The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-10-07
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TIE COMING SESSION.
-, a.saIer 6.-~information OBJ
va a. NE sest sources leads TO the con-
ta.nea Is .sat sh coming session Of Congress
elus' o,s I'D in as much, if not more, politi-
3 .'.,n5,saas,cussion than any session since the
Use of the war, and that there will also be
several important Investigations set on foot.
The prospect, therefore, for business legisla-
ton of any material consequence Is slight, as as
the working days of the entire session VIII
he comprised within the short space OF about
two and a half months. Influential mem
hers of both houses express the opinion
that another investigation into Louisiana
affairs cannot be avoided and from the de.
yelopments Of the last few weeks II. is appre-
hended such an investigation, il ordered, will
he as protracted as that which was conduct
ed winter before last.
SENATOR CARPENTER.
The published defence of his course in re.
ceiyipg a large fee from MIR. Kellogg reached
here by mail to-day. 1t has been much COM
mcn,ed on, and the explanation which be
any outside of those who have from first to
last been in active sympathy with the Kel-
logg usurpation. 1t is now very clearly re-
nembered that grave suspicious were enter
famed of the sincerity of Senator Carpen-
tel's professions during the tendency of the
Louisiana bill in the Senate, and several
senators remarked openly that they did not
believe that lie had any intention of passing
vote on the amendment to allow the new
election provided for in the bill to be con-
ducted under the auspices of Kellogg on the
ground that otherwise Senators Sherman,
Howe. and one or two others, would not
vote for the bill. He had not the least
shadow of an assurance from any OF those
senators that they would vote for the bill
under any circumstances, and he did have
the most positive assurances from the entire
BODY of Democratic senators that they would
not vote for it with the Kellogg amendment.
He knew perfectly we'll that without Demo
cratic votes the bill could not be carried,
and when it was finally defeated his peculiar
he.he rang aloud above the dcrisve laughter
of the other Radical senators. That gen
tleman of the brazen front of General But
Ter should have also considered it necessary
in public print TO exculpate himself for re-
ceiying fees from Kellogg is looked upon as
an additional indication that the Louisiana
iniquity will bear still further picking. Lead
ing Conservatives from that State aver their
belief that if the full history is laid bare the
buuted senses Of the most extreme haters
OF the Sonth would recoil at the prospect.
SOUTHERN AFFAIRS AND THE ELECTIONS.
Contrary 10 the opinion which was eX.
pressed by Radical politicians here at the
time Of the uprising against Kellogg, advices
received here from all quarters of the North
and West are 10 the effect that it has had no
uuloward effect upon Conservative prospects
at the approaching elections. 1t is learned,
however, that the stories Of Southern out
RACES which have been so industrlouSly dis
semiuated by the Attorney.G General and the
c4rpet-bag Congressman have not been WITH
on. some effect, and, in consequence thereof,
the chances Of Democratic success in some
of the doubtful congressional districts are
not so promising as they were. Apropos
of this 'sSouLhern outrage" business, 1t Is
understood that it is in contemplation by
members of both the Senate and the House
10 offer resolutions of inquiry on the meet
ing of Congress to ascertain under what au-
tbority CT law the military forces Of the
United States are made subject to the orders
OF the Acknowledgement without the inter-
vention OF the War Department.
No doubt at all is now entertained here
that the Chattanooga Convention, which is
called TO meet on the 18th OF this month, has
as it's Sole object the furtherance OF the selfish
and unprincipled designs of the very class OF
men to whom so many of the southern States
owe this day their disorganzed and unhappy
condition. 1t cannot as yet be ascertained
that there will be bakers dozen at the Con-
vention of men who can in any proper sense
claim to represent anything that is good III
the South. 1t has already been said that
50 Senator" Patterson, who "put through"
the South Carolina Republican Convention
an endorsement of General Grant for third
term, will be on handat this Convention with
a similar endorsement" Mr.. Patterson, it
is said, claims that he will be as successful at
Chattanooga as at Charleston. II so, this
and q long
STRING OF ISLANDERS
against the white people Of the South will
be about the only results which can be eX-
peeted from this motley gathering. Some
of those who propose being in attendance,
and who are now here, are making great
ado over what they term extensive ship
ments of arms for the white leagues, which
they allege have been made from Baltimore,
and other points, although there
is better evidence than any of them can fur
nsh that quantities of arms which have been
purchased in the last few months on South
ern account were to the order of Radical
emiSsaries and destined to be put in the
hands Of blacks.
AS movement to place properly before
the country the real condition of affairs in
the South and the true relations between this
General Government and the States the pro-
ject which has elnanated from Nashville for
Il conference of Democratic Governors and
Influential representatives of both parties
the country may possibly re-
suit in benefit. Such opinion as has been
here to-day on the project is of a
favorable character.
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