New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-02-12
wAsHINer0N co., aEsPoNDENeE.
Special to die new orleans crescent

wAsarreroF February, B 1851
z Mr.. Editor: Twotbirds Of the session gone, ana
nothing done. Six States out Of the Union, and no
proposition from the Republicans to bring them
back, or even to keep others from going Fatality
II is true that Seward has abandoned his extreme
grounds; but be has done it 30 reluctantly and so
equivocally that it has directly contrary effect to
what he intended, or rather pretended. The pro-
cess Of disntegration is not yet arrested.
All eyes, and all hands, too, are turned 70 YH-
glhia. Not content WIN fhe machlhauons OF hef
Own SUBMISSION pohtdcanss there are some mere
"fio must nave taeir Hnger ID the PIE. heHansoys
u Sh7 oeasus oice, = inedalesoIhs looi, VIZ lssu
ii's H"Se D'oAeh y ooion boiiaho 20 = rev years ao
~ " 80 ~ " '.'s peon
POI aAa .notAious y st.0Ass1
virginia, marry i'unhiao' ~ elea 70 sap nls
jaws II ne aarea 70 sehd any ol esethehs eiaap-
trap Union speecnes 70 als DissElcs, anu De-
Jarnette dd az much. AS TO the results n ViFglnas
have nothing 70 say because nave nave great aeai
to fear, and because the election news VIII feaeA
you, in part at least, before this letter does.
Latham, Of California made fne antl-coeFcloH
speeeh 'his hioinips s ~ sAe N'e1 - sss-z
have Just returned. He IS OF medIam a1asares aNr
rather q thickaes figure, handsome iacs, "a iafg
Wel-formed mead, iisnt mar ana eohpie1ioir alles
youthihi, ana mas eleaf, stfohg VOICE anu anu soo4
deliyery-a tribe too stump1ah for the senate. He
was against force, against secession, and closed
with spread"eagle glorfication OF the Union
said California was indissolubly bonnd to the free
States. As soon as ne sat DOWN, Andy Johnson
jumped up, my stomach began TO heaye, and de-
parted Immediately.
Day after day we expect to hear Of fighting at
Charleston and Pensacola, and day after day we
don't hear What Chase and Pickena the Cover
nor, not the fort-are waiting for, is mystery t0
| us all. Some say the preparations are not all
made. Others contend that they are waiting for
| the government Of the Southern Confederacy to
demand the forts, &C., &c. Meantime the foreign
| ministers are getting anxious abonf customs.
What to do, they don't know; nor even the Ad-
| ministration, anybody else. the suspense I5
unbearabIe to rejecting men; but the mercurial
naonIe in town are beginning to be gay with their
hons halls and parties. None of the Cabinet have
o;ven narties. 40 far as have heard. The Presi-
dents receptions are pretty weH attended; every
bodv excent newspaper men, are at leisure the
| wbite House is a good place to loaf for an hour
or 40 nnt1 To O'Clock the supper time at the Faro
hanks.
pIentisnr delegations from the northern cities
have come in here, bringing big lists Of names,
| wranned in the flag OF me country y praying
Congress to pass the Crittenden amendment. But
the imnerial ukase, no concession,r has issued
from the wo-story frame palace Of the Tar {spel
it with r y at Springfield, and Congress dare not
disobey it. The way the whole north is trucking
to lincoln il disgusting nay it is alarming for
with the known northern taste for strong govern
r nent,, it points to military despoti5nn.
One of the best speeches, and perhaps the very
best arguments il favor of the right Of the sonth
/ to act as it has done, il that Of Judge Hemphl-
He has ttle skill as orator, but is profound
, and exhaustive in his treatment of constitutional
questions. Wiefall speaks easily and well. North
, arn naonIe have a horrld idea of him They think
he can neither read nor write and Is so fond OF
e blood that he has to murder nigger every morn
ing, by way of a cocktail, to give him an appetite
' for breakfast
E Pryor's speech was chaste and Cceronian in its
style very different from the thunder and bowie
knife diatrbe which the Yankees expected from
. him. | think if you will read M. H. Il. Garnettfs
. speech you will agree with me in rating it among
i, the strongest efforts of the session. Indeed, in
statesmanike comprehension of the whole question
now at issue between the two sections, il stands
r. without rival.
T. The Washington submissionists- nine tenths o
IS the population-are expecting great things from
of the Peace Congress, which assemblies in Willard
d. | concert room on Monday next Nearly all the
Id sented. Knowing men feel certain that no goos