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WEDNESDAY, MORNING, APRIL II, 1855.
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
wasursasos, March IA, 1855
Eds Cnesoent: murrain on this Kansas w
we never hear the last Of il Twill it never cease
nauseate the nation 1t seems so. wish II was
mo, not IN -, but in Utah. Perhaps Kans
might eat Utah up. aud then Utah eat Kansas up Q
II that Is Impossible perhaps the two cancers mig
neutraline caeh other, and the body polite becou
sound once more
Mcssrs. Green. Hunter and Seward have been Al
pointed by the Senate as a Committee of Conference
Whom the House will appoint is not yet known
expect they are wranging over the matter today
Foadly do wish them happy issue out OF their in
frmities, but fruly do not expect il. The Hous
vii. not come over to Lecompton. nor can the seBat
come over to Crittenden. When Old Buck was tolt
that be favored the crtsenden amendment, and ex
pected the Senate 70 yield, am told that be said
whoever said 80, told did lie.n My informant
forgot that ola Book is Presbyterian, and cannot
swear.
The probability is that Kansas will remain a Ter
rifory We have last discovered that she has only
10000 inhabitants, and remembered to forget that
California had no more when she came in as State.
with retentive memory
Par ezanple Gov. Smith asserted that the Illinois
elegation at The beginning Of the session. had eau
cused themselves into the conclusion that 1t was in.
cumbent upon Douglas to oppose Lecompton. Else
the Little Giant must lose his seat in the Senate
beautiful development. But this is not ALL 1t has
leaked cut that last summer, while Douglas was in
Cincinnati, he called at the office Of Senator Pugh.
DflgI lad
sas and asked Douglas how he expected the troubles
there TO be remedied Every easily, qnoth the Little
Giant "0aly the slavery clause Of the Lecompton
Consultation will be submitted to the people that
will, Of course, be voted down, and Kansas will
come into the Union under the Lecompton Constitu-
tion, without the least trouble in the world
Pugh was 30 certain that Douglas said this that he
told several Of his friends about it the next day.
They now cofroborate his statement. Nay. Pugh
went 30 far as to make this same statement in
Speech He believes further that there was witness
present 10 bis Office when Douglas made the assertion
about the slavery clause Things remained in this fix
until the meeting Of Congress, when, for the first
time, and to bis great establishment, Pugh heard of
Douglas change Of position. He went TO him,
asked him the meaning Of it, and reminded him OF
the conversation which had occurred in his (Pughs)
Office. Douglas was profoundly ignorant Of it all
no such conversation had ever occurred. Pugh then
called upon the witness. who either was or was sup
posed to be present. Witness had never heard word
Of it before But il turns out that this witness is
gentleman who frequents Mr.. Douglas house every
night.
So Senator Pugh finds himself in the unenviable
plight Of man who has either too retentive mem
DRY, or a too active Imagination This little matter
hao not ~ ffrlt q.
ought to have appeared, but have it from source
to be relied upon, and make 1t known because it has
been hid long enough.
Political memory is Of piece with political be-
havor II is well the dear people do not sit in the
galleries and see what goes on down below. What
small actions there which are never known or
IL known are misinterpreted. The meanness dis
played in look the baseness piercing through the
information Of sentiment that goes forth TO the
country as gospel and truth who shall tell Of these
things Does the Congressional Globe, with all its
shorthand yefbatimcy, tell 1.-THE Of what happens
in Congress Nay verify. Printed words are one
thing, uttered words quite another thing, CON
temptble nature shows itself in attitute gesticua
ton, the sound Of the voice, and the movement Of
the featues-and none Of these appear or appear
on the paper.
with human nature. | have seen Fitch get up with
face pale as wax and denounce Douglas as a liar but
without using SO coarse term. Douglas rose, AS
red q beet, and denounced Fitch in the same
terms. Here Is a serious diHicnlty,y one would
say Not at all. Douglas sits down, and con-
mences close conversation with his leftenant and
faetotum, Stuart Of Michigan. Fitch reposes in his
chair minute or two, then leans over and whispers
.e
spoken to- aud the heads Of the two are so close to-
gesher yen cannot their faces. Up comes Yuee,
throws an around the neck OF each, and that is
the last Of Il.
was told by an eyewitness that after BENJAMIN
dashed Seward as II be had been an eggsueking
hound, Seward came up, as soon as the Senate adj
journed and 10 an oif'hand, easy manner. asked his
chastiser for a cigar But it is characteristic Of
Northern ambition that ii is thankful for whatever
brings II into notice and keeps it there. Bennett re-
joiced over his horse-whippings. Sumner was caned
into consequences. And Seward, IL you will but re.
present him the head and front Of Black Republic
can offending viii praise you for splitting on him.
And this is the man we are to have for our next
President, with Douglas as his successor Truly. one
must have an abiding faith in Providence not to be.
lieve that we rapidly nearing the abyss Of poll
tiont Ahu uatiVuai ochiauutluH
Local items are rather sparse The social ripple
created by the Gwin ball. has given way to the lesser
wave occasioned by the opera, which opened here
last night with rather thin house, in theater not
much larger than mans fist. Gazzaniga sang, and
sang we'll She must have been beautiful woman |
in her prime; now, at forty, she looks young
and fresh She Is by Odds the best operate actress
ever saw The opera. Traylata has little fine music
but affords ample scope for the highest dramatic |
powers Gazzaniga is indiferenty supported by |
Brignoli, Amodio, Gasparoni, and Mullen Tonight, |
we have Lucia, with Caiyoli as prirna donna. Ada
Philips will also appear before the operatc season
Qour nights closes.
II has been raining here for four days as II the
devil had got hold Of the celestial watering pot and
Was trying 70 pnt out the fire In his own house. As
yet, he has succeeded only in quenching the prayer.
meetings. MALou.
The urAH TELEGRAPH.-The Washington CORES. |
p0ndent OF the Baltimore SIM "a 70 ~ the ,,o;a.,