Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-05-12
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- .ExefAi session Of O. o. Senate.
Tho United States Sonata convened OF
Wednesday 10 extra session, according to tn
proclamation Of the President. The Treat,
Of Washington was submitted, and the Senat
Immediately went into Executive session up
on it. After referring the Treaty to the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, the Senate ad
journed until to-day. .e-
@We give place, in another column, t.
the communication Of Messrs. Chapman, not
vithstanding the Objectionable tenor of thu
article, believing, as we do, that the vein o.
,Albumor and the smack of discourtesy SO lily
concealed therein are due, rather to the "sour.
I'd and dyspeptic stornachs" of the authors
brought on, doubtless, by the non-success Of
the upper shores" the present season, than
TO any wish or disposition, on their part, to
commit breach of that due courtesy with
which gentlemen should ever treat the views
Of others. During the past Spring, and for
pears back, our columns have teemed, week
after week, With COMMUNICATIONS in the inter-
sst of fishermen. Many of these articles were
long. tedious and abominably prosy; made up
Of bad spelling, Indifferent punctuation and
worse grammar-most Of which we corrected
and put in readable shape-for all of which
We have never charged or received single
cent, nor, for augbt we know, single express
sion Of thanks. Our impartiality should,
therefore, in the eyes of call fair men," be
shove suspicion. Our article of last week was
written after we had taken the "trouble to
post" ourselves by careful examination OF
the city markets, as quoted in the daily papers,
and BY due inquiry in the county. Ascer-
tanning, beyond shadow Of doubt, the fact.
10 be as stated, We penned the articlsin cues
Sion, After mature elaboration, and care
fol consideration Of Messrs. -Chapman's arti-
:cls, We fai, to-day, to discover any good reason
for the changing or withdrawal OF single
I word or line 10 our editorial. We spoke iu
the interest Of the whole people, and not as
the representative Of the .iuteres's of which
these gentlemen have thrust themselves upon
the public - the especial champions. We
spoke generally-oft Interpretations Of a CLASS
Of no one in particularly ON duty demanded
~ should speak Is We did, and our words
have met with univetsak echo Of approval
from the Prince Georges to the ST.. Mary's
.HnS, and from all classes Of our people, save
.and except the class to which these gentlemen
belong. Our article, 10 its Character and
tome" Messrs. Chapmans' demurrer to the
contrary Notwithstanding, was unobjectiona-
BE. Or language was good sound English,
neither halting nor mincing, but broad, bold
and expressive in its denunciation of the in
Justice done the mass Of our people. Neither
did it furnish, in the mind Of any right-mind-
ID man, any reasonable cause for ''doubt Of
our knowledge Of the subject, or honesty Of
purpose" The latter, we are happy to. say,
With those who know rs, is not and never
was matter Of doubt. We therefore realize,
TO its fullest extent, and are duly thankful for
The gentemens graciousness in "preferring
the former conclusion" And now as to our
.knowlsdes of the subject" The premises
granted. the facts unimpeaehsd and nowhere
dispsoved 10 the half column and more we
hsvs allotted the gentlemen for their defence,
it seems to US that the most rudimental
grounding in the FIRST ten or twenty pages Of
schoolboy's arithmetic is all that is required
to solve thesproblem. A knowledge of the
difference between 2 and 8, and 6, and 8,
solves the puzzling enigma. Why then this
"cry" Of want of knowledge" IT'S true
they say their ''books furnish complete de-
NAL to the sale Of fish at 81 and So 'as a
price," What is the exact meaning of these
words, and how far they qualify the previous
assertion, We cannot now stop to inquire
But are their "books" better evidence than
: the daily reports Of the papers Of the two
cities tos the past two weeks Besides, do
they not admit the whole truth when they as
sure US that ono fishery can be sustained by
The current supply of fish at the late prevail
ing prices in toscn"s Does not this show We
were right in our quotation of the city prices
So much, again, for our knowledge Of the
subject" But the gentlemen say, in extenu.
alton, "ths upper shores have been anything
bsa successful" Any valid excuse in this 70,
extortiou upon whole community? Again
the low prices are. attributed to scarcity o.
money in Virginia. 1sit more plentiful herei
Again, the citizens of Alexandra are the vic.
tins Of "rings." Any reason why we should
.bs?. Their "course" for .serles of years" il
thsa rscited, and those hitherto sealed "books'
arc opened, (by themselves, not us,) TO public
inspection. During this period they sold fish
ct So, when they were worth So and So in
the market, and during the same period, with
heroic nerve. they resisted, and. in the end
.svstcame the tempting offers Of spectators
cupon the shore" ct So. Generous Highly
sssdisablet@ II discriminasion is made, let it
b for %, not against Us. We hope ou'
friends will not weary 10 well-doins. 4Vir-
A. l. a. n