Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-07-13
Our Washington Correspondence,

Our Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, u, G., July s, 1869.
Well tie Radical Republicans are
beaten in Virginia routed, horse, foot
and Dragons! Oh! the uncertainty Of
the hopes and caluations of politicians in
an electioneering campaign Prominent
Radicals were confident Wells would he
elected by from 10000 majority. The
reports say, Walker has been elected by
a majority of 10000! Oh, oh
The triumphant State ticket is made up
Of sincere Republicans, but men who,
with their immediate supporters, dissent.
ed, personally and politically, from the
Radical leaders, AMI bOlted. They Or.
gained in favor of the proposed State
constitution, but with the proscriptiye
clauses expungcd; aud, believe, in ia.
vor of the 18th amendment to the Feder-
al constitution. The ugly looking feature
in the case is the fact that the victorious
ticket received the support Of the rebel
sympathizers of the State But there is
a bright side to that fact. The rcbels
lopted that ticket one or two negro
legislative candidates included, as the least
of two evils, in despair of being able to
do anything under colors Of their own
That is encouraging.
But the "Conser, i've Rcpubi ans"
are not entirely out Of the woods yet.
me iiadlca! charge that the Conscrva-
tvcs succeeded by.fraud and intimidation,
and that the election should therefore
be set aside; farther, that some of their
candidates, for both branches of State le.
gislature cannot take the iron-clad oath
prescribed by Congress, and proclaimed
necessary by Gen. Candy, and therefore
cannot sit. Whittlcsey insists that Nc.
kensic cannot quality toreprcsent the 9TH
District in Congress, and that he will con.
test on that ground,
Nous vcrrons. This election is the
topic Of interest here at present.
met a strange lady from 100 mea,
or so, down the Potomac, the other day,
in the cashiers room of bank and whib
we both waited for that officer to make
his appearance frank conversation
sprang up between us. She was dressed
in deep mourning; and was old enough
to be grandmother ola bright boy oils,
her daughters son. Her son.in-law was
dead. How he died she din't tell me,
| suspect he died of confederate service
somehow. He left 2,10O acres of land
to his widow, part of it encountered with
an $4,000 mortgage. To help her dau.
giter meet the interest due on this NOR
tyage was the lady's business at the bank
She wished to sell the remnant of some
stocks which, before the days of the
South's great calamity, formed her source
of Independent income. Her heart was
full of the welfare of her grandchildren.
The whole Of that land did not afford pro.
fit enough to send the two oldest awayto
school and, of course, school near
home was impossible, unless wholly sup
ported on the plantation. But the child
r1n must not crow up in ignorance That
must be avoided in some way She had
heard OF the Public Schools of Boston,
and she had told her daughter, she would
be willing to have the lite boy 60 to one
of those ''poor" schools, as she called
them, rather than to none, if they could
only provide money for his support there,
She had often appealed to the little fellow
to do all he could at home to learn. She
would tel him the negpes were all am
b tons to learn, now they were free; aud
surely he wouldn't fall behind them; and
she wo'd take up history, perhapSr to
read to him. But he would reply go,
grandma, I'm 50 sleepy and soon drop
of, overcome by his really severe phys"
cal labors about the iarm--for they had
already trodden under foot, in their pro-
gressive march, the inherited notion that
labor is necessarily degrading.
All this, aud more, she told me, q,
stranger, with a charming, fraukness and
feeling. | found it both interesting and
listructivc to myself, and thought il might
DC 50 70 your readers. | take il TO be