The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-09-12
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON CITY. Sept
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[FnoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON CITY. SeptemberG.
I 1send you some items Of news from this politi-
cal metropolis, which may be Of interest to your
readers.
There are ut present many Southerners here,
principally VirSiualis, seeking pardon for them
selves and friends. Generally successful in their
own cases, they find the President chary i'll grant
ing pardons at the instance OF third parties, since
the exposure in tho case of Hon. THos. CoRwtN,
who pocketed $500 for serving one of his friends
IN : similar exgency. In most cases the expense
and inconvenience Of ajourney to Washington for
this purpose may as we'll be avoided. The pc
titioncr make out his petition at the place of
his residence, enclose i'll it the amnesty oath sub
scribod before the proper officer, and transmit it
to the Governor of the State, who will endorse Oh
it his approval and forward it to the United States
Attorney General. The pardon will then be mado
out and in o few days placed on the Presidents
table. If time is of Importance, personal applica-
lion to tho President is necessary to have it taken
mp and signed ont of its turn, otherwise it will be
signed in its order, and transmitted through the
State Department to the petitioner.
The Postofice Department has authorized con-
tracts with the several railroads in our State for
the carrying Of the mails but serious, if not in
turmountablc, obstacle to the consummation of
This highly desirable arrangement is presented in
3he Act of the United States Congress of July 2,
1862, "To prescribe all oath of Office, and for other
purposes" which is as follows:
'tBe il enacted By the Senate and House of Rep
1esentGtircS, In Congress assembled, That hereaf
ter every person elected or appointed to any ofico
Of honor or profit under the Government of the
United States either in the civil, military ma
val departments of the public service, excepting
D,nn f0r TIa,k. 0G-ta 1.on
entering upon the duties Of such Office, and before
being entitled to any of the salary other emolu
ments thereof, take and subscribe the following
oeth or affirmation: 4, A B, do solemnly swear Tor
afirm) that havo never voluntarily borne arms
against the United States since have been citi-
zen thereof; that have voluntarily given no aid,
cpuntenance, counsel, or encouragement to per-
sons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that
have neither sought nor accepted, nor attempted
to exercise the functions Of any. Office whatever,
under any authority, or pretended authority, in
hostility to the United States; that I have not
yielded o voluntary support to any pretended gov
e or constitution within
do further swear {or afirm) that, to the best Of
my knowledge and ability, will support and de-
fend the Constitution Of the United States against
all enemies, foreign and domestic that will bear
trne faith and allegiance to the came; that take
this obligation freely, without any mental
tion purpose of evasion; and that will well and
faithfully discharge the duties of the Office on
which about to enter-So HELP ME GoD;
which said oath, 80 taken and signed, shall be pre-
IT,
gress, or Department, to which the said office may
appertain. And any person who shall falsely take
the said oath shall bo guilty Of perjury, and on
conviction, in addition to the penalties now pre-
scribed for that offence, shall be deprived Of his
Office, and rendered incapable forever after of
holding any Office or place under the United
States"
AS the Postmaster General considers that this
oath applies to contractors as well as postmasters
and other employees of the Department, it is diff
fcult to perceive how the postal service is to be
executed in the South, and especially in South
Carolina, where nearly the entire community were
positively or acquiescently involved in resistance
to the Government. 1t is very probable that the
entire service may have to be suspended until
Congress shall have an opportunity Of modifying
or repeating the law. 't.' BE-.
Notwithstanding rumors to the contrary, there
have been no new appointment OF postmasters at
Charleston or Columbia.
MIR. WILLIS DRUMMoSp has been appointed
Commissioner of Direct Tax for your State in place
of Judge COOLEY. The Board may be expected to
meet in Charleston next month"; ' =.
Mr.. DURYEA who has been in this city some days,
left yesterday for New York, on visit to Mr.. Mo
CoRlf1CK, confined in Fort lafayette, having re-
ment. The friends OF Mr.. McCoRMok have good
reason to hope for his liberation in fcws days
A Sly DIa AT BEEcHER.-The Now York corres-
ppndent Of the Chicago Journal gives the ilustri-
ons HENRY WARD the following quiet rap:
We have minister in this city who makes
100000 year. preaching the Gospel He takes it
for granted that everybody can have what he can
afford, and when he gets new thing he puts 1t
into the newspaper, to let all the world know. it,
ns O hen cackles to announce that she has laid All
egg. He furnishes his house with costly pictures;
immediately tho whole world was called upon to
buy paintings, they we're 80 humanizing, and ele-
waiting and intellectual. or course oil we poor Eel.
lows, who live in nttics and chambers work hard
to got bread, and fight hourly to keep the wolf
away from the door, lan spend S. 900 or SIC, 600
1or pictures just as we'll as not; and they would be
30 becomingi Then he bought form to live on
IN The summer, 1t was 80 convenient. Thon lie
Boea Of into raptures on a cow that he bought
1eeerlhes Ithei luacioua craam. and how the very