The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-15
NEWS IND GOSSIP By MAIL.
Three Cheering Signs.

The Washington correspondent of the Baltl-
more Gazette sees three cheering signs prom
ising better future:
First Senator Stewards bill for the removal
of disabilities would have been carried but FOR
the inonportune objection of Il Democratic
member. Second. Mr. Marshals resolution
against protective tariffs was tabled by only
Twelve majority. the West and South voting
with unusual linanimiiy OH this occasion. Third.
a growing disposition TO recognize the claims
of all parties who claim seats In Congress
Democratic or not.
Massachusetts Snubbcd-Butler Casfi-
nated in the House and Summer in the
Senate.
The same correspondent writes:
tits evident enough that members have be-
come tired of tho impudcnt rule of Massachll-
sctts. Hoar has been rejected, Boutwell, has
hrrn snubbed. and Summers ignorant preten-
sions and Buffers backguardism have been
sirnally rcbuked in the Senate and House 0y
ali parties. Gentlemen OIL the Democratic side
were advised some t!llc ago to spit III his lace,
inst. Il. 81 begging him for the privilege OF Il
five minutes speech. II was known ttlat our
modern Captain Bobadil would stand lt-GS nc
did. (itcrdltY, al Charleston IN 1850. True,
physically speaking, the thing itself was not
done Yesterday in the Ilouse-probably because
r. MIGHT have been considered ''unparliamen-
rorv But | am free TO say that, SO far as The
..rGJcs. ,r0uM Qllolr. the spittlc was attempt
ed. with all the force at the command oil MI
Cox. 10 bc driven into the invulncrabe cntlclc
of Buffers face Of brass. Hear the spnnky III
tlr representative from New York Il quote
from an authorized copy of his specify
"Mr. Cox said (among other thinSs) he (Mr
Rutlcr, had no sensiJHify 10 his position before
The country. ,tnl did not kR0tc ho,r people re-
0n,,fed hln,. His own colleagues intimatrd
ihaf he ,ras u Mi,fdnd Il rolDer, ana he :!td
not take il up; but it had been left to him (Mr
Cox TO defend him: and because ne had done
so in u spirit of good nature, he lMr. bIit!erl
had made his covert negro minstrelsy attack
lpon him. Why did he not attack his col
Leagues and make them call for q committee
of Investigation on his past derelictiOnS and
mast ulIeqel robbery? Why dill he stand here
the condemned man Of Mt$ Congress lYhy
did he stand here proScrlded pouicdUy alnt So
ciaIiy? Why did he reserve all his lire Tor his
friends. rs lie dill IN The army. and then. when
attacked. retreat like q J0mbiT0Qf soldier amt
hile himself?
Rather plain language this-calling the
honorable" leader Of the Radical Grant party
in the House n .'rogllc." q ''thief' and Il rob
ber:.-while also sligmatizng him whilom
General of the Grand Army of the James,
as not only ya coWaru oul Il iniserauic poltIooli
This. however. is but ''candlc-cnds and cheese
parings- to what Sumner is daily getting from
members of his own party in the Senate. Mr..
Trumbul stood up in his place yesterday. and
for the third time denounced the Massachusetts
cmotist as a deliberate slandercr and liar, and
what is more to the purpose, proved II by in
contestiblc documentary evidence. Look at
Summers puslllanimous rejoindcr!
The Georgia Squabble.
A Washington letter of Friday says:
Bullock. in his attempts TO carry the State
of Georgia on his back, with only such assist
ance as could be obtained from the Blodgett
delegation he brought here with him, has
made such q tlasco Of it that lie left here this
morning in disgust for the South having virtu-
ally abandoned the field. Few men ever re-
ceiyed worse handling in a contest than he
has at the hands of an indignant and deceived
judiciary Committee in connection with what
has been represented and mlsrepresented by
him regarding the reconstruction Of Georgia.