The New York herald., 1845-02-18
BY THE SOUTHERN MAUI.
Warrington.
Correspondence Of the Herald)
WASHINGTON, Feb. Is, lS45

yesterday concluded the routine of receiving the
calls oil his fellowcltizens, and as Gen. Armstrong
efrved last night, IN company with Gen. Dunlap, of
La, we may expect active consultation will take
place the coming week, and perhaps, a cabinet pri
vately arranged before the end of it. Specuatiops
are various here, to who will come out or stav
In. George Bancroft has also arrived, and NAV Of
ter or give his advice in some way, in respect to
matters and things. Genl. Ward, Genl Neil OF
Boston, George g. Gaines, Of Mobile, the brother.
in-aw of Genl Gaines, Genl Jessup, (called) COL
Bankhead, MIR. J. S. Riggs and family, of Pha-
delphla, with MIR. Rathbone, and others, see, are
on the books at Coleman's
Great preparations are making for the inaugura-
ton; the prices OF rooms have all been advanced
by private boarding house keepers. The hackmen
are In extacles, they expect to make fortune in
the next two or three weeks. Every green man
they catch, they charge him a dollar let the dis
tance or time be what it may, when the law, they
say, only allows them to charge 25 cents
Little or nothing more will be done at this session
OF Congress The heads of members are too full
OF matters touching the appontme nts, me asures,
and policy OF the incoming administration, to at
tend To the interest of the country Each politi-
clan Is just now as happy as bee, running hither
and thlther, closeted with here and another
yonder, looking wise and anxious. The cliqnss
bubbng, and boiling they manifest, the more cool
quiet collected and easy will the President be-
come.
Every day brings it's batch OF office seekers. All.
ready have beyes OF them arrived from all the
principal cities between the Penobscot and the Sa-
bine.
Late the other evening, happened to 60 into
Co'eman's bar room to get a drink OF water; throe
office see kers from some city east, unk nown to me
were sitting around stove with their feet cock ed
up on chairs, being spread out one or two Others
One or two of them looked little seedy. Each
had cigar in his mouth while the bar-keeper
a of WI
for each: Boys" said one, very pbiiosophically,
taking his cigar out Of his mouth, "I'm told the
ssident don't drink any liquor at all If we aim
to get along it won't do tor him to catch us using
punch"
:" Not the least danger of that replied the man
with new dress, Il" II is now half past eleven, and
he rs IN oeSd S ane last ASLEEP long ago. Have
man. "Not al ALL" he replied, "Col. A, who
was to have been here and introduced me, has moi
trrlved yet" sWhy didn't you do as did," said
nave your name announced. and Introduce your.
self" " That wouldn't have looked wel," said
the seedy man.
81 am told" said the first seedy man, &c that he
Will not appoint any body to Office, unless they 60
their death for the annexation of Texas ~ "We
can all swear we are In favor Of annexation right
off For i'm make no difference, tor Tom Benton
aad oias wright nave Killed THIS session as dead
dressed man, " who of US wouldn't marry a girl
worth fortune and why may we not marry
Isxss ofsson 8, all the s.S M0d rid besides for good
after Broad ae eoS paSsns
to receive his glass Of whisk,ey punch, which the
will be no worse off than we were before" Ha-
wing made this remark. he carried the glass to his
lips, saying :" here's health to the President
elect" Good" exclaimed the two seedy men,
the chairman of the Ward committee in which
lived," said the first seedy man. " made an
effective speech at our ward mass meeting, re-
port Of which | sent to Colonel Polk he must,
| second seedy man, (" helped to raise money to
hoist our ward hickory pole, and to buy stand Of
colors for It." You are both stark natural fools, !"
said the well dressed man. =" neither made
| | stand better chance than either of you."
''How is that % they both asked in the same
breath "Why, bet like creation, and had good
luck to win money | know how to work a!ong-l
| can treat members of Congress-because, if Gov.
| Polk won't drink, some Of them will They'll
then swear to him Pm the cleverest fellow
been all over for Texas; that without my
superhuman talents and efforts my populous
county never would have voted for him.
You two hain't got as much money as will
that's gone, may the Lord have mercy upon
| yeur souls, for you'll find no bowels OF compass
sion In landlords and hack and cab drivers" Al
| the close of this wonderful speech the faces OF
Il
elongatiOn.
pray" said the first seedy man, addressing the
last pc pointed ,o speaker, "What do you expect to
fine dressed man. 81 would be willing to go to
foreign parts as a Charge des A6aires Orif / can't
get that, why I'd take a Consulshp to Liverpool,
ssso a5 or viii hassns S hs Be Denied why Mar
shall. is there anything else you'd takea" asked the
| second seedy man ooh, yes," said the cool man
Of broad cloth, 81 do not mind going into CUSTOM
house, or land office, as clerk in some department
where the pay was good. and not much work TO be
done. This would he doing. great deal better
than many others will do, who will come here fol
Minister Ssnds a p"S ssys acf t and 60 way
old clothes made the seedy men look dowr
at themselves. "Come boys, its not worth
while TO run. halt way to meet trouble, bal
sssss Of s Of
good idea," said the second seedy man--"we'l
sleep souod at all events, LET things go they may
| tomorrow"
At this point, whole bevy of young "Bvonie'
looking fellows came in Some with whskers anc
moustacheos so large that their faces looked al
though they had piece OF bear skin glued or
her chns Hh and cheeks with hole Gu. in the mid
! collars, had large canes, and mantilla blue clott
cloaks, lined with Scotch plaid striped, of wooler
stuff, Of the broadest and richest colors. These
were bloods of the towns, who sru;ted as stjff al
though they'd break in the middle.
"What dirty looking fellows are those arounc
the stovel" asked one Of the bloods, winking &c
the other-"Oh, camaiAe men" replied another
WHATS that they called usl'' asked one seedy
man of the other, "Canal men7' said he, "Cana
men, indeed" returned the fret, his courage risinl
with the effects of whiskey punch-sThey are !
set of upstart Balloons" The boods turned an.
looked dagsers at the seedy men, the well dresses
| man having vanished
eve are no canal men we'd have you to know,
said the seedy men, they to their feet will
their fists cenched A riot was fast brewing, ant
would have rpened into an open outbreak, had no
one of Coleman's assistants at that moment sue
ceeded in queIllng it. At this juncture departed
from my corner, where had been reading ne ws
paper, and went to bed
| The capital OF this great nation puts me in mine
of huge "a gun ship, stuck all over with barni
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