Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-01-14

duced declaring the income tax unconsti-
| tutional, and requesting the congressional
delegation to opp SO its reenactment.
! The Assembly this afternoon cOncurred
with the Senate III tie repeal of the retifi-
cation OF the fifteenth amendment, the
vote standing 65 to SO.
The New York World is telling some ter
rible stories OF the wickedness at Washing
| ton, in which the professional women of
the LOBBY and their friends in Congress
arc the JigurauteS. Columns Of details are
given, but the following will suffice 10
show what loathsome picture the write
has been painting:
| Among the lobby women in Washington
last Winter was the daughter Of q present
u. S. Senator, whose father years ago re-
fused to let her marry the man of her
choice. She eloped with him; he deceived
her by mock marriage, he having two
other wives, sO-called, living; he took all
her Jewels, and even most OF her clothing
aud abandoned her. She went to the bad
head-long, refused ell overtures to return
lhoms, and the father and daughter used
to pass one another in the Capitol a year
ago--she Wantou and he Il Scnator-end
never speak. Nor did either ever betray
the event to any one. He called her dead;
she consented TO be dead even to him.
Another Senator's wife, who is al inva
lid, cannot be unaware, for no one else Is,
six OF hie mlstreSSeS on the civil service ~
clerks, and that he adds to the number
every session.
Another Senator, a Southwest carpet
= bagger, foisted his mistress on the Treasury
, Department last year, and was influential
, enough to have her salary continued while
= he sent her on to New York to undergo an
} abortion She died. Tho Senator himself
' drew tno arrears Of pay Ostensibly for the
- mother Of the murdered woman, who has
| yet to see the first cont Of it..
Another honorable, this timo Of the
D House, was driven out Of leading hotel
six years ago for notorious conduct with
Z a married woman, and that with the con
y sent of her husband. That husband Is
= now clerk of that Congressman's COM
q mittee, his wife is the Congressman mis-
n tress and her son is I page OH the floor Of
V the House, and waits on his mutual fathers
: every day.
L Humorous View OF Reconstruction.
The Louisville Journal says;
Tho~RadicaI idea OF reconstruction is
9 evidently borrowed from John Robinson e
q circus. Those who have witnessed tae
L L performances OF "the great American com
q bination," I'VE mean John Ropinsons)
g will remember how the clown knocks over
the young gentleman in the gold lace and
f. then cries ont ''poor fellow" and sets hin
as he says, with dirty broom. Then he
-, duets him off with backing brush. Ther
% he polishes him with rake Then ht
~ whirls him about and asks, ''Now, isn't ht
., beautiful ?" That's reconstruction ovel
~ and over again. Congress takes a State
~ and knocks it down. Then it sets up
- Then it scrubbS il with negro suffrage
~ ~ Then it polishes it with bayonets. The,
- it dusts it with martial law Then Gnal!,
10 if it goes Radical like Mississippi, it says
4 Now, isn't it beautiful ?" The peopl
are sick of this. There is no fun in it. ]
49, -, is all well enough as o circus trick, but
rt is too serious when applied to real life.
to The Sleepy Hollow MISUNDERSTANDING
m of the Murderer.
u The assassin Buclzhout who recent
SE committed the atrociOus murders in Sleep
ne Hollow, New York, and who, since his cor
he fnement in iail, has been shamming IL
- sanity, was on Wednesday, put under th
u influence OF chloroform, and when recove!
-. ing from it's effects confessed his impOs
III ture and admitted his guilt. He declare
les that his wife had on several occasions con
Lay rnltted adultery, and that his discovery
7h6 it was the motive OF his acts.
Wo He was asked Why he had killed the e
ty- der Randall to which he replied, 60
ps don't know ; but the sou had been int
me mate with my wife )" and added, g wa
no to die / want to go to my poor mother
no she WIS true" At this juncture the fou
tAe tains OF this miserable mans better natu
orr We aoai,, h,uI,an M end Honds of taa
lad cnnrs44I DOWN his face while no oImr
ma, nat shrieked IN piteous tones, "Oh, my mot
axe er, ny poor mother, won't you come
Will me :" The young man Charles Rends
on who was supposed to be fatally injured,
still living, and it is supposed may pos
onr bly, recover from his wounds The p
,:,,. sons familiar with the circumstances of
1llAS case give no credence to the assertions
sma the murderer with regard to his wife's Y
al e tue, and declared that his conduct
ono caused by jealousy, for which he had
dis