The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-12-16
LETTERS FROM WASHINGTON
Especial Correspondent of the Wheeling Register
WASHINGTON, December IL, 1868
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n To-day neither House Of Congress ls in
session, Of course the Speaker Of the So
called "Lower House is making up his
committees, as the custom is. Doubtless
they viii be found as ultra as there can be
need for, though they come from a selection
of a man who told me two years ago that
he sneysr felt so like knocking msn 1own
as when he called him (Colfax) an Aboli
tionist.n By this time it is more than pro-
bable the said Speaker has found great yir-
tue in that word, and will not hesitate to
accept it even a, compliment I-hazard,
however, the prediction that the day is not
exceedingly distant when it will become a
more hated word than ever it was in the
past
ANALYSIS or THE Presidents MESSAGE.
The Presidents Message is not much
talked about, and the silence in reference to
it is more significant than speech. People
see that Mr. Lincoln has adopted the '.sic
colo, sic jubeo,n doctrine to the full as much
as any born tyrant or hereditary dictator; /;
they also sea that greenbacks and bayonsts
are powers that no love Of freedom or poll
tca integrity can yet gainsay, and that as
the people at large have learnt only to obey
it is useless to waste comment on what
seems inevitable. Fer myself, think two
or thres things lie upon the face of the
Message. lst 1t utterly repeals and re-
pedisses the ideas, principles and words of
Of the Crttenden resolutions of July, 1851,
as we'll as the professions, pledges and pro
misses made by Mr. Lincoln in his early
Messages and the diploma correspondence
of his Secretary of State. 3D. 1t is design.
ed to produce the practical effect of pro-
longing the war as long in bim (the Pres
ident) lies. Sd. 1t is an electenssrin1 doc.
ument, intended to subserve the further
Presidential aspirations OF its ostensible
author A. Thnt it furnishes the rebels
the best reasons they have ever had for con.
tinuing the war and to foreign powers the
best justification extant for acknowledging
the Independence of the South.
THE NEW CHAPLAIN TO THE HOUSE.
Yesterday there was pretty warm Coz
test in the House of Representatives, over
the election Of Chaplain. Bishop Hop
kins, of Vermont, was pitted by the Con
servstives against William Henry Charming,
who has succeeded the notorious Moncure
D. Conway in the occupation Of the pulpit
of the Unitarian Church in this city. Chan.
ming was elected, as was to be expected,
but it was his ultra Radicalism aud not his
eloquence or his Christianity that prevailed
with the majority. He is the most nsipid
and unintelligble of preachers, and bis
Christianity is of that stripe that is more
fitting in the phalanstery than in the
Church. Well, let ;hem have their day; il
will be the sooner over.
THE RUSSIAN FLEET
Tomorrow the Members Of Coners..
with their families will be received, with !
all the homo 5, on board the Russian feet
now lying below our city, in response 20 an
invitation from Admiral Lesovsky. People |
at distance might suppose that the people |
Of Washington are greatly exercised on /
account OF the near presence Of this naval /
force. But no mistake could be greater
The subject is hardly mentioned
TWO HuMBUds.
Fred Douglas leetured here night or
two ago to public audience, as did also
the renowned Phinsas T. Barnum on mo
nsy makisg." The people of Washington
have no regard for either; howeve! Barnun |
is not the worst fellow in tue world
iHoRsE STAMPEDE.
The wear and tear of horse-hesh as we'll !
as Of white mans and negro's is not small
in the government establishments in thi.
vicinity. At the cavalry corral sbont two
miles from this city, thousands OF horses /
are kept, aud sometimes they break away, :
as they did last evening, in large drovss like |,
8 herd Of bufalus. The result was that in |
attempting to cross the Navy Yard Bridge !
they broke it down, and thirty-five OF the /
horses wsre drowned. The waste tha is
witnessed IN q hundred ways, would, in /
other times, be matter OF remark. But now
that sreenback' are SO pIentifulIy aud essi
ly made, why exercise economy!
ABOLITION HrPocRur.
The propositions to abolish tie fugitive
slave law End every right Of tbsslsve States
TO their property, give. the lie 70 all the
professions Of the Abolitionists, aud their .
mean aud eowardly followers, whilst the ca
reer Of tee amalganationists shows that
the other branch OF their policy-vhich i.
to render the negroe, ths equals of the !
whites, in oil political rsspec,s-will be as
fully attempted. But gresnbacks sad BAY ;
ouets can do wonders and why may they
not rub out the leopard spots, and scrub |
white the Ethiopisn's skin
Yours, PiSNAcr i
P. Anthracite cosl IS selling here at
Sl2 per ton; and Cumberland. or bitumi- 7
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