Washington Dispatches.
--The telegraphic correspondent from
Washington furnishes the following items:
‘
The Territory of
New Mexico, with her hundred thousand inhabitants, is awakening to a sense of her own situation.
With dissolution her allegiance ceases, and she must cling to her nearest and most powerful neighbors for allies.
Owing no allegiance, she becomes independent, and the arbiter of her own future.
That she will attach herself to the republic of the
Pacific, which will include
California,
Oregon,
Washington Territory and
Utah, is the conviction of her representative men here.
Mr. Otero, the able delegate from
New Mexico, takes this view of the case in the event of a break up of the government.
He has already written to the territorial authorities in
New Mexico not to accept any more
United States draft, but to require pay in cash.
’
The Committee of Thirty-three were in session to-day for several hours, but only discussed in an excited way the propositions before them.
About four o'clock,
Hon Reuben Davis, the
Mississippi member of the
Committee, came into the
House and announced that he was convinced the committee would not do justice to the
South, and therefore desired to be excused from further service upon it. The
House excused him instantly and by an almost unanimous vote.
Another and later account states that the committee are nearer to an agreement than heretofore, and that they will report a practical plan of compromise.
Judge Douglas asserts that he will not speak at present, nor make the coercion speech attributed to him. He is in favor of exhausting all peaceable measures for the settlement of existing difficulties.
