Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1868-12-17

At tattoo, and;was heard with the roll Of
the drum st rcyai,le ft> WAS suag in
Church By the Chaplain, before grace 81
dinner. and the bands made ua deaf with
it at headquarters. Revenge John Brown
w.s the battle-cry Of those who staid at
home We may well regard Mrs. Stowe
az the originator Of all the calami'ies
which have followed the publication of
her book. I. comes WITH Oh IL grace
from Mrs. Stowe to confess now .hat that
book WAS q tissue offalsehoods. Had she
raised her voice sooner We might have
given her credit for some honesty OF pur-
pose. But now, after having .ilently wit
messed the carnage of Ave years, !. is too
late for Der to speak. Can any recanta-
ton Mrs. Stowe can make give Christian
burial to the gallant dead whose bones
lie blsnching on hundred helds' Gan
!, restore 10 life the heaps Of dead tina! lie
aukpe!led sad unco1ned, bat not az
wept.2l Gao it bring balm 70 oDe single
ore Of the tens CT thousands Of broken
,nd bleeding hearts which gave up their
aesre1: in :hs, aask: cause? Can i feed
the starving widow and orphan or dry
their .earsa Caa s restore bhghtcd
and desolate land to its former prosperity
We fa.r not-then in Gods name let
Mrs. Stowe keep back her forthcoming
book, for her only motive in publishing It
mus. be one Of gain Mrs, Stowe has
enough TO answer for already We would
suggest to her, that, instead OF giving
another book &c. the American people to
show how eunningly she can manu-
fscture falsehoods, she should spend her
fe y remaining years on earth upon her
knees. clothed in saekcloth and ashes
With one book in her hand which perhaps
she does not know is in print, but which
will teach her immortal truths and point
on. 10 her path in which, thorny though
!, il. she nav walk and learn there !,
hope even ftr her and though her sins
Re as scarlet they shall be white as snow"
The carpet baggers are at 10th ends OF
the Capitol doing, they know not what
nor does any one else. They meet one
day, 90 into Caucus the next, lounge over
the City, drink whiskey and amuse them
selves generally at the Government ex-
pense. The Speaker-ship Of the House
seems 10 be the golden 6-h that Is now
being angled for. Buncone and spread
eagle speeches are the order OF the day
The whole party seem to be on trial for
the place. Every fellow who wants the
place gets up, let's the other carpet-bag-
gers take him through an inspection,
then he outs with buncome and sits down.
Blaine of Maine had himself inspected
and spoke his speech last Thursday. tie
sat down with very self-satsfed air as
much as to say, Lam the man. But we
think the other csrpet-bsggeFs told -
be wouldn't do-he had not passed in
,nectiou. We are inclined to think our
old friend Benjamin F. will get that
| place. He knows what 1t is worth to
dollar. All Ben wants is the right sort
OF clerk and Seargent at Arms and be will
clean out the Treasury without leaving
gresse-spot, before the session is bali
over. Should he get the speakers place
tho .arpet-bnggeEs wont have money
enough to get home with unless they
sei.s ths railroad as Congressional De-
cessisy.
The terrible lashing which the Presi-
dent gave the Radicals II his message has
created no little amusement. Such sore
set va. never seen before. They strug-
sled under the stripes, but II was Of no
use. They pu. of the lashing for day
but they were obliged to receive it on
thei, bare backs The President had the
whip in his hand and be laid it on IN
mcrcifuly. If ons could pity such a set,
one might almost pity them under such $
c.stigatioa as Mr.. johnson laid on them.
Tbs President knows he has them under
the screw and be gave it most unmsrcl-
fully hard turn in his message. The
grooming snd whining are not over yet,
and when things get little more quiet
80 should not be surprised if we were TO
hsve smother witch of Impeachment, for
so hungry are the outsiders that they find
il almost impossible to wait for the fourth
Of March to come to begin lingering the
public change. The Washington Cores
popdent of the Commercial Advertiser
speak, in the pos. glowing and truthful
terms of the Radical party. |, is fash
! ionable, he says. to find fault with Butler
and his thievin IS and rails st the ccrrup
ton Of such men while the rest of the
party sre plundering the Treasury and
thank Goa they are not such thieves As
other men are We hsve alway. con-
! tended that Gen. Butler is the most hon
! sss Of the party There is not man Of
shan who in Buffers plsce sad given the
same opnortupitie. of s.eslinc tha. be had