The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-01-17
WASHINGTON, Jan. Is, IS4S.

II S0tuTudy hiSmdTOfe.
We should like to know what Old Bullion is
about. The court martial has kept him out of
the Senate, but we reckon that after the defsnce
of Lieut.. Col. Fremont, (some 800 pages fools.
cap) is read to the court next week, the old Col.
will make a demonstration Of some sort among
the decemvirs. We should like to hear his ex-
position on the war question, and probably we
shall hear It, 1t is quite likely We shall have
another pass between him and MIR. Calhoun ;
and, furthermore, as the organ Of Secretary
Marcy, Gen. Cass would do we'll to fortify him
self sgainst statistical and geographic on
slaught from the "Great Missourum." Col
Benton surrendered the post on military affairs
with some object 10 view, and from some grew
Gus provocation. The provocatIon, we taxi il,
was the heavy Indictment from the war Office
against 1t. Col Fremont-the object in view was
to be perfect liberty to retal,afe 1T discretion
upon the Secretary of War. We all know that
Mr. Benton belongs to the Barnhurners, and
that Secretary Marcy is of the old Hunk ers
In disgusting the Senator from Missouri with
The The care care ct the affairs of the War Of:
of him, and has an old Huuker in his
place. He may find out that it is far better
to coax than to drive Old Bullion. The course
ton of the Senate. upon the war bills. If he
sides with Mr.. Calhoun, the administration 10
Frustrated with its policy-if he sides with Gen.
Cass, he will be but playing the accompaniment
to fhe tune set down by Secretary Marcy. What
IS Mr. Benton to do! We think we nave him.
He will fight pro and con. He will not go 80 far
as to.surrendtr to Mr.. Calhoun, nor will he con.
descend tacitly to obey the lead OF Gen. Cass.
1t may be some time before We shall hear from
him. Meantime, we take 1t, he has had enough
of this war, and we should not be surprised were
he to propose in the Senate q joint resolution,
authorislng the President of the United States,
hu MT uHyIp and foff ha "a
nate, to appoint board of special commi oners
10 proceed to the government OF Mexico, with
full powers to conclude u chapter OF treaty stpu.
lations.
What a beautiful opening for the diplomatic
port Of Pacfcator Lieutenant General. We
believe that such commission would succeed,
and that IT would be generous and magnani-
nous proceeding.
Senator Weslcott is q" mighty uncertain" He
begins to be an urgent advocate for n Vigorous
prosecution Of the war, and yet it is hard to de.
eide whether his object In this is 10 sustain the
administration, or to break it down, BIZ giving
II all the rope that may be asked. Whenever
the Senator from Florida, with the queur, takes
sides tor or against any measure, we are apt to
suspect that there Is "A trick at the bottom of his
apparently overlooking sincerity; still, We be-
Iieve, that if his vote would bring MS an honora.
BILE peace with Mexico, short OF the re-annexa-
.ion OF the whole republic, he would give II. if
tor no Other reason. merely to spite Robert J.
Walker and Father Richie.
We are here remind of the story If the sad.
der. A principal clerk in the State DEPARTMENT
employed a fellow "counthryman" OF his, living
in this city, to make certain trunks for the De.
partneDt, to be used in the transportation ofpro.
erammes Of pace, and such like, TO Mexico.
The trunk maker was something of a ciustic
writer against the war In certain newspapers. or
against the administration, more particularly,
Tor the mode of bringing on and carrying on the
war Perhaps the Clerk thought that the job
of the trunks would soothe him down q
little; but the harness man, after working upon
the trunks all day, still kept up the old game OF
writing letter against the cabinet, in the even
ing. It had become psstme with him. and he
could no more give up pen, ink, and paper, than
he could abandon his implements of trunk, sad Z.
die. and harness making Finding the recipient
taken away from him, and, strange to say, given
over to whig; but TO a WING who does not trouble
himself with unnecessary inqulsltlveness in the
politics of the day, and thus endeth the affair Of
the State Department, vs. the letter writing trunk
General Pierce, and Major Mccullough, Of the
Texas rangers, came in last evening. Dan Drake
Henrie, we see, is on the way, and from the con-
slant acce ssions TO the corps ddr1nSs in Town, we
shall soon have regiment attending upon Con.
o,esa W.