The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-12-18
lyTELLJGEyCE 81 THE MAILS,
WASHINGTON, Dec. Is, 1913.
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! me Close 81 he VteH
Politics are IN sfatn quo. The malignant Cali
forna fever is high In the ascendant. The cabi-
net and the prospects Of General Taylor's admi-
nis'ratlon are minor questions. Companies are n
PROCESS OF organization, from this city, for tho
land OF gold, by every route, from tbs overland
route, by the great Salt Lake. to the voyage around
Cape Horn. detachment of clerks from the
Executive Department will leave speedily for
Vera Cruz. They will thence proceed by the eitv
of Mexico to the port OF Acapulco, on the Pacific.
whence they will take ship coastwise to San Fran.
CISCO. These young gentlemen, TAX lng into view
the hazards of rotation. think It Is better to enter
into the gold business at hundred dollars a day.
than 10 remain any no in their cerkships of from
81 600 TO 81 800 per annum.
We expect to have the gold question up in tho
Senate next week and the contagion once
started IN the Capitol we may look for coa-
gress'onsl organization tor the trip to California
| including all that class OF members whose chances
OF re-electoh are not very promising.
The business OF the week IN the two houses
has been magnificent. The Senate elected their
chaplain and their committees, debated the extra
printing OF the Treasury report, and discussed
the memorial from New Mexico, paving the ex-
c'uson OF slavery, in temper which would JUS
t'iy US IN suspectlng that we shall have hot work
| on The negro question by and by. The fact Is, We
90 not see how this hot work is TO be avoided.
Inc squestion has to be met, and the conflict
o'tN'o" iihc anu ClnOun must produce an
instantaneous spontaneous combustion Tho
thing is inevitable, and the gas is all ready for
he display.
Talk OF Roman candles. Bengoa lights, concen.
trio wheels OF blue and gre en- fires, and skyrockets
surcharged with showers Of liquid hames-waIt
till the provso gets fairly under III head Of
steam In the Senate, and all displays of mere me-
chaDlcal pyrotechnics will pale their Intellectual
fires before the sublime and absurd confa-
grafton.
The House has started at several projects, IN
GUIDING the provisO square.up, the tariff of ~,
and the publication of the debates. The work.
however, accomplished, amounts to two private
bills passed yesterday when it ind ensable.
from the heavy labor 1t had undergone, that tho
overtaxed House, for the purpose of recruiting its
strength, should adjourn over to Monday.
And thus ends the second week of tn. second
on OF the thrueth Congress-; and unless both
houses, on next Monday, shall tall to, hammer aud
ongs, we shall conclude that they have resolved
to po tpone a. important mea unil the advent
of Cir neral Tay Tor. But, at any rat shall have
some experiments made on the prov 40. a. of
which we suppose will fail, leaving old lack to
confront the negro difficulty just as 1t is. God help
old lack out ct the scrape!
We understand that there was a confidential
meeting at the rooms of Mr.. Greeley last night,
on the Avenue, or somewhere In that neighbor-
hood. OF such long headed managers as Colonel
Webb, OF the regular army, Prescott Hall, Truman
Smith, Thomas Corwln, and others. What was
the subject discussed, report saith not; but wo
suppose II was the cabinet OF General Taylor, and
the sche dule of rotation. Thee matters being all
arranged. Colonel Webb, We understand, returned
to New Yolk this morning.
The arrivals at COleman's, and the other hotels,
indicate that the public curiosity is not yet very
strongly attracted towards Washington. After
New Years, we expect the tide to set in.