The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-04-20
From WILMINGTON.

Ion, writing from Washington on the 11th,
says:
The subject Of change in the cabinet has been
much considered OF late by the friends of the admin
istration and Gen. Taylor has, it is said, bent to
the influences around him far to assent to the
necessity OF some changes, il not of general re-
organization Of the cabinet But it is well under
stood, to-day, that no decision will be made on the
subject until the disturbing questions before Con-
gress shall be settled or, at least until it shall be-
come more certain than it now is that an adjust
ment is practicable.
The tendency of movementsin Congress is to the
ultimate admission OF California, as an independent
measure, without any equivalent concession to the
interests or feelings Of the South. We are warned
BY such men as VIM. r. King and Mr.. Mason, that
the Southern States will unite in some system of
resentment to the policy of the majority. This may
or may not be so. But forbearance from the enact
ment OF the Wilmot proviso is the only concession
that the House will make to Southern policy. The
House will not concur in any measure which the
Senate may unite upon for the establishment Of ter
ritorial government. What then? Will the South
ern members permit the California bill TO pass the
House, while, by parliamentary expedients the first
vote can be prevented? In my opinion, they will
not.
1t will be some weeks hence before the House
will arrest the debate California in Committee Of
the Whole, and, after that there will be three
weeks OF discussion on amendments. The struggle
NneH between the minority
and the majority, and ultimately, in the midst OF
unparalleled excitement, the California bill will pass
and perhaps every appropriation bill defeated. 1t
IS to be considered that, in June, the Nashville
Convention will recommend measures in view Of
the state of things in Congress at the time, and
they may take positive ground against the adms-
SION Of California, on the passage Of further appro-
priation bills, or any further legislative action,
until more conciliatOry policy be adopted by the
majority.
The best security for an adjustment that we now
have is in the Of the House in the plan
of combining California with the territorial govern
ments which the Senate now aim at.
The Senate chamber was thronged to-day by
members OF the House, who felt, as the public did
deep result in the test question, which was to be
taken to-day The result is that the Senate is dec-
dedly opposed to withhold California from the pro-
posed reference Of the disputed subjects to a com
mittee Of thirteen. Several Senators were absent,
who would have voted with the twenty-eight Sena-
tors against Mr.. Baldwin's proposition The pro-
ceedings showed, however that there is to be much
trouble in arriving any definite and speedy result
on the subject
1t is a matter Of congratulation that Mr.. Clay,
Mr.. Webster, and Mr. Cass, have each been sus-
tanned by their own States in the national and
patriotic stand that they have taken. Mr. Cass has
achieved great triumph over prejudice in his own
State, and he can no longer say he did, despair
lngly, two months ago, that no moderate man can
be sustained at the North and that the storm had
rolled over him and left him PROSTATE
As tomorrow is Mr. Clay's birthday, some de-
monstrations Of popular respect to be paid him
tonight.