FROM WASHINGTON
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As the following letter, received from Col. SEWER contains matters of interest to many of readers we take pleasure in laying it before them:

 WASHINGTON, March 9th, ls44

 DEAR SIR,-Mr Calhoun, the great Caro- linian, as he IS now commonly designated, was, on this day, nominated to the Senate, for the vacancy in the State Department, and that nomination, within few hours after, was confirmed by the Senate. His acceptance of the office, however, is uncertain 1t was bestowed upon him, as it has been stated and Is understood, without the knowledge or so- licitation of either himself or any intimate personal friend But if he can sec a fair prospect of amicably adjusting our Oregon controversy; if he should conclude, as I ,,ow think he will, that he can strengthen his idolized southern, but weaker, portion of the coniederacy, by bringing Texas into the Union, as Mir. Jefferson did the Mississippi river and Louisiana; if he can prevent the palpable evasion, by British authorities, of certain clauses in the Washington treaty, upon the subject of runaway negro cuipsiis, to the British Atlantic Islands, in the vicinity of our coast, or to the British Provinces of North America; and. lastly, if he should believe that he can, through the medium of friendly negotiations, and for fair equivalents, based upon the principles of free trade, which he so well understands and so justly values, procure admisslon, into foreign markets, of our bread-stuilss provisions, and other agri- cultural products. as well as the great south ern staples of rice, cotton and tobacco, all of which, heretofore, in great measure;