The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-09
Letter From Bcston.
Correspondence of the journal
BOSTON. Jan {

New ears Gay was lltopetntr lovely
delicious sky, crisp air, pure snow, plenty
of sleighing and--the meeting Of the
NJ on us in winter splendor, and though
the cadets didn't tramp through the streets
to warn us that the Governor and his
merry men were cat homc,n other signs
less civil Or military made Boston fully
aware that the annual commotion at the
State House had begun. The city swal-
lows the Legislative bolus this time, with
less OF = wry face and holding OF noses
from the extra session that only adjourned
nothing like getting used to a thing, and
change always brings a corresponding
hope therefore we welcomed the coming
guests who We're to tell us how and what
to do with our laws and financial interests,
just as though they knew all about it, and
had studied blue books and by laws rather
than cheeses and clover. do not gener-
ally affect a love of inaugurals, commit
tees, sermons and all sorts OF minor
affairs of elections; yet such was my
| curiosity about certain state secrets, and
50 great my idleness on this first day of
the year, that | penetrated to the very
door of the House, where were assembled
the Legislative hosts, but | came the day
after the fair. Door keeper number one
said | couldn't 90 in, and door keeper
number two poked ont his head and whis-
pered tragicallv 'Sermon,' by which
gathered that all the fun was over and
the lambs were going to be preached at
an hour or two, to quiet them down for
| their dinners. Standing on tip-toe and
gallantly supported by number two, |
| rapidly surveyed the House through the
glass loop-hole in the swlnging-door, try
| ing in vain to pick ont of that stoid COM
pany one face that looked as if it liked
being in the iegislature.n Sly dogs
how bored they did seem, and one or two
looked quite downcast Gov Washburn
was mapping, or perhaps he was only
deeply thinking how inadequate his break
| fast had been to the length of his address,
and the parson, a Mr.. Lorrimer, believe,
| was saying something couldn't hear be-
hind my baize door, but it was something
| that looked vastly stn2iji even at that dis
| lance. | know evidence is never taken
of what is seen through intercepting medi-
ums such as doors and windows and
| things; so feeling my precious idleness
was being quite thrown away, | slipped
| down over the iron staircase into the
| glorious afternoon sunshine, where The
| boys We're coasting and sleiqhbplls ring
| ing, preferring to glpan my news of what
| had been done before the sermon, in
| fresher pastures. Something had bee n
| done beside the greeting OF new col.
| leagues, and school boy chaff, and settling
to seats of honor, always prefacing the
| primal session,-and that was the election
| of new clerk of the house A matter
OF little Importance to people out of Bos-
! NN'''
yet to newspaper readers it will be heard
with some degree of interest that "War-
rington' Of the Springfield Republican has
| been summarilv SET aside for Mr. Chas.
| IL. Taylor, another newspaper man, but
with the greater advantage of popularity.
| Mr.. Robinson, or 'Warrin0ton,N must
| have felt hit CbaLyy- aiuca J,Ct n,t,Lc,
for no man knew his party better and
| that it never torgives the least uncertainty
! Of adhesion. A little Greeleyish DISPOSE
ton at the first of the campaign, and then
a rapid jump backwards, was unfortunate
for the usually far-sighted clerks pros
| poets, when The time for his reelection
| drew near Still eleven Years possession
was a good nine points of longer tenure,
and doubtless Tint would have balanced
| had he Ili,md at court But few loved
| his uncertain politics and still fewer his
caustic pen. The Legislature feared him,
| for he was always MASKING it. The Journal
lists of Boston and other worthy but some
| tiihoo CLING NtllLtHS Nfit IlDl llltIltleu 10
| hold out a helping finger to 4 man who
scruped not to dandle them if needs be
on the point of his steel pen over Il red
| hot fire OF public diversion SO it pleased
| him. His keen wit, and often bitter in
vective, and occasional unwarrantahIe
lashing of mems private characters
tonnbinor T., n q
| lampoon or political mud-throwing and
all IN such daring. forciblc phnasine, that
whoever read must laugh and wonder
both Neither did the spotless Butler
love him, and SO that bright, fair dav a
clerkship worth to himself and daughter
who assisted him "a 900 n wear. passed
INTO other hands. What a moral,
and what pity! A journalists lite is
scarcely open to him here, rs his peculiar
lorte hes in writing about people rather
than for them, and SO far believe only
one OF our daiies has mentioned him
kindly as his talents deserve The jour
nal contained an advertisement to the eff
lect mat TINS pamphletering Othello
would like some more occupation. and
with eleven years experience in the House
OF Representatives, parliamentary law,
journalism, etc, etc, would be executed
with qnckness and dispatch; address Bos-
ton L. O.--or words to that effect When
men, good or bad, lose the wherewithal,
OF any adverse sentence is passed upon
them, how ones sympathies warm, and
we say ''poor fellow not knowing whose
| turn it may be next to roll out of comfort
able sinecures, and begin life again at
| titty-odd.
In lieu of less important matters at the
State House the past week, the woman
suffrage business was hauled out Of its
temporary seclusion, to be discussed inn
mediately You see we begin with what
Is OF no consequence, but mean to end
with a bio tipht-.the GREAT annayation