New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE CAPITAL IN JUNE-THE PROSPECT
FOR KANSAS-DUNN.
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WAsnINGTon, Wednesday, Jace IS, 1856.
From New-York to Wssoips too--tnm tho Park
to the Cspih,l-is Long step; and thosxh tskea
in Summers hight, It leaves feeling Of eKhsast
and WEAKNESS behind it. l DEFY any msu 70 dis.
cover or invent, anywhere on the Goosst .si. two
hundred ard thirty miles Of railroad travelling BY
night 90 thoroughly di.taste'ul as tent svet 'hs
resular route frUm the commercial to tho %. ~,
emporium Of our Union. Three grest ris =. e. BE-
crossed by ferry boats; two great cities to e.
from end to emo in special conveyances; five or ii:
different conductors - be satisfied OF the exisssoce
and gepuipeness Of your tickets you can hardly sink
into browse before lantern is flashed 10 Our eyre
and you are summoned to "show your tickets,"
or q draw bridge is let down and you are urged to
step aboard" or an omnibus stage or car is dog
cried sid you are required to get 10 and ride
through a city. When shall We have through
railroad, passing from Bangor to Washington just
porh of all the great board cities. crssiog the
rivers on bridges, and lettiog weary pssseoger
doze and dream, when Lot obliged to wake and
think, from the fenVbscot to the Potomac, and as
much further az you please
Two months have passed since I LETT this
wordy Capitol the trees then in bud are now in
glorious foliage; the Representatives. Hall. then
traped in wot len. has taken on its Sun mer gsrn-
ture of cooler mating; but the ciink Of the stone
cutters hammer still resouuds on either ride. a.
the costly ard wssseful Capitol wings are slowly
constructed believe those wings viii cost DOT
lees than Five Millions Of Dollars sum which
would have made first rate Military. Post aud Emi-
grant Road from Missouri to tho Sscrameuto--aud
which ia as utterly squstdered here - If II had bsen
thrown into the sea. doubt that the Capitol will
even be improved in appearance BY its w,ogs while
it is certain that the greatly increased distance be-
tween the two Houses will be q serious inconve-
pience to all concerned
But the House itself-the moral and inteec
tusl, not the material party-has changed scarcely
at all sirce left it latt In tn chair still site Mr..
Banks, dispatchpg business in his prompt. quick.
decided way, whenever the Members will lot him
on the Administration side Mr.. Grow stauds pour
ing the fundamental axioms Of the Declaration OF
the pla.oons of shareholders who Immediately sur
round him; while from the center OF the Wing
side the radiant face and keen eyes of Georgia
Stephens attsntively regard him These three
pames and their wesrers are indices Of tho
great revolution silently concentrating itself
in our polltlcs-BaDks and Grow, the young ohevs-
liers of Eastern and Northern Democracy, trained
to regard Wing as an enemy to Freedom. now
presiding over AID leading an Opposition House;
while Stephens, but yesterday Wing leader and
one of the ablest and mot unspariug opponents Of
the Democratic party and policy, nov from the
center Of the Wig side Of the Hall, shapes and
guides the action of what from habit and policy
sul calls itself the Democratic party.
Another word was needed to make the spell
complete, and this was supplied to-day. Mr.
George G. Dunn, Kentucky Wing BY birth. an
Indiana Wig by emigration, who for weary, anx-
ious weeks DISTRACTED the organization Of the
House. On grounds osteosibly of personal objection
10 Mr.. Bsnks-or rather. to the manner Of
his prestn tment for the Speakership-and who
has sipce evinced in various ways u spirit OF
bitter, implacabIe hostility to the Re-
publican party, its candidates, and its sscen.
]ancy-tOdsy for the first time broke ground
openly and bitterly against the admission Of Kan
las under her Free-State Constitution. He Of
course accompanied this demonstration with all
manner of professions of deyotedness to the cause
Of Free Territory; but these will deceive no one
y no does not wish TO be deceived. Dunn has been
driven by bis head. strong temper, mortified vanity
md disappointed ambition into the rsnks Of the
.llis and supporters Of the Slavery Ex.ensionists
md Border Ruffians, whose basest journey
= ork be will do hencefor'h to the end Of bis po-
iticsl life. He can only do this effectively BY
prete pdiDg still TO love the cause he Is
working COY and night to crush, just as Benedict
Arnold pretended sill 10 love the cause Of Ameri
AN liberty after be had deserted the army Of
Washington for the camp of Sir Henry Clinton and
ritd to surrender West Point to the British invad-
era; but h.nceforth Dunn will do his utmost to
lefeat the Republicans at every point and secure
he election Of Buchanan though to that cod he
nay find it polite to support Fillmore or profess to
AXE no part in the Presidential contest.
Mr.. Dunn to-day gave notice that he should en-
leavor to sebd the bill, admitting Kansas a. Free
State, to ae Committee Of the Whole "a step at
bis stage Of the session equivalent to sending 1t to
Coventry or the Tomb Of the Capulets. Nobody
will pretend that bill, strenuousy opposed as this
will be, could be got out of that Comm tee this
ession. Neither is there a shadow of reason for
I, wing this bill such direction. 1t is Sd ,rt and
nipple, makes no appropriation; follows Tin all its
etails) established precedents; and presents but
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