The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-07-28
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON ID. G. July 18th go.

John w. Forney's recent extraordinary
efforts 70 build upa Land Agency
i'm the South. 1t is >rumored around
Washington that he is u candidate for
the position of Senator from North Car
DINA. This is the great goal of John
ambition for the past fourteen
years. Disappointed in not being made
Senator from Pennsylvania he went
back !" on the party which gave him all
the position he ever had--betrayed first
and then deserted it, broke faith with
Buchanan, his earliest and best friend,
and probably exerted for the injury OF
his fellow men Us great an influence
during the war as any other in the
country. He has given up his '' habits
of good fellowship" another sacrifice
upon the affairs of his ambition--has
turned his Chronicle into land agency
advertiser, and is lavishly spending
money to carry favor with the South,
most probably for the purpose I have
spoken of above. Forney, however,
will never succeed in attaining the great
aim of his life. There is retributive
Providence, and it certainly will not
permit man whose violations Of the
social virtues have been so fragrant as
John w. Forney's, to succeed in that
object, the hope of attaining which in
duced him to commit those violations
of Social virtues. There have been
some changes in the Newspaper World
of Washington during the past week or
two. Yesterday the Sunday Herald
came out under new auspices, and al
though it retains for the present the old
font of type w;.ii which it commenced
publication, yet the issue on yesterday
was decided Improvement on the past
four months. Washington is pretty
we'll supplied with newspapers just
now, although candor compels me to
say there is not strictly speaking a first
class me,cs Journal in the City. This is
not so much the fault of the managers
as the result of circumstances. There
are no FIRST class newspapers, in the
sense l use the term, outside of New
York and Chicago. The commercial
and local advantages of these two CT
ties give them pre-eminence in the
journalistic world which probably now
cannot be rivalled by the energy and
enterprise of any other city in the
country. That famous era in the
newspaper world of thirty years ago,
when railroads were few, the magnetic
telegraph still conception rasher than
an execution of the mind, is gone and
probably will not come back. Then,
The National Intelligencer OF Washing
ton, The Richmond Examiner. The
Charleston Mercury, ETC., were the lead
ing papers Of the country. Morse &
Hoe were the genii who gave to New
York and subsequently to Chicago,
that impetus in journalistic progress
which they seem disposed to keep, al
though l could name many newspa-
per in other cities upon whose columns
there is displayed more intellect and
not less energy than in New York o,
its Western rival, but the force of geo
graphical advantages has, singular to
say, over balanced the power of brains
But the newspaper interest Of Wash
ington is large and important, and in
both of it's divisions, the local and for.
eign, is not inferior in consideration
to any place in the country. We have
here the great political headquarters Of
the entire press of the nation. From
"newspaper row." where the vast ma
;ority of correspondents gather for mu.
tual support and reliance, there ema,
mates every one of those items of exc.
cutive, congressional or cabinet policy
gathered with infinite labor, to satisfy
the political hunger of the country
Just now /" the row " is nearly desert
ed-the lack of news is distressing-tht
hot weather being the chief topic o
conversation. In my next, if every
} thing remains rs quiet as for the pas
} two weeks, will give al full description
of the newspaper interestand surSound
} ings of Washington. 1t will be, doubt
lass, of interest to your readers. Mr.
Clapp. the Government printer, has is
sued to the book binders Union of thi
city q notice of his intention to increas
the number of apprentices to that trad
in his department.. Now there is n
doubt that Clapp's sole object is to sc
in number Of negroes, and thus prac
tically enforce the doctrine of negr
5 equality. This doctrine is revolving t
the sensibilities ofwhite men, and there
= fore Mr.. Clapp is playing tho part of a
l INSCRIPTIONS demagogue. But l loo
S upon these trades Unions as an institu
4 ton better adopted to Europe than
Il America. In their essence they partak
t of the spirit of the protective or pro
e hibitive tariff men. The President I
y the Book binders Union, in letter
n Mr.. Clapp, instead of objecting to I'll
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