Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1866-05-11

| Advised as am to-day. | shall wait
sometime before consign Edwin NJ. Stan
ton to the embraces of the copperhcads
and secessionists.
On Tuesday commences the discussion
upon the committees report, and it will he
a week of profound interest in the Nation
al Capitol. What is to he the fate of this
measure | Cannot predict, the future alone
will devclopc its results. We may hope
that kind Providence that has carried
our nation thus far, will not forsake us now.
OF one thing we may be confident, and
that is,
THAT truth shall conquer at the last,
| So round and round we run,
And ever the light CONES uppcrmOst,
And ever is justice DONE
| believe made mention in MY last OF
the contest between Mr.. Blaine of your
state, and Mr.. Conklin of New York,
growing out of some defense which the for
mcr gentleman had made, (while the army
bill was under consideration in the house)
of General Fry, the Provost Marshal Gen
eral. Perhaps l ought not to allude to
this subject again, and would not, did not
desire to mention the finale of debate i'll
which representative from the Pine Tree
State comes ont long way ahead.
Mr. Conkin has reminded me in more
instances than one by his manner and
course in the House this session, of that
distinguished attorney who figured so con-
spiculously in the celebrated Breach of
Promise case, known as "BurJell VS. Peck
wick" by the name of "Buz- fuzzy" He
has spent most of his time i'll opposing bills
which have been introduced, in brow beat
ing members who did not agree with him,
but since Mr. Blaine's last merited castiga
ton of him, he has subsidized. | have
scarcely heard him speak for week Mr..
Blain's reply was short but to use slang
phrase, it was a sockdotaser. Here it is.
As to the gentlem's cruel sarcasm,
hope he will not be too severe, The con
tempt of that large minded gentleman is
So willing his majestic. supercmincnt
oyerpowcring, turkey gobb,cr strut has
been SO crushing to myself and all the
members of this House that know it was
all act of the greatest telneritv for me to
venture upon a controversy with him, But
sir. know who is responsible for all this.
know that within the last five weeks. as
members of the House will recollect, an
extra strut has characterized the gentle
mans bearing. 1t is not his fault 1t is
the fault Of another. That gifted and sat
rlcal writer, Theodore Tilton, of the New
York independent, spent some weeks re-
Gently in this city. His letters published
in that paper embraced, with many serious
statements, little jocosc satire, a part OF
which was the statement that the mantle
of the late Winter Davis had fallen upon
the member from New York. The gentle
man took it seriously, and 1t has given his
strut additional pomposity The rcsenih
lance is great. 1t is striking. Hyperion
to Satyr, Thcrsites to Hercules, mud to
marble, dunghill to Il diamond, singcd cat
to Bengal tiger, a whining puppy to Il
roaring llou Shade OF mighty Davis. for
give the almost PROCLAMATION OF that jocosc
satire
The army bill has been up again amend
cd not improved-and then voted down
some three to one. 1t however, has been
reconsilered, and then reeommitel to be
reported on again. In the meantime, the
House may pass the Senate bill, or some
thing like it. The House rccommitcd Nj.
Sehcnck'. bin because that gentleman
seemed to take it very much to heart that
his child was lost. Some men YOU know,
have a very Intense love for their intellect
ual progeny.
Tncrc has been considerable legislation
the past week but no measures of great
public Interest have past
The weather is still coul, and the city is
healthy. Public expectation is on tip toe
for the debate which is to come up on re-
construction. pHAKoS.