The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-09-01
INTELLIGENCE BY THE hlHs
Our WashIng ton Corrsspondenee.

Our WashingtO ton Correspondence.
NJ wAssnsrss, Augls ~, 1sse.
House Proeeedsnss to-day hftis Smoky .a6surdssv u N
Wilmos''- Condition Of me Fork Delegation Csjov
sia the last obstacle to the SouM-Txe Senate AasvsH
L<wis, Ee6ank and Company, &C., re. +. no. .r5i y
The House proceedings to-day were somewhat fogsy,
dubious lugubrious and insonclusive. Mr.. AsClsr-
nand, from Jealous desire to hurry the work
along, moved the previous question. which outs Oh Al
debate and brings the the main issue and the
result majority of two. thirds against the propos
ton. The only fair conclusion is that the House not
disposed to be precipitate; and this think good
indication though other persons consder 1t bad Sign
At all events IL is only conclusive of the
Of the House to drive the subject headlong through
Your representative Mr. Brooks spoke like sensible
man. taking the Webster platform, that the wilmot 10
abstraction and signifies nothing 1t IL not
necessary to add Insult injury spon the South whom
slavery can be excluded just we'll without It, Mr.
Webster right when he declared that the "Wil-
mot" was not wanted for Utah aud New Mexico So
utterly impossible Is IL that African slavery
exist In these cold elevated, desosts desert and
inhsbitabe regions, that bounty OF hundred dollars
year upon every able bodied negro slave would fail
to establish slavery among the mountains Of New Mex
leo or amid the volcanic wastes OF Master Brooks
Is therefore fafe perfectly safe in sticking to the
platform Of Mr. Webster, which is simply this that II
you admit California she is and sgslate tail to
iegislste and INTRODUCES prohibit. Wilmot anti
Wimot Is out of the power beyond the reach, and
will defy all human agencies to estab lish slavery in
any other portion Of the territories acquired nom
few little valleys wstered by Irrigation inh sbited snS
worked by Mexican by brid people who can live pom
hye per cent less per than required
support negro The unocc 1pied consists OF
deserts without water mountains OF bald rorrs in
accessible to almost anything except the mountain
goat and the mountain trapper And what of Utah 2
The little in that vast expanse volcanic ruins
are already monopolized by the Mormons the i'm
Ngrations of the Saints into them of the last
chance for Sambo. There is for him, unless
| he is Saint From Santa fe near thousand miles
west to the Sierra Nevada and from Oregon southwark
through degrees of latitude stretches out we VEN
ture to say the most horrible, awful sterile desoate
bowling wilderness that exists upon the face Of Gods
earth II such country be said to exist Modern
examinations ofthe through the most powerful
telescopes, have led astronomers to describe it
planet without an atmosphere, without soil without
clouds without rain, without animal vegetable life
crude mass of volcsni: debris and such is the
Of the territory of the Great Basin excepting an oasis
here and there where the energy OF such people as
the Mormons produces miracles of production. What
| Crossing low spur which bordered the creek We
descended to kind of plair among the lower spurs
the desert flank OF the Great Basin country being
In full view to our left apparently illimtable There
said our guide stretching cut his hand towards It,
| there are the great Hdnos (plans, hay aqua;
hay xacdte, pddd-there is neither water grass,
| nothing. Every animal that goes out upon them
| Dies II was, indeed, dismal to look upon.
within few miles wide coming east from the Pacific
country) vast desert plain spread before u.s. from
which the boldest traveller turned away In despair"
Master Brooks L. therefore, right, that it is not
to keep cut slavery God Almighty has excluded 1t by
/ proyiso Of his own-a proyiso Of deserts without
| water, Of mountains without soil, by expanse
Of volcanic ruins terrible, fearful aud desolate a.
death; ranless tmberless leless and productive
where Of either rice tobacco cotton sugar we'll fed
negroes When corn shall be exported from Labrador,
and palm Gil from the shores OF Iceland, We may
expect to hear of slave plantations In Utah.
We understand that eighteen of the New York dele
CATION side with Master Bro oks and wiling to
take the Senate bills upon venture without stretch
ing the provso these aforesaid volcanic terrific
ries Assuming responding preparation from the
wings Of the other Northern States, and still larger
proportion Of the democrats In favor of the senate
bills feel safe In predicting their passage whether
in the form Of an Omnibus, or in detail.
The whole issue with the South rests of upon
the Texas boundary and the admission Of California
These two difficulties overcome, the work IL done
The South will make their final nd upon California
Defeated there, suppose they will give up and
turn the subject over to the Nashville Convention.
The Senate have been chiefly occupied this week
upon executive appointments. They have con frmed
an immense list Of all Sorts Maxwell Lewis, and Ew-
bank still In nubbus Yesterday and to-day Lewis was
debated including arecaptuaton of his financial and
banking operations; but there was no decision. A
hest Of New Workers., such John Young, ThAyer,
H-rd Bogsrdus and others here, In reference one
way or the other, to Maxwell In another day
peet the mystery TO be cleared up. A Mr. Clay him.
self IL in doubt upon these three venture
prediction. But justice demands they should be dis
posed CT one way or the other.