New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-03

notion vas carried overwhelmingly without
division, and the bin laid upon the table Or soco
ipcop sistepeies are honorable legislators curry
The exhibition Of them ieads 70 the reflection I'M
there is an almost fatal ansagonism existing between
the political and judicial functions OF body CON
posed after the fashion of our Legislative Assem-
bes Yet though the machine runs go IrreguialP
at intervals it makes pretty good time IN Ioe ong
run. The contrast between the great good seh-
manifested BY the House on Friday with the I'M
mense want OF it displayed on Saturday ID one OIL
those striking exhibitions that are mar7e!s 20 every
observer. =,
The Senate Keeps to the Appropriation bII snd
afford no chance 10 the Oregon bill as yet IL h15
bad Kansas strapped 10 it, back, and tbs ~
bre ak il down. no doubt. Senator Butler m0urntH
over Minnesota Ike man resigned TO inevitable
fate. He garded il but more step in the great
drama leading to the ultimate separation OF our
Northern AID Southern civilizations though VIA
cut expressing himself in this way, which tsse
the liberty TO DO for him. entertaining, a. do, pre-
| cisely similar convictions
The River and Hsrbor Appropriation bill got the
got-by ID the House on Thursday. Mr.. " sshourne
OF Illinois has made great exertion 70 get Il before
the House for several weeks, and day OF hllion'-
teripQ was passed several days ago by ns ms sung
upon It's consideration in which he was sustained
by the Republican side Of the House, against M
Campbell of the Ways and Means, who was ANXIOUS
| 10 get the Appropriation bills on their passes
But il ayaed nothing neither would it have awaited
ANYTHING to have passed the bill on Thursday. AS
We are within ten days OF the end OF the session
the President could pocket it, ard there would DC
thus no chance to try for two-thlrd vote. ne re
inevitable delay oceaslOned by the consldersuon Vi
the Tariff question weeks ago Is the true reason
for falling a successful vote on Rivers and ar
bors at this Session. The vote 20 suspend
the rules might perhaps have prevailed on lnurs-
dav and action been thus obtained butt the oPPo
sition OF Humphrey Marshall, VINO wanted to get
his Portland Canal on TO the general bill, and could
not succeed Humphrey, who is power 10 the
House, crowded himself directly across the track
and succeeded in presenting his amendment, max
ing his speech, ard defeating the t"o-thIrd vote,
and thus throwing the whole thing overheard
The Amazon and Valparaiso steam line parties
are waiting for chance to hook on their projects
10 something that will take them through at the
close. Whether they will succeed is to be seer.
The assassn.like practice OF carrying hre-arns'
which prevails here and further south, had another
fatal illustration Yesterday in the death Of prom.
uept citizen of Alexandria shOt within the walls oil
the Pension bureau 10y clerk therelni the aggra-
waiting circumstances Of which You VIII have at
ready learned. This savage and cOSardly pracuce
seems 10 be beyond reform IN state OF society
where @ subject race is only kept in awe by ever
present physca force. Slavery necessltaIes 1t as
/, does other conditions fatal 70 the Improvement
and elevation of society. Il is one OF the foul
streams discharged from vast pool Of ieculence'