working mac!inery has been kaock- ed out of gear by the spoils policy of the Cabi- net, and by the wranglings of the spoilsmen in Congress from the opposite sides of the Alle- ghanies. It isa trite old maxim, that “when rogues fall out honest men get their own” but as applied to Congress, it appears that when the spoilsmen fall out, nobody gets anything. The consequence is, that things in Washington, jast now, are excessively flat and stupid. There are the St. Louis Democrat says :~ tions called for by the Senate were obtained under an Pent thon of secresy, and that the Senate refused to ra tions were these, which require #0 much secrecy? It is Tumored, moreover, that the instructions authorized the th instractions authorize all this money to*be paid for a : railroad track, which it is deemed unconstitutional for the House, and a lot of local Western railroad Congress to make. sion, Woodworth’s patent extension, and various count upon the ratification of this Gadsdea others, are also before the House, awaiting their treaty; and not without a good show of success. turn upon the calendar; algo, the Freneh spoli-It is the great question among the outside le- ation bill, and a variety of private jobs and gislators and diplomats at Washington just contracts in addition to the regular appropria-now. The Nebraska Dill is considered dead, tions. The Gadsden treaty is under the earnest and the correspondence upon the Cutting and discussion of the Senate, from day to day ; andBreckenridge imbroglio may thus be read as close behind it lies the Homestead bill, whichthe epitaph of the Nebraska bill, so that that contemplates nothing more nor less than thebone of contention is substantially, for the in- all the availableterim, out of the way. But in point of fact, to four or fivethe Gadsden treaty among the lobby members Thus it will appear that the work cut out by mportance than the Nebraska bill. Upon the 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 alivep so as to prevent the fearful squabble which must otherwise ensue after his death. So with Presi- dent Pierce at this time. He, too, isa sick man, and the sooner the democracy arrange the dis- tribution of his political effects, the better. The Emperor Nicholas isa long-headed politician. Let the democracy reflect upon his advice, and act accordingly. Marine Affairs, SAILING OF THE CALIFORNIA STEAMSHIPS—SMUG- GLING PASSENGERS DISCOVERED. The Mlinois, North Star and Northern Light, sailed yesterday afternoon for their respective destinations on the Isthmus. All three were crowded, as usual, with passengers for California. The former vessel had on board two companies of the Third Regimen@ ef aatillery, an account of whose departure we have givem in amother article. A despatch received from Sandy 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 untilthe next steamer came up. It is said that a portion of the crowd a) pear to be quite respectable. Amongst them are three ladies—one of whom says she was seeing some friends off, and the steamer started before she could get ashore. Lauxci.—There will be launched from the yard of Mr. William Perine, at Greenpoint, this afternoon, at half-past one o'clock, the ship Henry Harbeck, of 800 tons burthen, built for Messrs. Harbeck & Co., of this city, and intended for the general freighting business. She will be commanded by Capt. Henry True, Jr’, under whose superintendence the vessel was built. We hear a rumor from Washington that the instruc- int them for the use of its members, or to allow ex- etsto be taken from them. What kind of instrac- rehase of threo 'lines of railroad, all outside of the nited States, and propose to give fifty millions for one, irty-five millions for another, and fifteen millions and ive millions to tle Garay plunderers for the third. ‘The WE EES Yet notwithstanding all this, according to I our advices from Washington, the lobby as always been considered of infinitely higher tter measure there are only a few little orthless Territorial offices depending, while e Gadsden treaty involves the magnificent sum “twenty millions of dollars, hard cash. Some ve millions of this amount is to be set aside for tother schedule of Gardner claims, to be ad- lot, in a manner to be agreed by the seconds. jae aye soe 4. The word is to be given in the following manner :— “Gentlemen, are you ready? (upon eash party, zo. Bponding ‘rendy,1!) fire—one, two, three, halt ”—not mone, nor more in tw j- tween each word from fire’ to halter °° “Pte be 5. Neither party shall be permitted to elevate his pis- tol from a perpendicular position before the word “ fire, ? or, fire af er the word “halt,” under the penalty of” ot down seco . coun tereidi y md of the adversary of the- 6. ‘The pistols are to be loaded with the charge of powder and one round ball, each to be load alike, by some person or persons to be selected, by. and under the supervision of the respective seconds. 7. The positions having been marked out by the seconds, the choice thereof is to be decided by lot. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, “JAS. MONROE. [Endorsed] Correct, T. T. Hawkins, No. vil. COL. HAWKINS TO COL. MONROR. ‘WasinGron, March 29, 1854—10 P. M. a ees oie ‘R—I have the honor to acknowledge the your note of this date. bas cag! ha There seems to be a misapprehension as to the relative positions of Mr. Breckenridge and the Hon. Mr. Cutting. r. Breckenridge, I am contident, conaiders himself the challenged, not the challenging . I never enter- tained the idea that my principal occupied any other attitude. Under there. circumstances, segseire, that the rights appertaining by custom to the ty belong to» . Breckenridge, who. stands only in adefcnsive post. r. Cutting, who addressed the original tion, and not to 3 note to him on which this correspondence is based. Ihave the honor to remain, respect, your obedient servant, , With assurances of high. T. T. ILAWKINS. [Endorsed] Correct, 1. 1. HAwxrNs. NO. IX, COL. MONROE TO COL. HAWKINS. Wasuincton, March 20, 1864. Con. T. T. Hawkis— San-—In reply to your note of this date, I 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 , find that Mr. Cutting uses the following language:—‘‘In the course of the debate in DEPARTURE OF CALJFORNIA STRAMERS.—The mail steam- ship Illinois, and the independent steamship North Star, for Aspinwall, with the steamship Northern Light, for Nicaragua, went to sea yesterday,each with a large num- ber of passengers bound to California. ‘Tne Steamsmr Arnica left at noon yesterday for Liver- Pool, With 112 passengers, and $191,081 in specie on freight. ‘Tar Sreamemr Bautr.—The following letter was pre- jting an emperor, under the protection of the | sented to Captain Briggs, temporarily rg command of the wned heads of Europe, over Mexico and | Collins steamer Baltic, on her arrival 4th inst,:— (tral America ; and that emperor, the un- SreameR Baxtic, April 4, 1854. &pulous and ambitious Santa Anna. bay bang rgeery gents ry nanny 7d rg rs by the Baltic on her present trip from Liverpool, at orrupt as this treaty is, yet, under the | te termination of an unusually rough and boisterous Psure of the lobby, Voyage, are desirous of expressing their appreciation of or under mistaken no- | the manner in Minn you have bet fo render such : tit ‘: t voyage a most agresable one to them. Aside from th ts of public policy, it is possible that itmay | Fivetompetlormerce ot your dutige as meta ine Iatified—yes, it is possible that this grand (ems aadh etn dg Hh Lanai hy es rb ha . ceessive nights—you have beon unceasing in your ef- hi of twenty millions may be confirmed, un- | forts to mae your Passengers not only comrortble bat dthe delusive and preposterous idea of fix- inhe landmarks of a lasting peace and friend- stwith Santa Anna, But though the Senate mratify this monstrous abortion—this naked happy. You have performed the part of an experienced and skilful and safe commander, and also that of the Mabominable iniquity—though the couatry mbe kept awhile in the dark as to the of- generous host, the kind, obliging friend, and the cour. fi log-rolling and — stock-jobbing in sted before another board of commissioners— oet likely like the Gardner board; five millions, rhaps, are to go to the relief of the lobby ents ; others, to brokers of Santa Anna in sshington and in Mexico ; while ten millions ) to be used in putting down Gen. Alvarez, {. Walker, and the Mexican people, and in teous gentleman. Your personal attention to ihe wants and conveniencies of us all has endeared you to ail of us. You have laid us under a sense of obligation which we shall always cherish, and can never forget; we part from you as from some old and long Yalued friend, while we beg you to accept our earnest wishes for your happi- ness and well being, now and always {Signed by all the cabin passéngors, both ladies and ththing for the public plunder, it has | Sime) ec ‘ ’ REVERUE Curren Carkn Custixa retarned to thi yéto pass through the crucible by port yesterday, afler acruise of four ‘moni oo the mas Easiérn coast for the purpose of relieving vossels in dis- Ukfouse of Representatives. The Honse | pene sure thet te te are nailed two thousand m\ appropriate before the money caa be und = forty miles, and has boarded two : * undred and thirty vessels, follows:—¥Yorty ships, betained. The threo millions, cash down, | thirty brigs, and ono hundred. aud aiety one sahoomeett rered by Santa Anna on the ratification, bette mp sho has relieved and seeiated, alghiaen, 1 my nom © ship, seven barks, four b choon- wifford the proper occasion for demauding | ere — Bue (Portiand), apres tern Argus (Portiand), Aprit 4. the House this morning, 1n reply to what I considered to be a legitimate criticism upon your argument, you assert- ed that what Thad said was false. Inow ail upon you to retract this assertion, or make the explacation dus from one gentleman to another.” 1am not ablo to regard tis in the light of a challenge, and Tam confident it was not so regarded by my princi pal, nor did it seem to be ro considered by Mr. Breckon. ridge in his reply of the same date. ‘To enable me, however, to speak with certainty on this point, I wish to confer with my principal, and will apprise you of the result of that conference to-morrow morning Ihave the honor to be, your obedient servant, JAS. MONROB. [Endorsed] Correct, T. T. Hawkins, No. X. COLONEL MONROE TO COLONEL HAWKINS. WaAssINGTON, March 30, 1868. Con. T. T. Hawkrxs— Sin—I have the honor to apprise you that on sonfer- ring with my principal, Tam authorited to say that-the» view taken by me of Mr. Cutting’s original note as ex pressed in my note to yorf last evening, is correct. Thave the honor to'be, your obedient servant, JAS. MONROE. [Endorsed] Correet, T. 'T. HawkiNe. XO. XI. COL, HAWKINS TO COL. MONROE. Wasiinarox, March 30, 1854—2 o'clock, Cor, Jas, Morror:— Sin—As you inform mein your note of this date that neither the Hon. Mr. Cutting nor yourselt considers his original note as a chailenze to Mz. Breckenridge, but merely a demand for verbal explanation of language used. in debate, 1 have merely to refer you to Mr. Brecken ridge’s note to Mr. Catting of the 29th of Mareb. Tremain, With assurances of igh esteem, your obedi- ent servant, J.T. HAWKINS. (Endorsed) Correct, T. 1. Hawxins, NO. xt COLONEL MONROE TO COLONBL HAWKINS, Wastixgroy, March 30, 1854. Cor. TT, Hawsres— Sin—In anewer to your note of this date, referring me to: Mr. Breckenridge’s of the 27th inst. to Mr..Cutting, I have he honor to enclose to you the reply which Mr. Cutting Fae spoils aint o bus'ness Sapa n) life 'n| all the facts, all the papers, all the correspon- { THE CUTTING AND BRECKENRIDGE DIFFICULTY ‘ i | | |