Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-12


Tenn, one foot on his seat; one elbow
Hakimbo, the other resting on his knee, and
with his hand twisting his whiskers. The
boylshf cooking Winter Davis is beside him,
his bead turned considerably gray within
a year, his hands are crossed behind him,
and he looks very sober. Right across
from him again Is Sir. Thomas "A. r.. Nell
son, of Tenn. the most reyerentiAl looking
man onthe floor. His fine, manly face is
half hid in one hand, while his other arm
is folded across his breast. You renem-
Der his great speech astwinter, and how
he scatiIea Pryor from head to foot He
viii speak again, in few days, as II
learn
Prayers are over. The reverend Chap
lain walks down the aisle very teebly, aud
chair, yesterday, when preaching. The
journal being read, Mr.. Hawkins Of Fla,
resumes the floor, from Thursday last,j
and, despite the appeal made to him by
John Cochrane, is going to resign his
place on the Conference Committee. He
first starts ont to speak Immediately i'll
front of the Speakers forum-but there
Are cries of Come back here. tsWc can't
hear you" So he5walks back He COM
menccs with an assault on the compost
lion of the Committee. Look ut the rep-
resentativc from Maryland (NYintcrsD a-
Wis., who was put on it, he says
docs he represent Maryland Was
that an8 appointment fit to be made2"
he shrieks. "Look: sat the action of.
the Legislature Of Maryland, last vim
ter, Sir, addressing the Speaker, inIreter-
ence to that gentleman2 Didn't Mary
land repndiatc him as a traitor?p tscn-'
ation.l Davis rises. from lounge on-which
fnltSSnfr II
within the bar. .:And | say, upon my
responsibility, that the man from the
South, that voted for you, Sir-aye for
you, Sir, Mr. Speaker-is traitor." Mr.
Hawkins next turns his attcntionfto Alex.
Il. Boteler. of the Harper's Ferry district,
and commences bcrating him for offer
ing the resolution providing forSthis com
nlittee. He thinks it was unworthy of
him-inconsistcnt with his position MS the
representative of that tragic district of
a-inconsistcMtwitl speech which
the gentleman made last witer. To show
that it is, he picks up a bound volume of
the Congressional Globe; aud asks Mr.
John Cochranc to read an extract which
he has pointed out in Mr. BIS speech.
The Hon. John does as he is requested.
The extract does not gee very well with
the mild, Union saving temper of 3Tr.
OOIS!SHE9 AESOluSIOlIy luAlS IL slASL..
now, Dir. Gochrnne being through. AIR.
Hawkins compliments him on his good
reNding, and says it was only exceeded by
the cloqueuce of the nuthorEofzthe speech.
He quotes what some one said about n
speech of Demosthenes, which some one
who had heard him, recited from memory
with great effect. "Ahl" said the speak
er, "thAt you could but have heard that
speech in the moutl=of Demosthenes:"-
Mr.. Hawkins is prufusely clnssic-quotes
like q. book-but is weak, radical. and can
not hold the House at all. Much TO gen
eral relief, the gaveI Of the Speaker comes
down, thus ending Mr.. Hawkins time
Dir. Vallandingham, of Ohio. (calle1 by one
OF the Cincinnati papers, yallAndi-tudin-
ham, has gained the floor. He, ns he did
about this. time last winter, proceeds to
throw fire brands into the general distrnc-.
ton, and to add fuel to the general bit
tcrness. He. says that the organization of
the Committee is manifestly unfair, land
lie will not vote to compel Mr.. Hawkins
to seryc,l because his Democratic col
Leagues from the North have been ignored
where there was q Republican in the dele
CATION. lie is5a good talker, never nesi-
tates. aud enuuciates very clearly every
word. lie says that if the South and
North break up their partnership, the
West will break off from the East Mt the
the Ohio river, and have4a confederacy of
seven States, with over nine millions of
Inhabitants. Mr.. VS. time being up. Mr..
McClcrnand. of the Springfield district,
Illinois, is up. He thinks the Committee
will do pretty we'll. Atany rate, thatthis
is no time to split hairs about it. Mr. Nc.
is Douglas Democrat He is not much
OF q speaker, and, like Hawkins. fails To
hold thn Mr- ~,
yerltabtc Daniel,) is up. He looks ten
years older than he did this time last year.
Some say that remorsc has set heavy on
tilm. l5donit believe it. / believe public
opinion has, however. lie, like Mr.
McGlernand, thinks that the Committee
ls pretty good one-as good a one as
was possible, probably, under all the cir
c1Instances. For lis part, he could wish
that the ultra men, and not the moderates,
oftthe5 Republican party, had been placed
upon the Committee. There would be
more results he thinks. lie also says that
he thinks that, now that Mr.. Lincoln has
been made secure of his election by the
oallots5of the Electoral Colleges, he ought
to come out with something which would
help the countryzin this crisis. lie saws
that it lincoln would come out with a
pledge that he would not give any man
IN Office who would not swear to support
all the laws, and not TO mention slavery in
the next four years-he says it would not
be beneath the dignity of Lincoln TO come.
out Tith some document Of this sort lie
says also, that there is no sympathy he
tween New York State anu New York
City, and has not been for years, and
that that city has long been working to be
independent of the State. SickIcs voice
is very harsh and squcaky, and is pitched
away up beyond its compass. TIE House
presents curious scene around him. His
mnonotony has put Stevens (thc delegate
under his nose Most uil the members
withiu twenty fectsof him. are loliing in.
their seats. their less over their desL.