New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-03-19
Aeh ORLEANS 1aiIp Grsstsnt.
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.

NAsHINGTOS, March 10, 1883
Editors Crescent: have made discovery which
you may laugh at, but about which am in very dead
earnest, as becomes a dscoyerer. have found that
meteoroogy and politics Identical sciences. The
latter can only be interpreted by the light Of the
former. As we had no true science of mind until
Gall and Spurzheim fumbled and mapped out the
skulls of the human race shall have science
of politics until the weather is reduced to the cond
tion of positivty and predictabe. And, as we now
know nothing about the weather, it follows that we
can't know anything about politics. Clear as mud,
amt it? Four or five days ago. Northern gentle
man by the name of Boreas, advanced in years and
much subject to atulence, took it into his head to
play the part of Panori and 0rsini, by planting his
windy petards under the six inches of dust with
which our streets are generally enveloped. For two
days the town was furiously blown up darkness and
dust covered the city ls with mantle. During the
days of these explosions it intensely cold Then
things softened, the thermometer rose from near
zero almost as high as the freezing point and FIVE
inches of fell. This was day before yesterday
Now the skies clear and bright, the air so sunny
and warm that l may write with my window up
Under foot all is slush and nasty puddes and streams
OF water. Isn't this as changeable the phases of
Lecompton? Verify, it may be said of Washington
weather and Of Kansas, as Mark Anthony said of
Cleopatra, " Custom cannot stale" their infinite
Variety
Since Seward and Hammond spoke in the Senate
we have been compelled to put up with the excretons
of some very small and exceedingly watery potatoes
Doolittle, for example, is intensely watery. Hamn
is less fluid but not potato of the first magnitude
care only to hear Hunter of Virginia. and Critten
den By the way, learn that the opinion enter.
tained here for many weeks past in regard TO the
position OF Gov. Crittenden the Kansas question
is altogether incorrect He does not side with Doug
las and the opposition, but with the Administration
Hunter looks like some of the stuff left over by
maker of walnut or mahogany furniture-as solid,
and substantial piece of timber as one would wish
to see. No outside varnish gloss about him. But
the most solid woods are susceptible of the highest
polish, and such is the case with the planlooking
Yirginian-only the polish is all inside. Any man
meeting Hunter in the road, would swear that he
owned grist and saw mill, and was accustomed to
the manipulation of saw logs with hand-stick He
is just the sort of man you would expect to find on
swaybelled mare with blind-bridle watching a
gang of negroes in a low.ground. But any man who
reads Hunters speeches would declare that be adds
to the scholastic learning of Everett the cabinet
genius of Hamilton and the philosophic scope of
Madison. Hunter has this decisive mark of great
mamie is always adequate to the occasion. His
late speech at Richmond upon a thread-bare topic,
and one which seemingly had been utterly exhausted
by the orator of Massachusetts, is almost miraculous.
doubt if any American Grafton ever uttered is supe-
rior to it. If Hunter will make such speech as
that on the Kansas question, both Seward and Ham
mond will be compelled to lower their crests in hom.
, age to him.
The majority reports of Green, from the Senate
3 and Stephens, from the House Committee on the
Kansas question, are highly complimented for their
ability l hope they very able, but upon my
word | am saturated with Kansas / can't hold
another drop. Green promises to bring this mattel
to a close in the Senate on Monday next but the op
position are determined to stave off the vote as long
. as possible-say, two months. Kansas is the only
capital they have left to trade on and of course they
are unwilling to part with it. There is some talk
renewing in the Senate the anight session that oc
Cured not long ago in The House, and gave rise tC
the immortal battle between Grow and Keitt. But
= this will hardly be done
Speechityng goes as of yore in the House. Those
who have heretofore exploded on Kansas now ex
pode on the Army bill, as proposed by Gen. Quit
man. The success of this bill is, now think quite
!, doubtful. l am told that the Administration are
bent upon having the regular army increased. Most
likely we shall have some startling statistics from the
Interior Department, and perhaps a special message
from old Buck. A gentleman, wel-infOrmed in such
matters assures that the extent of our frontier
{ the animOsty of the Indians, and the necessity o
protecting the great overland emigrant routes, de
mand imperatiVely standing army of at least Is O0C
men. The army is now less than 10000, scattered
here and there the Republic, particularly oyel
the western portions, leaving our Atlantic forts al
u most untenanted. There are 5000 men in Kansas
the best we have, picked men, most of them veterans
" and constituting in themselves an army second t.
: none we have ever had These must all go to Utah
forthe Mormons are going to fight provided they
don't, l beg you to enforce the act of limitations
y against every statement l make, because here il
$ Washington, and now much more than in the time.
of the Clay and Van Buren canvass, it may bC
affirmed that doubtful things are mighty unsarten.
y If shall ever be fortunate as to write you lette
4 embodying nothing but positive facts I'll take to
justice of the peace and swear to it cashier doe
p to his monthly account.
Some of the morning papers talk as if Mr.. Buch
anan contemplated early and decided action il
regard to Mexico. Per contra, have it from higl
authority that the Administration intends to pla,
+ hands Off recognize the governments dc facto AM
let things take their own course.
Among recent appointments, notice those o
Lous Palms. re-appointed Register of the Land offic
at New Orleans, and H. w. Palfrey, of your city, Re
ceiver of Public Money, reappointed Also, j. B
McClendon, of Greensburg, La, re-appointed Re
e ceiver. MALoU.