Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-06-01
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, May II, 1872.

tlOll 10 OlliN u SLY Odiill AOi Viz
spirits of the Cincinnati adherents. The
deadly wound inflicted by Hon. Dan.
Voorhees, continues to gangrene and to
threaten the life Of the new party so re-
Gently born of tribulation. Its sore head
begins to droop and its Dolly Warden to
quiver with emotion at every days re-
port of States speaking out for Grant.
The Greeley quotations which Voor-
hees used, and which / here insert, can
be multiplied by thousands. 1t is obvious
that no Democrat .having any regard for
principle or self-respect, and who is not
an Office seeker, can support man who
has repeatedly spoken of him as follows {:
Point out wherever you please to an
election district which you will pronounce
morally rotten-given up in great part to
debauchery and Vice-and that district
will be found at nearly or quite every
election giving large majority for that
which styles itself the Democratic party.
May it be written on my
grave that ! was never follower, and
lived and died in nothing its debtor"
Evidences multiply that the Democra-
cy will repudiate the Greeley ticket and
substitute Davis of Illinois or Adams Of
Massachusetts in his stead and the re-
turned delegates from Cincinnati, finding
that the Greeley nomination has been Il
failure, are to-day endeavoring to make
comb mbinations for selling him out. Gree
ley has been made a cats paw and will
find in two months hence that his nom
ination is a huge joke as that Of Victoria
Woodruff or George Francis Train.
In the meantime the opposition is ~
ing around loose, no one knowing what
to do or what position to take. Such
spectacle of Generalization cannot but in
ure to the benefit of the Republican party,
which is virtually in the field to-day.
THE TREATY IN THE SENATE.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York WOrLd, in n special to the
Baltimore SIN of to-day, intimates in
significant manner that malcontents in
the Senate will intrigue to render the rat
ifcation of Supplemental treaty improb0-
BILE. lie couples with this proposed
speech of Hon. b. f. Butler in the House,
against the treaty.
The editors Of the SIN had the hard
sense, am glad to say, to insert in the
midst Of this special this reply: "[The
people want none of this nonsense, but a
settlement fair and square. -Eds.1"
have only to say that the man or set
of men in Congress whose ambition or
vindctiveness shall lead them so for
away from the p 'rformancc of solemn
duty to the country at this critical time,
instead of earning fame, prominence or
advancement, will sink so far into the
depths Of iniamy that there will be for
any such no political resurrection posi-
BILE. The great business and monetary
interests of the country, in which all the
people participate, require no child's play
over this fair and square settlement.
They will crush into nothingness any lit
tie worm in the Senate chamber that
may interfere its brief authority to pre-
vent "A two thirds vote of that body. at
the demand of this great nation, for
peace, repose and continued prosperity.
ARMS OF THE DEMOCRACY.
Not few of the wisest Republican OBJ
servers Of politics see more reason to be
uneasy about seeing Republican major
ty in the Senate than the election of a
Republican President.
The st. Louis Repu6Iican has already
recognized and and pointed out the arm
of many Of those behind the Cincinnati
movement to secure a sufficient number
Of Democratic votes either to elect out
right or to control the election of qudSi
Republicans so that they can determine
the action of that House on all issues be-
tween Democracy and Republicanism.
COMMON SCHOOL PROCESS.
The report Of the State Superintendent
OF Public instruction for Texas up to the
end of December last has been received
here. On entering upon his duties in the
Spring of 1871 and without hardly pub
lic school house and no aid from any
previous attempts at organization of pub
lie instruction in the State. He shows at
the close of his report $500 children al
ready in attendance upon public schools.
This is great triumph for Republican
ism in Texas.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Senate yesterday agreed to the
House substitute for the Morill amend
ment authorizing the payment, wherever
ownership is established, of the net pro-
ceeds of the sale of cotton seized as con-
liscated property after June, 1865. The
Secretary of the Treasury estimates the
amount of this refund at Il half million of