The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-20

he had made other 'plans,. which Ia. supposed
to mean that he had arranged for certain
drives or smokes. 1t. Is rather an odd coip-
oidence that his son graduates Just where ne
Graduating rank, however, is not always q
test of ability, as witness Grants rise to the
head of the army. The Presidential party.a at
the Point was rather annoyed the other day,
by the apparItion of the postmaster of Coping-
ton, armed with a carpet-bag. The venerable
Jesse came Eastto have q little talk with his
son, over the Cincinnati appointments, aud
not finding him. at his cottage IN New jersey,
took the first conveyance up the Hudson. The
President told the old gentleman to go back
to Long Branch, and amuse himself with
grandfather Dents who is:keeptng the house
there, until he returned.
Tie postmaster landed from the Hudson
River boat on Monday morning on his way
back to the %seashore, and trudged down
Broadway. carpet-bag in hand. Near the Aslor
House he wanted to cross over and the. Jam
of vehicles bothered him. One Of the Broad.
way SQUAD. noticing his dilemma kindly piloted
him through the maze. When they reached
the sidewalk at .Hudnuts. the postmaster
rugged the policeman at the arm and re-
marked: Say, guess you hardly know VINO
you have been taking care OF, DO err
have not that HONOR" said the man in blue,
smiling and bowling rather sareastically.
= I'll ~ u viz oNN5
himself up, 81 am the father OF the President.
OF the United States"
Something like this happened in Louisville
about a year ago, and Is too good to be lost.
A Kentuckian, one OF the formerly $50 called"
was walking along, when he was overtaken.
by q fussy old gentleman, who wanted direc-
lions about reaching a certain street. AS the
route lay In the Kentucklan's way, the twain
continued the Journey together. After Q little,
the stranger remarked, hesitattngly,. ''Say, l
reckon you hardly know who you are walking
with, do you ?n 'yYhy, no. replied our friend,
with surprise, ''who cam 1t be pr "Well, sir"
said the other, In q voice raised 80 everybody
else on the sidewalk might hear, II am the
father of the greatest soldier that ever. lived"
Good heavens mshouted Kentuck, VI thought
the father of Stonewall Jackson was dead long
ago. This was too much for the postmaster
Of Covington, and he turned q short corner.
The Tammany subsidy to the leading New
York Journals was given out this week. It
consists Of about o quarter Of q million OF dol
lars worth Of advertising, In the shape of the
mayors message and the municipal depart
ment reports. Big sops were given to. the
Tribune, Post and Sun, while the other cor
poratio1 papers, like the Herald and WORLD,
were of course largely provided for. It Is
amusing to observe how delighted the Repub-
lican papers thus favored are with the tone Of
the mayors message, and the working of the
departments. We might suppose that we had
reached the era of perfect municipal harmony
and peace II it were not for the swapping and
growing Of the Times, which. got nothing.
The space which the other papers occupy with
the city advertising. at twenty cents per line,
prove that the ''rfng'' Is awfully corrupt and
desperately wicked.
The Tammany politicians have made q
sharp turn on their Radical brethren In rela-
ton to the colored. citizen. There was an alb.
surd>miHtarY Organization here composed OF
negroes. and giving Itself the high sounding
name of the 'Grif1n Excelsior Guard" 1t was
In a %dilapidated condition aad going to pieces.
The Tammany politicians saw, their chance,
steppedin with money and smiles, patted the
captain and lleutenants on the back, offered to
help them to sraise a regiment, procured them
q Charter through the Legislature, and gave
them q hail to drill IN. Tie colored brother
was astonIshed. For years he had been
struggling along as an amateur soldier on his
own meagre resources. The Radicals had
turned q cold shoulder to him, and he hadnot
dared to hope tor succor from the Democrats.
But here came help fssm the most unexpected
quarter. The result Ia that'a regiment of ne
groes is being rapidly formed The Tammany
men are supplying the uniforms at their own
expense. They have precnred g grant OF
arms for their proteges from ue State, anu
the regiment Wnen completeu ID. 70 De-reSu
larly Incorporated into the National Guard OF
the State OF New York. The recruits are, of
course, enthusiastic for Tammany, and one OF
them, the colonel, publishes q card to-day an
nounclng. his; adhesion to the Democracy,
which, be says, he. con how do Without scruple,
on account Of the recent NEW departure and
recognition OF the validity Of the amendments
by the Democratic State conventions. The
Radical negro league Is bowling, and will you
believe 1t, the colored Democrats. OF Greene
and Prince streets are ''ostraclsed"-Jhs think
OF 1t, oaraeised for their political opinions,
and this is supposed to be q Tree country;
negroes will be recruited for the. Excelslors.
It viii be rather q novelty for next flourish OF
July-ihis spectacle OF two reglmentsof black
Democrats marching down Broadway with the
crack Seventh, the emerald tipped Sixty
Ninth, the Killed Seventy-Ninth and. Colonel
Fisk's gorgeous graves. NYA.