The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-05-28
LATEST INTELLIGENCE
BY the Mails.
WASHINGTON, May IS, l646.
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Short Paragraphs.
There was a racy episode in the House this
morning on the charge that one of the members,
from Tennessee, had been sold on the log-roIling
bill OF rivers and harbors.
Marcus Morton, il is reported, was confirmed
also, Brigadier General Taylor as Major General
by brevet, in executive session of the Senate to-
day.
Day excessively hot. The evening full ofclouds
and electricity, but no rain.
In the new regiment of dragons, Lieut. Fro
mont, Typographical Engineers, is now created
several grades above him. The appointing mt is
q good one but il cannot fail Of exciting jealousy
among the regular army"
Mr.. Henry G. Pope, OF Kentucky, clerk in the
Treasury Department, is appointed captain in
the same regiment, as we are credby informed.
This will be another bone of contention on the
part of the regular officers.
Mr.. Percival Smith, of New Orleans, is another
civilian appointed to the same regiment. There
will be some designations about these appoint
ments, if we may Judge from the temper Of the
regular army. They have a natural aversion TO
being superseded by the militia.
These appointments, and some others, arc a
key TO the wing amendments proposed in the So
nate to the bill increasing the officers ofthe army,
as TO confine them TO the West Pointers.
The Presidents discretion, however, will be left
untrammeled, and he viii doubtless use il like n
iudlcious politician, to the double purpose Of poti-
cal cdpltal ana competent men.
But il does seem to be a legitimate matter OF re-
monstrance that officers who have served in the
army Tor ten or twenty years, should be superse-
ded by raw recruits.
The next'step in these mprsscrptibc innova-
tons, will be the promotion OF some lucky coun-
try editor TO the command of n war steamer.
fem.-ln a few days, We expect motion will
be introduced, simultaneously in beth Houses, for
the adjournment OF Congress sine due, on the 10Th
day of July pror.
Minus-Thc sub-treasury.
Minus-A reduction Of the tariff.
Minus-Thc reduction and graduation of the
public lands.
Minus-The river and harbor bill
Minus-The Oregon jurisdiction bill.
Minus. Thirty millions for the prosecution Of
the existing war with Mexico.
Minus-The bill Of five millions for French in
IDENTITIES
Nfinus-The S275, 600 which the government,
has assumed of Mexican instalments.
Mnus-The harmony of the party and the
prospects of the administration for the succession,
and lastly
Minus-The line of "a 40, and the settlement, OF
the Oregon question by an "amicable adjust
medt."
Which, in whole or in part, will leave beaut-
ful batch Of business upon the shelf for the first
Monday in December next, q called session.
We are getting done for the readers Of the
Herald, most complete and elegant diagram Of
the National Fair Bazaar, or bizarre, as you may
prefer.
Trains are continually running in both direc-
tons between this city and Baltimore, at the ratio
of 500 passengers to locomotive.
Skirrng' gas lights at the National Fair, are the
subject of general admiration.
The Harmonious sing tonight ut Odd Fellows
Hail.
J. B. Cough and Mr.. Kellogg, of Boston, lecture
at Apollo Hall, on cold water-the colder the bet
ter say we. Admission one levy-just the adva-
lorem ola sherry cobbler at the hotels
The cerner appropriated at the tariff bazaar for
the Ladies' Benevolent Society, has been engross-
day, in ices, lemonades and strawberries. The
result will be barrel Of flour and supply of shoes
to many starving family, for we have people
here starving in sight Of the Treasury department.
The day has been us hot as an Egyptian eccalo-
boon.
The receipts at the National Fair. per day, are
estimated at 5000 people, at LII cents, or an
amount.
New additions to the exhibition continue to ar
rive.
trait by Heaiey, of Hon Dixon H. Lewis. Verify
though free trader, he looms out over the or.
chestra like veritable lord Of the loom.
Tomorrow, the public schools and the orphan
asylums visit this national caravansary of homo
industry.
The night is as black as the three-headed dog
OF Pluto, and sultry as the flue of a steam boiler.
We expect a thunder gust before morning equal
to the bombardment OF Matamoras.
Among the distinguished spectators in the Sc
nate gallery to-day, was the lustrious Pop EN-
mons, in the third quarter OF the moon.
house down below, SO taat his friends may drink
his health even in his absence. Foy is an out
and-out subterranean.
There's spirit above and a spirit below
spirit of strife, and q spirit $3.50;
The spirit above gives liberal employ
To the spirit below, and the bar Of joan roy.
In the mater n Of poetry Byant 4 mere toad
and will give him start Of six days out Of seven,
and floor him. He Is blue milk, and nothing
more.
IL,
comes of early rising, and corn bread for break
fast.
Mr.. Calhoun is now positive that the actual
hostlites in Mexico are pretty much the same
thing as a state Of war. The hair was too fine TO
be split.
The news from the South you viii derive from
your regular sources.
Tomorrow we shall have Old Bullion again,
with his third grand instalment upon the Oregon
question. He leaves his swathe as clear behind
him as a reaper in wheat field.
Mr.. Pakenham is getting sun-burnt. We hope
that the climate viii not eventually get too hot TO
hold him.
The author of your New York Mexican song,
" to the tune of Old Dan Tncker,"is a most pro-
missing perpetrator Of doggerel. We hope that
he will get the appointment of cook to the cor
poral.
Hon Zadock Pratt has side of sole leather at
the National Fair he ought to give your laureate
a medal from it, in the shape Of a new moon.
The races at the National Course are resumed
for this week but the day Of the turf in this re-
gon is defunct.
Our landlord Of the United States, dispatches,
tomorrow, schooner 10 Piney Point, one hun
dred miles down the river, with 100 tons Of ice for
the summer campaign, at that popular salt water
place. THE DocToR.
TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS-.
In Senate.
wAsHr.cror May %, lo4e.
Weather hot a. Russian sweathouse. Prayer by Rev.
Mr. Mburn journal Of yesterday Oppressive sccu-
mutation Of strangers In the gallery.
PROFESSOR
Mr. DIE presented memorial from Prof s. B. Morse
Co in reference to the extension Of the Electric Tsle
graph
THE VICTORY"
Mr. PrARcE moved resolution Of enquiry into the pro.