New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-04-15
From Washington.
Things in Washington.

From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON April 18th. lsi6, midnight.
Our entertaining friends from the New-Yorh
Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf anC
Dumb" left US this morning. They have gained
many friends by their visit here, and hope tha
Congress may be disposed, by the grant OF some
public lands to encourage so benevolent sn lns,iiu
ton.
The worthy President OF the Institution. HARVEY
PRISDLE PEEr, Esq. accompanied the Delegation
There were four ladies and two gentlemen. The
ladies' names are Mrs. GAILAuDET and Misses
AVERY SHERLOCK and LYNDEs. No strangers have
visited the Capital this season who made so many
friends on such short Acquaintance, or whose early
departure caused more general regret.
The House of Representatives granted them The
use of their Hall Friday evening last for public
exhibition The Hall was crowded by the Mem
bers of both Houses and distinguished STRANGERS
with splendid array of beauty, resident and tran
sient such as IS rarely any public exhibition
The audience were delighted with the perform
ances Mr. PEEr opened with a brief address, and
introduced the young ladies and gentlemen. who
performed wha, was given them IN avery entertain.
ing manner There were frequent bursts OF APP
pause to express the satisfaction felt o. witnessing
such proficiency but the applause was not heard by
those 10 whom it was spontaneously given. The
recitation OF the Lord Prayer by Mrs. GALLAuDEr
had powerful effect upon every beholder. \ gu
reco!lect the interesting account OF her marriage
given in the papers last Summer
While we pity their deprivations we rejoice to
see them so happy. There is languages in their
souls more musical than that of which they are de
prved. They speak language OF sympathy They
hear no sounds Of mirth or woe by the outward ear
bu, they feel the language of love in their hearts
and there is hearing OF the understanding by
which they hear how much we feel for them God
IL. ko-.1 ,fykt oil ~
forget its sorrow who teach the dumb to speak and
the deaf TO hear and who remedy the neSIecIs OF Ma
,urcby works of benevolence and love.
You will see by the New . reans papers that our
friend JoHS S SKINNER, ESQ. Editor of The Farmers
Libr0rv has been entertained by public dinner
at the St Charles Hotel in that city To be present
ut n meeting addressed by such men rs BAILIE
PEYroN. S. s. PRsSTIss. Coils. JOHNSON and Bull
Lrrr, &c would compensate for the trouble OF
Journey from this to that city.
There are various rumors about the information
which Mr.. CHARLES J. INGERsoLL forced the House
to ask from the President | understood yesterday
that Clerks have been employed making out the
papers Tonight the most probable version OF the
story is that the President will the House as
il deserv es to be answered-that the complying with
the request of these SGpient lawmakers would be n
direct violation of law. The recent transactions OF
this bear garden in outrageous attacks upon the lib.
ery of the Press and upon private character as well
every sensible man the conclusion that there Is
nothing too mean too outrageous too illegal or too
foolish for il TO pcrperate.
have heard tonight that Mr.. BUCHANAN, who
has been absent from the city for some time. felt
quite indignant at the liberty taken in ransacking
the private papers in his Department during his alb
sence.
Be this as it may, the Country waits for the proof
of Mr. ISGERsoLI's charges with mpntience. Mr..
WEBSTER has branded talsehood upon their fore
heads and dares them to wipe it off He asks no
privileges He challenges investigation and hurls
defiance in the faces of his caumniators II they
fail he has gained a triumph, greater than which no
public man ever achieved. The Ours of Party and
the Pack-or rather the Kennel-of faction have
been hunting him down. He has turned upon them
and they shrink from him.
In no week OF Mr.. WEBsTERs long and evcnttul
life has he risen so much in public estimation. Even
his btierest political enemies 10 be prouder OF
their Country for giving birth to great man.
! see some greenhorn in the Boston Daily Times
has been making Itself merry over part of my re-
port of Mr.. WEBsTERs speech In your evening
edition. printed in hurry, You made the latin word
terrum word by printing 1t persum OF course
when you had time TO have the proofsheet read you
corrected it to ferr il is printed in your edition
next morning. An editor who POUNDS charge
against a reporter because the compositor mistakes
the letter for the letter in hastily furnished man
uscrpt must be hard run for editorial IDEAS. Some
may think me hard up for paragraph when notice
such things. RlcHELIEU