New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-24

kiTo for thiB act; NAV "po'Po """
down for il, be expected; but he SesPsed lne QUO
and dt6ed he other. His a1usion, 10 'a' o'"-
,ec,ion. To Henry Clay's vote for JOIN Q"'noy
Aasms and the hatred which had pnrsuea hi"' W
his crave for that act touchDgly ei quoo'' AaO
held the House spell bOupd; while his remhS'
uttered in bold language and with oi''er e'npa"s'',
that his vote for Pennington was a!p'ec'a'eu anu
sn,roved by every person IN Maryland ior whose
o.;n;oo he entertained the shgntest r'gard. caai-
lsns.d n rustic of applause In the galleries, which
Uas inst breaking out into load cheer, when II
YVES suppressed by the Chairman.
But we Garnet dsell upon the many salient points
in this acute, cutting, bold, defiant, eloquent
criticism of the impairment intelm' ddOg of mai'g.
pant Democrats and eOwardly Americans 10 the
affairs OF MIR. II. Winter Davis. He was listened
TO closely, not only by South Americans, to whom
he politically belongs, aid Republicans, with whom
he often votes, bat by all the Democrats In the
The House, North and South, except some halt
doz,n noodles and nOnentities like Extra Bully
Smith 81 Alabama Houston, whom nobody respects
or ever follows.
But, after al, the feature which deserves to at
tract the chief notice ia this entire matter, ia not
the ability and success OF Mr. Dasis's speech when
viewed from an oratorical standpoint, but the
Growing consideration, that be gave the vote Tor
PENNINGTON deliberate)y-that, in the face OF the
most malignant Opposition, he justi6es and vlod-
Gates that vote-that the Maryland Legislature de-
pounces him for that voteand that he, 10 his place
in the House, defes the Legislature, and appeals
from its judgment to that of his constituents. he
STANDS BY HIS RECORD
INAUGURATION OF TIE HORSE AND THE HERO
THE SEVENTH REGIMENT IN WASHINGTON
DANIEL IN TIE LIONS DEN.
From an Occasional Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Feb. %, 1860.
Rain rain drip drip! splash! splash pour
pour!-tbe wind all the while blowing furiou'y;
the streets reekipg with mud; the horses with de-
pending tails; the soldiery with dropping plumes;
tie ladies with bedragged crinoline; the civilians
with cotton umbrellas; and oil looking wOe-begone
and dOwn.cas; the very negroes III their holiday
suits grinnng CHASTITY smiles Thus was it till long
after meridian of this day OF Washingtons Drte'
and the inauguration of Clark Nj lls's brazen carl
cature called by courtesy aud act OF Congress, the
Statue Of the Father OF his Country.
Sunrise never broke upon more dismal horizon
! People in New.YOrk and New-England will under
stand it when told that it was just such nasty
"day" Ito use an English phrase), as sometimes
| aflcfs them near the close of guety March. But a
little before o'clock the clouds broke INTO patches,
the sun peered wstfully through the scud, and the
Z" PROCESSION" so called moved from the muddy
espanade in front of the City Hall, and along rag
ged Pennsylvania avenue to " The Circle" away of
| toward Georgetown, where, upon dlmmutlve sort
| of shcep-cOmmOn, surrounded by few cheap DIS
| "A L n horse
| shrOuded in cotton canvas, land, al that precise
| Jun, tuIe, guarded by about 500 negroes, Of both
texes, awaiting, with great Impotence, " dc 'nVai
| " of de procession"
Except for the presence OF your magnificent 7th
| Regiment, the procession would have hardly out.
thOne that which Falstaff would not lead through
Coventry But for that " crack corps, the mill
tory display would have been beneath contempt.
How that brilliant regiment, though mastering but
three fouTths its force, distanced all competition,
and bepgared all comparison, in sOldierly arts, be-
tween it and the few shabby genteel militia COM
panies mustered in the Federal capital, and from
The contiguous cities and counties OF the Slayehold
| ing States! How even the marines from the Navy
| Yard and a squad or two OF other regular
| troops seemed to shamble along in crooked aud
J waveriDg lines, regardless of time and tune when
placed in close contrast with the elastic tread and
| manly mien of your celebrated cOrps whose
| platoons stretched across the avenue with mathe
| NAUTICAL exactness, compacted together with the
| lOck-step, which, despite The slippery pavement,
rose and fell at the top of the drum with astronom
iCal precision, their 500 gay caps set Jaunty upon
their heads and their SEQ ghttering muskets, thrown
| lightly across their shoulders, gracefully swaying
FROM side to side, like cap aud one musket, as
| they marched, looking, when they dwndled away In
the distance the sunbeams dancing ON their weapons
like some curi0usy cOntrived and strangely moving
| mechanical panorama! The avenue was thronged
with spectatOrs-ihe sidewalks and buildings teem-
Ing with life-and everybody. everywhere, praising
| the 9TH Regiment AS wheeled past the Treasury
and State Departments, first short TO the right, and
then short to the ef its lines reaching nearly across
! the avenue, the mechanical exactness with which
The double patoOns one after another, and each at
precisely the same spot keeping the Ock-step exc
| cuted these maneuyers, challenged the warm com.
| mendaton of a great crowd of people, and several
military connoitseurs, who had taken their stand at
| that locality.
| A long line of Free Masons, decked out in their
| SYMBOLIC regalia, and led by shabby brass band
| diacoursing hOaTse music, was followed by the
| Mayor and Common Council of this municipality,
| upOn whose muddy heels trOde two or three dozen
| sOrry.uOkpg uIchins understood TO be the pupils
| of fine every DAY schools of the METROPOLIS sad
proof of the bghting effects Of Slavery upon rudi-
! mental education.
But ne ale forgetting the President and his
| Cabinet They rode somewhere IN the procession
| -. B." himself occupying all alone the Executive
carriage, while his Privy Councillors, with other
| Federal officials who daDge around the Depart
ments we're stuffed in threes and fours into average
specimens of dilapidated hackney coaches with
which this city is infested, Doubtless the orator Of
| the day. and the Committee Of Arrangements, Oc-
cupied appropriate places IN the bedraggled line
| but precisely where, the writer hereof knOweth
not