Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1868-05-07
,(Corrcsr.onlence of the Beacon.)
N4,hiH g,on, May ith. 1865

- E4DEsEI WHICH Etlr ~ I'll own ~ e4i1a-
either IL the President or Congress, from
the Collectar-hip Of New York down 70
IN ol4 hat. They rush to Washington,
c.rret-ha. in hand, aud rush Of just a
quick, ar You may see them On the tiaeg
If tie senate still holding to the carpet
bag bullying some unfortunate Senator
into voting for the Impeachment and halt
an hour attcrwaxd You may see the same
man, carpet-hag and all, up an alley FF-
ing to trade of galvanized watch With
half q dozen niggcrs. We do not hon t
" believe that there is one of these fellows
who has been rushing to Washington 10
make Senators vote but has brought some
little thing along to pay expenses We
( caught one fellow, who is perfectly Ger
! tain Of carving two doubtful votes, with
/ caruet-bae full of two-pronged forks,
about which he was driving q hard bar
/ gain with an ancient negro woman, want
] ing to exchange six forks for pair of
! blue warn stockings much the worse for
wear. As for eggs there is not man Of
them but has from one to five barrels At
the depot and Will stop lobbying with Sen
ators in the twinkling of an eye to sell
you half dozen if you will only make an
+ on your fingers. They mostly drink
ale at five cents a glass, complain il there
De TWO moch lFotl on IT, H',' ASA ''io ''i
keeper 20 pun niue "nl"hts III II "S II
Is apt to make them SICK without " mere
they sleep, no Rortal under heaven has
ever been able to find out Our own I'M
preston is that they climb the wa
ter-Spout oil hotels win the hahult oi the
carpc'-ba@ III 'he'F 'ec,h' tahe 'nc mrs.
room they ma open ana cilllp OUT AGAIN
just about Gay.
We believe the Impeachment is still
going on, at least we think some one told
Us so Yesterday Since our last letter to
YOU We have not been near the grand cir
Gus, having nothing to call Us there. We
were clad to keep as far as possible from
the beasts Of prey that are bowling day
and ujrht in aud about the Cap.tpl.-
Thin. are in terrible muddle here. -
The faithful herin to find that Lmpeach
mont k not the thing Since the Chca-
o. election # has been heart-rendinc to
hear the rroans and shrieks.-such with
;nrs and 9ripding Of teeth were never
sn@n a. hoard before When the news
from, chico reached here the condition
tho NIL hoods was friobtfpl Mr.
c+o,.ns forrrtt;nq br had q wir on At
to,nn+n1 =, t7or 10 hair ant Of his head.
1874 H., via off throw i ont cftbe win
,Iaa anJ roHt too,inr ovor tho Conitol
,.;.I,o,,+ La;. kotuonn. h., scaln and rho
$500 $1,000 : a., tar GA J9c,, IF NV two
daiFes h, i inst bcrinninc 10 recover the
s;nLt If ono eyc-tbc doctors fear that
the rush Of tears was 50 great as to wash
the sieht out of the other eve entirely
Troubles. it appears, never come singlv.
Ever since the lmpcachment trial the
hl,ct -hoad. have been At their. wits end
to keep Butler from swallowing Grant -
Ben has been itching to get his FINGERS
IN the Great AM and it took the whole
Scnat, House and Black-head party to
keep HIM off for they Wei knew that If
Ben once cot Grant on the witness stand,
it would be the last Of him and the party.
Wei, thcy got Ben and Grant together,
they embraced, cmpted several bottles
how Mr. Grant got home we don't know
nor, we think. does he. The FIGHT be-
tween Ben and Grant was hardly over,
when, Ike a clap of thunder, comes the
news Of these internal copper-hcad Veto
rics in the West Stevens had not got
lis wig ons nor Col. Jack the sight OF one
eye before they found there was treason
IN the camp The " AIDE party apd the
Nitro givcerlne ColtaX party were It dag
CESS point old Ben Wade eurslng toltaX