Weekly Miners' Express

Washington Correspondence.
Washington D. C.
March 18th 1849.

Dear Doctor:—You will have heard I presume, before this reaches you, that Col. Fitz Henry Warren of your State, has been appointed to the Office of 2nd Assistant Post Master General, as a reward for his services in the late campaign for the Presidency; whilst on the other hand, the very able and talented predecessor of Col. W., Hon Mr. Brown, has been ostracised for doing the same thing that Warren has done in aid of his party.

This is Whig consistency with a vengeance, and is strongly indicative of the sincerity with which Old Zack promised, not to proscribe for opinion's sake.

But sir, in the appointment of which I have spoken, there is, as I am credibly informed, a regular bargain and contract entered into, that this man Warren promises to use his utmost endeavours to revolutionize the States of Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin, and to pave the way for the admission of Minnesota into the Union as a Whig State, and from what I can learn of the man, he will leave no means untried to fulfil such a contract.

The Office Seekers are much more numerous here at this time, than they were ever known to be on any former occasion, and are infinitely more eager for blood than they have ever been, except perhaps in 1841, when they literally smothered their President by the crowd.

Old Zack has had the firmness to drive them from the White House, and to shut the Mansion doors against them.

He first announced that he would see his friends from 9 A. M. till midnight.—He was soon however, driven from that stand by his discourteous visitors, and was obliged to give notice through the papers, that his house would be open only from 12 A. M. to 3 P. M.

Notwithstanding he informed all Office Seekers that their applications should be presented to the Departments and not to him, still they continued to overrun his Mansion in search of blood, and at last he issued a bulletin, that their intrusions would not be tolerated except on Tuesdays and Fridays and then only from 12 M. to 3 P. M.

The Departments are now kept open from breakfast time till 12 o'clock at night, to allow these spoils-men to present their recommendation, and crowds of supplicants are constantly seen in their halls. The reception of these Office Seekers, and the registering and filing (for they do not now pretend to read them) of their applications and petitions, constitutes nearly the whole business of the Departments, and has done so since the 4th inst.

A matter of interest to you, will be the decision of the Supreme Court upon the question of boundary between your State and Missouri.

"Sullivan's line," (so far as it was run, and a line due west from its western terminus, is to be the boundary, and Joseph C. Brown of Missouri, and H. B Henderson of Ottumwa Iowa, are appointed by the Court, as Commissioners to survey, mark and establish this line, by erecting cast Iron pyramids at every ten miles distance between the Des Moines and Missouri Rivers.

You may expect a communication from me occasionally through the summer as circumstances of importance may transpire.

Yours truly,