Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-01-15


BILE remark. with emphasis, when Down
ing, who had stood in defiant attitude, as
if prepared to make immediate mlnce-
meat of the Dr., meekly observed that
/" he c1Lled tie gentleman to order - Never
more ridiculous mouse came out from par
turient mountain s! Downing's tragic role
of Boabdil turned out to be SO egreglous a
farce, that even Cuffee Mayo blushed, and
Mcdonald, the valiant Engrossing Clerk,
hid behind o pillar.
In the Senate there was some little dis
cussion on a resolution (which was adop-
ted) providing for the payment OF witness
ses summoned before the Bribery and Cor
ruption committee. In the course OF the
debate Senator Sweet re-asserted that he
would prove his original allegation that
members had been bought for dollars and
cents, and that the report was only de-
layed beause it was deemed important by
the committee that all the facts should be
exhausted. It is said that witnesses from
abroad, who are summoned here, are dl-
rected to report to the committee immedi-
ately on arrival inasmuch as, unless they
do, they are liable to be tempered with
(such, mean, as can be tempered with
by a certain prominent carpetbagger, who
shall be nameless pending the inquest, but
whose name shall be forthcoming in all
good time. By the way, the individual
at whom Senator Sweet has been aiming,
chiefly, all along. is we'll known. He is a
member of the House, a carpet-baggcr, q
burly, tawny, squatty adventurer, whose
antecedents are worse than questionable,
and who, have 10 doubt, will turn out to
eft the cap" exactly. Let us watch
end wait" as Holden SAID in 1860
Speaking of Holden. am told, by one
who is in position to speak knowingly, that
he is actually feeding his inordinate vanity
with the idea Of being offered place in
Grants Cabinet, and that he felicitates
himself on the contemplation of an entree
into "big" society at Washington. It is
even said (but from what little know Of the
individual, am incredulous on that score)
that he is very DESTROYS of an opportunity
of Kidding himself of the disagreeable
and disreputable associations which
now environ him-the Executive Of
flee, to say nothing of his more
private resorts, being constantly in
truded upon by white trssh and black
scum. II is further intimated that, if he
can only get place in the Cabinet, he will
leave the State for good. The Lord grant
that his aspirations may be crowned with
fruition, then
I think that promised to give you a
sketch of some of the professors elect
of the University, so-called. But having
already reached my usual allotment of
space, [ content myself with telling you
what [ have seen and heard Of Professor
Brewer, who takes the chair Of your old
Master of Greek, Mr.. Fetter. In person
he is the embodiment Of New England
Yankee lank, cadaverous, shuffiing and
his " anatomy" is Puritanical
all over. His gait is as rapid as if a silver
dollar lay at the end of his every journey.
He is Congregationalist in faith and an
ardent niger worshipper in practice. His
associations and his intim acies, [ am told,
since his sojoarn in Raleigh, have been
with negroes, and he sees "Helen's
beauty in a brow o. Egypt. He may have
a smattering of the Greek roots, but he is
convinced that Homer was a Guinea niger
and Demosthenes a son of Ethiop. 1t is
simply an Infamous outrage that such
man should have been elected to Profess
sor's chair, even in a Radicalized Uuiver-
sity. If 1, or any other decent white man
in the State, however, felt any further in
terest in the University, it would occasion
me more concern than it does, at present.
Dor.