New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-14

land to slsyeholdrg BY indians WAS reported to
the last Congress The Committee on this sub
ject is consequently composed OF Messrs sebss
tisn Of Ark Chairman Rusk, Toombs, Brown,
Reid and Bell Of Tenn-aN from Slave States. ard
all Democrats but the last. That is making the
thing tOlerably snug.
The DisfTIct Of Columbia is q nice Committee TO
be Cd, by ore who likes good dinners and other
good things, al it is another watchto wer Of Slave
holding asceDdancy. The District is always cry.
ing "Give Give" to Congress, and it will get
nothing bot sour locks from SlaseholdiDg Com
mittee unless it maintains an aspect of loyalty to
the peculiar institution. The Committee thereon
is consequently composed Of Messrs Bro gn Of
Miss, (Cbarman) Pratt, Macon, Allen and Reid
all Nebraska men, all Democrats, and all but
Allen red. hot shareholders.
But why pursue this analysis Briefly,
Slavery guards every pass, and treats every aspi
ration for Impartial Freedom as though it were
treason to the country. Committees which can
nowise affect Slavery are made up with some
show of fairness, while those which are of no
political importance-like those on Agriculture,
Manufactures, &C., which rarely or never meet,
ard those on Private Claims, Engrossed Bills, &c
which are merely places to 90 hard 1icia or cleri
cal work mare distributed with ostentatous fair
ness. Can this conceal to any but the dimmest
eyes the palpsblc truth
Massachusetts, and Virginia are the two leading
States of the So1th and North respectively, and
both are now represented in accordance with their
present character The Virginia Senators are
estmsble in character and of fair abilities yet
think no impartial observer would rank them 10
either respect above Messrs. Sumner and Wilson.
The Committees have not yet been printed, and
the manuscript lists before me may not be per-
feet but on these the names Of one or other Of
the Virginia Senators appear four times on the
most important Committees and twice on Others,
each being Chairman Of one of the most import
ant while Mr.. Wilson's name figures low down
on the Committees ON Manufactures (which never
meets ard Pirate Land Ciaims-neither Of
them Of the slightest public consequence-and
Mr. Sumner bangles at the tail OF two unimpOrtant
Committees. Such is S'ayerys confession that abe
feels the point Of Mr.. Summers spear-a truth
well known already to others, but never so plain
ly admitted till new.
from his Free Soil professions of better days,
figures on four important Committees, and Is
Chairman of one Messrs. Harlan, Durkee and
Trumbul the Free Soil Senator's from the three
North Western States, altogether appear four
times at the foot Of utterly insignificant Commit
tees the whole not being equal in consequence to
the poorest Of Mr. Stusrt's four places. The ex
perience and eminent services of Mr Wade OF
Ohio and Gen. Houston of Texas have not shiel led
them from like fDdignity. Human meahness ap.
pears to have reached it's acme in the formation Of
these Committees hail them as an augufy that
the Senate is destined to renovation. IL.
THE P-SHANNON--STATE
PRINTING.
Ylom Our Own Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Dec. IL, 1855.
So earnest and pervadipg has the solicitude be-
come in regard to the election of Speaker, that
hardly token of interest il manifested concern
ing the Presidents Message and the reports Of
the Secretaries, which have been enjoying undis-
turbed repose for nearly fortnight, aud losing
freshness, as unofficial disclosures have revealed
IL eir substance and spirit. Every eye no liked
on the House of Representatives, and indeed upon
every member of it, for the time has come when
il divduals alone are important in the decision OF
the result. The Chamber is crowded daily with
anxious faces, and the presence of most OF the
Senate, after theiI early adjournments, augments
tie general feeling of concern which is enseItaiaed
aud expressed on al sides
No advance was made to-day. 1t was drawn
battle between Iesolpte majority and minority!
determined to concede nothing of personal bias
Every effort and expedient were tried to break the
column which has so faithfully adhered to Mr..
Banks through fifty ballots, but without material
effect. His poll closed at 105, and with firm
purpose to fight on at every hazard. This resolu-
ton seems to have been unexpected on the part
of a few, who while voting for Mr. Banks have
all along desired and plotted his defeat. Their
plan was to run him up to certain point with an
ostensible exhibition Of faver and then, after srV-
ing to make it apparent that his election was im-
practicable to fall back upon the candidate whom
they really preferred But this game has not sue
ceeded according to the design and expectation.
and the experiment has thus far demonstrated
that the real and honest sentiment Of the House
has concentrated upon Mr. Banks. And the fact
that his political antecedepts have been disre-
sarded, notwiths landing they were decidedly OBJ
iectonable In some quarters, goes far to prove
how vital and absorbing is the great principle
IL and u-ht oh ia