Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-02-21
EDITORIAL Co rrcspondence.
Washington. FEB. 12, 1855.

in close ''cahoot' with Hon. A. R. Sol
lers. Know Nothing member of Congress
from Maryland. OF the conclusions ar
rived at, of course "know nothing"
The Know. Nothing Convention which
meets in Winchester on the 9th Of March,
will, imagine, settle the question as to
who will be the opponent OF Mr.. Wise.
By the way, it is somewhat unusual for
the politicians Of other States to take such
lively interest in the Virginia elections as
is at present manifested. There must. Of
course, be some cause for it. The only
explanation I have seen is that given by
the New York Herald, a paper most Gel
ebrated for its inconsistencies and its pan
behring's to popular prejudices. The Her
aid says that if the Know Nothings carry
Virginia next spring, they can elect their
President in 1856; but if defeated, their
prestige of inyincibility is destroyed, and
the discorlanl material Of which il il COM
posed will lose confidence in itself and
fall to pieces for want of some national
principle to unite upon. This appears to
me very rationa! conclusion, and pro6a-
bly accounts for the anxiety Of the secret
Order to carry our State by any means
whatever. So anxious is the editor OF the
Herald 20 90 this. that he has sent a pho
nographer into Virginia to furnish Gi>tort-
ed reports of Mr. Wisc's speeches. It
yet remains to be seen whether Virginia
will countenance this interference on the
welfare. and whose feelings are those Of
opposition to her institutions.
On the evening Of my arrival. with a
company composed Of three editors and 4
number Of other less distingui, he'd gen
temcn, such as members OF Congress, a
State Senator. y Western Virginia Sheriff
&c., attended the Presidents levee
there saw a number Of tie notablcs Of the
nation, ana a fine assortment OF handsome
dresser. My opinion or the superior beau
- Of our own ladies has not been changed
by my yisi! to Washington. The Presi-
dent received us with poIi!cncss and SUI
aYity that would have done honor to an
old Virginia gentlemen. HisSvisitors ap
peared to be free from MI formal restraints
and feel themselves perfectly at ease
The President looks ten years older than
he did two years ago. The cares and
PerplexitieS of the Presidential chair have
destroyed the physical constitutions Of MA
nv Of our best men, and the7 are increas-
ing every year. At about II o'clock The
crowd began TO thin off, ard we went with
the crowd.
| found our representative, Hon. G. S.
Lewis, "uD to his arm pits in documents,"
rs the editor Of the Staunton Vin.licu,ur
said. Being new member, and elected
for only the short session OF the present
Congress, he has devoted much Of Ills time
10 the wants Of his constituents Nor has
he been entirely unsuccessful in his Efforts
to serve them. Besides distributing in his
district an unusually large amount Of doc
uments, seeds, &C., he has procured the
dispatching Of two mail agents into it to
cndeavor to rectify the irreguIaritY of the
mails there. and is in fair way Of having
established mail route from Parkersburg
to Maysville in Kentucky. This will fill
a vacancy which has alone broken con-
tinuous river ronte from Pittsburg to the
mouth of the Mississippi.
Judge Campbell, of the Post Office De-
partment, enters cordially into any pro-
posed reform or improvement in his De-
partment; and, although he is one of those
odious Catholics we hear so much about,
(and the only one connected with the gov
eminent. believe, he is said to be the
best officer in the Cabinet.
Hon. Z. Kidwell, of the Fairmont Dis
trict, is another member who has labored
hard for his constituents, and who has
been remarkably successful. He com
mands the respect and enjoys the conf
dence Of both Houses Of Congress as we'll
as the Executive Departments, and can
probably, at this time. better serve his
district than any other person in it. II
hope he may be re elected
What the -Nothings will do in his
case I know not, nor what they can do, if
disposed. But as he is neither q foreign
.r nor Catholic, he cannot legitimately
come under the ban of their prescription;