The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-06-19
The @edfurd Gazette.
CORRESPONDENCE.

! marhdDl0 uOCuIucIllo3 pIOuuSCu OJ ~
markable members of Congress, dur
ing this very remarkable age.
The House returns in a body from
the Senate, where the President of the
United States is being tried, before the
High Court of Impeachment for high
crimes and misdemeanOrs, prominenta-
mong which is the charge Ofhaving. spo-
ken ndisrespectfully ofthe Congress ofthe
United States. This imposing and i'm
maculate body had scarcely returned
to its own Chamber, before Mr.. Don
nelly, of Minnesota, an Impeacher, rises
to point of order, and charges Mr..
Washburne, of Illinois, another I'm
peacher, with having violated the
rules of the House, of social inter
course, of everything that was good,
decent or respectable. Washburne re-
plies, charging the Minnesotian with
having changed his name to escape
the Penitentiary, with being rene
gade to his God and Religion, with be-
J inc concerned in all schemes of plum
der and corruption. etc. Despite the
! efforts of few of their fellows to stop
! the family broil, knowing the truth of
! the old adage about thieves falling
out, they still continued. The blood
of the YahOOs was up, and they con-
tinued to hurl excrement in each 9TH
ers faces and the faces Of their fellow
members, until the very air was taint-
! ed. until the OlfactOrieS Of all not train
| ed in Boston or Oberlin, were over
borne by the truly 'loil' stencil. How
eminently characteristic of the party of
moral ideas and holy practices! How
fitting the actors, time and place. The
! slumS and sewers of the worst canker-
spots of the worst modern cities, could
not furnish such an amount of villain
Gus vituperation. Epithets that are
/ but sparingly used in BaWdy and BoOs-
/ ing Keus, flew through the Halls of
! Legislation in more than bacchanal
prOfusiOn. Familiarity, with vice and
crime, at least with the worst of their
VOcabuIaries, was more apparent than
with the language or laws of Commerce
! or the "Iuips and quirks" of the legal
gentleman. Each Hon. gentleman
| succeeded in proving his adversary
and himself-a most villainouS, gan
grened scoundrel, totally unfit to occu-
py any position Of honor and profit, to
| hroafhn tho San1o dir with ruhnna ,ie,
contamination to all honest, honorable
! men and such as no other civilized
! country under Heaven would allow to
retain their places for a moment after
such and etpOSe.
But what can we expect or hope from
Nation ruled by such characters as
Butler, of Massachusetts, and Logan,
of Illinois, and their worthy confreres.
Male prostitutes, who, Sin plying their
VOCATION" have sacrificed every
thought, feeling and impulse charac-
teristic Of the gentleman, and are no.
toriously willing and anxious to con-
! tinue.
"Give Us an ounce of Civet, Good
! ApOthecary."
Rere10R q Nous MOu0tuS, we have a
few words to say yet on the fight ofthe
Yahoos, or rather of the action of that
White-washing committee, headed by
Poland, of Vermont.
GA decent respect for the opinions of
mankind required" them to appoint a
! Committee of Investigation, organized
and instructed to do for Washburne
and Donnelly what the Committee of
the Pennsylvania Legislature of a few
years ago, headed by an illustrious cit
! izen and blood d-stained Warrior of ye
ancient Borough of Bedford, was in
tended to do and did do, for Simon
Cameron, that is white-wash him.
This Committee, like the other, was
authorized to send for persons and pa
! pers, and before commencing they let
it be understood that the papers most
acceptable to modern investigators, and
Impeachers were Greenbacks. AS for
persons, the absence of Sanford Cano-
yer, was deeply to be regretted and in
terfered sadly with the working of
their committees, particularly the
Smelling Committees, but as long as
Ashley, of Ohio, and Butler, of Massa-
chusetts, remained in Congress and
ruled in National Affairs, they had
hopes for the "God and Morality" par
ty, and hoped to be able by "strict at
tentiOn to business to merit a continu-
ance of the patronage so literally be-
slowed" &c. (see Small bills).
The Committee met on the l4th May.
Washburne and Dounelly appeared
personally and by Attorney. 1t was
announced to the Committee that the
language used on the floor of the
House had been drawn and had only
been spoken in a Pickwickian sense.
Nothing remained therefore for them
to examine but the letter of the Hi
noisan, in which he charged that
DonnelIy had run away from Phila-
delphia between two days, and chang
ed his name to escape the Penitentiary,
that he had betrayed his God and his
religion, and been stepped in corrup-
ton and infamy ever since he had been
in Congress, identified with schemes of
plunder, every one of which was sure
of his support This is the sum and