, 1874-01-21
PRESENT MEM OF AFFAIRS.
AN 1l1aToNIC VIEW.


lobrity for ita political rottennoHs. Iore is
| Senator from that State with an alinH, who was
| bikamist. and who secured hia election with tho
use OF little money and bovy Of abandoned
| women. The other candidate, Corbott, got out
! Of the way on the discovery TINT he was bribing
the Legislature by Wholesale. and hero ia
story which have heard twice or thrice reported
! by difforont people, and belioye to bo true:
| After tho agony WAS over aa to h1r. Williams,
| and various porsona began to express sympathy,
a gontloman said In hs wife's extenuation,
" Mr. Nosn,ith was nooalogsly cruel. Oh, ho
was harsh, and for 30 little proyooationi He
| called upon Mrs. Williams after he was elected,
| and asked her to give him help in certain
| mining case. Said sllo: MIR. Nosmith, will DO
frank with you. Don't tell mo anything about
! TINT case, because wo must DO opposed in II,
and lot us have no l1.fooling. hayo promised
| my word on tho opposite sido, am against
you'll And for this frank. talk Nesmith went
| away and became her enenyl"
Can you SEQ how unconscious the narrator
! was OF tho main point? It never occurred to
| him that thoro could DO any error whero tho
| lady had been frank. But what business had
the lady advocating one side or tho other Of
claina7 II these things 90 on, wo shall havo
| Cabinet Ministers wivos presently compelled to
|
| FREDDY.
Tie young man GRAM, nt,-Froderiob, think,
surnamed, who was rung upon Gen. Sherman
t after he had boen whitewnshed at West Point,
and nude dead weight upon tho General
| around the world, and who afterwards crowded
| Gen. Forsyth out Of hiB staff aud disportel
under Sheridan'a wing, aud who then wont to tho
| plnins with Stanley and returned untime1y, aud
who now Hlashos around Washington, courting,
aud enjoying himself, this man, I say, prop
| erly belonging to the regular army, got
"tight," rs I am told, d little while ago, and,
| with another poreon, went to tho residence Of
Sunday newspaper editor in tho night, both
| armed with bludgcons. The editor had
| brothor-in-1aw who was Member Of Congress,
nized young Grant md bis condition. and, being
| a General himself aud a man Of force. ho put
on that moral trout which acattered these chip
| monks
Here was diroot breach Of privilege by q
military officer, although tho Presidents son,
| and ut Tho residence Of o Mcmbor; for 1t WAS
| his house. Nothing but tirnely intorcossion BY
| the friends Of tho DacchanalianB prevented ono
momber Of the Grant tn,nily going to tho Capital
| coal~hole. Tho namo Of tho momber Of OongroRa
| Is Con. Banning, Of Cincnnati.
| Tho BhoadyiBm Of Long Branch has orept upon
! this city. Equipagos have broken out like tho
measles Men arc dshonorel because their
I
pendituro Tho paivenu and tho blockheM
| divide example.
| ron INSTANCE.
! # g man could elevate himself In tho Dir by
tho coat-tails, lilo Mr.. Homo tho medium, go as
| to got m estinato Of current notabi1itios by
widoping tho historic Wow at will, le might do
Q great literary service for postenty. He could
| thou graduate his admiration, and write 30 true
to the mark that folks il the next century would
! have nothing to do but to read the newspapers
| Of this one, aud sufficient for their own day
would be the evil thereof.
Here make suggestion to tho Committee On
tho Revision Of tho Nulos in the Senate: that
they take the reporters out OF tho gallery, and
prepare kind Of pit for them, such az tho Or
| cheasra plays In at a theatre. Eyory man with q
quill must thon look up whom he reports Bena-
down upon overy day by tho very Persons who
ought to stand most in awe Of it. eomo eucA
proposition was mado to o crude correspondent
ssns when 'hs rotg Tint
don't want to elevate your Senators 30 much as
their style. If VIC had higher themos to writo
about. we would give you higher kind of writ
ing. For me" said this correspondent, - have
respectable theme to treat in a charitable way,
and declare have nevor found but one, and
| that was tho negro man Elliott III his maiden
speech"
To return to the ldea Of
| A HISTORIC VIEW
Of tho present men who figure in affairs: How
many Of them can auryivo the succession OF ono
Opposition Administration. or attract my
years?
Thirty years ia good while for q 1argo and
fernenting popular nation. About thirty years
ago no fought tho right gallant little Mexican
swer to-day leading question upon its loading
heroes Who commanded tho Mexican troops
against Gen. TAYLOR prior to Baena Vista Who
concluded tho peace with Mexico % Civil Com.
| ty,fo N1,uf ff,o IT
those Wings in Congress who took the Mexican
side, aud wore forthwith committed to the exc
Grafton Of pogtoslty, which has forgotten all
about them a % and the bSfge1ens E1 too 49,, ,oo,
at the titles Of big chapters. and nsk who was
Hugh Lawson White, or who was John ForBYth,
or William B. Giles, or auy Of the persons to
whom he gives whole chapters
Ihoro arc but throo olaBsoB Of men, md foW
in each class, who live over in recollection to
the birth Of tholr grandchildren, viz: tho lend.
ing ngure In zach Important moral vlctory,-of
s wsss. aas Ts hissa se s aene 4 es G
war. his chief rival or associate, and llis ohief
opponent on tie othor side; one cccentro poll
ticiun, and one political villain.
There are about three real wars in century
for each positive nation, and no century cal,
accommodate more than Six phenotnena and
scoundrelB.
Taken on this measure, Gen. Grant Ind driven
Ills peg in fa1ne before ho became President,
sincs which time his public existence has beo,i
more calasnitous than the Duke of Wellingtona
Ministry, aud ho has stood in the light Of Lila
own camp-tires.
ht. Summon ia tho only Senator on tho floor
who las driven lfa peg.
In tho prosont House Of Representatives, u,l-
leBa something unforeseen occura, nobody will 80
into taulo, although Ben Butler is T. oandidato
for either phenonlenonahip or tho othor ox-
ceptlonal distinction have mentioned.
Men never got into larger history for doing
only their duty, Nllless they 8nrmount mighty
ohstaclH; but tho men VIC Bco III public affairs
at present laya failed to do tItor plain duty, and
hfnnd ut this moment half OH the dofonBiye boz
tore their fellow-oitlzons, feobly muuhling about
tho injustice of their constituents antl tho camot
Of tho prees. 4 popular holy, which cannot
hold it's own before tho common appliances OF
public assonlblhga and printed discussion and
Challenge, which a FREQ poopla l.aye asacntca to
! and protected, must be iu oolselentiousuo4a
w0akor than tho press.
WHY TIE pAEB8 cROwpa COkANENB.
CouRroHH iIas been 1anrnfDr nn}l,iDt sor .o, ~