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WAsHrNGroS. D. c.. Am17 II. 1877.

Our Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. Ap1l II, 1871.
The debate in the House on Saturday on
the amendment giving to the Board Of Public
ed quite a number of spicy remarks. Mr..
Beck "'struck the nail on the head when he
stated that she saw rich and powerful ring
10 this business" The whole affair of the
Territorial Government was a job from its
first inception and all that is wanted to carry
out"the wishes of the ring now, is to elect
their Radical delegate and the charmed circle
will be complete. But Congress does not
seem disposed to play altogether into the
hands of the big business job and struck out
the whole amendment relating to the Park.
The Senate amendments to the Ku-Klux
bill were taken up and considered. The
Senate amendments were all concurred in
except three. The House refused to permit
the feature abolishing the test oath for jurors
to be stricken out, and the power given to the
President to suspend the habeas corpus until
the eud of the next regular session, instead of
June LIST, 1872, was not concurred in, and
Sherman, which provides that the county or
parish is responsible for all damage done to
person or property by the Ku-Kluxers, was
also stricken out There will be caucus Of
Radicals held to agree upon some kind Of a
compromise as to the bill. If the House
Radical members stand firm the Senate Rad
icals will agree to the bill as it came from the
House rather than risk the defeat of the whole
of the boldest electioneering measure ever
engineered through Congress.
Mr.. Hamilton, .ex-member of Congress Of
Florida, had brought number of very seri-
Gus charges against Senator Osborn of that
same State, to which he made affidavit. As
soon as Mr.. Hamilton left this city Mr.. o.
born comes boldly out and denies the charges
and throws considerable quantity Of dirt at
Mr.. ex-member of Congress Hamilton. Will
these vile excresences on the body political
never cease exposing to the world how rotten,
how corrupt and how thoroughly despicable
they are?
Mr.. Robertson, of S. c., tried to have the
Senate consider his Amnesty bill, but the
doer Of all the White House dirty work, the
curly blonde-Conkling-with brazenness
that could only spring from a frame without
a Soul or heart, spoke about this being sprung
on the Senate, when the facts are that Mr..
Robertson has time aud time again notified
the Senate of his intention, and the falsefer
also had the uublushing impudence to say
that the Senate was thin, when there was
fully fifty Senators in their seats. Mr.. Trum-
bull remarked that it was the fullest Senate
that he had ever seen Oh Saturday. Long,
thin John Sherman, who Of late is playing
III d surely % sssist '1irn TO be
returned to the Senate, and who out Mortoned
Morton, the dark Indiana Senator, in his re-
cent speech, came to the rescue of his friend
Conkling and proposed that the Amnesty bill
be allowed to be taken up provided a vote
was not pressed until the darling project Of
the Radical managers hearts-.the Ku-Klux
bill-be passed. Conkling was sharp and a.
greed, but not SO Mr.. Trumbull, who was not
to be caught by any such thin chaff as Sher-
man spread before the Senate. He knew that
once the Ku-Klux' bill was paassd, goodbye
Amnesty. Trumbull fought for action at
once, but the anti-amnesty Senators gained
strength enough to carry motion to 60 into
Executive session and so the question rests.
l have no reason to believe that the Senate
will act favorably on this question, as l do
not know why they should pass one bill--the
Ku-Klux-to deprive the white people of the
South of their rights and at the same time do
aught to relieve them from their disabilities
and make opponents for their party. Others
are sanguine, but so am not 1.
The coming election ia Ohio is matter of
the first Importance. This year they elect a
Governor, State officers, and Legislature
which apportions the State for the next ten
years for members of Congress, and elect a
United States Senator in the place of John
Sherman, who for the dirty work which he is
now doing is certainly entitled to reelection
through the power and patronage of his chief
Ulysses. The Radical candidates are Gov.
Hayes, Gen. Noyes, Judge Lawrence, Hon.
Martin Walker, late NJ. c., Hon. Sam Gallo
way and Rufus Spalding. The Democratic
candidate will probably be Gen. Thos. Ewing,
jr., Hon. George H. Pendleton having declin-
ed the use of bis name. before the convention.
The Secretary of the Observation-Disclosures
is-a relation of Ulysses, is candidate for
Senator from Ohio 10 Sherman's place and is
using every means to accomplish his design.
The Interior Department will, if this thing
goes on, be composed entirely of Ohio politi-
clans, whom Delanoi is putting in place 10
order to beat Sherman. Of course these men
are calculating on the the success of Radical
ism 10 Ohio. everything being based upon
such result, but there is a very trite saying,
of not counting your chickens until they are
hatehed. - ls.. -, sir. .g
A Good Example FOLLOWED.
Anew Peabody has arisen 10 England, with
the difference that he has not at present re-
vealed his name. Some time ago gentle
man stated that be was prepared to expend