The Union and journal., 1869-12-17
POLITICAL.


A Washington correspondent, speaking of ths
Mississippi election. says d Il Is very pleasant
to know that President Grant Is openly ant
heartily glad at the Radical triumh. lie make'
no secret Of his being especially we'll pleased a
Dents defeat. Both General and Mrs. Gram
had urged Dent to have nothing to do with thu
Mississippi canvass. ,IITETlAy
Official returns from forty-eight counties in
Texas give Gen. Davis 1000 majority.
Wisconsin expects to have eight or nine Con.
grcssmen under The new apportionment. It nov
ba, six. NllIt 4 stslt', .Nfih
Hon. J. 8. Gollaiay, who isa candidate fol
United States Senator from Kentucky. address
cd tho members ofthe Legislature and others d
meeting in the Capitol on Wednesday night
He said that while he was not candidate upor
that ground, he was now and ever had been ar
earnest advocate Of the policy Of repudiatinr
our bonded debt. He then proceeded to ndvo.
cate rcpudiation from moral and legal stand
point. and said Congress had rpudiatcd the
debt Of $500, 900 900 due Kentucky for slaves
set free during the war, and he would never
consent to pay one cent Of our bonded deb,
while that debt stood unpaid. Threefourths Of
the people Of Kentucky, he declared, are with
him.
It Is said that Mr.. William Lawrence, Of
Ohio, is not only the most verbose. but Is also
the vainest man in Congress. In his report
from the Special Committee Of investigation Of
the New York election frauds he has steel en-
craving Of himself This is apublic docu-
ment, printed at Government expense. Such o
piooc Of Democratic economy was never before
heard Of
Judge Grier Of the U. s. Supreme Court, has
rendered to the President hi, resignation Of his
scat upon the Supreme Bench, to take effect on
the first OF February next. This Is done under
the recent net Of Congress which provides for
the retiring Of the members Of the Court with
salary when they over seventy years Of age.
The House Judiciary Committee has yotcd to
report bill repeating the tcuure-Of-ofice act.
The World Acknowledges the outrageous
Brooklyn election frauds, and advises the par
ty to keep on with their frauds II they wish to
make the city Republican. District Attorney
Maurice. though Democrat, announces his de-
ermination to indict scvernl Of the canrassers
and send them to State Prison II possible
The democratic papers throughout the State
of Georgia are unanimous in denouncing the
letter and statements Of Tift as being entirely
unauthorized by the democratic party. They
are unit in opposing the rcseatiug of negroes
the expulsion Of members disqualified by the
fourteenth amendment, and strenuously urge the
defeat of the fifteenth amendment The rcpub-
licans hear lily endorse the Presidents recon
mendation. and the people generally look for
and acquiesce in prompt action for Congress.
The new Governor Of Texas, Gen. Z. ]. Da-
Wis. is native Southerner, Of whom his State
and party may well be proud, When forced to
fly from Texas, carly in the rebellion, for his
Union sentiments, he went to New Orleans
and reported to General Butler, then in COM
mand of that city. Instead Of seeking for safe
conduct to the North, as many Of the refugees
did, he asked for power to go back and raise n
regiment. Gen. Butler commissioned him. and
Gen. Davis returned and put himself at the
head Of q force that did signal service to the