The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-24
Our Wa shington Correspondence.
.sur.cv,lS Ian 1870

Our wsshington Correspondents.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 90, 1862
Wa.ai,sso,,-gle PreYniIing Sa9nctso's and 5rspy d.
Dull Times All sourd, sxcsp! among ne SIenv kers
ne Taso5e sarto1 Oat-ogh,r Amnsemeiss S| N s5,s,
inn n.-Caoines Receptions, Ga-Ssan9~ !, n. 7,acr
ne rs Iahatiants''-seluttor Of Pc Spsassy.sip
PrOs'taA Nay sor.ins in JarGGryy ora Conversational
H9ldCy, de-
Warrington rs hard up-short, a fact-hign and dry
no speaker, no appropriations money Mr.. Secretary
OH has three millions under osk and key which weeks
ago shoad have been sent It, ike the twelve Apostles
to carry the glad dings % salvation to poor Sinners but
these three MILLIONS MI Cobb win not forE over without
the Speakers sisna~re, and there Speaker. The
members CT the How sc and the mail say TO the
motel keeper-yoJ must wait tn We get Speaker The
hael keeper Rys 20 tho butcher and tue grocer-you
must wait III get Speaker The oyster saloons feel the
absolute nee' ssy of Speaker and the faro banks safer
from TIE % election OF Speaker The airy goois mon
arc loungDg behind their counters resolving The problem
Of spSaser the milner cannot sell her bonness, be-
caues they won't cleo. Speaker tho seller Of periodicals
and novels devotes large margin OF the DAY 70 light
reading in default OF Speaker aad only the shoemaker
Gppears drive fair trade without Speaker. His
theory is hat people walk about great deal more under
pressure for money han 1T any other time, and thai
consequently they shoes than they would
| II We had Speaker.
But mind, There ,s q general belief that the
month of February in The Of Speaker Banks, will
give Speaker and that then, as 10 England with the
| return OF Charles the Second, the PGrsans viii DO
snuooed, and shall have good time, and this long
pepance Of fasting humiliation and prayer the memory
Of Ola Brown and Helper VIII De followed by carnival
Meantime AL luxures aud amusements are tie h,st
branches Of cyhgd SOCIETY 70 suffer Jron, the non s,ec
TOD Of Speaker, The Washington theatre week ago
WIS shut up ana abandoned by "star company, such
Rs vas for Is efforts 10 compete with the free histroEic
exbb tons of The House perfectly absurd How
Murdoch, he Tagedlsn, has resolved to Try Is An
FOR one week only, beginning With "A New Way 10 Fay
pei hsps ira. the farce OF the Speaker Is pretty
played ost Sad and melancholy indeed, from the begin
ing have been the vcssjCs OF the legitimate drama in
Washington " Tho various ods ices hero devoted to his
sort Of moral suseon time 70 time the largest and
most orthodox establishment has bern twice burned 10
The ground; her, after Lingering existence,
vertea into bowling saloon; another into clothing
store; aao'her into coach factory and another INTO
carpeEsers shop The present establishment, from The
battle Of Badcnsburg down 70 the advent Of Saar, aud
Bourcicaut year or two ago Vas Carusi's dancing
saloon concer. hall; with the close Of tho
apart fer the :ragedan Mprdoch the eslb!
| M ut may, perhaps, ba transformed into boarding
house. II Carasi will permit The desecraion
But hot eDtiI ey deprived OF the a1userens aud
entertainments Of National metropolis, even ID tie 40
sence OF Speaker. Daring he past wee. for example,
W. have had two concerts from Madame Bshop and her
troupe 3ldes at the residence OF the Austrian Minis
ter an evening eunion At The residence " Ge Cass,
hop a. Browns and We have oday toe weakly reception
Of Hiss Lane, and oil Hrs Senator Sde and Mrs. Senator
Gwh Tbs resident population and strangers here miss
very nsch he prncey hospits:ies of tue late Post
master General Brown, and his accomplished and in
teres'ing family and the delightful reunions a. which
Mrs Senator Douglas was last winter she presiding
divinity but STILL the fashionable world lie suffer
mail contractors, citizens and lobby expect the IN
susuraion OF "a good time" with the election OF q
Speaker.
Daring he les. few days tia arrivals OF strangers
including all the principal hoieis These vsters have
been mostly travellers with throngh tickets who hars
halted for day two 10 witness the theatrical per
hirh Tn drau fp
houses ana u hold them from the morning 70 the
evening adjournment If may judge Of the proportion
OF these Through passengers" from the number Of shaws
10 the gentlemen's division OF the House galleries,
should say that full hall OF these audiences birds
OF passage e route to pohts more or less fenossNarth
! South, East or Vest
We close up WITH The Coolest !nhahants observations
concerning the Speaker We ms aim early this morning
the avenues when he avaled himself Of tho OCCASION
thus 10 sun up aud solve the difficult proolo o. the
SPEAKER
three or four TO make majority, but they can't &c. them
on Sherman. The democrats want twenty i've six
cruis TO elect To get them they must secure the whole
Southern opposition force twenty three men and two Or
three or four anti Lecomptonites or Pennsyyania half
anu na 'epS , naI aue S AZ
fell short OF majority by twenty votes; they tried a
compromise Virginia democrat, Nilsson, and he came
only within ten votes Of Sherman; they tried an ndepea
dent old ae wing American Houston conservative demo-
crat, Hamilton, of Texas, and he sgnaiiy failed; they
tonite, Davis, OF Indiana with better SUCCESS They
hsve boxed the compass they have tried every expedent
] OF CoaltlOO anu they are % a STATE Oh despair.
What then? Their Eight s reduced 10 the defeat OF
Sherman by the defeat OF the plurality rule The South
democrats have signed roard robin 70 this eject but
| the Northwestern democrats are giving way. AS the
| case STANDS y g simply q question or time, and
| whenever Al Issue in Congress is brought
| 10 a question OF time, unless the close
Of the session. the inevitable resn not far OF The de-
moor ats give up that the plurality rule, by square
majority or by majority resulting from abseneeisn,
be carried; ard this conviction, the republican
SIDE holds them sst TO Sherman The only way, there
fore which toe democracy deiea, Sherman cleo
ton by plurality is 10 accept some such South Ameri
elmer, Smith, Of North Carolina, old line
Nhg, nlih southern principles but the votes, the dvi
SONS, the debates, and the cross examinations OF the
House. have rendered this arrangement apparently i'm
possible.
Consequently, my dear sir, yen may count upon the
adoption of the plurality rule aud the election Of Sher
before the end OF February, unless the Denor attic
state lasislaures-n session shall al once the
with instructions their representatives here
agre. upon conservative opposition man who de-
feat sherman. The Us the Of Speaker HANKS
| and The Tending 10 the result
Brown, Helper and Seward dead weights upon the
republicans but money rules the world, and when Mr.
Toombs killed OH the Pos, Office appropriations in the
Senate last session, he, the money question probably
elected sherman Speaker OF the present Congress.
Neither House Is IN session today, sGd from the bright,
soft and sprlngtke sunshine OF this lovely morning,
dare that members OF both houses will appropri-
ate the da7 very extensively 70 the laies the