, 1865-10-16
FROM WASHINGTON,

Tie Pardon Ruainea.-Madame Lie
Vert and t7cn. NeaureEard-Propose
1ncreEke of tie Regular Army-TLe
Constitutional Union NeyygpapeE-
Cen. Ilumphreys, of t11ssIsslppI. :
fFrom Our Own Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 1861.
There has been decided falling off In the
number Of rebel supplicants for executive
mercy al the daily audiences Of the President.
Whether those able to ralse the amount Of the
ncediul necessary for visit to the North have
au been here whether the .unBtinted dIspen-
Eation Of Presidential clcmency has persuaded
the yet unsanctified that It Is not necessary to
so in person, or whether the meetings Of sew
eral Statc Conventions are keeping them back,
it is certain that the present throng In daily
attendance at the White House arc numeri-
cally not one third what they were during the
whole Of hast month.
But, Whnterer the loss entai1ed upon keep
crs Of hotels and 6alooDs aud other more or
less respectable aud moral establishments fot
the comfort and pleasure II strangers in this
eod-1ike city by his diminution may have
been; however mich the thriving business of
rnrdcn brokers, high and low, male and fe-
inalc, may haye Suffered from 1t, there has
bt1n no depreciation in the quality OF the Pc
1itioncrs still In personal quest Of Prcsiden-
tfM fOrctyuess-nav, on the contrary, their
quality has teen Improved. It is true such
sterling defenders OF the rebel faith az Mosby
and Capt Dick Turner and Admiral Selnmes
and James Aaerudcr have not yet either reg
istcred their names at the Attorney Generals
otllcc, or made their appearance In the ante
rooms Of the White House. But then we
have had In our midst the chfvalrous limbo
den, host In himself as we all know, amply
sufficient to compensate lis for the continued
absence Of other worthless Of equal merit and
ri AyaA $1In n ~
ter wear, NIL but unlcarhblc priyation OF
the boon, during all lie long yesrs Of the war
Aes once more been delighted by the presence
Of TIE mir and famed, the aHirituelle; the
charming Madame Lc Yert-the Madame de
stncl OF Inc south, who came, go the omnls-
cdGnt chIoniclcrt Of the Washington prcss
infolm nc, not 10 sue for mercy for herse,f-
who could bc 20 batbarous as to exact such
humiliation of one 20 gentle 80 Cifletl and
renowned e-bnt to plead the case Of tho
great, the good aud gallant BeAurega1d. the
proud and particular tayoritc Of all the weak
er sex in the late Contcduacy-
We all remember what heartfelt ovations
this. typical representative Of tue military
glory oi the South received at different
tiucs md II different places In the course Of
lie rebellion at tair hands. Il Is fresh In onr
memory, how they strewed his glorious path
with GoTas IN Charleston, New Orleans, No
bile, Richmond axd other clties, 'Whose boast
cd defender from the ruthless invader he be-
came successfully. It is still ytyid IN our
recollection, how be rushed with chiyalrous
zest before an admirins world, as the chosen
champion Of all Southetn womanhood, when
Euiler, the least, the insatiate monster, the
hloodthirsty ogre, was supposed to threaten
worse than death to The fair rebels al New
Orleans. And It must scem 10 us, then, per-
1ectly ut and becoming, that she, who has
erer atood and still stands the recognized
!, mead and pride Of her ser IN the South, should