The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-02-23

LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
WARRINGTON CRY, Feb. -, 1870.
The Senate Judiciary Committee
will hold special meeting to-day
to consider the Bit, for the admission
of Mississippi. and the TN win be re-
ported at once. The State It il
thought will be admitted this week.
The malignants, Drake, Sumner and
that :" ilk," will, of course, insist on
the same amendments that were ap-
piled to the admission of Virginia.
The Democratic Senator'S intend to
object to the admission of Senator
elect, Revels, (the negro) on the
ground that he has not been a citi.
zen of the United States nine year.
previous to his election, as required
by the Constitution of the United
States. The negro lovers will be
glad to welcome Revels to his seat
in the Senate but there are those who
were willing to use Sambo who do
not wish any closer contact with him
than at the ballot-box. The negro
Senator and members of the House
will have to be invited to the Presi-
dents receptions. dinner parties &c.
and however it may suit General
Grant. for political reasons, to profess
affection for the negro it will be con-
siderably obnoxious and CALLING to
Mrs. Grant and those who will be
present on those occasions to be
forced to associate with negroes. The
poorest in the land can choose the
color of his company but the Presi.
dent must receive negroes at his Ia
BILE on certain occasions. I trust he
will swallow the dose without max
ing wry faces over it. Hon. T. II.
Hoag, Member of Congress, from the
Toledo district of Ohio, died TT the
Metropolitan Hotel on Saturday
evening. The deceased was "a years
OF age. He was elected to the forty
first Congress as a Democrat by a
majority Of about 100 votes over the
notorious James M. Ashley. That
Judge Strong will go on the Supreme
bench is settled, who the other gen.
tleman will be is not decided on.
Senator Drake, of Missouri has been
pressed by the "carpet-baggers but
the President, through Judge Hoar's
glasses, will not see it" The gold
gamblers are still being investigated
by the committee. Catherwood, SON
in-law of Corbin and Gen. F. T.
Dent, brother-in-law of the President,
have also been summoned. Mr..
Barkesdale. Washington correspon-
dent of the New York Sun, whom it
il alleged knew the contents of Bout
wells dispatch to Butterfield direct
ing him to sell four millions of gold
on that dark Friday" when Wall
Street was run mad and the whole
financial community shaken to its
center, was before the committee on
and will again be examined
to-day. A portion of the Committee
insist on having the President and
Mrs. Corbin before them. Messrs.
Hill and Miller, Senators elect from
Georgia, are to confer with the Judi
ciary Committee as to matters in that
State. Bullock and his friends are
also here opposing their efforts. The
U. S. Senate is very far from being
= body that the American people can
take much pride in, but if that man
Bullock and a few more of his sort
are admitted to its deliberations it
will become a stencil in the nostrils
Of all decent people, and if they were
!ossed into the Potomac, save the
bright exceptions, it would be for the
benefit of the country. x of the Bal
timore Gazette, has been attaching a
considerable importance to the posi-
lion now occupied by Mr.. Dawes,
Chairman Of Appropriations. He
styles him the watch dog of the
Treasury. I think MIR. Dawes de-
serves a deal of credit for his bold
ness in fighting the extravaganza of
The administration and discomfting
Ben. Butler in his efforts to sustain
he reckless waste recommended by
Boutwell, and Grant, but the history
If every man in the Radical party,
With very rare exceptions, has been
hat in order to atone for his tempo