New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-11
KANSAS IN WASHINGTON.

6ditCn nal Correspondents Of Tho ~ Z. Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Dec. g. 1855.
The National Hotel is the political exchange Of
the edtrsl City, and there are several hours Of
meeting in the course Of the day but think /
may designate 6 p. VI. as high Change hour at
nresent The House has for the day stopped try
ing TO elect Speaker aud adjourned about 8 since
then, dIner has been discussed and moistened; aud
aow the many boarders at this great hotel have
been iOiI ed by as many more who lodge elsewhere,
and an aseemtlsge, of en- amounting to hundreds,
fills all the halls and public rooms on the ground
oor perpetually forming clusters Of from three to
half dozen persons facing inward for a moments
Games. converge on the events Of the day and the
chances of the morrow; then dissolving to
form new clusters, with endless lamentations
as individuals drop off to their rooms, their
meetings or their evening calls, and others drop In
TO FIJI their places. Senators, Representatives,
candidates their name is legon) for underclerk-
alma. and all manner of waiting aud Tending
upon the House, are here mixed up with borers,
editors. telegraphers, letterwriters, and gentle
men who happen to be passing through Washing
Con. or have come here on purpose to see how
Jaws are made and nations governed The gen.
sral rule. however, is, that all you meet here
Members of Congress and placemen excepted are
after something, from the candidate for the Clerk
ship 10 the Ietterwriter in hot pursuit OF 40 item
In the midst Of this moving shifting, Josti'ng
crowd two figures naturally attracts large share
of notice among the number who might well re-
ward moments attention.
That tall, mountaineering, well-dressed, strong
Iy.rsde, rather progressing man OF some hve
and thirty years, is JOIN w. WHITFIELD, CHOSEN
Delegate for Kansas by the Missourians who went
over into that Territory for the purpose, on the
day of election appointed by the Legislature they
cbo,e in the same way last Spring. And that
6rmly.Bnit, plainly dressed, midde-szed' farmer
looking, gravemannered person of fifty, with low
crowned hat, and hair and mustache beginning 10
WAR the silver tipge Of life's Autumn is ANDREW
II. RrrprR, the Delegate chosen at an election
appointed by themselves BY the Free State settlers
of KaIsas comprising more than Two 'h'rus 0, 'u0
nctual reeidents of that Territory Arosnd 'nese
two personases how much of the interest oil the
Session necessarily concentrates 10" 'ltauy
must the strug lie of '56 and the future character
and destiny Of our country be influenced by the'r
conflicting fortunes
MIR. Wilson Shasnon's nomination rs Cover
nor Of Kansas lie nov before the Senate-an at
tempt to rush it through al the outset having been
arrested Before it shall be cOnclusiysly acted on,
trust the truth with regard to the pretended
rebellion in Kansas, on which Shannon has called
in the Missouri borlerers and made a requiSi lion
IN the President for United States troops to de
x.,tste Awrence aud crush out the Free State
a,tv will be better known here than II now is.
mt how ia il 10 DO made known Neither o.
the Washington Dailies has correspondent IL
Kansas; neither of them has thus FAR published
ANYTHING whereby the Free-Ssate side of the qnes
tio. could be understood or even guessed at Inc
Prc.slsvery lies that the Free-Sta'e men had
Jumped Colemans claim-tbas three Prostate
men attacked Coleman with deadly weapons and
that he shot one Of them in ,elfdefen'e-ta'' the