The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-01-30
NEWS BY THE n AILSs
WASHINGTON, Jan. n, 1871.


Our Warrington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, Jan. n, lsa
ON the Politics of the Day.
Great many strangers in the city. Yes, see the
hotels are all pretty well crowded; and Captain
Black, of the National, lodges score or two
every night, in cots, in the ladies' ordinary.
Oh give a cot In the valley love.
Bat what brings all these people here Congress,
and the bills before Congress. Hop Turney's bill,
for the amendment of the Patent laws, has a corps
of lobby members on hand; private claims, French
spoliations, and other bills, have their list of adj
vocates among the outsiders; but the tariff more,
perhaps, than all combined, has drawn this flood
of custom 10 our tavern keepers. II is an i'll wind
that does not blow something into Washington.
good regular Norther," on the tariff question,
briggs 'em 10 town. Those broad. shouldered men
you saw in the rotuGdd 10 day, were iron manufac-
turers, from Pennsy lyanla, or coal dealers-and
those per-looklng Little fellows you see at the
National, ON The porch. picking their teeth after
dinner, are calico and Bay State shawl men, from
Massachusetts. The tariff OF no has reduced them
TO such poverty that they can only atierd TO pay
three or four dollars day tor board Their suf-
ierlBgs are truly dreadful. Clay men, Scott men,
Fillmore men, Buchanan men, Cass men, are all
anxious in Pepnsy lyania 10 do something for coal
and iron Capital can be made of that subject in
Pennsy lyania, and the experience of 1913 will not
be lost upon Inc democrats. They have burnt
their fingers often enough already. Even Gen.
Cas- Is said 10 be convinced there ought TO be
little nse in the bounty on coal and iron. Well,
We shall see how Al Will come out. We rather
suspect the whole subject will go to the first
Monday in December next, and God only knows
what may happen in the interregnum.
Besides al Tins, there is good deal of wire
pulling here among the politicians. They are all
IN the tog-all adflit-ali al loss as TO which is
which, what IL What, and where in the name of
God 10 60, ana what 10 do Feote and Cobb, out
rAsN - ernlY EhaS nYr houa
doing their best Tor Union party. They have
tried a National Convention. No go. round
robin, or sorG OF temperance pledge of mutual
COED behavior; but II don't take Cass and
Douglass, and Dickinson. are laughing IN their
sleeves al the joks-yhe joke of the round robin.
But Mr.. Clay, pr1ntG tacla, was taken in; and
General Houston, thlnAing il might be some ad-
diuon 70 his sooL IN trade pat on his signature to
the 'afdavy'--a sort Of writ of habeas corpus re-
turnablc on demand.
What is TO be the next move, is not disclosed.
Webster might make his everlasting fortune upon
the Nicarauea aud Hayu questions, if he would;
but we are afraid he will 'whitle" them down
TO the little enc OF COMPROMISE, for the sake of
present peace, compromising our future security.
Thsi's what We fear. II Mr.. Webster would only
talk to Sir Heary bulwer, as he did talk TO Cheva-
her Hulsemsn, W. should have Chatheld out of
Central America in short order; but let us hope
there Is something good behind the curtain-some-
thing that Will make saitpetre explode.
General Scott town. He seems to be the
favorite OF the rank and HE wings, and they have
run without platform. If he does, he will be
completely deserted by the South, and there will
be two or three candidates cutting under him and
ovsrhim IN the North. Aud the fact is, we have
hac so much experience wIthin the last ten years
with military heroes without platforms, that it will
hardly answer 10 try another upon the same plan,
not even General Scott himself, especially in
scrub race. No, siT not al all. A national candi-
date on good sock of military glory, with only a
single opponent III the field, may do well enough
% run on the general principles of the constitution
and the examples of eailier Presidents;
but "a d scrub race, like that We expect in '52,
he must have platform He can't do without
platform He must declare himself in favor
OF something besides the constitution; and he Nus;
express himself North or South for something more
than the adjustment OF The slavery question II he
says nothing, pToclalms nothing, and denies
EotElBg, he will De taken as Seward mantle
eX Governor and his Clique being inclined, very
significantly, 10 give the General their support
General Scot! has, heretofore, expressed himself
IN favor OF the . Remuneration" OF Canada Upon
that point, has opinions, If ne sh all become Pre-
siGeatlal Candidate, Will be expecied-yca or
Iay-tOr different circumstances may justify a
charge OF MS opinion promulgated from West
Pom. IN leiy.
Things getting 70 DO interesting We shall
have some Developments OF great signifcancy in
the course OF The spring. We must be vigiiant
"A ClICuiar-s rgnnd fODn-e caucus-a new poll
teal pcIer IN Westinghouse tariff compromise
the ele c,iou Of Unued Senator-a town meeting
in the IrOvlnces-a fugitive slave casa southern
mess ueeIng-auythiny may give shape and sub
staIce 70 the arrange ments for 1852. We can't be
In the fog muca longer.