Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-09-20
Baltimore Correspondence.
BALTIMORE, Sept. II, 1879.

BALTIMORE, Sept. II, 1872.
Since the grand demonstration of the
friends of Greeley and Brown, which took
place in Monument Square on the evening
of the 18th instant, there has been but lit
tie stir here in political matters.
Considerable spirit was manifested at
the Democratic Conservative primary cleo
tions, yesterday, for delegates to the Con-
gressional nominating Convention. The
most interesting contest was in the wards
included in the new Congressional district,
the third, where there were three or four
rival candidates In the fourth district,
Hon. Thomas Swami has no opposition.
The friends of Greeley and Brown are
sanguine of grand triumph for the Re
form ticket in November next, not only in
Maryland, but throughout the country
Grant stock, since the recent elections, has
fallen still lower than before.
The BLATANT Dunkey" movement has
utterly failed to give it even the slightest
impulse upwards. The confidence of the
great Conservative party, representing the
honesty and patriotism of the country,
cannot be disturbed by a few ranting I'LL
traists, ambitious of notoriety, notwith-
standing they may be backed up by Radi-
cal influence and Radical money. Very
few ever supposed that the Louisville
movement was anything more than bogus
affair, gotten up in the interest of Grant
but scarcely any one was prepared for its
ignominious and sudden collapse. That
it was mere sham, lacking every element
of vitality, all knew, but shams even of the
weaker sort sometimes have an appearance
of vitality and length of life sufficient to
materially frighten timid people.
The "Straight-out movement" however,
couldn't get up not so much as one small
scare, even among the less sanguine sup
porters Of the Reform ticket. It has been
but a repetition of the old story of the ass
in the lions hide, and has izzled out with
all the grace and beauty of damp fire
cracker. u
It's death might awaken more solemn
and condoling thoughts but for the fact of
the ludicrous aspects of the affair from the
beginning. We are forced to laugh when
the more charitable promptings of our
hearts would counsel us to weep. How
many have been amused beyond measure at
the bewilderment into which the Straight
outs were thrown when Charles O'Conor's
abstruse reasonings on the science of gov
eminent was read before the Louisville
Convention. They did MT know what to
make of it. They had asked for bread of
the well buttered Tammany style of politi-
cal Illumination and got instead stone,
hard and unnutritive, in the dry, imprac-
teal arguments on the fundamental prin-
ciples of municipal organization. The
Straight-outs could mt digest it. They
never have digested it, or, it would seem,
understood it, and that perhapsi is the rea-
son why they nominated Mr.. O'Conor for
the Presidency.
Then, when it is reflected that this move
ment originated on the ground that its
supporters desired to remain forever free
and unspotted from all impure political
association and contamination, it is de-
lighful to witness the affiliations and ties
that these Immaculate gentlemen have
formed. For example, the great and good
Benjamin Butler-the type of political
honesty and purity-has now a worthy
yoke-fellow in another Benjamin nearer
home, who, raving about the 'humiliating
sacrifice of Democratic principle" made at
Baltimore in July, is willing to unite heart
and soul with the hero of Big Bethel in
endeavoring to keep Grant in the White
House. What consistency! What patri-
otism! Are the lion and the lamb lying
down together2 If so, which is which?
The members of the Sailors and Soldiers
Association of this city and Washington
left here yesterday for Pittsburgh, where
they will participate in the National Sal
lors' and Soldiers Convention, which is
held in the interest of Grant and Wilson.
AS the party passed through Monument
Square, en- route for the depot, one colored
gentleman, becoming suddenly excited,
threw brick at the head of another col
ored gentleman, which missile went with
great velocity straight to its mark. The
brick was terribly smashed, but beyond
this there was no damage done.
The Small Pox, which during the Spring
was quite prevalent here, has now disap-
peared as an epidemic. Of course, in large
cities, there is always case or two. But
persons from the country can now come to
town without any fear of this loathsome
disease.
The regular Fall business has fully COM
menced. Fears are entertained that it will
be light, owing to the failures in the crops
in this and the adjoining States.
WEGG.
Letter from MIR. EdgertOn.
We find in our exchanges letter from
Mr. EdoertOn of Indiana whose name was