The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1869-07-12

Administration as une-third tobacco smoke
and two-thlrds negro.
Grant, It is said, has just appointed
blind man Surveyor Of the Californi,
Land office. What larks 2'ai a1
Mr.. Grant of Diuwiddie County, Viz.
gipia candidate for tue Legislature, has
had to come out and discluim relationship
with the other one. q ntal ISL y II
AnIcxchango insists that "if all hu-
man beings are but worms, as the pious
folks tell us, Grant must be stiN-worm
and Sohenck rng-worm.ao v :
Graut says ho don't care d-u for tht
Niger, but he promised to put lin
through and be will do it if Ihave to dt
like l did on that march to Richmond.
The radicals 10 Minnesota say that
notwithstanding the State gave 5000
majority for Grant. there is a possibility
of losingit this fall. ~ x jfIattj -
The Democratic State Convention met
at Sacramento, Tuesday. j. B. Crockett
and William Leslewer were nominated by
reclamation for Judges Of tho, Supreme
Court. -. ~ 80 a,...I,r
u
Secretary Borio Of tho Navy having
resigned on account Of i'll health, Mr..
George Robeson, Of New Jersey, has been
appointed aud took bis new position on
Monday last. ~. +s.,, -. ~ i
The parties in Illinois who imprisoned
Madison P, Johnson during The war, un.
der the charge that lie belonged to tho
Golden Circle" have had to pay thou
sand dollars and costs OF court,
Chief Justice Chase, wllila in Rich
mond, expressed the opinion that there
was no authority in the laws Of Congress
for exacting the iron.clad oath of mem.
bcrs Of tho Legislature. eaF a9.,'', g
( A Texas editor thus laments: "Fourth
/ Of July! Yankee Doodle played thy death
march. Negro equality.is rocked in thy
cradle, whilciwc but remember with
m9pTrfal sg!f'. pride thy past glorious men,
mories.y''s
General Grant will, on the 10th oI
July. after the Virginia election, order an
election in Mississippi. TO take place on
the 18th Of September, and an election in
Texas, to take place on the last Of Sep.
tembcr or the 1st Of October. r 'h2'N
yhe Richmond negroes, few evenings
since, mistook one Of their own speakers
for a Conservative, and gave lin good
pummeling before white man could
convince them that he was right In.
tclligent voters! i69.4 = tizi..a d,
1ffGrantgocs to tho thcater Saturday
nishtto see the barc.legsed ballet girls,
and refuses to attend church on Sunday,
the question is, how much picty will be
have in his boots on Monday morning :?
Will Bishop Simpson answcry
The Buffalo Express hopes that the
Chase movement ut New York will be
vigorously prosecuted until 1872, at which
fine what there is left of him will be
turned out to grass with Train and Dan
iel Pratt. }''t7 3 lnf5s4 90 ats'
Apropos Of tic appointment Of llcbe-
son to tho Navy Department, the Syra-
cusc Standard asks, "[sit not Just d
irie singular that the American people
has to be informed of the antcccdcuts Of
one Of its highest officers? We live aud
learn, however"
Tho Washington Chronicle glows otcr
the idea that all the Southern negroes
will act at the ballot-box .'fearlessly. as
they did in Washington on the .7ih of
june TO l'orncy's eye there is pothing
SO like n dove With an olive branch as d
loyal negro very drunk, with Il razor.
ArRA1p or AXDY.-A Tennessee radi-
cal writes to his friend III. G." that the
division Of the republican party in Tenn
csscc "opens up a prospect for the Demo-
crats;' that ''if both Scnter and Stokes
run to Tie end heDcmocrais will DO found
after tllcil votes arc counted next Au-
gust to have elected Andrew johnson
Governor Of Tenn csscc," and that "such
an event willrequire tho presence Of n
large Union army III the State or tile
exodus Of the loyal whites aud thcir COL
orcd friends"
The New York Tribune says. "Tbe
black have had a hard name, not eutirciv
undcservcd; but when they shall have
become race Of ofiiccseckers, they will
lave sunk 10 lower level than when
they were slaves" As tho ,7r;tunc on.
tab ishmcnt isa den of oIticeholders and
ofliccseekcrs, The meaning Of this Ian.
gange IS: "rhe blacks may force them.
selves into workshops, iutolschools, nto
places OF amusement, where they crowd
out Whites; bit lot them not sock Office
among us; let them not come between Tie
wind and our noblity.--Atbany Argus. q
Prof. Tyler Of tho Law School, Co.
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