M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-24
Washington News.

AHS IHhSii'SChI SOIlSspOuOCHL
the Cincinnati Enquirer, writing from
Washington under date of the 17th
says:
The admission of Oregon incNas
ing the free States to eighteen, to thc
slave States fifteen, or rather fourteen
| for Delaware is but nominally a slav,
State, will Lave this good effect upor
the politics OF the country-we sllal
hear no more of the demagogism a
the North about the South getting tht
balance Of power. The North hai
now fIty.seven majority in the House
six majority in the Senate, and sixty
three majority in the Electoral Col
| lege. These will be immensely aug
meuted after the census OF 1860. The
ghost of Southern domination over
the free States. which has alarmed SC
many, has been laid never to rise
again. Those ultra men in the Dem.
Ocratic party who, for the last few
years, have seen nothing in political
calculations but the South, will be
rendered wiser by this immense Nor
thern preponderance.
The Cuban discussion is dragging
its slow length along. All Of the
prominent Senators on both sides
have spoken upon it. The discussion
will dogood. Theroports of it, which
have gone ont from here, have enlight-
ened the country in respect to the
merits Of the question, and have bro't
Cuba prominently into the foreground
and made it the great question of the
day. 1t is generally admitted here
that the friends OF the measure have
had greatly the advantage in wgu-
ment of its opponents. The speeches
of Senators Toombs, Benjamin and
Pugh were bht teebIy answered by
Crittenden and Thompson, of Ky
The speech Of the latter gentleman
was altogether unworthy of the Sen.
ate. AS he is about to retire, in char.
ity | shall say nothing more of him or
his speech. The weakest speech that
has been made on the subject was that
of Chandler Of Mich, who endeavors
to fill Gen. Cass' seat. lie is man
of great wealth, small brains, and has
a very poor education. lie IS known
here as the fool of the Senate.
AS the Republicans are talking
about corruption, will tell you a fact
in connection with the late Clerk of
the House of Representatives, who
was CHOSEN by Republican votes. lie
has just purchaser and paid for q fine
plantation in Tennessee, stocked it
with negroes and cattle, and built on
it a beautiful mansion. His salary
was thity.six hundred dollars a year,
and he held his Office two years. lie
had nothing when ne came here.
The defeat Of the bills organizing
Territorial Governments in Arizonia
and Dacotah creates much regret here
and is generally considered utterly in
excusable. Well, if Congress will
not start government in these Ter
ritories, and protect the settlers, the
latter will, Of conrse, fall back on the
principles of popular sovereignty.-
The Republicans, to a man, opposed
the Arizonia Bill, and most of them
the Dacotah Bill, because the
Territorial officers would be Demo.
Gratis. What elevated and statesman
like policy! The ultra Southern men
voted against Doth, because, they say,
they are in no hurry to make any more
free States just now. They say Re
pu6licans don't want free States, and
they won't crowd them on them.
A sharp discussion took place in
the House yesterday between Cox, of
Ohio, and Blair Of Missouri, the lat
ter of whom accused Colonel Many
penny, late Commissioner Of Indian
Affairs, OF furnishing arms to the hos.
tile Indians. AS Cox suggested, the
cause of this attack was tie fact that
Mr.. Manypenny armed the Treasury
against the assaults Of spectators and
Lobbyists. The Indian arming is all
bosh.
An article in the National Era, of
this week, severely scoring the oppo-
sition to the admission of Oregon, las
created q great sensation here in Re-
publican circles. Seward is accused
OF having instigated its publications.
The Republican Congressman who
opposed the admission Of Oregon, say.
that DR.. Bailey has thrown a blazing
tirebrand into the Republican powder
house. Seward says the action of the
Republicans in the Oregon business
was most suicidal.
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MODEST. "A young negro man pre-
sented himself at Union College,
Schenectady, New York, few days