The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-08-20
INTELLIGENCE BY THE MAILS,


WASHINGTON, August IS, 1850.
SPICY Scenes coming in COngress-Eun or Good TO
Folo1e-The Ultros and their Aims-W Wallace
and Houston Georgia Demo1acy-Ren
appointments, &c.
Times and scenes, itch, spicy, and interesting,
may be expected in Congress for the remainder
of the session The crisis, for good or evil, is ap.
preaching. u is near at hand Something tangi-
bic is to be done. Procrastination can no longer
be resorted to.
III the House OF Representatives will but take up
and passthe Compromise bills from the Senate, with
out material alteration, then all will be well. But
II one OF these bills should be defeated then all
will be ill.
The effort of the utras, North and South if
made at ALL TO defeat any one of the bills in ques-
ton, will be made, as is supposed, upon the terri
tonal bill for New Mexico; the Northern men
opposing il because il has not the Proviso of Will
mot attached 10 il, and the Southern men opposing
IL because lis boundaries include slave soil pur-
chased from Texas, which may be made free soil
The ultras may also unite in opposition TO the
Texas boundary and bonus blll-the Northern men
because they cannot pay Texas ten millions of
dollars for soil which that State neve owned one
inch of, and the Southe I'm men because they can
not allow the government to pay ten millions of
dollars for slave soil in order that it may be
changed TO free soil
The Southern ultras may aid the Northern utras
in the work of attaching the Wilmot TO the terrific
nal bill for New Mexico, in order TO make it
odlous 10 the south. Should the Wilmot be at
ached, and the bill then passed. the scene that will
;oow cannot be described
The Southern ultras cannot count upon the aid
and cooperation of the aboliuonlsts, in the matter
OF keeping California out of the Union, when the
California bill shall be taken up in the House for
action. That bill can be killed only by resort TO
the Clingman expedient, to wit knowing 10 adj
joum and calling for the yeas and nays, against
"A lie he nd
action on the part of the majority
To morrow, II Is understood, an effort will be
made IN the House to take up the Texas boundary
bill. Prey Heaven il may pass, and all the other
compromise bills from the Senate. Let us hope
on for the hest, until Il viii be hoping against hope
TO do So We shall soon know.
That disunion l. ser ously contemplated by
large number of fire-eaters at the South there is
no reason 10 doubt About as many abotonists
al the North are praying for the same wicked con-
summation. But the Union men in the South and
disunionsts South and North any day, without the
aid of the strong aIm of the federal government.
Mr.. Toombs, OF Georgia, and Mr.. Jefferson Da-
Wis, ot Mississippi, are observed TO be great de al
together now days. Mr.. Toombs is the holder
man Of the Two. He scarcely attempts 10 conceal
his preference for a dissolved Union Mr.. Davis
asyet, denies stoutly and Indignantly that he is a
dlsunionist. He may grow holder by and by,
like bis sectional friend, Toombs.
Mr.. Wallace, ATTIRE. eater in Congress from South
Carolina, is out in The Southern Press, under his
VituPeratlon' against General Sam Houston, Sena-
tor from Texas. The affair creates good deal of
talk among all the politicians in the city at this
time. IL may be the designed beginning of the
end OF revolutionary secession. What notice sold
Sam will be induced 10 take of Mr. Wallace's on
sleugh, remains 10 b. seen.
The democracy of Georgia is divided on the sub
ject of selecting candidate TO run for Governor of
the State. The Union men are in favor Of running
Mr. Speaker Cobb, while the fire-eaters are for
running Mr.. ex-senator Colquitt.
. IN hRT nj he ma naha hapa
ded, II is understood, TO make removals, TO
speak of, in the departments here until Congress
adIourns, as their constant attention until that
time will be almost entirely devoted to answering
the calls OF Congress and OF the members Of that
body in behalf OF the wants and requests Of their
constituents But, soon after Congress does ad.
journ, united movement will be made on the
subject of removals and appointments, which will
make stir and call forth howl in this region
and then ali will be still again.
But Congress may hold its session for two or
three months yet-and If so, there will not be, be-
tween its adjournment and the expiration of the
term Of the present administration, very long
term for the new appointees TO hold office in.
Had not the removals better be made at once,
and the appointments also-the howl giveR-and
snspense dspensed with