Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-27
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Garfield and the Committee on ApprO-
prIatIOns-MulIett, the Resigned
Supervising Architect.
Grants IntentIons-KershaW, Of South
Carolina, on the President
Faulkner and tie Future.

From the Chicago Tribune.l
"GATH" ON WASHINGTON MEN AM
! MEASURES.
WASHINGTON, November IS, 1874
There are no movements, except Of tht
appropriation committee, which IL
daily session, dividing the work up
goes forward as usual.
"Ah!" said Garfield to-day, "we havl
SO much to do that we must work in thi
recess. Congress viii have only dozen
weeks in session, too little time TO con
slider the great catalogue Of items undi
gested."
The party at the center may hav'
broken down under the immense pile o
work put on 1t by the constituencies
Said l to Mullett, the architect;
"What do you suggest, o Architect
OF whom it might be said:
"'Lie heavy on him, turf; for he
Laid many heavy weight on thee p"
fT say Jhis," said Mullett, sit won
do for great agency that employs men
like the government. to abandon ii
constructions in time Of panic. Tha
will add panic to panic. II the govern
ment runs, what will stand up2"
Said Edward Clark, architect Of tht
capitol: "Every great government has
to purchase rehtment every fifteen ol
twenty years. Prussia is doing that now
So is Russia. The United States is sell.
ing its iron-clads and floating batteries
tor the price Of old iron, and doing moth
ing; while the old and stable govern.
ments are ordering new vessels for theil
navies now, while they can build them
of good material, slowly and cheaply.n
II is not yet known whether the next
congress will trim at cheese-parings ol
work on with confidence. Nor is any
advice given it on that head.
THE PRESIDENTS INTENTIONS.
The New York Daily Republic spoke,
the other day, with that confident as
sumption Of expressing the Presidents
views on finance, which only the free.
dom Of long intercouiso could have war
ranted. The New York TFi5sne forth
with attacked the President. He mean
time had neither knowledge Of the arti-
Gle nor agreement with it. 1t was prob.
| ably stock -jObbing operation, put with
| force to affect securities, and q fraud
upon a supposititious relationship be-
| tween the chief-magistrate and q distant
journal. But anything for kick at the
old lion. The ass Is apt 20 kick Oftenest.
| 1t may strike some people, removed
| from the morals OF fiuancial-article-w writ
ing in New York, tnst to connect the
mind Of the chief-msgistr2te with every
| blunderbuss who CANDLES in his name
| is to connect the price of doves in the
Temple with the doctrines Of worship to
which il was dedicated
AREBEL ON GRANT.
Apropos of the President, let me quote
| General Kershaw on General Grant, as
he spoke to me a fortnight ago. Ker-
shaw is the Conservative leader in South
Carolina. "Af,er the conviction of
the kuklux." " said Kershaw, 81 went to
Long Branch, with few other persons,
to solicit pardon for one OF those men,
aud notable for one Of them, very old
man, who readily Joined the orgAhiza-
tion to prevent its eXcesses. We were
spprehensive Of our treatment, but it
was both polite and Presidential. l did
not know that the Pres dent was
acquainted with our affairs, but found
he had very clear idea of pretty much
everything in the State, and knOWl-
edge of details, too. Yet he had never
been there. Afterward l was told that
this knowledge OF localities was not
unusual with him. He said to us st
once, after putting us at ease and giving
us cigars: "All these men will be par
dOned, gentlemen, whose misdeeds did
not involve destruction of life. ! can
not nardOn these; but, in the end, they
will be pardoned. The utmost length OF
the confinement Of any will be meas
hyy he hnk Of R,e ~
for which these men are hostages. Now,
as to the particular person you seek to
aid, / will have his case TeOpened, and
examined in the light Of what you tell
me. But there is especial complaint
against him. l will write to the attOr-
ney-general, telling him what to do.n
"This. y said Kershaw, ~ was able 20
find afterwaTd. Grant did to the letter
as he said, because Williams showed us
Grants letter OF Instructions; and he
also showed the letter OF complaint
against our man, Brown, though we
could not see the signature. The Presi-
dent made an impression upOn us all
which is not effaced-Of knowledge and
good intentions. II there is 10 be Re
publican at the head OF the government,
he would suit us better than any We
know.n Just at this time, when every
turn-tale is finding reasons for his per-
sOnal discontinue in b President whose
habit changes not from elation to de-
preston, but takes all things with home
ly philosophy, it is well to state these
things.
CHARLES JAMES FAULKNER.
The only mau of the old Pierce and
Buchanan administrations, with a ma
tional reputation, 10 reach congress, is
Mr.. Faulkner, OF Martinsburg, ex-min-
lister to France, who was mysteriously
arrested by Simon Cameron on his re-
turn, and thrown into Fort Warren,
where he messed with Mason and Sill
dell. Ii is since proved that his arrest
was for no betrayal of his trust, but IN
pique and hostag eship as the captive
Harry M'GFath, a friend OF Cameron.
Sent out of the lines, Faulkner became
chief of staff for Stonewall jackson, and
wrote nearly the whole of his bsttle-Te-
ports. After the war he threw himself
into active life, developed the town OF
Martinsburg, resumed his practice, and
another fortune. To-day he
called on me-a man of seventy. Two
generations ago he addressed the legis- |
lature of Virginia in favor Of vol |
from the Harper's Ferry |
district st the time of the John Brown |
raid. Yet his hair is dark, his ewes
bright, and his ambition and industry |
equal to a boys. 81 am the only one I
of my set that has got up through the
revolution he said. Bob Hunter, BO- /
cock, Wise, Boteler, and the rest, have
not been able to break through the new /
int I oil ha1faxrad q HI Ia
there was life there was hope" Mr.. 4
Faulkner said that the civil rights bill /
and dissatisfaction with the personnel of
the Office-holders, defeated the party. /
i'The third-term entered into the con-
sest, also,n he said; "but 1 don't think
It was resentment at Grant, so much as
At the result and continuance of
his OffieehOlders. Che regime, the
,onstabulary, had become separated
rom the affections Of the peO-
ole. The Use of troops. too, in
The south, was not approved by the Re-
Dublicans. The Candidates for the
United States senate in West Virginia
will be Camden, late regular Demo-
cratic candidate for governor; Walker,
editor Of the organ at Charleston;
and hslf-a-dczen others, none
IF whom have the industry and expe-
renee OF this old gentleman, who is
BOcOck's father-in-lsw From what I
near, the Democratic party will first
attack the national bank system, and
system OF banks of deposits,
occurred in treasury notes. "The cur
'ency question was minor one in our
State" said Faulkner. "There are q
ew men there hotly for more currency,
Who go about all day proselytizlng for
t. But the bulk of people seem to
hink that we have enough money, If it
would only come out. The money has
etreated from the people, not from
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