The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-08-29
LATEST INTELLIGENCE,


WASHINGTON, August q, 1916.
SCUM Carolina Statesmen and the Py,sident-A
Scrap Of Hist@y-Ji1dge Douglass Commission
or Of Patents-Diainguished Strangers The
Statue Of Washington, &c.
The report that Mr.. Holmes did not call ON the
President when he was at Old Point, recently.
and pay his respects to him, has, in the absence
OF something better, afforded theme of CONVEX
sation among the few politicians now in Wash
ington. They are at loss to account for this
slight on the part OF the honorable Congressman.
" How Is II ~ they ask "we thought South
Carolina policy governed the President in every
thinsP' Sand did not Mr.. Holmes, when Mr.
Folk sent IN his veto OF the Harbor BILL say, with
great gusto, 1t was really refreshing looking
ten years younger as he made the remark, while
MS colleagues responded, AmenF Yes but a
Simple and prlei explanation, from one OF the
south Carolina delegation, not Mrs. Rumor will
afford the reason for Mr. Holiness conduct, and
perhaps serve as an index of events in the I'M
known future.
1T all owing to MIR. Calhoun, between whom
and the President there is not as much intimacy
ana friendship as there was between Patrocus
and Achilles, Damon and Pythias, or Jonathan
and David Towards the close of the last session
oil Congress, when assistant treasurers under the
sub-treasury act were to be appointed Mr.
Holmes and his colleague Mr.. Burt, recommend
ed Colonel HARRISON for the Office Charleston
These gentlemen were so well satisfied with the
Presidents answer, that they, or one of them.
wrote to HIM, telling him that lie was or would no
doubt Disappointed But what was their NORTH
cation to discover that the President had sent in
to the Senate, for confirmation, the name ofMr
Laval, instead of that of Col. HARRISON!
Messrs, Holmes and Burt were highly incensed,
and openly accused the Executive of a breach OF
faith, saying that he repudiated the Colonel be-
cause he was Calhoun man!
Tins is the version of the disappointed, and
therefore er parte. These gentlemen are as ar
dent IN their condemnation of this one act of the
"a q n fhprn olxat La
This is the reason why Mr. Holmes did not call
on the President at Old Point As to the breach
or trigidity between MIR. Calhoun aRd Mr.. Polk,
or the causes which produced it, nothing need be
said on the present occasion.
In the Edgefeld district, in South Carolina, Mr.
Pckens is out against Mr.. Calhoun, for the course
Charleston dated the 22nd inst, now before me,
says that Mr. Pickens thinks, by this course, to
secure the favor of Mr.. Polk, and obtain the mis-
sion 10 England. Thus il is in the political world
this city, to Illinois, by the way of Charleston,
South Carolina, taking the Southern route for the
Mr.. Burke the Commissioner of Patents, left
the city this morning, for New Hampshire
direct. He will probably be absent month
zen. Hamilton, OF South Carolina, and General
Anderson, ex-senator from Tennessee, are
among the temporary sojourners in Washington.
Workm We're to-day employed in pulling
down the frame building on the Capitol grounds,
which enclosed Greenough's statue of Washing
lHc living as IL mas Deen lanCl-
fully designated, needs thorough cleansing 1t
conveys poor idea ofthe " father his country"
Were the inscription to read "This represents
Emphatic Roman, Just recovering from an attack
OF sickness" it would be admired fine con-
cepton OF the artist but to say Pater Patrie,"
is to ask us to surrender every halowed recollec-
ton associated with the name Of Washington.
An iron railing is to be placed around the base Of
the statue, which will hereafter be exposed ha-
wing no canopy but that of heaven.
NO particular rumors, or Transportation Of facts,
to-day, about the Departments
There has, within the last week, been great
change in the weather. Cloth coats are not UNI
comfortable.
!. Mr.. Dallas was in the city last night. presume
he reached Warrenton in time to-day to eat the
Democratic dinner rendered to him by his politi-
cal friends in old Virginia,
The Rev. G. A. Davis has been deprived of en-
ployment as clerk in the Treasury Department,
by the refusal of Congress to make an appropria-
for the Statistical Bureau FEIix