The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-02-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF TIE DIsrArcHl

WAsHTSGToS Feb. p, 1861.
Now the March winds begin to blow, and
the great day of the Inauguration draweth
nigh Now You see " 900 rooms for rent " on
enteous handbilis. Now boarding house
keepers and hackmen lick the ir chops, in an
tcipati of IA rich repast. Now suspicious
characters, denominated by hotel men tran
sients without baggage begin 10 pour in
Now my friend, the Treasury clerk, who lives
across the passage, locks his door whenever
he goes ont, and our Irish landlady advises
your cores pondent to do the same. Now
your correspondent don't DO it. because he has
got nothing except cOrkscreW and two
broken pipestens TO lock up. Now every
body thinks that things are bound to come TO
a head one way or the other very immedia tely
And now everybody is mistaken.
For 1t is plain that Douglas, Seward, Crit
tenden, Guthrie, Ewing, Reverdv johnson,
and Andy Johnson, have saved this glorious
tnlon. le Gods what Il salvation. 10 think
that Free Soil, Federalism, and SQuatter Sow
ereignty have united in a joint stock com pany,
taken IN the Virginia Convention as partners,
ana auctioned OF the Old dominion and all he
Border States TO Lincoln and eventual eman-
upation. beautiful stroke OF business !.
Heaven help us all, for we are sold into worse
than Egyptian bondage.
When Mr.. Garnet alluded in the House on
yesterday 10 Mr.. Hutchinson's converse ton
with Old Abe, which ended III Old Abe's tell
ing kentucky 10 prepare for war;" (Hutchin-
son says he said prepare 10 stand by South
NdFollna, which Is the same thing;l there
ensued delightful commotion. A hulking
creature from Iowa rose, Stanton rose, SO did
OLD Ihad Stevens, and Anderson, the Ken
LUCKY demasogue, and his colleague, John
aouhg Brown, the youngest member of the
mouse. Anderson Hoped his wings like q
'UIAey gob6ler trying To balance himself on
lence, and gobbed forth Il glorifcation of
me Union Brown replied in a short speech
tuli OF eloquenee and fire, that made a pro-
found Impression III the House Stanton de
med that Lincoln was for coercion Thad
stevens corrected him, and then Stanton adj
I ai ihat he was for 'enfoTcing the laws"
an 'ht members became excited; did the
s1tttI,eS; the Chairman manipulated his
SaNdi IKE beating tan bark we say in
'HsHildj and altogether IL was Il delicious
me Peace Congress? Bless your life there
Sho'hlng 10 tell about it. Seward and Guth-
tie nave liked all the triggers, and the passage
'Ae majority report Is a mere question OF
mt 4tne. 1t WI give Virginia that spit-boA OF
SWeFAt, which Etheridge declares is all the
outa wants II VIII give the Union Republi-
ga, party In Virginia margin enough TO eject
' vu congressman on in the next canvass, 1t
n'h smash the State Rights Resistance party.
d WI provide etfeetu;lily for the everlas ting
SesIace OF +" the mother of States and OF
SSaoWsmen,' and then il will joyfully adjourn
Cyathern men have declared In this Peace
SHstsss That when we demand the Crltten-
Ias,,S oihpIomise, we did not mean that we
3d. ~ hot axe less than that. Frehnghuy-
yss;a oiu iheodore's son, made good speech
81 os|iuay and that's the sum and ga BIS lance
Inc "a lhe Peace Congress so far as / have been
'e togather it. FED.