American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-11-22
From the New York Herald
The Meeting OF Congress.

cemDer, Whlch, III tins instance, WILL De the hrst
day of December, next Monday week. There
is no constitutional limit to the first session of
a Congress but, its duration being left to the
discretion Of the two houses, it has been uni
fGrmly the long session. Such the approaching
session win unquestionably be. Nobody antici-
pates an adjournment short of the dog-days.
Ii it should take place earlier, it will be to give
all hands an opportunity to mingle in the work
of the politicians in the Presidential election.
The House Of Representatives consists of two
hundred and thirty ty-three members, OF which
one hundred and seventeen are clear majority.
The gross number of the Democrats is one hum
dred and forty three or majority Of fifty
three, including Democratic Southern Rights
men and Northern Free soilers. Deductir.r all
the impractcables of these classes, me Demo-
Gratis, it is probable, will still have working
majority, upon all party questions, Of from
twenty to thirty.
| The FIRST business of the House after calling
the roll, will be the election Of q Speaker and
Clerk, Doorkeeper, and Postmaster. These are
fat ofices they always bring into the Capitol
swarm of candidates; and swarm, on this
occasion, may be assuredly expected. The
most prominent candidates for Speaker are
Linn Boyd, of Kentucky, Mr.. Disney, of Ohio,
and General Bayly, Of Virginia. The most
conspicuous candidates for Clerk are Mr. Young,
of Illinois, the lest Clerk of the last Congress,
Colonel Forney, editor of the Philadelphia Penn
sytvanaaa, and Judge Potter, late member of
Congress from Ohio. Before the organization
of the Iouse---that is to say, on or before Sat
urday evening, the 29th day of November, after
dark, (caucuses are generally held in the dark y
there will be q caucus held in the Capitol of
the Democrats, to decide upon their officers.
The Wings may also hold caucus, though it is
not likely any occasion will arise which they
N n
II, however, the Presidential question should
be mixed up in these elections, some sport may
be expected in the rivalry for the inside track.
All the hopeful Democratic candidates for 1852,
| for the Presidency and Vice Presidency--not
less than fifty, in the aggregate-may be looked
for in Washington, to assist in pulling the wires
and working the ropes.
In the Senate, the Democrats win have ma
iority Of from twelve to fourteen and deduct
ing all who are likely to be impracticable as
Northern or Southern ultras, they will still
have an efficient working majority. There is
some talk of Democratic demonstration upon
the principal officers of the Senate who have
been holding over from one Congress to another
for considerable time. The dignity of the
body, heretofore, has been so very high that
they have scorned to make an Office of the
Senate, of even three thousand dollars year,
| a mere thing of reward among the loaves and
fishes. But among 50 many hungry Democrats
turned out from the executive departments to
make room for still more hungry Wings, there
will be very apt to be foray upon the Senate
The two houses will probably be sufficiently
organized on Monday to announce to the Presi-
dent the fact of their readiness to receive any
communication he may have to make so that
on Tuesday, the second day of the session, the
annual message will most probably be read at
each end of the Capitol.
After the message is read we may expect
that it will be vigorously discussed till Christ
mas, and especially, if not exclusively, upon
the various international issues growing out of
the late terrible events in Cuba. From Christ
mas till New Years day, inclusive--all parties
of both houses being occupied in general
miscellaneous frolio-there will be suspension
of hostihties. But, from the second day of
January till the meeting of the Baltimore and
Philadelphia Conventions, in May or June, we
may count upon the most terrific onslaught
upon the Cabinet, and upon the most singular,
incomprehensible and abominabe bargains, in
trigues and huckstering among the various
Presidential cliques to obtain their particu-
lar ends. We shall have time Of it-no
telling TO what consequences it may lead
they are involved in darkness, mystery, and
obscurity; but all the symptoms are now dis
cernible Of a horrible squabble. The French,
about the same time, expect revolution. We
trust in Providence, as usual, to escape it; but,
if Moses and the prophets have not deceived us,
the Presidential election Of 1862 will cause
most horrible rafting among the dry bones in
this country. A new set of books will be opened
upon the meeting Of Congress. Old accounts
viii have to be squared up. Little is to be ex-
pected for cheap postages, steamships, or pro-
tectiye tariffs. The people may be congratu-
lated, il, after weathering through the long
session till the decline of the dog days, those
Mexican claims, those Florida claims, the Cuba
question, and the Presidential question, shall
be settled without revolution somewhere. The
grand Olympian games begin with the meeting
Of Congress. The Lord save the Unioni
a Ram INSTANCE The Worcester Palladium