The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-30
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UPoH CURRENT ToPIos-OoMPUED EVERY
DAY FOR THE EVENING yBLEaRAPH.
Waiting for the Iarks TO Fall.


There is a proverb that "when the sky falls
we shall ostoh lsrks." From the anxiety Of
the Democratic politicians 10 have quarrel
between General Grant aud the Republican
party, we should imagine them to be hope
fully waiting upon the skies. The clouds of
evn rumors that darken the Washington uni
verse, only presage the Democratic storm.
General Grant does not trust the Rer rublicans |
He will not talk to their statesmen He spends
his time In debating Conversations" to cor
respondents of the World, assailing the lead
ing members of the Republican party, and
eulogising Mcclellan He floats over Congress
as q gbostly Nemesis, and like that fabled
daughter of Night, his mission is to see
that the Republican party is not too happy
in it's triumphs The General has actually
dined with Mr.. Seward, and finds IL
impossible to escape from the tasclna-
lions of Mr.. Evarts Ergo-Mr. oewaLn H,I,
will be the new Premier, and Mr. hVarts Will
teach the General law as glloly as ne 'eacues
Il now TO Mr.. johnson General Butler means
misohief-else why his motion to repeal the
Civil Tenure of Office bill That World 'oor-
respondent has found reason. Butler
means to impeach Grant He can "trust''
ihe Senate, and he hopes to see the General
s'aop over" and that the new President may
more effeotually 'hop," Butler will remove
ali obstacles from his path Then Stanton
hates the General If that is doubted here
ara certain "orders" devilishly contrived by
stanton TO destroy Grant when he was on the
eve of capturing Vicksburg. To be sure,
Stanton never gave any such orders That
makes no difference. Grant means to have
revengeI The sky is really falling and the
Democrats will rejoice in multitude OF larks
If Democracy wants anything now 1t is
good supply OF larks. Read the sorrowful
announcement that comes from Albany
s'Governor Hoffman has SO many applications
for the Office of notary public that he cannot
even answer their letters. He cannot appoint
one in thirty" Over in Jersey one poor
Senator has been found. This is really all
To expect the mighty Democracy to be content
with attesting bills of sale and carrying around
protested notes is cruel. Yet there seems to
be nothing more left All the tuneful larks
are flying joyously to the Republican mea-
dows. Mr.. Excisemen Smythe looks wistfully
for the lark that "tirra-lirra chants" but
gives no note of Russia, while the naval Office
that seemed to come to Mr.. Deem "more tunea-
BILE than lark to shepherds ear" has
SCARED into the misty skies.
We read of "merry larks'' being 'plough
mems Clocks" but no sound comes to
Mr. Perry Fuller, or the new minister to
Constantinople." We fear it is their lark
s'whO sings so out of tune, straining harsh
disoords and unpleasing sharps." And when
we contemplate the horrible decision of the
Senate to confirm no more of Mr.. Johnson's
nominations, we have no doubt the expectant
Democrats conclude that the clark and loathed
toad change eyes," and that even as it grows
'more light and light to the party of free
dom, their woes become "more dark and
dark" These larks have not only poetry
but substantial prose. Their absence takes
from Democracy many dainty dish. The
renowned Charles EIme Franoatelli, who did
the cookery for the Queen, disoloses to us
many toothsome properties in larks. There
is the lark la minute, which with mushrooms
and lemon-juice is delicious. Then we have
the lark la chipolOtd, not to speak of the lark
with fine herbs, and the lark with trufles,
after the manner Of the Italians. So when
these Republican skies fall there will be pro-
digious singing and eating.
But will the skies fallY This is now the
narrowing question. Every Democrat but
MIR. Stockton, of New Jersey-and the small
tribe of n0taries sent by Mr.. Hoffman to patter
along Wall street after anxious debtors-every
lark-lOviDg Democrat in the land asks this
question. If Mr.. Seymour had been elected,
and the larks had been as plenty as crows or
mosquitoes, there still would have been a
famine, for Democratic necessities are great.
Seymour was not elected, and now if the skies
will only come down There must be some
way of convincing Grant that his interests lie
with the Democracy. To be sure, he was a
drunkard and liar and traitor and q
butcher, and frightfully incompetent nobody
whose intellect never scared above the stable,
but that was when Mr.. Seymour seemed about
to be Jupiter, King of the Heavens. Grant
must feel that the only men he can trust are
the men who endeavored TO make him in
famous. He will soon be called upen TO
appoint General of the Army. Could
he find more proper commander than the dis
finguished officer who wrote so many letters
TO the World to show that he was mere
military butcher? He is expected to select a
Cabinet. Could he do better than name the
whole Blair family, probably the most lark.
adoriDg family in these broad United States
or Mr.. Reverdy Johnson, who has had so many
opportunities of learning how Mr.. Francstell
cooked the lark with truftles, after the manner
OF the Italians. There is the renowned Pome
roy, the Buzzard Of the Esst, whose meeting
with Pendleton, the Young Eagle of the West
at the celebrated BuZZard's Roost on Fifteenth
street, was 80 brilliantly eommemorated by tn,
Democratic leaders of New York These ar,
the men whom General Grant should trust
Andrew Johnson believed them, and see hov
nObly they repaid his confidence. Only let th
skies come down as they did under the Secon
jackson, and Grant may xpeot to see himsel
gazetted as Jackson No. III, with new Phila
delphia Convention called in his honor an
Couch and Orr making a new entrance, fol
lowed by the celebrated wagon-lead of ricl
men-and Doolittle and Ray m0nd aud Randall
in tears-apd no speeches delivered-an
finally an enthusiastic Democratic ConveI
tion in Tammany Hall-rememberipg to sir
dOrse' his policy, bat forgetting to do any
thing more. Could any prospect be NOR
beautiful General Grant has only to sen
his larks wiDging into the caves of Tamman
Hall, and his administration will be success
Think of the hungry millions who would /
blessed and recognized" and filled to repl,