Ellsworth American

The Amistad Case.—The Evening Post in alluding to the debate which was sprung upon the Senate, almost at its first sitting, pays Mr. Fessenden the following handsome compliment.—

Mr. Fessenden, of Maine, ably resisted this attempt to put the ownership of negroes above all other claims to the public attention Mr. Mason could only say that Mr. Buchanan thought the claim to these Africans a just one, and so did Mr. Pierce before him. Mr. Fessenden exposed the futility of this argument by showing that Mr. Buchanan's opinion of the merits of a private claim imposed no duty on Congress to give it the precedence not only of other claims equally meritorious, but of all public business. Mr. Fessenden carried too many guns for his antagonist, and left him disabled.

The Senate made the question a party one and voted to take it up on Tuesday of this week.

The Evening Times says the superfluous words in the President's Message, operated so powerfully on three employees of the office, that they were placed hors du combat and unfit for labor. The Evening Post in commenting on the message says.—

For our own part, instead of finding fault with Mr. Buchanan for his verbosity, we have been grateful to him for dealing with us so mercifully. When he said that evanescent evils would speedily vanish away, we were thankful that he did not go on to tell us that the evils which speedily vanish away must be of short continuance, and that the evils which are of short continuance must soon come to an end. It is evident that he had us in his power, and might have pushed us to the dictionary's end; but he generously refrained.