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WAsHrSeToN, March Is, 1868.
THE city of Washington is doing as well as
could be expected under the circumstances.
The XXXTn Congress has passed away,
and no great griefis felt as to its departure.
It did some good things, and came out well
with the essential measures on the home
stretch, but the partisan majority in it was,
unfortunately large. The Senate has done
large business in confirming appointments, and
small one in rejecting them. The quality
of discrimination was not displayed The
confirmation of Cassius N. Clay as Minister to
Russia, was to get rid Of him. He had be-
come a bore Of mammoth proportions. In
military matters several squirts have been
made Generals, and, of course, some good meu
rejected. The people themselves are much to
blame for this. The amount of lying brought
to bear upon our amiable President is terrific.
1t is not singular that he is sometimes con
fused.
In official circles as they call the crowd at
the War Office and Wizards there is much
confidence that Gen. Grants work win come
out all right At the same time, fears are
generally entertained that the rebels are doub-
ling on Rosecrans. Grant has been more
successful than any other General, in so scat
tering his forces, as to allow the enemy to
pounce upon part OF them with his whole
force; and il, while he is feeling around Yicks-
burg, the rebels should evacuate and fall with
full force upon Rosecrans, I don't see Grants
victory. Roseerans holds the post Of danger.
Our excellent old ldGeReral-in-cliicf, the SOM
nolent HaIleck, is not in the most amiable
humor in the world, and the same thing is to
be said OF the judicious, agreeable, and affee-
tionate Stanton. They are said to do an en-
'Drmous deal of ecussiu and swearin when
they are together. All the great men here,
except Chase, swear like pirates. Even the
President occasionally INDUCES in mild d--nl
Seward swears double and twist oaths, and
smokes like thepit, not to speak Of the "smiles
he taxes It is very sad.
There was a very large, not to say big, thing
the other day. Itwas the fashion, you know,
for some time, for played-out officers to make
a bee-line for Washington, and get into the
bosom of Father Abramam. They were al
ways indescribably anxious for some thing to
do, to save this perishing country. In point
of fact they didn't do it-not much. But the
collection Of the debris of our bad generalship
about here was offensive. 1t was especially
a bore to General Halleck to have the bestar-
red defuncts rushing about here with their
stahs, making nuisance of themselves. 1t
was not comfortable to have fifteen or twenty
Major Generals stopping at Wizards, each
with "plan," covering the major part Of out
doors to bring the war to an end in ninety
days, and all more or less infesting the White
House. The consequence was, the exemplary
Halleck-who is big brick, and occasionally
carries a small brick in his hat-issued an or
der, forbidding officers to visit Washington
without orders. In its terms, the fact was
peroeptible that it was intended especially for
the officers of highest rank.
But what should we have last week but an
overflow of Major Generals, &c, from Cincin-
natl. The Buell. Commission, supposed some
months since to have been moribund-wellitI it
busted, or took furlough-and Major Gener-
al Lewis Wallace, and Major General E. 0. !
Ord, and Major Don Piatt, Judge Advocate,
suddenly appeared at the capitol of their coun-
try. They had business of the most extreme
importance with the President, General-in-
chief Secretary Of War, and nearly every body
else.
Major General Lewis Wallace had pair Of
old saddle-bags full Of resolutions of the City
Council of Cincinnati, and of the Legislature
of Ohio, and perhaps of other bodies largely
of the merits of military chieftains
and some copies of T. Buchanan Reads At
lantio Monthly article on the sanguinary "siege
of Cincinnati" in which General Wallace dis
himself by leading the brilliant
charge OF heavy staff, that penetrated to
within mile and half Of our outer pickets
The main object of the visit of Major General
Lewis Wallace to Washington, as a matter of
course, was connected with the business of
the Buell. Commission. But incidentally he
wanted to lay his literature before the Presi-
dent; and secure q bran new department in
Texas, or the Moon. Major General Ord and
Major Piatt's business was not so well defined,
The Major it is thought, sought an opportu-
nifty to FIJI his belly with the east wind. He
might have been induced, If he had been Civ
en- time, to make slight speech from some
noble portico The Major General thought
the Washington atmosphere good for a bron-
shial affection; besides, he wanted some
steamed oysters.
The Buell. Committee arrived on Saturday