Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-05-11

WARRINGTON Nxws AND GOSSIP.
The Approach Of q Final Decision upon the
Nebraska EW.-1hers was gre It excitement
in the House Hall to-day over Mr. Richard
sons resolution to close the general debate on
the Nebraska bill at n on to- morrow, it being
| the signal Of the commencement Of the real
contest-by votes-over the measure. The
reader will find in our Congressional columns
an account Of the various motions made, and
their results, up to the hour We went to press.
The "legislatlve eApedient''-f. e. factious
opposition - fairly commenced in earnes,;
calls for yeas and nays, motions to excuse
from voting, calls Of the House, &C. ' s-N.-a
Save u from our Friends 1t is conceived
that the New York Hard opponents of Ne
braska are dreadfully riled' just now sgaint
the New York Herald, for deserving them in
their present pinch, into which the Herald it.
self enveiged them. They are said to be
blessing the conductors Of th at journal lover
the left at great rate. The truth is, the
Herald led them, step By step, throughout all
their late career of bitter hostility to the men,
measures and principles of the Democratic
party, to which they are still protesting to be
more devoted than any Others. They owe
| their present utter and sweeping desertion by
all who endeavored to the last moment to sus-
tain them, to the trust they placed in the Her
AUS councils and in its implied promise to
stand by them to the last. Closing their eyes
to the fact that it would be departure from
the uniform rule of the Herald's politics for
that journal to stand by them an instant longer
than it may judge their cause to be popular
they have bound themselves to Bennett in his
work of attempting to get revenge for his fail
ure to get the French mission. He has used
them, until i'll so doing he has made them, as
politicians positively odious to all who make
the slightest pretension to being guided by
principle in their politics, and now gives them
kick which sends them spinning in the air.
As it were, for the amusement and instruction,
Of the public. He holds them up 'twixt finger
and thumb, as An example, showing how III
terly unworthy Of popular confidence men can
be, whom they make up their minds to have nc
other God than self.
Sharp Times Ahead.-An impres sion pre-.
walls among the best informed Democratic Dol
iticians in and around the Halls of Congress,
that some of the lately appointed friends OF
Democratic Congressional opponents of the
Nebraska bill, will very shortly bite the dust.
We presume that this belief grows out of the
fact, that Congressional friends o. the bill ar
pressing for clerksbips 90, from the Admir-
istration, each gentleman for his own friends.
who can hardly be provided for, except by
displacipg, to that end, persons appointed to
crafty gentlemen who prove to be opposed to
the policy Of the Administration on his really
first test question arising in the lifetime of the
present Congress. This impression can hard.
ly be as rife, as it certainly Is In such circles.
without having more or less solid foundation
to rest on.
A folders "Naval Pay Question De-
eided-A volunteer fer twelve mouths in the
war with Mexico served out his time. and was
discharged at New Orleans. He afterwards
went to Mexico Is a teamster, and re-eplisted
at the city of Mexico into the volunteers, wa
transported to the United states with his c,m
pany, and discharged at Madison, Indiana
the mastering officer noting on the roll that no
travel-pay was due. He recently applied fer
fraVel-pay from his place Of discharge to his
place OF enlistment, the city of Mexico; aud
also for bounty under the 4 section of the
act of March g. 1S47. It was held that neither
tho law Of January 20, 1913, nor the law Of
June IL, 1s48, would authorize payment Of
travelling allowances back to the place of en-
listment in an enemy's country, when the sol.
der had been brought to the United States and
discharged. although, in other cases, the place
OF enlistment is usually considered the place
OF residence within the meaning Of the law. In
case like the present, the travelling allow
ance must be computed from the place of dis
charge to the soldiers home, or Place of actual
residence in the United States. In regard TO
his claim for bounty, it was held that us be
did not re-enter the service Immediately after
| the close" of his former engagement, as re-
quired by the terms of the law, the claim was
clearly ina imissible.
The Nebraska Debate, in the House, is even
yet attracting great crowds around the Hall
continuing, as it does, to be marked by dis.
play OF line abilities and attachments on the
part Of the orator, on both sides Of the cues
lion. The speech of Mr.. Eliot, of Massachu-
sets, delivered yesterday, was one of the
ablest efforts 80 far spoken against the bill
though marked by the peculiariiies of politi
cal sentiment fashionable in the region he re-
presents. Mr. Tweed speech, too, was fa.
exponent of New York city sentiment upon the
slavery question; full of strong thoughts and
that liberalism of views which effects the peo
pie Of New York, who, it will be recollected
are eminently cosmopolitan In all their opin
ions on public affairs, owing to their intima. e
business association with all who live under
the s.srs and stripes.
Tho Extravaganza Of Ultraism.-The New
York Tribune deliberately charges that the
purpose of the Southern supporters Of the Nc
'raska bill /. eventually to plant negro slavery
IN Bunker Hill! And thea the EDITOR, by WY
ofpreventiDg the cons umm alton of any thing
OF the sort, calls on the opponents Of the Ne
brsska bill, who, he admits, are Ia the mi