The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1869-10-18
Political chit-chst.

A petty Vice-Colfa1.
Georgia disloyalists call Governor Bull
lock His Bovipity.
Nashville has only sixteen candidates
TOR Mayor at the approaching election.
Iowa expects to gain three represents
tives to Congress- BY the uext apportion.
ment.
Grant is going to Connccticut-prob.
ably to superintcnd the gathering Of the
tobacco crop.
! Colfax has not been heard offor so long
that it is feared he has been and swallowed
himself in one Of his prodigious smiles.
I Rev. W. H. Green. cx-clcrgymsn and
radical oratar, is having his new trial for
poisoning at Litch6cld, Connecticut
President Grant had TO be introduced
to his cabinet when he returned TO Wash
ington. He had forgotten their names,
but thought them nice fellows,
Babcock, Grants private secretary, has
arrived at winter quarters" and is busy
preparing for the meeting Of Congress.
The reason why Frelinghuysen declined
the Chinese mission has leaked out. lie
wasn't on good terms with bis uncle, old
| Hyson, who lives there. ~
Tie Indianapolis Journal says: "Gen.
Longstrcet has tried to be sensible man
since the war" 1t may be added that be
has made most signal failure in the at.
tempt. ,s,, ss,s, fo -s., i,5
The effort Of brokers to discover what
Boutwell, is going to do,is frui,lcss, for
the excellent reason that he doesn't know
himself.
BY natural but indiscrces slip Of the
tongue, q loyal orator addressed saddle.
colorcd audience in Tennessee us yellow
citizens. y 9a' 'a' ''','''-.'s
Tho radicals having read or heard that
riches have corruptiug influence, are
patriotically endeayoring to save the pur-
ity Of the Government BY stealing all its
money. Ne
Governor Scott The Ohio Carpet.bag-
ger, who squatted upon the Executive De-
partment, South Carolina, few years ago,
has made money enough to buy three hum
dred acres Of land within mile Of the
capital Of the State. .si,
Grant is to have another gift. This
time il is set Of cutlery from a Yankee
factory. We presume the head knife
grinder Of the establishment will receive
Cabinet appointment. An intelligent per.
son Of this profession would be a great
improvement on Uoar. 8 silll
The vito Of Eli Peck, Of Brady, Kala.
mazoo County, Michigan, has eloped with
colored man, leaving her husband and
children to take care Of themselves as best
they may. Els symyathies with the
"down.troddcn" are not so active nov as
they we're. eg ata 9i.i' ~
Tbayer, Of Nebraska, is radically
stumping Pennsylvania. The Detroit
Free Press says Of him: ".rhayer h,s
very pleasant voice. 1t is a kind Of cross
between the brnying Of un ass and the
whistlng Of a locomotive, aud is about Us
replete with argument"
General Grant has returned to Wash.
ington, and has already had an interview
with his horses. No reporter has held
conversation with Grants father for nearly
twodays. The difference between the
Grants consists chiefly in the fact that the
sou does not know how to nuke speech,
and tho father does not know how to keep
silent. ''.h ~. =. ~ ''s
The following ACCOUNT Of the origin Of
"white trash' is given by loyal editor in
Arkansas. who publishes the Frc.n,an at
Little Rock :: adam, the first man that
God uude, was black, and he and all bis
posterity would haec continued Of that
beautiful rich color, If he hadn't siuned
and turned White through fear und NOR.
tication." iI' a7'.
A radical paper makes it q matter Of
boust that tho people Of Florida are so
poor that but one ,nah 10 the State returns
au income Of ten thousand dollars. I'll.
paper neglected to say, however. that this
one is bureau agent, who went down at:
ter the close Of the war, without farhing
in his pockets, and has since made his for.
tune BY rcbbing the whites and swindling
the blacks out Of what little tie war loft
them.-Lynchbury Neps.
Radicalism will never hold up It's head
agnin 10 Tennessee Tho sweep last
election was bitter. and, MS not one Of the
least signs Of it. Parson Brownlow sells
out bis Knoxville Wig, tue Nashville
\ Press and Times is up for a market, and
the Memphis Evening Post has, within
few days bnck, kicked the bucket; Rec.
ollsctiig that Knoxville, Nashville and
Memphis are the controlling centres, tes.
psctivcly, of East, Middle, aud West Ten.
ncssce, and that the three papers Just
mentioned have been the loil organs. tcv.
orally, ut those points, II can be seen that