Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-01-07

Spirit OF washinston Letters.
The correspondent Of the New York En-
qxirer says:
Walker is recognized as the only acciden-
tai leader of the snti-Nicaragua move
ment. The distinguished men under
whose auspices the late Expedition was de-
spssched. have no confidence in his capacity.
They saw he has perseverance, and that
sort of romantic attractiveness Of character
which enables him to collect a company of
adventures and make sudden descent
but he is wanting in the qualities requisite
for the government of an army and the
conduct of a campaign. The fight of the
Fashion was precipilated by his fear that he
would be superseded in the command by
the General Committee which furnished
the means and assumed the right to control
the movement.
The same correspondent, @Inspector,"
speculation upon political matters thus:
An agreeable social and political ban
quet was given by Francis P. Blair, at his
residence Of Silver Spring on Friday last,
to Hon. n. P. Banks, Preston King. Judge
Trumbull, Senator Doolittle of Wisconsin,
F. P. Blair jr, and many other prominent
members of the Republican party in Con-
gress. Important political measures are
often conceived and arranged at these fes-
tive meetings. It was at Silver Spring, in
the Winter of 1856, that the the nomina-
ton of Col. Fremont was settled. Parties
are forming their plans already for 1860,
which is but two years distant. The pre-
iiminary movements of the Republicans are
of the most public interest. because they are
the party which will succeed in 1s6O.-
Col. Benton says that the chasm in the
Democratic party cannot possibly be closed
or bridged, and that the Replbl cans can
only defeat themselves by gross mistakes.
The Republican candidate for 1860 will
be taken from the circle of these names:
Mr.. Seward, Col. Fremont, Gov. Banks,
Gov. Chase, Gov. Bissell.
Senator Douglas or Gov. Walker will
probably be the candidate of the Barnburn-
ers or Free Soil Democracy, and President
Buchanan will necessarily be re-nominated
BY the Administration PARTY. This latter
result will be brought about by the smo.h-
cred rivalry Of Messrs. Wise and Hunter,
and the struggles for ascendency between
Jefferson Davis and Robert Poombs. -
The correspondent of the n. Y. Tribune
says (29th):
Capt Van Vliet brought dispatches
from Kansas this morning, but with no ad
ditional information. If the slavery clause
has been voted into the Lecompton Con-
stitution, the Administration has been
deceived by Calhoun, Henderson, Martin,
and other emmissaries, who were instructed
to produce different result, and who rep
resented that it had beon secured on this
presumption. The next move here by the
Northe, friends Of tie Administration will
be the repeal of the Nebraska bill, as hav-
ing failed in its professed design, and then
the passage Of an enabling act.
The correspondent of Forney's Press
says:
The Union is publishing letters from
distinguished sources in the West" to
show that the Lecompton swindle has sup
porters in that region. 1t makes but a
poor showing even in this stale trickery.-
Judge Douglas can array not less than
eight hundred letters per day from the
rurest source of popular opinion, which are
poured in upon him from every quarter, en-
dorsing and applauding his course. 1t will
show the strength and sinceritity of the
feeling in this behalf that many of his cor
respondents who hold Federal Offices Not
few of these letters are from the South,
great many from the interior of counties of
New York and Pennsylvania, but most of
them are from the great West. You are
right in saying that the South is far from
being unit in favor of the Lecompton in
iquity.
The correspondent ofthe N. Y. Express
says:
L really was in hopes Mr.. Buchanan's
Administration would have been success
ful one, and that it would, at any rate, |
have settled all existing local questions,
but am now convinced that his admins
tration is destined to be signal failure, far
worse than that of Mr.. Pierce. Among
his nominal and apparant warm supporters
in both Houses. and who publicly speak
for and defend him, there exist great
discomfort and disappointment. They
give utterance to their feelings quietly
among themselves, and to their immediate
confidential friends, and some of them
know are getting very bitter and will prob
ably not ahold their peace" much longer.
Mr.. Buchanan is evidently not the man for