The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-12-17
washington Correspondence.
LETTER NUMBER ONE.

| eral City, either in or out of Congress. S.
| My opportunities for obtaining information
! here are as good as the best, and you and
! yonr readers may rest assured that they
/ shall not go unemployed.
| There is degrea of petulence manifested
! h7re towards every act of the President, to-
! tally unworthy of those holding the high
| positions Of Representatives of great peo-
/ pie Tne fact is well understood here that
! the perusal relations between the President
| elect and the present incum bent are not
/ very good; and Radicals from whom better
might be expected. are out toadying each
other in order to gain the favor of the in
coming, at the expense of the outgoing ad-
mnistratiop.
Senator Ramsey of Minnesota, brought
forward, on Tuesday, his favorite hobby,
in the shape of bill to abolish the frank
/ ing privilege. he proposition being only
| a rcpitition of one made by the same Sena-
tor at every previous session, it met with
deusive laughter OF course it was referred,
| to ''sheep the sleep that knows no waking"
This Senator Ramsey is a Pennsylvania
Alexander Ramsey, of Harrisburg, g,-and
family represented the Dauphin district in
the other house. His term expires next
| March, and Ignaticus Donvelly is his Rad
ical competitor before the Legislature OF
Minnesota. Mr.. Dumally is also Penn
sylvanian. being formerly from Philadel-
phia.
Senator Pomroy, of Kansas, introduced
| bill to continue the FreedmGn's Bureau in
! Virginia Mississippi and Texas. You will
reeollect the Radical press boasted that this
source of taxation and corruption would ex
pire at the end Of the current year. In
deed, the Rump Congress itself had passed
law to that effect.
The Oregon Legislature had resolutions
presented in the House requesting its Sena-
/ tors and Members who voted to impeach
/ the President to resign. The House refused
to receive the resolutions, and returned
| them.
A resolution increasing the tax on copper
one to three cents a pound was passcd,-on
the ground, / suppose, that the Rump
House desires a monopholy of brass.
| The Message came in on Wednesday, and
its reading caused quite scene in the Sen
ate. You will have seen by tee Message
! itself, before this time, that it pours hot
shot inte the Rump for its glaring and pre-
sistent outrages upon the Constitution and
the rights of the people. Radical Senator
| Conness. representing the Democratic
State of California, objected to continuing
its reading, and when somewhat rebuked
! by more intelligent Radicals, he was about
! W ifhdrawing his objection when the pure
and Immaculate Comeron Of Pennsy ylvania
arose in his place and renewed it. There
was a lutter-a little sparring,-and a mo-
tion for adjournment was put and carried.
On Thursday. when the message again
came before the Senate, Simon persisted in
his objection to its reading till he was fairly
looked dOlCn by other Senators, and then
yielded with tie worst possible grace. The
/ Message was then read through and tabled,
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| could bestOw upon it.
a Pennsylvanian cannot but feel a sense
of degradation to find his great State repre-
sented by such a creature as Simon Cameron.
| trust the Lew Radical Senator from Penn
sylvania will give character to the position
rnd prove a rebuke to corruptionists.
President johnson recommends in his
message a repeal of the Civil Tenure Bill and
Senator Butler has made motion to the same
effect. AS the law was not enacted for any
good purpose, but to hamper the President
in the performance of his duty, 1t will M
doubt be repealed, now that Grant is elect
ed. That law, though almost every Radi
cal member voted for it, viii have but few
to sustain it when the occasion that induced
its passage shall have passed away.
OF course Buffers purpose is to make
fair weather with Grant. He has an "eyt
SINGLE" or rather a single eye, to his owl
political success. 1t will be recoilected tina
Grant had him "bottled up" once,-bu
this will relax the ''corkage."
You will recollect that according to Radi
cal Reconstruction Georgia ''came in" las
summer and, by Radical permission, votec
for Pres ident; but she some how forgot tt
vote for Grant. On the contrary she votec
for Seymour and Blair. Senator Sumne
has offered a resolution to the effect tina
Georgia shall be anreconstyucted again
and it is quite probable the Radicals vii
pass it.
1t was proposed to have the Virgins
election on the 9TH of January next. and ;
Radical debate grew out of it, in which th
only question was whether the State b
Radical. If Radical, she should come in
if not, not.
Petitions are pouring in for Woman
Suffrage, and it is by no means clear tina
the "dear creatures" may not get the righ
to vote in this District. If the law shoulC
| pass don't think many of them will eve
f vote ION age," for | never fuuud a youn
, lady to acknowledge she vas over twenty
one.
1t is rendered pretty nearly certain tina
E. B. Washburne, of Illinois, Gen. Grant
Geighbor and confidential friend and adviser
will be his Secretary Of the Treasury
Though l see several announcements of th
/ Generals Cabinet, | view them all as mere
! ! ly coniectural except that of Washburne.-
Some are urging little Ned Mac Pherson 70
z. NJ. General. with what prospects of sue
cess no one can tell. Pennsylvania, unles
| her Radicals quarrel, will get Cabinet ap
!. pOintment.
The Democrats here ere in good spil
, its, and enjoy themselves over the trouble
of the Radicals. Nothing but the ''coht
sive power of the public plunder can hol
: the Radicals together for a single twelv
: month after the Inauguration of Grant.
But l have filled my sheet.
Yours, Very Truly, JUNIATA.
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