Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1850-07-20
lMasbinston Nous.
i.tccrespondence ef the pidh. Iicdgerl
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Ju


'h FROM WASHINGTON.
sib gtsa ee WASHINGTON, July IA.
r.s The body of the late President will, it is
believed, be transferred to Hamilton County,
Kentucky, where his father and mother are
buried; and not to Baton Rogue, as first sta
led. The funeral obsequies here in Washing
ton brought thousands, and the city is full OF
strangers. Among these however, is nearly
every prominent office-holder in the Atlantic
cities, and some hundreds Of gentleman, who
believe or have reason to believe, that their
merits have been overlooked by General Tay-
Tor or his Cabinet, To the keepers OF public
houses this will act as second Inauguration
of President, and complete their harvest for
>he season. As the new Cabinet is not to be
appointed before several weeks-perhaps not
1ill the end of the session, we shall have
crowded city till then, and, in all probability,
a crowded city in the recess. On the whole,
l do not disliketo see such an influx OF North
ern gentlemen just at this time. We have
had shoals oil Southern nullifers here, direct
from the Nashville Convention, who acted as
st,muants 10 Southern malcontents, and as
exci,ers of the Northern Free Sellers. Such
men as Parson Colquitt, who admonishes the
people of the South to cast cannon, polish
sword. and bayonets, and in fact, prepare Tor
war, can do no good here in Washington for
On their eyes, Northern man is asainted, ii
he is SO unfortunate as not TO perceive the
moral beauty and excellence of niggerdom.
South Carolina, with white population not
equal to that of Vermont, has lorded it over
the Southern members for three or four weeks
past, and now rational, shrewd, and reflect
ing body of politicians from the North seems
to be quite refreshing. These Northern pol
iticans are after, all, practical men-with an
eve to their own interes,-and not snch
knights with sorrowful countenances, as we
have seen of late from the Palmetto State
The Southern ultras are, just now, a little
under the weather; for the which every
honest man will thank the Lord three times
day. They knew that Clay had set his
heart on dying as the great pacificator OF the
country and the preserver of the Union, and
were determined to drive him TO the wall to
ob,ainih the utmost concessions. This is now
impossible, as i, is expected thai the bill will
receive respectable Wing support on the
part Of those men who where always disposed
to 20 for the BILL but disIiked TO oppose the
President and the administration, which had
sworn eternal hostility to Mr.. Clay, The
Southern ultras, therefore, expect bill TO
pass over their heads, and TO have all their
poor sayings put 10 the blush, blythe fact that
Northern men, contrary 10 their predictions,
are willing TO forward with reasonable plain
of pacification. This knocks the ground on
which they stand from under their feet As
to the dsunionists or traitors per SC. for there
are such, who expected a chance of open re-
sislance which should unite the whole South
against the North, their prospects are equally
dull the mere fact that the Cabinet have
resigned, and that the President has accept
ed their resignation, will be sufficient TO
quiet alarms and apprehensions, and 10 make
the South wait patiently for the dcnoucmcnt
of the whole matter.
Every body here seems TO be convinced
now that the Compromise bill will pass, and
that ii will be pushed through the Senate in
very short time. Indeed, this is necessary
if the new administration wishes 10 organize
on firm basis, and before the bill is passed,
no Cabinet appointments or other important
nominations and changes of nominations will
be made. The new Cabinet wants TO start
in peace, not in war, and surround itself at
once with the prestige o: Success and pros
perity.
Tomorrow, the battle in the Senate will
be renewed MIR, Butler will fuish his
speech, and Mr.. Cass and Douglass may fol-
low Douglass will propose the amendment
to his amendment providing for the division
of California into two or three States, by and
with the consent Of the people of the State;
and MIR. Cass will speak on it, Daniel Web
ster will also speak once more on the bill,
and so will Henry Clay. '' OBSERVER.