Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1870-06-09
Correspondence Of the Beacon.)
Washington. u c.,
June 9Th. 1870

children talk and dream Of nothing bat
politics ard IL il Is So lively nov. What
will it be on the day Of the election -
We are but iooker-oa. no. barring the
slightest personal inseres. in the contest,
and are willing 10 see battles fought or
treats given. II matters mt on which side.
We can do the promiscuous drinking and
pay our best respects to gentlemen. and
when the fighting comes of VIZ shall take
care mt 3" he in the way. lest We should
he taken for wme other fellow. shot. and
have the matter irqnirea into six months
afterwards, when the mistake should he
discovered We have seen many hard
fought cam?airn. but nothing to equa'
this. Bowen. We mnst confess. is trump.
Let .he Emery party throw him as often
and az bard ss they may. be lights on his
feet. turns mp in half an hour as good as
ever. charges the line singIc-handed, and
scares The Emeryi.es to death until they
give him another dig. Bowen has q
knsck Of making votes which it Is truly
pmnzing 10 contemplate. Whare .i-vy
fu1Ie rom betnre the election, and where
they 90 after it, We defy any mortal to
discover. BY a little piece Of manage
wen'. he emptied Alexandria last Sunday
of nearly every Niger, and we suppose
that by the day of the election there will
not he ringers enough left in MARYLAND
I" eat the next sheep they steal. Every
n'grer who comes TO the registry-rfiice
has his name pnt down with scarcely a
question asked him. goes off and turns ND
on the day Of the election to vote early
and often in every ward. We arc credi-
bly, informed that Rowen's party, at the
last election. voted nearly as many women
as men. and this yesr they will probably
vote twice rs many. No one can conceive
how dificGlt it is to detect the fraud un-
less attention is.very closely directed to
the females dressed in mems attire.
We can SEE but little to choose between
the two candidates, both radical to the
core and both supported by as dirty set
OF demagogucs and rogues as ever the sun
shone upon. 1t is really amusing to see
the old know-Nothings licking their lips
and smiling at the prospect of Emery's
election. Then there are quite number
OF what We call "accept-the-situation"
democrats who got on the wrong side and
are now very anxious to get back again
men of Longs'rect's stamp, who accep,
theisi'uation and an Office with it and are
locking out for the little morsel Emery
may have to fling. Up to the last count
there were, We believe, Que hundred and
forty doctors expecting the office of Phys
ician to the Almshouse, one hundred
more to the doctors place at the small
pox Hospital and six hundred and seven
ty first-class surgeon. looking :or the seat
of Secretary to the Board of Health. AS
for the places Of the Ward-physicia
seven in number, we believe, the mails
Cor the last three weeks have been bur-
dened with applications for them from
Mass."l"""''' a-1 u other NJ Eng
land States, not 20 S saA OF about forty
resident doctors applying in each ward.
With regard to the Corporation Attor-
neyship "a laundering fat place) We under.
stand that the whole Massachusetts, Bar
has applied for it, but, up to the present
time, Ben Butler has been unable to de-
eide TO whom to give his influence, not
knowing witch is the biggest thief. Tie
applicants for the places of Market-mas-
ter. Scavenger aud the like, may be count
ed by hundreds.
The Yanks had a glorious time last
Monday. which was what they call '.Strew-
day." covering the dead Yanks with flow
ers. Of course the Grand Army Of hos
pitsi bummers and quarter masters clerks
did the spread-englc and faunting-lie to
perfection and went home at night much
the worse for cheap whiskey. Some
brother Swallow (the Lord take liking
to him. for we think he needs itl made
the usual spread-eagle opening in the way
Of n prayer. as they call it, in which he
ed off by thanking God that the foot of
, single slave no longer rested on this soil.
We thank brother s. for the information.
Had he said Jlaci slave we could have
understood him. tut surely he forgets tina,
one half the white men. women and chill
ircn are in state of affect. slavery. de-
nicd the right never withheld from slaves,
the right Of trial by jury. Surely broth
sr s. has never been in Washington, or
:. would scarcely have told the Almigh-
ssced falsehood.
ere is machine called a Congress
hing here, but. as we set some value
"a our watch and dislike getting un,lea-
SAINT things on us and have never mad the
Itch. We have never been near it aud are
unable to say what i. looks
like. II time will allow. We will give
You some accoun, OF the Election, which
takes place on Monday.
Congress seems TO be squirmins under
\ difficulty about Cuba, not knowing how
to act. The morsel is very tempting,
bu, they are afraid TO taste. There is no
end to the talk about the cruelties of the
Spaniard, and al the like Buncome bu,
perhaps II those who roll up their eyes in
such virtnous horror would only look a,
home and At their own aole acts for the
last zen years. they might perhaps fnd
out that some Of the siysaoss, brure and
Manly Union generals can point back 10
about Is black score ia such matters as
my Spanioh general that ever lived, no,
Alvs himself. Ma,b Be the
Spaniard could say, IL he knew all:-
Thank God / am not as bad as other
men, We should like to see the Span.
isksr that sonld hold a light to 10. Hol,
n Ned. Stanton. Give Spotted Tail and
Red Cloud = pair OF wings aud they would
be as angels in comparison With them
Cuba il certainly very nice thing for
he nowers that be. Send men ana ,c,-