, 1873-03-20
WASHINGTON.
Harlan on schurz,s' Speech. =.
Some Fireside COM
nlelts.
Henry Wilson's Moral Dodgos.'- Surren.
lers tho Correspondents to tho
Caucus.
Essay on Tomperanoo-s.A New
Collector Of Port.



From Our Ocn Correspondent
WARRINGTON, March il, 1879.
UAn1 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Senator sohurz has mndo another speooh, with
all lis formor akitl, fno bearing, and incisvc-
neBs, upon tho subject which alarms everybody
but tho 6enato,- sonatos growing infany.
Hero are tho men whom money or railway In
nnenco havo holpod to thoir chairs: Scott,
Window, Carpenter, Dogy, Patterson Is. o.,
Clayton, Dorsey, Hitchcock, Caldwell, Jones,
Stewart, Mitchell, Sargent, Went, Of these,
senator Jonoa, who is reputed 10 be tho Cragua
OF tho Senate and Ia to build house on Com
uectiout avonuo Which will coat $780, 600 and lead
OIL Stewart and othora, who will also build
galore IN tile Hamo quarter,-Jonos, 1 say, haa
defended, upon broad Chrstan and COM
morctal principles, tho uBo Of money In buying
places in tho highest law-making body Of tho
land. Ho Rtooa up before his cattle, and, told
then not TO 10 cast down, although they had
been bought for prico; "for," exclaimed Mr,
Jones, In effect, Legislatures arc cattlo. mud
wo might as vol meet tho truth like honest
mineta."
After whi1c, this man will bo found stanaiup
up In lliE placo and talking about Il Hshystors.
and " ncontious prcsa," although ho is already,
subject Of alarm that we hayo como to tho day
whom man can mako suoh q Hpoecl1 and be ro-
ceivod into tho Senate without indignation It
ia difficult also, to sec how tho next generation
Of boys can grow up with any Of TINT heartfelt,
child-like love Of country which Is tho making
Of moral and martial horoisnl, when n,onntrous
admission 1iko tho aboVo is calmly made, and
that by man, It is alleged, Of neither forbid
ding mannor8 nor appearance. He holds TINT
he merely meant, when he said 1t, that tho Sem
ato was rich mans body.
Carl schurz'e speech WAS d ringing declamn-
ton upon this golden throad which has boon so
long halfvisibly binding onc-half tho Legislative
authority fast and il that placo 1t sounded like
But what Gun call to life the lovo Of country in
cankered natures mado worse BY daily asHocia-
tion Can anything, short Of the wliirlwind
After Schurz's speech Was done, could SEQ, US
Brother Harlan. knew, BY the samo proeoi:.
cnco by which, as you cit In tho night, you feel
thero ie thief somewhere in the room, that
such speech would arouBe Harlan. It would
arouBo him very much M tho first rat is rouscd
to come forth when tho body Of somothing hon
ored ia laid in tho vault and left alone. Henco
the croaturo was presently seen to express him.
self in his morning printing-machine
"schrz doubtless fanciod hirsef clothed for tho
charging Catalina md his acconplices with consprjng
sganat !he 'e q tl,at ancient Repabc Ill ot whom
to protect it from impending ruin.
Tie eloquent stump hl'ecches Of THU immaculate
not Known to havo i Understandable value, and when
heard outside OF the Senate chamber wero not labeled
$4,000 apiece ;, for each delivery.
Obsoryo tho lrat paragraph In tho above,
whore tho heroic parallel Of sehurz and Cicero
must needs start up in the dopravcd writer's
heart to pay tho unconscious compliment Of
bctter days. Ahl there no 500 this sonntor
4 bo1$
boforo lo had got into the habit Of taking s10-
600 thrice ovhr from DR.. Durant. Thoro Was,
probably, n time wllou hv had something port
hymn W in tho sund,y-sehool uni with Jingle q tho tho
pulse, aud flushed, bravo faco:
=, ! TaSsss .;;ss LA "a + iSa1ty.- ii :s
A glimpse Of TINT noblor timc wo nny SEQ in
the parallel Of 6churz and Cicero, inyo1untarily
1nado by tho SUCCESSOR of Balaam, Bnying: How
goodly a1e thy tents, Q schurz, and thy taber-*
but Immediately tho dovil gets into tho swino
again, and Harlan makos down steep place into
tic sea. Ho confounls gentleman, Who paid hiB
travelling expenses to leave home and addrosa
audiences, with . ~scoundrel taking bribo Of
for no admits that those speeches had =" D. n,or-
day Of It's strongth before it gotto stealing, aud
when it appreciated talent and honor, employed
d
Church componaates its clergy, paying poor.
preachers Of Indifferent personal appearance,
like Harlan, $400 year, aud fine young ataga
and collega-brel men, like schnrz, several
uaa.u ahen you como suet to men ike caaaen Il buyng Big
pulpits from tho Presiding Elders, or Harlan,
rs Agent Of tile Book Concern, taking 10000
thrice over from DR.. Duraut. 1t Nill
always bo the case that choce men draw their
salaries with pnactuality, and that ,s why am
in communication with tho thinking people Of
tho Grent Northwest, while Brother Harlan Ia
washing dishes i'll tho editorial ateWs Of WASH
ington City.
The now Vice-presilent is making temperance
speeohes,-a beautiful amuaoment, -addresaod
to persons who cannot tell tho difference in tho
taste Of rum aud blackberry brandy. Ho thus
falls directly into Mr.. Oolfa1's walk, and bogina
with courting that semi-reaso.ling -class of ro-
apectable people who mover addressed MI ap-
peal to drunkard in their lives, but think that
intomporanco is to be oncompasaol like Joricho,
md blown down by raas horns Their favorito
wny Of dashing the poiRon-bowl from tho lips Is
to get togcthor where thero ID no smell Of alco..
hol on their garments (and, If anybody staggered
and thoro they listen to novela and theatricala
from Cough, and y say, without knowing
it; "Wo aro not like those publicans,
if .wo know oursolyas and wo 1attor ouraolyes
1itt7o party in politics, just big enough to eni-
barrass gomo noble issue Of the day.
have seen many horrible casoa Of tho bond
ago Of Drunkenness In the scuate, but uoyor
hoard Of anyone where tho man waa saved BY
Mr.. Wilson's society. And, sad to say, I mover
hoard that any ono Of those drunhen Senators
had bought Ills soat or sold his vote: The poor
inobriato ia tho victim often Of his good
nature, and they who admire him press tho
bowl to hia lips Who in the Senate Inns made It
an earnest, personal effort to navo colleagrlo's
soul going 'down this decliyity7 I know Of but
ono case, and that was aonator Vickers, Of
Maryland. who wreBtled with William Salisbury
lilio brother. Tho Congressional temperance
Society took up Senator -, and made him
sign tho pledge, and, before tho mans now
moral naturo got any growth wlatoyer DR.. VIII
medicine lecturer would trot out 4 man with a !
ct,red nhilhlnin - =