Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1859-12-21
FRoM WAsHINGToN.
Correspondents of the intelligence
"A FINE DaY-MR sISaIEToS's SPEECH
oAARLNs F. ApAMs-ANoruER BALLOT.


a, FINE DAY-MR. sISa1EToS's sPEEcH-
ScHARLEs F. ADAMS ANOTHER BALLOT.
WAsHrSeroS, D. o., Dec. 1850.
| The sun rose so bright and beautiful to-
day and everything without looked and
felt so warm, genial and cheerful, that I
did not know but that the general happy
| influence that was seemingly abroad over
all the earth, might reach the hearts of
the members of the House, and some how
Or other bring about an Organization
But this faneifHlsloPe was=soon, darkened.
No sooner was the House called to order,
| prayer said, aud the journal read, than Mr..
Singleton, of Miss, who had obtained the
! Ho"E on Saturday evening, arose and COM
menced one of the usual speeches, such as
! have been made all along. Mr.. S. is at
this wiring, considerably advanced in bis
speech, and as do not observe, from what
1 4 have heard, that there is to Se anything
tncw or startling, I will indulge my eyes
with q glance around the House.
a moment ago, | heard some gentleman
behind me, ask another to point out to
him sCharles Francis Adams. son eff John
Quincy, and member Of Congress from
the Norfolk (AIass.) district lie was not
able to do so. This was the first time
that had been reminded that Adams, the
son of one President. and grandson OF
another, and himself candidate for Vice
President i'll 1913, was a member. Having
read or heard that any member of the impe-
rial house Of HapsbUrg could be known by
| peculiar thickness Of the under lip, and
any one of the Guelph family of England
by a certain fulness of the lower and
lateral paris of the face, set about see
ing if could apply to well known facial
! characteristics of the Adams family.
nlade my selection from the faces before
me, and on Inquiry learned that had
found the representative of the ;.royal
blood of Massachusetts," as the Adams
family has been called. He looks exactly
like the pictures of his father Has the
same bald head-tho same colored hair
the same peculiar nose aud facial angle
lie looks to be about forty, from where
sit has q fresh, we'll kept appearance.
am cold that he.is good, sound lawyer, as
well balanced q man rs his father and
thoroughly vCrscd in our European di-
| ptomacy. He has not been ambitious of
political prcfermcnt-his disposition lead
ing him rather in the walks of his pro-
tession and the, quiet of domestic life
His father left him large fortune, in addi-
ton to his honorable name, and he mar
rieG another when he got the daughter Of
Peter Brooks, one of the merchant princes
of Boston. His wealth and position has
probably been one of the greatest draw
backs towards developing his Adams
talent. His friends seem now bent, since
they have got him into Congress, 10 set
him forward on political career.
Since commenced mylcttcr, MIR. Single
toms speech has assumed more interest
ing phase. 1t has come to be sort OF
general colloquy with the members imme-
a H., i
the declaration that he doesn't begin to
regard Douglas as Il sound man, or us u
trustworthy politician, and that under no
circumstances, and on no platform, would
he support him, he he or be he not the
Charleston nominee. This declaration
Immediately started mp Douglas friends, of
course, especially the Illinois portion of
them. Logan, of Cairo, the one who had
the difficulty Kellogg of the same State,
the other day, got up, expressed his sorrow
and his surprise to hear his friend from
Mississippi make such declaration His
friend from Mississippi, i'll the most cavalier
style imaginable, informed Mr.. Logan that
he need not shed any tears nbout his
declaration. That both (he and Loganj
were entitled totlcir opinions, &c. Logan
said he would vote for the Charleston
nominee, no odds where he came from.
Singleton said that he would not. He
moreover, went on 10 say to Mr.. Logan
that he wished TO be delivered from all
such friends as him. These were as near
his words as can recall them.
suppose that Mr.. Singleton would be
an orthodox democrat in the eyes of your
neighbors of the Onion, who at their start
ing ont in the Times, you rccollcct, declared
their preference, immeasurably. for Seward
over Douglas = - -
Mr. Singleton has finished his speech
and call of the House has been ordered
previous to taking a vote. The vote 1
infer will be the same us hcretoforc-the
nbsentccs and the pairs being the same
although it has just been whispered with
in my hearing that Bocock will withdraw
and that new combination on that side
OF the House will be brought to bear
The call is inished-thc ballot has com
nlenced. and Mr.. Bocock does not withdraw
Botteler is in nomination as the South
American candidate. He himself votes for
Mallroy, of Louisville. Henry Winter
Davis votes for Gilmcr, still Mr. Clemens
changes his vote from Bocock TO Miles
Taylor, of La. Hickman, Haskin and
ESwartZ adhere to Sherman.