Show excitement AT washington the illness of three senators howard conkling and grimes causes considerable sid erable excited excitement tent the first symptoms of all alt are of the same character there were some grounds last week for apprehending apprehend lD such trouble and senators are cautioned to exer exercise plse pise great care in drinking from pitchers at the capitol 11 what a horrible meaning is couched in these few sentences to i every city and hamlet in the land the word is sent that there is reason to believe that poison is being used to re mave obnoxious noxious gb senators for ibis is what the despatch meads means it may be e sensation aland arld have but little or no foundation in truth yet it has an air of probability the papers throughout the country are filled with accounts of secret combinations plots and threatened assassinations senators and other prominent men have been repeatedly threatened of late and when so much has been said upon this subject it would be bo almost surprising if some tragedy did not follow there are thousands of desperate men in the country who are ripe for any species of wickedness the bitterness of political hate is greatly intensified fied just now and there are many doubtless who would not hesitate at any deed to carry their points assassination i is s openly threatened and coolly talked about in n some papers as though yueh huch a crime were meritorious poison Is more easily used than the pistol or i the dagger and without the same game risks to the assassin ifft if it were not before the eyes of the people and the they were familiar with it they would not nt believe that such a change could have taken place in our nation in the few years that h lve ive elapsed since 1861 Se scarcely arcely a single person be made to believe before thio the rebel bellion llon jion that there was any probability of the union being severed notwithstanding the expressed determination annd arid threats of leading southern men people indulged i in a blind unreasoning confidence con clidence upon the subject of the theUn union lon ion and its perpetuity and aul they mey resolutely shut their eyes to every thing that would be likely to destroy their illusions so alstat present their foolish confidence is undisturbed byall thatis happening around them the chief Alag magistrate istrate has been struck down by the hand of an assassin other leading men have nar bowly escaped the same fate threats are now freely made to men in high places that if they do not change their policy they will be put out of the way newspapers which have a wide and extended circulation talk with as much apparent unco unconcern about the tion of public men if they pursue a certain course or if they do not pursue a certain course as if they were speaking about killing wild animals or vermin and all this in the united states OfA ota of merlea america andyes and yet who belev believes es the republic in danger dangel aho who vho sees in these y rh things in 94 sy of an an ampro approaching w period d tf anarchy by violence e and Iruin this blindness j s most ominous of evil I 1 A people who when menaced by I 1 dangers cannot perceive their peril or when informed of it denounce those who warn them as ag their enemies are in a condition of great danger sensational rumors will be freely put in circulation with a view to create excitement cit ement alarm the people and bring pres pressure suie sute to beai beat upon senators we vp may expect such a course to be pursued purs fied by both parties the dispatch today to day may be one of this character but without being startled at this there are still good and sufficient grounds left for serious ap apprehensions to be indulged in by every patriot and well vell wisher of his country and her prosperity |