New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-02-01
The Action Of the HOuse yesterday-Navy E--
Inmates Brigadier Generai-Mr Corwins
from our own Correspondent.

IT
compute time as the Roman Emperor was won't
Il have lost day because have done no good
thing" there would be fearful balance against
them Their act Of omission yesterday however
was their best ofthe sesson-the prevention oil EVIL
being a comparative good.
Yesterday they passed resolution taking the
Naval appropriation bill out OF Committee " To-
morrow at one o'clock" The resolution was dated
the day before. By series OF Parliamentary
Illnesses they prevented any vote being taken on
the subject matter T. C.. the time intended IN the re-
solution, and destroyed the day by pretending to
define it.
They gagged Mr. SINS, of s. c. who was full
Of speech; and who, without release today, had
been suaooated Hereby violating an express
provision Of the Constitution, that no unusual pun
;shment shall be inflicted For he is one whose
fate it is 10 write speak in spite OF readers or
an audience. He reverses Polonuss rule, and
takes from his thought understanding, but no
tongue" However. to do him full justice, what
has been heard Of him in the House has not been
offensive.
Yesterday, therefore in the House, was dies
aoa 1t had no substantive existence 1t was
but one d the
Yesterdays hap have lighted fools the way to dusty
death
The Navy asks but 20 200 900 this year. 1t IS
modest, compared with the Army requisite Com
pared with former estimates, 1t is enormous But
then the public exigencies approve the extrava-
gance and a generous People will sympathlse with
the generosity Of their Representatives generos
| ty ts which there is but a solitary objection 1t
| -.
qualified to be saints
For saints themselves will sometimes be,
OF gifts that cost them nothing free
But when our martial tunes have become all ex-
hausted, when grim visaged war has smoothcd his
wrinked 'front.' and our heroic bosoms beat no more,
gho suffers who pays the fiddler!
! Uncle Sam has many good points. He has an
| inventive genius an acute intellect an eager
appetite for distinction is not without great cour
age, great resolution and indomtable perseverance
/ he can whip all creation but, like many other
/ highly respectable gentlemen he is as slow 10 pay
/ his debts as he is careless to incur them.
And if this war is 10 last much longer our sol
ders in Mexico should be literally supplied with
| Treasury notes-aad they " be sure then net 10 be
| taken.
| To alleviate the evils Of this war and TO throw
grace even overits horrors it is seriously contem
plated, understand, to promote Col WEE to the
Brigadier Generashp His claims for the appoint
ment rest not solely upon his military qualifications
eminent as they may be- They have merit much
more easily detected. The views he has express
ed OF the necessity and conduct OF this war, how
ever much they may have disguised his political
friends and shocked the moral sense OF the commu-
nifty, have found favor in the Executive breast
They have struck said, the mark at winch
they were aimed.
The circulation of q rumor through the Capitol,
that " Tom CORwlN" was to speak in the Senate,
attracted large crowd there. Nor was public ex'
pecaton disappointed either In the TACT, or IN the
estimation it had formed of the speaker. ] have
not heard of a more neat, modest and eloquent
speech this session. 1t was made IN answer TO an
attack from Col BENTON upon an amendment OF
Mr. CoRwIS TO the army bill, giving to each volun-
teer sOdier q certain tract OF land.
Mr.. CoRwIN or Black Tom as they call him
out West, is man of about forty five years OF age,
of dark complexion, dark eyes and dark hair hence
| his soubrigUet. He is is one OF the bestlooking
! men of the Senate His features have an extreme
| mobility. When he speaks the sentiment he
would convey or the feeling he would express, is
| anticipated BY the expression of his countenance
| Fire flashes from his eye, he IN angry mood de
nounces iniquty baseness. A quiet smile is
| painted ON his cOuntenance while he holds up 10
ridicue an opponent or an absurdity and all his
/
low cunning OF low men, the meanness OF vice
lie began his speech to day, by giving 10 the
Senator from Missouri n compliment that many oil
the audience would have withheld from him-0 oc
coming m0dcsty Of has owH opHoH-a CONCESSION
/ to the Judgment OF others.
He soon spoke of the condition of our army IN
Mexico of their willingness TO tight the battles oi
their country there or IN any other section oil ihe
/ hemisphere for, avs he, God only knows where
our rowing army will stop.
! He then denounced the miserable attempt oil
some TO drive a Jews bargain with our gallant
soldiers to obtain their blood and, II need be- ihei
lives nj the least possible expense to treat them
| ike sor,iid hucksters cheapcning and dispara6ins
/ the article they wish to purchase 10 count tne
! groans of the wounded, to measure the biood o.
! the dying. The distinguished Senator pald a wen
deserve ed and well expressed eulogy upon inc
! services and character of our brave soldery
/ He spoke of the niggardly bounty some Senators
were disposed TO grant to those who contended Tor
the privilege Of fighting the battles OF their country
and contrasted their conduct IN this respect WIN
| their lavish expenditure OF money in Oregon
| where he said, every inhabltant was entitled by a
vote of Congress to a quarter section OF land " Inc
| Southern statesman who visits Oregon Win ms
black servant to contemplate from that point OF view
the neighboring shores OF ASIA, and TO consider no"
long it will be before Japhet shall subjugate the de
scendauts of Shem will obtain for that black servant
! a quarter section of land.
| The eloquent speaker denounced the war It's
! motive aud character and mentioned as not the
least evil OF all wars the entaiiag debt upon pos
terity-requiring sometimes centuries to discharge
This war he said, might last many years, and be
productive Of many inordinate expenses and we
might find during its continuation that we were
raspsag from the dry bones of poverty the allment
that supports our instruments OF destruction.
Farther time nor space is allowed me TO dwell
upon this Speech at present | shall seize, how
ever an early opportunity to continue It's con
sideraton.
The Naval Appropriation Bill passed the Senate
with an amendment for the construction OF Floating
Dry Docks at Portsmouth Philadelphia and Pensa-
cola-appropratng $50 900 to each of the first two
| and $3.50 600 IN the latter NJ
FARTHER FROM SoUIH AMkRicA-Ihe Courier,
Capt Wolfe from Rio brought hles to the Herald from
which il appears that from Monteydeo had been
received TO the lst ulL Gen Rivera at NKoras on
the Goth November and having collected his forces was
soon 10 commence operations. The forces under his
command amounted to about 1000 men, OF which Sl5O
were cavalry and the remainder infantry he had also
seven pieces Of artillery. letter TO Rio says; We
have nothing fear from Urquzs at Correnies Rive
"a will soon open the campaign, aud probably with bril-