New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-05
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position manifested 10 get rid OF 1t as soon as possible
1t Is predicted that the session viii end by the FIRST
June. others think not until the first Of July.
The Leccmpton Constitution win be laid before th
Senate to day Brown Of Mississippi promises to Civ
bis long deferred speech general debate will easue
the hottest action Of the campaign will commence, Il
terminate we know not how. II has been reported
here that the legislatures Of the States Of South Caro-
lima Georgia and Mississippi, unanimously favor the
secession movement lately inaugursted In Alabama
This news Il too good to be true. It somehow hap
pens that ths South wl not stand squarely up to an
issue when II is definitely presented las for example
in the case Of che admission Of CaIfornia) and the
feeling here among the small potato politicians in full
chase Of she Presidency, appears to ultimate in the
opinion fhst The rejection Of the Lecompton Consti
tuition Is not practical issue To President in EN-
hryo, nothing viii ever be practical The practical,
by 50 much as II fayors those cherished myths mis-
named the rights Of the South dispsases the National
Democrats OF the North. without whose assistance nc
gentleman ambitious Of doing the honors of the White
House need ever hope to become its tenant Hence
the utter impfacticability OF the practical" The
President hunters are the bane Of the South, its
worst enemies.
Harlan, Of Iowa, treated himself to long harangne
dhy before yesterday. Iowa is not more powerfully
A1tt e4rit0~ tttt+h 1tteCJ VI
has nothing to hope from Harlan. He Is smallish,
ordinary looking person, with thick, drabcolored
beard such as pertains generally to gentlemen adj
dieted to short cards and the shopping Of horses.
He WINS once preacher. and ought to be remanded
back % the days of the Scotch Presbyters, when
people st an day long on wet hillside to listen to
an intefminable sermon. He ought to let himself
out to an artesian well company and fulfill the con-
tracts with his tongue. The Society for the Dsper
sion Of Population ought to buy him up His superior
as tlinner-out viii not be found in either House !;
even the Senator from Michigan being attractive
compared 70 him.
Mr.. Mason, from the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tons read his report on the Paulding affair IL dry
ness and ability be the same thing. it was able. In
any event, il was dry. The President and Pauldiug
well sustained BY this report, that henceforth
the officers Of the navy are invested with pIenary
authority and may declare war whenever they choose
Hereafter, to be patriotic one must transcend in
structons and violate law. Like his report, Mr..
Mason Is dry-dgniied and dry. His person is large,
bis presence Senatorial his face Indicative Of self
reliance rather than Of intellectual power, his man
ner calm, courteous and somewhat stately. He is
invariably wcll-dressed.
Douglas did not coincide with the report He will
probably, to expressive but not elegant South
ernism, q lumber on the subject Of Nicaragua,
taking diibuster ground and trying back little on
the Southern track. II Is predicted that in six
months he will again be the best of Democrats for
the present, he i daily becoming more aud more in
innate with the Black Republicans. Yesterday saw
him eheek-byjowl with Seward and could but think
what pretty. steady and reliable team the two
would make when hitched to the car Of State
Douglas reminds me Of q small lump Of anthracite
coala glossy backness characterizes him inside and
out. In Former years he was am told, dingy, de-
cidedly dingy but nowadays he has the sheen of
broadcloth and clean linen. His voice has the metal.
lie cracke and lusre Of coal freshly spnterng under
heat. When presenting a bill or making short
exposition OF some triiing subject, his manner is
diguiiied and attractye but when the fury Of a set
speech is upon him. the original, unmistakabe cabi-
net-maker and demagogue is most unpIeasantly dis.
played. His English. then, Is exeerable and smells
OF the spoke-shave. Comprehensive but not pro-
found, he y never logical nor really eloquent So
astute Is be, 50 cunning and so hardy in his ambition
that be Is only not great man. Benton assigns as
sufficient reason why he viii never be President that
his coattal Is too near the bricks But Martin Van
Buren was little better of in this respect Seward il
almost as bad aud il the Union holds together the
chances are that the lower man is the better bis
prospects will be, until, finally the entire absence Of
legs viii be an essential, constitutional prerequisite
and guarantee Of the Presidency.
have no idea that the cause of the South, as con
nected with Nicaragua, will fare any better in the
House than It has done In the Senate. We are sold
to the President hunters society has been formed
in this city to colonize Nicaragua with free emf.
grants. A purchase Of land has been or will he
made, somewhere between Virgin Bay and San Juan
del Sur. A fellow is about to embark for this To-
cality, carrying with him printing press, and ct
ceteryn May he have no more cholera than the law
allows; peace to his ashes.
JEFF Davis is fighting the Army bill through against
great odds. He is partially sustained by Hunter.
Toombs and Seward. He does not propose the rails
ing Of new regiments but an addition 10 the existing
companies that will amount TO an increase fully as
great as contemplated by the President and the
Secretary Of War Modified so as to lessen the mum
Der OF men called for and TO limit the time Of their
service TO the duration Of the Mormon war the hill
viii probably pass Our peace establishment already
amounts to force of nearly Is 900 men, and entails
upon US cost Of S26,oo0,0O0 per annuin-ony ten
millions less Than the expensive year Of the war
with Mexico.
The horrible news from this unhappy corntrv
Mexico) does not create the slightest sensation here
Common humanity would seem to dictate the imme.
date conquest OF country destined to eternal ais.
traction from civil wars but Mr.. Buchanan has mt
Of the old man, repented Of bis evil deeds swallowed
the 0stend manifesto and sold the South TO Comma. |
dore Panldiag. Mexico must taka care Of herself.
instigated by the owners Of property, the bows at
the Democratic school in Charlottesville, Va. are
kicking up disgraoeial fuss over the Winter Davis
matter Although the invitation has been accented
it will, in all likelihood, be withdrawn. Gant Mr..
Davis TO be more obnoxious than he Is asserted 10 he
this cannot be pronounced very elegant courtesy.
Dion Bourcicanlt and Agnes Robertson are still
holding forth at the little theater here Mr. BIS new
play. The Life Of an Actress has ELECTED the
highest praise. No other amusements worth men.
tioning. MALou.
PREsrIcIAEA.--The Lexington Statesman, speak.
ing Of the city election ia that place In which the
Americans tfiulnphed, says:
The result is to be attributed to two eauses. In
The htst place BY the imposition ia cur charter of an
aaoominahle tax qualification upon the right Of suf
mage many voters Of the Democratic party were dis.
ifanchlsed, nom their inability TO pay The tax.