Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-12-20
Correspondence 1t ssas Sc nuI


lty of over seventy ia the House the Opposi-
ton has faiieI or neglected To orgtnize that
body so as 50 Pfocee'i Ia the public business
of the couatry. SIX days have been wasted
IN frntless attempts TO elect even A pres.
ding officer. The pay of the members of the
Senate and House alone, (the Senate can do
no legislative busines until the House is or
ganzed,) not to mention the clerks, messen-
gers, pages, the expense ofreporting and pub
fishing their actions in the Congressional
Globe, &c, amounts to the snug little sum
OF slzteea thousand Sir hundred and ninetg-ta0o
dollars! The other expenses will exceed
| tIoenty thousand dollars making in all over
| SIXTY SIR thousand dollars for one week of do
! fpg nothing under the blessed reign of Fu-
sion, Abolition, Know Nothing, Black Re-
publicanSm. This is the first installment
the country has been called upon to pay for
the glorious privilege of being represented by
such men. How DO the people like the dose?
Is it not paying too dear for "the whistler
These men came into power last year on
the cry of Anti Nebraska, Retrenchment, and
Reform. One week has passed, and what
have they done to carry out their pledges to
the 'dear people?' Where is anti-Nebras-
kaism to-day? Swallowed upin Abolition
ism. AT least one third of their number if
brought to the test, would vote against a re-
peal of that part of the Nebraska bill repeal
Ing the Missouri Compromise. They don't
want 1t revived. Their shout over its repeal
has done the work for which it was raised,
viz: the putting them in power
Where are their promised Retrenchrnents
and Reforms? Echo answers, where? Are
we to look for them in the squandering of
over slxty-six thousand dollars of the peoples
money in doing nothing? They have clear
majority of over seventy votes: why don't
they organize the House and proceed to the
business of the country? The answer can
be found in the fact that they are for the
most part the rag-tails and bob-ends-ihe
refuse--the old shoes-of all parties-mcn
bereft of principle save the five loaves and
two fishes, who have no bond of union save
the spoils of Office and a bitter hatred of the
Democratic party. Hence we see them en-
gagged in an indecent struggle over tho Speak
ership for men, and men only. The differ
ence between Mr.. Campbell and Mr.. PEN
nington is the difference between tweedledee
and tweedledum, They are both bitter
Free-soil, Abolition, Know Nothing, Whig,
Black Republicans. Yet so far Mr. Penning-
toms friends will not support Mr.. Campbell,
and Uice versa. The Democracy have cast
their votes steadily, unflinchingly, and uni
tedty for Mr.. Richardson, thus showing that
had they been in power in that House, they
would have effected an organization on the
iirst day, and proceeded at once to the bust
ness before thom-saving the country thus
far over sixty-six thousand dollars; and il we
have another weeks voting, double that
sum.
The voting for Speaker exhibits some
strange scenes. L. ID. Campbell, of Ohio,
and n. p. Banks, Jr., of Massachusetts,, Were
the prominent candidates before the ballot
ing commenced, and they have kept their
positions thrs far. Campbell was formerly,
and is yet bitter Whg In former years
he was a leading Ohio Whig. very profiIsely
abusive Of the Democratic p3fty... In 1S46,'
1 he could not swallow the noulaatjon 6 0enp
Taylor, but SO bitter was his whiggery that
he refused to go for Martin Van Buren
though he approved of the platform upon
which he ran, because Mr.. Van Buren had
been Democrat Yet for this man we see
Barbour, Mace, Cumback, and Petit voting
from the very start, as the man they prefer
red for the Speakership over any other man
in the House.
Though Banks was formerly Democrat
like themselves, and though on the Freesoil
question and on the Know Nothing question,
he is as black Republican as Campbell, oc-
cupyng precisely the same position on these
questions, yet he was MT Whig enough to
get the votes Of such pure and madultcrated
Democrats as Lucian Barbour, Daniel Mace,
John u. Petit and Will Cumback. Mr..
Barbour, | understand, claims that he is as
good a Democrat as any old liner. Was his
vote for Campbell, who yet holds to the
Whig dogmas of National Bank and high
protective tariff, am evidence of his Democ-
racy? From such Democracy may we ever
be delivered. We do not wonder that such
Wings as Dunn, Collax, Scott, Brenton, and
Holloway voted for Campbell-nobody who
knows how bitterly Wing these men have
been, and still are, could have expected 9th
erwise of them; but that Barbour, Mace, Pet
tit, and Cumback, who claim to have been
Democrats, should vote from the start and
until his name was formally withdrawn by
himself, for bitter Wing in preference TO a
, man who had been Democrat, and was oc-
cupyirg the same position on the exciting
topics of the day they arc, is certainly rather
strange. Yet though they showed their in
consistency, and truckled in the very dnst at
| the bidding of Dunn, Colfax, Scott, &c, yet
when Mr. Campbell's name was withdrawn,
and Mr. Banks commenced running up, all
their serviity could not persuade George G.
: Dunn or Harvey ID. Scott to vote for Banks
Oh no, Banks had been a Democrat, and that
r was enough for Dunn and Scott, and though
he run up to-day to 100 votes, yet still they
refused to vote for him. Their whiggery
l would have been polluted il they had voted
for man who had ever been suspected o
being a Democrat at any period Of his life.
e Among the Democratic Fusionists who re
J fused to vote for Campbell are Nichols, o
t Ohio, Thurston, Of Rhode Island, Oliver
= Wheeler, and Williams, of New York, Grow
c of Pennsylvania, &c. How different thei
: course from Mace, Barbour, Petit, and Cum
e back. By-the-way, il is said that a commit
tee were here from Cumback's District 4
hold him up to the rack. 1t was labor lost
5 Colfax owns him, and it is amusing to se'
|, the boy dancing attendance on his owner
It and the pa:ronizing air and approving smil
8 with which Schuyler rewards him when b.
e has done the work set before him. To-day
i after the House had adjourned, at the bidlin
e Of Colfax, up jumped the pretty little fellow
), and announced tha: he had been requests
to SAT- that there would be n meeting of tn
anti Nebraska Congressman in the hall at
e O'Clock Ii is convenient TO own such an NJ
% commodating, bidable boy as Cumback.
l. saves one a heap of trouble! Colfax is
Y. fortunate individual! How much will va
Z, take for your protege. Schuyler
at Mr.. Dunn's health, | am informed, Ia.
- been steadily improving since he came her
T. He still looks, however, very feeble
er PINCKNEY.
HoGs.-Several hundred hogs were yeste
&c day driven through the city, destined for ii
lis ,,,ro,,s honses in and near tow