Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-02
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

Political Stagnatian --CapltaI Chit
ChRl-The Situation TN Tehnessee-
Instability Of the CarPet-baggers-
Radicals Alarmed on Account Of fl.
rr % Special to the Louisville Journal. fr I
WASHINGTON, July 31.-The utter stag.
nation of everything of a political nature
ia complete, the lull in the storm has come,
and the calm is oppressive aHdthe dullness
is overwhelming. The politician occupa-
ton, like Othello's, is gone, hook and line,
bob and sinker. Egt EIa 1a
The departments are somewhat gai-
vanized into temporary liveliness by the
money thrown into them by the appropria-
tions, and the prospect of pap to the Barna-
cles Of the different circumlocution offices
creates quite run on all of the departments
and bureaus. ---
There was fall injecting of the Cabinet
to-day. All the ,nsembers were serene and
amiable. The President however, eVineed
come anxiety TO remove Rollins. 1t is not
known who his successor Will be, but the
best informed men here say Edmund Coop
er, who has already left for Tennessee, Yill
be the lucky man. Las i
The treaty with Mexico has at last been
ratified. II is regarded as one of the most
Important ones that we have ever had with,
Mexico, inasmuch as it settles many claims
of our citizens against that country which
have been accumulating in the State De-
partment for the last twenty years.
There is no little said here in political
circles about the re-assembling of Congress
in September. The universal impression
among conservative men from all sections
Of the Union is that the meeting should not
take place-that if it does, nothing but
danger to the country can come Of it. But
Radicalism seems to have been striving for
a long time to see how near the brink Of
ruin the country may be brought without
loosening its hold upon power and plunder.
CONSERVATISM Is powerless 10 save and can
only stand of and mark the approach Of
whatever national caiamities that are to
come.
The threatening state of affairs in, Ten
nessee continues also to excite alarm. The
course of the infatuated Brownlow is heart
lily condemned by all Republicans here
who have the slightest regard for the peace
Of the country. That il is his deliberate
determination to provoke conflict of arms
in Tennessee with the hope of thereby sub
serving the interests of his party in the
Presidential contest, seems 70 he the gen
eral opinion OF all outside of that party.
The election of Miller TO the Senate by
the Georgia Legislature has disgusted the
Radicals here swfully. They are deter
mined that he shall not take his seat, and
are already Matching a scheme to exclude
him. If they adhere to this determination,
Mr.. Miller must "reVert" to private life,
for a contested election case in the fortieth
Congress inevitably results in the excln-
sion Of the party who is entitled to the
place. You can find man in Kentucky
who will tell you that himself. a.
The few left here high and dry by the
political tempest of the past session en-
braces number of patriotic individuals
with axes not ground, seedy, dead beats,
with claims against the government for
thousands in their secondhand beavers,
and not nickle TO bless themselves with,
boarding-horse keepers reducing the ALLOW
ance Of gravy per man, and mourning over
the flight of their victims. Several thread
bare, gaunt looking carpet-baggers, who are
aaxiously awaiting remittances from the
cape of Good Hope may I've seen Ioaiing
about the hotels and lunch houses, having
failed TO borrow from any Of their sort,
who have gotten into Congress at the
eleventh hour, drawn their plunder and
left. az s-sg Fl
IS Special TO the Louisville Couier
WASHINGTON, July 3l.-Lesding Radi-
calls are fearful that the carpet-baggers
won't stick Several Of this gentry, since
their admission TO Congress, have expressed
Conservative views aud are prepared to
abandon their eonfe1erates whenever their
political fortunes are on the wane,
The result iu Georgia il bitter pill for
the RAIDS to swallow They would not
permit Hill to enter the Senate, but few
weeks since his political disabilities were
removed by Congress. There will be a
contest over the admission of Miller.
The White House is besieged every day
with office-seekers, but this being Cabinet
day but few persons we're admitted to an
Interview with the President. a