New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-06

Chester r SoTe ssxsnder Evans Fuller Gentry Gu
more Goodenow, Green Hsesot 10 as idIsssv Aubbsrd
w r. Jseison j L johnson, Kaufman, KeIr !: @ kiog,
Preston King Levin Msssbs he!sne ps1;a RsbS.
son savage, scbenck, Taylor, James Thompson John b.
Thcmpson WIN. Thompson, Vinton, Watkins WhiIuesey
Wonder what excuses we are TO have next
P.s-Iam requested to say that Mr. PaGNIx is
sick at home. OF course do so with pleasure
having marked him absent frequently. S.
Proceedings In the SENATE on Wednesday
The Backing Down Of the Heroes-The
Fire KiugLThe Rocking of the Omnibus
Correspondence ofThe Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, July j.
yesterdav was a day in which an American
might have stood in the Senate gallery alongside
of stranger from any foreign country and have iet
pride in the highest legislative assemblage oil his
native land. The manly and noble sentiments put
forth by SEWARD, the profound and foreseeing
ststesm anshp exhibited in every utterance OF his
impressive speech, were for the individual, what
the Declaration of American Independence has
been for our country among the nations OF the earth,
extorting respect and adniratlonfrom the unwilling,
and shifting withprofound JOY the hearts oil the SYM
pathetic. To-day has been the reverse OF all that
TO have occupied the gallery TO day beside an In
impressions Of America and the workings OF popu-
lar Government would have been, for man OF
patriotic temperament about the severest lntlcton
that can imagine. There has been more positive
balderdash uttered today from the beginning to
the end than any other day since the Session
opened Il has reminded me forcibly of the eccen-
trio Dr. Coxs description of seasickness. He
SAYS in his account of voyage to Europe, that he
went on deck the second morning out and looking
about him the whole ocean seemed to be onevast
dose of ipecac.' Morally such is literal descrp
ton Of the proceedings in the Senate of the United
States this third Of July, in the year OF our Lord
1850. whole hospital Of patients treated on the
Tbompsonian lobelia system would not present
more unsightly exhibition to philosopher. Let
me attempt TO daguerreotype the day, for those
who prefer to laugh, in more lively colors Mr..
WALES Of Me; read prosy set OF resolutions rom
meeting of citizens In wilmington Del az ainss
the Omnibus bill. Mr. CLAY got very mad about 1t
and said he knew better; the people oil Delaware
didn't think any such thing. lie nau oesn Insro'
duced 10 that folk, lang syne, and he had positive
knowledge OF their turn OF mind, and knew they
alwavs thought lust as he did. Mr. WALES had q
letter in bis pocket from respectable gentleman
who knew better than MIR. CLAY did Mr CLAY,
losing his temper and courteous bearing completely,
demanded 10 know who was the private CORE
spopdent of the Senator from Delaware. Senators
ali over the house, shocked at such demand,
cried ont "Order! " "Order ~ "No NO!
&c. which in England would have been cries Of
"Shame Shame!" Mr. CLAY detected himself
Immediately, and backed quietly down
Then came DODGE of Iowa who always takes
the ultra pro slavery side of anything apparently
lust TO let his daddy "know he is out'-the old
gentleman the friend of Tom BENTON and the
worthy repres OF Wisconsin sitting In the
next seat to the youngster and voting always anti
slavery wise. JONES Of Wisconsin IL, under
stand, a son.in-law Of the elder DoDGE-making
quite a senatorial family. believe JOINS in or
der 10 preserve the equilibrium in the family, does
nothing. Well, DODGE Of Iowa, as was saying
entered the arena next He demanded, with the
air of Bombsstes Furioso, to know from the Hon
Senator from Del. (Mr. WALEs,) whether Della
ware had ever passed the cursed Wilmot Proviso.
From the mysterious and magisterial manner OF
the Interpolation, one was compelled to apPre-
bend that the freeating young Senator was about
to devour the little State Of Delaware bodily, and
80 seemed to think the Senators from that State
for after some minutes OF consultation with each
other Mr.. WALES ventured mildly TO exculpate
his State from any such intimaton, by explain
ing that Delaware never did pass any resolu
ton favoring the Wilmot Proviso, 60 n0mine, al
though he could not deny that she had rCHolved
against the acquisition OF the new Territory, and
further that If it was acquired Slavery ought TO DO
excluded Observation-Disclosures and tweedledee
because, said Mr. DODGE permitting NC TO
breathe again, the Senator from New Hampshire,
(Mr. HALE and the Senator from NewYorF, MIR.
SywARD1 have said that Is States had passed the
Wilmot Proyiso. He knew his own State had not
and therefore it must have been Delaware. He
wanted TO know whether, when he was fighting,
the battles Of Slavery, in free State, one Of the
Slave States was turning recreant to tho holy
cause and going over TO the black camp OF liberty.
Mr. SEWARD rose to say that he had never ad
yerted 10 the subject Mr.. DODGE backed dowE
on that AZ in duty bound, adding that the senator
from New Hampshire, Mr.. HALE had SUI It re
peattdly. MIR. HALE admired the msgniylns
properties Of semicircular Senate chamber. The
~, H. fro.e. AtNkin
thought he heard speech ths, he, Mr.. HALE
never made, and forthwith asserted that had beer
repeated 40 times. Now the Senator from lows
says that he has frequently repeated what he saiC
only once. and that under circumstances to correc
itself easily, if il was q mistake He first said Il
States. when some one at his elbow added /" Dela
ware" and he said IS. The FIRE eating young Sena
Tor aforesaid demanded 10 know "who at his ell
bow :" and echo answered "who at his elbow,
while MIR. HALE quietly took his seat. Then thi
hero backed down. SO ended the second scene.
Mr. CLAY returned to the charge. He repeate'
nice little speech for the third time this session
about the glorious peace and harmony and jubils
ton. the bestitude and delight which followed tn
Missouri Compromise, and promised the sam
speech more in extenso on q future occasion. II
confessed that he finds it difficult TO count noses
the Senate and whined q little that people wout
call his bill an Omnibus. Among oil his dihcute
nothing puzzled him so much as to know how tn
Honorable Senator from Delaware himself was 80
ing TO vote. WALES, in reply, brought OUT ratne
too distinctly for the qualification OF his distinguish
ed iDterroga,or that both The Senator's from pea
care would vote against the bill SO Mr.. Ola
backed down, and so ended the third scene.
The second act wss introduced and performed b.
the rnost distinguished mountebsnk in the who'll
stock company, the celebrated Gen. SAN. HoUsro'
ofTexas. Represented the personlhcston OF th'
fre.k king in the shape of Texas, swallowing New
Mexico at q gulp, then turning upon the whole
United States. and while in the very act Of pounc
ing upon them and swallowing them at anotne
gun. overcome by the rising sentiment Of universe
philanthropy, together with kindly "Reminiscences