Newbern weekly progress., 1860-06-05
Our washington City correspondence.

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of the A. & N C. R. R. Co. have changed their
schedule and it may be that this will not reach
you In season for your weekly" although mailed
at the usual time. These frequent changes ratn-
ser perplex me, for just as begin to understand
the working of one schedule and conform to II III
sending letters another supplants it and the hrs1
intimaton have of something rotten in Den
mark - and a general unftness OF things, IS IN
finding my letters published seven Or eight days
from date of mailing here. However, the dlrec-
tory of your road have thought it best to author
thorize alteration and if you and your readers
can stand it, your correspondent certainly can.
The proceedings of the two Houses of Congress
are dull and uninteresting. The discussion OF
" abstract questions is ignored for the present.
and members of both branches are laboring hard
to perfect and pass the necessary appropriation
bills. The Housa is making good progress and
will doubtless be ready to adjourn by the 18th
of June, but much time has been consumed in
the Senate in useless debate that it is doubtful
whether that body will be able to bring up its
work by that time Mr.. Hunter, Chairman of
Finance Committee, is making every effort to do
so, and would, if a few Senators could be gagged
and chained in their seats.
The probable action of the Baltimore Conven-
ton, to convene next month, is the subject OF
fruitful speculation among the disturbed polll-
clans. The recent action of Delaware in approx
ing the course of Senator Bayard and Mr.. White
ly and re-appointing them delegates to Baltimore
creates some stir here, AS also the instructions
lately given to several Maryland delegates to in
sst on the platform reported at Charleston by Mr..
Avery of n c.. find among those who are con-
sidered the most sagacious and astute, that the
greatest diversity of opinion exists as to what
will be the result of the deliberations in Balti
more. Many unhesitatingly declare that the
same scenes will be enacted over-that the Ten
nessee resolutions which were pending when the
Convention ad djourned will be the first business
after the report of the committee credentials,
and that this will reopen the platform discussion
this discussion will but increase the bitter feeling
now existing-the breach will be widened and
then another and more thorough split will take
place. Then, those Southern States retiring, will
meet at Richmond and nominate Lane of Oregon
and Seymour of Connecticut, while the remainder
will present Douglas and some suitable Southern
man for Vice President. 1t is asserted that if
the friends of Judge Douglas persist in forcing
him upon the party as the candidate with the
minority platform, that every Southern State and
goodly number of delegates from the middle
States will assemble III Richmond for deliberation
to their The Douglas wing earnest
ly affirm that he shall be the nominee and that he
shall stand alone the minority platform; furth
declaring that the delegates from one Southern
State, North Carolina, at least will stand by them
with the exception of three Delegates Ashe,
Avery and Fulton. These are some of the declara-
tions of men who are regarded as leaders of the
democratic party. Such state of feeling holds
little promise of future harmony. Instead of la
boring to heal divisions, restore harmony and
unite our farces, we are engaged in disgraceful
war of words in which bitter taunts, insulting
epithets and angry denunciations are hurled back
and forth with untiring zeal. If one tenth of the
ink shed-one tenth Of the time, talent and ener-
gy displayed in prosecuting this family quarrel
had been devoted to devising plans for the set.
tlement of our differences the storm would long
since have passed away.
The secessionists, or orthers who may fill their
places have little fthe true spirit of democracy
if they go into the Convention determined on
carrying every demand to a successful issue,
spurning all efforts to compromise and mutual
concession. So with the advocates of Judge
Douglass nomination, who declare none of the
seeding delegates shall enter the convention and
that the Judge shall be the nominee in spite ofall
ence between these two parties far the anago-
nism exhibited to the true spirit of democracy
is involved Both in their insane enactions are
working evil to the party; either, if successful,
could not reasonably hope to triumph in a con-
test shorn of the aid of the other. How silly
then all this fierce clamor-how unwise and
dangerous this quarrel and arrangement?
1t was understood that the Convention ad-
iourned over in order to give time for reflection,
for consultation and for perfection Of plans tend
ing to the satisfactory settlement of all disturb
ing subjects and the reconcement of diff
ferences. 1t was to give time for passion to COOL
for the asrerities engendered by heated discus
sion to be smoothed away, when like brothers
and true patriots might meet once more in
council and by mutual sacrifices and concessions
agree to bury all past feuds and stand up sol
idly for the preservation of our. country. Yet no
effort has been made by either side to restore har
mony and good feeling, each seemingly resolved
to crush the other even if the attempt annihilate
the great democratic party.
The Republicans of this city had grand rati-
fcation meeting Monday night The City
Hall portico draped in American flags and
numbers of Chinese lanterns were suspended
from frame work over the speakers stand On
the front of the steps spread out large white
canvass inscribed with the names of Lincoln and
Hamlin. A fine band of music enlivened the ex-
ercises. The procession numbered some four
hundred and every one 1 met was asking in sur
prise ",ehere did they come FROM" A friend at
my elbow suggested that the Department here had
most likely some representatives in the line as