The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-01-08
lFrom the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Letter from yVaahingtOn.

lfrom the Philadelphia Public Ledger.1
Letter from Washington.
WAsHrNsroN, Dec. n, lS49.-There was 4
slight alteroaton in the House to-day, or a species
Of Triangular fight between Messrs. Giddings,
Winthrop and Schencs butt misunderstanding
Mr.. Winthrop gave Mr.. Giddings the DC tgeatesi
stating emphatically that what Mr.. Giddings had
advanced was false, aud insinuating in a scholar.
like manner, that he (Mr Giddings) knew that il
was false when he made his statement MIR. Gid.
dings did not follow the example of Mr. Meade, o.
Virginia, by sending Mr.. Winthrop challenge
nor would Mr.. Winthrop follow the example o.
Mr., Duer, and regret and withdraw the offensive
words. The upshot OF the whole is, that the abo-
iltionists and northern wings have got at logger
heads.
The House have adopted the rules of the last
House without division, and then adjourned over
till Monday, when Mr.. Cobb will announce the
Standing Committees. They will be fairly and
impartially made. | understand that Mr.. Linn
Boyd has been offered the Craftsmanship of the
Committee of Ways and Means but declined ac-
eepting it. 1t is not unlikely that Mr.. McLane OF
Maryland, or Judge Bayly Of Virginia, will be put
in his place, unless the latter prefers to be Chair
man of the Committee on Foreign Relations.
| The Committee ON Commerce will be so con-
stituted as to satisfy the North. The Wilmot
Proviso men will have fair hearing in the Com
mittees on the Territories and the Judiciary.
The deficit of sixteen millions" in 1881, spo-
mented on by Senators and Members, who seem
to be determined not to allo5D it, 1t is very singu-
| lar that the Tariff of 1885, which is, aver
age, yielding eight millions of dollars per annum
more than the Tariff Of 1912, should in Mr. Mere
diths opinion, be made more productive by re-
/ turn to that same standard of 1912; and that the
revenue from customs, which, during the first quar-
ter OF the present financial year, was equal to
! ST., 643, 72S "a, should not be estimated higher
than S3l 100000 per annum. 1t will probably ex-
coed that amount by four five millions OF dollars
just covering the estimated deficit the LIST o
July, 1850; especially if trade is not disturbed
by an apprehension, in the minds of foreign mer-
chants own, that we are again, after a most
successful experiment, to change our whole CON-
mercial and internal polcy-to swing back again,
like huge pendulum, at the expiration OF the
present Presidential term. No country can be per.
manently prosperous that is continually swinging
to and fro between two opposite points in the
compass.
There are estimates on the desks OF members
amounting to about forty-six millions on which, ]
| have no doubt, Congress will manage to economist
! $5,000,000 and if there should be temporary de-
felt of few millions TO anticipate certain extraor
binary Expenditures four five millions of Treasury
Notes, bearing no interest and not being fundable
will probably be all the remedy proposed by Con
gress.
The fact is, you may take for granted that not a
single thing recommended by the Secretary Of the
Treasury will pass either House, and that Mr.
Meredith has, as yet, no conception of the manner
in which he will be tormented with calls from boil
Houses to substantiate the strange doctrines
avowed in his report.
The onslaught on the Department of the interior
seems to be- by unanimous consent, agreed upor
| by wings and democrats, and there is strong
probability that the centraGzing influence OF thai
branch OF the Government will be overcome. Mr.
Ewing is personally the most unpopular man ii
| Washington. His Report is, nevertheless, the bes
paper of the whole bunch that has been issued, ex
ceeding in the information it conveys, and in the
manner in which it handles the subjects Of discus.
sion, the Message, the Report of Mr.. Meredith
the Report Of the Postmaster General, and the two
Reports of the Secretaries of War and Navy re-
spectively. Mr. Ewing, in fact, is the master.spir
OF the present Cabinet, but as that spirit is JUS
now noonceivably unpopular, the first blow to b.
struck by Congress will be aimed at his head.
It is proposed by Senator Douglass, Of illinois
Of the COMMITTEES on Territories, to propose Stat,
bills, instead Of Territorial bills, for New Mexico
and Deseret. Such bills would avoid the instruc
tons given to all the Northern Senators, excep
those Of Iowa, to attach the Wimot proviso L
every bill establishing government in the Terri
/ tories, and would, in fact absoye these Senators
! from their instructions. Il would be carrying gu
the principle OF non-interferenoe, and put end tt
an agitation as useless and devoid of practical con
sequences as dangerous to the stability OF gu
|
/ may pass at this session, after the admission o
! California as State into the Union.
| The Missouri Compromise would, no doubt b.
acceptable to the South but after counting noses
carefully and deliberately it is but too clear tina
there is no majority for it in either house. and tina
consequently every such scheme must necessarl
prove abortive. The Missouri Compromise woul
give the South the port of San Diego on the Pa
ci6c, to which the Northern States will neve
consent, with the present organization of Congress
But it is possible to admit Deseret and New Mex
leo as independent States either now or pros pect
lively into the Union, so to allow the people c
those Territories to adopt such system of govern
ment, and such regulations in-regard to slavery, a
| to them may seem most conducive to their happi
| ness Self-government is the basis of our Tepub
lican institutions, and what we cherish so much a
home, we ought not to mar in distant settlement
OF our people.
The delegate from Deseret, who is now here
and German by birth, is exceedingly anxious tina
| the Government should not organize Territoria
| Government in Desert, but allow the MoFmons Il
establish a government of their own. The Nor
mons are afraid lest the President might appoin
federal officers in the Territory, who would inter
fere with their religions eresdUHd in the end lead
to the same elisgraceful scenes which drove them
from their original settlements in the State OF Hi
nois, As to the objection to the admission oil
Deseret as a State, on account of her insufficient
population we have already precedent in the case
of the admission of Florida, which had only a pop
uaton of $4,000 Gncluding negroes) when the
ratio of representation was 10000 to each member
of Congress. Deseret has now a population o
about 10000; and 10000 Saints heard distn,
guished Senator say, are certainly equal TO 00(
Gentiles. OBSERVER.
10 letter to the New York Commercial Ad.
vertiser, from Washington, states that five senators
from slavehoding States are in favor of the admis
sion of California at once, viz Clay, of Ky. Benton
of Mo-; Houston, of Texas; Spruance and Wales
of Delaware