Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-10-28
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.

SON and Cartter-The Negroes In
Washington = The Columbus POST
office.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 25, 1865.
EDITORS ONO STATESMAN:
Accidentally meeting our old friend Ed
wards, who visits Columbus, i write this
hurried scrawl in his room. AS he leaves
In this evenings train, it will reach you
sooner by private conveyance than by
mail.
The great question about the reconstruc-
tion Of the Cabinet Is settled In the public
mind In favor Of an entire sweep OF the
present officials, and the only doubt Is who
are to succeed. Hon. Caleb Cushing, of
Massachusetts,, whom you will remember as
the presiding officer Of the Charleston Con-
vention. which broke up on the nomination
of Douglas, the fragments which left COM
Ing together with Cushing at lis head to
nominate Breckinridge, has been in WASH
ington for some days, and 1t was to his To-
quacity that the secret of Mcclellan be-
ing asked to take Stanton's place, was di-
vulged. He is en- route for Europe.
and carries with him the letter to "Little-
Mac" ordering him home, with a view
to his being placed in Stanton's present po-
sition. Mr.. c. will remain abroad for few
months, when he will be rendered Foreign
Mission, most likely to Spain, which he
will accept. 1t is said that he would prefer
his old post OF Attorney General, which
he held under Gen. Pierce; but this cannot
be done, as it would not do to associate
Cushing with Guthrie, who was also
member of Pierce's Cabinet, and who, for
certain, is to be the Secretary of the Treas
ury, under thenew organization, and an ex-
cellent one he will make. Mr.. Cushing may
mar this plot by his telling it to indiscreet
friends, who cannot keep q secret, and by
divulging, made 1t the town talk. If the
whereabouts of Mcclellan were known,
Cushing would not be sent on the voyage
of discovery, for then simple letter would
suffice; but as 1t Is not, an agent must be
sent, and Cushing is the man.
Among the residents here, doing good
business in law, is Capt. Sanders w. john
son, formerly of Brown county, Ohio, but
more lately Judge in Kansas. He is IN
partnership in law Office with Thomas
Corwin, and the firm are making money.
The Judge" for he retains his judicial
title at the expense of his military one, is.
like our old friend Whitman, distinguished
for the length of his hair, which covers his
shoulders In graceful curls, the latter re-
fecting vast credit upon the ingenuity of
his hair dresser. When the Administration
becomes Democratic, 1t Is said the Judge
will take place on the bench as Chief
Justice, uice d. X. Cartier, removed. The
removal will be sad one for Cartier, for he
was in Congress with johnson, and boasts,
even now, of his influence over the Presi-
dent but David is not up to the times, and
cannot see reconstruction" in the light
the President does, and has committed him
self too far to retract, and hence he will re-
turn to Ohio, victim of misplaced conf
dence.
The city is still oyerrun with negroes,
and outrages are still the order of the day.
The Police is either inefficient or else is in
sufficient, and the result is that white wo-
men scarce dare step out of their houses of
an evening without danger of insult from
these black scoundrels, who think freedom
is to live. without work and to commit out
RACES with impunity.
The removal of the Postmaster at Daven-
port, Iowa, has brought to this city numer-
Gus persons clamorous for changes and urg-
Ing other removals, particularly of Post
masters who fail to support the President.
As yet, the would-be Postmaster of your
city, who is after Woods place, has not
made his appearance, but is represented by
\ friend who urges his claims with much
zeal and with some show of success. His
former Democracy, and the fact that he is
q tailor, gives him "sight" which better
men than Mr.. B. would give money to have;
for the Columbus Postoffice has come to be
regarded as sinecure which in these times
makes quite comfortable living.
FRANKLIN.