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NATIONAL NOTES.
WAsnlsar. n. Nov. %, 1874.


mence this letter than by giving your readers
the very hattering encomiums passed on the
Congressman elect from your district, Hon. Mr..
Faulkner by the Sunday Herald Of this city.
| In late issue il devotes considerable space TO
mention If the newly elected legislators, and
says:
West Virgioia sends the veteran and ac-
"complished Faulkner Of Martinsburg. e has
"been a keen debater and thoroughly honest
diplomat; he comes 10 Congress full Of hon.
/ "ors aud experience, aud, 20 our mind. he will,
/ ''along with Kerr Holman. Thomas. Stephens
"st al, make the 44th Congress shine with an
especial lus,re from the Centennial day for a
hundred years forward.
/ There has been some talk Of Blaine, on his
retirement from the Speakers chair 10 the
/ House, removing 70 q seat in the other wing OF
the Capitol. but right here, the burly Speaker
rises 10 explain, and emphatically denies the
senatorial aspirations imputed 10 him. Ii Is
more than probable that the next Speaker will
| be Hon. Fernando Wood Of New York. The
democratic press, seems TO give him general en-
doTsement for the high position.
At the coming session, the sale OF Cadet
ships will form chief matter Of investigation,
when, il is reported, Congressman Stowell, OF
the 4th Virginia District will be hauled over
the Goals for parting with his last appointment
to the West Point Academy for considera-
ton Of $1,000.
The only clergyman in the 44th Congress
will be Prof Seelye Of Amherst College. lie
is a d. d. and was pastor Of the First Reform
cd Church at Schenectady. As a general rule,
clerical statesmen do not prosper, morally
- 1 y &. al n X
piration Of this gentleman's congressional term.
The readers of The Free Press have become
acquainted, presume, with the facts connect
ed with the great scandal 10 which ex-ReV
Mr.. Gerlemann, Of Philadelphia. figures so
conspicuously. The devout congregation OF
St. bonihcius' woke up the other morning to
hear that their esteemed pastor had eloped
with Miss Weyrich. the pretty orgauist, and
forgot 70 leave $50 900 behind. A Reformed
clergyman tied the twain, who then,-two OF
one flesh-left for Baltimore whence they IN
tended embarking for Vaderland, where this
cunning priest, it is alleged had already for
warded enough funds for his honeymoon. But
there is a detective force in every city and the
telegraph connects them, aud so, on entering a
carriage in waiting at the door of prominent
Baltimore Hotel, to convey them to the Steam
y. Mr.. and Mrs. Gerdemann were arrested
and seut back 10 Philadelphia The money
GeIdemann is charged with appropTlatng be-
louged to the congregation of st. BouiiaciuS,
by whom, ms their pastor he was regarded as a
safe Yves, rery safe :. deposit company ioT their
savings. Associated with this pious fraud was
one Baumies,er, pastor Of the Holy TRINITY
Church in the same city who il is said, intend
ed following GeTdeman's example, the compan-
on Of his elopement 20 have been sister OF
his friend in wickedness. BaumiesteT stoutly
denies the charge Both OF these worthless
were classmates in the same college home III
Germany Probably the latest sensation has
been produced by another Catholic clergyman,
JaQuemet, of Baltimore who, after attending
some n,atinees rehgietse Of the y. II. G. A,
publicly renounced his faith and embraced the
tene,s Of Presbvterianism Archbishop Bailey
of the diocese, in public card, apologies for
his erIiUg brother on the well-knowu ground
Of d" emotional insanity"
Il is quite plain 70 even POLITICAL apathist,
that since the elections have gone The opposite
10 his expectations, Grant is trying 10 curry
favor with the people in hope OF third noul-
nation. lie aired his opinions recently on the
subject Of Civil Rights, and these are n0'o his
views. substantially, on the matter: 1t was
al very well u give the emaucpatsd negro his
rights as a citizen. and these should be upheld
but the attempt 10 force bin, socially, upon
his former master is very unwiSe, inaSmuch as
Il can only result in two evils an entire fall
ure in benefttiug africa, and great annoy
apce 10 the whites. For these same reasons
he opposed mixed schools, thinking such mat
ters should belong to the people for settlement
aud not 70 congress for enforcement. There
were some things made to find their own level,
and were not 10 he unnGturally forced hdr-
uer's Weekly urges Grant 10 abandon AL hopes
NJ re-. Election and calls on the party to save
itself by entirely repudatins The President
aspirations. This, X declares, s. Is the only
way the grand old party can survive.
Several merchants Of our sister city, George,
town. who are possessed with liberal purse aud
minds, intend erecting rows of cottages to be
let at cheap rents TO the poorer classes.
That city railroad squabble in Alexandra
remains still IN allegiance The people are
straiujng every nerve 10 make up the required
sum with which 10 appease the monopoly, and
continue The road on King street.
There has recently been a mysterious robbie
" in the redemption division of the Treasury,
amounting to $4,000. Mr. Graves, the SUI
psrinieudent suspects none Of the clerks, and
yet the thief cannot be discovered.
The B. & ?. r. r. Company gave banquet
to the workmen recently employed on the new
depot, at Platz' Saloon last Friday evening
The Press was fully represented.
Carl Schurz has been lecturing in II Louis
on Educational Problems The Senator in
the course Of his remarks touched on the edu-
cation Of girls, as practised nowadays, declaT-
ing that mothers taught their daughters 10 ear
ly aye 10 despise the performance OF household
duties. and hence the present generation OF
young women whose only aim was to eclipse
their sisters in dressing, and display, thereby
rendering themselves however pleasant &C
quaintauccs for man, yet far from his idea as
a wife. The lecturer treated this subject at
great length, but bis main topic Ihave noticed.
Having summarily disposed OF her Essex
statesman, Boston Is turning attention TO local
improvements fremont street is rather too
narrow 20 suit the BoStonians, SO they are
thinking Of cutting a slice of the historic
commons with which 10 widen their tho
roughfare The Post is down on such sac
rlege.
On the 18th instant Mr.. F. d. Keyworth
was married to Miss Fannie Orme, daughter Of
a well-known grocer Of this city. The bride,
among other presents, received very Subs,an-
tial one in the shape Of brick house-fur
uisbed given by her father. % the 25th
Capt. Jack Miller, L. S. n, is to marry Miss
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