Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-02-17

WAsHIxeroS. u. c.. Feb. 10, 1871.

WAsH1xeroS, u. c.. Feb. Is, 1871.
. Tbachsgees TT the repeal of the income
tax are very slim indeed. Mr.. Boutwell, and
his friends are masters Of the position. The
Conference Committee of the House and Sem
ate, on the right Of the Senate to originate
measure with regard to reducing revenue,
escb time that they meet disagree more wide-
~ than ever. An effort will be made next
Wednesday to go into Committee of the Whole
in order to take up the income tax repeal. II
successful the Western members claim that
they are strong enough to so amend the bill
IS to admit coal and salt free of duty. This
will kill the bill in the Senate and ensure the
retention OF the tax and the triumph of Bout
well over Pleasanton, the President, and the
Military ring. How many more victories will
Boutwell, be permitted to achieve over the
power which runs the President, viz: the
Military ring, Not many take it; the end
Of Boutwell, as Cabinet officer is near at hand.
The National Executive Committee Of the
Union League will meet in Philadelphia next
week. From what has been given out we
learn that its action will be of piece with
the conspiracy now going on here under the
auspices Of the Senate Southern Outrage Com
mittee. They will present in. the meeting
petitions from Arkansas, North Carolina.
Georgia, Missouri, Maryland asd Kentucky,
setting forth terrible condition of affairs and
from this data speeches will be made and re-
be passed which are intended to FIRE
the Radical heart in Congress in order to pass
laws again putting the South virtually under
the control of Grants willing military tools
for election purposes. To show how fimsy
their prstexts are the following statement is
made: "In Maryland the farmers have COM
bined together aud will employ no one who
Is known to be member of the Union
League" As desperate cases require despe-
rate remedies the desperation Of the disheart-
ened Radicals is prompting them to legislation
even more vile than that which they have al
ready resorted to in order to maintain power.
The case Of DR.: Miller, United States SEN
ator-elcct from Georgia. will como up in the
Senate to-day. No fair minded man can vote
to keep DR.. Miller longer from his seat since
his colleague, Mr.. Hill was admitted. Mr..
Edmunds for some reason, which seems to the
public to be Of personal nature, very siren
ously opposes bis admission. trust that the
case may be acted on to-day and that aside
from display Of Radical hate, vindictiveness
and spleen the result may be favorable to Dr..
Miller. -,
The safety OF the Tennessee is the all ab-
sofbins question here just now, and the inte-
rest has been heightened by the recent attack
Of General Banks in Congress on Admiral
Porter and the victory which be gained by
having Naval Constructor Hanscomb restored
uesPIt6 Admiral Porter. Shonid aught hap
pen 70 the Tennessee it would be sad CON-
mentary on Admiral Porter's control of the
Navy. Some time since the Admiral, desr-
Gus Of making reputation for economy, had
a number Of steamers, the Tennessee among
the number, changed aud rugged with sails III
order to save coal. speed just now not being
an essential. These steamers are long and
narrow and built with an eye to speed under
steam, and are not capable Of carrying the
heavy press Of sail which is usual for vessels
with broader beams, benign the absence of the
nautical phrase, top-heavy. These changes
were known to be unsafe by every one in the
Navy, but none dare demonstrate against the
decree of the fiery Admiral. This trip of the
Tennessee will most probably demonstrate the
which Admiral Porter has adopted,
'.of saving at the spigot and losing at the
bungbole." -,
The West Point outrage affair will come up
for discussion tomorrow. As the President
has protected, if not endorsed the bad beha-
viour OF the FIRST class at West Point, in their
insubordination during the past two years, he
is. of course, anxious that bis proteges, with
whom bis son, Cadet Grant, was ringleader,
should escape punishment, and his friend, Ben
Butler, has consented to defend the first class
before Congress. II is expected that General
Logan will urge severe measures Of punish.
ment against the guilty Cadets. Should he
take that side lively time will result, as
Logan hits bard, and from bis personal dislike
Of Butler he will not restrain himself in his
attack on the guilty.
The question as to what has become Of the
findings in the court-martial of the negro
Cadet, Smith, has not been answered. Has
the President iuterfered and saved him this
time7 The first class of the same institution
at which Smith belongs are to undergo trial,
possibly it may be white washing farce, yet
the public will know what has been done in
the case, but in the case Of the negro some
power steps in and the affair is bushed up.
The public demand to know what power is
SO potential in this case as to defeat the ends
of justice. .
The latest on the card is the raising of the
mission TO Berlin to the. same grade as those
of London and Paris The Committee on
Foreign Affairs have decided so to report.
The name Of Mr.. Orth, of Indiana, is strongly
pushed and probably will be the successful
candidate Almost any change in that direc-
ton would be for the better. Our present
Minister at Berlin, Mr.. Bancroft, is goose
and tho quicker Mr.. Orth takes his place the
better for tho reputation four country abroad,
which is well nigh ruined between incompe-