The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-12-06

ne steamship Europa mas ploodply dIIlFeu Ut
Halifax. Owing to an interruption in the tele-
graph line, we have aot received any news from
Halifax for day or two. Merchants had better
be on their guard. The Hermann is overdue.
She is in her sixteenth day.
The Trouble In Congress-Four Parties In
the FieId-The Administration Aground.
There appear TO be four parties in the House Of
Represe natives, on the vital question of slavery
and each entertaining different views upon the
organization Of the body-thc regular wings, who
vote tor MI. Winthrop; the regular democrats, who
vote for MIR. Cobb; the wing recusants of the
South whs vote for Mr.. Gentry and the free soers
The scattering votes may be divided among them
all. These divisions and dlsaiections appear to be
very cordial, and between the six Southern whig
deserers and the Winthrop caucus the split is most
distressing The free soiers stand upon their
ground, regarding with malicious delight the abor-
tive efforts Of the caucus parties to elect either OF
their men. The scattering voters are lodging
about TO try the soundings.
The House has gone far enough to prove that mel,
iher Mr. Winthrop nor Mr.. Cobb will answer the
purpose; and it likely if their friends persist In the
election Of either or the other, there will be no
organization at ALL Congress will then be broken up,
like shelfiull OF cTockery, and the administration
will cave in with the general crash. The division
among the wings of the House proves concusively
the utter impotency of the cabinet. II has no prin-
cples of adhesiyeness no measures TO command
respecl no ability; no plan; no system; union
itsei-and is, therefore, regarded as nothing at all
The Georgia wings have administered an ugly re-
buke TO Mr. Crawford, Of their State, the Secre-
taIy of War, against his affiliations with Seward,
Ewing, Clayton, Meredith, and Collamer re-
buks which cannot be disguised; and this may be
regarded as the entering wedge which is to split
the cabinet into its original fragments, and lay it
out among the old lumber affected with the dry rot.
II the consequences Of this slavery agitation were
TO stop here, il would DO a matter Of public con-
graduation But this IS only the beginning of the
end. The Union OF the States is in jeopardy,
everything is adriit, and who are we to thank
the originators OF this deplorable confusionl 1t
may be traced to Thurow Weed and Governor
Seward, and their anli-masonic and snt.slavery
agitsuons Of twenty-five years ago, and TO
Greeley and others Of the latter.day saints of
The wing church. These selfish agita,ois,
with their anti-slavery doctrines OF disunion;
their sntl-rentism, which would live at other peo
pls's expense; their anthanging, which would
turn the murderer into comfortable quarters, to be
fed from the public treasury; and their Founensm,
Win ltr ClsofEdhllhB anu dhll-Cnfletlen dDSuful-
tee, have hurried up this state Of things The
sbolitionists were party TO themselves; but the
Seward politicians Of New York have succeeded
in mixing them and their principles into both par
ties in the Nortb; so that Seward at this day is
entering the lists for the Presidency upon his abo-
hilton capital exclusively. The ocofoco free sellers
were msre interopers, stealing another mans
thunder, and specializing upon his stock in trade.
IL. IL. a
the Nerth. No slavery-no rent-no taxes-free
soi, free farms, free property and every thing for
everybody, are princise which are hard to beat.
They are the very essence Of red repubheanIsm;
and the position Of W. H. Seward ia the Senate,
isfomeWh hat analogous to that Of Ledru Ron in
tn French Assembly, as far as it goes. lie lacks
the boldness and dashlng frankness OF the French
man but be is cunning, and has managed his
cards with singular success in the game lie
has uiierly routed Mr.. Fillmore and his party
N che siate-he has his agents in the cabinet,
h.s organs among the newspapers, his clique in
Cohgess. and, IN every practical point Of view,
he IL the head and front Of the free soil party lie
Il everything to all men, except the shareholders.
But for his consistency on this point, he would be
neither iish flesh, nor good red herring. Here lies
the secret Of his influence and his success and the
consequences TO the wing party.
IL is not, then, upon Mr.. Toombs, Of Georgia,
and bis associates, that the wings OF the House
are to lay the responsibility Of the rupture in the
caucus. Ii was but the effect OF the distrus which
the Seward clique, and is influence over the cab-
net, have excited ia The South. The cabinet has
done nothing 10 dIsabuse the South Of these susp-
cions. The administrations suspected; Mr.. Win
throP, as ITS candidate for Speaker, is suspected,
and the extreme Southern men cannot play into
the hands Of Gov. Seward How the House is 10
get OFT Of the scrspc, remains to be seen With
four parties in the ring, and each determined not
to bulge peg, there is no counting upon the re-
suit The administration is aground, ahd In dan
ger Of a total wreck