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SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCEWASUIX(JT«\ LETTER.Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial.Washixgtox, March 9, 1867.THE PROSPECT OF ADJOURNMENT.It is hardly worth while to speculate on the adjournment of Contress. as the chances are that the matter will have been agreod upon by both Houses before this letter sees the light of print. The real subject In disputo between the Senate and House is not when to adjourn, but when to reassemble. A majority of sensible Republicans in the Senate begin to see the folly of the impeachment project, and heartily wish it never had been started. They want to adjourn till autumn. There are, however, thoso who still ding to tho idea of removing the President for high crimes and misdemeanors,” and do not despair because a committee appointed for the special purpose of impeachment hi been able, in two months of most arduous i gation. flooded with all the calumnies an dais that could be scraped together, to finduponintis to foi1 beforThey want to meet e the Radical party the country that ;o save itself. If to reassemble inimpeach Johnsoi they can get Congress May, they will say ciates: “Hero, now, we haimust be defeated before* the people.” As for testify it wont count tor «'muff.' once the impeach]—---— -----the party.” And if the truth were only known, it would most likdyappew that the reason why themet to impeach r failing to dr —nannlA n As fwhetherJudiciary Committco asked for further time to stigate. was because the party had not agreed ir not to remove thePresident. Does any _ _ ose that testimony” will have any effect upon Butler or Asbloy in casting their votes on the presentation of article* of impeachment; or upon Chandler, Howard or Sumner in voting the President’s conviction or acquital? The point is not whether sufficient evidence can be found, but whether a sufficient number of votes can be had to carry the thing through. The President will not be deposed? if he bo deposed, by the Senate and House of Representatives, but by a Republican caucus. Let it be once agreed upon in caucus to impeach, and tho Republican who, either in the Senate or House, permits his mind to be influenced in favor of the President, will be read out of the party, and denounced as disloyal and a Copperhead. I know that^ men talk very gravely on this subject, and wish it understood that they will sit as unbiassed J«nrm«n in thequantities. There are many points about this city that would bear a detailed description, had a per-n time for the care and labor required; but I can ily give my general impressions and pass on. Intalking through the streets, many of them narrow and sadly out of repair, looking upon the houses oi which I have briefly spoken, and such public institutions as remain, more than once the query was suggested—what ia there, or has there ever, been, about this place, to justifc i in their haughty local pride warrant their almostcitizenstensilt;had in the public affairs riS the nation ?( The South dj.tood than C”ldCh^l^r»l«2S axyet it Exhibits more indications oflifethj, Thai j all very fine, and he who belie.hus a faith in human i*erl- ctability that is almost to be envied, though his knowledge of the workings of the political machie is not of the best, xne question ui »u^u.ument is so intimately connected with the auestion of impeachment that the whole case may be summed up thus: If Congress adjourns to meet in May or thereabout, thlt;ntW srreot or avenue. The strange* will be in-in passing through this popular resort to mark hew as in other cities, the effort, one would almost think the unavailing effort, to keep pace with the demands of fashion. You notice its autocratic sway hero, as elsewhere, manifest by the prevalence of bonnets incredibly small and just as far removed from the useful article whose name they bear as it were possible to conceive, and styles of dress which have very recently appeared in the Mirrors of Fashion for the first time. With all the evidences of extreme and general poverty which have crowded upon my observation as I have parsed through this desolated land. I was some-what surprised to see styles of dress that had just appeared on the streets of our North-em pities, and were still the admiration of the bon ton when I started on my Southern tour, making their appearance hero so soon. I heard more than one intelligent Southern person commenting upon these efforts of the belles of the South to keep upon the crest of the wave ot fashion. It seems somewhat strange to those not accustomed to it, to hear the wail of lamentation repeated day by day in ‘he newspaper and in speeches and sermons, as though the Southern heart was comfortless, and then pass through the streets to mark the devotion to fashion and other gayeties of life. I see no more impropriety in fashion-worshiping in Charleston than elsewhere; but it does seem about time that the lamentation should cease.SOME CHANGES.‘king changes in the eus-of which it may be inter-. w u9MPmHIL the war, oolored persons wciu required to give the inside of the pavement to the whites, and the white man would knock down the “sassy nigger” that violated this usage. The sidewalks hero are generally very narrow, and since the passage of the Civil Rights Bill the newspaper here urged that all persons, without respect to color, in passing on the sidewalks, keep to the right; and I notice that this has generally become the custom. The thing, however, sometimes takes a turn which may be more amusjng to the observer than it is agreeable to some of the parties concerned. I was on King street the other day and noticed on the opposite Side, and going the same direction with myself, a party composed ef aiEmancipation is toms of this city, s eating toin t A8S€by tl *i iatteibeinlookthan:t may be taken i _____ a triumph for the impeach era ;if the adjournment be until November or therea-Bout, it mav be looked upon as a quietus for the whole subject. And as for the testimony, good, honest people, why, let that appor when there is no need of such vanities. MACK.uumyusou ti uu uiu wau and W(iiu»«M m j uwuband woman and girl, all colored, the old man the blackest, the girl the lightest in complexion, the others of intermediate shades. Tkeir dress and the manner in which they gased wondonngly every new object, plainly indicated that they from some plantation in the interior. TheCHARLESTON LETTER.Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial.Charleston, S. C., February 25,1867. The weather heie is charming. I have been South Carolina for ten days past, and it has seemed more like May than February. On last Thursday, while the snow was falling in the city of New York, in Charleston it was by far the most comfortable to walk on the shady side of the street This mild and beautiful woather is imparting the freshness of spring to many of the trees, shrubs and flowers. The dark, dead tinge which the foliage of the pinos, live-oak and other evergreens, assume in the winter, is softening into a lively green; the yard and garden shrubs are leafing out, and many species are growing and blooming in the open air that with you are nurslings of the hot-house and pets of the parlor. Japonicas, red and white, single and double, may be seen in full bloom, on shrubs from eight to ten feet high, in many yards. In contrast with thlt; royal flowers are the blue-eyed violets, which cluster near the ground in humble beauty—welcome to behold, for in the northern home they are the early harbingers of spring. Other flowers I daily see—some I can not name, the others I need not. I should, however, say that peach trees are red with their early bloom.Washington's birthday Was not wholly ignored in Charleston. The military commander had appropriate salutes fired at the Citadel 8quare, a large military park near the center of the city, and the oflicers had a ball at the Citadel in the evening. A fire company named aftei Washington had a parade in the course of the day and a ball in the evening. The Washington Light 1 it t mi try Charitable Association livid its auniv.-r-sary in the evening- These were all the public recognitions of the day. 1 attended the anniversary, which was hcRRin one qf the largest Baptist churches, and, besides hearing the choir perform about as choirs usually do on such occasions. I heard an ode written fur the purpose, read by o minister, and an oration pronounced by anothc.. The first six lines of tho ode are the key-note, and breathe so much of tho spirit of what is said in the pulpit and on the rostrum in the South, that Itranscribe thlt;“A vail ot depth and darkness onr weeping land enshrouds.And the glorious Sun of Liberty is hid behind thlt; clouds.The wings of Hope droop sadly over fair freedom’ tomb,And Faith, bowlldered, seeks in vain to pierce the deepening gloom.'Our Mother State’ in ashes sits, mourning her lt;ised. slain,Refusing to be comforted in this her day of paiiclassical school the pupils petitioned thlt;il school the pu.-HPVillVliHfPQHP,,________ — suspend school on the 22d, but hedeclined, remarking, in substance, that the day ought not to be celebrated in the South. It happened that on that day some of the boys were required to declaim, and when one failed, whose selection had reference to tho Father of the Country,* tho principal remarked that it was well, for he had ropeated quite enough of such a piece.I*H 11 II 111 ! ■nothing that positivelylicating the course ofand if it be ______sentiment among this people, it may hat- — Value. It may. however, only suggest that theredd n„ § upon his shoulder, (anotherriolation of the slave code,) upon whioh .vas slung a bundle containing, it may .be supposed, a portion of the effects of the family.lan truageu aiong wnu a ouuuie; me young man had another; the young woman bore in her arms a bundle also, out of one end of which poked a little head. Knowing what had been the custom, I could but watch the progress of this company with some interest as in a sort of rambling “Indian-file,” they pushed along the popular thoroughfare, almost invariably passing next the houses and giving the chivalry of both sexes the outside of the pavement. I respectfully decline to put the words in this page which I think|would correctly interpret the expressions which I saw on the faces of some parties whose equinimity was disturbed by these unsuspecting freed-people.Before the war, none of the proscribed race dare to carry a oane or wear a vail. These were the in-ignift of respectability, and woe to the pooi ’darkey” that would have dared to appropriati either. But now these are oommon to white anc black, and if it be not a fancy of mine, the cane L carried and the vail is* worn by some of these freed-people as though they remombered the past and enjoyed the present status.Under the old regime the colored people could not ride in a carriage except in the capacity of a servant. There were too many faces and forms here among tho free as well as enslaved so-called negroes that in a carriage would have passed for pure Caucasian. What if it should have been possible for one of these Southern lords to have bowed by mistake to one of these! The noble blood uld not be subjected, even remotely, to such¥n ^ofden? * times the oolored people could not meet at night, even for religions worship, unless white person was present, and at a certain in the evening they must all be within doors, they have unrestrained liberty in regard to their night meetings, and they can go on the streets when are where they please.SWAMP ANGEL.Among other changes none are more noticeable than in some of the churches. Tho Northern Methodist Church has purchased a ohurch property, mm., riy belonging to the of the best churches and lecture-rooms in the city—worth perhaps $60,600. The main audience-room has over one thousand sittings, including the galleries, and the building is finished in the best style of church architecture.. After the property had been contracted for by the present owners, there were strenuous efforts made to prevent the transfer being consummated. Those who were opposed to a loyal ohurch being located at so eligible a point, said that it mnst not be—for possessed of it the Yankee Church would have a Swamp Angel” planted in the very heart of the city. But the sale could not be prevented, and the new Swamp Angel can not now be dislodged. When the old congregation worshipped here the colored people had a part of the gallery assigned to them, and they reached it by a sido-door within a narrow yard on the east side of the edifice, while the white passed in through thetheLiuce, WUIIO LUC WUItC ptLBSCU 111 V„ide doors under a lofty doric porticc.body and the gallery of the church are filled -Sunday with a colored congregation, which enten and passes out through those wide doors and undei that lofty portico, and I believe the whole property is held in trust by a board of colored men, Revolutions never go backward._QUINC Y.INDIANAPOLIS LETTER.QUEEN OF THE SOUTH.My first impressions of Charleston as I rode through the streets from tho depot to the hotel,•e unfavcind they beclt;•main. The gn ____ river to tho othu, JMIvery hcart of the city, laid the best busini.tionsin ruin#. Tbe chimneys and higher ______,standing like spectres until after the close of thieeping from oi■MB * . lt;f *Vi/______withit fire of 1861, through thebriok and stone still to soon. Not more than half a dozen houses seem to have been rebuilt in the lower burnt district,” and only one could I see in the upper “burnt district,” which is in the northeastern part of the city, and was tho work of the rebels m bur-'—irmng their army stores to prevent _.—. the hands of the Yankees at thesurrender. These burnt districts are a gloomy spectacle indeed; and then to see no effort being made to rebuild and to be conscious that the citizens are too poor to take a step toward repairing SSmakea th5m. appear doubly sad. The most of the money and labor expended on fcuildiugsi since the war, has been applied to re-tfwiifh?'f^nid9 % Federal 8hbt and shell. * v“dniDACSt1^. v consult, in anoldfile in tho Mercury, the official statement of General Beauregard that it would bo physically impossible or the \ankees to botnbard the city from any position they held, and then pasB along the streets, in tho southern half, and mark the wm of the missiles thrown from the swamp Kwl“ I think a person might count hundreds of-plkces where irregular holes, from two tlt;- fw-o , •Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial.Indianapolis. March 11, One of onr most aspiring Hoosier cities has re-oently enjoyed—in fact has has hardly yet recovered from—a sensation of the hugest dimensions. Gosrips and scandal-mongers have had a feast snch as they can hardly hope tp duplicate during the present century. This grand social upheaving occasioned by twins, two fragile specimens of humanity, weighing only ten pounds jointly, and launched upon the turbulent sea of life from the wrong tide of the hymenial altar.The gentleman whom public opinion honors by attributing to him the paternity of these helpless innocents, is a married man of mature age, large family, and eminent respectability,” a member in good standing of one of the leading churches* n amateur musicion of some celebrity. In this latter capacity he has.long acted as leader of a ohoir, and has been more noted for excessive gallantry to the ladies of his choir than for devotion to his wife and children.The young lady thus painfully involved is tbe daughter of a wealthy gentleman. She has hadjry advantage for moral and intellectual culture that affection, backed by money, could besto' and has hitherto borne a spotless reputation.1 nftffiriv fln/i wawmt sad illustration of “man’s perfidy Vfrailty.” Of course the young woman is anathematised by her own sex with the bitterest maledic-anlt;i thus obliterate these evidences of her peril Except it be in Chicago, I have never seen so large a proportion of frame houBes as here. Tho f gQch•n section has square after aqua♦tructures—the most of them not mora than stories high—all evidently built before the war— ’ ' whitewashed—all lookingeven Uilupiu.rlt; lt;i. i n.- t. i.ii absence ol buildings of modern stylo is a noticeable feathre. The best houses I have seen have a neglected appearance, and the custom that seems to have generally obtained, of hedging in the yards with high \rick walls, gives an unpleasant air of exclusiveness. In passing through the streets where the finestr -id* oce ai *e located, one is almost led to thinkthat the hight and closeness of the wfill around the yard and house may have ^indicated theStanding of the occupants. The trade and commerce that sent the lite-currents through the city in the past, were cut off by the war, but knowing this, a person will not find the indications of macn •nterpnse or great prosperity even before the war; he will be prepared by what he sees, to believe that during the war the chief streets may have been overgrown with weeds as they were, and will not be surprised that stooks of goods, purchased and opened months sinoe, are still on hands in largetions, while the guilty author of all this misery is xiiled upon by the lips of beauty as sweetly per. So goes the world.To-day has brought to a successful close the regular session of tbe Forty-fifth General Assembly. So well and faithfully has it done its work that, under ordinary circumstances, there can be ~~ occasion/or a special session, and the silence ol —r legislative halls will probably remain unbroken till January 1869.Among the most important measures adopted is - registry law which is expected to preserve tl purity ot the ballot-box.” or rather to prevei that wholesale fraud and corruption which hai heretofore characterized ottf elections in many partsjf the State, and which have degraded the elective franchise to a miserable farce.tne habit of adjourning for dinner, leaving thlt; maXn1yDi^tar^«. thnh°nmfmuber of the Board! Ildnrinvth* tbh boxbeingMtduring the night to be slept with bv mm, v../i nr CK* Politician Of cXSiX sSl« JJ,Kta0US’C0illd not B*fcly be intrusted to 1 f monstrous births have been
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