New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-03-04
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS.
wAsHrNaros. Feb. "a. ]


WASHINGTON, Feb. "a, 1858.
"From plague, pestilence and famine fires, battles
murders, and from sudden death, good Lord deliver
u.s." Something to this effect occurs in the Litany
and is emiuently applicable to the present time But
the good Lord appears to pay very little attention
this prayer which comes in the regular order of Sun
day business in the Epscopalian churches. Dr. Cum
mings, the highpriest Of Episcopacy in this city,
must have failed to utter It last Sunday with bis
usual JUNCTION, for about that time, in honor, sup
pose of the 22d of February the internal regions APP
pear to have really popped, letting out the Black
| Republicans below en- masse upon us.
We have had wars and riinors of wars, challenges,
postings, dues, halfway duels, Standings and shoot
ings in great abundance with the usual allowance of
fires and simple bunging rows. The town is de-
termned to follow the hallowed example recently set
by the House Of Representatives inasmuch that the
chances are small indeed for the existence of single
human being within the corporate limits at the close
of the session, which, by the way is likely to last
until August. Happily the deaths have as yet been
confined exclusively to the bhoy sphere-a region so
greatly oversocked that few hundreds of assassina
tons there would be matter of no consequence even
to Mr.. Toots
Clay and Cullom have given us more trouble than
all the rest "Why don't they fight and be done with
it is the cry of the town. exasperated by false re-
ports. Up to the time of the present writing nothing
definite has been heard from them. | learn that a
proposition for adjustment was submitted to Clay and
refused A fight, 1t seems cannot be avoided.
Harvey and Sumner will make nothing OF their
Affair." The posting of Boutwell, by Rhnd resulted in
the arrest of the latter. Bell shot Williams down
through the hat and Williams reservng his fire. Zero
cously shot ball into the harmless bosom of Mother
Earth the parties made friends, and there the mat
ter ended and So for the present concludes one half
dozen tragedies
You will recolect that sometime ago / mentioned
the murder in Georgetown Of little schoolboy. The
pleasant Thug Gone oge by name) who perpetrated
this crime, has been on trial during the past two
weeks and this is the eighth ninth day since the
jury took the case in hand and agreed to disagree,
on, we are nice tea-party-we Washingtonians.
strange letter appeared few days ago in the
National lntelligencer purporting to come from
Clarke county Virginia, and addressed to Hon. VIM.
h. Seward. The gentleman from Clarke county has
the audaety to say that he admlres Seward because
iorsooth he IS the apostle otthe higher law and the
first, great exemplar OF Christian craftsmanship He
begs Mr. Seward, whom he believes to be sincere in
heart and pure of purpose not to restrict slavery to
-
reasoning, attempts to prove to him that it would be
impious, inhuman and unwise so to do.
An apologist of the higher law in Virginia What
history has this letter-wrter perused that he does
not know how fatal every attempt to wed religion
and politics has proved? But to believe that Seward
is Christian and the first Christian statesman! This
is funny The alarming thing is this Here is a
well-informed man in Virginia who gives up the con-
test as between the North and South in respect Of
slavery and goes deliberately to begging Mr.. Seward
to please not to compel to keep our slaves cribbed
cabined and confined within the States, but to let
them go wherever they please or in other words to
permit another slave State to come into the Union
Yes, It has come to this We beg an enemy, whose
eminence is due to his hatred of u.s. to give us aims
And what aims Our rights
The imbroglio springing up in Mexico in regard to
Church property which had been confscated by the
previous Administration, and largely bought OF by |
American citizens will afford Mr.. Buchanan an excel
lent opportunity to interfere and carry out, in part
his Ostend Manifesto, "cession or SEIZURE" pro-