The national Republican., 1862-04-28
MEN AND THINGS At THE CAPITAL
NO WINE, NO NOTICE.


NO WINE, NO RorfcE.
The concerted attacks upon Secretaries welles
and Stanton n certain newspapers, upquestion-
ably proceed from . 81 Of men who, unable 70
secure CONTRACTS, are dstermlned to have their
revenge, and, II possible, put men into the d.
partmen.s who will comply with their wishes.
50 long as there WA q chance Of doing any.
thug In the contract line, these scribblers were
tull Of Aattery. When that hope failed, bitter
criticism took the place Of ful,ome praise. The
conduct Of these defamers reminds us Of an
amusing story told Of clever fellow who, be-
sides dischsrging the duties Of clerkship, and
carrying on the correspondence Of two daily
journals, also undertook TO do the Jenkins for
. Sunday paper. For several weeks, the read
ers Of the latter paper we're regularly regaled
with poetical and porrsceous items respecting
the stock Of noted wine dealer. Suddenly the
aattering notices ceased, and In their stead
came sundry dark inslnuations that well
known wine dealer In town would soon tall 10
bis business The wine purveyor saw where
the shoe pinched at once, and demanded Of
Jenkins the cause for the attacks upon him
81 gave you dozen notiess," said he, a and ]
got no recognition. Ny motto is--no wine, no
notice. After that, the industrious writer
got bis present Of wine as regularly as the Sun,
day came around. These sensation-mongers
who are attacking Messrs. Welles and Stanton
are after their wine, in the shape Of contracts
and are very angry because those gentlemen
will not listen TO their demands.
BLACK SOLDIERS.
Some Of the respectable journals Of The
country make great ado over the suggestion
that when hot weather comes the President may
possibly make use Of black troops to garrison
some Of the forts on the Southern coast. A.
W. Thayer, Of Northampton, Macs, and, II We
mistake not, an old Democrat, writes as follow,
to the Independent upon the subject:
"Mr. Madison, President Of the United States
a native Of Virginia, in the war Of 1872, adopted
the policy OF employing black troops in al
ber that q recruiting chico for blacks wa,
opened in Boston, and stalwart negro, named
Peter Gus, or Gust, was employed, probably
on account Of bis activity and Influence ovel
his brethren, as recruiting officer, and very
| was drafted from Boston In 1914, amop1
those who we're placed under the command O.
the President, for the purpose Of manning the
forts In Boston harbor. The company to which
belonged was stationed at Fort Independence
| At that time there was company of light ar
| tillery in that fort, composed exclusively o
| blacks, under command Of q Lieut.. Morris
(white,) but the subalterns we're all blacks
They appeared to be as good soldiers as any ol
| the island.'
We have some men among us who woul'
rather see the Government defeated than see
negro aid in rescuing II from destruction.
| NOBLE RECLAMATION.
The papers have very generally noticed tn,
fact that Chaplain Quint, of one Of the Massa
chusetts regiments in Banks's diviso !, one o
the raciest army writer's as well as one of th,
ablest preachers in the country, has public,
stated that when he went into the army he wa
a pro-slavery man, but that the campaign il
Virginia had changed him 10 an opponent o
slavery. We notice in one Of his lively letter,
the suhjoiued interesting paragraph:
"You alluded. n few weeks ago, to my con
servative' proclivities. Other papers hav,
done the same, but they erred In supposinR
ever believed slavery to be right. only OBJ
Ijected to agitation rs meddling with wha
was neither politically nor reciously our bust
religiously. And still, that very error. the very
| going so far in defending what seemed the con
stitutional rights of the South, has made
swarms of old Democrats now the bitteres
foes of the oligarchy which dared lay iis hand,
on that Constitution, In defending whose ap
parent guarantees they had been lefl 10 a hope
less minority, been censured and reproached
and been placed even In q false position AS 4
1 ,Lo,- opsS Dalt t0tn nolx
right to ignore the claims Of suffering millions
we never had. Politically, the existence Of
| republican government over its thirty .fou
States, necessitates the destruction Of slavery
whether immediate or future the result, th
commencement OF its destruction must b
no,o."
THE COMMISSIONERS.
The Emancipation Commissioners will NEE
for the first time tomorrow, In the City Hal
The President, according to the law upon th
subject, on Saturday designated the time an
place of their meeting. The Commissioner
will Issue notice to the slave-owners of th
District to day or tomorrow, aud will at one
proceed with their work We notice that man
people still have An idea that $500 Is all th,
the Commissioners can pay us ransom for 90
emsucipsted slave. This Is not the fact tt
average appropriation will be $780, In son
, cases doubtless 1t will go up as high as $500
even $500, and in others as low as 500.
CoRINTH.
We have seen an intelligent gentleman ju
from Pittsburg Landing. He represents Il
condition OF the army under Gen. Halleck to
satisfactory. The troops have recovered fro
the great battle Of Shiloh and are eager
settle the conflict between the Cover nmsnt al
the rebellion forever, in the valley of the Nj
Sissippi. A terrible aud decisive battle W
expected soon to take place.
PLEASANT DAY.
The weather yesterday took the town |
surprise-not, as usual, by storm. With
cloudless tky and the spring sunshine Hoodil
pavement and park, few could resist the TEN
t tation to forsake in door life, and the stree
), were crowded with gay throng of people. II