Indiana State Sentinel

Congress.

The Union of the 5th, says:

The Senate resumed, to-day, the consideration of the bill for the augmentation of the navy, and the amendments offered thereto; Mr. Westcott continued the discussion in a speech in favor of the bill.

After a brief but lucid exposition by Mr. Dix of its objects and provisions, a bill regulating the compensation of the principal officers of the customs was then read a third time and passed.

The Senate stands adjourned until Monday next.

In the House, a resolution was passed terminating all debate on the joint resolution of notice on Monday next, at 3 o'clock, by a vote of yeas 110, nays 87.

The debate was then resumed in committee.

A resolution has been adopted by the House to meet, for the next three legislative days, at 10 o'clock, in order to continue the debate on the joint resolution of notice.

The National Intelligencer of the 4th has the following:

Of the ultimate fate of the propositions relative to the Oregon question depending in either house of Congress, variant and discordant opinions are, we observe, expressed in the newspapers published out of this city, both editorially and by their Washington correspondents. It is not possible certainly to predict what will be the specific action of Congress upon it. But whatever may be the final action of the House of Representatives in the case, we now feel entire confidence that the Senate will give its sanction to no measure in relation to Oregon which would stand in the way of a peaceful and honorable adjustment of the differences existing between the two governments of this country and Great Britain on this subject.

We suppose this means that the Senate will not agree to give England notice of the cessation of existing arrangements. We shall see.

The editor of the N. Y. Tribune, who has just returned from Washington, furnishes his readers the latest rumors of that place of many rumors. He says that the Diplomatic Correspondence respecting Oregon was re-opened by Mr. Pakenham, with a proposition that the last (published) letter of each to the other should be mutually withdrawn. This proposal being acceded to at once re-opened the negotiation on the basis of Mr. Polk's offer to compromise on the 49th parallel which Mr. Pakenham so gruffly rejected when made.

It is very likely that the British Minister is authorized to open the negotiation, but we do not believe the Administration will again offer to compromise on the 49th parallel.

The Salem News and the St. Joseph Valley Register both claim that the democratic nominee for Lt. Governor, Mr. Dunning, is a very good Whig. Well, if this be so, why should they oppose him? If he is a whig, it certainly cannot hurt him to be elected by democratic votes, can it! He is not a repudiator, anyhow, as some of the whig papers say Mr. Orth best take the most honest! Had we not, Mr. Colfax?

If the purpose of these insinuations is to engender a doubt of the consistency or honesty of our candidate, our whig friends will not gain much even in that case, if the truth is told of their candidate for Governor; for it is but a day or two since, that we hear that one of the most distinguished whigs of this city and State had declared that he had 'the documents to prove that the Whig candidate for Governor, but a year or two since, had formally offered to sell himself to the Locofocos at a certain price.' Whether this be true or not, it comes from the best Whig authority and at any rate, is enough to show that whig editors should be careful how they impeach the comparative honesty of our candidates. Personally, we are inclined to think, they will not gain much by such process.