The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1853-02-02
Correspondence of tie Southern Standard.

Correspondence Of tie Southern Standard.
WAsHiNGr8N CITY, Jan. "a, 1853.
Editors Of the Southern Standard:
Washington is in very dense fog in
the matter of the composition of the in
coming Cabinet. Though usually on such
an occasion, at a similar late period, it is
generally well known what particular in
tiuences are to be uppernost in the COM
position OF new administration. The
pu6hc here arc enveloped in a complete
mist. All that is known, is that MIR. r.
NJ. 1. Hunter has positively and uncond-
uonaily declined TO enter the State De-
partment, and that Gen. Pierce has not
yet formally invited any man. to form a
portion of his Council. lie has caused
many members to be notified Of these
facts; and, as consequence, those who
are looking Tor Office under individuals of
the class of gentlemen who suffer them
selves to be "drummed," or with a view to
tier appointment to Cabinet places, are
redoubling their efforts to shape the action
of Franklin Pierce in this connection.
The movements at Concord, of the two
New York cliques Of drummers, for Mr..
Dix on the one side, and Mr.. Dickinson on
the other, of which we have had accounts
Tor a day or two past, per telegraph, in
the newspapers, are but a fair sample
of what appears to be pretty generally
going on by letter from this point and else
where. My hope is, that the Dix and
Dickinson committees now hanging around
Concord, each being afraid to leave the
town until their rivals evacuate the pre-
misses, may not come to blows in the bar
lors OF Gen. Pierce, or in the bar rooms
OF the hotels. 1t is well known here, that
for years past, these two PARTIES have
been blackguarding each other like pick
pockets, until no man in his senses believes
what the one says of the other. But
really, no one had the slightest idea that
they were impudent enough to surround
the house of the President elect, so much
after the fashion in which they are in the
habit Of surrounding the polls at home on
election days, with bullies and "blowcrsn
to work on the ignorant, vicious and timid
among the voters. 1t generally thought
now among the Democratic members.
that the mendacious conduct Of these ri
val cliques will prevent either Dickinson
or Dix from being invited into the CaLi
net, and perhaps from being in any man.
ner employed by the incoming admins
tration.
The widow Of the late Judge Lawton,
Of Louisiana, who has been in Washing
ton for some time cndeavoring to induce
Congress to appropriate for claim which
she holds on the Government, has gone
deranged, and hopeless so l fear owing
to the troubles and difficulties which she
has encountered. AS melancholy as her
case is, | have known fifty, quite as heart
rending, to occur from the same cause.
since have been connected in Washing
ton with the press.
1t is said in Washington that General
Pierce has signified to more than one
friend his purpose Of offering the mission
TO Madrid, to Pierre Soule. have no
doubt of the fact, and regard it rs very
significant of Gen. Piercc's determination
to make the peaceful acquisition of Cuba
a leading point of the policy of his ad.
ministration.
The family of the Trenches, who have
so long kept noted and capital hotels at
Norfolk, Va, and Old Point Comfort, have
just opened fine house in this city-the
Avenue House, situated in the immediate
vicinity of Browns and the NATIONAL
The additional hotel accommodations
which they offer are greatly needed here,
and having been guest in their Southern
houses occasionally for years, am quail
fed to say that the country will contain
no more desirable hotel residence than that
which they are now prepared to offer the
public in Washington.
PALMETTO.