New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-30
NUMBER 4S.
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
Special to the ss,e oriean. crescsnl.I

| Special to the New Orleans cresceni.I
WAsHISGTos, April al, 1860.
0T. Edtor---lt Is really amusing to notice how
the Presidents organs display eounterfeited sats
I faction at the production of the Walker Ietter5
which they declare was just the thing the Admin.
istration coveted; that Mr. Buchanan agreed tn
! nave II published, (Which Of course he did having
HOBBIES choice) and that Mr. Buchanan in anxieus
70 nave u conspicuously heralded is Tie world.
| (which certainly will be done, even if.. tho old
| public servant" " did net desire it1 In the mean.
time, the Douglas men are quietly leaving the DO.
| yeiopment to work its own results ON the uublic
mind, quite satisfied with the Presidents seffcora
initial to Mr.. Douglas Kansas policy on the aues-
| ton Of 4 pa-inciple.,' 53 s
Ihe President protests, his presses illuminate. his
friends threaten; bnt the covode Committee stiIl
goes on steadily, dcffantIy and In utter contempt
Of the challenge every day paraded from the gov.
ernments little newspaper shop here. No doubt
great deal of slandar has been retaiIed before the
committee; no doubt corrupt and interested Wit
nesses have sought to crafty their own ends IN the
investigation; but there Is no reason to fear that
IN this, az in other Investigations truth will not
prevail at the last.
" II little curious that one of the most formid
able and persevering witnesses against the Pres
ident is the former editor of the Constitution that
now defends Mr.. Buchanan against all coIners and
exaits him into another chevalier without fear or
reproach. When Mr.. Cornelius Wendell edited the
Washington organ, he publicly and with an excess
OF zeal repelled the insinuation that he was in
fuenced by the President to appropriate d dollar
OF the proceeds Of the printing directly or Indirect
", to political purposes. Now he testfies before
the Coyode Committee to all sorts Of corruption.
subsidizng OF party papers and division of printing
profits among various Of Mfr. Buchanan's Pennsyl-
Tania pets. Mr.. Wendell had better be careful He
lives in one of the biggest glass houses in Washing
ton. Not that hc has much Of reputation to be in
Jured but while he is whining now about bad treat
ment and bad faith. and his impoverished fortunes,
the truth may be discovered that at this nlomen he
mas his hands deeper in the public treasury than
any otler adventurer OF the lobby. Perhaps, Mr..
Wendell will inform the Covode Committee or an
anxious public what share Of the printing profits
he gets from Tom Ford, and what overoads of
work the generous Black Republicans are sending
to his mammoth printing office. Perhaps, too, lie
will give information where the great supply of
paper comes from, and what supplies, otherwise
credited, have really come from the great paper
mill he owns in Albany. The answers to these
questions, especially about the Albany mill, might
interest the public considerably, and might furnish
fresh anfpresent subjects Of investigation to Mr.
-Cogode and his colleagues, who are now exploring
among old subjects, and soenlnly rattling the lry
bones of Kansas.
People here have scarcely yet finished talking OF
the Pryor and Potter difficulty. There ia a general
expectation that Mr.. Pryor will make an attack
upon the Wisconsin gentleman at the first convent
ent encounters but hitherto the latter has been SO
closely attended by a body guard of his Black Re-
publican colleagues that it has been impossible TO
find the coveted opportunity of attacking him on
equal grounds. Mr.. Potter never enters the House
hall leaves it without some half dozen attendants
He is under party management, and was from the
FIRST as understand positively that police officer
"a detective) was brbed by q contribution from
different Black Republican members to arrest Mr..
Potter only at the critical moment of fighting, in
case his challenge to fight with knives should
be accepted. This report is snbstantiated to me
by the most direct testimony.
While there is so much complaint of senility and
ineffciency in the Departments at Washington, it
is subject of congratuation that the Land Office
with the vast burden of care upon it, is able by its
its perfect organization and discipline to keep up
to the day in the transaction of its business in
which the bone and sinew of the land are directly
and especially interested. 1t is undoubtedly the
best organized bureau Of the Government; and
this from the fact that disearding in the instance
of this office the claims of mere politicians the
President has wisely seen fit to appoint as Com
missioner, man (Mr. Wilson, of solid attainments
in science and real executive ability. The in
stances of efficiency in the Land Office really chat
lenge the admiration of the country, prone as the
people are. and not without reason in many in.
stances, to decry the industry of the executive
offices of the Government and to complain of soth
and circumlocution in their action. statement
before me shows that in the last three weeks the
Land Office has transmitted Is, 600 patents for pub
lie lands. They have been distributed in Iowa,
Missouri, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Alabama, Michi-
gan, Kansas and Minnesota. x.
WASHINGTON, April %, 1850.
Ab. Edtor-We have had much excitement here
for a week back with the delegates to Charleston