New Orleans daily crescent., 1858-05-19
WASHINGTON coRREspoKpENcE.

VI tou ciuouss alu Tue dtl Bure1
A plague on this poetca meteorological Invention
Of Winter lingering in the lap Of Spring" 1t is
villanous outrage upon human nerves. Weather
prophets say thst the great foundations, most dis
tressing accounts of which reach us by every mai
from the South, will produce sickly summer moi
only at the South but all over the Union. Let us
: hope that these prophets may be confounded, and
that the plentiful rain may produce not a crop o
feyers but crop of wheat that viii gladden. the
farmers heart and make the poor and hungry sing
for joy. 1.-THE remainder Of this month proves dry
and cool the harvest will be immense. Crops are So
advanced that the delivery Of new wheat will com
mence in Baltimore the first of June
| Minnesota walked into the Union yesterday and
took her seat. Her debut was announced by much
firing Of small cannon--the same that thandered
ever the triumph Of the English bill suppose the
heart of old General Shields, who lodges in cheap
| snuggery not far from me- is now at rest. He did
his best to enter the Senate vi ct arnis, creating
rather more merriment than CONSERVATION by the
attempt. he
The vote upon the admission Of Minnesota was
yeas l57 nays Ss-ll9 majority. Compare with this
the ptiful majority OF nine in favor Of the Kansas
Conference BILL what lesson It teachesi Is North
ern power nothing Does this look like the back
bone of Black Republicanism was brokens How
hard it is to squeeze quasi slave State into the
Union, how easy to admit free State.
The American members, manfuly upholding their
opposition to alien suffrage, voted against the adms-
sion Of Minnesota Gen. ZoIlicofer has introduced
bill to regulate and make uniform the right Of suf.
frage in the territories. It clearly within the power
Of Congress to make such regulation, but what com.
potency has Congress in any matter conflicting with
the submey radical doctrine of popular sovereignty?
Alien Suffrage has coiled itself among the meshes Of
States Rights, aud there it is safe.
Senator Olingman left the House in hot haste and
forgot bis work upon the Clayton Bulwer treaty
The bantling being left without father or MOTHER
JAS B. Clay undertook to adopt it. But Sickles of
New York, rose by the way side and announced that
Senator Clngmans child had best be left alone any
notice taken Of It would raise row at the White
House. whereupon Mr. Clay, who seems to love bis
fathers enemy most submssively. subsidized. 1t is
now announced authoritativeIy that Mr.. Clingman
spoke for himself alone, and not for the Administr
tion. The Clayton Bulwer treaty, therefore. will re.
main upon the books until the old foges Of the Cab
net have learned to outwit British dpiomatsts How
many centuries will elapse before that happens, my
arithmetic does not enable me to tell.
The fishing bounty abomination is stl uudisposed
OF In the Senate. Seward & Co. are making a des.
perate fight over it, but the signs are that they will
be defeated. The Senate have confirmed James NJ.
Bachanan, Of Maryland, as Minister to Denmark, in
place Of Bedinger and G. W. Morgan, Minister resi-
dent in Portugal, vice O'Sullvan Morgan is, OF
course, Democrat, but Mt, 0'Sulliyan is an Irish
Democrat; the change therefore is probably an i'm
from worse to merely bad.
The news from abroad does not confirm recent |
rumors about war between Spain and the United |
States The news from India is cheering The Atlantic
telegraph cable Is nearly all shipped and ready for the
second grand experiment, which does not necessarily
mean failure, and cotton is steady and unchanged.
We get next to nothing new from Kansas Parties
there are torn to pieces by factions and parties here
L indeed there be party here based upon Kansas,
are keeping very dark On every side the press re.
sounds with consentaneous cry for the reconstruc-
lion Of parties; pretty good sign that the Black
Republican party has given up the ghost but no sign
At all that better party, one less inimca to the
South, will succeed it. The Union with mock earnest
ness, advises the resuscitation of the Old WhiR
party.
II is estimated that the three new volunteer regi-
ments will cost the country fraction under four and
a half millions of dollars year. There is a very |
large rat distinctly smellabe behind this enormous
estimate, and that rat is the ardent desire and fixed
determination Of the Administration not to have vol
lDteers, but regular troops, none at ALL Mark the
After ALL ii Is doubtful whether any new
roops Of either kind will be needed The peace
travelling in the graudest and costlest
style, are rapidly hastenng to Utah where IL is more
than probable they will accomplish an amicable
aud honorable adjustment without the least diff
Guilty.
Many reports are in circulation in regard to the
conspiracy against Floyd some of them have
already given you. 1t was said that, in addition to
numerous other enemies, Secretaries Thomson and
Cobb were in active coalition to turn him out of the
Cabinet. But this is now confidently denied al least
as regards Cobb; nor Is there any Just ground for
Thompson to be his enemy Floyd's safety
rests with the House If the report Of the majority
Of the Fort Smelling committee be adopted, he must
inevitably resign. OF this however, there is little
prospect. The Republicans have made the inyesti,
CATION party matter, and arrayed the Democratic
side of the House against them. No action has vet
been taken.
Gen. Quitman, after his triumphant tour to the
Palmetto State, has resumed his seat In the House.
looking in ine health and spirits His address before
the Palmetto Association is compmented in the
highest terms
Mr.. Cobb has disposed Of the whole Of bis twenty
millions. Oliver will be asking for more pretty soon
pretty little fight is going on between the New |
York Herald and the States Of this city about the
great Yrissarri treaty. All cry and no wool The |
senate has not yet nti6ed the instrument
The Capitol grounds are to be enlarged to the ex
ent. suppose Of twenty or thirty acres, entailng
IN enormous but necessary expense upon the Govern
nent The grounds, at present, are rvishngly beau.
iful; what they will be when completed, lack sup
'rlatives to describe The Marine Band commences |
his evening for the first time this season. to play at
he Presidents grounds they will also play on Satur-
lay evenings at the Capitol
We are all very mad here about the hideous picture
4 Miss Lane, which lately appeared in Harper's
Weekly 1t is rightful carcature. Charlotte Cush'
nan has proved failure at the thester. No wonder;
he's too ugly for any use in this world
AALoU.
Texas Intelligence.