The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1869-12-20

to Congress is. mo nonsense, Please
The spaniards have commence quietly
talking Of selling cut Cuba to the United
States.
> The place for the law.siver is in Con-
gress; the place fer the bro,her-iu.law-
giycr is in the Executive chair.
The radical Governors OF the three
States Of Alabama, North Carolina, and
Arkansas, have all declared ip favor Of
the removal Of the disabilities imposed BY
! the fourteenth amendment. ''- e7
Grants hrother.in-law, Dent, was de.
fcated for Governor OF. Mississippi. The
dirtier radical, Alc0rn, was successful.
There is one ship on the stocks in al
the many snip.yards in aid around New
York. This is the way the radicals foster
the commerce Of our country. 9tr
WHO said the Freed,nen's Bureau was
an extinct institution? Department, re
ports still, speak of the millions of the
peoples moneyit is swallowing r,
Vice President Colfax sent dispatche.
Of coincidence to a, D. Richardson, the
scducer, after he nas shot by Mcfarland.
I! wauld appear that Grant appointed
j. Russell Jones, minister to BRUSSELS,
in consideration Of u deed to one hundred
acres of land: 49,, -
The consolidation Of New York and
Brooklyn is again being agitatcd. The
consolidation would make city Of
l $780, 900 inhabitants-in which there
would DO but a handful Of radicals.
Owing to the tariff, .ship.building in the
United States has fallen of so during the
last eight years, that to-day the carrying
trade has almost entirely disappeared from
American bottoms. -ra
atacr I'd! a,i. 1lgr..r. ~
Horace, Greeley appeals to Ben Butler
10 an open letter, to place himself at the
head Of movement to grant complete
amnesty to all persons Who favor tho
adoption Of the Fifteenth Amendment. I,
Foriy-fvc thousand acres Of land 10 one
locality in Louisiana, are TO be sold By the
authorities for delinquent taxes. The
prosperity uof that State under loyal
rule rapidly approaches bankruptcy.
Some fellow has obtained Letters Patent
for an invention to open letters casy-he
ought to 60 down South and dicker with
some Of Grants new appointces in the
Post Office Department, ,rlss 80 y
Now that tits settled that G encral
Grant is descended from;tlic Hon. Colum-
bus Delano, the sagan, have discovered
that General Sherman sprung f,ou, Sam
ucl Sherman, wis plau.od the first onion
at Weatlcrsfeld, Connecticut, in 1855.
Chief Justice Chase has always believed
that We could resume specie payment with
six weeks notice. General Garfield is in
favor Of q gradual return to hard money,
and thinks it should be effected before
1878. J. k4a q. t..tta-.-. Z, ..s.l .l.is
Gran! and bis radical advisers are not
satisfied With tho political stock in trade,
which they possess in the shape Of four or
five millions Of "NTen and Brethren" in
the South, butthey wish to obtain several
hundred thousand more with Cuba. We
say VIC have enough. ,...s-.r ,e
Chief Justice Scott, Of Baltimore, on
last SATURDAY, decided that Mr.. Lincoln's
proclamation was without authority and
void A veryimportant decision, though,
it strikes us ns coming few days too late
to be productive Of either good Or harm.
Grant and all the rest Of the thieves md
scounlrels in the country, want to get ur
war with Spain, that they may get /
good chance to steal and plandcr. Cuhp
is said to be the game they are after, bu
that is only a blind, it is plundcr-fa
Army contracts--"loil' stealings. .ss
Nice young men at the Capitol, il
Washington, are to be arrested for stand
ing at the foot Of the stairs when ladie
are, passing up. There has been an or
ganizcd movement there for some time {
find out ho- the women Tasten their gar
ters, whether by tucking under or b.
buckles, and the President says sto]
must be put to Ii. .i'H : 'a AZ
Before the war. when Democracy ruled
the Government printing cost the pcopl
two or three hundred thousand dollars
year it how costs as many millions. Til
expenditures in oil other departments o
the Government have increased 10 equa
ratio since the asccnlency Of radicalsm
James NJ. Ashley, Governor Of Monta
na, by virtue Of Grant appointment, i
pleasing the citizens Of that Territory t,
,nch m extent that they are petitionin;
Craft to recall him to lil home in'Ohi5
James NJ. is said not 10 have fnrgottci
how to take things not strictly bis own
Hence .1 .4rllsp .raa 'l'H
There il n prosntct that Reccher will b