The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-10-30

The Situation---W What Leading Northern Pa
pers Think Of 1t.
We condcnsc the following from the re-
markably correct summary Of the Washing
ton D. O., Evening Express. 1t will give a
good idea Of what is going on, and what the
leaders say about it.
The New York Herald quotes what it con-
siders an official notice from Speaker Colfax,
that Congress will reinstate Stanton in the
Cabinet. 1t quotes the provisions Of the ten
ure-of-offce law, and is informed that Mr..
Stanton's case will turn out. to be one of re-
moval from Office, and not simple suspension.
If the Senate demand his reinstatement, Mr..
johnson will probably decline to do SO, and
in such manner as to COMPEL submission
Of the matter to the Supreme Court. The
impeachment party Of the House are flourish
ing their whips, but the Herald thinks they
have ceased to frighten the President. Itthinks
Victor Emmanuel has been too timid, and
says: ''The aspirations CT the Italians can
not be long suppressed If the King will
not march with them they will leave him be-
hind, wrecked on the shoals Of his own revo-
luton and establish the monarchy on liber
al basis with a united Italy, but he will not
be able long to arrest its progress" ltspeaks
Of the November election, and asserts that
however it may result. Grant will be the
next President. 1t thinks Spain is tremb-
ling on the eve Of change in liberal di-
rection, and points the revolutionists to the
most vulnerable point Of attack-the Span
isll West Indies 1t attacks Mr.. Colfax's
remarkable partisan speech" at the Cooper
Institute, and says it shows that he did not at
tempt to control the course Of discussion in
the House when it assumed the form Of fierce
partisan recrimination Of the President, be-
cause he sympathized with every sentence so
spoken in violation of all the decencies Of
Parlmentry usage. 1t alludes to the distur-
Dances in South America.
The New York Tribune, noticing the let
ter of the Chief Justice to Judge Underwood,
hopes that the Attorney General will lead
the prosecution Of Mr.. Davis It claims
that the issue in New York is whether the
military machinery in the South shall be
swept away and reconstruction speedily Sc
cured or whether the military rule shall be
protracted. It declares that the Worlds
statement that certain Democratic candid
ate never chewed, smoked. or drank liquor
in his life has created political earthquake.
Such a monstrosity was never heard Of since
whiskey was inverted. 1t enumerates the
points Of Jay Cookies letter, that the Nation
al bank notes are safer than greenbacks, that
the notes of broken banks bring premium
that the eighteen million interest paid the
banks is no favor to them that the same and
more objections apply to the notes of the
State banks, and that the banks controlled by
Democrats as we'll as Republicans cannot be
perverted into political engines. The Tri-
bune suggests gold basis instead of legal
tender. Il discusses dwellings for the Peo-
ple." Death rates are diminished by COM
Portable homes. It opposes laborers' villages,
since the tenement honses would still be I'LL
ed by more vicious population, and urges
on millionairies the. purchase Of these sinks
and the erection of model lodging houses. 1t
says of Scott and Kenly, candidates for
the bench in Baltimore, both used to be
Wings. Keuly fought for the Union ; Scott
was rebel in spirit, if not in fact, and he is
elected Judge 1t speaks highly of Major
Haggerty, the Republican nominee for City
Clerk, and commends Smith Ely, Jr., Demo-
cratic candidate for Supervisor, as an honest
man. It demonstrates against the malignant
attacks made on Mr.. Chase in Republican
papers.
The New York Times admits that the Re-
publicans have an "up-hill task in that State,
but they are doing everything in their power
for success. The effect OF the late elections
is shown on the South, unfortunately as an
obstruction to reconstruction. The conven-
tions will be held and constitutions adopted,
but the whites will take little part in them
In the North there is still strong ''distrust of
the rebel spirit" which the operation of these
victories in the South intensifes. It satirac-
ally treats Colonel Forneys alarm over the
plotting Of another rebellion by Davis, Tombs
Breckenridge, &c. 1t notes favorably the
disposition shown by the Boston Post and in
other quarters, to abandon the Democratic
doctrine respecting internal improvements
by the Federal Governments, so far as to aid
in the indispensable work in the Southwest
of rebuilding the levces of the Mississippi
The New York World has lengthy arti-
Gle devoted to the exposure of "Jay Cookies
sophistries." 1t says that when nothing bet
ter can be produced in defence of the ma
tiopal bank notes, it should be evident to all
thinking citizens thatthey are foredoomed. It
again asks how the seized whiskey has been
disposed Of in face Of the notorious fact that
the market price was much less than two dol
lars gallon. It calls Colonel Forney the
chameleon of Radicalism, and says that now
he alloys his viperous sheen with the dove
like tinge Of peace. It adds: "Truly there
is quaking of dry bones in the Radical
camp. Forney, chameleon Forney, is as pleas
ant to us now as the buds in June. He rep
resents the knee-quakings and the sweats and
the tremblings Of his party-a party that
once dared to threaten the masses of the
North and is now reduced to an attempted
cajolery of the conquered South" It has
an article on the movements Of breadstuffs.
and says an active and prosperous trade in
grain seems to have commenced with the
Western people.
The National Intelligencer says Occasion
al announces, in effect, that the wretched
condition of Tennesseeais to be chat of all
the Southern States. The people of the