The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-09-27

into the Mnits of cousty court room The ar
chitect constructed the Senate chamber with the
express design Of keeping out the crowd but the
people REQUIRE accommodation, and ought TO have
4 as soon as possible. With about three hundred
persons IN the pinched up. galleries, there have
Ssn hs sesson ss s
and as we are 10 have Cuba pretty soon, IA addi-
ton TO California, we must have the capitol en-
larged. ~ ' go .1ce1a
Mr. Cass offered resolution to-day which was
carried, asking the President TO communicate the
correspondence between the government of Turkey
and the Secretary Of State. As We understand il,
the Sultan has offered to ship the poor Hungarian
refugees to England, if the United States gOverA-
ment will bring them thence to this country. The
Secretary of State, we understand, has replied
that the power rests with Congress. The object
of Gen. Cass is to ascertain the facts, with view
to some proceedings for the liberation Of kossu.h
and his companions Gen. Cass has gained great
popularity from his whole course towards the Hun
garans, and if he succeeds in bringing kossu.h to
the United States, it will be worth hundred thou
sand votes for the presidency.
Gen. Dawson proposed to-day to pay $500
mileage 10 X II. Weighman, sent here as Sc
nator from New Mexico and he had the moral
courage to try the experiment twice, with the MIS-
fortune in both cases to be defeated by solitary
vote Gen. Rusk thought il would be great out
rage TO Texas to pay this man for his Journey from
Santa Fe but we must say that If Texas SO
delicate about her honor, she had better refuse
those ten millions After accepting the money, IT
not the part Of old soldier to refuse the ira
Yelling expenses TO another soldier, though he did
come from New Mexico. We hardly expected
Gen Rusk 10 cavil on small bubble.
Collector MAXWELL we presume. wllls be dispos-
ed of in a day or two TO his satisfaction, for We
expect after keeping him waiting SO long on the
stool of repentance, the Senate will forgive him
and confirm him.
WASHINGTON, September 81, 1850.
The Day in Congress-The Administration aud
Cuba.
The last days of Congress are like the emptyng
Of the odds and ends out of old family trunk,
good many yaIuables are turned out in the over
hauling.
In the House, to-day, the tariff people were again
defeated, and that lays them over TO December
next inevitably. But the Northern folks had their
retaliationthey killed of several Illinois and Mis-
sissippi bills, which included some pretty liberal
grants of she public lands
very interesting contest took place in the
SeBate, on the Mexican indemnity bill, which SUBJ
stantally provides that the houses of Corcoran az
Riggs, Rowland " AspinwalI, and the Barings,
shall be the agents for the payment, by way of
London, Of three millions Of the indemnity to
Mexico, out Of which, we understand, 1900, 900
are TO be saved 10 the treasury, end 500 90 10 the
agents Mr.. Soule's amendment, we take il, pro-
posed 10 confer the agency upon Mr.. Isaac d.
Marks, and Benjamin E. Green, a son of Gen.
Duff Green. And from the correspondence Of Mr.
Marks, read in the Senate, il appears that Mr.
Marks had made all the arrangements with
Mexico, and had every thing cut and dried for
making $4,000 piece, in the transfer Of the
s3,000,000 from Washington TO Mexico, by means
of exchanges. The effect of the correspondence
was 10 defeat the oyertures of Mr.. Marks, who
claimed an oral agreement with the late cabinet,
which Mr. Ewing denied, and the bill has finally
passed for the b. nett of Messrs. Corcoran ~ Riggs,
and company
IL is your PRACTICAL inanciers that know how to
deal with the treasury.
The administration have taken deep interest
in the movements OF the House for repeal or me-
dification Of the act of 40 protective tariff is
the standard policy of the cabinet. Upon that
policy they expect 10 rally the wing party, and
unite IT. Upon that policy they expect 10 over
come Pennsy vaDie, and to strengthen the admins
trdtion even in Georgia and Louisiana-for Geor.
gia is beginning largely TO manufacture cotton, and
Louisiana produces sugar, which will sell al bet
Ter price under heavy duty.
The tariff is, in fact, the only definite measure Of
the old set, upon vhich the wings and democrats
stand distinctly divided, and the only one by which
the old party lines can be preserved, except upon
the uo'lIeasury question, which, II seems, the
wings are fearful OF disturbing, though still banker
| ing after bank, and it's Ultimate blessings OF a
/ general bankrupt law.
There is another question, however, OF great
concern 10 the cabinei--the Cuba question. The
, Spanish Minister is vastly troubled, and has IN.
formation OF the most nefarious conspiracy for the
. immediate seizure Of Cuba by an armed squadron
OF steamboats,. The information is indefinite 10
the cooler judgmt NJ Of Mr. Webster; but he, too,
/ iOresees that Cuba must be attended to--ihst we
must either buy ~, or keep squadron in the Gulf
10 watch the pira'ss. MIR. Webster, in principle,
is opposed 10 the remuneration of any more shave
territory. lie don't like IL. The re-anneh alton of
Texas has been enough for him; but the tide is
seuing in again. Soplething must be done limo
thing IL done by Mr. Webster, the democrats will
hitch il on 10 their Presidential ticket and i, Will
60 through clean as Polk, Dallas, Texas and
Oregon" With theee considerations operating upon
the Secretary of state, there Ii some ground OF
plausihihty IN the rumor that he is willing to nego-
taie for the remuneration OF Cuba, when the right
time comes. Let n watch the movements on This
great question.
Arrest or British CsnVtcts ~ baltimore.
A few days since, Col. q. L. Kane, collector Of
customs OF this port received Information from
the collector OF New York iai the schooner Flea
nor, Capt. II. W. Harvey. he'd sailed from the
Island Of Bermuda for this port, with number OF
couvicts, who had been released from the prison
hulks by order OF the English government, on coz
dItion of their coming 20 this country. On "a.