The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent., 1850-09-20
From the ". O. Picayune.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
WAsHINGRoN. Aupust 29. 1850,

w ASHlhGRONs august zSs 1O0U.
After much consultation and consideration,
it has now been decided to reconstruct the ON
nbus in the House. The return of Mr.. Clay
to the city Of Washington seems to have ella
ted members so much that they are not con-
tent to pass the measures, but insist on having
them pass in the same form in which Mr.
Clay, as Chairman Of the Committee of Thir-
teen, presented them. Thus we are about to
have another omnibus with four passengers
inside, but the order in which they take their
seats has been reversed. Instead of placing
California at the head Of the list, Texas is made
to step in first, the Territorial bill afterwards,
and the very last passenger is California as a
State. This may, according to the notion of
Mr.. Benton, be mortifying to her pride, but if
by modesty stepping back to let the other
measures precede her, she can contribute to
the peace and happiness Of the Union, her task
is still glorious one, and she will have reason
hereafter to be proud of it. Selfshness in
States and statesmen in regard to their own
government, is one of the greatest calamities
that can befall our nation. We have seen
enough of it this session.
There is an undoubed and unquestional ma
jority for the omnibus in the House, and before
this week is closed hope to see it drive back
to the Senate to the infinite astonishment and
modification of Col. Benton, who, as he re-
peatedly boasted, had buried the carcass In
deed it can hardly be disguised that the friends
of the compromise insists on the omnibus, in
part at least to mortify Benton. He will be
target until 1852, and ever after, and very just
ly so. Martin Van Buren, had his boy John to
do the nasty work for him, but Mr.. Benton,
more resolute than he, will do it himself Mr.
Benton, if mad enough (and believe he isl to
carry out his design of running for the Presi-
dency as the Free Soil candidate, will be more
of an object of pity than Mr.. Van Buren, for
while he has, at all events, been President of
the United States, Benton will have been beaten
before ever reaching the White House. One
was a failure, the other an abortion.
The Senate cannot but pass the omnibus as
soon as it shall drive up with the old driver.
Mr. Clay, on the box, and Gen. Cass as ccnduc-
tor on top of it. 1t will sound like a fairy tale
all over the country, and cause not little hilar-
ity here, in Congress. / now look upon the
danger as past, for the first time during this
session do we see our way clear before US.
| We have the means now of passing the bills
either separately or jointly, for there is an
certained majority for each plan in each House,
and as the friends of peace have been SO much
ridiculed, insulted and threatened, they are re-
solved to add some erat TO their success.
Mr.. Seward and his friends are becoming
more and more odious, and he is now repudia-
| ted by twenty-one members from New York,
who were heretofore disposed to follow his
| lead. Free Soilism has ceased to be an cpl
demic, though it may sill exist in sporadic
form in some localities favoroble to contracting
the disease There will always be few cases
resembling the disease in Ohio until she remove
certain nuisances in the shape Of Senators and
members.
The friends of the tariff are preparing for
strong effort in the Senate not to increase the
duties, but to substitute specifics for ad valo-
rems. LIE DIABLE BOITEUX.