The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-01
REVEL.
From the N. 7. World.

IN tne GOVerulnenC.
REVEL.
From the ~ Y. World.
The sound of Revel which by night pre-
luded Waterloo bids fair to be repeated day
and night in the Senate. The mud-colored
Mississippi parson has been led to his seat in
that august chamber, and his membership
acknowledged by the united voices of his
radical coadi tutors. There is at last "nigger
in the national wood-pile," and no mistake
He did not come there because the citizens of
the State which he assumes to represent
wanted him. Capua would as soon have sent
q Lestrygonian upon her embassies, or Achaia
summoned a hairy Colchian amid her Am
phyctions. Mississippi didn't want him, but
he comes at the behest of those who, since
the termination of the war, have imposed
upon the prostrate South every species of
tyranny and outrage. 1t would be inconsis-
tent in them not to receive him with ceremo-
nious honors, and we are not surprised that
Senaor Wilson, whose sensibility of odors
is not acute, should have played the part of
gentleman usher and escorted him to his seat
with profusion of obese genuhexions. 1t
is noteworthy that Senator Sumner, who does
not share his colleagues olfactory apathy,
did not fall upon the brunette bosom
of the murky Mississippian and conseorate
him with baptism of tears He could not
which would have been more consistent with
his antecedents and principles. But he with
held that desirable aspersion, and the mig
GER took his seat without moistening. He
was slapped on the back with reckless cor
diality by Nye and other muscular radicals,
and his hand was vigorously shaken by at
least a quorum. 1t remains now to see
what he will do beyond making his imme-
date neighbors uncomfortable. According
A Al. o1u unrt tf,a
Senate ought to usher in a new era. They
have promised all manner of millennial
| beatitudes as the consequence of letting the
| niger vote and be voted for. Well, he votes.
| He generally votes the radical ticket, but
has been known in periods of excitement to
deposit turnpike tickets, champagne labels,
and notices. His representative sits in the
highest deliberative body in the nation, and
we await with interest the salutary results
which the radicals have promised us. What
will he do? Will he purge the legislature of
those who sell cadetships for price, and
those who interpose pettifogging vindications
of that infany from their place in Congress
He ought to do this. He carries a carpet-bag
himself, and he ought to exact punctilious be-
havior from his white brethren who are
similarly handicapped. Perhaps he will give
us new scheme of finance which will roll
the stone from the grave of our national in
|
| would be to teach Boutwell, some of the rudi-
ments of arithmetic and political economy.
This, we take it, he would find even less easy
than to instruct Robeson as to the difference
between the iibboom and the lee scuppers,
or between the anchor and the admiral. The
latter has been tried with considerable asst
duty, but with no other result than to
break the heart of the instructor and hope
lessly cloud the nautical perceptions of the
G hoxr hut Ia how
of the efficacy of the former. He may, per-
haps, chasten the asperity of Hoar and read
him dulcet lessons of courtesy, and may sci
an example of good manners to Butler, and ol
| Temperance to Chandler, and of evangelical
piety to Nye. He may set his face like {
dark -colored flint against the removal of the
capital, and may in sundry and divers wayi
| vindicate the wisdom which has summoned
him from the canebrake and the cotton-felt
to the seat of the lawgiver. If he should
happen to fail to accomplish all these pro
missed results. there is but one thing left TO
us. Having in vain summoned the nigge
TO our rescue, and haply found him al
obetacle and bore, we shall have t.
! invoke the aid of the women. 1t woul'
be an august spectacle to see Wilson
with backward step and slow, ushering Susal
: B. Anthony to her rocking chair in tn
t middle aisle, while Sumner meekly bore he
|
. plate of buttered buns and teapot. Susal
would, of course, need q little sustenance t
help her through her maiden haranngue, an
4 neither her gender nor her principles woul
. permit her to fall back upon the chewin
, | auid or the bracing cocktail. If she shoul
likewise turn out failure, and the truth daw
: upon us at last that neither coffee-colore
1 preachers nor matrons of alabaster and ros
are to bring about our political salvation,
will be admitted that great deal of wind hf
: | been wasted.
s THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH BILL-TH
b ARGUMENT OF MIR. ORTON.
Q From the NJ Y. Herald.
o Mr. Orton, President of the Western Unio
4 Telegraph monopoly, continued his speech
y opposition to the Postal Telegraph bill befoi
y the Senate Committee on Post Offices @
y Saturday. He claimed that it was unjust
! reduce the rates of telegraphy in this countl
s to the basis of rates whore the wires are und'
Q governmental control in Europe, and held thu
Q as the telegraph was Essential only to tt
Q few here, legislation could be better directe