The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-25
The Political Horizon,

We haze yet t. see better commentary ui494 s'e
Grant administration than the following washington
correspondence Of the Cincinnati Commercial
A morning gust sweeps down upon US daii3 ltoih
Long Branch. 1t is disgust forneY eohsthues "
edit Grants cigar stumps and the hours Oh ME-
baths. These things amtroslal 10 s5eoPi''i9
they are nauseons 10 sound somacls- pui UT - -
cigar stumps no shorter than Grants.5 our Hi'e5
keeps herself clean with abiutics as the MISTRESS
President. Why SO much faniaronade II aetais
must be told, Che OF the latter i"at '
she is hanging Grants arm at Long Bfaieh WIZ
every step he takes like broken sprlg Or aosI
How else would she be known as the iady OF ite
idcnt? Certainly The President, "hat Oh ii'"
Grant, turning his administration into holiday, Sehus
for his stud The velvet sands of Long DfaEcn ~, NOV
felt their magnetic spanking tread Vfaht without
horse loses his electricity. The horses without ufah'
lose their airing The black favorites must De sent
him perhaps as Dana accuses thefallaneosa at the
Government expense. .ssF zssgs
We will wait little But, giving the best guess
from the present standpoint the President has 'ailed
u.s. He IS disappointment. He has mol uons one
luminous since coming into power on Inc an OF
March, not that the people have risen up ana APP
nlauded him for He is opaque to-day as IN the inter-
reonum forming Ills Cabinet and the thing clearest 10
this capacity is that the light is not III NM no more
than in the tumbe-down Cabinet affair me people
have pinned faith to His mysteronsness long enough,
and it is all that they have yet or perhaps VIII nave
till the end to assure them Of the future.
There is kind of preentious lnconsequence
about the Administration that is ridiculous, running
to and fro of ue-breeched, Shouder-srap aekeys
buzz of bass drums in the back ground, as II there
were being spread the net Of some complicated, tar
sighted, tremendous policy, simmer ana show OF
ponderousness that exists only in the expectations OF
the people The doubt, once in while, grows thick
whether Grant is not more at home IN gig BEHIND
his Havana than in the White House, fronting the
people Looking him steadily in the face, it occurs to
you that the Republican party, powerful as It was,
might have taken from his box the trst intelligent
hackmen on the street. and done as well. Grants
face has no cearness or illumination in it, than
had his military policy for breaking down the rebellion
The Atlantic Monthly lately contained article upon
his = Intellectual character 1t is IN DOUBT "hether
ii exists Not a man, woman, or alisrown ch'id III
the country but has constantly put the riddle these
two years: "How is it that Grant, with his face like
stogy boot, is great man." The real query is as
to the fact. The whole matter will probably turn out
simply enough that, like other men, is what he ap,
pears to be- The Brutuses who seem tools and
turn I'D wise men are few. Grant swung to the
head of military affairs when the momentum of the
nation was ready to break down treason. He swung
to the front of civil affairs when the party that
gave him supremacy to ideas had become the nation
itself, and he a bubble borne its surface. In
either case the people have been of real Importance,
and the man of fictitious importance We wanted a
hero and President, and pronounced the word-Gra
GRANTS PIGMY CABINET.
Grant came, believing in bimsef and imposed upon
US. His oracular silence at the beginning made
pect Cabinet Of grants When the roll of these awaited
Colossuses was finally called in the Senate, the half of
them too feeble to answer to their names. Then
some of them came and drfted away again The Cab
met went to pieces, and formed again like decmated
battalion. The ministers hang to it unsteadily still !;
and "Who are to be Grants Secretaries is open
question yet just if you asked what grains of float
ing sand would go into petrifcaton.
hnr ~ 10, pnbnr pn
rie's SUCCESSFUL Jolly fellow introduced diplomatic
cally to Grant, in good mood, on, shipboard, and
deity carving his way into the Cabinet with bis knife
as he dned at the same table. The people needed in
PRODUCTION, too to the man. But that a lit
tie matter.
The monkey races sometimes select their leaders by
the length of their tails Louis XVIII made Monsieur
D'Avaray duke for helping him into his carriage.
GRANTS !" LOVE OF QUIET AND RETIREMENT"
Then Grant imposes upon US with other professions.
He has published to extravaganza eccentricity his
love of quiet and retirement. No public man of his
station since the beginning Of the Government has
constantly thrown himself in the way of the people
triumpha procession through the country every six
months since the has been the least Of it, As Pres
dent he is pushing his social prerogatives to the full
est bent There have passed fourteen weeks since the
adjournment of Congress. Grant has passed half Of
them here, the rest in social unbendng elsewhere
They say be takes gay to the dance at Long Branch,
sliding through the figures glibly than at Annap
oils and West Point This is very well, but the coun
try is asking of him and bis Cabinet few serious
questions that it would be we'll to have answered from
Washington reception balls at the seashore notwth
standing. What about Cuba, South America, Virginia.
the Sonth the. Alabama matters and political assaSs
nations?
THE SPHINX POLICY DON'T FILL THE BILL.
1t is credible that the Cabinet and the head of the
nation, properly dgesting these things would not find
much time to be absent from the capital. Anyhow
tbp nation iS In lnomino oboye tha Tpsp
horizon of balls roes, excursions, banquets, recep
tions and seaside frvolties, the executive head OF
powerful Republican Administration. We are hardly
contented with this sphinx-lke policy. 1t may be
Delphc, as Shelabarger said but is less than Repub
lican The President would do well to accept humility
from the Cabinet fasco and consult the people hence
forth. member Of the Grant family is reported to
have remarked, just after the nomination 1t was
the Generals desire not to be made President by a
party, but by tie people," Perhaps here is little
light Perhaps Grant believes that the i" era Of good
feeling" may return again under his administration
that he is Colossus under whose legs all the people
can walk
So far the
PETrlNEssEs OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
have been the most Objectionable, and now, playing
President, he reminds you Of boy who wished to be
king, :" so that be might ride on the gate post all
day. If he will stop buying bagatees in New ! ork
and paradng his Presidency along the porches Of the
Stetson, aud keep to Executive business here he will
look more like successor of Washington-his amb
ton, we are told.
THE DENTS FOR EVER.
Early after the Inauguration when Offices aud honors
were heaped, like Atta's buckers upon the royal
house Of Dent you night have heard here among cer-
tain sagacous Western pertinently suggested the
establishment Of firms "to 60 into the brother-inaw
business" The suggestion had dropped from my mind
until, arising from sick bed, hear the buzzng OF
fresh swarm of Dents-come out like locusts-apply-
far catr in thp Southwest
One believes almost that there is somewhere brok-
erage of this magic NAME upon whose bearers honors
and Offices expected to drop like stars. A store
keeper of the capital of ancient Persia one day
to -brahm, the Governor of his province to request
the abatement of the taxes he unable to pay to
Hasse Ibrahim, chief magistrate of the city, and the
Governors brother.
q You must pay leave the city" replied the Gov
ernor. Where shall gos" asked the storekeeper
To shiraz was the reply. Your nephew rules that
city, and your family are my enemies said the shop
keeper. "Then go to Cashan." "But your uncle is
Governor there "Then complain to Shah "He
is your elder brother, and Prime Minister" sT hen
go to the lower regions!" exclaimed the Governor in
passion, "Alas your pions father is dead re-
torted the shopkeeper.
every people. The Dents are our Ibrahinls. We meet
them omnpresent here, and only by virtuous life
have the hope of escaping them in the hereafter
THE STEAMER MoLLIE E. GIPIN.--Was there ever
such boat is now mooted question The Cincinnati