The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-04-27
LA9gST ErELLIsEscE BY rEg nslIS.
WASHINGTON. April d Iax6

WASHINGTON, April q, 1886
Congrea--The Prssident--IHe Ultras--Fathsr
Richie and the Nofice-Mr. IagTsou and Mr.
Webster-Mr. Allen and the Presidency-My.
Dickinson and the Vice-P yssidency.
The House passed several small billy through
committee, to-day, and adjourned. The notice not
having gone up TO the President yet, II may not be
signed TIL Tuesday or Wednesday and then the
Executive has to scratch his head over the dscre
tom with which he is empowered to give the no.
tice. We rather expect he will have the discretion
to give It forthwith; tor Judging from late message
OF his to the Senate, 1t would be fair to presume thai
he only wanted the authority, TO employ the notice
in the coercion of Mr.. Pakenham TO terms OF set
Element.
The rltras OF Congress, in any event, will endea-
vor to weave political capital from this Oregon dis
pute II II De settled upon ~, then they will de-
nounce the treaty; and assume, with imperturbabe
efrontery upon the stump, that had helr policy been
pursued, we should not have been compelled TO this
humiliatlng surrender OF part OF the national do
the extreme and improbable contingency OF
war should unhappily follow, then they will up
turn their innocent eyes to heaven, and shed GRO
codlle tears before the mass meetings." at the
country groceries, in pioHs lamentations that their
plan OF sverting the war was 80 unrigheously dis
regarded.
Have you ever seen an old setting hen fly from
empty nest, out among the poultry, cackling with
voubility that would seem to indicate she had just
laid dozen eggs If you have not, you can have
no idea of the ecsatc rejolclngs, on the night sue
ceedng the final agreement OF the two Houses upon
the noticeno idea, SIR, OF the rapturous herocs OF
Father Ritcnle He laughs-he shakes hands with
everybody-he is az happy a. some poor sinner who
has Just " got through" at Methodist revival. He
jumps round-he shouts-he falls to the earth laugh
ing, springs up again. and clapping his hands toge-
Their, with most vociferous conclusion, he shouts
again and again" HalelLjah the notice ls
passed. Hurrah for the two Houses that eectedme
the printer"
= But the very next evening, some Of the unsatis-
fed having rsprlmanded the venerable Nestor, for
his unseemy desertion Of the small minority against
the notice. and mortified at the thought that he had
in his raptures been tramping upon the toes OF Al
len, Cass. flanagan, Breese, Dickinson, Douglass,
Chapman, and Others he takes 1t all back-he ex-
plains il all away-the notice was not the thing, al
ter all but il was better tran none, and though no
NAV have said great deal in its glorlfcaon, really
he had thought his friends knew him and his op-
Mons too well TO think, tor 8 moment, ne was In
earnest.
he will bring Mr.. Webster to the book, on Monday
next He can't touch Webster-he will prove no.
thing against hm-hs will not even succeed IN es-
tablishing a starveing Of suspicion. And the
most deplorable news that the next steamer will
have to take to England, will be, that the Char.
man on Foreign Affairs OF the House, has pocketsd
the reiterated charge OF "talsehood < ana tnat NE
0hairman on Foreign Relations in the Senate, the
great war chief, with pair OF the best duelllng
pistols in the world, as we are informed) has pas
sivey submitted to be fayed alive, without resis-
lance.
Speaking of Mr. Allen, we see that he has been
nut in motion for the Presidency in Ohio, and has
been endorsed by leading democratic paper OF ILL
nos This, Of course, was before the news Of the
last DAVIS discussion OF the notice had crossed the
mountains We rather apprehend that that news
will cool the ardor of the Buckeyes for the man
that flinched in the hour OF peril and OF personal
danger.
We are not sufficiently we'll advised to assure you
that Mr. Dickinson will run for the Vice Presidency,
beiC.e the next national nominating convention
but as modesy alone is the great drawback OF COM
petent and experienced statesmen, we would advise
Mr.. ID. that he has chance, if he will only come
out, abandon Secretary Marcy and the old co nser-
vatve anti.sub-treasury hunkers, and 90 upon the
progressive principle.
And that's about all for the present