The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-04-11

,nn,onris,ion Of 60y thousand dollars might put 1t
in habitsble condition W ithoutt the exiravsgsnt ornaments
| which had been provided. The debate became general
ard illinl table, and assumed a paltry party character.
Al length the several amenamen S we're rejected and the
$40 SU sns sMp s a and Mr.. WOODBURY. must therefore
consider himself rebuked. The committee next passed
on to the section making an appropriation for light hou'
SEES. respecting which disclosures will be made as start
ling as the Boston Custom House appropriations. Mr.
Profit entered upon a statement Of abuses, but as many
Of the Clay wings were anxious to get home TO discharge
the duties Of their toilet preparatory to their attendance
journed.
ment from Congress, was given by the wing members at
Browns Hotel, this evening. Six o'clock was the hour
psny sat down. These dinners usually occupy an hour
and a hall before the removal Of The cloth. Mr.. Clay
retired AZ half past ten. This fat will show that his
inducements to remain amongst his faithful folio we
were very powerless. And probably a more spiritless
affair was never got UP. The company consisted Of
some 1870 gentlemen, amongst whom there were several
invited guests, some newspaper people, and not a few
who were not in Congress. Mr.. Berrien, United States
Senator from Georgia, presided, supported on his right
by Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Protocol Kennedy, and ON the left
by Mr.. Evans. United States Senator from Maine, and
Mr.. Saltonstslf, of Massachusetts,.
., Mr.. Clay spoke briefly after being TOASTED, rs,i ,sn maa etp RES :
36 years public service, He spoke despondingiy OF pub
lie a%ffairs, though hope which springs eternal IN the hu.
man breast afforded him some occ asiona 81, though almost
undis,ng uishable CLEANS of comfort. Despair evidently
sat brooding over the whole assembiage there was a
restr amt Observable, and an entire restl amt OF enthusi-
asm and they slipped their wine and munched their de-
sert W It'll a vacant earnestness of gaze which was piteous
to look upon. Mr.. S. S. Prentiss Of Mississippi spoke
some bald commonplace tinsellea DER with great effort;
he was evidently not himself. Mr.. Saltonstall re-
sPonjed to the only toast which received a hearty
glowing reception-the name OF John q iiney Adams,
who wal called into the service of his country by Wash
ton, and amongst posteri,y is ever foremost at the post
Of duty.
Mr.. ssltonstalr, ~eulogium of Mr.. Adams, and his
connection Of that eminent statesman and scholar ~
hneal descent, with the first man that stepped upon the
rock OF Ply mouth, from the pinnace Of the May flower,
was the redeeming feature OF the evening, but he had
an IRE sistable propensity to get prosy; it may ia truth
be said, that there was little that was good bat thc din
ner, and nothing sparkling but tina champagne. The
room was sufficiently illuminated to exhibit the taste
with which Mrs. Brown had decorated it, and she had
executed her task with ehastc appropriateness, but It's
floral ornaments served only to reealto mind the custom
of decorating the cold inanimate cofhi I'd remains OF our
dead friends with flowers OF various hues. True, the
laurel was ontwined around the pillar = but the cypress
was there too to fill up the interstices. In short, :" mel
ancholy had marked them for her own"
At hslfpast ten o'clock, Mr.. Clay quietly retired with
out any announcement or leave.taking, and with him
the fourth ofthe company.
Mr.. Mangum succeeded to the Chair for q low min
utes, while Mr.. K .nnedy prefaced a toast with some re
marks on the political aspect OF the times in Aoleful
strains, which said intellgioly I" Tve that within which
passeth show"
The entire company departed before eleven O'Clock.