Evening star., 1870-01-12

The Capital.Wheeling Project.
has Eniisted Eighty Members, War-horse. and
orsssmGn Coburn-Rem0rkabie Letter from Con-
greSsm1n Boyd-The Cdpttdi-rktelers quiet and
dSriIish sly-Immsnse Meetings., and Numbering
Washington none the riser- Warrington to be
Blown Slyhigh By the Learen left by Rearis-
And where did Rearis leare has little Lump of
Learen nat is 70 BioW Warrington Sky-high p
Motto ef Congressmon Boyd-s.On 10 tke Nissis-
Slppt rdUey and TIE Queen Of the ANTILLES -
Wherefore on to tie Queen Of the Antilles, oh
Congressman Boyd'
We clip the following curious affair from the
St. Louis Democrat Of JanuaryI:
"The movement for the removal of the Ma
tOnal Capital to the West has at last assumed
m active, working status, which augurs the
most complete success. The day Of talk has
been succeeded by an era of effective action,
and the different committees are working har-
moniously together, with every promise of ad-
yanced progress during the present session of
A meeting of the movers in the enterprise
was held last evening in ParlOr No. Q of the
Southern Hotel, which was both enthusiastic
and largely attended.
Zion G. Smith, Esq, was called to the chair.
and Mr. Barrett, Of the Dispatch, chosen Secre-
tary.
The principal object of the meeting was to
consider the propriety Of appointing a commit
tee tO visit Washington and take measures to
prevent further appropriations of money for
erecting public buildings in that obscure 10
cality.
Robert NJ. Renick, EsI., stated that the object
should be to have the committee bring the sub
Ject directly before Western members Of Con-
gress, and secure their prompt and hearty CO.
operation in the efforts now being made in ST
Louis
1t was determined that a committee of five
lor that purpose be appointed by the Chair pre-
Uous to the next meeting, and that the funds
ne cossary to pay the expenses of their trip 10
Washington be raised by subscription.
a Congressional organization has been formed
IN Washington, composed of members who will
sustain the enterprise, and labor zealously to
bring the removal to an issue in Congress. This
organization was started on the Sth of Decem-
Der, and now numbers nearly eighty members.
Gen John A. Logan, of Illinois, a war-hOrse of
energy and determination, is chairman, and
Hon John Coburn, OF Ind, the secretary.
The following letters were read at the meet
ing:
PROM CONGRESSMAN CoBURy
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 1869.
DEAR SIR: Yours came to hand duly. Ihaye
crossed.
Nothing new We are pretty strong. Don't
kTow exactly how strong.
They want about SS0O.0OO for the city and public
buildings this year. But We are quiet as we can
pS' iOhfs Truly, u. CoBURN.
IRON CONGRESSMAN BOYD, OF MISSOURI.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. "a, 1860.
Mr.. l.. Z. Reoris:
DEAR SIR: We have grown from a very small,
circle until we confidently rely on seventy-four
atlOns and for removal OF the Capital, and we
have good large number yet to work on; and
thc beauty of the movement is, we have large
meetings, and no one outside knows ANYTHING
about IT. When you left, all the city papers no.
ticed il, and believed the removal hal petered
Little did the poor, sleeping, slumbering igno-
rance of Washington know that YOU have Sc
cIetly lett little leaven which may blow their
air castles to perdition in the twinkle of an eve
Our hrst attack Is against appropriations for the
GTg at fair III We succeed with this then we will
1ai>e our banner-On TO the Tdlley Of tae Mssis-
siIFi ard the Queen of the Antilles.
After the reading of the above letters. the
meeting adjourned TO meet again at the same
place on Thursday evening next"
This "enthusiastic uprising" of the Great
West for the removal of the Capital, which
seems to find ample accommodation in "Parlor
No ~ of St Louis hotel, gets SO much com
fort from the assurances OF Mr.. Reayis and of
his two Washington correspondents that 1t is
hard to throw wet blanket upon the pleasing
hopes which found expression over the exhiler-
ating cocktails in said parlor. But, from what
We near, not few OF the eighty members
counted upon by the captal-mo vers will disap-
point the expectations Of Parior No. when a
vote is reached.
Congressman Coburn, it will be seen, draws
Il rather mild. He has ",lone nothing nm
xL6 address," ''his time has been too much
engrossed;" there is 'nothing new; - the
wheelers are "pretty strong,-he ''doesn't know
exactly how strong" SLOPES to overcome all
large appropriations" but is not sanguine, evil
IDENTITY.
But Congressman Boyd goes the whole figure.
He gees for the Mississippi Valley and " for the
Queen Of the Antilles" In the classic language
Of the future capital, he denies that " the re-
mOval has petered' The "poor, sleeping,
slumbering,-not only sleeping but slumber-
ing-"ignOranee of Washington" sleeps and
siUmbers and slumbers and sleeps while that gay
Guy, the festive Reayis, Is putting the explosive
leaven under their four-posters that is to send
them to Heaven, or the other place.
When Reayis lett this city in such apparent
disgust because the st. Louis rea,-estate
sieeulators failed to supply him with the
means to keep him atioat, the cOnfiding and
yawning Washingtonians, bored to death by
his sopcrihe pamphlets, went straight to sleep
again with the idea that all was right-a sleep it
seems that is TO know no waking, or the very
rude one limited at by Congressman Boyd. And
while they have slept the wheelers have worked
In secret. a combination has been effected to
oppose appropriations; commencing with that
for the ''great fair"-Washington's great fair
not that Of ST. Louis, We suppose. This done,
out 20 the banners of Parlor No. 2-on the
outer wall, and Ho for the valley of
the Mississippi and the Queen of the
Antilles, Why the Queen of the Antilles
or what the Queen has TO do with the cap tai
moving project is n mystery, but Con-
gresham Il. underlines the words they very
evidently have some significance In his mind.
Really il the st. Louis Democrat ever INDUCED
in anything like persifage, We should think the
report Of this meeting in Parlor No. 2, was a
very creamy burlesque, but as we do not re-
member ever to have seen joke in St. Louis
PAPER, we must suppose it to be a bona fide re-
port That any St. Louis paper in earnest in
the project of the removal of the Capitol should
permit these proceedings and these remarkable
letters to get in print we cannot believe, and
therefore must set down the Democrat as dis
posed to give the cold shoulder to that move
ment Taken seriously, 1t is scarcely to be sup
posed that "a" or any considerable number of
thoughtful, intelligent representatives, sent
here on the business OF the nation, and entrust-
ed with the interests of their constituents. have
abandoned all the important business of the
session, and formed themselves into a secret
conclaye with the petty purpose Of defeating the
ordinary appropriations for carrying on the
business of Government at the capital of the
hation-and for what? Why simply to further
the scheme of half dozen real estate specula-
lat zs.fS