The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-06-11
BY THE SOUTHERN MAIL.

Correspondence Of the Herald

WASHINGTON, June 8, 1916.
The Heat-1he G1.iliotine--Captain Voorhees-1ra-
peLers IN 10lca-d Case-Geo H. Canin-1ena-
perance = King Aicohoi, and Sam Houstoa-1he
Oregon Question, and the Emigants to Oregon.
Thermometer to-day at II o'clock SO in the shade,
on the Pennsylvania Avenue, the sun, least $50.
Hot as Egypt At O'Clock we have the prospect
of the ta-end Of magnificent thunder storm
ing up the river from Alexandria.
Gulllotne moving slowly again till the LIST OF the
month"; when in addition to changes, fourteen clerks
will have to be dismissed from the General Land
Office in order reduce the number pre- vision OF
Congress limiting the clerks in this office to sixty.
The United States Circuit Court for this city, be
fore which the counsel for McNulty has entered
demurrer to the Indictment against said McNulty,
for embezzement of the public moneys, has adj
ourned over to "Wednesday next, when the pleading
for and against the objections specified in the mo-
ton to quash the Indictment, will be resumed.
In the of CaptainV oorhees, the Court Martial
IN session at Colemans Hotel, after the reading of
the recorded testimony of Lieut.. Porter, Of Satur-
day last recalled the lieutenant whe by the by is
of the noblest looking young officers in the servce)
when he further testified to the court, in answer to
questions by the Judge Advocate, affecting the con
duct of CaptanV oorhees, per peclcators involved
in the general charge of disobedence Of orders.
For several days past, there have been at the
principal hotels fair number of arrivals from the
exremities of the Union, chiefly from the west and
south But there appears to be no acquisition TO
the local population, doubtless many of these stran-
gers dropping in IN the evening, cut out IN the
morning There gentleman last week,
from Wisconsin, however, who proved himself 4
most ungeasonably impatient office seeker. And
as one oi many interesting scenes at the depart
ments, will give you the last, in which our Wis
consin friend figured in Washington, as far as
heard from.
He called at the Treasury Department to see Mr.
Walker. A large company here already waiting in
tl,n al,a ,hnr t.Nr An
manned, perhaps, half an hour, very uneasy, when
he peremptorily demanded
"Look here, door-keeper; amt you gwine to let
me in to my friend, Bob Walker, without any more
fuss %
"Can't do it, sir; until your turn comes"
"Turn' (walking up and down the hall.)
"Here | come, SIX foot three IN mecca
sins, and stout according; here come all the way
from Wisconsin, territory that has no boun-
dary-that runs one way over the ROCKY
Morntains, and in another to where they never see
the sun shine, God d-mn 'em-here come, (tak,
Ing from his coat pocket parcel of letters, and
passing over them in detail,) recommended by Old
Cen Dodge, there's his letter; and by the young
Governor too, and there's hzzen; and by number
of others whose names he repeated. "Wel, as
Christ is my Judge, can't stand this, waiting like
niger till my turn comes. That's what call rub
bing it in leete too strong. Can't go it, by God!
Why, you id Irish looking half starved white
niger Cooking at the door-keeper with peculiar
ferocity) what did you mean when you told free
born man of the west, all the way from Wisconsin,
where we live, by thunder, on bears meat-what did
you mean, you screwed up customer, when you told
me to wait till my turn come e
The door keeper Sid 1t was rule OF the Secretary
to let gentlemen in, one by one, according as they
came-"first come first served"
"Wel, look he,e, strangers" said the son OF Wis
consin, "look heie Jest tell the Secretary, before
I'll wait here all day to get into that door when my
turn comes I'll see him ID first" And the
young giant from Wisconsin lett In rage
screaming like trooper.
| We give the story as receive il; but can
readily imagine from what has occurred under our
observation, such a scene as the foregoing to be
! strict matter of fact.
Hon. George III. Catlin, of Connecticut, Oem is
Ill town. Defeated of his election for the twenty
ninth Congress, some suppose his visit here is con-
nected with the great question of the proper dlstrbu
ton by the Executive of the patronage OF the General
Government. Eut is our mpre sslon that ne comes
to give oar temperance people Int In speech or
two in the great cause OF teetotalism, OF late so
much dIsparaged, retarded and dlsregarded In
Washington, in the unparalleled consumption OF GIN
cocktails, brandy-smashers, cold Punch-s, leInon,
AIDES with stick IN 'em, "a little brandy ana
month of June. We would advise Mr.. Catlin to
stay spell, as expect General Sam Houston OF
Texas, in this metropolis, during the summer, and
both together, in the of temperance they could
make Old King Alcohol quake in his shoes.
But for an utter physical prostratlon, we mad pur-
posed some further remarks upon the late dispas-
sionate letter of Mr.. Calhoun. But as the subject
will not now be set aside till the meeting OF Con-
eress we shall yet be in season.
We are rather dubious of the success of those
populous companies boInd for Oregon, making an
aggregate of some 5000 strong The Journey over
the prares is hard but when the desert ravines OF
the Rocky Mountains are passed, we fear that the
numbers of those adventurous bands will be much
diminished from fatigue and famine. Unless sup
piled with six months provisions they will suffer
dreadfully and will think old shoes, dog-skins, and
leather generally, very good eating before they reach
the Willamette. Indeed, there is tribe OF Indians
in the Rocky Mountains, that subssts by raising
dogs for the starved emlgrants bound for Oregon.
II anything would expe the govt the dyspepsia. 1t
would be land trip to Oregon. Notwithstanding,
we expect to that fine country before another
Presidential election and starvation, 1t is pas
time to an old campagner. But ALLoNs.