Scuds in the Political Heavens.
A CORRESPONDENT of one of the N. Y. daily papers, writing from Washington, says: “The Peace Proclamation of the President will be immediately followed by other action on his part. It will be observed that the legal effect of the proclamation is to place the Southern States in the same attitude precisely toward the General Government that they occupied before the war, and entitled to the same rights that they heretofore enjoyed. Mr. Johnson is determined to follow out this principle to its legitimate conclusion, and to see to it that the Southern States are no longer deprived of these rights by a factious majority in Congress.” In the N. Y. Semi-weekly Tribune of April 10, we find the following: “Our Washington correspondent says that a distinguished military chieftain has within the last few days been sounded by two noted politicians, one of whom was in the army, to see to what extent he could be relied upon to favor a coup d'etat by which the Southern Representatives are to be placed in both Houses of Congress. No encouragement was given, but the project has not been abandoned.” A southern man writing from a southern standpoint, to the N. Y. Independent, speaks thus: “The political effluvia which is emanating from the stagnant cesspools of slavery is spreading its virus far and wide through the ‘Confederacy.’ Slavery in the South is as much a fact now as it was five years ago; and, having lost nothing but the name—with the increased ratio in which the ‘peculiar institution’ is gaining ground—if the Southern States are reconstructed on the principles enunciated by the President and his copperhead coadjutors of the North, we may say, with the disorganizers of the Chicago Convention, ‘The war is a failure.’”