Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-09-07
From the N. o. Picayune .
From Washington.
WASHING TON, August as, ls

From the N. o. Picayune.
From Warrington.
WAsHsGroN, August as, 1850.
This week will be the most intensely excit-
ing Of the whole session-perhaps of any ses-
sion ofCongress since the establishment of the
General Government. The is which
are lying on the Speakers table will be taken
up, and it is not unlikely we may have a vote on
all of them before Saturday next, if the friends
Of the bill will only stand together and do their
duty. There are now FIVE bills on the Speak
er's table, viz: the bill for establishing a terri
torial government for Utah, a bill to regulate
the boundary of Texas, the California bill, q
bill establishing a territorial government in
New Mexico, and the Fugitive Slave bill,
against which even Southern ultras cannot form
u reasonable opposition. Before these bills
are disposed of, the sixth and last senatorial
bill on the slavery question-for the suppress
sion Of the slave trade in the District of Co
lumbia-wil probably be sent down to the
House.
There has been an improvement since yes
terday in the tone of members, and the opposi-
ton Is not quite SO sanguine of success. They
stiil hope 10 defeat the bill, or at least boast Of
it in public but the truth is they are more
scared than they are willing to admit and ap-
prehcnd nothing short Of their entire over
throw. The fact can no longer be disguised
that public opinion, North and South, has of
late undergone a radical change, and that the
ultras Of neither section can expect to be sus-
tanned by the people. In the North the change
is most complete in the South it will be SO,
after people have time to consider the question
in all it's bearings on their individual happiness
and the welfare and happiness of the country.
The great meeting at Macon, Ga, is reported
to have been a splendid failure. The moderate
men wisely abstaincd from taking any part in
the proceedings, and the Wing and Democratic
ultras present wished to shift the responsibility
Of the act on each others shoulders. 1t is in
vain for the Georgia Democrats to believe
that they can press the Georgia Wings into
service, and rice rersd, nor does Georgia seem
~disposedsto take up arms
: should not wonder if quite a number of
nominations sent to the Senate by the late
President were to be withdrawn, and a few gen.
tienen in Office entirely removed. Where the
President feels some hesitation, and the party
il obnoxious, the Senate will apply the pruning
knife, without the least disrepect forsMr. Fill
more or his conscientious scruples. Between
the President and thesSenate, there will be q
rood many removals from office, and the mat
ter being once understood, the federal city will
soon again become erowed with office seekers.
Mr. Samuel G. Ogden, Jr, now auditor in the
New York custom-house, has been sent for
and Is now in Washington, to confer with the
Secretary Of the Treasury. Mr.. Corwin IS
trying to persuade him to accept the office OF
Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury, but Mr..
Ogden thus far has not yet deigned to accept
Il. II really seems as if Offices went . begging
under the present Administration. There is,
for instances, the Department of the Interior,
which has been offered to three different gen.
t)emen. all Of whom declined, and when at last
man {Mr. McKennon, Of Pennsylvania 10
feund willing to acccptit, he becomes 50 tired
ar sick of I'M q week that he asks leave to re-
eruit j little III Pennsylvania. Mr. McKennoni
LEFT here quite indisposed; but he will proba-
bly, return ia q fortnight. The factis, no never
wanted the Secretasrship Of the Interior, and
proposed ID exchange places with Mr.. Conrad,
appointed Secretary Of War but the latter
would not listen to II. / think the cool wealth
" may nerve Mr.. McKennon for the duties Of
Ms Office, but he would certainly prefer any
other place in the Cabinet he is 1T for to his
own.
A new outfit has been demanded for the
Charg&ship TO Portugal, and Mr.. Clay is on
his way home. After his nltimatun,s present.
ed ver6ally to the Portuguese Government, ne
could not, with any degree Of propriety, return
TO the same court; but when certain New York
papers endeavor to put the blame Of the whole
transaction on our Charges shoulders, il y but
proper 10 state that none in the world attaches
% him, and that Mr.. Clay only carried out the
Instructions Of Mr.. Clayton.
II oiyes ne great pleasure to inform you that
M. Webster has Of late given his entire atten-
A:~u a. &ho Toh.unfoyoc frrafv and that ii II his