American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-09-27

MHssRs. EDITIONS: Mr.. Secretary Stuart and
some Of his " dependant" seem to be getting
famous for rendering laid and comfort" to
Democratic candidates for Congress, and help
ing to elect them. The case of the South Bend
(Indiana) district, in which DR.. Fitch, the Dem
ocratic candidate, was Handsomely helped, while
Mr.. Colfax, the Wing candidate, was severely
damaged, has already been brought to the no
tice of your readers.
Mr.. Secretary Stuart, while the campaign
was sharply going on in the South Bend dis
trict, sends to the Democratic candidate an ap-
pointment worth eight dollars per day.
In the Wing portion of the district, Mr.. Col
fax addresses the people, and asks for their
votes He tells them that he and President
Fillmore and bis Cabinet are Wings, and that if
they will send him to Congress, the Wing Ad-
ministration will ask what his constituents
want, and will cooperate with him in obtain
ing what they want.
DR.. Fitch now speaks: Gentlemen Wings
you need not trouble yourselves to send Mr.
Colfax to Congress. l have been there once,
and l know all the ropes. Why, T. and not
Mr.. Colfax, have the confidence of the Wing
Administration at Washington. Just look at
this important and responsible appointment
sent to me by Mr.. Secretary Stuart! Is not
that evidence, strong as proof Of Holy Writ,
that am in favor with the Administration, and
can better get its cooperation than my COM
petitor?
And besides, has not the Postmaster General,
the intimate, confidential friend aud adviser of
President Fillmore, dismissed from Office, as
mail agent, the stepfather Of Mr.. Cofax?
Would my competitor be thus damaged and
ual ,s,>:c
ton, if said Administration desired him to be
elected to Congress? The thing is preposter-
ous
How could Mr.. Colfax make Roadway before
his Wing audience against such knock down
argument on the part of his opponent?
In the Democratic portion of the district, Dr..
Fitch used another kind of argument He
pounced down upon the Federal Wing Admin
istration as being every thing unworthy of
Democratic support-as being, in fine, no bet
ter than it should be.
A distinguished Tennessee Democrat now in
this city, states another instance in which the
Secretary of the Interior, or some one of his
. dependents" has rendered "aid and COM
fort" to hard-pushed Democratic candidate
for Congress.
Colonel Andrew johnson, who has long been
a radical Democratic member of Congress, was
Haynes
At Jonesborough, court-day, the fourth Wed
nesday in June last past, Colonel Haynes elo-
quently rebuked Colonel Johnson for his con-
slant neglect, while at Washington, to exert
himself to get the Government to issue land
warrants to the East Tennessee volunteers, for
the Florida war; in 1886, who, although they were
not ordered to Florida, did good service in the
Cherokee Nation, in capturing runaway Creeks,
Seminoles, &c. The Government still refuses
land-warrants to those East Tennessee volun-
teers
But Colonel Johnson was pressed SO hard in
the matter by Colonel Haynes at Jonesborough,
as aforesaid, that he posted off letter to Wash
ington, declaring that he must have land
warrant upon some one of the applications of
the East Tennessee volunteers aforesaid which
were then on file in the proper bureau. His
request was Immediately complied with. A
land-warrant for one hundred and sixty acres
of land was made out in favor of Alphonso
Williams, of Captain Powell's company of the
aforesaid volunteers, bearing date the 10th of
July last, and sent under cover to the Hon.
Andrew johnson, M. c., Greenville, East Ten
nessee, and by Colonel Johnson, on the 18th of
the same month, held up to the crowd and read
at public meeting. Colonel johnson was thus
enabled to show that he had obtained at least
one land-warrant of the class which the Gov
eminent had condemned, and was greatly ben
Gifted thereby in obtaining his reelection.
So ne go.
Mr.. Postmaster General Hall has decided in
favor Of the proposals of Mr. Jones of Newark,
New Jersey, for supplying the Department with
mail locks. The first order will probably be
for twenty thousand locks.
Now for Mr.. Halls practical judgment as to
the safety and security of those selected locks
After the decision had been made, one of the
for the contract who resides at
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in the presence of
the Postmaster General, picked the selected
Jones' lock with shoemaker's awl four times
in about one minute.
So tee 90 again COMMENTATOR.