White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-02-02
Special washington COrrsspondenes,


some time. l at length seat myself to
give you an insight into some Of the af-
fairs in this Sodom and elsewhere. shall
endsavor to give you some items not
possessed BY every paper in the land.
To begin. / win say that notice some
papers in your section contain regular
Washington correspondence. or what
p6rports to be such. But the joke of it
is, the correspondence is written BY the
editors of these papers, in their own off.
ces, from items gathered from the tele-
graphic reports in the Eastern Dsiliss.
with just enough original to connect the
different subjects together. This you viii
readily perceive by reading such cores
pondsnce.
Every ons-horss creditor of the Gov
eminent is becoming 6dgetty. and the in
terssts of the Administration imperative.
" demand an organization of the House
soon. 1t is impossible for the Democrats
to elect Speaker from their own ranks,
and they are now Matching up plan to
elect one who will answer all their ends.
The scheme was divulgel to me, conf
dentially. this morning. by Gen. Cas-
Smith. of North Carolina, is enc of the
most plant of the South American
members. and the Democracy intend
shortly to make a demonstration in his
favor. They are confident of electing
him, with the aid of the South Ameri-
cans and several Anti-Lecompton men,
bsrs. He is to give them control of all
the important Committees, and in sddi-
ton. they are to have the residue Of the
House officers. l think the Republicans
will yet manage to beat them ct their
own game.
You will have noticed that the Presi-
dent, in his message, recommended meas
ures which could scarcely fail to produce
a war with Mexico; and also favored the
acquisition of Cuba. which would result
in war with Spain. Secretary Floyd
was " on . bender" the other evening.
and pressed me into taking private dish
of oysters with him. While tins en-
gagged he let out old Bucks design. II
possible, he wants to get the United States
into war with some other country. be-
fore the meeting of the Charleston Con-
vention. He will go before that Con-
vention with the plea, that if they do
not nominate him for reelection. the
country will look upon it as condemning
the war. In this way. he 10 certain to
get the nomination. The issue Of the
canvass will then be confined to the war;
and by appealing to the people to main
tain their country's cause. they viii stand
fair chance to win the race.
As you are aware. Hunter and Wise,
of Virginia. are at loggerheads. Hunter
yesterday, being in q convivial mood,
made some startling revelations to me-
Wise was at the bottom of the Harper's
Ferry affair. He owns shares in Hotels
at Harper's Ferry and Charleston, and
planned the insurrection with Brown, in
order to draw crowds at his Hotels. 1t
was a success, and he has amassed an in
dependent fortunel
More startling still-Brown was not
hung! In the accounts Of the execution.
you will see that persons were not allow
ed within hearing distance of Brown
There was a reason for this, not known
to the common herd. A contrivancs was
fixed to prevent the rope from producing
strangulation. After hanging q ressona-
bic length Of time, Brown (who had all
the time been laughing to himself) was
taken down, and hurried of to the North
His friends agreed to keep the affair Sc
cret, in consideration of having his life
saved. Buchanan and Wise have recent
ly purchased large Hotel somewhere in
the South, and have engaged Brown to
get up an insurrection in the neighbor-
hood He is to be well paid for it. It
is not known when the affair will come
of.
Walking along the street, last week,
heard some one whistle behind me-
Looking around, I saw President Blu.
chanan reckoning to me to hold on
When he came up. he asked me why il
was that he did not receive the Chief
regularly. and told me to mention it to
you. He was very much pleased with
the iSSus Of December 18th, and requests
you to forward him three or four copies
Of that number, 10 send to his friends.-
he also requested me to hint to you that
he thinks Of getting married, and to ask
YOar opinion upon the matter.
More anon. sNIGGLEFRITZ.
r. Texas papers give accounts Of
tho suFerings Of George Luther and his
family, who sometime last Summer set