New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-01
"LAND FOR TIE LANOLESS rs. NIGGERS
FOR TIE NIGGERLESS."
From An Occasional Core spondent.

From An Occasional Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 1859.
The telegraph aud your Special" will have
Given you the details of the Intellectual feast in the
Senate Last night. But il was 20 " spicy" thst il
will bear serving up the second tine, and 10
diluted ion0.
Al the close of weary day with John Doe and
II cbard Roe, | learned, about 9 O'Clock, thai the
Sex ale were still in session on the Cuba bill. l
entered the gallery just il time 10 hear the close of
Mr.. Kennedy's speech, when Mr., Wade OF Ohio
got the floor aud moved All adjournment, so that
he could speak tomorrow. But the Democrats,
having determined III caucus that they would take
the final vote on the bill at that sitting thouga it
extended ntO Saturday night, refused to adjourn.
Nj. Doollie row moved TO lay aside Cubs, and
tai c up the Homestead bill The few Cubans who
favor this latter impored Doolttle not to ipjure
the Homestead, by antagonlzlng 1t with - this
great measure of foreign policy" He warned
them that the country would regard this as Il test
vote. They WINGED, and the skirmsh went on.
The debate on the relative merits Of the two
measures, intermingled with questions of order,
uov became genci al. Trumbull struck the I'd.
mrable point, that it was wiser to lake up aud
pass bin that disposed of portion Of the surplus
land We now had, than to waste time ON one which
pTOpo-ed TO buy more Seward pronounced the
Cubon foIsy mere paItizan scheme whose friends
knew II could not by any possibility pass the Lower
House. VII le the Homestead could become a Law,
by the sctioD of the Senate, in ten minutes. He
briefly contrasttd the two pOlices-one 10 enlarge
the domain of the Slave power. and restore aud
msintain the supremacy Of compulsory labor in the
tropicsthe other, to give land TO the landess aud
furnish homes L. free laborers 10 our own couutry
He was emphatic, but entirely parliamentary and
respt ctiul IN tone aid language.
After little brush on pOlnts OF order, ToOmbs
got the floor. To understand the scene that fol-
lowed YOU must know that Seward aud Wilson sit
on the rear row Of chairs, aud Toombs Wade aud
Benjamin immediately in frout of them in the next
GoV-Wsde having Toou,bs on his right and Ben
amin on his left-and all five being in close prox-
unity TO each other A little further of 10 the left
OF BENJAMIN sits fessendrn. Touubs directed his
speech entirely 10 Seward. Always ImpassiODed
and furious he wss now extraordinarily vehement
IN tone, violent IN gestlculatiOu, and abusive IN
Language. He called Seward demagogue--a
small dcmseoeue-said he despis,d all dems-
gogues, dttested email Ccmagogues 10 par
neular, but more especially pi:ied and dispised
those who could be driv n hy small dema-
g"gues bringing his fist in The vicinity oi Wade's
GtsA as Ae uttered the last clause lie accused the
hrpno1esns IN body Of cowardice, personal and
p"hncal- OF skulkitg the issue Of Cubs and SILVER
lhg ~ their shoes at It's mere name.
I've Tuug tie changes on Stewards term, LAND
ior the ia0dless" and ,neered at the d" Lakeland.
ers as be called them, Of whom tie Republicans
were birad, &c. lie smOte bis own a, x yi,l,nt-
~, occasionally shed over ard struck Stewards
ktpt bis back toward the CHART that he might rn IN.
face toward Seward ever and anon thrustipg his
hand almost in his isce. and pushing Inadvertently
against Wsdes chair ali this time his face glowing
With passion, and Bis air aud mien aud tone suc-
gesling the iefOcty Of Dantor, combined with the
n'ieulty of Murat. During bis short speech por-
uon Of the galleries kept up running accompani-
ment OF feeble gusts of laughter
Nearly sll eyes had been fixed on Toombs and