Year: 1870




feeling towards the northern people, and
an earnest wish that they will come
down and invest their capital there. The
Senate seems to have become a very radi-
cal body, and it is feared does some
things which are hardly according to law.
Her action upon the admission of General
Ames, as Senator from Mississippi, meets
with the disapprobation of all the princi-
pal lawyers here, including the Judges of
the Supreme Court. The Judiciary COM
mittee, feel very much incensed with the
manner by which they have been treated,
Ia this and on the Texas bill, and it is
said they propose to resign their positions
upon that committee. Now, no one
questions the integrity and honesty of
any of these gentlemen, and their course
was deemed to be in accordance with the
law of the case, and that alone could be
their guide, According to this new rule
which has been established, any person
who may declare his intention
to some friend that he is about
TO become q citizen of any State,
ans can succeed in being elected to office,
is eligible, no matter whether he has ever
visited such State or not Vermont has
been signally fortunate in choosing sena-
tors to represent her here. Senator Nor
rill made his reputation while in the
House. aud has done nothing to detract
from it since while Senator Edmuuds, al
though young in years and comparatively
unknown outside of his own State until
he was sent here to succeed Senator Foot,
has become one of the leaders of the SEN
ate. Another Vermonter, now from Wis
consin, ranks among the first as a debat-
er, and all have learned to love his elo-
quence, while they dread TO feel his cut
ting sarcasm / refer to Senator Carpen-
ter. Ben Butler has been trying to vent
his spite upon the correspondents, and at
the same time gain little cheap notori-
ETY.. 1t seems that the leading correspond
ent of the n Y. Times is a clerk of the
committee on banking and currency.
Having, by that means, access to their
papers, he made a copy of the testimony
relative to the gold conspiracy, and sent
the same to his paper, with strict in
junction (as he says that it should not
be published until authorized by the
committee This they deny, however,
and as they claim, coming to them
through the same channel that their 9TH
er news came, they proceeded to publish
it. OF course there was au explosion,
and each member of the committee want
ed to know how it leaked out. Ben,
thinking he had discovered n mares nest,
put motion through the House, author
izing the subcommittee on the Judiciary,
of which he is chairman, to investigate
the matter and ascertain, if possible,
whether any one had violated the privi-
| leges of the House. A raid was then
made upon the principal correspondents,
but all were ignorant they knew moth
ing newspaper men never do, es-
peoially at such times. Hearing,
however, that some of them had safes
in the vaults of the Safety Deposit Com
]
the secretary of the company, and see
what he could get out of him. He also
was ignorant. What to do next he hard


ly knew, but finally concluded to exam
inc the safes themselves. At this time,
however, the directors of the company
stepped up, and said it could not be done
Ben was checkmated, and the whole thing
is on a par with his seizure of the tele-
graph dispatches at the time of the i'm
parchment trial, with about the same sue
cess.


The principal topic of conversation here
during the past week was the letter of
Gen. Sherman relative to the army bill,
and the speech of Gen. Logan in answer
to the same. This bill proposes to cut
down the salaries of the principal officers,
and raise those of lower grades. In the
case of Gen. Sherman, whose salary is
now $4,000, it cuts it down to $4,000,
Gen. Sheridan's from $4,000 to $4,000,
and so on, down through the general Off
GERS Gen. Sherman's principal complaint
seems 20 to be that, if they cut down his
salary, he will not be able to entertain his
friends as he would wish He owns prop
erty in ST. Louis to the amount of $50, 900
or $4,000; here, he lives in a house
which was bought by his admirers and
presented to him, together with the fur
niture, and which cost $4,000 He rides
in very fine carriage, drawn by a beau
tiful span of horses, with gold plated har-
ness to match these were also presents),
footmen to wait uron and attend him at
every turn, and yet the country must be
taxed to pay for this style, ''this," as Gen.
Logan calls it, ''aristocracy which he
wishes to set up" A decided change
from the times of Washington. General
Sherman further claims that to him and a
few regular officers belongs the whole sue
cess in putting down the rebellion, utterly
ignoring the volunteer soldiery, who at the
first call of their country left their homes
and their workshops and by the strength OF
their own right arms made these men


what they are, and elevated them to the
high positions they now occupy. General
Logan in his speech fully vindictes them
from the aspersions cast upon them by
this letter, and places the credit where it
belongs with the. volunteer soldiery, and
rebukes him (Gen. Sherman) for attempt
ing to influence legislation by taking ad-
vantage of the position which he occupies.
1t is a little remarkable that this letter
was not given to any of the newspapers
in the district, but first sent to New York
for publication there. Your readers have
no doubt, seen the notice which has gone
the rounds of the press, regarding the
order given by Senator Revels, that