New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-04
BY THE MIDNIGHT SOUTHERN NAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Proceedings in the Senate on Tuesday-Tnlk
OF Adjournment-Mr. Stewards speech.
COrrespondence Of TIE TrihnnA

OF AdJournmenf-mr.s Stewards speech
Correspondence Of TIE Tribune
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, JAY ?
This morning Mr.. YULEE called up his motion
which had laid on the table day under the rule
to Tx the adjournment Of Congress for the first Of
August Mr.. CLAY assaulted il with becoming
sPtefulness and asserted thst he would as soon
think Of quitting the battle field in the hour Of dis
country's greatest peril as Of leaving Washington
before al the passengers sre safely delivered cut
OF his Omnibus. He closed short but sinewy
speech by moving to postpone the consideration Of
the subject until two weeks from to-day. Mr..
YuLEE replied very innocently, as if to say that
he didn't know he was doing any harm by Just re-
mindng honorable Senators that dlg-days are hot
and uncomfortable, and that Senators by getting
excited make it still hotter. He thought, very
sersby, that if it is practicable for Congress to do
anything with this knotty question Of Slavery they
may well do it at once, and it is not they had
better adjourn and go home to their constituents
and get instructions They would at any rate come
bsok with the benefit Of knowing whether their
constituents are as much excited as they are them.
selves, and if it should prove after all the peppery
speeches that have been made here that the people
st home are quietly minding their own Business,
than Legislation may subsde into its ordinary cur.
rents. Considering the fiery soul of the Florida
Senator a few months ago. this is quite promising.
MIR. WEBSTER replied and agreed with Mr. CLAT
tnat IL 10 absolutely necessary 10 save the country
and, therefore, that the motion to fix the av of gst
ting through the job should be postponed The
postporement was accordingly agreed to. Ordinari
the talk Of adjournment or rather the day first
fixed on for adjournment, precedes the actual hap.
pening of the event about six weeks, so that &C
cordiug to precedent we may hope for a release
about the middle OF Sept APropoS Of precedents.
Mr.. SEWARD got the laugh upon him the other day
for his Pronunciation OF the word.
He intended to say that toe formation of the
State Government in New Ne xico had the sanction
Of precedent but sotening the kissing consonant
& trife he said that that asure had the sanction
OF q President, and as the Governor is thought to
10 know about as well as any one what passes at
the White House, it seemed as if be might be let.
ting out bit Of secret about which there is Just
Low good deal Of curiosity.
With the expiration Of the morning hour the
Omnibus made its regular reappearance. Mr. UP.
ham Of VI continued speech begun yesterday
He entered into an extensive review OF the whole
subj ct Of Slavery, in al its relations, travelling
over more surface than any speaker who has dealt
with it during the whole session.
After Mr. UPHAM came Mr. SEWARD, in q speech
which remains over until to morrow unfinished, but
which so far as it has been delivered, has, think
had TO rival during the session for statesmaniike
views, compact ratiociuatOD, and, if may 50 ex-
press ny SELF moral stamina. IL is coupling Of the
drguity with the sudscity of great truth You will
have the speech promptly, through the praise
worthy activity of our special reporter, and hav-
ing it before you, it is unnecessary that | should
subject it either 10 anal ysis or commentary. lsha
be much mistak en- if you do not pronounce it, and
ii your readers DO not pronounce it, the great
speech Of the session. One thing is, it is calcu-
! floy, olfaIa. fkas hoa h..
tbati completely to knock in the head throughout
the country the idea that the nation is in cOnvul-
sion OF agitation and excitement, and upon the very
eve of some crisis or tremendous calamity. He
shows palpaby, as "Oh Bullion has it, that
4" that procession has passed
The manner Of Mr. SEWARD 70 day was FAR supe
rior to that which he has delivered previous
speeches since he came here. He seems to have
measured his ground and TO have assumed that
very selfpossesson which results from kno wing
where one is. His oratory bold and emerged.
ic, at times even vehement, and as he las exhibit.
ed nothing OF this latter trait before be took his au
dtory completely by surprise. No person who
was in The Senate or gallery when he commenced,
LEFT it until he closed, at O'Clock.
Certain passages were delivered with an EN- pba,
sis and effect that have seldom seen surpassed
He showed in high degree all that species of elo-
quence hich results from sine rity aud earnestness
The conviction evidently ran through the Senate
that those who have begun by snearing at the
"bgher law" or anything else uttered by that
man, had moderated their adversary. They have
had a lesson to-day that they will not soon forget
saw in the gallery, apparently perfectly delighted
with the speech, GEORGE w. ALEXANDER, dis.
tiDguished English philanthropst who was highly
influential in carving through the act Of British
Emancipation in the West Indies; and also
"GRAcE GREENWOOD" as Miss CLARK, the bril-
liant writer of Magazine literature, chooses to be
designated. The prospect is that we shall get an
adjournment on Thursday, the glorious Fourth, not.
wlthstsndng the desire Of Mr. CLAY to make a
workir g day oft s.P.A