The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-09-12

ed .-A sBarbaric Yawp" from wait
eminiscence OF that Odd
Creature.
IFRoM OUR owS CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK, September s.
Some of the Yarmouth delegation from
Louisiana are lingering in the city awaiting
the result of their recent interview with Presi-
dent Grant at Long Branch. The expectations
of the removal OF brother-in-law Casey, Mar
shal Packard, Postmaster Lowell, and the
other New Orleans Federal officials, are of the
very faintest character. I interviewed one Of
the delegates at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yester-
day. 'Grant doesn't intend 10 do US justice,
sir" observed the statesman; she intends to
Aeep every one of those dasheo scoundrels IN
office, and his sending to them for q statement
of their side of the controversy Is all dashed
piece of humbug. Don't you suppose tgettlng
red and eXcited) he has heard Casey's and
Packard's and Herwigs stories long before
this, dash them?n
''Wel what will your party do," inquired l,
turn t out the hVe customaouse Clique ?" 1--WE viii
fight him to the bitter end cried my Louis
ianian; Eight him in the State Convention, in
the National Convention; and If he Is renomi-
mated, fight him for the Presidency. He little
KNOWS the KIM Oh mdu ut Is ueduuS Will
when he insults Henry Yarmouth. Why, Sir,
Yarmouth Is hundred times the man Grant
is; indeed, he is the alb. st man in either party
in the Southwest, and time will show II. he
is the most dangerous man In the Republican
party for Grant 10 quarrel WITH"
It will be remembered that in the accounts
of the interview between the Warmouthers and
the President In his cottage at Long Brancn,
it was said that Mr.. Grant became angry once
or twice, and brought his fist down on the
parlor piano with so much force that 1t made
the keys rattle. inquired Of the delegate II II
this was true. NO." The replied; ''the fact Ia
Grant was trying to keep on his legs during
the whole interview, but one time he lost his
balance and fell against the piano." Thls
statement WAS corroborated by Two other
delegates who were present when asked Tor
the Information.
The 'scitizens, ~ as the Tribune calls them, are
jubilant to-day over the injunction obtained
Yesterday from Judge Barnard against Mayor
Hall, Comptroller Connolly, President Tweed,
the supervisors and the aldermen. These
persons, more familiarly known as ''the Tam
many Ring" are epjolned from raising by tax
not first liked and appropriated by the board
of apportionment, and from raising any more
money from bonds in anticipation OF the years
revenue. The Injunction Is but temporary, 1t
gument has been heard on Monday, it will be
continued. To further that result the Tribune
this morning has very nice notice OF Judge
Barnard, whom 1t has hitherto been In the
habit OF insnuating is q thief, and in league
with Jim Fisk in defraudng the Erie Railroad
stockholders.
If Barnard grants perpetual injunction the
wheels of municipal government will suddenly
stand still, all public work will have TO cease.
several thousand laborers on the streets.
parks, docks and city buildings will be dis
charged, and the city creditors will have to
thrust their bills into their pigeon holes @ ior a
season. A condition of things so peculiar as
this has never before occurred, and 1t Is i'm
possible to say what the effect will be. 1t is
y likely that some great popular CONFUSION VIII
occur I hear tnat Tweed says that he viii
shortly ''astonlsh" the enemy. 1t nust
not be forgotten that las last ya year psVnS1I when
cans made terrible war on Tweed In the
Legislature, that he was apparently "cor-
nered" for a time. His fall seemed to be
impending. Senator Genet, one of the lead
'ers Of the young Democracy, had the temeri-
fingers in bis face. But In less than two
weeks Tweed had pulled the wool over Gree
ley's eyes, He had bought up the Republican
members of the Legislature, and had even
bought up the leaders of the young Democra-
cy, including Senator Genet, and his new
charter was put through both houses with
rush, receiving the Republican vote, and the
''Bossn came down to the city triumphant
and looking as serene as ever. He certainly
astonshed the World, the organ OF the young
Democracy, on that occasion, and while 1t was
in state of stupefactlon, ne seems to have
The opening OF the annual fair of the Amer
lean Institute, at the rink on Sixty-second
street, last night, brought out Walt whitman
as q reader OF his own poems. bis extraordl-
nary composition appears in all the papers TO-
day. One calls it catalogue OF the articles
ovhIhifinn IN The OnpatI0n whether
Walt Is poet will probably never be definitely
settled, for as long as opinions differ about
everything, they will differ about his produc-
tlons. Most people OF literary culture deride
his 'barbarlc yawp," and yet Emerson once
praised him. Swinburne worships him. Nor
ris and Rosetu, the new English poets, pro-
claim him TO be the greatest OF American
Sards, and Tennyson has just sent him an in
vitation across the Atlantic to go over and
live with him.
rink last night Is 1t poetry or bosh?
say see. my friends. fyou do not, the AMI.
Escaped, bequesth'd, vital, iugacious as ever,
leaving those dead remains, and now this
spot approaching, 6ing;
And can hear what may be you do nCt-a ter.
rible asthetical commotton,
With bowling desperate gulp OF "nower" and
With Sonnet to Mati;da's Eyebrow" quite, quite
With gushing, sentimental reading circles turn'd
to ice or stone;
With many squeak lin meter choice,l from Bos.
ION, New York, Philadelphia, London;
As She the fllustrius Emgre thavtng, 1t Is true,
y In her day, although the same, changed, jour.
ney'd considerable)
Making directly for this rendezvous-vigorously
clearing path for herself-strtdlng through
the confusion,
BY thud OF machinery and shril steam.wh stle
updismay'd,
Blur RI not bit BY drain pipe gasometers, srtid.
cial fertilizers,
Smiling anu pleased, with palpable intent to stay
She's here instalrd amid the kitchen ware
Whether or not the divine afflatus Is In
Waits lines 1t will not be denied that he has
vigor, and some Of his pen pictures are strik
ing. The man himself Is a curiosity. re-
member ssme years ago being wheedled by
lazy Bohemian into Ptaff's lager beer cellar, in
Broadway, where all the newspaper wits and
scribblers of the day were wont to congregate.
There, under the sidewalk at the head of the
table, sat Walt Whitman, with his paw on
mug of beer while he was holding forth on
some question of aesthetics, amid the cheers or
jeers OF his reckless companions. He was,
and Is still, great brawny man, with q mag
nifcent head and face. and wearing long,
heavy white beard and white moustache. He
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