New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-17
Saturday In the sensie-GeneraI QWiot-rs
Omnibus Bill, &c.
, Of The Tribune

Correspondence Of The Tribune.
wAsmsoros, Saturday. June u.
Mr.. GREELEY At your request | will under
take, so long as find ii compatible with my other
engagements to keep the log Of the Senate, and
have your readers advised of the actual OF the
vessel Of State casting an eye occasionally at the
barometer, but leaving TO wiser heads the calc1a-
ton of the latitude and longitude the astronomical
observ atoms the dead reckoning the consultation.
of the chart and the whole chapter Of responsibility
to owners and underwriters. Every old sailor
knows that after a storm there comes a lulI. and
accordingly after the brisk gale Of yesterday we
are nearly becalmed today. The galleries are Jam
med, however, with anxious speststors, VINO reason
directly against the rule, and expect row to-1ay
because there was one yesterday. The day ater
a faht there is always O crowdln the 8ahenes ano
Hobbies and fights are now Pretty irelnen' tnefs
begins 10 be considerable complaint tnst tne gn-
cre. are not large enough The report OF the Buid-
inc Committee In favor Of eniarging ths Capitol Is
fhS refor quite popular With the ladies' and loaiers
CO. BENTON said at the last session that this Onioa
Tould never be dissolved 80 long a, tne present
Mileage system lasn-thOse Senators and hepre-
ssntatives who come iuEthest getting the most
nav and consequently Standing in danger Of dunn,
isEipg their ration BY narrowing the limits oil the
corfederacy Enlargng the halls oilegislation viii
I lone be another bond OF union OF the same sort
giving legislators taste Tor being heard by large.
ard brilliant auditory, for when said losfers, L
meant genteeI loafsrI and rendering them little
willing u retire 20 some new, obscure and pro-
vincist seat Of government 10 waste the sweetness
Of their oratory on the desert air. IL ia quite re
fresbing TO see the zeal and energy with which Mr..
JgFgERsos DAVIS, lof example, works day nfser
day, 70 secure the enlargement OF the Capitol just
~ ifthe Union was not 10 be disturbed alter all;
AID indeed all the -.tiaists Gom the South at
vsousy as they would DO il they expected to return
N Washington year after year, anti the end Of
iiue--iher time st least.
There has been nothing Of very unusual iaterest in
the Senate today but things which go TO show
the temper Ct the body. There was a strong efose
10 the early part OF she session 20 get ournmeat
over 1ntil Monday and fnoa Monday until Thus
dsy to give the usual week Of holiday, under the
prctepse Of psltiDg the Had in its Summer sarb.
taking Up tho carpets &c. Tho motion was intro
duced by 81. HALE, and advocated by Mr. ruLGE
ard ether Southern altraists, whom It is amusing
o zee row working cheek by jowl with the fanati-
cal Abolitionists in any enterprise WHICH thseatens
to delea or even delay the Compromise bill Mr..
CLAr came to the rescue. The old man 10 az in
eEcable as death. and keeps the Sonata. 70 use q
classical expression from his owe locality. Cup N
the rick fodder OF no fodder" He is 10 tho SEN ts
jos. Cow wat the machinsSyisg zee 10 the wssk'