The New York herald., 1850-06-25

Our WashlnEt0n C0rrssPondsnce.
WAsHNeroN, June 20, 1850.
PeYsosai Movewe~ts-1hs Chtrkiiwg Of the GalYAi
Ovgas-TM Galphiw Busiasss to csws wp O
Tuesday vert What may tAs~ be shoson- IN
Ay0id's sxpost, relative to the Nicaragua Treat
New fw a wew Cabinet, $-c.
Mr.. and Mrs. Webster were off in their carriag,
this morning for the Southern boat. 1t 10 presumed
they are going to Old Point Comfort, spend few
days, during the recess Of the Senate.
Mr. Clay was out early this morning, as usual
for his morning walk. At the door of the National
he met Mr.. Newton, of Virginia, just in from the
Nashville Convention. The two gentlemen argued
briefly the Missouri Compromise line and the
Texas boundary line. Mr.. Clay said he was
willing TO 60 for almost any plan by which the
great vexed question of the day would be settled,
and peace could be restored to the country. As
for the claim OF Texas west to the Rio Grande, he
could not consider il good by any means-and in
this there were three Of the most eminent men in
The Senate who concnrTed with him--still, to satsy
Texas, and 10 enable her pay off her public debt
he was willing the United States should render to
her an ample equivalent in money for all the terri
tory which she might conceive that she was sur
rendering.
revoked It's order for an nvestg ating committee
10 look after an unlawful transfer and disposal of
funds in the Treasury, charged against Messrs
Meredith aud Ewing, and authorized its Co nmitteo
OF Ways and Means 10 inquire into and report upon
the matter.
Next Tuesday the Galphin Committees reports
will be the special order Of the day in the House
of Representative. If not pushed as ie for other
something rich. 1t may be shown,
lst That old Hugh Lawson White, when in the
Senate of the United States, made report against
this veritable Galphin claim, and that too, after
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upon by resolution of the Senate, through the
President of the United States for the facts in the
csse, had reported all that were favorable, and
withheld all that Were uniavorable to the claim.
Judge White, that pure and incorruptible Senator,
even then reported that the Galphin heirs had no
just claim against the United States.
End That the three reports in favor of tho G al
pha claim, made by Senator Ashley, in lSi6-7-S.
were never written by that Senator, but were
drawn up by clerk about the capitol, engaged and
employed fer the purpose; and
Srd. That before the Republic came out with its
very proper and honest repudiation of the Gaphin
claim, President Taylor had denounced the claim
TO at least one OF the editors of that paper, and de-
caTed that if he had known Of the IN after before
the money had been paid on the claim, il never
should have been paid.
II the House should take up and decide upon
the Gaiphin transaction on Tuesday next, it will
most assuredly pass a vote Of strongly expressed
censure upon the three cabinet members concerned
in it. IT. after that, Messrs. Crawford, Meredith,
and johnson persist in holding on to their places,
the country will see, and the world will see, what
sort of stuff they are made of! But let US wait.
Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof"
Your exposure of the fact, that Mr.. Joseph l..
White, and not MIR. Secretary Clayton, devised aud
drew up the Nicaragua treaty, has created good
deal OF speculation here, and has given the nerves
OF the trembling Secretary of State, as | under
stand, new shock.
His speedy retirement to the shades Of his Buena
Vista villa, is considered not at all improbable.
Most assuredly, General Taylor will be at no loss
TO find material for a new whig cabinet, if the
present Galphin concern should all go hence.
The subject is talked Of by we'll informed pot-
clans here, daily. The following named gentle
men are among those who have been spoken Of as
suitable and meritorious statesmen for places in
the cabinet--
For the State Department
John ]. Cnttenden, William C. Rives, John
Bell, Robert G. Winthrop, and John Sergeant.
For the Treasury Department.
John Davis, James +. Simmons, Abbott Law
renee, George Evsns, Andrew Stewart, and
For the Interior Department
Thomas i. Mcllennan, Truman Smith, Arthur
r. Hopkins. James Pearce, and William Duer
:. F9 the Var Department.
Meredith p. Gentry, Edward d. Baker, William
Cost Johnson, Humphrey Marshall, and Edward
Bsier-
For the Nary Department
Thomas Butler hing. the universal favorite for
For the Post Office Department.
Richsrd W. Thompson, Charles s; Morehead,
Hugh White, Caleb b. Smith, and John 9. Clark.
For Attorney GeneyaL
John j. Crttenden: Rnfus Choate, Sargent S.
Prentiss, Richard w. Thompson, and Edward
Bates.
The Senate has been all this day-this hot day
engaged on amendments TO the Compromise. The
House has worked hard on the bill, us yester-
day, granting bounty lands to the soldiers OF the
last war with Great Britain.
In about ten days, or fifteen days from this, the
CCnpiOmise will be passed hv bofh houaes- and
then much congressional business, and variety
OF other subjects, will be transacted.
WASHINGTON. June p, 1850.
A Reroiutiou in JroAington-7ne Hacknen COM
pistsiy used up-Nsw, York Omnibusss IN f4ll
Sring--Grsat Sensation among the old Ssagus.
Before the Nsv York Herald introduced that
revolution in the newspaper press, which has ex-
tended all over the country, as the only system in
keeping with the enterprise and sririt ofthe age,ws
all remember the jogtrot pace of the old sixpen-
nies. and. their publication of important news a
week after il was known to everybody.
A revolution, since January last, equally de-
cisivc in its results, has been introduced into
Washington in the shape Of the New York omni-
buses. Washington covers space, with its scat
tered parcels Of houses, ofneary FIVE miles square,
and these are some Of the distances from the Ma
tonal (latc Colernen's IIoteD which IL regarded as
the centre Of travel and business ofthe city.
From the National Hotel TO the Capitol, up a
steep bill part Of the way, one-thrd Of mile.
To the Presidents and departments, excepting
poet office, two-thirds Of mile.
To the steamboat landing one mile.
10 the Congressional Cemetery, three miles.
To the Navy Yard, two miles.
To the Arsenal, two and half miles.
To the General Post Office, one-hfth Of mile.
To The Patent office, do.
To Georgetown, which may be considered
suburb OF Washington, Il miles.
From time immemonal, in uavsrsing these dis
tances the traveller has been at the mercy Of the
backmen and their exertions upon the uninitiated,
in not making bargain beforehand, are as wide
the boundaries Of the United States, and good
deal wider. Indeed, these hackmen had for a long
time, been the particular dread Of all strangers, and
the particular annoyance at the hotels, railroad de-
pot and steamboat landing To go TO Georgetown
or any intermediate distance, the choice was be-
tween hack, nj the hackman's discretion, ose of
Colonel Naior's old style store-box omnibusss, at
la cents. or foot, and the latter alternative was
more frequently adopted than any other.
Mr.. Thomas Fitman, however, had seen tho
operation Of the New York omnibuses, and las
winter went TO Mr. Venderwerken. at Ne wark. New