The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1868-12-07

IT is said that Brownlow has not wash
ed his feet for forty years, No wonder
they call him Skunk Brownlow.
Politicians from New York say Scna-
tor Morgan is sure of reelection from
that State his winter, by the Legislature.
The Supreme Court ofMissouri has de-
cided that shares of national banks are
taxable like other moneycd corporations.
EVERY abolition scallawag defeated for
Congress, BY the people, in the late cleo
tioa, proposes to contest" in order to
get mileage and few days stealiugs.
HIS poor soldier who deserts his CO.
lors on account of defeat. He is a cow
ard who abandOns his political principles
on account of 4 political reverse.
A Connecticut paper asks # it ought
not to "give God the glory" for the cleo
ton. To which contemporary responds:
"No no-give the Devil his due"
IT is said that Hon. John Slidell will
endeavor to regain his confscated proper
ty in New Orleans by au appeal to the
Courts there.
THE flag of the expedition for obtaining
money under false pretences, known as
the Cuban expedition, is of led and blue
bars, with lone star on white corner
ground.
Mn. PHrLLlrsis out in an article in his
paper, demanding universal suffrage,
without regard to sex, race or color. and
the immediate reduction Of the interest on
the debt.
IT is said that at the next session Of
Congress one million of dollars will be
applied to the removal of distractions
from Hell Gate. Congress will doubtless
do this to facilitate its own descent.
THE trOoly lOil Horace Maynard, Of
Tennessee, is recommended by the
Brownlow dynasty as fitting person for
the position of Postmaster General in
Grants's cabinet.
Mr.. BELMONT, the chairman of the Ma.
tional Democratic Committee, spent cleo
ton day in Newport, Il. l., not even
casting his vote for Seymour and Blair.
Such Democrats were the cause Of Grants
election.
The comic papers in Buenos Ayres
contain caricatures of the leading charac-
tiers in the Washburne affair, including
our Minister himself, who is represented
as running of with his umbrella and car
pet-bag, in state OF great alarm.
PRENTICE says: "Lct the Democrats
say what they please about the dcstruc-
ton of freedom qfspeech in the South a
man can speak just as freely there as he
can in any part Of the world-ifhe is
negro. Aud what right have folks to be
white y
OyE of the New York papers says that
war is a great civilizer. The late war
may have civilized some of the blacks,
but it made barbarians out of the Repub-
lican party, and has DISTINGUISHED gentle
men and statesmen, and put thieves and
all kinds Of swindlers in Office.
4 radical newspaper says Of the Trea-
sury Department at Washington Rot
ten clerks, crafty advocates, gold gam
blcrs, followers of mammon of all sorts
are esconscd there. Nearly all were APP
pointed under previous administration,
and Congress will not permit the Presi.
dent to remove them
THE laboring men of the United States
have paid MS interest OH the bonded debt
Of the United States, during the last year
the small sum of Que bundled and thirty
million eight hundred and nincty-four
nine hundred aud ten dollars
aud forty-onc cents. So says the United
States Trcasurers annual report. Benc-
fcent government
IT appears from Beast Buffers card to
The Tribune. that he beat Horace Greeley,
Henry Ward Beecher, Charley Wooley.
Sam Ward, the Christian Congregation
dist, the Springfield Republican, the
Church, General Fitzpatrick, the La
Crosse Democrat aud the Devil. The
man who triumphs over such combina-
lion as this, says an exchange, is no
spooney.
'HuyyICuTT has just discovered that the
Freedmen's Bureau is nuisance that
should be promptly abated. In late
speech at Norfolk, Virginia, this man re-
lie hoped to God the Freed
mems Bureau will be abolished soon. 1t
has accomplished all its merciful work for
which it was creascd. aud now has degen-
Grated into political curse-the most
powerful engine of political trickcry that
has been known to the world since God
made Adam"
AFTER charging President johnson
with about all the sins enumerated in the
iecaloguo for the past three years, the
New York Tribune has now come out in
bis defence in one important particular.
'Venality." it says, sis not among his
faults. We knew him in Congress, where !
men are pretty accurately weighed aud
measured; be has since filed nearly eve.