The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-12-29
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.

LII Lib NUM- w AOAlNU 1VNs
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. 18th 1869.
The Post Office Department has
completed its selection of designs
for new series Of postage stamps
to take the place of those now in |
use. This will furnish job for the
National Bank Note Company who
have been selected to do the work.
The series will comprise heads of
the following distinguished persons:
l cent, Franklin; 2 cent, jackson
8 cent, Washington 6 cent, Lin
coin 10 cent, Jefferson; IL cent,
Clay; Is cent. Webster; "a cent,
Scott; 80 cent, Hamilton; 80 cent,
o. Fl. Perry. The census bill drags
considerably in the House. 1t took
all day Saturday to get through the
section relating to the pay of emu
meratOrs. Several other sections
will occasion debate, and many are
of opinion that it will fail to pass
before the holidays. The bill will
most probably pass the House but
as the Senate differs with the
House in the manner of taking the
census it will fail in that body
The Senate favors that it be taken
as heretofore by United States
Marshals, but the bill now propos-
ed contemplates the appointment
Of an army Of officials to do the
work. -au 7 ,.tf
There was a number of promin.
ent Virginians. several members Of
Congress elect, ..and several delega-
tons from Virginia present before
the reconstruction committee on
Saturday. Congressman Platt,
Radical, and Seeger, Conservative,
and several others presented writ
ten speeches in favor of the imme
date admission of the State
Congressman Porter, Radical, pre-
sented his protest against it. Col.
Hughes, editor OF the State Journ-
al, Radical organ, chairman of the
Radical boilers Of the late repnbli-
can convention, desired the speedy
admission of the State and oppos-
ed the test oath. He also present
ed a letter from Ex-Governor Wells
in which he, Wells urged the adj
mission Of the State at once, and
hoped that before the Christmas
holidays, by one single act of am
nesty, the disabilities of every citi-
zen of this commonwealth may be
removed. Ex-Gov. Wells is trying
to make the best of a bad bargain.
The admission of Virginia is a fore
gone conclusion, and the ex-GOy-
ernOr knows it, hence his immense
liberality, which if we contrast with
his unrelentlng efforts to crush the
people of Virginia into the merest
slavery, in order that himself and
his vile crew might be enabled to
retain power, we must set down
his very fair letter as just SO much
cant, a stock of which is an essen
tial to the truly loil carpet-bagger
or scallawag. There is little doubt
of the admission of the State in 1,
few days. Certainly, if loss OF
manhood and trucking to power
deserves recognition, they have
Won the right to be a State of the
Union; for Governor Walker, the
members of Congress and the diff.
ferent delegations who have been
lobbying to secure Virginia's adj.
mission have forfeited the respect
even of the Radicals by their sub
serviency to the powers that be-
Ben. Butler, chairman of the Re
construction Committee, has beer
reyenged to the full on the State
: Of Virginia for any indignitics III
, may have received from the peopl'
, Of that State. He has made thos
) who came before the committee, o
s which he is chairman, bow dow
, !, to the mighty power that he fel
himself invested with, and whicl
was duly impressed upon them er
they left his presence, for he ex
: acted and received the utmost dc
: ference from the humbled Virgin
! ians, who will have kinks in thei
: backs long after the holidays
o Butler fumed, strutted and swelle
: to almost bursting in his efforts t
}. awe those who came to sue for Il
T niency. He has a mixture of Bon
= bastes FuriosO and Falstaff wit
II the keen hunger of a Shylock Il
g the full measure of his revenge
= And when humiliating concession