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Show THE NATION'S DISHONOR. A glance at the daily reconls of Congress should cause a blush upon . the face of all true patriots left in the Union, and if the spirits of the illustrious illus-trious dead look hack on what is passing pass-ing here on earth, then Washington, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Harrison and their colleagues must cry aloud in agony at the degeneracy of the Republic, Re-public, and the corruption of their successors in ollice. It would seem1 that the present Congress iias little' time for any business except that of tho investigation of high crimes and misdemeanors of their predecessors, or Federal officers, whoso whole existence ex-istence has been employed in robbing and plundering that people whose servant ser-vant they arc or have been. The District of Columbia in recking with corruption as the evidence adduced before a committee has already proven; the christian Gen. Howard is charged with being a public defaulter and is now on trial before a military commission. John Sanborn, and his accessories ac-cessories and confederates are being puiished and exposed, while Clapp, i public printer, always an honest man until be came to Washington, is now charged, and is, or will be, on trial for plundering the Treasury; Busteed, Durell, and other judicial officers, arc presented, and information liled to oust them from offices which they have dishonored; dis-honored; and theSpecialAgentsof the "ostofficc Department are likely to come next. What will the people of Europe think of tho following record, contained in an extract from a special dispatch to the Ciucago Tribune. Let us all read, mark, learn and inwardly digest tho following record of Congressional Con-gressional Luaine s, and go and join in the prayer once so common in official life, "Clod save the Republic;" !N"o fjwur than twdvc ditfrrcnt inve.-ti-gutious have lj;un put umlr way einuotliu Dpinning of the sa-'vju, b':si(li; tho-":: which huvo ltcon mtulo ly ihu 'regular Cominitti-e.3 on .ExppiK.itures in the viiri-om viiri-om depart rniu tj, and th;n: U a fair pro.s-I;ct pro.s-I;ct that mop; will be undertaken b-iWe tho FCMijn clo't'S. A Joint Select Committer; are employed in invesliKJiliriK tlio chnrw against ilm rifticiols ol the District fjovcrmnenl. 'JV House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Ju5tico an; investigating alleged frauds committed by "o I rk-ansas rk-ansas Judicial DUrict ollieialf nndthey will probabl push their iri'juiric intj the diitncU of South and N,nh Carolina, Iowa, Southern I llinuis, find .Dakota. A inilititry court ii investigating f,,. 'Imrgci ng-iirist Con. Jloward The Houm Indian A (fairs C'omuiitlee Inn-e just begun an iiiv-lignti.n into tho alleged frauds in Indi'in coiilni.-t?. Thoy do not ne;rn to hive advanced mueli, but hh h-v sit with cI.jM lo th, the puhlie havo little opportinuLy of knowing what is dccl-oned. JhoAii.ysn-l M'.-mu C-Hnmitte,. nn, invctigating tno outrngej commHtd unde- the in-.i-li .yt.;m in ijrj UUj.t0iin mtvi.-i; Kiifl tla; Hnnhorn font rat-1, in i,,. Interna! JCevormo ervic-; and thorovla-ti-jiis that have been made in tlic-e mntt'T.-nre mntt'T.-nre probably nol a .iuttiulo of that whi'-li remains to bn told. Tho Joint Printing Commillce nrc in -vertigating. hurge.i mnde ngain t the C'oQ-gre-ional Printing Mt and aUo in-tniring in-tniring as u. the advisability of aboli.-h-iiigilmt in.-tiiiri.m. They alo conduct thmr p!oeedingH in cmipfete -ecrecy. The House IVU,Hiee C.mii.ilte0 are looking into the paym-.-iit of raoietiea to IV(ofIi'.j ' :,P'Pl k-M ulv'i, arre-uof Postma.l-cr.huve Postma.l-cr.huve I.,-,, made, flIl Iin,M nilR( lur rn;noroin.neev ahUc-mw up under a h,I mtrodnced by (., .. JLim . i ri, utOhu,, and Will, it,, all, g.-d, re-niltin ,, del vjlopniwita that will a.tonidi tho iii-oi.h more than tbeV will i;,,,,,l.V uo-cim-irutlc: ol tho llyiiae Jud ciary Committ, e nro here, and have been investigating tluj i'!i:irges ngninst .fudges llutetl and" I).t. rell, and will, it i thought, suhiniL urticl - s of impcacbrntnt ngaiiist each of liioao in-dividuals in-dividuals at un enrly day. Tho Kir t National Hank invostigalion, and o e that is in contemplation into the I'm.--1 men 'rt Sin irg.-i iianir, complcto the li.t. 'J'h') invetigitions havo, wita but two i;i.uepliorn, vi.: the District in veBl igiitioii and the Howard Court of Jrnjuii-y, h,;,.n ordered wi'h a degrei of unanimity that is indicative of Iho lacl that the pro-cut 0n-' 0n-' ftre is notdi-pn'd to (vner up wrongdoing wrong-doing in any pni t'.T. |