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WAsnInsres City, Dec. 8, 1889.
Mr. Clay rose at six o'clock this morning. put on his
sipPers and wrapper, took pinch of snuff wiped his
nose with Bandanaa kerchief, put On his specks,
and taking up the Grst book that laid in his way.
read the following staaza, from the fourth canto Of
Childe Harold:
That shall be forgiveness Have net,
Hea, me- my mother earth2 Behold Il Heaven!
Have not had to wrestle with In lott
Have not suffered things 10 be forgiyen3
Have rothad my brain sear'd my heart riven
Hopes sspp'd, name blightea, lnes life lied away, -
AMI emily not 10 desperation driven,
Because not altogether Of such Clay!
As rots into the souls Of thoss whom survey!
He laid the book down; wiped tear from his eye,
and turning his eye towards heaven, firmly exclain-
ed, there is truth in the language ofthat book,
by Cd! 1t fits my case exactly o, these internal
whigs | curse and detest, and dcnouRce the day
that first had ought to do with the id angratefu
scoundrels. Thank God, however, Webster is worse
Off than am and Calhoun is id sight worse off
than both Of MS. D-n the wings, they want to- lay
the shelf; bat il wont do, will turn loco foc0
and butt ender." Alas for Mr.. Clay! He is done up,
used up, no go; and might as web go to Ashland,
and raise Morus Multicaulis and Rohan potatoes ~
General Scott is here; and is WELL and in good spi-
rits, and well he may be, since he has escaped
the fangs of the Harrisburg: encampnent of hum
bugs and political and moral blacklegs.
Scott is gamer by the affair; he needed no ens
dorsement by the whigs and il he hopes ever to do
any thing in political way, he must shun all a.,
ISOLATION with party, which invariably destroys all
with whom it has any connection
The Wings Of the New York delegation, are sadly
chagrined. They wanted Scott felt pretty confident
they could get him, and yet after all, thsy found
themselves humbugged by Thad. Stevens, Penrose,
Tippee Of the North Bend. The old burster, il is
said, is now mbecilc, that he finds it difficult to
mix his bitters, without aid. Edward Curtis, Og-
den Hoffman James Monroe and Moses III. Inger-
alIo hen, fpi and de Scott
locked blunt, and as blue a MILESTONE, when they
were informed that the humbugs had pitched on to
old Tippee.
sit must be so. Plate" saith the man in the play;
AND the poor wings, by suffering themselves 10 fall
under the management Of Thad. Stevens, Charles
Penrose, Thur Weed, and Charles Hammond, have
got incubus fastened to their backs OF ten fold
the enormity Of the old of the sea- who SO long
humbugged Sinbad the sailor.
Clay and his friends take heir defeat in very bad
grace As for Clay himself, he had rather the con-
ventioa had nominated even MIR Fan Buren, than Har-
risop. The affair has raised devil Of a breeze at
Washington and nobody here will be bound by the
infamous humbugging got up by the Harrisburg asses
| What man Of deccncy can so for Harrison, whilst
4 Scott is living
| Old Mathew L. Davis was at Harrisburg, and i am
told that when it was announced that Harrison had
. preference over Clay, notice gave way, and very
sad accident bcfcll him He arrived in town today,
and was reminded Of the story the moment ] saw
him. The old chap stuck to Clay TO the last, but it
was no 60.
In The Senate today Judge Haight was re Gle cted
Sergeant at Arms and Door Keeper MIR. Robert
Beale was chosen Assistant Door Keeper and Mr..
Ashley Dickens Secretary.
In the Convention of tho House OF Representa-
tyos, unfinished debate, commenced on Saturday,
on question of order raised on the right Of DIR.
Duncan, to read various documents touching the
New Jersey contested election, in connection with
his speech. was brought 10 an issue by MIR. Under
wood, of Kentucky, who demanded the previous
question. The demand being seconded, the main
question, shall the documents be read was put, and
carried the afiI IUO IOl. This
was a test question, and may be indicative Of the
final fate Of the wings.
The debate that preceded the demand for the pre-
vious question was conducted by Messrs. Granger,
Vanderpoel. w. Z. Johnson, Colquett, Nesbitt,
Black, and Underwood. Ii was remarkable for little
else than its entire absence from ali reference to the
question at issue Whilst il was goirg on, Mr. Van
derpocl forced from Mr. Randolph, wing Of New
Jersey, the admission that the locofocos the cleo
! ton had majority Of the votes. After the main
question decided the balance Of the day
occupied in reading Doctor Drncan's docuunen ts.
Nothing effected towards organization.
Yours, &c. TOBIAS TRorr.