St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-02-10
From Washington.

Philadelphia Press
at is now asserted that the Admin
.stration is secretly against the Pacific
Railroad bill, after all its professions.
Time will show.
The Washington Union is silent
over the terribly scathing letter of
Governor Walker and Stanton on
the last exposure of the Kansas frauds.
Some most discreditablc disclosures
are on the eve of being made, show
ing the completely of the Administra-
ton with these forgeries." !
Speaking of the tariff, the core
spondent of the n. Y. Courier and
Enquirer says:
at seems that the Senate is the
point of danger for the protectionists,
and is the fortress of the free traders.
a majority can be obtained without
difficulty in the House for almost any
bill which may be agreed upon be-
tween the President and the Pcnnsyl-
vania delegation"
Col. Forncy says in one of his last
letters from Washington
among the rapidly ripening fruits
of the policy of Mr.. President Bu-
chanan, that of d~isunion is prominent"
1t appears that a club has actually
been formed in Washington with the
object of bringing forward Hon. John
NJ. Bolts for the Presidency. 1t has
no connection with the late convoca-
ton of old Wings at the Capital. The
correspondent of the New York Ex-
press says Of Mr.. Bolts presentation
ellis most intimate friends plainly
assert that he will risk his fortunes
with the Republican party, with an
abridged p!atform---the prominent
plank in which to bear the chalk
marks, no further extension of slave
ry,' and while they would put him on
the ticket for President, they would
readily unite to run n. p. Banks, or
any other prominent Republican for
the Vice Presidency"
From the n. Y. Commercial Adver-
Users correspondent
1T begins to look as if the whole
body of the Democrats in Congress
are prepared to act in conformity with
the Presidents views in regard to a
negotiation for the purchase of Cuba.
Mr.. Slidclls bill making an appropria-
ton for the purpose, Or some bill like
it, may pass the Senate and possibly
the House"
Col. Forncy's Press says that "Sena-
tors Davis and lverson, together with
many other Representatives and Or
gans of Southern opinion, intimate
that they would prefer the election of
a Republican to the Presidency to the
election of Stephen a. Douglas" The
Press likes this boldncss, and adds:
"But before the friends of Demo-
cratic principles, as interpreted by
Senator Douglas, given in their adhe-
sion to a Convention which, We arc
daily advised, is to be controlled by
the federal government, and not by
the people, we should like the Prcsi.
dent and his parasites and adhcrents
to answer whether they wW support
Stephen A. Douglas for the Presidency,
shOnid he be Nominated at the Charleston
Generation? or achether they aeould sup
part any candidate standing upon Tie doc
trims enumerated and adrOcated by Dong
las in his lite campaign IN Winois? II
seems to us that it is a poor prepare
ton for Democratic fidelity to a Ma
tional Convention to have that Con
v"ention controlled by mel who an
nouncc conditions precedent to theil
o,cn support of its final action"
A Washington correspondent of the
Boston Transcript, in giving some
sketches of public men in Washing
ton, gets off the following in rcgart
to Mr.. Iverson, of South Carolina, a
the time of his Grc-eating speech. lie
says:
"Mr. Ivcrson made a good speech
well worded and well read, very fire
consuming and very threatening, 0
course. lie was particularly sever,
upon Mr.. Seward, as the leader of tn,
great abolition party, and gave hin
what suppose many of his constitu
ents would call a sumner" Mr..
spoke of gorging the Northerners witt
public plumber to keep them quiet til
they "vomited in the face" of til,
South, and so forth. Now Mr.. Sewart
sat in the chair next to him, whithe:
he had gone to hear him more plainly
and at the strong passages, betraye,
his emotion only by a very large pincl
of snuff and a grin. No doubt tn,
|, constituents of both gentlemen, il
their distant homes, when they rcaC
that speech, will imagine a terriG,
scene, and wonder how they got GU
of it without n duel. When it wa.
concluded, Mr.. S. approached Mr.. |.
they both laughed, shook hands
cracked a joke or two, resumed thei
respective seats, and the business o
the Senate went on as usual-that wa.
ALL"
The correspondent of the N. Y
Tribune says:
at is confidently asserted, on Demo
cratic authority, that great d~isscnsioI
exists in the party here OF the suffice
of Cuba. The more prudent leaders
are beginning to be startled at thu
wildness of the projects which thei
less cautious associates are breach
ing. They may want, and the Prcsi
/ dent wants, to have thirty millions t.
dispose of. That sum, or a portion 0
it at least, would be of great service
in the approaching Presidential con
test /; but they were not quite read,
/ for a crusade against Great Britain
France and Spain"
S The debate on the Diplomatic bill
shows that a strong inclination exist