The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1871-01-25
.xSHINGTON LETTER.

'ioual Asylum for disabled volunteer
soldiers came pin the Senate yesterday.
The father Of the bill, John Sherman,
should have named it ga bill to cheat
Col. Lewis j. Campbell out Of his seat
in the next Congress, and for other pur-
possesses" The other purposes being to
assist Que John Sherman to be returned
70 the u. S. Senate on the expiration
Of his present term, said'Sherman being
the chairman of the finance committee
and mouth piece Of Boutwell,, the eco
nomic. Sherman has not sufficient
ability TO be the financial partner of a
grocery at cross roads. Judge Sher-
man, his colleague, ripped his fraudulent
device all to pieces. Messrs. Carpenter
and Williams, radicals, could not go
such swipdls and spoke against it, as
did NJ. Bayard of Delaware. The
stepch not only Of fraudbut ofmeanness
abeut this bill was too lively for any one
who has the least fairness to swallow.
Yet our moral and "loil' radicals have
gorged themselves on worse than this.
There seems to be, from the debate
in the Senate yesterday, prospect of a
mole liberal amnesty bill being reported
and acted favorably on than at any time
previous. The House Committee will
take up the subject and consider Mr..
Beek's bill in which the test oath is
abolished. 1t is thought that majori-
ty of the judiciary will oppose the
admission Of Senator Vance, of North
Carolina. Mr.. Abbott, at present, Sen
ator from that State aud Gov. Vance's
competitor, claims the seat on the
grorod that Gov. Vance was not legally
elected and that he is entitled to the
scat. What next? The committee yes.
tcrday decided to report in favor OF
Messrs. Miller and Hill as the regularly
elected Senator'S from Georgia. This
will be the signal for Morton and his
followers to belch forth another TRADE
of abuse oD the committee who report,
the Senators elect, the Democracy and
the South especially. The galleries will
be filed TO hear the wrangle, which will
be principally among the Radical Sepa-
tors, with an occasional piece Of kiudling
thrown on the fire by the Democratic
Senators, to keep the blaze going. 1t is
rather amusing to see the equanimity
with which the Democrats sit and listen
to the speeches of the Radicals who
differ as to what policy should he pur-
sued towards ghe South, there being
some Radical Senators who have taken
alarm at the recent changes going on
in the North and West, and begin to
fear the consequences which the Eastern
and carpet bag Senators do not.
Army officers who have been dropped
from the rolls are making applications
for positions il the Internal Revenue
Bureau.
The pressure on the Commissioner is
very great, there being quite number
Of officers recently mustered out. Gen.
Pleasantcn, no doubt, will Try and ac-
commodate as many as possible as he IS
now running the Bureau on a military
plan, taking the white House as his
model.
The interview between the National
Union League association and his High
Mishiiness the other day was the op-
poriuniiy to strike terror to the hearts
Of all disorganizers, and especially Gov
eruor Geary OF Pennsylvania, who was
the spokesman Of the occasion, and
Grant did not foiget to improve the
opportunity 1t will be remembered that
Geary in his annual message took the
President severely to task for violating
the rights of the States by sending
troops to that State, and in fact spoke
ike what lie once was-a Democrat -
Grant in rcplysto his address said, SIT
was important that the Uuion party
should be preserved to continue its great
work, without diiri;siion or dissg~sioa,
and eloterer tended 10 hinder that
work would end in h,m an opcn and
oro,colmemy" This was intended for
Governor Geary, as has since been more
than in,nrated 10y the Republican Of
this city. Here is threat plain as can
be aud the reference to "m opea. and
oeopcd enrmy" simply means that Gcary
while claia,ng to lie Radical has been
an enemy in alraiguins Graut for send
ing troops into Pennsylvania Governor
Palmer, of illinois, who in his late
message has also read lesson to the
Radical party III Congress about their
infringing on the rights ofthe States by
their proposed air lines and Federal
eopOraIious and who suggests an amend
mcnt to the constitution to restrain
them in their assumption ofsuch powers,
may take lesson from the fate Ct
Geary who has been old what he may
expect from an incenscd executive
OF course Carl Schurz & Co., cannot ex-
pect anything at the hands Of Grant