New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-14
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FRENCH GOVERNMENT AT BORDEAUX
WASHINGTON.

Admiral BOGGs to Take Command Of the
European Fleet-Pleasant0n Nominated
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
Congressman Bowen Indicted for Big
aniy-Franking Privilege Abolished
Uniform Tobacco Observation-Disclosures
course with Canada Re-
lieved-Amnesty Bfll-The Arlington
Estate-Debate on the Restoration of
Arlington.
WASHINGTON. December I3.-Admiral
Boggs relieves GlissOn in command Of the
European fleet. Glisson will be retired.
The President nominated Alfred Pleas
anton as Commissioner Of Internal Rev
enue.
The Senate again discussed Porter's nonl-
ination, but with no result
The Hon. G.. G. Bowen, member Of Con-
gress from South Carolina, was indicted in
the District Court to-day for bigamy.
Governor Bard writes the President an
eight page pamphlet. Bard says: / can not
follow the President into support Of the ex-
tremists; l could not have known that
Georgia was to be keptin state OF perpetual
bondage, the prey Of irresponsible dema-
gOgues, associate. in misery with South
Carolina and Louisiana, whose Governors,
Scott and WarmOth, form with Bullock, a
tr;umvirate of unmitigated scOundrelism,
without precedent since the latter days of
the Roman empire, and have cursed the
States over which they rule with plaques
worse than the frogs and lice Of Egypt.
This is the truth. and truth is eternal.
Hoase-The franking privilege has been
abolished, but the papers are allowed free
exchanges, and the circulation of weekly
and semi-weekly papers within the counties
where they are published. The vote stood
IO3 to s.. The bill then passed.
The Ways and Means Committee have
been directed to inquire into the expediency
OF taxing manufactured tobacco uniformly
sixteen cents.
Mr.. Butler presented petition from two
thousand New Englanders, asking nOn-in-
tercourse with Canada for the alleged fish
cry Outrages.
Two Virginians were relieved Of their pO-
litical disabilities.
House adjourned.
The House caucuses tonight on the amnes-
ty bill.
Senate.-A bill was introduced reyiving
the land grants to the Selma, Rome, and
Dalton Railroad.
Mr.. NcCreery, of Kentucky, asked leave
to introduce the resolution Of which he
gave notice yesterday. proposing an inves-
tigation with view to the restoration Of
the Arlington estate, to the widow of Gen
eral Robert +. Lee; the removal Of the
graveyard on the premises, and a general
restitution for any incumber placed there in
interest Of the Government
Mr.. EdInunds, OF Vermont, hoped the
leave would not be granted. The PROPOSE
ton to dig up the bones Of our dead soldiers
in order that certain property might be
given back to it's rebel owners, was, to his
mind, perfectly monstrous. While enter
tanning the highest respect for his friend
Mr.. McCreery, he hoped the Senate would
never entertain the proposition.
Mr.. McCreery: Mr.. President, presuming
that the justice and courtesy of the gentle
men who compose this Senate will accord
fifteen or twenty minutes to me, shall pro-
ceed to submit the remarks which had in
tended to make yesterday.
The mournful intelligence Of the death Of
General Lee reached us at our homes in
vacation. The melancholy tidings of the
death of General Thomas, and the accents
of sorrow in which his sorrowing friends
poured forth the national grief at his ire
parable loss, were still fresh in our recOllec-
ton, when we learned that vet another Of
the great actors in the drama through
which we have passed had breathed his
last. These great men were natives of Vir-
gina; they were born about the same time,
and when one of them had finished his
Rcareer, q very brief period was allotted to the
other; the God of nature had stamped the
brow Of each with the seal Of command,
and he had endowed them with faculties
worthy Of command on the march, and in
the battle they had stood together. Common
toll and common danger had probably en-
deared them to each other, for they appear
to have been superior to the petty rivalry
which embitters the existence Of inferior
mortals. But when the South raised her
standard and called upon her sons to rally
in its defense each man had to settle
the mOmentOus question for himself.
The dignity and the strength of
their understanding enabled them to
survey the prospect, to realize all it's
terrible consequences. In their refec,,
by doubts, and almost overwhelmed
with anxieties, but their honest conlusions
compelled their separation. Thomas re-
solved to follow the starry emblem Of the
Union, while Lee resolved to stand or fall by
the State that had given him birth, with his
kith and kin of the South. From the con-
current testimony Of his most intimate ac
quaintances, we are led to believe that
General Lee enjoyed singular ex-
other men; he was stranger and an enemy
to extravaganza, to dissipation, and to vice.
The vanity and fattery which usually at
tends success could not seduce him from
propriety, while his inhexible virtue could
defy defeat.
But his faults and his follies whatever they were,
Be their memories dispersed like the winds OF the
air
General Lee was an American citizen,
and the American people will never relin-
quish the property which they hold in the
name aud fame Of the great Virginian, his
modesty and sobriety, his 'spotless integ
rity, his virtue and his valor, will be held
up for the admiration and imitation Of man
kind as long as those exalted qualities shall
have q friend upon earth.
When the sword is invoked, the con-
queror has little difficulty in appropriating
to himself such titles as may correspond, in
his estimation, with his own efforts for the
church or the State, and he is equally as
ready to brand his adversary as q hereto or
traitor. The sword has 1ess capacity to
understand and decide q cause upon dts
msrits than any other tribunal that has ever
been Known among men. Spears and battle