Year: 1866

Three bright and beautiful daysalter week Of cold
and rain have given life and freshness 10 leaf and
flower the Capital These first indications of the Sum-
mer sosce with perhaps the distant movements OF that
pestilence which wakeh in darkness seem TO turn the
minds Of anxious legislators to the question OF adjourn
taken as early the 10th Of May others insist there IS no
public necessity of prolongng the session beyond the st
days Of June. The question whether congress should
adjourn take recess ls deemed OF importance and
the popular discussion would incline the belief that re-
cess will be determined upon. -


The Senate will doubt continue its session some little
time after The House shall have taken its recess for the
purpose Of acting upon Presidential appointments and the
TRANSACTION Of executive business The status Of their
preeding officer has already become matter Of exanina-
ton By Of the best ege minds OF that body ID view
Of the xgences Of our position IL seems to be teted
question that successor TO MI Foster must DC choseh
pror TO the expiration of bis term as Senator which on
The 4th Of March next even though he shonid DC
returned for six years more by bis state
Legislature about Mr. Foster IS by general
consent one the most accomplished presiding officers
in the senatea thorough paamentaran and courteous
gentleman; yet his official connection with the senate
ceases on the 4th Of March, and he does not retain
ht seat until again in, he cannot, IT - main
tanned, fill the Vice-Presidents chair, except upon
another and subsequent election by the Senate.
These facts have led thus early to canyassng OF the
ouesion Of his There seems 10 be consider
able unanmity in according the position TO the Wet and
Messrs Trumbul, Sherman and Pomeroy woud in turn
command considerable support il not for the fact that
they are ccumstanced precisely as is Dr. Foster IN regard
10 the expiration of their Senatorial terms MI sherman





but that does reach the point raised and some Senator
will be selected whose present term will not expire until
after the expiration OF the Presidency OF MI johnson


In regard 10 confrmatons, ii seems to lie the settled
purpose Of leading Senators to cheeGly accede to the
Presidents wishes in all Of new appointments 70 I'LL
vacancies Or where removals have been made Tor sucehl
cause But in where any competent and menorous
officer shall be removed to give place TO parties whose only
claim and ndorement may be hypocritcal avowal Of
nv pocy. such appOntees will be very likely TO get
crushed betwsenthe upper an9 Qsb@ pilsione In view
Of the ANNOUNCEMENT attributed to Mr. seward-Ial the
Administration patronage shall be used IN eonsulnma'ion
Of The policy aforesaid, the Legislative branches of the
Government will be slow TO lend Their i'd IL any such
work Of disntegration and prescription.


The popular impatiencc is soon TO be rceFed by re-
port from the Reconstruction Committee Meantime,
every intelligent person posted in regard to affairs at the
South willing y bear testimony that the denial OF Con-
cressio1s admission e sopibgn members has resulted in


,nuch better state of feeling toNd. @~ ioYa TDes e
he negro than existed at the beginning Of the year. Odf
Northern Conservatives" to ignore the fact, or
else are ignorant of it, that the pressure upon Congessfo
keep these dsoys men out comes up rom 'ne Persec9ea
outraged Union of the South and not 80 much from
their own radical convictions or constituencies. And the
burden of the prayers Of these men, VINO come mere
almost dgilv is not to UL0 shall represent mem N
Congress but who shall have jurisdiction and bear civil
rule the South And it is apoint not so clearly
made should be- that the sorest tra these deseng
10y asts bear is the total abnegahon OF then-
selves and such they and the universal elevation 70
place and power Of those who were Their berest ana
most relentless prosecutors during the bloody Rebellion
AS hunted Union from the far South sad IN my pres
encc yesterday, Loyalty is the only crme thus fa msde
odious at tho South" Can a party, nation how
ever glorious its record stand under the wherng curse
the condign ignomny of such charge ruhfnlly made
AS case in point append literal transcript OF an ap-
peal made to-day by devoted Unonist at the South to
one OF the most distinguished Of Western Congress
men. Says the writer, in closing his appeal:


,his nssssa ven name do not let Congress recog
organized Every former friend Of the Government would
soon DO driven out Of s country by syssm Of petty
pereenops and gigantic aggressons and they the
eply friends The back Lsn Lave lcr9 tsso Es.e.l SI
tks grsedwsns BsgSsS aaJ nss thsss poOy untos.