The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-12-20

the absence of the Asias letters was without quot
| able change. Common and medium grades of State
and Wastern -four closed at decline Of 12lc per
| barrel. Wheat was inactive and sales limited.
| without important change in prces- Corn was
from one 10 two cents per bushel lower. Pork was
rather frrner, with moderate sales. Beef was dull.
1 Sugars were firm, with sales of about $50 hhds at
4 full prces. Refined sugars were active and higher.
We refer to the quotations Of the Messrs Stuart in
| another column. Coffee was in fair demand with
aes of about 1900 bags Rio. In freights, engage
ments were moderate, as shippers were waiting the
| receipt of the steamers letters.
| Congress--The Speaker StiiA In the Dark--
Rebellion I'm the Senate Against the Presf-
dent and His Organ.
| When Bunshy was called upon to give his
opinion abont the fate of the ship he substau-
TALLY decided that, if she was no. wrecked,
she was probably still afoat. So it is with Mr..
Banks as the fusion candidate for Speaker.
1t was dark day in the House yesserday-the
darkest we have had yet touching the solution
of this enigma; for, when after o three days
free discussion Of the subject .YIr Thorington
withdrew his motion for the plurality rule, in
order TO try if there were any Improvement
| in the pulse of the House, and vote was
taken, it stood Banks 102, Richardson 73, Full
Ter 81, scattering 6. Six members absent.
Mr.. Campbell, from prudential! considera-
tious declined telling all that he knew upon
the general merits and drawbacks OF this ugly
imeyoglio; and perhaps he acted wisely Tor
according to present appearances, he will
have any number Of opportunities upon which
TO defend his position, his testimony, his dis
appointments and his apprehensions before
| Mr. Banks is conducted to the chair. Under
| the existing rule, q Speaker can only be
elected by q majority Of the whole number
Of votes cast. Mr.. Banks wants six or seven
votes to give him that majority; but here
| he sticks--here he has reached the
end Of his rope; and twelve days and nights,
including two Sundays, have been yainly ap-
propriated to splice him out. The Richardson
men adhere 10 their ultimatum have 10
terms to offer; the scattering fifty of the opposi-
ton have taken their irrevocable staud against
Banks, and will accept of no compromise;
the Banks men declare they will stick till the
ith Of March, 1857, because it is no business Of
one hundred and five men to surrender to a
pitiful half dozen Of traitorous mutineers.
Greeley has fallen into his old habit; he be-
gins to call hard names, pronouncing Judas
and Benedict Arnold highly respectable indi-
viduals compared with some of the free soil
apostates Of the House. In this charming con-
dition Of things, of course our final hope Of
an organization is ia the starving process. The
iney get Speaker, and some OF them by the
starving process win be compelled to sucoumb
before the expiration OF another moath. AL
ready. We suspect, the brokers, gamblers and
shayeIs Of Pennsylvania avenue ere "realiz-
ing' three per cent D month % loans to demo-
Gratis, Know No.hings and Sewarlites, for pre-
sent necessities.
| There is yet, however, possibility that Mr..
yhoripgton's plurality alternative may be
conceded, upon the plea OF public daty ana
the public business We must aw lit the issue
upon bis motion.
Meantime we ore informed tina. Mr. Presi-
dent Pierce has raised lit.ls breeze OF rebel
lion II the Senate against that old Mao Of
the Sea-" that incubus, the Presidents especial
pet, the Washington U;,ioa, or rather 1l. For
rey. The House democratic caucns hayin q
concluded to set aside Master Forney, the in
fatuatcd President of the United States deter
mined that the Senate should take care Of rim
and so Forney, in conjunction with his asso-
ciate, Col. Nicholson, of the Ueioa, was sent up
as the executive nominee for Senate printer,
without the slightest regard of the claims OF
the present democratic hard she'll incumbent,
poor Beverly Tucker. The democratic Sena-
tors called caucus, and after several int
resting meetings they discovered THAT there
were certain hard she'll impracticaoles among
them as fixed against Forney and the Presi-
dents organ as Humphrey Marshall is against
Banks. The caucus, however, being about TO
proceed to extremitics, il appears tha. sena-
tors Mason and Hunter, Of Virgins: Batter Of
$. G.; Brown, of Miss; Broahead, of Pen1.,
and Bright, Of Indiana, proclaimed their ulti.
natum by quitting their democratic brethren II
disgust
These six gentlemen, between the anti-ad-
ministraton elements of the Senate aud the
democracy, command the balance Of power, SO
that the issue is now, will Mr.. Pierce Insist up
on Col. Forney and the Union, at the risk of q
defeat, and Of a new spl in the party, or will
he surrender to the mutineers? We uu.
| uein'"hu h'"b hc mas hshtu loI uAy > grace,
in order 10 look mp some acceptable representa-.
tive of the Union rs the executive nominee for
Senate printer. We think the occasion very
excellent one for a practical hint from the Sem
ate TO Mr. Pierce, shat they cannot, under pretex.
| or disguise, endorse a. the central democratic
organ paper which has done so much, here
and elsewhere, to distract, divide and break NJ
the democratic party At the last election Of
their printer, the Senate acted independea tly.
Let them DO so again. What have they to
fear2 What have they 70 lose by it? What have
they to gain by any other course? Nothing
The question Of the Senate printer will pro-
badly be decided in open Senate next Monday.