The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-01-01
Our Warrington Correspondence.

Our Warrington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, Dec. q, 1851
Progress of Bwsi~ess- The Congressional Library
Ssnithso~sa~ Institution.
The week has ended in smoke, and Congress has
been in labor two days out of the six. We have
have had q confagrstion at the Capitol, natural
enough, and to have been expected from the warm
and fiery debates on Kossuth and his coming, COM
pared by some New York divines to ''the coming
Of Christ" and on resolution re opening the COM
promise The scene has been one Of agitation
and excitement, and whore you see SO much smoke
you may naturally look for some FIRE. The concus-
sions between Foote and Rhett were calculsted to
bring forth sparks as naturally as from flint and
steel On Monday, Gen. Houston took the floor,
and although he made q very sensible and tame
speech for the occasion, Senator Foote pounced
upon him. and in such scuIrilious language Of per-
sonal and fegned invective made all present laugh
and none more so than the Texas Senator, who
rose and related an anecdote Of one Parson Means,
which thought had quenched the fire; but it only
smothered it, for the two Senators left lovingly to-
gether next morning in the cars, and they had not
been gone twenty.Our hours before the flames burst
forth at the Capitol, and the library was consumed
AS matter of national pride and ostentaton, it is
great loss, but very few will experience any real in
convenience from it, except as q Longing place to
is terrible catastrophe. The nation al library and
the Smithsonian Institution might both be burned
up, and not be seriously felt tho annihilasion
OF the NEW YORK HERALD That is the bread of
life to millions, whereas the others are as ssthe
straight and narrow path at which few 60 in there
at and still fewer come out wiser than they
entered Still, you win hear doleful lamentations
made by those who still believe in Moses, and have
descended fro Ninevah, about the great calamity,
the burning Of few books only open like the gates
of PARADISE the elect, and they scarcely read
their title clear to a character, for common sense
Cas-, Clemens, and Douglas folio we'd, in favor of
the resolutions, each being pledged to Foote to do
The introduction and discussion Of these re
solutions, for ulterisr personal and party purposes,
TO the neglect of the more important and pr essng
emergencies Of public business private claims, &c.,
cnnEot be too severely censured by the press. The
Chairman of the Committee on Claims rose in his
in the Senate and stated that ut the last session
one hundred claims, examined and reported ia
vorably upon by the committee, had not been acted
Here is dereicIon of duty, denial ofjus.ioe
the part of the United States Senate, which would
b. and the character of any individual with deserved
ipfamy Master Forciple Feeble Fillmore was
active at the fire, but he never wakes up till the
couhag alton has commenced. and then he must
have time to put on his white kid gloves. All the
newspapers have blown his trumpet ut this fire, and
teemeo with accounts of his wonderful pre- of
mind and unusual energy and activity Domestic
fires may him, but foreign insults to our
heg, aud TIE murder and Imprisonment Of our citi-
zcGs, do not alarm him. O. X.