Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1868-06-18
Correspondence f tie Heacon }
ZT y ,n~r.so June - Il. SC

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threat. Tut ia short time, al dies away
and We ar left quiet again. We have
f ate. zone through 3 nue.. exsltf iii''i''
tina, - begin 10 wish Fl -'methin@ 70
turn NJ 10 make rs lively and gIye Us
.au,athing = t4lE about Shortly before
d, farce If au election reccH'iy played ID
th-g-ci+v Col JACK iufyrmed = Tia; tHe
go. If ,f. nation VIC tlrue! Oh ia" cap
~ and the election would h the hf~f
Gun Of the caup9i-u Il the eyes q II
nation were turned On the Peop.f y ms
city, they probably turned them IN so'i'e
otbrr direction when they heard 10" the
vbite reoule. and particularly ID" sol
d;er. had voted kegardless d the enor-
rnous display Of stars and stripes { IA,
Haunting he" as Greedy calls 1t stamped
ON the backs Of the woliy-head ticke's'
and the dinning into their ears OF the vast
services of General Grant. the soioiers
marched mp by the hundred and put IN
the plain brown Democratic ticket, ana
never made a WY face st It. II TINS l.
the first gun Of the campaign Tor the great
Useless helped along by the soldier vote
where will the great man De when 'he
last eoos of He will be blown cieah
of the face Of his mother earth and ms
friends Will not BE- able to find the tips Of
his ctat-tails. 30 savage did the Woody
heads become when they heard how the
soldiers had voted and how disappointed
the nation would be that they thre" out
the entire soldiers vote and called them
damned SGT of Rebel sympathizcrs ana
copperheads, that was al! they could dc
and accordingly they done 50. We heard
a Radical Judge Of election say that j
! more infamous fraud never was perpetra-
ted in community since elections have
been known. We are Informed the re-
mark lost him little office he held under
Radical. he had to leave next morning
We heard poor Dutchman giving
Radical Judge the best III his broken Eng.
l..h for not putting his ticket into the
box. but throwing it under the table, ana
the Judge did not attempt to deny tt
The great lord aud master of Washington,
the mighty Major Richards, has taken SO
much on himself during the last week
that no one can tell where he Is gong %
stop. II would not astonIsh Us II ne
were with the police at his heels, TO walk
into the CITY Hall and proclaim himself
Mayor. and the police-forcc the board OF
Aldermen and Common Council. Il m
p,dence and ofhciousnce- can accomplish
ANYTHING he will DO it; in the latter
particularly, he la. exhibited remarkable
talent
Mr. Grant started Tuesday accompan-
led hy few choice spirits, TO commenee
the rrcat movement Ct swil Cing round the
eircl in other words, to show himself to
the rcople. The whole party icij Oh
Tuesday last for the grand monkey-shoW
tour How many blacks were mixed III
with the whites we have not been abls to
learn. but there were At least two mg-
gers 70 every white man to give the par
= some ,tev f responsibility and MAKE
ii popular. OF course tic M brown
lug went along toe. and they viii nave a
trst-ra,c time a. long as there Is anything
left in il We learn that the Great | Sc
less made, at starting 4 few touching re-
marks 10 the party III the car informing
them that the brown jug could not be eG-
pected to continue as full as It then Wa,
+ owing TO the difficulty ofre, lenlshlng dur
inc the Journey, and winding up with an
earnest appeal to the whole party to drink
fair no one TO drink oftener than every
ten minutes, except himself, he beng
troubled with an extra thirst gotten up
for the occasion He would sit near the
Jug and take 30 much every two minutes
and half, to keep the cold of his s,om-
ach. We have no doubt the whole jour
ne7 will be perfectly delightful, unless the
old brown gets low between Phlladclphia
and New York. They may have TO re-
plenish with jersey lightning (the empty
hottie warranted TO kill at eight hundred
yards) which may get up their flshtng
qualities and the whole thing wind up III
little free affair.
Things got quiet serious between ben be-.
Wade and the great Useless just before
starting, and YOU must not be surprised Ii
+b, whole Radical vote of Ohio is thrown
{ against Useless, in consequence The
efficiently was this when the old brown
was brought into the car it was set behind
the door, which Ben spying, he crep: III
n the other door and took most un-
common heavy dig, but was caught BY
the General in the act Of filling his small
nocket flask. which holds about thre'
MIN. High words ensued, when Ben
sore III, General to understand that ht
MIGHT 90 TO A certain place not mention
able to ears polite. that he would not
drink any more Of his old pine-top, and
would 90 straight and tell Ihad Stevens
on him. About ten or twelve negro boot
blacks had collected about the platform
which the General, from some defect o.
vision macnihcd into crowd, and "a'
proceeding to give forth his opinions e
Them. steadyins himself by the railing
when Jack Forney seized the bcll-rope
: gave it most awful pull and jumped OF
the car As the car started the UeneF"
gave iurch back and fell with a terrible
crash. striking large niger IN the pi
e the stomach. causing him To give Al
( unearthly veil anu start for the car WIN
. dow As the train moved of the Genera
was seen living fat on his back, with BIZ
heels high in the air, ike Dick Yates Sc
inc through bis great bottlecmptyne
1 feat without pautaloons or drawers. ant
the big nisgcr With h.s head out OF Tx
ear window leaving his dinner III thu
Washington depot.
II seems Ben Butler has not forgotten
, his old tricks. On "Wednesday las Wit
ness came before the sueak-commlttee wis
was interrogatod BY Ben as 10 what h
had done with a certain sum OF none,
a q, .bo,,, tifte,u Thousand dol