The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-05-12

Our Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, May 10, 1850.
The Cabinet Se"fewoed, and waitiwg the Day ~
Erseaton-7he Gaiphim Ciaim-The Republic
The Vhigs AID Old Zack-1he Connpyosnsss--
The So~fh, and the Netcs from California. D
The cabinet have TO CO. They can't stay
General Taylor has acknowledged the corn His
eyes have been opened-hs ears have been opened
and he now sees the state of the case and can
listen to advice. The credulity of the good old
man in his cabinet il broken up and he really
begins TO think that Bennett has been telling the
truth all aong-that the cabinet is weak--that
they have deceived him--that they have neither
the confidence of the party nor of the country
and, worse than all, that they are corrupt
What has done all this Z The most potent piece
of work has been the Galphin claim and the
Galphin investigation. At first il was all smooth
enough, and the IateQ,genc9 and the Rspsbhe
proclaimed the cabinet and the President per-
manent unit. But, as the investigation proceeds,
il gets worse and worse, and to-day the report is
that the report must be an impeachment OF Craw-
ford, and all concerned.
Make way, boys, for the committee. There is
the very devil to pay. and no pitch to do IT, Black,
indeed, must be the concern which cannot be
whitewashed. Hence the late articles in the Re
public. The leader, in yesterdays paper. ordering
The cabinet to resign, was sllendid. That was
is
wish him sacrificed. 1t red hot shot right
into the magazine What scatteration! As fast
as their legs can carry them, pell nell the
cabinet hurry off to the White House Old lack
throws cold water on the bumb shell-he calls up
Bulitt and Sergean-a sort of trial is held, and
the scene yesterday was said to have been
exceedingly rich But the mischief is done,
and there is no use of explaining now. But
10 see the wings of Congress yesterday! They
were so happy! You would have thought the mil
lennum had come, or that the cabinet had actually
fhp. tala in n
tic 2" sis Bulu crazy, or is old lack coming 10 his
senses 7" Something's broke. What m the
name of God shall we have next - "Bulhu s
whole team, when he lets ont. he has been lazy,
but he finds it's time to be stirring and gemin how
he makes the wool fly" "They have a French
directory meeting in the WhiteHouse to-day. A
con among themselves" ''If this be treason, let
them make the worst Of it," Gentlemen, let US
thank God, that there once lived an old colonial
trader by the name Of GalPhn Immortal in his
tory be the name of Galphin! dead man in
his grave-dead and buried for half century, has
saved the wing party" Such were some ofthe exea-
nations Of the happy wings in Congress, Yesterday
Galphinzed. All honors TO the memory OF the
great Galphin, the old Indian trader of the colony
Of Georgia, and his bill of nine thousand pounds.
with the interest thereon of seventy years, OF
fl93, 600! What God-send 10 the Treasury has
been our learned Attorney General! Let us pray!
In one word, the investigation Of the Galphin
Committee is awful. If we are to believe the cur
rent reports, there lie no hope Of escape. The
cabinet must be CONDEMNED directly upon this claim.
The Ewing investigation appears to be OF the same
The Republic fires gun to the stern The wings
prick up their and il seems to he understood
that the cabinet are only waiting the sentence OF
II is impossible, with this revolutionary condition
Of things in the cabinet to predict the fate OF The
compromise in the Senate.
Everybody seems to be convinced that the cabi-
net must speedily explode-that a new cabinet
must come in-that IL must be an Improvement,
and must contribute the aid and support of Henry
The tone of the Republic indicates il, and that
Old lack himself has virtually, for once IN his
life, surrendered not at discretion, but because no
had no discretion-no choice, no other alternative
than a virtual surrender. The opposition OF Tho
administration to the plan of Mr.. Clay is thus re-
moved, and instead OF II, We may expect the sup
port Of the administration II this were the only
easy Of a successful solution.
How stands the compromise We have some
thirteen or fourteen Southern Senators opposed 70
il. How is tito pass the Senate IL Is expected
thar. between admitting California by herself, and
the compromise, theee Southern Senators, with
one or two exceptions, will rally on the plan Of M
Clay. IL may be so. Mr.. Clay appears very san.
guine but he may be disappointed
How Of the Housed That impracticable body Of
chaotic elements deics all calculations. Yet with
new cabinet cooperating with Mr.: Clay and the
both parties in the House 10 the support OF Mr..
Clay's compromise and man, amer five mi
nutee taih WIN MI Cihy, can doubt MS en zero
conviction that his compromise IL TO become, by
plain sailing through the breakers Of both houses,
the law Of the land.
But there are fresh materials Of discord in the
news from California. There is intelligence cfs
movement TO get up a Southern tcrrtory--of an
other movement for independence-of another
movement by the State TO seize the federal reve-
nues from customs--of another movement toward q
general financial expulsion among the spectators.
What thcnf Will not the South seize hold OF
these things, and demand the division Of California
by the Missouri compromise lnel Will they not
contend that the people Of California tbemse Ives
desire III Or will they not make this intelligence
cause for delay, with the prospect Of an explosion
Of the state government from the internal dissen-
sions among The people Of the STATED Very likely
they will
Al best, then, no man predict the certain
success Of this compromise. The confusion in the
cabinet-the confusion in Congress-the excited
sectional spirit both sides, and the confusion Of
things in California, all combine TO pcrplcx our
calculations Of success In point Of fact from pre-
sent APPEARANCES, the chances about equal that
nothing will be done at all. Brethren, let us fol-
low the advice Of Franklin, and betake ourselves
10 prayer