Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1869 — The President and Congress. [ARTICLE]

The President and Congress.

Thi President is very regardless of the feelings of those who have gleefully enlarged upon his differences with the Legislative branch of the Government. He will not gratify them with even the semblance of a quarrel with Congress. On Wednesday of last week he sen tames sage recommending action in regard to the reconstruction of Virginia and Mis sissippi. On Thursday the House passed a bill is accordance with his suggestions, and sent it to the Senate. On Friday the Senate amended it,-passed it, and sent it, to the House. The House reoeived it, concurred in the amendments, passed it, and sent it to the President fcr his signature. Here was the best conceivable opportunity for a neat quarrel. That intense jealousy, that latent distrust of the President, of which we have heard so much, might have expressed themselves most readily. Betas they do net exist, they did aot appear. Sven General But- , ’ JS£° “ppoeed to remember his hostilities quite as vividly as other men, was foremast In promoting the President’s raggesdans. The last important act of was an expression of the utmost confidence in President Grant— Earner's Weekly. Mbs, Bum Dodge, a widow lady of seven)y4feree Tears of age, on Block Wand, has during the past year woven, in an old-fashioned hand-loom, four hundred yards of cotton and wool-cloth, and eight hundred and ninety-one yards carpeting, making in all 1,291 yards, beside uoing ths work for her family. —Of* 2.100,000 Tolmnes of Thiers’ History of the Consulate and Empire have