Arkansas intelligencer., 1849-01-27
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE INTELLIGENCgR,
WASHINGTON CRY. Dec. 26th. IS4

Dear Sir: We are in the midst of oavety and
hllarty, despite the hazy and dull drizzling
weather we have. Most of the Members, (who
live within few hundred miles of the capitol. J
have left to spend their holidays a home. their
per diem. of course. going on if they were still
Iaboring for the dear people,
Our politicians all in a stew, caused bv Mr..
Colts resolution, which vas carried in the House
of Representatives, by Il majority, for the abo.
ton of the .'save trade" in the District Of Coum-
bla. The southern members of both parties met
IN caucus, in the Senate Chamber, on last Frida
evening. Gen. MetcaIfe of Kentucky presided /:
and Mr.. VenabIe of North Carolina, acted as
Secretary series of resolutions touching the
extension OF slavery in new territories was offered
Mr.. Morse of Louisiana led Off in a powerful
speech; and several other animated speeches were
made The attendance very large and much
interest was manifested in the proceedings A
committee composed of one from every slave
State was appointed to report on the 29th inst
senator Borland was appointed from Arkansas.
am fearful this subject, imprudently, un-
patrioicalIy, impertinently thrust upon Congress.
by Northern members, will cause a dissolution
OF the Union. Truman Smith Of Connecticut.
the leading Taylor man of the North however
voted against Colts resolution, and that circum-
stance Is taken as an evidence that Gen. TAYLOR
Is true 10 the South, on this important question.
Inc question OF retroceding to the State of
maryland, the District for the purpose of stavinp
OIL the fearful issue, is now all the excitement
ne aboItlonists are fierce, abandoned, desper-
a'e SET OF traitors, who care not how soon they
destroy our happy Union-and they as much de-
serve the halter as If they were carrying on overt
war against the government. Gerrit Smith has
given $500 in addition to the $500 previously
given by him, for the defence of those who run
OFT a number of slaves from this city. The "Daily
Globe,' recently revived here, is destined ulti.
mately to be the organ of the Free Soilers and
Will be violent enemy of Southern Institutions
80 you see how boldly they are taking up their
positions for the war. -.Gf
Horace Greely created quite 4" fiare.up" by
his articles IN the "Tribune," charging the mem
bers with taking too much mileage. He sums it
up thus: ''Ex'ra miles 77.632-extra mileage
S62.lO5 ~. The affair will amount to nothing
more than report from the committee on mileage.
which will undoubtedly fav vor the present practice
whlchis by the usual travelling route, and not by
the direct mail route, which Greely insists upon
should be the practice. The report will also be
severe upon Horace. F ..-.rt..,., .--,f
News reached here yesterday that several cases
OF cholera had made their appearance in New
Orleans. 1t is also at the Quarantine ground at
New York. We will certainly be visited by this
epidemic, unless it favors the District as it did
Saxony, some seventeen years ago. 1t went en-.
nreiy around that country, not a single case oc-
Cured within the limits of that Principality, and
now on Its second appearance, it is said to be do.
ing the same thing. J1o Oh. 5 s-ra-.. g,r... E,,.
The California fever RACES with considerable
violence mere, the whole community of clerkdom
are injected with it. The President and Post
Master General are beset with applications for
petty appointments in g Eldorado.'' was in
formed last night that company is organizing in
Hunterdon county, New Jersey, TO proceed to the
god e mines, under the direction of Capt. Geo. w.
twelve members. and they design shipping imme.
dlalely large amount of goods and implements
to the bay Of San Francisco. The company will
go by overland from the Arkansas frontier. They
expect to reach Van Buren by the lst April in
Time to 50 with the expeditions that will leave
mere IN the spring. 1t is now admitted by all
"A' "'e interested IN the California emigration