Daily National Intelligencer

WASHINGTON MONDAY. DECEMBER 22.

We present to our readers a Selection of the most interesting of the Documents transmitted to the House of Representatives from the Department of State, in relation to Galveston and Amelia Island. In regard to the first named rendezvous, the propriety of the seizure of which has been most questioned, the facts now disclosed are so strong as to place the correctness, we may say the unavoidable necessity, of the measure, beyond all doubt. With regard to Amelia Island, so much was already known to the public, from its immediate proximity to our settled borders, that little remained to be told. On this point, therefore, the additional information imparted by the documents, is of minor interest, compared with that relating to the former place. It may be remarked, in regard to these documents generally, that there are occasions on which information is communicated to a government, a disclosure of which would be prejudicial to the public interest, or to that of individuals who have given it. The President, it will be recollected, communicated, as requested by Congress, such documents only as were conceived not improper to be made public. and though we have no particular information to justify the suggestion—this appears to us to be one of those occasions on which the Executive might act unwisely by exposing to the world all the information in its possession.