Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-02
Our sprlnsfleId Correspopdence.

One OF tne signs winch are TO indicate the
approaching end of the world, is that imany
shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be
increased" Whether or not knowledge is
being much increased, the running to and
fro of many is too palpable here to be over
looked. There is enough of it for twenty
ends of the world at the least calculation;
and if the boring which Mr.. Lincoln is daily
obliged to undergo has any effect upon him,
he will, before the fourth day of March next,
be perforated deeper than the artesian we'll
at Columbus, which, by all accounts, is the
most extensive hole upon the terraqueous
globe.
1t is said that at Parkersburg, in Virginia,
where, amid excitements of a kind that throw
political matters into the shade, the great
question is, have you struck lie? A similar
question, HlutdtiS mutandis, is the absorbing
one here. Spectators from all parts of the
Union, dubious of their own success in
hitting the Presidential reservoir, inquire of
each other, with the aspect of indifference,
but with real anxiety, have you struck lie?
Nobody is willing to admit that he hasn't,
and few are sufficiently confident to declare
that they have. The fact is that, TO the
crowd of operators in general, neither boring
nor pumping is very satisfactory, and the
current finances melt away without much
prospect of remunerative returns. Mr. Lin
coin is very affable, hears with excellent
good humor, talks with great freedom, but
without coming exactly to the desired point,
with skill that would do honor to the head
Of the circumlocution office.
And well he may; for of political tag. rag
and bob-tail he has around him enough for a
lifetime. The impudent, the craving, the
unwholesome-men who never thought of
being Republicans until after his election,
are now crowding themselves upon his no.
tice, offering their advice as to what he
should do to extricate the country from its
troubles, how he should conduct his Admin
istratioD, and who he should take into his
! Cabinet lousy looking newspaper corre-
spondents caves dropping and button. holing
the personal friends of the Presdent-elect
seizing upon stray rumors, snatching at ran
dom expressions, stating loose conjectures
as ascertained facts, and manufacturing
where they can not pick up the materials for
letters and dispatches, make upa mixture
that the lower order of devils might look
upon with feelings of especial complacency.
1t is known here that it was in compli-
! ance with the views of Mr.. Lincoln that the
Republicans of Illinois interposed to pre-
vent the appointment of delegates to the
Convention of the 4th prox. The President
elect had the sagacity to see that while del
egates from the free States could do moth
ing good they might be the occasion Of a
good deal of mischief, and much embarrass
his Administration. Mr.. Lincoln has i'm
plicit confidence in the steadiness and pat
riotism of the people of the North and will
act as if he were sustained by sentiment
in favor of the support of the Constitution
and the enforcement of the laws as they are
until he is fully convinced to the contrary
Any thing, therefore, which looks like g
recognition of Secession as a right, or as 9
fact, by his friends or the Republican Party
will be viewed by him with regret.
OF Cabinet making there are twenty con
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that Governor Chase, of your State, has con-
trived to have it reach Mr.. Lincoln that ht
would not have the least objection to the
post of head of the Treasury Department
The peculiarly characteristic course of the
Cincinnati Commercial is thought to be {
reflection, if not of his manners, of his am
bition. have been told by gentleman o
undoubted veracity that he saw the not
from Mr.. Lincoln to Gen. Cameron, in whicl
be rendered to that gentleman his choice
between the War and the Treasury Depart
ments. The idea of the Commercial appear
to have been that, by the use of a suficien
amount of brutum fulnsn, Mr.. Lincoln nigh
be frightened from his position; and som,
think that Mr.. Chase was not an uncon
cerned spectator of the proceeding, as h
remarked at Lafayette that 'Major Wilson
was very devoted friend of his, but littl
ardent and indiscreet. GRASS.