The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-11-30

w ARLINGTON, Nov. %, le48.
State of the Political Cauldron -Nsv Movement in the
Senate-.A New and Grand Condition Of Treaty. of
Peace of the Greatest COMMERCIAL Lmpsrtanee-TAs
Van Ness Case-7Ae Conner Stock knocked all :. Ms
Dogs- Grsnd System of Forge,ies all Comiasf 10 EsAf
Nothing at all stirring upon the surface Of the pstcs
cauldron day. but from the slow heavy movement of
the liquids, have the most omnous symptoms that
the sfervescence ofhe dscordant fluids beginning sad
that the miscellaneous sedmentsry deposites viii bs
brought the top We shall then the Spanish cook d
for sancho Panza have the pleasure of skimmns on the
ducks and turkiss they turned to tho surface In
the ebullitions of the boiling ingredients interpreting
this into the vernacular Of the day signifies that we
are verging to the upshot ofa general skrimnags.
Hon. Jabez w. Huntington, Of the Senate aud lady
Hon Mr.. Stanton, Of Tsnn Of the HOUSE of Reprssen
tatives and Hon. Mr. Allen Of the Senate, are among
the recent arrivals. We have not seen senator Allen
but understand he 10 here. co. 1t ID we'll because there
The coming SESSION Col Benton Il is ssS Pes tS D
chair Foreign Relations in the place of Mr. Nc Dune
duties Of the situation This l. an important Once and
in its control there depends great deal in the safs and
speedy and udcious settlement of the Oregon question
that 10, the Mexican question. In the hands Of Mr.
Benton as Chairman Foreign Relations, there would
be stronger reason TO hope for compromise with re-
spect 10 the slavery question in the settlement Of boun-
dsries. than il Mr. McDune ret ined, MIR Cal
houn chosen in his place, or Mr. Allen Each Of the
south Carolnsns would the extension Of the Mis-
sour; compromise Of SO the Pacific a. the
northern boundary in continuation Of the institution of
slavery and without some such compromise, treaty
sdus,ne the Southern extension of the upisn can be
ogyeed 10 in the Senate Colonel Benton ia q conserve
tive upon the slavery question His views upon that
nuestIon assnilatc very closely with the views of Mr.
Clay and believed to be Identical with those Of oo-
mel Polk After California extends up to the 42d degree
north latitude and between that parallel and the line OF
30 nd the choicest portion Of that province and
the harbor Of San Francisco. In the hands OF the tn
men, and in view Of the Pacific trade, this would
might turn ont to be dangerous concession the part
Of tho South
But there is in the plan of the administration beau.
tful Offset to all these calculations respecting the hsr
borsat Astoria and at San Francisco, with its mountain
bound wiud-shctered and serene and cspacious Occ.
dental basin as the depots of the future teemng
merce that Is to whiten the bee line to the Sandwich
Islands, and thence 20 the Celestial dog eaters OF
the Chinese empire there IL plan, say in the eye
Of the administration that Is 10 all this great trade
to lower latitude by several degrees laiitndnsL
hundred miles, less south OF Alvarado on the
Mexican Gulf there IL small river, called ~ the sonor
Gus appelativc of Huasscusco pronounced Yves ss-
qualco) At this point the continent is not overtw"
hundred miles wide that s the distance from the Allan
tic across TO the Pacific that point 10 not over two
hundred miles In nearly direct line across from ths
mouth of this river there s you approach the great
mountain chain which winds its way the Hank OK ha
Psoinc from Cape Horn to orssnlsnds icy noun