The New York herald., 1850-01-19
MTELLIGENCE BY THE MAILS.
Our Washington C0rrespOndenee

Our Washington Core rsspendenee
affairs in Congress The Emeute Jeoeen the .ansrieaa
Consul and the Brthsh Charge at Yalp~oiso, &c.
WAsHIscros, Jan. II, 1850.
The telegraph will no doubt have informed you Of
the scene we had in the Senate, which was a sort Of
buretts, though it commenced with great pathos
Mr.. Clemens rpoke his resolutions of inquiry into
the conduct efthe administration In California and the
means, overt and secret employed by the to pro-
the present constitution and State in
that distant territory. Mr.. Clemens is ardent
young gentleman, Of extreme Southern growth Of
siderable talent but not yet mellowed by experience
and the reason OF ripper years He commenced debut
bionc with announcing the whole North and more es.
pecially the democratic party of the North, Though
himself crept into that party only, as sailors would
say "throueh the cabin window" by a split Of the
democrats In the Legislature Of Alabama. Governor
young gentleman to tSrry while in Jericho till his
beard shall be grown The Governor, as you hess
man and has this day svowsd his readiness
to draw the sword in defence Of the consttn-
tional rights Of his Southern brethren. If men
like him are to be promised in Southern denunea
tops II Mr Douglass of Illinois, Is to be unchurched
then the South really desirous OF driving the whole
North into freesosm, in order that they may enjoy
the opposite extreme Such intention, II it really
exists IL ineompatibl with liberal spirit and bar
10 all honorable promise But 4 am satisfied that
this Is not the ieeling of the whole South and that
liberal support given by moderate Of the North to
moderate men Of the South, viii beget similar kind
and that by such means, the right and left centre may
yet unite and defeat the fan stacm of the two wings
While the House is still hghtjug about the door
keeper eectiDg and then undoug him again, as Free
soilism or extreme Southern views prevail the COM
mittees OF the two houses are bard at work aud
toleraby well agreed the various topics which thus
fsr submitted to their consideration The readers
Of the Hrold may rely with certainty on three things
lst. That the Committee of Ways aud Means will
curtail all exraysgant expenditures, and avoid,
much possible. any dedcit in the revenue OF the
financial year ending 30th June next Judge Bayly,
Of AZ tte Ia her on re-
enchmen and the majority of its members are Of his
way OF thinking.
"a That the foreign relations of our country will be
thorougby tfted aud that far the forcing pumps
OF the Committee Foreign Relations capsule Of
reaching suppressed documents they will be produced
and placed before the public. The committee have .
vast amount Of business bef them and the develope
mebs will be CT most astounding and extraordinary
character IL will appear that Mr. Clayton, in the Nj
question, not only surrendered every sdvsn-
tsge obtained by our diplomatic agents but also
uted the government in advance to the views taken
Of 1t by the British government
Sd That the Committee on Commerce, under the
chsirmsuship OF Mir. McLans has come to these i'm
portapt conclusions First, That barbors and rivers
which are embraced ty the regulations Of existing
commerce. under the contrel aud OF the power
of Congress; and, second That the wsrehousng sys-
TEN will be sustained and perfected aud that every
fort 70 dcredit IL, or ebarsss 1t. will be firmly OPP
posed.
In regard to the castigation administered by Mr.
Potter Consul a. Valparaiso to the British Charge
Mr sullivan, have only to say that tho papers have
gene to Congress, though MIR, clay ton as credit
ably iniormed has suppressed certain passages in Mr.
Potters official mt az the affair by which the
port losss much ofis pauaney Thus speaking Of the
perfect resignation with which the bystapders wit
nessed MIR potter's delicate magnetic strokes Mr.
Suvsns back, the report says that but one gentle
man, n British merchant, profiered word and that
was, smen!' MIR. Clay ton has suppressed this pas
sase not to initiate the British Minister here Wash
ipgton How much pru uiepce and daring Mr.. Clayton
uLites in ore and the same person! But the prone
Of Mir Cleyten to suppress and alter aud thereby
TO is,iiy, public documents, being once understood,
would it not be well in Congress to order search Of
the State Department!