Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-01-14

A formal offer-to settle By arbitration
the election Of 1872 On NE part Of the
McEnery ticket has been made 70 The
mb-commitaes of Consrsss in answer -
m open letter Of Kellogg, laid before
that commit&ee : few days ince. IN
which he states hs = willing toabide By
their decision q 10 Who Was then elec-
ted. II il slated that the reason KEEL
logg has mot officially accepted the offer
il owing to the difficulty experienced in
getting other members Of his ticket to
accede to It. He claims, however, that
they must sccede, when he win tele-
graph his agreement to the sub-com-
mittee in Washington. Mr.. Antoine,
his Lieutenant Governor, and w. g.
Brown, his State Superintendent of Ed
ucation, both colored. state that in their
opinion Il Is ruse Of Kellogg to secure
his election TO the United States Sem
ate in place Of Pinchback. They say
that if Kellogg can secure his own re-
turn by the committee - Governor, with
Penn, Conservative, a. Lieutenant Gov
ernor, it viii be with the understanding
that he shall go to the Senate, and that
Penn maysbecome Gogernor:: They both
claim that if Kellogg WAS elected they
were, and they win refuse to agree to
any adjudication by which Kellogg can be
advanced and they left out in the cold.
Governor Tilden, Of New York, in his
inaugural message to the Legislature of
that State declares, with emphasis, that
"the questions settled by the war are
never to Be reopened. The adoption of
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fiji
tenth Amendments to the Federal Con-
stitution closed one great era in our
politics. 1t marked the end forever of
the system Of human slavery, and of
the struggles that grew out of that sys-
tenn. These amendments have been
conclusively adopted, and they have
been accepted ingoodf faith by all political
organizations and the people of all sec
tions. They close thechapter; they are
and must be final. All parties hereaf-
ter must accept and stand upon them,
and henceforth our politics are to turn
upon questions of the present and the
future, not upon those of the settled
and final past"
A Compulsory Education Act has
gone into effect in New York. 1t COM
pels the attendance at some school of
all children between the ages of eight
and fourteen years, and it is the inten-
ton of the Board of education to en-
force it thoroughly. The act provides
that not only the parents who allow
their children to stay away from school,
but also persons who employ them in
any way, are liable to fine if they shall
fail to provide for their attendance at
school. Surely, this is carrying gov
eminent q little too far.
The death of Col. John D. Bowling,
of Prince Georges is announced. He
died at Barnum's Hotel, Baltimore, on
Tuesday Of last week in the Goth year
of his age. Col. Bowling was a gentle
man of large means, of generous i'm
pulses and of strict integrity. He had
frequently represented his adopted coun-
ty in both branches of the Legislature
and obtained the character of an up
right, vigilant and able representative.
He was a native of Bryantowni in Charles
county.
General John c. Breckinridge, who
was thought at one time to be hopeless
ly i'll, is now so far improved that his
friends are hopeful of his permanent
recovery. His physicians are reported
to havepronouncedh his pulmonary symp-
toms merely sympathetic, and he now
seems in great measure relieved from
them.
by the way, of what politics are
you I" asked Senator of an application
Office while on the way tointroduce him
to a Cabinet Minister. "Oh," was the
reply, Il have always been a Democrat,
but can turn"