The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-04-15
From, the Daily Haa6k-Eye.
Letters from Washington.
~t WASHINGTON. April 8. ,5S,

DEAR HAWK EYE:-
l send you, to-day, some speeches on Kan
sas. among them, Chambers, Harlan's, Crit
tenden's, TrumbnlPs and Wade's. When you
have done with them, give them TO some Buch-
anan man, if there is one left in Io,ca: There
are none here but offic eholders who dare hold
up their heads and sHurrah for Old Buck"
But yesterday old Buck could stand before the
arorld, now, none so poor to do him reverence 7"
| The Administration is defeated on al, hands
Even the Southern Fire. Eaters are taking in
sail, and the Washington Union begins to see
that the 'anudsills' and the s'hireling slaves
of the North, the free white slaves" &C., are
getting uneasy. Connecticut has spoken. Gin
cincinnati, st. Louis, Dubuque, have spoken
in tones IF condemnation of this corrupt adj
ministraion louder than the mighty waters Of
Niagara.
The Administration of James Buchanan is
qnaking and trembling, and the future histo-
rian will refer to it as the most rascally. vii.
famous and corrupt that has ever been inflct-
ed upon the American people.
Trinity Of corruption! Well. thank God, the
American people are now speaking and act
ing, and on the sober second thought, they al
ways speak and act right.
The election ne~s of the last few days has
greatly dampened the hopes of the Lecompton
men. They are deserving the administration
with the intuitive sagacity with which rats are
endowed ina sinking ship. They are va'nos-
ing the rancho.
The Presidents late LEVEE was an in.
stance, and striking one, of this fact Very
few administration men attended it. The As
sembly was almost entirely composed of Re-
publicans aad Douglas Democrats. Tower
ing above all the throng was your Senator, the
Hon. James Harlan, who was accompanied
by his amiable and accomplished lady, and by
the charming wife of his cousin, the Hon. Mr.
Harlan, Of Ohio. These ladies' were present.
ed to Miss Lane, the niece of the President,
and seemed to enjoy themselves very much
Mrs. Curtis ard Mrs. Davis, the ladies Of
your two members. were also there. and sew
eral other Iowa ladies'. In fact, the ssLady
Delegation did honor to the glorious Hawk
eye state, and would loose nothing in COM
parison with that of any other in the UNION.
Old Buck looked haggard and careworn.
and, as he had just learned that the Rernbli-
can epidemic had made its appearance in
Connecticut, where he had cans ed thousands
Of dollars to be expended in order to ensure
the success of Lecompton, he was low spirit
ed and Responding.
II is stated that Senator Pugh assured the
President that Cincinnati was ssdead on Le-
compton," and would give 5000 democratic
majority, and that when the truth was told to
Buck, that the city had gone Republican bv
1900 majority, the old President DIDN'T
s,rear little"
The Kansas debate comes up in the House.
to-day. The Lecomptontes are doing every
thing to induce the weak and waveriug to
come up to its support. The most pteous APP
peals are being made to them to save the Ad-
minlstration from the humiliation of another
defeat. Power, patronage and rewards, are
freely and openly offered as brides to the
Northern dough faces. But the talismanic
word, "CONNECTICUT,:' will, it is hoped,
canse them TO stand firm
| do not yet learn that they have succeeded
| in inducing single man to change his vote.
Very respectfully, yours,
! ..... pANnny