, 1870-12-21
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Complications -Pleasauton's APP
-~, ppintment.
The Drake and Schurz Debate.
kodcrfck Butler and C, C..
KoWeR.
Forgery and Bigamy.
VIII boutwell, Resigne
[RRox orR OWN coRxEsroypssr,]

WAsu.H0rpS, Dec. II.
Few gays absance from tie city has re-
sarded my letters. Arriving here, ind the
cauldron 20 bot that a rupture looks probable,
and tinid dependents ars seeking to get ont
Of the way. The causes Of alanu are Pleas
anton's promotion, the amnesty debate, and
Fanton's final declaration Of war nsainst
drtnt- Lesser subjects ate Admiral Portsr's
struggle for confirmation, and the arrest OF
two Cong1 essmen for alleged high c.iues.
AIfRRD nkAaAN7uN.
The Republican plsce-Rette1s Of Psnnsyl-
vania arc In the maudlln paroxysms Of despair
ever tho failure to set tho Commiaaione1ship Of
tie Aevenue. You can never 20 well convince
a Pennsylvania politician that his ke-untsy
has passed its historic prime Is when you take
away from him something that he has
stolen, OF interpose TO keep him from steI-
ing something more. The only possible
AggEaFAtion Of this eituatiou Is where some
body else anticipates the Pennsylvania, and
steala ahead Of him. Such is tho grief 1t
present. General Rutus Ingalls,, that insc1u~
tsbie military Nephiascphelea, who appears 10
have got the pzesideut's name TO : bond. OF
blbcd somewhere back In the psst-ss when
they wero classmates at West Point, or served
together in the wl1ds Of the ColumhiA- Ingalls,
hss beaten all the politicians Of the party, aud
put his agreeable familiar, General Pleas
anton, in the powerful Office OF internal sau.-
ton This same General Ingalls, was the
primo mover and executor Of the San Do
was being berated everywhere for his supposed
fMWatdneaa In this project Of annexation. In
gals escaped notice. Nevertheless he did ac-
company Babcock to the tropics; he WIS the
Immediate dictator Of that curious special mes
sage which the President sent to Congress On
p!easanton By hand "a Stephen Ffion
ednced Perkin WAtbeck- PleAsAnton %as
good cavalry officer, but when Grant cane
East to take command Of the Virginia forces,
he sent pleasanton away. 1ng1lls, in due
tine, brought him back to New York. and he
revenue service. OF Pleasanton little il
knowD, except that he Is sort OF docile gal
lant, we'll arranged As to his haiE and mous-
tache, not masculine, and, in short, N old
besu' Ingalls, is bachelor, residing In New
York city. and be has fascination and brave
courage for speculation During the war he
waa QuhrteEmaster General OF the East. 1ived
e1travaBantly, and even prinoe1y, in the field,
and created superstition that lie Was a sort
OF false Prince OF Como, better to give gold
snu6-boxea to than to give him your daughter
in marriage. This eagle Of Wall street, this
AA6A pAeN@A VI UQ1lE, }k4l9 NouCNEIGI OIL x1EAu-
tic steamship echemes, and tho purchaser Of
archipelagoes. is a singular baing to stand
above orr aftless President and wave his po-
tentswaud.
THE ADMINISTRATIONS TWO FA1n1Ea
at last we arc beginning TO perceive undor
the too sly. eec1etiye, aud sdrolt persons nt
Ingalls, and Horace Porter, tho Hichelieu and
the alszarin Of The present administration. No
two men can DO mora unlike. ingalls, hts
ken, range, command, daring. He never
playa for Ices than fleet, tnine, cAzgo, OF
a province. Used to handling large values, TO
buying BY millions Of rations, to burning on
tho enemy's approach supplies sufficient to
feed tens OF thousands Of men, be il sugges-
tive and extravagant upon An equally sweeping
ecale. II you will read the Presidents last
message upon the article Of San Domlugo. rou
will catch the spirit Of this real Minister OF
State, who breathed into that portion OF a
commonplace composition tis imperial greed.
Napoleon was capable Of appreciAting the
genius OF such QuArte1mAsser when he said
that m army moved upon ita belly, ant ingalls,
is regular Charles the Twelfth in ricsuaIa.
He moves ID the interests Of his nation like q
flock Of locusts, equally yoracious and destruo-
i've, md ha can waste nofesupplies and swoool
be inspiring to sec such gigantic minds
amongst US II We were not taxpayers.
HORACE PoRTER.
Horace Porter is youthful mAu, faft-look.
ing, 1t the beginning Of manly life. the son,
believe, Of : APennsylvaniA Governor, and ol
of administration. His raticance Ia not only I
subject Of remark, occAsioned By association
with him, but it appears to be expressed upon
hls face. There Always seemed to me to be
the look upon 1t which i secret long leo.
weats there 1t laAt, tho look not Like guilt,
hhb,t OF digression in tall from the large and
immediate to the trivial, = coldness and dls
tance which ia no part Of his warm temperA.
| mcnt. He can he seen generally
walking Alone, aud 10 sud te
hare no friends at the White Ho1se
exccpt Captain Bsbcock. hia associate. Young
dents secrefsry, has beea showed aside b.
| this Abide Camp OF General Sherman; Gan.
erAt Frederick Dent, the Presidents origina1
choice for Secretary, was dtsnllowed h,m BY
| his advisers, because, III they Ill said, 4' Deul
ess sfsaa saa hs. E can't md 1ssp s t'ssa
Of his own I've minutes" Horace
Porter, therefore, the sec1st-keepcf, Va:
pushed in between Douglas and the Preei.
dent; young Douglas retired to be the solaes
and share the eympAihy Of General Dent
Porter had been ono Of the Later military aides
| Of tho President. Unlike John R1wfina Ant
'o!hera, and with cool, wAtchful hssiduity, b.
became the Indispensable " safe4leposit com
pany OF our Chief Magistrate The more o1
| yaluAbles he held the more were entrusted tt
linn BY habit aud tho faster he was shut. Raw
Grant, began TO feel the cold, clock-ike con
stanoy Of their young Captain, 50 unsociA
compared With their Western candot anG
public epirit, aud some Of the woKser feel:nGt
Of RaHlins' Inter days Wero associated Will
this still young martinez who had teplAoei
him In Grant's intimate confidence. Porte
has steadily grown. somewhat ~ young Gen
| NfNt Hsnf1fnn fyTan y1r fhA anxlnnh Advrir
ton Of his older rivals In Wsshiugton's I'd
ministration, except that Hamilton hat
genius, Wills all that tho public knows Of FOR
ter is his reticence and iraueuce. OF late
set rich. Colonel Lees, Of Pittsburgh
one OF his stewards, has part Of the mo
nopoly in the General Order Bonded Ware
house at New York. Captain DAbcock, hi
confidential escape valSe. was SLOWED to 30 t
San D1mingo on Ingalls, e1Eand: for, Will
Porter and Ingalls, occupy equal, but dltystenl
relations to Grant, tEes long ago wake
around each other, ind concluded that IT va
neither safe nor necessary to disagree. Wher
their o1bite cro&s they coa1eEce, but soon II
| yoise anew in Giderent fields. Collector To,
Murphy and the New York Custom House i.
the works Of Ar. Porter, while General Plsai
anton and the Internal Revenue ara tt
prizes Of Mr.. 1ngalle. Thus. while Mr. Dout
les says, after lis failure to get Delauo's hi
place:
"lt's hard to beat the buttoni;r
md while Mr. Kelley and Mr.. Cameron are +,
ferrnE in vague terms to tho " military ring
! = fine Wall street politician uses no such an
ofeult.es, but comes night to the point by n
mArkiag:,
Rufe Ingalls, has again laid cut Ill IL,
politicians in the United States"
lwIl pursue this subject no further It pre.
eut, but yon may rely upon the fact that tb
Minister Of Marine, Of State. and Of 1nterns
Revenue, is Ganetal Ingalls, The unbuzziu
busy bee ia Captain Porter, some Of Vhos
archaeological Impressions have besn discoy
| cred, but his true structure ia still In doubt.
THE scHuRz AND DRAKE TALK.
The great event In point Of candid. ope
combat, unlike the chicAnety over the success
sion Of DelAno, has been the deli1sesuce @
| speeches By Schusz and Drake. each unboson
Cal schnz left brako and 3lcClares couysu
ton last fall, because they led pack Of re7e
nuc thieves aud postmaase1s, and Schur
nominated Gratx Brown for Gosesuus xEups
, 1cGurg. The issue vas amnesty. The us.
ter vas sood faith, republican government
and mar!iuess mono Of these thmge. o
! course, Represented By Dtaks's sst 0
privateers. Drake came to Washington sn
sedueed our deeply insuitiye President to wit
with the came hand which xrpte :. Lat n
have peace" . support Of his disunio
faction. Sehutz, BroWu: and the Missouri Dim
\ and imbeci!itv bs about 1900 votet, Draf
foundit necessary to set into she'd OF outhaps
Of soms sort to avoid the general grin vhic
politely encountered bun Oh the streeta Of 81
Loui-, and he bored the mo.ifed Pres5deut t
, give him cushion on tie bench Of iha Cou,
of Claims. hitherto WY reputable aud jud
, cal body. On the eve Of nut1iing laia hesd /
This wx!,-retFesting from the Senate In th
l middle Of his tenn to cubby-hoie Of Il
) | Capttol,-he concluded 10 make Z long fsr,
him By speech on annesty. Tie lstteF VI
: delivered on Thursday, The Drako sneech a
: Friday. Dsats u sui bum, ,hing up his piso'