The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1858-03-02
From our Washington COrrespon-
dent.
WASHINGTON, D. G., Feb. 81.

There is nothing trauspirlng at present
in our city worthy of any notice. The
Clay and Cullom difficulty having been
satisfactorily arranged has luieted all the
excitement in relation to that matter.
General Harvey and Colonel Summers
case will, in all probability, e2d in the
latter gentleman's being contaminated
and dismissed from the army.
Congress is still engaged in the discus
sion Of the, 1--WE fear,) never ending Kan
sas question. A subject which has cost
more money, more time and more hatred
and ill-feeling than any subject which has
been before the Congress OF the nation,
for many years, and how much longer
this question is to occupy the time, tai
ents and means of the government, it has
not entered into the heart Of man to
conceive
The Hon. Horace Greeley, Of the New
York Tribune. was examined before the
Tariff investigating committee on Satur-
day, in reference to the frauds, &c., per-
petrated by certain parties. There were
no facts elected by his examination.
Our higher circles are still engaged in
giving, las it would seem,) in their turn,
their usual weekly balls and hops. 1t
strikes us very forcibly that it would be
far better for these official dignitaries, in
stead of spending their means in such
short-lived amuscments, to appropriate
what is thus spent, in aiding the poor
starving, helpless widows and orphans,
whose name is legion, who can be found
in any numbers in our city. How much
calmer, how much mora resigned and
how much more peaceful would be the
slumbers of those persons who are SO
able to give, if, instead of eating. drinking
and being merry over the providence Of
that being who, in his wisdom, has so
beautifully blessed them, they would
strive to alleviate the wants of the poor,
cheer the widows heart comfort the faith
erless, feed the hungry and clothe the
naked then, instead Of hearing the mer-
ny song and dance of the sfashionables,"
we would hear the sweet merry, plain
tive and heavenly song of the orphan and
the prayers of the widows ascending in
thanks to him from whence all true COM
fort flows. More anon.
1t seems there is in our district no law
Of capital punishment hereafter to be ex-
ecuted We have had during the last
two years some eight or ten murders, and
from what cause we can hardly compre-
bend, all or nearly all Of them have been
acquitted. We believe that all of these
murders have been committed while I'M
der the influence of liquor. What themes
for friends Of temperance to speak upon,
and to hold up to the gaze Of the lovers of
rum, that fell destroyer of mans happi-
ness. Nell might the poet say
''Brandy, brandy, bane of life,
Spring of tumult and of strife;
Sooner than I'd with thee dwell
The wise would wish thee well in hell. ="
Everybody seems to be complaining
of the bad treatment received by them
at Richmond ON the 22d instant. And
from an article in your excellent Day
Book, we are led to believe our Wash
ingtonians are not the only persons who
received the Richmond chapter of Vir-
ginia hospitality lover the left.) :.
The negro woman who was hung in
Alexandria on Friday, just before being
executed made a full confession of the
, foul murder of her mistress, and stated
that she would not have done it had it
not been that she was under the inhu-
ence of liquor. Another victim of the
! DEVILS agent rum. She also stated that
her master and mistress were always
kind and humane towards her always
treating her with the greatest kindness
What commentary for those negro low
ing abolitionists who are always harping
on Southern slavery and Southern mas