The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-09-02
WASHINGTON, August 2S, 1850.
FPolitioal, Personal, and Local affairs.

'POItIcGl, Personal, ant Local Affairs.
Linn Boyd, the oldest member of the House,
has undertaken the task of putting the dislo-
Gated fragments of the old omnibus together, in
order TO shove the whole business through in a
lump. Before this reaches you, the telegraph will
probably have told the stony of the success or
failure Of the scheme.
Texas scrip is rising Holders are not willing TO
sell. Good sign. The fact is, Texas does not
want the disputed Territory and has immediate use
for the ten millions. The money will be very &c.
ceptable, and che will not gtumbe if you take
twenty or thirty thousand square miles more OF
her frontier deserts, SO that she gets the money.
She is not quite green as 10 refuse the splendid
offer Of Mr. Pearce's bill. Ten millions, did you
say Take the country, gentlemen, and give us
the money.
Mr.. Fillmore is drumming mp a Secretary for the
Home Department IN administration without
patronage has an uphill road To travel. Mr. Bolts,
of Virginia: bir Baysrd Of Delaware; Mr. More
head, Of kentucky; Mr.. Gentry, Of Tennessee; Mr.
Dayton, OF New Jersey, and others, are spoken Of
for Mr.. MchennHn's vacancy. But the office
seems to 20 tegglng. 10 has bccn three times
filled, and three tunes abandoned, already. Reason:
The labor IL heayy-the Office j. only good for
something less thgu two years, and the spoils have
been DISTURBED. You must work haTd-it won't
pay, and you can't provide for your friends. Rely
upon il, the man who accepts the Home Depart
mel viii BE very patriotic Crvery poor.
The city Of Washington has improved more this
summer, than during any preceding year OF IT'S eS-
istence
The Smithsonian Institution, the Washington
Monumtni, the majestic eastern marble wing OF
the Patent Office. building which, for solidlty,
elegance, and classic simplicity will compare with
anything on the Continent. are all steadily pro-
crossing. The canal ~ nearly repaired, with line
OF iron bridges, aud new walls and cnlyerts. The
moet elegant improvements are under way in the
public RiOunds of he Mall, and the old City Hall
has been transformed into splendid structure.
New churches and private buildings are goiag up,
and all these things together look very Little like a
dissolution OF the Union, or removal OF the scat
Of government.
Yesterday afternoon, a most superb twenty-five
passenger omnibus, called the General Taylor,
drawn by SIX iron gray horses, plumed like military
officers IN full feather, l!ounshed the Avenue
II ~ another addition To the Mon line. which has
been such a convenience to citizens au strangers
during this long sess on Some idea Of the extent
Of the investment Of Reside and Wander
werken in this line may be formed from the
fact that they run some twenty omEibuses,
more or less: that they have l20 horses in
their stables, and are ealarging them 20 accom-.
modaie nifty mote. They have expended an inn
mense amount Of money here in hliing This public
depideratum, and It " gratifying to see that they
are handsomely sustained We had the pleasure,
yesterday, Of a ride around the heights Of George
town, in the General Taylor, with an agreeable
company, to take look At the modest little cot
tsRe occupied Temporarily by the President Of the
United Staies, Mr Fillmore. The situation is fine,
commanding view Tor nearly twenty miles down
the Potomac, TO the bend al Mount Vernon, with
all the Intervening Landscape Of cities, fields, TO-
rests, and the broad rver aud its long bridge and
the white sails enliyenng the stream ike scattered
guile but the cottage is as modest a little box
you can find Just such a one as Mr.. Fillmore Is
not ashamed TO live in. The cottage which we
visited in -, Of Mr. Bennett, al Hastings on the
Hudson, is a castle compared TO this Georgetown
cottage in point Of size but the President Is only
temporarily there of nights, during the fever and
ague season, when the Potomac fogs are apt 10
bring Up the disease into the White House.
Let us get happily over this slavery question. and
we expect to see such reunions al the White
Houss, next winter, We have not had for many
a long day.