Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-02-02

Tactics Of the Hareholders-Caleb B!
Snlifh Irimming-Hitnkers an Ohio
hr, ~ eAer Candidate for the Bou,s
aary Comn'issionership-Mileage of
Congressman.
WASHINGTON, Jan. IL, lS49.
The tactics of the Shareholders have again
most signally prevailed. The southern eau
Gus has done its work, even though its for.
NAL proceedings have but begun. The
wing leaders and their followers have equal.
| iy bowed their necks, and an early exam
pie has been made of the manner in which
Congress and the legislation of the country
can be controlled, without the use of the We
to. described TO you yesterday very brief
ly, how the majority of the House retreat
ed from the position it had assumed on the
question of continuing the slave trade in this
district. The full extent of their retrogade
march was not apparent until this morning,
when Mr.. Wentworth expressed his Curl
oslty az 10 what was to be done with all the
amendments and substitutes pending to and
for Mr.. Cots resolution for the abolition Of
the most infamous form of the slave trade
! existing in the United States.
The Speaker civly informed Mr.. Went
worth that the resolution and all its belong
ings had gone into that abyss which knows
no bottom, the budget Of unfinished business.
lie said that the resolution and the previous
question upon it having been re.considered,
II had lost its character of a privileged ques-
uon, and could only be taken up again in
its order, as it stood upon the calendar. OF
course Mr.. Caleb b. Smith, of Indiana, Mr..
aware Of this result when they pressed with
such zeal and energy the motion 10 recon
slider. As to both these gentlemen, but par
ticularly Mr.. Caleb B. Smith, they have
well earned place in Gen. Taylor's cabi-
net, or foreign mission, or any other snug
and comfortable office which they may de-
mand, each for himself or for his relations
or friends. Mr.. Caleb B. Smith misrepre-
sents constituency as decidedly in favor
OF free soil sentiments as any in the Union.
Among them are very large body of Qua
kers, who hold their yearly meetings at
Richmond, the principal town in his dis
trict.
Gen. Taylor was held out to them as the
free soil candidate; Taylor and free soil"
was the watchword of the party in that part
of the state, and indeed throughout the state.
Will these good friends take Caleb's case
under dealing at their next meeting? Pro-
badly, but what will Caleb care? He will
ere then have been called to his reward, and
perhaps his only answer 10 their sentence Of
condemnation will be the removal of the To-
cal postmaster, from whose office il shall
be sent to him, in imitation Of the llustrious
example Of Polk and Cave Johnson. The
berth Of Postmaster General must be con-
sidered appropriated from yesterday aller-
noon. Fools that were guled by the cry
that Taylor could do no harm, so long as
we had good wing Congress, will perhaps,
now begin 10 open their eyes.
The subject Of mileage has been again
before the House, and has occasioned most
amusing and most Improbable discussion.
The contest upon this question has thus far
been very unequal one. The parties TO it
have been Horace Greeley, supported rath-
er feebly by three or four honest men, on
the one side, and large majority of the
House Of Representatives on the other. II
is perhaps not singular fact that those who
have received the greatest exces over what
they are entitled to, are the most impIacas
BILE in their hostility against Mr.. Greeley,
whom they consider the author of the dis
credit which they find cast upon them, al
though the simple truth is, their taking the
money is the cause of it, and not the expo
sure Of the taking. There is a man named
Turner, from the northern district of Illinois,
who seems To have benefited by the system
of overcharge some eight or ten hundred
dollars. This person has taken great pains
10 accuse the writer of the article which has
raised all this stir with intentional falsehood,
and so on, and then, in the most gallant
manner in the world, has informed Mr..
Greeley that he holds himself responsible
for the language.
This happy and ingenious expedient for
changing the issue and the venue, has not
succeeded, for Mr.. G. only points to the
vacuum in the treasury caused by the abb
straction of those dollars, ard asks how it
has happened, and whether he intends 10
restore the money! To which pertinent
inquiries no answer whatsoever has been
rendered up to the present writing, and none
is expected. The abuse Mr.. G. recci res is
perfectly natural; but it is quite harmless
to him, though TO the last degree derogato-
nv to the character of the House which
tolerates lis uttelance. If the proposed re-
form be effected, the people will be benefit
ed to an amount more than equal to the an
nual income of a million OF dollars.
The probabilities are, that during the COM