Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-11-22
Special correspondence Of the " Y. Daily Times.
Matters ct washington

WASHINGTON, Wednesday Nov. IA, 1855.
The failure eject the FIVE defeated Democrat
&c candidates for Congress in Maryland is equal
to loss of ten to that Party in the organization
OF the House, for they were reckoned upon with
confidence bordering upon certainty. The
Administration and the Democracy will be able
to muster "a members, and it is announced by
the Union amidst a flourish of noble sentiments
which would put Joseph Surface to the blush,
that this Spartan band will defy the enmity and
scorn the assistance of all opposing parties
This number is perhaps plurality over any 9TH
er distinct organization in the House. We shall
have Republicans, Old Wings, and Know Moth
ings who will divide among them the other $50
members. l have no doubt that the plurality
rule will be resortcd TO, and thus it is obvious
that no fraction goes into tho House with the
power to give law to the others, either in the
mode of carrying out it's own purposes with the
strong arm or by compelling the divided MAORI
ty to sacrifice their principles for the votes OF the
minority In the contest for the speakershIp,
the Republicans will start with the advantage of
deep conviction and perfect disinterestedness.-
A very large m aority of the Northern Know
. Nothings are enthusiastic Free-SoilerS. They
must come to the Republicans rather than per-
init the Democrats or the Philadelphia Platform
ists-the sectional Pro-Slavery faction-to pre-
vail. But the chance is equal that the Southern
Know Nothings and some of the old line Wings
of whom there are 8 or 10 fragmentary individu-
ais will unite with the Administration Democrats.
This latter combination would command from
1l2 to liz members, and has, therefore, one
chance out of 234 ofsuccess.
The candidate of the ow-Nothings proper
will probably be Mr.. Haven, of Buffalo. Hon.
l.. ID. Campbell Of Ohio, has great influence
among Wings, Republicans and Know-Nothings
with Free Soil tendencies. lie would not, I'M
der any circumstances, get one vote from the
South. Mr. Richardson, of Illinois, Ex-Speaker
Cobb of Georgia. and Col Orr, of South Carroll
na, continue the most promising candidates on
promise arrangement be made which will give
the Democrats a complete victory. The Speak
ersbip is all they want and they will barter off
anything and everything to keep the Repub-
cans from any share of the Offices and honors of
the House. The Clerkship and public printing
will be the fulcrun on which they will rest their
levers; and, as thirgs at present appear the Know
Nothings and the old Wings are the parties whom
they will most seek to oblige in the distribution
they may be compelled TO make. Gen. Cullon,
OF Tennessee, is now spoken of for the printing
or the Clerkship; it being understood that if the
designs of the Democrats the Speakership
shall be successful, they will submit to Mr.. Cul-
loms choice of either of these next most coveted
positions Mr.. Wilson, late Commissioner of
the land office, will be supported for Clerk by the
more Democratically inclined Know Nothings,
and by the Hard-She Democrats Gen Cass is
his patron and friend, and had the influence to
keep him two years and half at the head of the
most important bureau in the Administration,
though we'll known as 4 Wing and Know Moth
ing