Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-08-03
Correspondence,
OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE,

WASHINGTON, ID. O., July 2S, 1869.
II. s. Fynt, Collector of Internal Rev
enue for this District, and previously AS
sistant Cashier Of the First National
Bank, here, died on Tuesday, after few
days combining Illness, Of affection of the
lungs Mr.. Flynt came here from
Ohio. He had been Cashier Of the Sam
dusky City Bank.
have just heard of the death of ta-
Tented lawyer, who, after trying some Of
the leading cases in the published reports
of tie Supreme Court Of Wisconsin, and
distinguishing himself, while yet a young
man, among the foremost lights Of that
State, early broken down in nerve aid
health, and came to Washington TO take
Gle. kship in the Treasury. Liquor, to
which he fled for strength, and for solace
under domestic troubles, may be charged
rs chief agent in his destruction. He was
organized for highly moral. dsinterest-
ed, generous character no less than for
intellectual emincnce yet he has been
repeatedly picked up helpless in the street,
suffered the tortures Of deiriuni tremens,
and at last came to his death in that man
ucr, in another city, whittier he had wan
dercd. Who he was, his name, even,
was known only by papers found upon his
person.
A prominent member of the Radical
wing of the Republican party in Virginia,
which ran the Wells ticket, told me, in
the course of lengthy conversation, on
Saturday, that he felt confident the cause
Of Republicanism had gained, for both the
present and the future, by the election Of
the Walker ticket, This tallies with cx-
pressons made tspe by other gentlemen
in the same boat; and am led to regard
it as the prevaiteg opinion among all who
had aud have no personal passions and IN
forests concerned in the result. Wells is
extensively charged with thrusting him
selo on to the ticket in an intensity of
seIfshness that preferred to jeopardize the
cause rather than roIlnqlish the place Of
chief beneficiary, in case OF success. to
any one else Of all the State; and so
caused the division and the second ticket.
At that time, too, il was expected that
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split, and put candidates Of their own in
to the field, and, III view of our divided
forces, no foretelIing with what result.
Secretary Boutwell, has written letter,
it is said, to Stokes, the Radical candi-
date for Governor Of Tennessee, express
ing the earnest wish for his election, on
patriotic grounds My impression is that
this contest is pretty much second edi-
ton Of the Virginia affair, in this, that
the existence there Of two Republican
tickets, is, at bottom, more personal
than patriotic matter.
WIN. Il. Purcell for many years Judge
Of the Orphans Court in this city, has
brought criminal suit for libel against
Arthur SHEPPARD, reporter of the Repub-
ican, for producing lengthy aud laugha-
bic account, for that Journal, OF the way
person not named, in his nice white
duck suit, was first thrown into 20 foot
water at Bladen-bsrg, and directly after
rolled into the mad an Ilysttsvillc- -the
ncigtboring village, on the railroad---hy
way Of abating the nuisance Ills Honor
(?) had made Of himsclfby getting drunk,
staggering Fslstahanly, and insulting