The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1873-01-09
Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, Dec. %, 1872.

WASHINGTON, Dec. %, 1872.
A happy New Year! and may you have
as many of them as there are hairs on you
journalistic caput, is the wish Of Yours
Truly, whose ears at the present writing, art
| ringing with the silvery tingle-dingle Of thu
| merry bells as the handsome sleighing turn
outs dash past on Pennsylvania avenue
from the Capitol to the White House. There
! isa
CORNER IN PoLITICAE NEWS
here, and it will continue until our Solons
come back from their holiday trips and get
to work again. From the short timc-seven
weeks-which they will have from the re-as.
sembling until the end of the session, the
question Of an extra session is being mooted.
WORRIED.
Since it has been determined that the
New York Tribune is not to be run in the
interest of the administration, the Court
Journals here seem to have the. .fdgets over
the matter, and every day or SO. an article
appears in which the moral sense of the 4ri-
Jwue subscribers is appealed to most pathct.
ically. First the ruinor that Boss Tweed
was the moniod power that bought Orton
out, greatly shocked them, and bow the re-
port that Jay Gould furnished the dpests,
more than upsets the moral equiposs Of the
Grant Buglers. The Tribune keeps on in
the even tenor of il way, nor denies nor
admits anything. So the snaflihg ours have
their yelpings for their pains, Is there aiding
public viii not be deferred from enjoying
their Tribune by the twaddle of the insig-
ni6cant Washington bugles.
THE LINE DRAWN.
Although the Grant organs in this city
have no position in the newspaporial world.
nor does their feeble baldefdash command
attention-yet they are almost unsrriDg
guides as to what the desire of the admin
istration, or rather General Grant, arc
That there was to be change in the policy
of the administration with regard to Cuba,
was very evident from the tone Of the Presi-
dents message. The spiritualists here,
claim that the change was brought about by
q written communication being sent by Gen.
Rawlins, well known medium, urging that
aid be extended to the suffering Cubans.
1t has generally been conceded that had
Rawlins' lived, his policy of aiding the Gu
bans would have been adopted, as he had
great influence with the President, who af-
terwards followed the Fish policy. The
way out of the trouble as to whom we shall
recognize as the belligerents has been found
by Gen. Grant. 1t is that Spain, by the
building of a wall across the Island, admits
that her authority extends only that far and
no farther; so, all We have to do, is to recog-.
nize the dominion of the Cuban insurgents
up to the wall now building. and by this
stroke of policy We get our fingers in the
Cuban pie; but whether We will pluck out
any of the plums, remains to be seen.
LOUISIANA MATTERS.
The exceeding bad taste displayed by
Secretary Delano in accepting the excur-
sions, fetes, &C., that were gotten up in his
honor by Senator Kellogg and Collector Ca
sey, at New Orleans few days since, while
en- route to Havana, nos been severely crit-
cised here It looks like defendant in
case having the judge and jury dine with
him during the pendency Of the trial The
last conundrum asked here is, How could
Judge Durell, of New Orleans, after taking
the oath of allegiance to the Southern Con-
federacy, conscientiously take the iron clad
oath of 1862, when he was appointed Uni
ted States Judge by President Lincoln in
1868? 1t is more than probable that he
got out an injunction to restrain his con-
science from acting at that time, and to
Judge from his recant behavior, he forgot to
have the injunction removed. The counter
statement being prepared by the Radicals
here, as an answer TO the calm, plain state
ment Of facts made by the Louisiana dele
cation as to the condition of Affairs in that
State, viii soon te ready. The greatest in.
justice is being done tho delegation from
New Orleans, by coupling the name Of War
mouth with the grievances Of which they
complain. They care no more for War
mouth than they do for Pinchbeck; they
merely desire an hon,st Investigation into
the condition Of things in their State-but
Notwithstanding their address has created con-
siderable feeling against the President for
his course in that mateer, nothing will come
out of it; like every outrage against the people,
or Federal usurpation Of power, it will be
nine days gossip and general acquiesceuoe in
it after that period. As a people, We are
hard to surprise, rarely ever startled and as
to stirring US up against the powers that be,
no matter what the cause, it is an utter i'm
possibility. 4 verify believe that if Con-
gress passed law that every man, woman
and child in the country should, after GER
tain date, wear rings in their noees, it would
after considerable amount of vaporing, be
eonformed to, and prayer Of thanks offer
ed up because Congress did not levya spe-
cial tax on the holes that were bored for the
nasal ornaments to hook in.
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