Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-03-23

relation to the unlawful detention of real
estate, which We print on the fret page of
70 days paper, a. matter of general in
formation aud interest to our readers. We
are indebted, for the copy, TO the CLERK of
the House OF Delegates.
Matters and ThIngs at Warrington.
II happened to US to be in Washington
city for a few days last week, aud while
there We heard Of course considerable Of
war and politics. What else could per.
son hear Al this time in Washiugtoni The
hotels are crowded with psOple-Wlth
vast multitude who are there on business
with the government or with persons con-
nected in some military or civil way with
tho government. Some seven trains each
day run into and out of Washington over
the Washington branch Of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad. Each train comprises
an average Of eight passenger cars, and
all the cars on all the trains are full: and
all the people who come and 90 are we'll
dreSSsd-many of them extravaRAntly so
and all look more or less intelligent.
Where do they come from1 What brings
them all to Washington How do they
mako 1T payf TheSs are questions that
oscur to the traveller, even did he not hear
them SuRgestod quite frequently. One
must be we'll read in the debates OF Con-
gFsSs, and 10 the personal gossip Of the.
Washington newspapers, and the special
dispatches to the New York papers, to have
correct notion, perhaps we should say,
suspicion as to what all these people are
rushing into and out of Washington about.
How many of them are In the interest Of
the whisky lobby-hOW many are hangers.
on Of the gold intsrest-hoW many. are
there for new drawback on tobacco or
petroleum or something else, are secrets
which only a Washington familiar of very
long standing and acute Observation. can
pretend to analiEs. When you part with
the crowd at the depot you part with is
to see it scatter to great aamber Of hotels
and boarding houses-A1d to meet II again
only in pairs and squads at the doors of
some of the Secretaries or in the Hobbies
of the Capitol. What each one saws and
what he does ere he is seen again at the
depot on his way home, would form a very
motley and very curious, If not a yery
instructive, record.
A person going from the outer world
into Washington at time like this would
naturally suppose that the tone of feeling
and conversation there ought to be healthy
and cheerful. And yet 1t Is not. Why II
iS not would be difficult to explain. Their,
iS not city in. the county where so much
dF'ary, empty talking on serious, subject,
iS heard. Washington Is the head aud
centre Of war aud politics and yet it IL .
remarkable fact that the most unrOliabl,
information concerning both is eurren
there. So much of the personal slsmen
sntSrsintU everything yoa hear both ii
the way OF opinion and incident. that Vol
are compelled In sslE.defencs TO take eve.
tyshing at a discount. Fault fading Il
the bane Of Washington. The people yor
meet are as q general rule axe Rrindorl
and the grinding with most of them iS yery
unsatisfactory. Their temperg aud thei,
conversations are OOloted by their indigid.
ual fortunes and the consequences IL tia,
atter citing down aud rising up with. I
dOssn people one begins to feel a. Il h,
vas breathing a moody malaria that is Oh.
preSSiSs to the spirits. a man who had
been put out Of q responsible place by one
Of the Cabinet osaesra infor med as that I,
ease Mr.. Lincoln did not restore him. b.
should take the stump at the next Pr,si.
dental election aud tell the people wha,
sort Of = man Ne Lineolu is-that he q no,
the honest man they take him for-aud
that the war never can succeed in the hsudY
ofmsnRho are capable of sueh rrO,s n.
Justice as had been done him. This is a.
actual specimen ofSWashipeton logte-oi
the malariOuG conversation that prevails In
the hotels aud on the streets of The capital,
Public sentiment 10 WaShington Is largely
imPreguated with such personalities. =
kVsEy man who has an official grievances Of
any moment comes TO Warrington 10 bays
IL rightsd. If he succeeds he Il sb.,,t,I
and takes an encouraging view Of patiosSI
matters, II otherwise, be takes some such
AvisW as.ths gentleman Ne have referred
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1t isnet to be wondered At, Therefore.
that In WS6hiugtOn yOu and many people
who are discouraged and dsspondent
friends Of the Administration, poiiieslly
sPeahpg. They bold the same general
sentiments on the var aud about slavsry.
: and yet they aEs. critical aud ho,.iis.
strapge and pstado3ieal "a II may appear.
They hardly knoE THAT to layzOts sbst 81
do. inst Il this \ iIie tbet arS asS..ssi ~