New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-16
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.

Special 10 The New Orleans Crescent
@WAsHHaroS, April 9, 1850.
Ed. Creseea-The present week is likely to be
q memorable one in the doings Of Congress. The
Haskin and Goyode Investigating Committee will
make an exhibition this week, and there will be
an abundance Of material supplied to kindle the
fires of party strife and 10 renew the disorderly
agitations of the House.
The Pacific Railroad Committee were to report
to-day, having finally determined to adhere to their
recommendation for but one road. An attempt
was to have been made to anticipate the House
Committees report by bill from the Senate, pro-
viding for two roads but Mr.. Gwin, who has as
sumed the charge of the railroad matters in the
Senate, has managed to delay proceedings there,
and to give decided color to the rumor that
though protesting the greatest interest for the
measure. he has spared no pains to embarrass it,
and to promote the pecuniary interest of the mail
lines opposed to it. At the last session of the
House Committee on the Pacific Railroad, a large
number of resolutions, with respect to the number
Of roads, selection of route, ETC., were voted down
and the original determination by Republican
majority for road sustained against all of their
propositions.
Should the Senate drop the requisition Of San.
born as witness in the matter of the Harper's
Ferry Investigation, people will come to inquire
whether or nowe have Government. The fugi-
tive witness has been f6ted in his village as q hero
and a martyr; and again, the continuation wit
ness, Thaddeus Hyatt, who breaches his martyr
dom by writing essays defying the authority of the
Government, and suffering the stenches Of the
Washington jail, is hailed in Northern quarters as
hero, and represented to be t'the greatest lion in
Washington" In the meantime, the Senate Inves.
tigating Committee recline on their dignity, not
only having proved nothing, but having brought
the Government into disgrace by their weak and
timid action.
One of the marked effects of Helperism appears
to be the development in various directions of q
popular literature Of the South. Heretofore it has
been subject of just reproach TO the South thai
her current literature is almost wholly borrowed
from Northern sources. In connection with this
development of ideas of literary reform, we notice
the prospectus Of The Plantation, a Southern quar-
terly journal, to be published in New York and il
Eatonton, Georgia. Another excellent Southern
periodical, Gan Illustrated weekly entitled Thi
Family Journal has already been started b,
Messrs. Moore & Co., of Baltimore, and bids fai
to exclude from Southern circulation the demoral
izing, blood-and thunder hebdomadals of the North
and to supply literature fitting for Southern fire
sides, and fulfilling really important part in TIL
education of the minds Of the rising generation
too often poisoned as they are by the iterar.
| manufacturers of Yankeedom The editors of Th
4 Family journal remark, with considerable poin
and justice, that moety of the patronage givel
| to Northern papers would enable them to emplo,
the first talent in the South, and to produce pape
| that would compare with any published else
| where. x.