Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1859 — The San Juan Affair. [ARTICLE]

The San Juan Affair.

The misunderstanding about the ownership ol the little Island of San Juan, on the i coast of Washington Territory, which Gen. I Harney has aggravated nearly to the point | of hostile collission by taking military possession of the disputed property, is a good deal more serious than the value of the pro-, petty would indicate. How the President has sumn oned General Sen t to consult ' about it, and the Cabinet has debated it, and ' the veteran Commander in Chief has been I smith nly dispatched to the far off region of trouble to avert the first steps of a war, our readers are aware, but they may not be aware that the English Government regard the matter quite as seriously as we do, and have s°nt their Commander-in-Chief, the Duke of Cambridge, to act on their behalf. He set sail tor Vancouver’s Island some days before the last steamer arrived here. Gen. i Scott started on Tuesday. Both have doubt- | less been trusted with large discretionary I powers to avert the calamity of a war, and I we need hardly fear that they will use them for othty than peace keeping purposes. I There is enough of color on each side of the i dispute to justify pretty decided opinions, ■ and with General Harney’s headlong disposition, and Governor Douglass’ fiery petu- ■ lance, a collission might happen at any moI inent, but once t'‘e two venerable Commanders reach the scene of difficulty we apprehend that the end of danger will have been reached.— lnd- Journal. ijfT’X Maine newspaper, in announcing the death of Henry Johnson, Mayor of New buryport, says: “He was an uncle of the , Hon. Caleb Cushing, but otherwise a respectable and worthy man.”