Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-03-22
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ne in number and not at all IN clamorous anc
imporssnate enreaiies. The federal mctrop
oils Is the theatre ofthc most extensive Beg
CARS Opera" ever performed in this or any 9TH
cr country. The parts are all filed to reple.
tiun and every note and tone of the gamut j.
run through with yolubiily and ardor demo
ting that the hearts OF all ara in the work.
In the senate. Thursday, when motion wa.
made TO adjourn until Monday, Mr.. Petit, The
newly elected Senator from Indiana expressed
himself as warmly in favor of ii. lie said he
had been besought and tea,ed. by those for
whom he had great respect. 10 zee the heads
Of Departments on their account. lie had
promised to do so. even if he had to take a
maui and bea, do@nshcir doors; and he trust.
ed that he would have The liberty TO do So
AS the Senate agreed TO the adjournment. we
trust the Hon. Senator made The most and the
best ofhis time.
A Washington letter in the New York Jour
nal of Commerce, from one who has opportuui
ties of seeing the game that is played and he
parties in the chase, says:
The President appears TO be run down by
Office seeking friends, and the headsof depart.
ments are in the same situation. Till they are
extricated from this current, they cannot give
proper attention to important questions OF na-
tional policy.
The President and his Cabinet are to be
piticd. They no doubt feel what the poet has
expressed, when he exclaimed
Shut, shut the door, good John FatigneJ,
said-
Tie up the knocker; shy I'm sIck-I'm dead
The dog s.ar RACES; nay, It's past doubt,
All Bedlam or Parnassus ~ let out
A correspondent of the Charlottesville JET
fersonian (dem) writing from Washington. de
scribes the President as being 'much jaded"
by the press of ofice.huntcrs. and expresses
some doubt whether he will be liable to bear
up under the burden" lie is beseiged, this
writer assures us from in the morning TO 10
at night. Among the applicants from Virgi
MIA for foreign missions,h he enumeralcs Messrs
Leske, Wise, Meade and Smith; and for
Charges dcs 16a'rcs, Messrs. Bedinger and
Harris; while Rob, G. Scott of Richmond Je
sres first class consulate. There are a host
of worthy democrats here too from Virginia
for the more subordinate positions"
The Richmond Wing iniers from whi.pers
that have reached it that the above list does
non embrace one half or one twentieth of the
patriotic Vireinians, who are willing to serve
their country for consideration.
The plain people of the state will remember
how earnestly they were invoked by Wise,
Lcake, Scott and others TO vote for Franklin
Pierce and save the country from ruin. What
patriotic pllgrimages they made, spending time
and health and substance in sef.sacrifcing
devotion to the Republic! Alas, alas, is it all
to end in this When the world thought they
were battling for the good of the people,
they only striving TO establish claim To fat
offices for themselves3 Most lamenable con.
clusioni Most sad and sickching thought,
that all the public virtue and Spartan dsinter
es,edness of the greatest orators and patriots
the world has ever known vide the locoioco
accounts of their speeches during the cam
paign,) should have dwinded into n patry
and venal care ofseli