New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-29
TIE vote IN the Senate has been asfollovs, omit as
the first four baotngs on which there vas noetoce'

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yo.eph White ''.'.'''.''''''''-'
Taking the vote Of the Senate and House 20
sether, at the last trials in each branch, ana M;
Stevens has 1873; Mr. White l2; scattering /, and
q majority for nobody II the vote was ~ loLnI
ballot, therefore, L would be q close thing: Ire
election must be made this month, If at all ana
only three days more remain. The chance OIL GUST
ing Major Stevens is now considered ratb-i poor.
Since the above was written, il has been stated
in the Senate on authority, that MI White II ho1
candidate, and has never been one with NE own
consent and that be positively declines beng enc
This i, considered as settling the question Ia ia.or
Of Mr.. Stevens. The Senate Will vote sgan To-
morrow.
The Legislature il exercising due diligence ''4d
is getting alcng with more than OrdinaF! speed
The Finance bill, which provides system 81 een-
eral appropriation bills instead OF the old system
under which money has been paid out, sometimes
by authority OF statute fifty years old, has passed
and has been signed BY the Governor. IL II prin!ed
in The Adeeriser Of Saturday, preceded BY notice
that The 41reriser has been selected by the Secre-
tary of State as the official paper. For many years
The atlas was the official paper. When Gardner
came in The Bee was appointed. Last year me
Be was showed out and The T,areler selected, and
now the respectable daily has it. The Salary
bill has not yet passed, but it probably viii IN Gay
or two. Mr.. Rantoul Of Beverly, son of the emf
nent statesman of that name and place, has nitro
duced bill which provides for doing away with the
old cOmmon.law rubbish about the competency o
witnesses, by allowing everybody 10 testify, whether
he il orthodox. he.erodox, or no dox at Az Mr
Dodge of Cape Cod beloved against II for tali an
hour Oh Friday, but il is likely 10 pass tie House
at least, If not the Senate. Last year Nathaniel
Hinckley Of Barnstabe, who has tor twenty years
in and ont of the Legislature, worked for TINS reform
n Al. k Nnfa az
two TO one, and it Was defeated in the Senate oy
one vote on It's very last stag, the passage TO be
enacted. Mr.. Dodge, aforesaid, expressed hls idea
az TO the fate of the bill in different terms. Il
received (said he) mortal round in the House,
land then dragged itself into the Senate, where 1t
"dted natural DEATH" | suppose Dodge considers
every speech he makes a mortal wound, which u Is
not except upon the patience of his hearers nope
in my next to mention the passage of Mr.. Ranoul's
BILL even though he has consented 10 an unworthy
concession BY allowing it 10 be amended so that
evidence Of religious religious opinions can be
presented in Court to affect the credblity, though
not the competency, of the witness.
The bill passed the House this forenoon by vote
of 14I yeas to - NAYS; among tho nays were Caleb
Gushing and Ex-Governor Morton. presume that
both of these gentlemen viii speak against the bill
at its next stage. Mr.. Gushing IL az actlve and
restless as ever. This morning be aired his Hunk
erism a little by making a demonstration against
the petitions for the removal of Judge Lorlng. lie
denounced them and the Anti. Slavery Committee
which had procured them to he signed, applying
great variety of ephets 10 them, such as lmperti-
nent intermeddling factious, fictitious fictitious,
and commonplace. The fact that they were printed,
and not written, was seized upon as evidence
that they came from great central agitation com
mittee and that, therefore, they were unworthy
Reconsideration. A few moments after MIR. Cush-
ING had made his splurge" q petition was pre-
ai atfo ot ha ROstOu
Maine and Dany,rs Railroad, which was also in
print Mr.. John A. Andrew called attention to
the fact, whereupon there was quite laugh III tho
House at Cushng's expense. To do him Justice,
he laughed with the rest
The birthday of Mr.. Webster was celebrated
here on the 18th by an editorial in The Bosios
Courier (probably written by the i'd District
Attorney" to avoid whom MIR. Webster was once
compelled to flee from the fremont House and take
refuge in the Revere), and by dinner at the Parker
House, at which speeches were made by John ;.
Tyler, ex-Gov. Gardner and George Francis Train.
Mr.. Trains speech is reported in The Erentng
Go-,tfe. II reads like a page Of proper names in
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Whenever the
orator paused 10 take breath, he - thanked God
"that he was an American Ii there were any
foreigners present, their Amen must have been
heartfelt. GILBERT.
From Au 0oc..iors Cono sPondent.
BOsTOS, Jan. q, ISIS.
So We began killing Rachel here, did We Well,
perhaps we did. The dear creature did have a
shocking cough, / remember-so shocking that l
thought you must have contributed your share to it,
before she came here. But il was that dreadful
Walnut Street Theater that gave her the coup d.
grace. Its coldncss was enough TO strike death to
a Uyperborean heart-so have been told-and it
was no wonder that it fro2e that of a daughter Of
the sun, Ike Rachel. An eminent operate lady
once told Lie that one night on those boards,
their teeth chattered instesd of their tongues.
and that The basso profaado had to hold
her firmly by the wrists al some critical mo-
ment of yocaiizaton, that she could give forth
her song without adding involuntary shakes to those
the composer had set down for her. But il il were
W. that did Rachel 10 death, il frOn chilli
ness of spirit toward her. Ii warmth OF admlra-
ton could have kept the cold from her heart, she
would not have died of us at least | can speak
for nv self, at any rate. j can look back TO that
period of my life with almost unalOyed satisfaction.
The only regret have concerning it Is that was
obliged Ia miss one Performaaee-Paulne and
Iesbie. Otherwise, | have nothing 10 rsprosch
myself with. | regard it as one OF the best-spent
portions Of MY e1empar, life.
And one had been beast, surely, not 70 make
the most of such godseDd. What Il chance il was
that sent that marvellous creature to these hither
shores of the Atlantic Ia fact, il was better than
going 10 her 10 have her come Ia us. One might
have spent years in Paris and not have her
Thoroughly and studied her 50 fully The absence OF
other distract ons and the concentration OF thought
aud attention for fortnight on her astonishing per-
tormsncrs gave one greaI advantages for observing,
understanding. and remembering her. A. least il
e. Il B..