New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-04-10
By THE MIDNIGHT Sol THERN NAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON
The Hou-e-T. ". Benton California The
Compromised House Riot Expected
PrOcrnstinatiou.

Correspondence of TIE Tribune.
W,su>croS. Monday Afternoon Aprl g..
TIE House was in Committee on ; avery and
California when I reached tle Capitol today
There we've .aw spectators. fewer Membs-s-the
scene was ve-y dgl. ike the weather. or a medi.
OGRE play on the LIST night Of its rehearsal-rc.
portcrs huns down Their heads-Mr WALLACE o!
: c. portrayed Siayerys blessings as fifty other
o,-usr, had done before him wel he owes General
~HiELD,- mild and happy State oi despot.sm. best
or the negro better still for the Caucasian PLANTER
who raises, buys or sells him.
IT, the Senate there was more life. Crowded
was the Chamber 20 rs utmost limit both lotbies
and -l cries. with ladies' and gentlemen anxious
- hear a man who seldom speaks without being
listened To- with attention. ! mean Old Bullion,
the Senator from Miss ur I. II. BENTON
Mr. BFNroN has sat Tor Missouri. In Senate
nearly thirty years-he was formerly an editor o'
a paper in = Louis. Is r Southern man by birth
and connection. AMI is ~ years OF age. he Is elo-
quent when reused tul OF action when speaking
COURAGEOUS rather positive has a most retenive
memory. and very generally does his own thinking
speaks French and spanish tluentiy. does part
OF lis family has read much and dlgested wei.
what he read, and IS astute and well experienced
In American affairs. HIS forehead Is high and
broad, hair gray, countenance bold and open, man
ner earnest, appearance manly and rather prepos
sessing. He IS stout made. large, heavy SIX
lotcr stands firm and erect IA ms shoes giving no
signs of early decay. HIS voice. sometimes so
low as scarcely 10 be heard, rises with the import
ance of his subject. and evidently possesses great
power He IS methOClcal. systematic, generally
mathematical in his mode OF reasoning but asks
many questions after the most approved SOcratlc
method: uses notes on little slips OF paper care
fully arranged. and brings TO bear upon any ques
ton he chooses TO argue, many strong and novel
facts He knows how 10 seize upon the strong
points Of the case in hand as well as any man on
the foor of the Senate and a multitude OF apt and
interesting quotations are ever at his fingers ends
ready for use.
His remarks today excited q lively interest: his
witty. satirica descriptions and hard hits and
ihumps told upon his intelligent audience. The
telegraph VIII have given you the pth of his argu
ment before this reaches you-ot course he Is
against FOOTEs Committee Of 49, and for the I'M
mediate admission of California, one Of the Sena-
tors for which the celebrated South Carolnlan.
COL FRFnoNrl IS married to his daughter He
does not quarrel about distractions but will always
bee found as he always has been. a firm friend and
supporter of the peculiar institutions. J was
glad 90 see him remind the Senate OF tour months
passed in idleness, and that he hoped they would
now proceed 10 get ONE oil through tail half OF
the members OF the House stood. or sat, patiently
listening leaving their own body with not half
quorum had any one chosen to OBJ ect to the irregu
arty He paid high compliment 10 the National
ItHgcncer, as having done much to quiet the
public mind, assuage excitement South rebukc
disuuon, and induce the press to stand faithfully
by the spirit of the Constitution.
HIS remarks took a wide range conversation
was hushed except an occasional whisper-al lis
tencd-many nodded approbation-in less than two
hours lat . he concluded when
Mr. CLAY spoke with great energy in favor Of
the Committee OF 10, as did Gen. CAS-. Mr.. HALE
did not want to send the question of Slavery in
California TO a Compromise Committee, because
Mr. DANIEL WEBSTER had explained TO the Sen.
ate that Gods law had already excluded Slavery
from that country and he HALE did not want
Heavens DEGREES 10 be sent to a Committee Of 3,
To be there subjected to a compromise. Mr. TRU-
HAN SMITN went against territorial bills. against
the Committee of l3. and for the immediate admis
sion of California He sand that the California bill
might be passed at any moment but that Mr..
CLAY had expressed his apprehension OF something
OF rival in the House OF Repres
the minority might begin perpetual call for the
Yeas and Nays-that there might be confusion and
delay. He Mr.. ) scarcely expected such results.
Mr. FoorE delivered Compromise speech and
proposed Mt p. NJ another adjournment Of the
question till Thursday next. This was agreed TO-
and as usual, nothing Whatever was done except
speech making. A Senator proposed TO 20 into
Executive Session but Il was dinner time, and the
gentlemen adjourned TO their hotels