BY THE SOUTHERN MAIL.

Washington.
Correspondence Of the Herald.l
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The CAPITOL, Jan. 5, PM.


Close Of the Texas Debate-Spesch of John Quincy


AdDms-1he Plan that ,ciH be adopted The Ta.


riff -Postags-Aboliton- -Andrew Stevenson, &c.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ESQ.,


Thank the one hour rule, the Texas debate will
be closed tomorrow, and vote taken evinciDg
in some way the character of the house on this


important national question. | have no doubt OF


the passage Ct joint resolution admitting Texas
as State, without any details, although the
recent proposition leaving her to settle her own
debt, and dispose Of her own lands, meets with
some favor, but not from those whose specializing
interests have prompted an advocacy of this
measure There are now twelve varieties Of
plans before the house, and five before the
Senate, from which certainly one good one
| should be selected. On examination of the
various propositions are induced to be-
lieve, that the amendment offered by Mr.
| Boyd, of Kentucky, on Tuesday last, will be
| adopted with slight notifications. his plan ad-


mis Texas as State, ant, after ceding all her pub


lie works to the national government, she is 10 ~.
tain all her public funds, debts taxes and dues of
| every kind, and also her public unappropriated


lands, which are to be applied to the payment OF
! her debts, and the remainder disposed of as she
| may direct. The national Is government not to be
| held liable tor any demands against her. New
States OF convenient size, not exceeding three, in
addition to the State now proposed, may be made
hereafter from her territory by her consent, and no
State north OF So degrees 80 minutes north latitude
shall be admitted. except uader the provisions OF
the law known IS the Missouri compromise
There is but little doubt that the senators from
Louisiana will cast their votes In favor OF some
plan of annexation, but the recent wing instructions
TO the democratic senators from Ohio, may cause
them to faltcr in their course, and thus balance
any change produced by the action of the first
named senators.


In the House to-day, John Quincy Adams de-
| livered a one hour speech, in which he alleged
hat hIo MI 0f va out he ipCi-
pie OF fair bona fde purchase ot certain guam
tiy Of goods from dry goods store, and that the
| present plan was like making a burglarous en-
trance and robbing the store of its contents. The
argument sustaining such position will be found IN
the regular proceedings. He also claimed the credit
| OF beng the original propounder OF our right to
| and concluded with the most important fact, that
he would write out his speech and publish it to the
world to sustain his assertions


The greatest excitement will exist in the House
| tomorrow, until some conclusion is produced on
| this important question.


Robert Dale Owen, proposed an amendment to
the amendment offered by Mr.. Boyd. that the peo-
| pie Of the three States to be admitted from the
Territory Of Texas, by her consent, should have


the right to decide whether they should be admit
| ted as slave States or as free.


There are but five weeks left of the Session, and
seven have already been expended, and but one
| single bill from the House has been made a law


Five weeks leit-in which Texas isto be annexed,
Oregon occupied-the Tariff modified the post
| age reduced-some hundreds Of private bills TO be


voted upon, without alluding to the grand contem-
plated movements of the aboliionistsln an attempt
| 10 dissolve the Union, by the Introduction If a


measure to gradually abolish slavery in all the
States. More business will be concluded the last
| week OF The SESSION than in the whole space OF
| time previous.


| combined laughable effort Is making on the


part Of some very particular private friends of the
Van Buren, interest in Albany and elsewhere, to
place Andrew Stevenson of Virginia. the Office
of Secretary Of State, the secret reason being his
relationship by marriage TO the Van Buren family,
and the presumed favor that might result to certain
Office holders and Office seekers of 1886, by such
election Not only that, but should Virginia obtain
this prominent place in the cabinet, the managers
| in New York would then present claim for the
Secretary of the Treasury, and thus secure to
certain regency interests the two best bowers
Of the coming administration. You are, per-
| haps, much better acquainted with the po-
| itlcal character Of Andrew Stevenson than
| am, and l would, therefore, merely enquire
| when and where he has ever exhibited talent,
strength and force sufficient TO entite him to any
claim to this prominent place. One Of your tran
slent correspondents, in reply to one OF my recent
letters, asserts that there " blood relation
| between Vice President Dallas, Senator Walker
| and Secretary of War Wilkins. grant that TACT
but allow me to say that marriageabe relationship
| forms quite as strong if not stronger cement to
| Interested mOtives-as the vely act Of marriage
may have be prompted, as it often is, TO sustain
and retain family interest and Influence. The
world is 0verf0wing with such instances.