Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-18
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Resignation OF Associate JUS
tice Grier.
The First Sensation of the Ses-
sion.
Mungen Sets the liquidation
Ball In Motion.
Impeacher Ashley Retired by
General Consent.
BrOwnlOw Coarse, Vituperative
and Vindictive.
o0rrosDonaeDce Of the Louisville Courier.

Correspondence Of the Louisville Courier.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-The written |
resignation of Judge Grier, of the Su-
preme bench, made on Friday last, was |
delivered to the President yesterday morn |
ing, and was to-day promptly accepted.
As the situation stands tonight, the Presl- |
dent will tomorrow send to the Senate
the name of Edwin NJ. Stanton for the
vacant iudgeship. Possibly this may be
changed before tomorrow noon. In the
event that Stanton is appointed to the Su-
preme bench, Judge Strong, OF Pennsyl-
vania, who was candidate for the place,
will doubtless be APPOINTED as Attorney
General, vice Hoar.
REPUDIATION.
The sensation in Congress to-day, and
il was the first one of the session, was the
PRONUNCIATION on the floor of the House,
by Mr.. Mungen, the Democratic member
from the Fifth Ohio District, of the doc
trine Of reputation. He read long
manuscript speech to that effect, and az
gued from the premises that, as the gov
eminent had refused to pay loyal private
claimants, it had virtually inaugurated re-
pudiation. ''But l am in favor" said Mr..
Mungen, "Of repudiating the bonded debt,
the 5 Dos and 1O-40s, and l say this on my
own responsibility. He proceeded to
cite every historical precedent 10 sustain
his theory, charging that reputation was
inaugurated in this country by the Massa.
chusetts colony. When Mr.. Mungen fin
ished nearly every other Democratic mem
Der was on his feet Messrs. Randall,
Potter, Cox, Gen. SlOcum and Judge
Woodward all spoke in succession, de
nouncing the doctrine of reputation and
saving that it was mo part of the tenets
of the Democratic party.
The keencst interest seems to have been
felt to hear whatever q Democratic mem
Der had to say, and the entire House left
their seats and grouped around the speak
er to catch every word. Judge Wood
ward, of Pennsylvania, denounced the
legal tender act as unconstitutional, and
charged that the Republican Congress had
in that and other ways inaugurated the
doctrine of reputation. Finally the
whole thing wound up by the adoption OF
a resolution declaring as the sense OF the
House that the public faith must he pre-
served. But one negative vote, that of
Jones, of Kentucky, was recorded. Mr..
Mungen was accidentally absent from the
hall when the vote was taken.
TERRITORIAL GOVERNORS.
The two territorial nominations made TO-
day arc rather important in their char
acter. Gen. Potts, of Ohio, who is to
succeed Representative Ashley, as Gov
crnor of Montana, had war record in the
army of the West. Gen. Shaffer, the new
Governor of Utah, was for some time
Ouartermastcr on the staff of Gen. Butler,
and afterwards be became his chief OF
staff. Both were originally Democrats,
but arc now strong Radicals. Ashley
was removed in obedience to the wishes
of nearly all the people of Montana.
A TENNESSEE APPOINTMENT.
The presence in Washington of MIR.
Pomeroy, for some time past United States
| Marshal for the Western District of Ten
| nessec, foreshadows a struggle on the con
| firmation of J. B. Eaton, whose name was
| sent into the Senate for that position last
| week. Although nominated TO the office
| during the johnson administration, MIR. E.
| is understood to have been Republican.
| GEORGIA.
| A number of Radical .GeOrgians were
| before the Senate Judiciary Committee to-
dav. and Edmunds says, after hearing
| their evidence, that it was evident that
hell had been organized in Georgia. The
indications are that the Georgia bill will
now pass the Senate with MOrtOn's propo-
sition making the ratification of the fl
tcenth amendment a condition precedent
10 the admission of the State.
BROwNLOw's vINDICTIvENE5s.
The Geographic report of the Senate de-
bates gives but faint idea Of the coarse,
vituperative, and vindictivc speech made
by BrownlOw yesterday on Tennessee
politics. 1t makes nearly three columns
In the Globe. He rciterates that be
should support Sentcr again if he had
q chance; that he has not spoken to An
drew johnson since 1865, when he flgul
ed at the inauguration as large as life anC
twice as natural, and that when he forms
an alliance with johnson it will be wher
he is lost TO all sense of honor and shame
blind TO all the code of morals in thu
, Bible, and stepped TO the CHI
and nose in personal and political pro
fIigacy. He calls A ]. Kicks, of thu
Cincinnati Commercial, the tail-end of
Copperhcad law firm and an unscrupulou
bohemian. who has abused him. Ill
! adds that Stokes and Butler remain in tn
. Republican party for plumber, and tina
i Butler was trying to raise Rebel troop
A while he (BrOwnlOw) was dying In jail
. that the worst class of men in the SOut
arc those who married negrO-stOcked col
ton plantations before the war and the
- went into the rebellion, and they onl
seek now to destroy the government b
LEGISLATION. He concludes as follows:
. with an insulting consciousness q
the kind favor of which they would NEE
~. at court, certain malignant Republican
:, from Tennessee have gone to the Pres
=, dent,.clthcr in person or through some
- his Cabinet officers, and have disparage
the Sentcr Republicans in general and IN!
e self in particular. To those cowardly a
70 saults have made no reply, nor shall
NJ | except as contained in these remarks.
have not seen the President nor any men
, her of the cabinet since his election to Il
! high office so worthily filled by him, n
have visisted any of the departments.
have asked fewer favors, as | believe,
the administration than any Republic;
member of this body; and, as a cons
qucncc, ] have obtained fewer n
shall seek by personal, cringing apes
to the President or of his subortinates
he vindicate myself from the base-born
saults referred to.
on A CHANGE OF TMEs.-Whcn, IN Ma