Year: 1868




leader of the party. The folly, in
consistency and rascality that one is
obliged to see here from day to day
enacted by this cabal Of conspirators to
perpetuate power and plunder. is enough
to nauseate any man but a New Eng
land Yankee He can stand as much
corruption when he thinks it will pay,
as a salamander can fire.


Quite an excitement was created in
the Senate ON Thursday, in which the
" Nubian Ennuck. from Massachusetts
figured conspicuonsly, as he does of late,
when woman issthe heroine, especially
black one. Sumner arose in his seat
and stated that colored lady, an en-
ploye of the Senate, had been elected
from the cars on the Alexandria and
Washington road, and otherwise inhu-
manly treated. He, therefore, arose to
introduce resolution of inquiry into
the matter, SO as to institute punish
ment, &c. Moxa Morton, also, made a
speech, in which he said respectable
lady of color, an employe, had been
kicked out of the cars at Alexandria,
and abused as niger, &c. Buffoon
5Nye, also, made a speech, in which he
said he would at an early day move to
repeal the charter of the road. He went
on at considerable length in the "blood
and thunder style, and the matter was
referred for investigation.


Your correspondent, having business
in the ancient city of Alexandra, yes
terday, thought he would hunt up this
fendish conductor and hear what he had
to say. He was, soon found, and upon
inquiry he stated the facts as follows:
He said he was standing on the platform
of the ladies' car and this mulatto wo-.
man came up and attempted to get into
the car allotted to white ladies. He said
he knw her; that she was "woman of
the town." as Beast Butler calls them,
and he told her to go forward and take
the car assigned for people of her color.
She said she was going in with the White
ladies or die. He told her she could do
as she pleased about dying; but she
could not go into that car. She, there
upon, made grab for the knob of the
door to the car. and he made similar
grab. He got hold of the knob, and the
woman imprudently threw her whole
weight across his arm, as he held the
door. thus loosening his hold and throw
ing her down, He called for assistance
and had her put off the cars. Another
gentleman told me he heard White
man say to the mulatto woman to go in
that car, and he would back her to the
amount of $1,000. So you see how small
a matter it takes to create sensation in
the dignifed Senate of the United States.
This woman is in the employ of the
Senate of the United States to wait on
ladies in the galleries. Mr.. Meade, the
conductor, told me the car appropriated
for colored people is equally as good, if
not better, than the car for Whites.
This thing is not over yet, and I should
not wonder if this small matter in the
end cost the taxpayers Of the county one
or two thousand dollars. And so we go.


The ,Impeachers have somehow come
to halt. Old Thad. is awful mad and
says he will give it up. If Impeach-
ment in the end fails, it was not SO in
tended week ago. The consideration
that now seems to produce halt is a
fear on the part of the Grant Republi-
cans that Impeachment will enure to the
interest of Chase. They did not think
of this last week. Bingham found this
out and stopped the whole proceeding in
embryo. Wade is for Chase. So are
Boutwell, and Stevens, whilst Bingham
and Washburne are the leaders of the
Grant faction. If Impeachment fails, it
will be for these reasons.


Everybody here is quite at sea as to
what the johnson and Sherman matter
MEANS Mr.. ohnson, Immediately after
General Sherman left the city for the
West, sent his name to the Senate for
confirmation as General by brevet, sim
ultaneously announcing a new depart
ment, called the Atlantic-headquarters
in this city. Yesterday General Sher-
man telegraphed from St. Louis that he
hopes the Senate will reject his nomina-
ton, and that if the President insists on
his taking command of the new depart
ment, he will resign his commission in
the army. Now, all have to say is,
if President johnson did all this with
out first consulting General Sherman, 1
think, to say the least, he did a very in
discreet thing, and l shall be slow to be-
level he did SO. We will see. Strange
things happen nowadays.


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