The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-02-20
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial CORRESPONDENTS OF THE pIsPATcH. ]

WASHINGTON, Feb. IS, 1861.
The resolu tions introduced i'll the Virginia
Convention on Saturday are line specimens OF
humor. Our Republican brethren nave been
very much amused by them, should think.
For sonorous and brassy resolves, two weeks
after they can be of any account except as
farcical commentaries on tame ana feeble ac-
tion. give me your Virginia against the Worid
Pres ident Davis illusions 10 southern gum
powder ct GET rival Lincoln sjocose b2bblings
about an artificial crisis. Good taste and dis
cretion seem to have evacuated the American
mind That Southern people VIII isht-tnat
they will carry the war into Africa If 1t is
ever begun, nobody doubts; but gunpowder
threats do not become President.
The scare occasoned here by the report tha t
the Peace Congress had broken up in Il row,
or would soon do So has subsidized. swim
die of some sort will be Matched up. Emerson
Etheridge, talking TO large group of Repub-
licans, some days ago, sad "tientlemen, you
must give us something. Anything Will do
The Southern people want pretext; it mat
tiers little what. Give us 4 brickbat, Il spit
toon, anything"
Seward has given quietus to the Morrili
tariff. Lincoln has declared against its pas
sage during the present session. a new Con-
gress will be called as soon as possible-say
the 1St of une-and by that time Abe expects
to have mastered the subject by arduous stu
DIV. 1t is reported here that the Seward Doug.
las Union party in Virginia intends 10 re-
place all our present congressman, with the
exception OF Messrs. Leake, Garnett, and
Pryor.
This same Union party is actively at work
in the Peace Congress. The aim is to give
something TO satisfy Messrs. Riyes and sum
mers, paying no regard TO the views of our
other Commis ssionerS. Southern Righ Is mel
are in a hopeless minority in the Congress
The Tennessee delegation has let fiat down
| The Missouri men are a unit, and stand ul
pretty well for the South So likewise a fe W
| Kentuckians, and two OF the North Carolini
/ Commissioners.
At Charleston every thing is in readiness
| for the assault on Sumter, and has been so fol
| two weeks. The great battery, from what
| hear of it, will prove much uglier customer
| than Anderson supposes. The men who ar
! TO man 1t have been actively drilled for tina
| special service for Il month past. The plan o
| the attack i'll all its essential particulars, ha
| been determined on /: but / am not at liberty
| to state these particulars.
His serene, rail splitting, joke telling TX
| cellency, Abraham the /, will reach here oil
| Saturday, and will forthwith ensconce him
| self behind the arras OF the Cass- palace o
| the Grand ViZer, Seward. He will not be al
! lowed to show his awful person to the vul
| gar herd until he has been inaug gurated unde
| cover of Fuss and Feathers cannon. To al
| leyiate his imprisonment, he Will be permit
| ted to tell one filthy anecdote per day through
| the key hole of the front door. Acoustic tube
viii be arranged so rs TO convey these anec
| dotes over the whole city i'll the briefest pos
! sible time Senator Andrew johnson, c
| Tennessee, will have charge OF these tubes.
| ZED.