The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-04-30
WARRINGTON LETTER.



WAsHISeToN, D. O., April a. 1869
FoRNEYs D1sINTEREsrED PATRIOTIC MISSION.
]. W. Forney, with few gentlemen,
called on the President, Wednesday, and in
formed him that they were to start the next
morning on a'purely distintsrested trip
through the South, for the purpose of pro-
noting friendly feeling there" &c.
SENATOR srRAeUE's LETTERS.
When Senator Sprague, in his speech
Thursday, introduced letters he had received,
10 show that his course was extensively in
dOrsed in the country, the Senate promptly
voted him permission TO print them in the
Globe. to save themselves from the infection
Of hearing him read them. Accordingly
tlseEUe columns of them appeared in Friday 8
GLOBE, in its smallest type. Ths list COM
prises letters from Henry Brooks Adams, sou,
of Charles Francis Adams; o. S. Halstead,
Of New Jersey, commonly known as "Pet"
Halstead; Vim. Barney, of New York; Ma
hum Oapen, of Boston; George NJ Weston,
Of Bangor, Maine, and one hundred others.
DEPARTMENTAL CHANGES. ae
Oha's E. Mix, Chief Clerk of the Indian
Bureau for number OF years, and connected
with it altogether 80 years, has been remov-
ed by Secretary Cox, and VIM. B. Waugh, Of
Maryland, a fourth-class clerk in the Bureau,
temporarily assigned to his place.
T. -, L.
Treasury, who has been private secretary of
Secretaries Chase, Fessenden and Mc0ul-
loch, was yesterday notified that his services
will not be required in the Department after
the Ist proximO.
sENATE-ABBoTT 4 sPRAGUE-ADJouRNNESr
The Senate held an evening session last
Thursday night and finally adjourned sine
die about half-past one.
You will have seen before this, that SEN
ator' Abbott, in the evening session of the
last day, took Senator sPrague to account
for the use of words ''large mastiff" and
~moDgrel puppy, in his reply to the defence
Of Gen. Burnside, by Senator'S Nye and
Abbott, that day, against Senator Sprague's
charge Of coWardice, saying if sprsgue sp-
piled either term to. him he must retract or
be would have satisfaction outside of the
Senate Chamber, &c.; and that the speaker
was called to order by Senator Sumner, for
declaring his intention to violate the laws of
the land. Both we're Generals in the war
Gen. Abbott isl fighting man, any one can
see by looking into his face. Determine
ton and force are depicted there in an un-
common degree He explained that he did
not mean a duel, that he wss not brought
up to that code, Che is native of New
HaDpshire), but that he meant retractioD, or
satisfaction in some way That does not
make matters any better, but rather worse,
for little Sprague. While Gen. Abbott has
force and size enoEgh to blow Gen. sprague
down with breath, the formers superior
size would make the better mark for a pistol.
But really Gen. Abbott can afford TO treat
the words with perfeet indifference Sena-
tor SPrague had been pretty sharply handled
BY both Senators Eye aud Abbott, and he
felt that be was ia camp full Of the enemy,
and that the bitterest things be could say
would be all little enough against such odds.
ARd 50 they were little enough; and didn't
amount to shucks, It is to be presumed
tAas Senator AbbOtt has come veiy nearly
70 this opinion now his Irritation has sub
faed.
THE 1sDlAS FRIESDS
Same Of ouE Republican friends of the n.