Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-21
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

The MeCullOch ImbrOgliO-Grant and
bottled Batter Make Friends over
n Bottle of Wine-Defeat OF the Radi.
cal scheme 10 Reward ApOstRte
RebeIs-MOre Of Chase's Platform.
Special to the Louisville Journal.
WASHINGTON, June 10 The campaign
against McCulloch, which began week
ago and has gathered increased vigor every
day, was rendered intensely interesting to
outsiders this morning by a report that the
Secretary had rendered bis resignation.
This lively hope the Ecening Star of this
afternoon dashes by the announcement,
apparently on McCulloch's authority, that
nothing of the kind has occurred. Nc
Culloch says privately that he has not re-
signed and doesn't mean TO resign But the
game seems to be closing on his career.
The President declared last night, az am
creditbly inlOred, that ne was greatly per-
picked and would be relieved if MeCulloch
would quit the Treasury of his own accord.
1t seems probable that he will be compelled
to do so. The Radicals are not for him.
They want to food the country with green
backs in order to Tighten the burdens ofthe
country during the Presidential campaign,
anu tuluh llG - III ilElA way It nc kOCH
out the prospect of the appointment Of
Groesbeck is good.
Grant and Butler, :" by the intercession
of friends" have buried the Ratchet. They
dintd together for the first time to-day, and
report says were very merry over their
wine Coliax was the gO-between. The
idea ia that Butler is to have a foreign mis-
sion, if GRAFT is elected; and, in the event
of the refusal Of the court to which he may
be assigned to receive him, which is likely,
he is to be made Collector of New York
All this counting of chickens is absurd, but
is believed to be entirely reliable.
The House to-day pOw-wowed over the
report of the Conference Committee ON the
bill removing civil disabilities from about
twelve hundred ragamufiin Confederates,
who propose to be Radicals in order that
they may hold office The proposition has
created a big row in the Radical camp.
Many Radicals are afraid. Others are OBJ
stinate. When the vote was taken it re-
suited in II ayes to 55 nays, two-thirds be-
ing required to put the bill through. So it
was lost. The Democrats voted "no" be-
cause the names Of George w. Jones and
George S. Houston were left out. OF course
they would vote AYE" for any fair meas
ure looking to that end. Farnsworth, the
Radical manager Of the matter, was greatly
annoyed, and declared that, unless some
thing of the sort is done, loyal govern
ments cannot be organized in Georgia or
North Carolina.
DR.. Chipley received dispatch from Geor-
gia to-day informing him that his son and
the other prisoners have been confined by
the military authorities in filthy dungeons,
eight by ten feet in extent, where their
health is seriously endangered. The House
Judiciary Committee will take up the mat
ter on Monday. The Republicans them
seves are compelled to admit that DR.. Chip
ley's petition is just and reasonable.
Gen. Rousseau goes to morrow to st.
Paul. He will, however, be assigned a
command very soon. Perhaps the Presi.
dent may send him to Georgia, in place Of
Meade.
Special to the Louisville Courier.
WASHINGTON, June 19.-The excitement
over political matters with reference to the
New York Convention is intensified. The
views of the Chief Justice transmitted you
yester day were prepared by him, and to
this NAV be added that Chase avows the
necessity not only of Withdrawing the
troops forthwith from the Southern States,
but says that they ought to have been re-
moved pending the operation Of the recon-
structian acts. He likewise denounces the
iron-clad oath, aud says a simple oath to
support the Constitution is all that should
be asked in or out Of Congress. Chase's
platform caused considerable talk. Thad.
Stevens says Pendleton's financial policy is
correct, but admits his own party cannot
stand on IT,