| Show our correspondent fro pon dent ut washington D C december ath 1838 nut A esq I 1 mr DEAR sni SIR having recently received t the hands of a mutual friend a copy of t air valley tan shade pf af joe smith tha hat t a n name a I 1 thought I 1 would take time to i drop arop you v ou a short epistle from the scene of ur nut last wi winters liters la labors hors I 1 intend the th letter for kwi ok to publish or let alone just as aa you get fit but as the distance is is great I 1 will ill ti ot burthen your prairie prairie steamboats MB ua ima mules with any ally extra paper bul I 1 wr lt alose and on both sides of tf the sheet j fell some regret to think that you ou are so ir aw away from the capitol and joe hamlins hamkins Ham lins ta at t am somewhat reconciled by alia an noun oun cement coment in your our introductory that y your our new iv paper has an ardent and that you have tem banked in that baroff far off valley this ling ti netlie the case louval louv nl hardly pack up your our raps aps ani ana start for a new ranche in in a hurry adon bildin my alluding to your houi t ei er ra which are only the more excusable because as 09 you state your compositors are placed laced in in horizontal instead of f ia but without further reflex MS a allow 0 W in me I 1 to 0 state what ahat Is doing and about to lie be doo done at this metropolis ne he message of mr Ba buchannan channan having an n sent to cengr congress essy and published in in the papers pers on monday it will no d doubt abt reach yon n before my ay letter does doe sana and yo you awill will know im perusal what to ta dewith do anth it and what to val adf about it here we regard it with S sat action and gene generally ally consider it a very tery ie and nd truly democratic document in t to e every ry topic to which he alludes aviews of the president are such aslean as I 1 can heartily sanction except only so far as re aej am and have always been an fn decidedly in favor fat or of free trade lind and dia ditt red taxation if ic the sj system stem were practicable it can hardly be eap exp expected L T ted that I 1 should favor anything savoring so strongly strong of the krotec fo nials theory theor as a few paragraphs of this emage do 0 but I 1 shall not oppose the this ground and am amerce fred allow that under present circumstances a loser oser approximation to tb a protective tariff w will tend to relieve embarras as of f e country jn in the ina matter ater of a acquiring czuirin 7 cuba ebba I 1 have I 1 et t to tear bear any oney fonenot not ai a black k republican aaa iter ir any objection so also in respect io to e extension of a protectorate over 0 er ali the borr stafe State s sot of mexico and to protecting the asit routes over ov er ill the e isthmus on all these liters the president I 1 think expresses the i P pul arview so also with respect to t the th r alef le tor r the admission of new states slates as laid down wain in his well timed remarks on the kan tas subject and relative to the jm improvement of our national de fences tile the reports ac the message meet with similar jeneral favor and the me several recommend a eions DM of the secretaries will aill have no little tfx eight with congress s you ou will percel perceive ive that lat ahe secretary of bf war alludes rather ither keouli gly to a arbon portion of cu our co community m burdt li on just these animadversions may be I 1 cannot annot of course know personally but they are fully borne out by the reports which ach us at this distant point from the scene Ma Illig every al allowance lomance for the eions of biased and prejudiced minds we are constrained iBB trained to regard the adhel adherents ants of mor louism in a most unfavorable light the aders adars we look laok upon as impostors whose sensibilities have been deadened by Alibi tion and the people for the most part pait 4 s icing eing deluded and deceived for my own part otherwise inasmuch I 1 la 6 the enterprise energy and yer perseverance severance echave evinced Is highly worthy ofard tle truly it was no unimportant task e penetrate the vast solitudes of utah 0 and boull a city in in that almost inaccessible wil agnelis Ar 1688 nelis the industry was worthy a better W than the foundation of system of theo CT so 10 utterly at af va variance ilance with the uever a ic laws oi of right and wr wrong i on g almay may be offending through this andul ince ice in animadversions agar against dinst tho those seiho who IY y toria form i a artion portion of your patronizing patro nuin lends ends I 1 do donot not mean to ia do so by ony ny lane but to express what are the mt opinions at thi this s point 01 0 course congress 14 has not transacted 7 business lu siness yet they have hav e been I 1 in ll 11 session da two days I 1 having I 1 adjourned over yester Y until tomorrow to morrow lin order to give the speakers filler your friend colonel orr time to irb e the standing anding Bt committees commit mit coin teeg tees 0 on n the first day J of the ses ari an effort was mid made e hy by mr dew arty of penn to introduce a resolution looking to the increase of the tariff this was even before the receipt of the message th the lio house se refused to suspend the rules by a vote of yeas 98 08 nays two thirds being required you remember you will admit that this vote apparently betrays a strong tariff sentiment in in the house and the krotec zionists are greatly encouraged by it they contend that they will be able to pass a protective tariff during the session on the second day an effort wai was made in the house to kill off a bill lying over from last session providing for the abrogation of the clayton bulwer treaty it did not i succeed the vote ote being against laying it on the table to 87 in favor this treaty you know allow allows lows s england or any other nation to make what terms they can with the central A american ari states provided always that the united states is is to precisely the same f facilities a cili ties and that no nation is is to attempt to acquire acquire possession oi of any portion of the isthmian territory by conquest or purchase unless the consent of all parties be firt first obtained ever ener since bice and aid before the treaty was made england has held the Musli lito province on the isthmus and refused to surrender it notwithstanding the constant admonitions ions and reprehensions of our government she contended talat that the fie terms terin s of treaty t were vere not retrospective and as she held the province prior to its existence she persisted in holding it still the object of cona congress is to abiog abrogate ate that treaty compel england to relinquish her claim on the mus quito country ana and restore the monroe doctrine which forbids the nations nation s of this continent tin eatto to form alliances alliance b s with etli european Europ pan powers unless b by y ib the g general bo consent of bf neighboring nations this should shoula have been our policy always and would have haie been roost most likely but that we lie have had bad just enough IV whig ig administrations to thwart the true in in teresta of ihen the P country 0 fihe ol opposition position would now throw away this isthmus kustaa as the country north of washington territory to the latitude of 54 degrees 40 minutes was thrown throw n away andev and sw ear that it is not worth w orth having but I 1 forget that I 1 am talking to people away out in in italis utah who mho probably feel no interest inter pst in the subject tt yesterday esterday general consent being obtained in the house to introduce bills and ald resolutions from the territories the call call w was as made and mr otero rew mexico introduced bills billi for the completion of nAli military tary roads from fort union to santa fe new mexico and from taos laos to sante re fe and for making a grant of lands in new mexico kansas and missouri to aid in in the construction of railroads mr M berria bernhisel introduced d resolutions instructing the committee on military affairs to inquire into the expediency of refunding to the territory of utah tb the expense incurred in sup i pressing indian in 18 3 also to J inquire I 1 nto into the expediency of constructing a military road from bridgers pass to great salt lake city also that aliat the flie committee on territories inquire into the expediency of 0 making a small app appropriation to increase the torri territorial torl al libraries mr stevens stevena introduced bills for the construction of a wagon road from rort fort abercrombe on the red river of the north to beatle on sound and forthe for the suri suney ey of the upper missouri and columbia ri eners ers all these matters exe referred erred to the appropriate committees mit tees and from what nhat I 1 know v of of the objects and of the general sentiment of congress te re latie dative thereto I 1 ani am almost confident they will all meet with favor faor except that thai looking to the ref refunding lind ng of moneys to your territorial ja authorities in view of the heavy expense to the country oi of fitting out an expedition to utah to quell rebellion there it hardly seems fair that the country should be called on to pay ak ai y such claim and congress will not be in in a humor to allow it just now it at any rate beale who A tio is constructing a road from fri fort smith sinith via alburquerque to the rio colorado del west is is the object of great solicitude here on account of the reported hostile attitude of the indians along his route it was rumored that lie he had already encountered no little trouble from the Ca manches but this is is now contradicted by positive in information through a member of his party who m ho has already returned home ile he has two companies of cavalry tor for an escort and his bis own company is fifty strong i strong trong yet as he is is to traverse the country country odthe warlike mojave and 0 indians the war department has seer fit to order gen dark clark to send him two other companies from the california side tor for iia his protection protection both those these last named tribes are said to bevery be very troublesome As ai I 1 hive have sent you about all the news current I 1 will wind vind up by aeling adding that tha I 1 have transferred nu numerous aili articles cles from the valley tan tan 12 to the starl star and hope you will give me me a chanco chance to do 11 i again I 1 will send you the star it you can aivord td roe reciprocate ip by sending your twenty fil ni e cent sheet in exchange and you shall bear a again gait from me it publish this please please to sigar me by abe old f eoal |
