Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1859-12-09
PROM wAsHINGpoN.
Correspondence Of the 1ntelligoncer.I

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IL THE GALLERIEs-How A SPEAKER
NIGHT HAVE BEEN ELEcTEp-ToM ,CoRW1N
4 RENEWAL OP THE SLAVERY DEBATE-AN
EXCITING DISCUSSION AND AN EXCITING
| Il SCENE.
WASHINGTON, D.@c., Dec. 6, 1889.
There is no diminution in the interest or
attendance of the public to-day. Although
it lacks considerably yet of the hour of
meeting, the spacious galleries are rapidly
filling to jam with ladies and gentlemen,
all eager for something to turn up of an
exciting nature. Tho scene around me
l6okss like an immense amphitheatre,
something like, perhaps, the Roman Col
liseum7looked in its palmygdays. It calls
to mind Webster's apnstrophe 10 the "sea
of uptdrned faces" at one of his receptions
in Faneuil Hall, Boston. The members
are nearly all present, either ntheir seats,
or outside the seat-range, talking with the
lthrpngs who have forced their way to the
EAoor. have counted nearly fifty repor-
tsrs in our gallery, representing, either
ltransiently or permanently, the principal
papers of the country. All interest seems
to concentrate in the House of Represen-
Itatiyes, scarcely any inquiries are being
made concerning the Senate, which, al
most always 3absorbs the attention of visi-.
tors. 1t is evidently expected that this
will be an exciting day here, and that it
will plainly indicate the probabilities of a
speedy organization ora long delay, such
as characterized the session of '54-255.a1f
As yet, no considerable number of men,
bers seem to have any definite idea either
how or when the House will be organized.
Yesterday, just after adjournment, the in
dications seemed to favor an carly choice of
Speaker, and L so wrote you. In fact, Mr..
Kellogg, (Republican) who made the final
motion to adjourn and led of with him.
some of his party, was severely censured
after adjournment, for so doing, inasmuch,
| as owing to the absence of four democratic
members and the manifest sympathy of ut
least four of the anti-Lecompton members,
it was within the range of possibilities
that an organization might have been i'm
mediatcly effected. But after the parties
held their caucuses last night and their
private interviews, and had compared
notes afresh, the whole matter seemed to
|
mcnt seemed more remote. So greatly
was the matter complicated, that heard
| Gov. Corwin say that he very much doubt
ed whether or not it would not be oucs-
ton yet for many days, if not weeks. BY
the way, speaking of Corwin, did you
Fever hear him converse, or rather, enter
tain four or FIVE friends? You have, as
also have many of your readers, heard
him on the stump, and you know what an
Iinimitable entertainer he is there. Well,
he is not less so in private circle OF
| friends think l never was more de-
| lighted with the talkntiYe powers of any
I man, than was with him last night. He
reminds me of the Johnsonian style. lie
has some of the happiest ways and man
nerisms, and .withal some of the most fe-
licitous ideas coupled with his real Jerrold
4 strokes of wit, that 1 ever heard And
then, too, he is so entirely free from all
sectional animosities of any kind, so broad
and catholic in all his political ideas.
think his presence at this time in Con-
grcss, fortunate thing for the country
i IuS Unit
delegation, portions of which, as yor
know, are inclined to go off in the ultra
wake OF Western Reserve opinions Cor,
win goes in strong for utilization With thC
South Americans in preference to the anti
Lecompton Democrats, because, as he say!
they are Wings, and have been in grace
once he thinks they never can go'very fal
wrong. He always feels the yearning O.
Wing brotherhood, he says, no odds how
far off he secs brother in the faith.
see in the Hall this morning, among
the members, Humphrey Marshal, the mai
OF tremendous corporoSity and of tremen.
dous brain, might add, too. You re-
member the mastery speech he made a
the Court House, in Wheeling, in '5G foI
FILLMORE. 1t is not often that the old hal
OF justice has ever resounded with moro
cogent logic or more persuasive rhetoric
than it did that night. He is said to bC
here performing the same Office over tlR
South Americans, that Greeley assume
over the Republican wing-that is, keeb
Jug their back-bones stiff and unyieldt6g
infer that this is so from some remark,
that heard yesterday, from Burnett O
his State. Isn't it rather mortifying tina,
men, especially legislators, can't do thcil
own counselling and advising?
Twelve o'clock has arrived. and the pay.
ell OF the Clerk has sounded, and the mem
6ers have hustled into. their seats. The
Journal of yesterdays proceedings lis ius
being read. What a stentorian voice thu
man Secretary haslt He can be heard
clear over the house, above the hustle anC
onzz Ills lungs must be as callous ant
solid as leather. His reading, however, i:
more like the chanting of mass than any,
thing else. Now he has finished. and Mr.
Olark' General they call him, of No., i:
on MS feet again, to press his niger eS,
into the nature of work called, tTbI
Impending Crisis at the South''-recom.
inended by some SIXTY Republican mem.
bers Of the last Congress, us a good text
book for general circulation. He is inter.
FuPted by SEVERAL members, who severally
rise to questions of order-the same as ]
stated yesterday, viz that there being nc
question before the House, he Clark is
out OF, order. The Clerk, as usual, dis