The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-07-19
INTELLIGENCE By THE MAILS.


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Our Washington Correspondents.
WAsHlsoros, July IL, 1850.
~ Rsv Asrieo-CoL Mcn,oe's Official Despatet.
Some time ago . resolution passed the Senate ask.
ing Of the President information respecting the
clamation for State Convention At Santa Re, by Col
Monroe The President replied that oicial informa-
ton had been received of such thing The proela-
nation however has since arrived and sent to the
Senate to-day by President Fillmore, together with
the following official letter from Santa Fe. The pre-
eamatiOn was published fortnight ago. having been
brought the short cut Texas, by Major Neigh
bours, styling himself a Commissioner Of Texas
while Col Monroes Official copyhad to travel all the
way round by St Louis This accounts for the news
papers getting the proclamation SO long before the
Department =
01iciai-To the Secretary Of War
HAD QuARrrRs, grH MILITARY DEPARrsrSr.}
yoS the enclosed pro
ss@a,ion which made . Goysrnor for the election Of
eminent for New Mexico.
me both in the form Of petitions fr.m and personal repre-
sensations by the people, indicative Of their wishes this
accordance with the election, have been
ties except the adjoining county of San Miguel del BadO
which wifi be presented IN good lime -, -. ,,...
stu eneies will have their fairly
disasrssmsns the cenysntsn such .
I; S.l. II Ss
respectfully your 's soss s :s5sfR
o, b. . SS, q; s. Any . :1%%Andins
Fer tn. Honorable Secretary q War.
something yet behiAd. There was some din,culty
with Major Keighbors, and some correspondence be-
tween him and Colonel Monroe, or some conferences
at least this business, and there oughs to be .
letter from Colonel Monroe to the Secretary Of War
setting forth all these facts but cosd nnd no such
letter among the correspondence submitted to-day.
The letter Of Colonel Monroe is perfectly cool-evt
IDENTIFY written II communicating with great salts
faction some great executed under spsc..
certain Mr. Neighbours was ever inside the limits OF
New Mexico.
We shall have trouble yet with this boundary dis
pue This is not the to get out of IT, by shutting
the matter up President Fillmore must say whore he
The cas- Is od s.s p tss
handle. One side or the other, President Fillmore
should define his position which We suppose he will
do as soon n. he disposes OF the cabinet.
wAsurscros, July II, 1850.
TSs Ends Not Yet7n Cream Of Mr.. We5ster's Speech
To-dap-The Gtu-trap Of Mr.. Fooie, re.
Mr.. Webster accomplished. with admirable skill, to-
day. that difficult feat in horsemanship, of riding on
both sides Of the sspling He argued that the North
conceded exactly what the South obtansd-which was
nothing at all. Here few Of his points -
California has been irregularly organized but to
make 1t all good 1t only requires act of Congress-
q Congress cut not to adjourn without doing some
Pass California by herself and It will be almost
impossible to pass any bill for the territories through
T. Best to take them altogether
o. Something ought to be done. We have been
seven months In session, and the wheels OF govern
ment are ciogged fer want OF apr epriatons
o. IL this measure does not pass ne Is ready TO Try
some other measure.
but New Mexico requ ires immediate action.
s, Opposed to the premature admission Of new
States because II destroys the balance between the
o. Still, the admission Of California has become
| necessity; and even the admission OF New Mexico
| might not be the greatest evil in the world
TO- At all events the preservation OF peace depends
directly upon the settlement Of the Texas boundary
H. Both sections will be benefited by the passage
| this bill, some healing equivalent
H. The South will gain the settlement OF the Tefai
dispute, and with the other subjects rscommen ded b.
the committee publication Of almost the entire dis
49, Massachusetts and the North Will gain restora
tion of the to its proper functions and ths
benefits which flow nom the steady current OF egsis
tion.
plicston Of the wilmot Proviso Slavery excluded
by the laws God and by the expressed declaration
is, In this case, then, the wimotr Ia q mere sb
strction doing nothing more than viii be done with
ls He repudissed the doctrine Of instructions q
making slaves of che members Of Congress- and though
swimot prohibiting such slavery would be benen
| eial.
IL The extreme opinions of the North or OF tn,
South not standard Of the popular sentiment o
| either section
IS The Nashville address 10 not exposition OF tn
popular sentiment In the South, because that address
| IL n studied disunion argument.
| 10. South Carolina WAS little too severe upon tn
free celored ctirenr Of Massachusetts going down tina
| way, and bad innsnea the abolitionists but thei
ansticm was not the hearty popular opinion Of Mas
| tachutetts aud go forth.
| Now this is What might be called the concentrated
extract of Dr. Websters ssrssparila The gist Of hi
| extract as . Msssac husetts man is
That the Omnibus excludes the South from all thu
territories. just as effectively a. the Wmot," an,
that, unless something II done pretty soonthe tariff
s out Of the question the rivers aud harbors
the question and all this to the eminent and imminent
disadvantage of the North.
Mr.. Webster crowds hard upon the mourners, and
pleads With all the earpestness Of who has him
self been crowded into false position.
But the amendment of Mr.. foote, proposing the ad-
mission Of California she IL, with persuasion that
after she II admitted she shall submit to give
part OF her territory, II she pesses stopped the pro-
ceedngs Of the day. Complete gull trap "a II is-a
hook baited with rcd flannel, Mr. Berrien thought u
entitled to some consideration And that is the