New-York daily tribune., 1856-05-24
INTERCEPTED LETTERS...No. y
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: -c..J Washington City WIZ the name SUGGESTS
g-eat mandatory Of little snd srea: f..h!o,,b,.
e,fu.s But this IS AZ error. Saving ant excepting
rl;,iesl ntrigues have nothing worth record 10
could give pages Il Yer! unhappy occurrences.
I'm, An pvnGpled against such epctles think ali
,,,ters should BE- more merry than sad. There i
rsbc. prepen.t in a melancholy efgson. when oue
,,x,op.. prepays and mails It 4 cool ua;ter-of "a. Z
rrbsppy litter should subject the writer to charge Of
uurder-a murder of pleasant feeln.-. We cannot
rsyurslhizing with and suacrin. over s.f events
which come Unexpectedly before us bu, wretch who
vii burt them up, drag them from their lurking.
places. pin them to paper for the purp-e Of enjoying
,ur suffering, siould be punished wtn death The
letter ough, to become dead letter.
lam peculiarly miserable this morning. For .nce
f., my M. have the Uues, and in spite Of my morsl.
zinc su sending them by mail to YOU. From the
Ls.yy vspoi- If the brain they streaming along
tho ,,u TO ,wi., their tails around every comma, AMI
,eep from behind every period. The day i beautiful.
The sun shines ws,m and bright upon the street, 40
ls,.lv washed by rsins-the merry belis gre ringing
Mi, from my window see the wide Potomac dotted
with white sais, that appear here and there a. II
,,ys,s of f,ecy cloud. were hoaiin; upon the blue
Io.rm Of an inverted sky. One should not be- uuhap-
,, IN .rcb moments a. this but have been listening
. 81
sr wears hss been knocking feebly at the iron dooN
Of our Capitol But shall reserve you this story,
and some Others of Ike character for the long Winter
evening" when We sre at home again
Washington knows a class of gentlemen connected
with the press and recognized as letter writers tha,
must tell you o. They are, it were, perambulatng
editors. men who live on events, news gatherers,
.naicherup Of ne, only irconsderae thes, but great
,J , tifnaa h,if
made M hating and deformed into tins gaping world
The hotels and halls of legislation are dotted with
them. The Departments, clo-ed like oyster shells to
all others are penetrated by them The State Depart
nert the little old brick building that exists mystery
TO the world s large has yet its secre, door, aud the
sur'y Secretary cen read in the morning papers the
dispatch from Central America, or Japan, or China,
which he hs- hardly had time to open and air. You
see them at their places pen in hand around the Hall
Of the House and in the tumult they recognise mean
ing and out of the confusion they gather order which
next day enghtens the world. Their industry, talent
and perseverance,, are wonuerinl. " ha' "ouIu He"'
paperdom be without them
| know a daily ,urral published in neighboring
cit, that La. feature snd almost the only feature in
the shape Of correspondence The letters are never
over four or five paragraphs in leogh yet in these lew
rap- are condemned the total of the worlds work
And for these the paper eagerly sought
for and widely circulated Only think OF 1t, three
hundred aud sixty five letters i'll year. yet no one let
ter without interest no one paragraph with false or
inaccurate statement. Do you know consider this
very wonderful, and night turned from number
If noisy politicians on hearing one say there
"go,s Ion Of The Sun" | saw tall slender gentle
man of orty-fve or thereabous whose clearly cut in
ellisent counenaLce did not solve the mystery how
Z -. ,,l,t IA STR he enuli dali
thrash FIVE grains of fact Another orrtspondent-I
have spoken Of him a. tie youihtu-s the companion
Of ,tateem,n and the corfdart Of Authors, and IN
knowing him one has the advantage of coming IN con-
tact with briHiant of the diplomatic school Since
you so indscreey publish my letters consider mysef
one Of this cass and could l pages with accounts Of
those know. But must resist the temptation.
II will not do to trust too implicitly all that these
G, c,ntemen may tell you, political intelligence of the
latest date and most confidential character. They are
quizzers Of the most INSCRIPTIONS sort ard unhappy
yerdancy who comes to Washington, with mouth and
ears open. finds himself but too often disposed of at
very low rates For instance, and Illustrative OF this
humor ! saw in the reception room of our hotel the
other day fat, little man. with bslustrade legs IN
small clo,hes and asked literary friend wlo was
the strange gentleman and he told me with much
gravity that it was Padre VIII, Euvoy Extraordinary
aud Minister PleDipoteDtiary from fighting Nicaragua.
"Sydpey Webster" he continued, ." the Presidents
Private Secretary was sent to NewYork il search OF
minister and told not to return without one sydney
secured the services of Senator Sickles and Consul
Saunders, and the three together found the Paare,
ceiling hut in a little corner store
What singular story-well, is the new Minister
satisfactory
Not entirely. Governor Marcy says the Padre Is
10 true Minister Of any sort-that he has boush
apples him frequently swears terribly that hthe
Padre at one door he will go out at t1e other'
To tel you the truth confdenslly the Padre i' an
Italian, ard never saw Nesragus in his life Marcy
has Lot much political wisdom, but hi- sagsely te
uepdous. He smoked Syds Padre in two 'nufi'
- don't believe one word you are telling NE Now
honor brght, Is that tie new Minister
! May be made proof,reader to The CHioH tha'
is not and that elongated agony by him Il the Ss'
rtary Of Legation. His story Is very re'narxao.e
He comes Ct poor hut respectable parentage - N
deed, s.lfmade msn-haying been first observer a.
the companion 10 blind b. ggsr. lrdeed, he earred
aTouud the hat sDd put solemn, pteoa' expression
OF c0uLtenarce that IN time, came 10 be his hStula'
look. Tie intense gravity OF phH attracted te 'e'u
It's, AID he was lrcAo;td to the porito oi sexton
aid iose TO the dign.t. of assistant cook
- How YOU are qu;kzng me with 81 It's nonsen1e
&" an telling ycy facts nevertheless. Ihe Padre
to-day Las al interview with james Buchanan oil
Pennsylvania am sent for to act ar one OF the re-
rorteis. BY the by, did you witness Jeen7 8 en-
Tee ito Wsshir gton /; was impressive. Pennsy!'
yaI.as ayorie sCr declined hack, and escorted oy
lis Cabinet Numbering one hundred aud threel and
al tie full missions. marched in solemn procession to
the hotel Don,lss car-it .ieht Of the affair. IS L
cane slowly along .nd ssd, funeral, by.
won't s.y ,ha, bad rord-bui the lon.hesded stephen
usss forcible expressions.