The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-05-18
From Washington,


Ion, the Washington correspondent of the Balti.
more Sun, writing under date of the 9th inst SAYS:
The compromise is not yet lost, but it is in some
danger. Mr.. Benton and Mr. Seward have yet to
fulfil their threat, or boast that they would beat
the breath out of its body. The more sanguine of
its friends anticipated for it vote of forty of the
Senators to twenty against it. From the forty, if
we must deduct ten Southern Senators, will be left
only thirty to thirty, and the measure will not be
carried. But it is not certain that the ten Senators
named will not yet give their votes for the scheme
That is the expectation of the friends of California
At various times, several Southern Senators had
declared In the most solemn manner, that the South
would not take, as compromise, any thing short
of the line of 30 deg 30, the Southern boundary
of California, and the organization of territorial
governments without restriction of slavery. Mr..
Jefferson Davis has frequently asserted this. Mr..
Mason declared it as the principle of action as
sumed by his State.
Now, as we have come to a test, these gentlemen
take the earliest opportunity to declare their policy.
So, we have now something like tie, and the
southern Senators are divided uponit. It has been
asserted here that the Senators from Virginia. from
Florida, from South Carolina, Mr.. Davis, of Mis-
sissippi, Mr.. Clemens, of Alabama, Mr.. Borland
and Mr. Sebastian, Of Arkansas, Mr. Downes, of
Louisiana, will insist upon the line of 30 go or vote
against Mr.. Clay's scheme The votes of these
eleven Senators would defeat the scheme now in
the Senate. But it may be that some of the Sena-
tors above named will waive their objections to the
scheme, and adopt it, as a whole, perhaps with
slight modification
There is still fair prospect that whatever may
pass the Senate will pass the House but not per-
haps, till after conference between the two
Houses.
MIR. Clay and the majority of the Committee of
thlrteen hope to pass the first bill relating to Cali
fornia, the territorial governments and Texas,
during the next week. But that is entirely out Of
the question. Weeks more than one will pass, be-
fore that bill will pass. Mr.. Clay will make gal
liant fight in behalf of the views of his report.
The Nashville Convention meet a month from
TINS day, and l doubt whether any thing definite
will be done by that time.
An application from the Spanish residents and
land holders of Southern California has been made
to the Senate, for the establishment of territorial
government letter to DR.. Gwin states that the
movement at San Diego, in behalf of that purpose
was failure, and that American took part in it.
CONGRESSIONAL. We have received a teIe.
graphic summary by the way of Louisville of the
proceedings of Congress on the 10th inst:
The Senate was not in session.
HoUsE.-The bill for paying Nichol e. Church,
OF NewYork, for supplying tea to the U. S. Navy,
was passed.
Various private bills from the Senate were taken
up and appropriately referred.
The House then went into Committee of the
Whole on the state of the Union, and proceeded TO
the consideration of the Senate's amendments TO
ton TO the contingent expenses of the two Houses
TELEeRAPHrc.-Last evenings Pcayune con-
tains the following Dispatch
In the Senate, on Tuesday, (14thD the Def
cheney Appropriation bill and the House amend
ments to the Census bill passed; after which the
Senate went into Executive session.
The House was engaged in discussing the Cali
fornia bill.
The Intelligencer, on the authority of the Presi-
dent emphaticaly contradicts all rumors Of mis-
understanding in the Cabinet; it asserts that the
President discountenances any attempts from any
quarter to dissolve it.
From HAvANA.-The steamship Isabel from
Havana the sth, arrived at Charleston on the l1th
instant. The following are extracts from the Isa-
bells log:
May 6-Steamship Falcon sailed for Chagres
at NJ.
May S.-Spanish steamer Guadalquivir from
South side; Spanish frigate in from off
cruise around the island, but would sail again in
few days. There in the port of Havana
two hrst class rigates, seventy-four gun ship,
and two steamers. The French sloop-of-war Fauvre
entered the port of Havana as we came out.
On the 9th instant, saw the ship Aida off Carys-
fort Reef; also the bark Pilgrim, bound East.
From RIo-The Philadelphia Bulletin of the
18th gives us the following from Rio, received per
ship Grey Eagle:
The Grey Eagle sailed from Rio on the evening
OF the 9TH of April. The Yellow Fever was still
raging. Among the victims, we regret to announce
the name of Thomas Jefferson Morgan, ESQ, the
American Secretary of Legation, who was buried
few days before the Grey Eagle sailed He had
been very actively engaged relieving the suferings
OF his countrymen in the city and among the ship
ping, and by this exposure probably contracted the
disease. He was universally lamented by the
Americans in port. Mr.. Morgan was native of
w Washington, Pa and son of Thomas Morgan,
Esq, of that place. He had of late years resided
In Ohio, occupying prominent position in the
politics OF that State. Hon. David Tod, the Amer
lean Minister, was in the country with his family,
when the Grey Eagle left.
Gov. Kent, the American Consul, also lost son
by the epidemic. Capt Amity and Capt Harris,
both Of them in command of American California
bound ships, had died. A report had arrived that
there had been great mortality on a United States
store ship after leaving Rio. This we fear, is the
Lexington, which at Rio at the last accounts
In the city, the ravages of the fever had been
dreadful. One commercial house had twelve clerks
down with it at once, and many houses had to be
closed.
The hopes that were entertained of the safety of
the steamer Rhode Island are blasted by this arri-
val. The " steamer of great length, under sail,n
which was reported going into Rio, by the Isabel
tia Hyne, was the steamer Sea Gull from New
York, which had arrived there, and corresponds to
that description.