The North-Carolina standard., 1847-03-10
This sort Of thing went on fof hours, while the
pressing business of hesession was Of course de-

Il nave brought your readers down to the extra
\ ordinary proceedings in the Senate up to 81. when
! Archer having arisen for et"speech by way OF
crawling backwards out of position in which as
I Chairman of former Committee considering the
subject Of employing official reporters, found him
self placed. Benton, amendment TO the reso-l
.i1uton then under considetation, had moved that
I the payfor the contemplated service be cut down
to one half, to correspond with the prices recon-
mended by Archer on that occa sion. A. opposed
Benton's amendment of course, and esaayed to
reconcile his present opposition tothe low prices
recommended by himself then. He ever was the
4 most 5ineomprehensible man in the Senate, and
when attempting TO justify so papablean inconsis-
tency he had fain to jump into his myste-fstcs at
the start. So bolted for a plate OF oysters and In
thus Fastening 10 guard my brain from his twsti-
cak repetitions of his half ideas, lost what from
description was the richest scene of that day of
scenes. Unfortunate man--he, undertook to Iec-
ture the Senate on Senatorial scustoms and cour-
! tesies, and 10 denounce the democracy, for whom
Benton had been standing Upyso vigorous and eff
fective,a champion. Among the hardest things said
BY him this occasion w as the declaration that of
all tyrannies, that of the democracy, over this
try the direst. Benton rose to reply with the
! Very devil Of pure mischief in his eye. He went
to work even to initiate the manner of the Virginia
Senator, which you know is pomposity itself; and
after knocking his rhetorical pins from under him.
proving that his views of Senatorial customs were
as shallow as their ilustrious authorize commenc-
ed deploFng that the Senate, by the inc xorabe fiat
OF loco-foco legislature, to lose the
invaluable SERVICES Of its master of feeremones-iis
chairman of the committee on eiiquette-the very
last scion OF the Senatorial stock of " the o-oo-td
Virginia gentleman % The Senate and audience
screeched as much over Benton's indescribable
droery he mimcked Al chers style TO the life as
over the point of his w.t. which was as sharp as a
two edged sword Archer took-being made fun
of-in high dudgeon, and began to buster; which,
at once put old Bullion in good humor-so he
parrIed AS personalities by quiety1urning his pas
sion as much into ridicue but an instant before
he had turned his seIf-s ufici ency. Archer like
! al last hafto Of IN ioin cd
in the hearty laugh al his own expense
| Reverdy Johnson next undertook TO lecture B
about wasting time in what he well knew was 10
be, IN the end fruess opposition to The will of the
majority OF the Senate. Old Bullion, who prides
himself upon being literally and emphaticalIy a
business man: toDk fire at the nsinBaton, and seiz
ed upon it as justification for then delivering his
/ speech on the Richie resolutions, with which
sickness had interfered He asked Johnson with
what grace he any Of the federal "bal-
ance o. power' party in the Senate, dared TO as
sail him (Benton) about wasting time, after hav-
ing SO lately deliberately spent three whole days
through the person of Thomas Ritchie. He went
on to show that their action at that time neth
er more nor less than political plot vile in its
inception as sinister ia its object He absolutely
laughed their efforts to scorn and threw in their
teeth the declaration that instead Of iniuring demo-
cratic principles and degrading and disgracing Tho
mas Richie, they had only degraded the Senate
in the estimation Of honest and patriotic men, and
disgraced themselves. Such were his words; while
Maugum, Calhoun, Archer, Berrien and Reverdy
Johnson, who were fighting him,lsat beneath Them
as though incapable of reply. He took up the his
tory of Richie, and describing him the friend
and co-labourer of Jefferson and Madison in the
cause of RePublicanism, he went on to show how
much that cause was indebted 10 the ceaseless
care and devotion of the soul of the
Editor Mr.. Richie himself was in the Gallery
looking down upon the scene, While the Editors OF
the lnlelligencer, who have faithfully stood by
the cause of France, of England and now Of Mexi t
oil
iolling at their the privileged sofas, from
which the former had been expelled. The vener-
able Richie drew back, as If overwhelmed with |
intense feeling as Benton y armed pP in bis euio-
GUM, for such it~was, ending TOO, With declara-
tlOn that the people of the United States would
tight the liberty of the press thus outraged, and
zeal the wounded spirit of its defender and assertor
Buren for a similar Gauge overthis body5 uyour
Chair, Mr. President" If you never saw bear !;
hunt where the chase was huge old I" he fellow"
you cannot realize the scene in the Senate during
the whole debate on this resolution. There stood
Old Bullion like the old he bear bay---the pact
having closed in upon him and barking fercely;
and like the old he bear, whenever he struck one
the blood few.
shall moi pretend to follow up the proceedings
of Tuesday night and Wednesday in detail. Bent
on contended that the scheme for official reporting
is TO furnish bonus 10 sustain the long talked of
paper TO be edited by Gen. Duff Green which il Is
now conceded is 10 be Calhoun paper. Green
certainly took great interest in pushing the Iesolu
tions through. II it turns that Benton is right
and in such matters he is rarely wrong friend Han
negan vii be in an awkward fix---standug Sena-
toria father of the resolutions. However, no one
imputes such idea him, for Of the political
plot at the bottom of it, if such does exist, Hanne-
gan is surely totally ignorant. s.. I:
On Tuesday the House were principally enga-
ged in voting the various amendments to The
civil and diplomatic and other appropriation bills
until late hour Of the night.
On Wednesday, they too, voted down the Will
mot proviso, by passing the three million bill as
returned by the Senate, ayes l02 noes 92 They
passed the bills tor the construction of four new Il
war Steamers, and to appropriaeS600 600 for build
ing National Mail sea Steamers---one line TO pIyl
between New York and Liverpool another from
New York to New Orleans, and still another from
New Orleans to Chagres, the point from whence
travellers and the mail destined for the Pacific
leave the Atlantic to cross the Ishmus The Irish
relief bill ($500, ,000) was not finally acted on by
the House. and so it liessdead. For two DAYS the II
House insisted adheriDg to their amendment
enactIng the Lieut.. General bill as part of Sena-
torial supplemental army bill. Three of four COM
miltees, of conference were at work to arryfnae
terms between the House and Senate, when, fromk
the absence of five sick democratic Senators the
federaists and balances had majority of one or
two. Terms were az last agreed on, which al midi
night resulted in the nomination and confirmation
OF Thomas Hart Benton, and Col Cumming of
Georgia, TO be Maj jor Generals in the.regular SER
vice AS the bill stands, whenever the Executive
thinks 1t necessary to place Benton in command,
ne can do it ,lIaefuAy. AT present, take it. his