The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-12-11
INTELLIGENCE BY THE MAILS.

ANlLLLIGENCE BY The MALLS
W,sHINorov, Dec. 0, 1s4s.
Cio'e Of the Weeh-.aspset Of 4Goirs- Henry Clay
the Wtss-Rotatcn- What wa General Taylo, Do
.8nrious SusPense- Programme of Measures for a..
| New .administrotiOn-The WiImot Provi,o - TIE Bin
| of Mr.. Dousiass-No Compromise NTH the House
The first week Of the second session of the thfrtet
Congress draws to close. The weather has been like
spring all the time, though the breeze Is shifting round
to the eastward to day, with ,gns Of spell OF winter
Upon the surface, the political condition Of things
appears to be smooth and unrufed, scarcely ripple
chatting the shore to forewarn of the ground swell,
thatis coming by and by. Speculation is satisfied an
TO the probable constituent elements of General Tay
lor's Cabinet, and conjecture exhausted to the
policy of his administration and to the extent to
which he will carry the desirable work Of prescription
We do not expect the old chief till about the last Of
February, and then the carnival will begin. Some Of
the old hunkers of the wings the last expedient for
sonni 'ne,r supremacy are anxious That nr Gay
party In Congress and the pilot Of the administra
ton They had better forbesr. MIR. Clay had better
remain at home The disastrous results OF the course
pursued by Mr.. Clay in attempting TO dctats the po-
Icy of the administration at tho extra session of 1884,
ought to be remembered as q warning agsnst any
such of dictation In lS49 The election Of ls48
Is not restoration-it Is revolution It Is not the
ascendanoy of whig principles according to the creed
OF MIR. Clay-it is the success Of . candidate
who refused to endorse them, any line Of party
mos,Tns wn" ESQ II . the expression OF the
ty but for the whole people. General Taylor
was not elected to give offices to the wings to
store the exploded measures OF 1884, Whatever Mr..
Webster may have said in his speeches In Ma.-achu-
sets. This throws US back to the original inquiry
what will the General do What will he
What class Of office holders will he prescribe What
wing Of the party will constitute his kitchen cabinet
and to which section will the offices be given
Even II he 30 disposed, he cannot safely adopt
general system of rotation. He must act under the
advice and consent Of the Senate and the Senate T.
appointments or they may be rejected. Reasons above
party reasons for expeing secondary office holders to
make fer his frends must be given or the Senate
may not consent to the changes proposed II the Sc
nate were whg, then it might be expected from the
very pressure the WING uts that sweeping
rotation would be forced upon Gen Taylor. But the
ia different, and the vigilance of locooco Senate
may oper ate many of their friends who would
otherwise have to walk the plank Of rotation.
This condition of things leaves oil parties in state
of 1ious suspense and the singular anomaly Is pre-
sented of the defeated party being full of hope and
expectation from rupture and Of the successful side
being impressed with lively sense of apprehension
The old wing creed-the old whg party upon the
Clay and Webster organizaton-we consider as de-
funct from the 9th of June, at Philadelphia We con-
slider that the younger branch OF the family have the
rens in their hands; and that bank the land dstr-
button, bankrupt law. and protective tarif, as OPP
posed to a revenue tariff measures which do not
enter necessarily into the recommendations OF the new
President to Congress
revenue tariff suficient to meet the liabilities Of
the would howeverbe sufficiently protective, even
to Pennsylvania, If there were o.her, or no more
expedient alternative of meeting the public debts;
but the proceeds from the sales centage OF the
gold lands in California may possibly yield revenue
which will do away with the necessity of any material
dfcaons of the act of '46 and the very interest
ing probability arising from this consideration, thes
the act of 48-especially with a decided Democratic
majority in the Sc nate-wil undergo material pro-
ective modification during the administration OF Gs-
The appropriation to the States of the avas Of tho
public lands is out of the question: because they are,
to great extent, already absorbed as guaranty FOR
the public ebtedness and for the payment OF SOL
diers bounties.
On the subject of internal improvements we expect
D.tl, k, truly
look for general system q internal improvements
for system, under the logrolng Of the members OF
the two houees, that will absorb many millions OF the
public treasure We should not be surprised II It were
carried to such extent to affect the election OF
the enormty of the appropriation, to make the quss
ton of retrenohment prominent question In the
We expect some attempt. will be made to r.organixe
the army and the navy upon less expensive basis; to
increase the number Of steamers through the me-
dunn Of postal arrangements by sea- and to dminish
| the proportion Of sailing vessels
| The diplomatic and consular systems, from the
cessties Of the commissions OF Europe, will demand
reorga nization
A further reduction Of hostages must become .
of the nd mi including rsgu-
latons with railroad steamboat and telegrsphic COM
panies.
cult Of imme date removal. No radical change be
made with the present democratic majority in the
Senate and the only material ame ndme mt which viii
probably be attempted for year two will be the
Of chequeo and drafts in lieu OF the trans
portation Of specie.
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the question Of the North and the south the ques
ton Of the day and of the agethe question Of the
Wilmot provso suggests, with wide margin for
PROMISE the greatest difficulties of adjustment, aud
the greatest hazards to existing party organizations
The bill Of Mr. Douglass which at first oontem plated
the admission Of California only . State into tho
Union, has been since modiaed so to include the
territory Of New Mexico embracing all the territory
acquired by the late treaty within the limits Of the pro-
posed State Of California. No., in the admission
Of State the question Of savry left to the legts
laturs or to q popular convention OF such State the
bill OF Mr. Douglass, az modified, covers the whole
ground, and circumvents tine whole difficulty Of the
slavery question.
But apprehen nd ssat that bill will pass, tina
plan of Mr. Clayton nor the Misso ri compromise,
che compromise Of Mr. Underwood which goes farther,
by excluding slavery north of the line, and explicitly
guaranteeing 1t on the south side Of $50 30' We ap-
prehe md that not Of these schemes pass
toria State be given to California this session.
We apprebe nd that nothing short Of separate bill for
New Mexico and California with the express letter and
phraseoogy of the interdict against slavery
satisfy the House. We apprehend that that ids ncsl
thing and nothing less will be accepted by the House.
We expect good part Of this session will be taken up
with this subject Of slavery and that the result will BE-
to the Of the House to refuse
anything short Of the absolute unconditional and
compromising provso. We expect the question to 60
to the benefit Of Gen. Taylor, and the 5th Of
March expect bis opinion upon the subject will b
publicly disclosed.
WAsHryoroN, Dec. Q, lS48.
Post Office Reform-Preparation for the Inaaguratsw
An Eye to the Main Chance Illinois Senator.
1t has heretofore been stated that Mr.. Gosgin wiz
shortly introduce bill to reduce the rates of postage
to a uniform stsndard-Hvs cents q letter for any dis
lance. Cave johnson, who has hitherto opposed saoh
reforms now that he will shortly vacsts the stress
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