Your correspondent is made to say in his last dispatch that Richardson of Ill. is opposed to Douglas's Nebraska bill. He intended to say that Richardson's Committee (the Territorial Committee) would not make a majority report in favor of the bill. Richardson is in favor of the bill, of course, but a majority of his Committee, at present, are not. As I understand it, the Chairman brought the matter before the Committee a day or two ago, but was able to obtain the sanction of but four of the nine members of the Committee.
The great and gallant compromiser Foote of Mississippi, got here to- day.
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