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been legally entitled to, the excess varying in amount from less than two dollars to more than a thousand dollars. Viewed merely as a piece of editorship, this mileage expose was the best hit ever made by a New York paper. The effect of it upon the town was immediate and immense. It flew upon the wings of the country press, and became, in a few days, the talk of the nation. Its effect upon Congress, and upon the subsequent congressional career of its author, we shall see in a moment. Dec. 23d. Mr. Greeley wrote a letter to the Tribune, in which he explained the manoeuvring by which Congress, though it cannot legally adjourn over for more than three consecutive days, generally contrives to be idle during the whole of the Christmas holidays; i. e. from a day or two before Christmas, to a day or two after New Year's. I was warned, he wrote, when going to Baltimore last evening, that I might as well keep on to New York, as nothing would be done till some time in January. But I came