New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-01

ambassador and embassadress from Liberia the stern
doorkeeper came hurrying In, and hurried them out
They had got into the wrong box that time but who can
tell how long 1t will he before their race will be repre-
scented, even in such privileged precincts.
II is curious and somewhat fatiguing this warm
weather TO look down from the gallery into the great
busy pit OF the House-to how unc0moraby restless
its members are-how they circng and driving and
dartng about continually and apparently as aimessy
as the inhabitants OF ant-hill Doubtless tho emf
nent community knows what it about and perhaps the
House does The debate the Georgia bill was slow
and pacific in comparison with that OF last Winter Mr.
Logan spoke this time with his usual well simulated pas
sion and needless expenditure OF voice, and Mr. Bing
ham with much fatlgung energy and unmely warmth,
and Mr. Cox with his usual bitterness and lack OF Chris
tian faith and resignation uttering deporabe infde
sentiments toward Providence and the Republican party
He said boldly that he did not believe that God had any
thing to do with Radical reconstruction. His hymn
book should have taught him how
God moves in mysterious way,
His wonders 10 perform"
Mr. Beck bstered his hands In the OF the South,
and Mr. Butler puke, of course and the air to me was
murky with the mystery and middle OF the question,
when Mr.. Garfield to speak-a whole moonr1se or
honest feeling and clear and candid investigation
in his frank pleasant face He spoke out like man,
and carried many with him. Yet he put his own simple
sOldiery ideas Of justice and honor before weghty
considerations Of the power and permanence OF the Re
publican party, and made some damaging admissions
Why know women who would make better politicians
The decent dulness the session relieved by Mr.
Randalls "tell on Mr.. Butler. 1t was little mean In
big Benjamin TO scrouge Samuel out OF his place.
1t is but little spot the globe which we can any OF
us occupy How will these parliamentary pleasantries
strike future into political history VIII they
like sparkling rystals in the dull rock, or like mis-
cradle flies (shoO-fes) in amber
little matter of local interest: Henry Brown, the
colored man, who some weeks ago. In nj OF jealous
madness killed Joseph Hart, with an AK and then neh
into Maryland has returned and given himself up Per
haps had heard OF the Executive cemency extended
to the interpreter Rechaud and reasonably claims that
like favor should be shown to black citizen.
That mercy ys to hAlfbreeds show
And then has the strongest the man he cut of
in his sins had only robbed him Of his wife, but had
usurped the parents sacred and inaenabe privilege Of
whipping his childrenwas actually engaged in severely
castgatng one Of the young Browns, when the Ak FELL
while the corporal OF Fort Feeman s said to have been
quite innocent of oense against his frantic slayer Yet
i have word to say against the pardoning OF Red
Clouds friend. When pardons and amnesties are the
fashionwhen the object ia to proptate that terrible
warchef who can call his wild rangers together at WILL
from all points, from unsupported places as though
he were the prince Of the powers OF the air.
who has become figure l. oratory, and power In
politics, and may yet be a great yceum lecturer, or
Cabinet Minster-of what accounts frontier corporal
Besides IL Is Thought advisable 10 reuuce INC any'
But the name OF all that is just and fair let no favor
be shown to any particular class color OF criminals or
persons Of unsOund mind. II white gentlemen subject to
fits Of inebriey and jealousy, and drunken haDreeds
can go forth shooting and to shoot let the black aborer
come home choppng and to chop-let our dismal penen-
tares be turned into comfortable unac asylums where
rude wardens and hard contractors shall give place 10
gentle Spears and skllful Hammonds. Don't gentlemen
of the law be so hard klopemana, and so easy on
murder.
Congress has met with loss 1t could Ill afford, through
the death of Mr. HeatOn of North Carolina, VINO was so
feelingly and nobly euogized on Saturday The Judg
ment Of his fellow Republican members H. after all allow
ance for obituary exaggeraon, that David Heaton was
remarkably pure Just, upright, lovabe man. His rare
virtues compelled with gentle force, the respect Oh
even Democratic paTtisans to whom Republican was
as one the heather, and carpetbagger an abomna-
tor 1t does all these good to see how the sharp
party lines they have traced with such toll In the SAND
of this bank and shoal of time are swept away, by
one cold wave of the solemn OF mortality forever
ebbing and flowing around For all who are scraIn-
bling up the steep and slippery paths OF political ambi'
ton with painting, headlong haste, through the fog and
twilight of egotsm and unbeef it good to have the
fare OF funeral torch fall and then those paths
lust to them how they lie to the abyss OF death
and the eternal deeIS u u