Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-10-15
WASHINGTON CITY, Oct. 6, 1869.

WASHINGTON CITY, Oct 6, 1869.
Dear Journal 1T is generally conceded
that the Yerger case will be one of the first
to be argned in the Supreme Court of the
United States, the December term having
already commenced. The counsel for Yer
ger will endeavor to obtain Adhesion on the
constitutionality of the reconstruction
laws of Congress. Of course the admins
tration will fight off any such decision,
we'll knowing that the legislation of the
different sessions OF the "Rump" Con-
gress will not stand the test of the Oonsti-
tuition.
Hon. d. A. Wells, special commissioner
of the revenue, has prepared q statement
which shows great falling off in our com
merce with England. During 1868 the
number of vessels which entered our ports
from England were 383, representing No.
71S tons, and the number OF clearances
were 367, representing 41G, 271 tons. For
1869 the entries We're but 343, represent.
ing 343, O24 tons, and the number of clear
ances was 22O, representing 227, 493 tons.
These figures show most conclusively we
are declining as commercial nation, all
the result Of the unwisc and unjust dis
| examination in taxation. And more, but
small per centage of our trade is carried in
American vessels, the major part being
carried in foreign bottoms The system
of protection, by means of high tariff,
| now in operation, prevents us from com
peting with England in ship building,
branch of manufacture in which we once
rivaled the world.
In a previous letter said that Mr.. Hoar,
the Attorney General, would sustain the
Secretary of War in prohibiting claim
agents and attorneys from prosecuting
cases in the War Department.. Mr. Hoar
has decided that they cannot be thus de-
barred, and that cases should not be de-
cided on mere er parte evidence. Mr.. Hoar
has very much changed his views since the
first hearing of the case. Has anybody
| been g seen ?"
Since "Caliban" Tullcck, the late APP
pointment clerk of the Treasury Depart
ment, has been appointed Collector of In
ternal Revenue for this District, as re-
ward for wedding out Of the Treasury all
who were not for boutwell,, the position
of appoint ment clerk has been Temperate
ly held by Henry S. Vanderbilt, nephew
of Tullock's. Yesterday he WAS regularly
appointed to the position. Mr.. Wander
| bilt, on the assembling Of Congress, will
| have to encounter all the bitter hate that
| ''uncle IullOck" engendered in the breasts
| OF the Radical congressman whose DTOte-
| gees were so unceremonlonsly ousted be-
cause they were not of tho peculiar stripe
! required by Boutwell,. \ warm prospect
| for Van, truly.
| There is considerable excitement here
over the news from Virginia. It is evident
| that the ''bitter enders," backed by Bout
| we'll and his cOnfftrrS in the Cabinet, are
| determined to use every means in their
| power to prevent the election Of Conseryn-
tive Senators from that State. General
| Candy Is requiring members of the Legis
| lature to take ont certificates of election
| from the Military Secretary of State. This
| official presents to the members four or
| five forms OF oaths to be taken, Among
| which is the Iron clad" and insist on it
| in Defiance of the opinion of the Attorney
General. The Welles men swallow tho
dose willingly, the Walker men refuse.
| Some deep laid plan is Oh foot by the
Wells party. Caucuses have been held by
both parties, and tho interest is increasing.
| Eighteen members have been refused GER
| tiiicates by General Candy, on the ground
of ineligibility under the Fourteenth
Amendment. A number of very excellent
| gentlemen are named for Senators, who
would truly represent the State, but the
| Vaccinations of politicians, the power Of
| the Administration, the tyranny of the
Satrap Candy, and the insane desire On
| the part Of some of tho Conservatives to
please General Grant, the people of
| Virginia will be swindled out OF their
choice of Senators. Some sueh Gear
pet-bagger" as Horace Greeley, who
does not command respect and
Influence at home, will probably be foisted
| on the Old Dominion as Senator, or some
Radical who was repudiated at the polls
will be sent to misrepresent the State in
| the United States Senate. Of certainty
the foundation of q fraud will be laid now
by the Radicals to be consummatod by
Congress next winter.
The Radical party in Pennsylvania are
panic stricken, all is lost to them and they
know it. They cried to the President to
come and show himself. Alas! he did
not show next Boutwell,, who discovered
the hole in the sky. might discover pana-
cea for their ills and he was implored to
come and prescribe. Providence interfer-
ed, the storm broke the travel on his line
of march and he did not go in time, and
great was the CONSERVATION and tribula-
ton of the 'loyal leaguers" in the city of
''Brotherly love" The Secretary with
humanity that does him credit, promises
to come home by way Of New York. He
wants to see the crippled and the Lame
Ducks that he made by his skill in or
ganizing gold corner" or by the most
assinine stupidity in laundering ever
witnessed on this continent. While there
possibly he can straighten up the rumors
that are now ahoat with regard to the mo-
mentous question, Did the President
have hand in the gold operations
in New York, and was Boutwell, aware of
it?" The New York Herald of September
Both, charges the President with
being implicated in the late financial pan
ic, through his brother n-law Mr.. A. r.
Corbin, who was very heavy operator in
the gold speculation. Also that a mem
Der of the Presidents family received two