Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-08-31
from the N. 0. Picayune.
Letter from WASHINGTON.

[From the N. 0. Picayune.
Letter from Washington.
WASHINGTON, August 10, 1850.
The prospects continue to brighten, and
have no doubt whatever now that all the bills
just as they have passed the Senate, will also
pass the House, not in omnibus shape, but in
suikies, each measure standing on its own
bottom. The want of confidence in the adj
ministration has at last given place to a more
believed that the administration, after the pas
sage Of the Texas Boundary bill, will apply
itself with the same zeal to the passage of the
Territorial bills for New Mexico and Utah,
leaving California to take care of herself. !
have not the slightest doubt but that the VIII
mot proyiso, should an attempt be made to
saddle it on the Territorial bills as a rider, will
prove a complete failure, even in the House; but
should it pass the House, pro fforma, as an is
olated measure, or connected with any bills,
it is certain of being thrown out by the Senate,
and the House will be but too glad to recede,
after satisfying the Wilmot provisoists III the
North that everything that was possible to be
done was done for the exploded humbug, and
to no effect. The sensible men of the North
have long ago been tired of the ~egregious hum
bug, and only waited for a fit opportunity to
give it its q~uietus, forever. The Wilmot once
summarily disposed of by Congress, will not
easily be revived by Northern demagogues.
People do not easily get excited on past is
sues, and the slavery question once out of the
way, parties will have to divide according to
other questions now agitated before the coun-
try. ANY organization of parties is preferable
to sectional issues, and parties divided by geo.
graphical lines. Let US hope that none such
will ever divide our National counsek, and that
there is virtue enough among the people to put
I'm end to such parties, in whatever section of
the Union they may happen to exist.
Mr.. Clay is expected back here in the course
Of the week, and will lend his hand to the
browning work of pacification and compromise.
Seward, who has left for the springs, is hardly
expected to return so soon. He left Washing
tou under some apprehension of a personal at
tack from Senator Rusk, of Texas, in regard to
which he was unable to make the smallest de-
fence. The Senator from New York had to
cry peccaui, but was not forgiven till his name
was booked for New York. The New York
demagogde was positively caught in a double
entendre Called q falsehood in Saxen) and had
to make trackssto avoid personal indignities.
Gov. Stewards race in the Senate is run. De-
prived of the power of patronage, as he now is,
by Mr.. Fillmore, his political influence is at an
end. fGoy. Seward had not been the dispen-
ser ofthe government patronage under the late
administration, his Influence would never have
been felt in Congress. The utmost strength
he can now bring to his aid from the State of
New York, opposed to the compromise meas
ure, is fifteen; the other Wing representatives
the Empire State will vote with the ad.
ministration. Between the friends of the adj
and those outside Wings who votes
on all occasions against it, a strict line of de-
will be drawn. On the great cues
ton of the day, the present administrator viii
suffer no heresy, and no division Of the wing
party into sectional cliques. ~
The difficulty with portugal is now happily
arranged. Portugal pays the four claims Of
citizens, presented to her by Mr.. Clay, our
arbitration in regard to the $4,000 claimed for
The destruction ofthe Armstrong, priyateer, inI
the neutral port of Fayal. This Unit
States have now accented. In Il a, a.
win readily perceive, is not mea5g4 one of
money, but involving the rights and Obligations
IF ~neutrals, as we understand them. By neu-
in general, is 10 meant anything else
han the total abstinence from everything which
IAN benefit one of the b~elligerent powers more
han the other; and not the obligations of third
to put themselves on a war footingfo
protect the rights of one of the parties to a far
greater degree than the rights of one of her
'wn citizens or subjects. If powers of the
second rank are to be held responsible for any
lct of violence, committed under their jurisdic-
ion, they would, in case of a war between two
,reat maritime powers, have no alternative
eft them than either TO put their navy and forts
IN an expensive war footing, or close their
to the b~elligerents. This, / imagine,
would be worse for the United States than the
oss Of the Armstrong without PREPARATION from
he Portuguese government.
3 LIE DIABLE BOITEUX.