Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1857-02-03
Notes from the National CAPITAL.

Correspondence Of the New York Daily News.l
WAsHINGToN, Friday,Jan. 10, 1s57.--My pre-
dictions in regard to the investigating Commit
tee are verified so far. The Lieutenant Gov
ernor was perfectly mum when they got him
before it. He did not very likely know any,
thing, but affected to know a great deal and de-
clined to tell it. The House has no power to
compel a witness to disgorge, though if a wit
ness is cognizant of matters and will not di-
vulge them, he is presumed TO be a p~aTticeps
criminiS-an actor himself in the questionable
actions. So that the Lieutenant Governor Of
New York has either to admit that what he
wrote was sound and fury, signifying nothing;
or else that it being true, and the New York
Times involved in it, he was afraid to tell it for
fear Of eliminating himself.
This way that editors have Of throwing them
selves back upon the freedom OF the press, has
but little merit in a case like this. Where the
public morals are affected, and the disease is
known. it should be disclosed and eradicated.
That man casts dlsrepute on the position Of an
editor, who continues to mask dark and cor
rnpt things conts ined in inuendoes behind the
freedom of the press. Tn freedom of the
press justihes no concealment whatever of ras-
cality.
The Washington correspondent Of the Times
will also be before the Committee tomorrow.
Tie scene will be thus
Mr.. Kelsey: Mr.. s., what do you know,
Sir, appertaining to the investigation this com
mitttee is directed TO makep
Mr.. s.: / decline to answer, Sir.
Nr. Paine's testimony, as l said before, will
BIZ al that will touch the point.
Mr. Whitney, OF your city, is right in his op-
position to The move to permit the United
States Minis to engage in the manufacture Of
medals Tor other than Government purposes.
The u. 5. Government is already doing too
much to cripple The energies ~ lie genus Of
the artisans of the couE-r.
Now, f~orsoo5a, IF proposes to interfere with
the citizens this country who are engaged
in making medals, to take the bread out Of
their mouths and give the work to the MINIS,
in order that Uncle Sam may pocket the profits.
To make Uncle Sam the manufacturer Of med
ais and enter into competition in the market
against private enterprise, is wrong.
The Hon. Lawrence NJ. Keitt, of South Car
olina, delivered a speech to-day, marked by
great ability, in defense of slavery. Mr.. Keitt
is a peculiarly eloquent man. His oratory is
in the style Of the nervous emphatic. His Ian
guage is chaste and He seems to
have a dialect Of forcible words which are
used by him alone.
can say on the best authority that no man
up to this day has a sure thing of a place in
the Cabinet. Mr.. Buchanan has not made up
bis mind as to a single appointment. Do not
be surprised that one entirely new from any
that has been surmised, will be the Cabinet. /
know what | am talking about. To use a
sportsman's phrase, 4" there will be an entirely
new shuttle of the cards." The Cameron cleo
ton in Pennsylvania will have no little to do
with it.
Barlow's rifle cannon, to test which Con-
gress made an appropriation, has arrived
here. A carriage is being constructed for it,
when it will be fully tested. This cannon will
carry a ball with the same proportionate effect
and distance to one carried by the ordinary
cannon as the Mimic rifle does to the old mus
kst. The balls are to be loaded, and having a
cap on the end, which, on account Of the pre-
cision with which the rifle motion sends it, is
first to come in contact with the object, and eX-
ploding, bursts the ball, and DESTROYS every
thing within reach Of it. It's inventor is an
old Kentucky gunsmith named Barlow, who
invented the PlanetaTian, a thing, previous to
his conception of it, declared by the astronom-
ical world impossible.
Among the prominent Democrats now in this
city is Mr.. John Blair Hoge, Of the Virginia
House of Delegates. Mr.. Hoge is one of the
most efficient champions Of Democratic princi-
Piles in the Old Dominion.
The friends Of Mr.. Buchanan are about to
erect a large ball room in Judiciary Square
90 by 225 feet, and a supper room % feet by
IT, same length, for the Inauguration bali.
Parties at a distance who wish to obtain tickets
in time should write at once to the Chairman
Of the Committee of Arrangements. 1t will be
a grand affair.
Mr.. Bates, the new Senator from Delaware,
is expected to arrive here tomorrow, TO sup
plant Mr.. Comegys. Mr.. Green, of Missouri,
will also be here in a few days, to take his
seat.
The Revolutionary Pension bill is exciting
great opposition, and it is a matter of conside-
rable doubt whether it will become a law this
session Or not.
The Hon. J. C. McKibben, member elect
from California, is here. He is a remarkably
fine looking man.
A large delegation of California Democrats,
headed by John Nugent, will attend the inau-
guration, and form an interesting feature in the
procession. 1t is said they will appear on
horseback. GALGlENSUS.
~ One Of the most prominent Israeiises
in New York, Samson Simson, died on Wednss-
day last.
R A norton of the gas works a. Muir !