The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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From Washington.

[special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] The way the wind blows, and the dustiness, and the strangers accumulate; and the way they visit Mount Vernon, the Patent Office, Capitol, Smithsonian, &c., is the way. You can tell the office-seekers by their hungry looks, and their constant presence in the halls of the Departments. They pace slowly up and down, peering into the shut rooms, and thinking to themselves, "may be this will be the very room they will put me in, but I had a heap rather have that other one."

The Republicans are in convulsions of terror over the telegraphic dispatch from Richmond which appears in this morning's Baltimore Sun. The secession sentiment, we are told by the aforesaid dispatch, is increasing among the people, and if any measures of coercion are adopted, the North may rest assured that Virginia will secede. So coercion is the test. Frightful increase of public spirit! "Sir," said a hero, from Virginia, no doubt,"Sir, you have kicked me seven times, you have pulled my nose 12 times, and you have spit in my face repeatedly. But, sir! let me tell you, that if ever you dare to proceed to acts of violence, you may rouse the slumbering lion within me; and then, sir, I will notbe answerable for the consequences."

By a constitutional majority of one, the House yesterday reconsidered its vote of the day previous, and agreed not to interfere with slavery in the States where it now exists.--Two-thirds of the Republicans refused by their votes to make any such agreement.

In the Senate, Fessenden, the ablest and most rabid of the Republicans, spoke so disrespectfully of the Peace Conference that Mr. Crittenden came near knocking him down. --He advanced to within striking distance of him, shook or held his fist out at him, and said something to him in tones too low to be caught. It is believed that the old gentleman did not mince his words.

So, putting this thing and that thing together, the submissionists are mightily disheartened to-day. They think because Chase and Blair are going in the Cabinet, there will be coercion, and so the Border States will be forced out of the inestimable Union. They need not be alarmed. There is no danger.--Chase has said. "Inauguration first; adjustment afterward." Besides, if the Border States can be driven out of the Union only at the point of the bayonet, it is very evident that their proper place is not with the South, not yet in a Confederacy of their own. They belong to the North.

The speeches of Stanton and Kilgore go to show that, in spite of the non-acceptance of the Peace Conference compromise, the powerful North is willing to pet and protect old broken down Virginia. We ought to be mighty grateful for so much condescension.