Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-02-03
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ssWAsHrNorox.D- c.. Jan, 80, 1871. :
/ ASisikao tbs Hodse Of Representatives on
Saturday would have shown the least obser-
want spectator that a'~oi,derful change has,
Of late, come over the. spirit If the Radical
dream. Heretofore the successful Radical
column in the insoleuce of, their power were
the attacking party, to be met by the Spartan
band Of Democrats in defence Of those princi.
Piles which for . time, in the. excitement oil
war, passion and sectional interest, were OBJ
scurec: but to-day the Radicals have their
hands full in parrying the slcdge hammer
blows dealt to their rotten, effete, corrupt and
fast disiutegrating. party by the now attack
ing Democracy. On Saturday, Mr.. s. S.
Cox paid his respects to their pretended rev.
enue reform. and to the Secretary of the Trea-
sury, 10 bis usual sharp and incisive manner.
Mr.. Mayham's speech on the Presidents in
terfering 10 the elections with Federal troops
was as bold and unanswerable an argument
as need be delivered 10 defence Of the peoples
rights. Mr.. Calkin attacked the administra-
ton for their dilly-dallying with the Alabama
claims and charged that they were purposely
Fdslayfog the settlement. Mr.. Bird pitched
into the bill, which Er. Hoar, of Massachu-
sstts, was advocating, favoring the establishing
. successor to the Freedmen's Bureau under
tho title Of System of National Education,
which was only to be established in the inte-
rest Of Radlcalisn, that the country might be
flooded with Yankee school books and Yankee
ideas, and to furnish q means Of plundering
the Treasury in the interest Of Yankee book
publishers and Radical politicians. Mr.. Voor-
bees, Of Indiana, one of the boldest and ablest
Of our statesmen, presented the resolutions of
the Indiana Legislature, to the effect that
every soldier and sailor .(their widows and
orpbans) who served ninety days or longer,
In the army or navy in the war of the great
rebellion Of 1861, shall be entitled to. 100 acres
Of land. subject to sale. Mr.. Voorhees, spoke
in his usual pleasing and eloquent manner
aud referred very pointedly to Ben Butler,
who remembering the dressing which he re-
ceived at the hands of Mr.. VOORHEES, last week,
said nothing. With the Democracy acting
entirely on the attack and the venomous viper
Butler completely cowed, the result cannot be
doubted. -
The Southern Pacific Railroad bill, which
passed the Senate last session almost unani-
mously, only four (Radicals) voting against
il, will be brought up in the House this, or
aext week eand passed by large majority.
This act Of justice to the South will give an
impetus to the material interests Of the South
srn States and the Territories through which
IL passes, that will go far to raise the South
to that position Of prosperity which the war
20 greatly retarded.
The committee appointed to investigate the
Southern outrages did not progress very lively,
only such - the son Of the notorious Cover
nor Holden, Of n. Carolina, and the Butcher"
Kirk, who carried out Holden's bloody orders,
were before the committee; but when Con-
eress appropriated $4,000 to pay expenses
the greater portion Of the Scallywags and
Carpetbaggsrs in the South, whole families
having applied, desire to be summoned as
witnesses, their expenses, of course, being
paid.
Mr.. McCrary, Of Iowa, will shortly intro
duce bill in the House to prevent members
Of Congress from taking brides to secure their
vote on any measure. The bill makes it a
penal offence to either give or receive any
bribe. / suggest that the bill be so amended
- to include al Government officials who
have the distribution of Offices and that pres.
snts aud brides be considered the same thing.
But Mr.. McCrary and his Radical friends
would hardly be mean enough to cut off the
Presideuts perquisites in the shape Of brides,
/ beg pardon, I mean presents. The intro
duction Of such q resolution is most insult
ing reflection on the Radical majority. To be
sure every week or 50 some Radical member
charged with some crime or other, such as
selling oadetships, forging the names of SOL
diers widows to pension papers. bigamy, etc.,
but they are sure to be whitewashed, while
no Democrat has been even suspected of any
such corruption, 50 the bill must be aimed At
bis loil and moral friends. "Let the CALLED
jade vince, our withers are unwrung."
It is rumoredi that Deputy Commissioner
Douglas, Of the Internal Revenue Department,
now on visit to his home in Pennsylvania,
will not return to his position, on account of
the military system inausurated in the Bu-
reau by the Nartinet Pleasanton, it being un-
bearabls to any man who has any respect for
himself. So Douglas finds out what it is to
b under the heel of the military, even in q
civil position.
The President yesterday received petition
signsd BY thirty Protestant ministers of
Brooklyn, N. T., asking for the removal of
Collector Murphy on the ground that be is
Catholic. They also very modestly name one
Who would suit them As his successor. Now
Il strikes me that these meddlesorpe ministers