The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-04-07
POLITICAL BREWTIEs'

The evening 'lo'H
i, called the Swearing train
Minnesota idea is to increase inc
rrmber of members in the Legislature
in order to kill the "rinGs."
Brick Pomeroy's paper calls Ben But
Ter the greatest Republican statesman
who has attained position in TINS cooh-
try.
The man in Buffalo WHO gave UranV
lhoots has run out sign entitled boot,
maker to His Excellency' u o "''H''
=. P.rsou Brownlow writes that there
will be no rupture between PreS'ueh'
Grant and the Senate. This indioates
that one has been imminent.
A correspondent declares that the ia'e
sneecbes of Senators Fowler and
sprarue indicate that they are going
over TO the Democracy.
The President, it is said, keeps an un-
limited number of horses at Washington.
Instead of cleansing the Augean stable,
he sets up rival establishment.
The Hancock Club of New Orleans
has given Frank Blair complimentary
supper. He made a short speech, saying
he had fully determined to cast his lot
with the oppressed South.
A Washington letter says that General
Butler, when he speaks, ''pounds his
empty chair" lie abuses the poor
chair less by pounding it than by sitting
in it.
Here is the Cincinnati Commercials
worst squib on JOHNSON:
He had so much grit, that as soon as
the demand for it in fighting the Radi-
calls in defence of the Constitution
ceased, he was attacked by the gravel.
/ A Southern paper says there has been
made for General Grant box of cigars
which light up of their own accord with
Indignation whenever the tenure of
office law is mentioned.
1t may be said in favor of Grants en-
, ergy that he did more IN the first cay Of
his Presidency than Johnson did during
his whole term-in the way of making
blunders.
General Butler says that the people
oftho South "must come into the Union,
if at all, with clean hands" Bat they
can get 10 'hands" except negroes, and
how under heaven are they to he kept
clean'
A Mississippi paper inquiries anxious
", "How are the crops to be raised
during the coming season. The ne
groes think the best way TO raise them
is by IA system Of "masterly inactivity"
General Sickles has declined the mis-
sion to Mexico. 1t was formally ten
derod him by Secretary Fish yesterday.
Reason-private business affairs not
permitting absence from the country
I at this time. General Slckles is himself
! the authority for this statement.-Aer
York Correspondence Philadelphia Ledger.
4 gossippy letter from Washington
says the lifat question President Grant
asks all asplI... for office who manages
to see him is, "Worc yoa in the army p
And if the President has made up his
mind as to the place applied for, he says,
IL have stuck pin there"
After months fight, in a Congress
each day of whose session costs millions
to the people, the tenure of office law is
so amended that nobody can find in it
any substantial change from what 1t
was before. This is Radical legislation!
Costly, rather.
The Secretary sf War, Riwlins, writes
his name without :. The Postmaster
General, Creswell, claims but ono s,
Boric, the Secretary Of the Navy, repu-
dates V, while the Attorney General,
being Massachusetts, man and there
fore modest, joints the W at the COM
menCement OF his frosty patronymjc.
1t was grave joke of Mr.. Speaker
Blaine to put two such uncongenial
spirits as Butler and Bingham together
on the Conference committee. Bng-
hams tongue is apt to lose its silvery
tinkle under the rasping Of Buffers
voice. The two gentlemen are not cor
dial Bingham never speaks but Butler
shifts the air with nose much elevated,
and steps about in tight, springy,
bull-terrisr way, as if watching for a
chance to spring, and get his teeth into
our noble Bingham's nose. And Butler
never starts his rasp but Bingham as
sumeS his Conscript Father stride, and
swings an imaginary toga across and
across the space in front of the Speakers
desk. Butler is red petticoat to Bing-
ham, and Bingham is Catnip to the fc-
line Butler.-U Washington Correspondence
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