The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-06-09

J. rotary Seward and Hon. Reverdy johnson
1.-THE Telegraph company want to see th
u bill paid In double quick time, let thel
: make present Of it to Grant.
: The Attorney General his his "back up.
! He is down on GraHt, because the latte
J Issued d proclamation setting aside hi
opinion on the eight-hour law. We thin
3 he is right to be offended. What right ha
anybody to question the iLfallibiitt Q
Massachusetts, or the hamblest Of be
sons Grant mdst be taken down "a pc
: or two" that's certain.
TREBLA.
WAsHiAdToN ClrY, D. c: May 81, 1859
Everything III the political world i
very quiet, there being i dearth o
any thing like news. But the proceed
! ings 81 Saturday and Sunday will prob
ably be of interest to SYdt readers who
desire to know the intimate working
Of tile Radical Government with the
already inflaMed state Of the Nottbstu
mind. And now ~ it 10 the privilege
Of the newspaper lettgf writer to give
his own opinion, when there 10 lack OF
news, l venture to say this much;
The scheme of the Radical party; pre-
scented in :'nutsiell' has been thus,
unable to conquer the South, OF the
West; they said to themselves 'let Us
unite the West against the South. /"
The proposition suited tie excited
state of the nation, and such q union
was formed. The West the natural
ally and dependant on the South assis-
ted to overwhelm her. What are the
conseduencesf We all see it. We all
feel it. But 40 in our letters We do not
aim to be Statesmen but simply tepor-
ters, we leave the question: here:
On Saturday, the Doth inst, tie peo-
pie of this District gatheted together
to strew flowers over the graves Of the
dead. There is no City lii the coudtry
that can compete with Washington
for beautiful women;, excepting always
Baltimore. These beautiful women,
fair as poets dream, went with fow-
ers in their hands, to deck the graves
of those who had fallen in defence of
the Union. It was said to- be q ssNa-
tional affair."" Heroic memories were to
be refreshed, and the bugle which
sounded the advance of the Pilgrims
over the Blue Potomac to the Soldiers
graves, should play not Dydian but
Doric measures. Alas! for the Doric
measures! When the beautiful exer. |
cises were over; a one armed soldier |
wearing the federal uniform, came up- |
on the scene. He bore q bouquet of
rare flowers, Jasmines, Camelia, ia.
panica Buds; rare violets, Persian roses
the delicate heiistr0pe, the flower of
Poets, and the Incompatible hyacinth,
''tor d'isola de Levante,"-a rare bo-
quet, "by my faith" it was! And the
two Indies WHO accompanied him, each
one dressed in plain mourning, the
raven hair and raven eyes and mudest
bearing proclaiming Soutlierd bitth-
each one carried bOquets and wreaths
Of flowers which they threw over ALL
the graves: The one armed Union
'6ldier, not knowing the hiffetence be-
'ween Southern or q Northern grave
placed his rare boquet upon grave
which unfortunately covered the re-
Mains of an unknown "Confederate |;
'oldier:" Take those flowers of thoss
raves You sSoundrel!' r6ared the
commander Of . company Of Federal
oldiets near: By this time . lily had ,
'een thrown upon federal grave bv
me Of the ladies, and beautiful cam
lila blossom, while as i maidep's
'reast, was rsverently and tenderfully
placed upon the headstone of a Mass
chusetts soldier, BY the other Of the ,
aides. Take those flowers off, - Z
creamed the commander of the troops, ,
or I'll put you in the guard house. y ,
he one armed soldier slowly advanced !
nd confronted the Captain. "Mann :
'as his reply, ~ never went South ,
III the war broke ont. left nv arm .
here. They taught me several things. :
me OF them was that man who in
aits lady deserves this-kickine
le Captain very vigorously as he spoke, Z
hich to their credit be it spoken. a
le Captains improvised company d
Government clerks, looked on very .
'mplacently, "and another rec med G
'e soldier; was that the grave hides h
nihosity. My boquet shall rest upon u
'at grave, though at first thought i
me Union soldier slnmbered beneath. :
Cd rest bis soul I" Further talk was !,
'ded by q parcel of "UHios troops n- Y
the command probably of one Of b
'hn Logan's satellites, neither one OF n
hom had ever sn.elt Southern gun. f.
'wder, who hustled of the one armed =;
mon soldier and his lady friends.- nj
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