New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-18

redOubled force to the army Of Ofice-hoiders neto
at Washington. You can have no conception OF inc
state Of things here since the shrek Tor Wa"s
came echong over the Northern hills from Maine,
When the election news from Iowa came '"' '"''
said, in the language of Saturnius:
...-r "Now begin our to approach
Soon after was heard the booming gun iroih 'ei'
mont, and then il appeared fhst ,.,,. q, hs,
zone never comes I but orne. q" NC"
an, cn,,es The news from Maine; and it is
clear that ~. ,.,.
... But in bstsllons"
Old Titus AndrOnicus says: -. .,
as not my sorrow deep having no bottom r
Yes we hear nothing hut notes OF
~ - Moody and dull melanchoy,
Kinsman TO grim and comortless despair
But it is not in the power of poetry to depict
%he;r feelings. IL would do you good to 60 about
Ws,bingtoi. as / have done for the last two days,
and see the change that has been wrought in the
minds Of the unwearied Treasury cubs who pull at
the nursing fountain-head of patronage, power and
plunder. One-and q native OF Virginia, too, by
thunder l--whO one week since, perfectly secuted
the idea Of Fremont being elected, has called on
friend of mine--nOt an Office holder, but " Black
Republican "-and told him that he felt decidedly
moved by the spirit within him (the Maine election
news y to wish for FremODts election, and he
wished to have his position noted down; so, when
he was elected, my friend must stand by him and
zee that he was not turned out of office o, Nir-
are thy sons degenerated IF this is doubted, can
rire The mans name. Two mOre-natives of
the same State-were heard, not two weeks
ago. TO say that SOutherner, no Pr-
Rimian, with particle OF senresPect or
patriotism, could accept office under Fremont,
II he were elected. Two days ago, on beng spoken
70 about it, they denied, in presence OF the very
gentleman that heard them, ever having made the
remark. Perhaps VRGINIANs wouldn't hold Office
upder Fremont. AS classic friend OF mine re-
marked when he heard of this great reluctance of
4. the 'chivalrOus to serve under such leader, II
Fred. Douglass were the President, and all the Of
fees under his gift were ten times multiplied, they
could be every one filed by the lazy genteel of that
broken-down Commonwealth, and then the unsatis-
fed crowd behind-whO, like Oliver Twist, would
CRY for "more would look like an immense
birds nest in June, with the hungry hedglings
gaping for worms
heard a Buchaneer office-hOder this day, in
presence of several gentlemen say if he were
to be deprived of his Office, in case of Ere
mOnt's election, he didn't care how soon the
Union was dissolved As / feel in rather
pOetical mood to-day, let me make bit OF prOph-
ecy 1 will take well-knOwn and now popular
quotation, and imagine that sixty days have passed,
and then the poetry will become history. This in
the mean time, will do justice to Tom Campbell,
the original author Of the shrek for freedom" I
make a slight alteration in the names, to adapt it
to the present period, and you will imagine it
spoken by despairng Virginan, just after the
ides of November:
Hope for awhile babe the "Rufisns farewell;
For FREEDOM sHRiEKED and Old Buchanan fell!
saw the dapper little fellow Campbell
"Jeames," not Tom, this time--to-day, and he
was holding a brother in affection by the arm
really did not hear their conversation; but |
imagined from the "windy suspiration of forced
breath" the fruitful river in the eye" the de-
jected haviOr of the visage," and other "f0rms,
modes and shows of grief" that they
Had that within which pssscth show
the outward appearance only exhibiting
"The trsppings and the suite of Woe"
I fancied the Judge was rehearsng the part of the
Duchess in Richard H.:
"Cal 1t not patience Gsunt; it il despair"
Yes, said the other, probably, the messenger
did to Warwick, near the field of TOwton: Our
% hap is loss our ranks are broke, and ruin follows
"us.t'
You may think am in a sngularly imaginative or
poetical mood to-day. If so, it is because of the
poverty Of my in being entirely unable to
do justice to the state of feeling here at Washing
ton. Little did that corporal's guard under Jimmy
Polk think what they were about when they were
Court Martialng Fremont. 1T was like the Judge
6nng General Jackson 81 200 for prOclaiming mar
tial law at w-Orleans; and 1t 'cM hare similar
,ssHlt.
These precious Democrats at this trial, when
fbey prudged the hard-earned aurels that had been
40 CALAMITY won by the young Lieutenant, should
have been advised-nOW please excuse one more
auOtatiOn-as Norfolk advised the Duke of Buck
ingham in the contest with Cardinal Wolsey:
" Be sdvsed
Heat not furnace for your foe so hot
o. That 1t do SINCE yourself"
In addition to the lesson read on the faces of the
present pOssessOrs of power, one cannot help
noticing the debauched state of society here at
Washington. mean more particularly that
snental poison that rufian rule has sent through
all classes here An instance Of it occurred to me
but short time since. A yOung lady with whom
Twas conversing-a member of an +. +. V.-tOd
me she was walking on Pennsylvania avenue in
company with gentleman, when one Of those brrl-
tai assaults occurred that Washington has been
90 famous for during the reign of the
present dynasty. This assault nothing but a
Southern % Democratic M. &. knocking down a
Northern editor 1t occurred within few feet of the
young lady, she witnessing it all She said she knew
co the gentleman by her side being personal friend
of the gentleman who assaulted she instantly
cried ont, after Tie ,cos knocked dorm, " Hit him
again. Tssked her how she could do such thing?
She said she thought such Northern Abolitionist de-
eerved it, or words to that effect This said to
while she knew stood on precisely the political
ground Of the Northern Abolitionst in question In
The veins of this young lady flows the blood of of
The highest and gentest and most renowned of Vir-
gnias statesmen. Is there not something in these
times akin the period when Rome corrupt that
The Eternal City, with all it's vast population and wealth,
could neither Withstand the legion Of corrupt rulers
we bad change
FROM PENNSYLVANIA.