Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-12-06
NUMBER %.
Washington Correspondence.


The near approach Of Congress has brought
hither, as usual, not only the Members the
two Houses. but large concourse Of Office
hunters. Congressional hsngers-Ca. claim
agents and strangers. Our hotels ara nigetly
crowded, and tbs electioneering for the sea-
eral offices to be filled by the House is now
the order Of the day Every candidate, sur
rounded by his host of friends who hope TO
get places by their efficacy and zeal for their
fayorte, is doing his best 10 convince the
members as they arrive, that he, par ezeekietae
Is the very man for the place. II is really
amusing to witnnss these billings and cooings
Vsrios@ are the ooniectures indalged as to
AM over sangains frisnds predict gctzt scenes
OF disorder and stile in the oFgAnizafa,n Of
tbs House, nsd the xtiinate sfreess-st the
see xSes 6e ss sue 5SisiT g -5Fsr s.,s e.
ftacles. After a cnreful and tho-orgh irves-
tigation Of the politics Of all the members
elect, cannot see any probability Of Cur
success. The Democratic force proper may
reach 85 votes, lacking % votes OF majority
Suppose 70 this should be added the South
ern X. Ms which these sanguine friends,
with a knowing wink, assure us will be driv-
en- to the support of our candidates, and yet
We are in a minority Of eleven votes. The
contest for Speaker in the opposition ranks is
all in fog. One day Campbell stock is up;
the next below par. Bank of Massachusetts,
appears to be the favorite nag at this wri-
ting, but to morrow he may be below par
The truth is, there is nothing fixed about
Speaker. There is NO one of their candi-
dates towering SO much over the Others as TO
point him out as unmistakably the will-be-
candidate. For Clerk, il is conceded on all
hands that Gen. Cullom, Of Tennessee, a de-
feated candidate for Congress in his District,
at the last election in that State, viii be the
successful man. And yet he declares his de-
termination to 60 into the House as the cRndi-
date of no party and of no caucus. Know
Nothingism and Black Repnblicanism stink
so badly in the nostrils even Of many of the
men elected by their joint forces, that that
shrewd politician, Gen. Cullom. prefers 10 go
into the House without the smell of either
upon his garments. Nathan Sergeant will be
the X. n. candidate for Clerk, is the talk all
round town. One thing alone is clear, that
| there is no common basis upon which these
men can stand but opposition to the Demo
cratic party. Upon the platform Of Know
Nothngism they would show most misera-
bic minority. Upon the principles of Black
i Repul-licanism they would be easily defeat
ed. There is no bond OF Union between
them, save opposition to the Democratic par
ty, and the hope, on its downfall, of clutch
ing the spoils Of Office. But they will find
chat the downfall Of the Democratic party Is
a calamity which they will never live TO wit
ness. For the present. that glorious old
party may show a small aud feeble host in
the next House, and the surges of Know
NotLingism and Black Republicanism may
break over it, but it will rise again and dash
these pestiferous factions to pieces, with the
power and the majesty Of its ancient prowess
Hons. Jesse ID. Bright, and >. Brenton. Of
the Fort Wayne District, are the only Con-
gressmen from Indiana who have arrived
here The former gentleman ssic~s fresh and
vigorous. The summers farming has agreed
we'll with him, il appears.
The little speck Of war;" which clouded
the horizon for some time past, has alnos,
blown over, but the last dispatches from Mr.
Buchanan have revived it. 1t tappesrs that the
! English Government has not been as candid
and as frank in the matter appertaining TO
Mr.. Crampton's conduct as the circumstances
of the case required. But there will be no
war. PICK.