, 1862-06-03
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
lFrom Our Own Correspondent

lffon Ou1 oWn correspondent
WAsHRGrox, MaY29. 1861
General sige1 had an enthusiastic reception
at Willard's. The people believe that where
he goes there will be fighting, and fighting too
upon comprehensive plans-in q word, gen
eralship. There Is none here, on the Poto-
mac, and the people so understand it. Hence
they Telcoms Sige! as dcliverer, and such I
believe be will be if there is moral courage
enough here to supersede some one Of the
incapables, and give him command. It
is by all means unpleasant for me
to apply such terms to those who
have the confidence Of the Executive, and
in whose bands are not only the lives Of our
soldiers, but the fate Of our country. There
is some reason, some real weight, in the argn-
ment that you must not destroy confidence in
those who command your armies. I would
not undsrrate it. Yet this kini Of war cannot
peerance Of it. Bg their fruits ye shall know
them 1t Is cruelty to this question, and to
al future questlons to protgact the conflict and
pile up the debt BY keeping cowardice and In
efficiency at the head Of our armies.
cipation bill yesterday, and got it again fairly
before the House. It wjn have to go back
to committee, and Will need . slght amend
ment to insure its passage. It seems tolera-
bly, certain to go through next Wednesday if
we can get two or three absentees buck. The
MtC1A4 - AUk DEIuEt bu Me4l 4l4pICfEu Us IL
might be. The House to-day voted
new subsidy Of s35 900 to the Nationa! H.
teZJigencer. Il was nothing Less than stealing,
| All the Democrats and Border State men voted
| for it, and just enough Republicans Joined
! them to carry it through, Mr.. Thaddeus Ste
| was in the form Of T. resolution directing the
Clerk Of the House to purchase from the pro-
pricto1s Of the Intelligence. one hundred co pies
Of the *sAnna1s Of Congress-" at $3.50 each
| there being one hundred aud forty copies dis
tributed sround the capitol already, as the re-
The surviving partner OF the 1nte1ige7sesr firm,
has been hoVe1ing about the Cspitol fo1a week
| past, looking as though buttar wouldn't melt
in his mouth He seems to have been there
to some purpose. The resolution (reported
By Walton Of Vermont, Who figured in the
t*go!d spoon amendment, q few months ago)
was surprise to everybody except the iaiti
ated, and all except these favored creatures
supposed it would be instantly voted
down. In one WAY and another, every
got rich. The paper itself is losing con
ccrD, being taken only BY those who have
come down to us from past generation
funny old fellows, who wear silver spectacles
behind big desks in the departments, aud who
like to read what was done during the admin
were then in their prime.
1t ls now thought that the adjournment nil
take place about the goth OF June, or between
that date and the 1st Of July, There are somt
who think that Congress ought not to adjourn
at all while the war continues, and severn
delegations to that effect. But, the ho
weather and the coming elections will un
donbtedly bring on the vacation IS soon a:
the necessary business can be disposed of
It is By all means directed that the member;
should mlngle among their constituents ant
get their lungs well filed with the free senti
ment Of the North.
The most interesting topic Of merely 1ocs
politics at the present lime is the approaching
| election in Illinois on the new constitution
; Richardson declared in the House short tim,
since that eleven regiments Of our soldier
had cast their votes unanimously for the con
stitutlon. 1t was gasconading performance
intended to discourage opposition to tn
sw1ndle, By falsifyiDg the opinions Of til
troops. The sth cavalry and 39th infantry
votes for it. Il they are not visited By th
, commissioners, they will make out and Gel
tify their vote in the form prescribed by th
J constitution, transmit it to Springfield, an
, says that the commissioners shall visst The,
) and take their votes; and they are determine
, not to be dIsfranchised By the refusal of tt,
t commissioners to perform their duty. Not
: little comment has been excited among I
1inoieans by the. fact that John Went
: claims" has taken the stump in fave
G ofa thing which expressly provides way t
! make the people pay the old McAllister an
r stebbins bonds It ought to be called th
l McA1lfster Stebbins constitution 1t weu1
s be Interesting to know who got paid for s
G framing the SD sction Of the fourth art
r Gle Of the new constitution that this partic1
t lar sold claim'' must be paid in. .fuH, while a
l others more than five years old are ruled on,
: It is impossible to suppose that it could hay
: been done either from disinterested motive
Or ignorance, for everybody remembers th
7 "hobbery" that was Kicked up about it i
? 1853, and nobody declaimed more loud1
4 against it then than Wentworth.