The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-24
MATT, CARPENTER.
THE MAN WNO FOOLED WITH NEWSPAPER

/. Washington Letter to the Chicago Times
. And SO Wisconsin has stepped on him
, The sanity Carpenter whose soul knew Il
! guile, who never owned a lounge, and VIII
I never saw Long Branch in all Lis life ha
been fattened beneath the Badgers foot
: Thus they 60. Even the few Republican
States that were left out in the cold wien al
the rest OF the country stepped inside an
warmed itself at opposition fires, are not relia
BILE Chrlstiancy lays out Chandler Ramse,
is like to be pulverized by a vile Independent
Carpenter is kicked to death by a NortI
country lawyer with the unproptious name
Of Cameron. The birds Of the air have roosts
and the beasts OF the field their hiding places
but the Administration is sure Of nothing.
This Carpenter came 10 Washington 81,
years ago like the Russian Prince in Caste,
somebody at home, but Of little account
elsewhere. He was known outside his owr
State only as a lawyer who had talked solid
constitution and slang English in the Near.
die case before the Supreme Court Of the
United States, and as one Of the Butler Logan
Morton tloppers from poverty-strcken De-
mocracy to lucrative Eadlcalism.
Elected Senator on a narrow shave, lie
showed his gratitude to those who had helped
squeeze him through by kicking them out OF
/ Federal Jobs Then he chassezed toward the
capital, where he was met with open arms it
is said they were not all masculine arms.
1t is a laudable desire that of being
somebody. Carpenter had it bad. He want
ed to be somebody besides himself another
laudable desire. He concluded he would be
another Conkling. With all of the latter )
almighty concet and malignancy, but with
none of his respect for the comI4on decencies
OF life, Carpenter started in TO make a West
ern Conkling OF himself
Conkling hated newspapers. Carpenter
would do the same. He joined with the yellow
headed knight CT crimping pins, who has been
known to make eleven visits to Utica tailor
ere satisfaction at the adjustment of new
coat filled his Senatorial fastdiousness, in
falling two correspondents. The crime of the
scrbes was in obtaining and publishing GER
lin information which Conkling and Car
penter thought should not be made public.
Opinions will differ The New York sovereign
and his Wisconsin counterfeit were current
coins Of the Washington realm. They were
omnipotent where the humble currency OF
correspondents only passed as secondary
The upsho. Of the furry was that the news
paper attaches played nice game of checkers
wi Il their noses III a cell under the Clpito
Senatorial dignity was vindic ated and MIR.
Carpenter dead-headed his galantries at
Long Branch because he had beaten the news
papers
50 it went for six years He could toady
Grant: licbspttle every spat OF The diplomatic
corps wag muddled head at the sideboard
of each big and little lobbyist, and tag petit
coats till daylight. For journalists and jour
nallsm he had only coarse rebutfs and tower
ing insolence. When the respectable CORE
spondcnt appeared to him il friendly spirit
for legitimate information, be buttoned his
coat about him, made impudent reioinder, ana
staggered away. He had petty prosecutions
and iibes, in the shape of stationery resolu-
tons for correspondents; sneaking press-gag
laws for the editors.
He prided himself, toward the close of his
term, on being one of the few public men in
America who had reached place where the |
darts Of the Independent press were unable to
reach him. "A newspaper which takes the
side Of no political party is poHerless tor
good or evil he said. Then having played |
with small electric machines, he grew crazed, |
and tancied he could fool with the lightning. |
50 regard the utterances Of Independent |
newspapers" said Carpenter with no more
attention than would give to ordinary street
rumors.
This grew tedious at last, and the bolts Of
wrath We're let slip. Carpenter became the
object OF press solicitude He had voluntarily
aiken an interest in the papers. The papers
lim like a brother; like poor mans plaster;
'ea, even as Hercules Glove to Anaus. They
re sill cleaving and under their embrace
he overblown bladder is shrinking astonlsh-
ngly. When their grip shall finally be loos-
ned, Carpenter will be found in his correct
of a Washington claim agent
II Milwaukee alderman.
The country does not want to put under
'upilage again. It is very distrusttul OF the
nan who yields the executive force Of the
government and manitests a fatal facility for
urning his ear to dangerous counsel The
resident has lost his popularity at the North
rom that cause. Besides, he Jumps from
ne alternative to another directly opposite
0 Southern matters with such readiness the
ublic confidence in his Judgment has been
everely impaired, and doubts are becoming
lore common as to his intentions. Boston
transcript.
What a sangune man was he who went out
} Calcutta to start alaundry He might have
nown that he could never engraft the no.
on of linen, and especially Of clean linen,
n the hoary trunk Of Indian custom. He
lled, Of course, and failed 50 badly that the
ldan mind IS surer than ever that cleanli-
ess is next to Godiness only As the ridicu-
JUS approaches the sublime. ProsMeace
'reSs.
The eighty-second annual service for the
pose OF the soul Of Louis WI was cele-
rated III Paris on the FIST Of January. ,
There are only four living queens Of Spain,
'-called, ana Mrs. Alfonso, wien Size turns .
P, will make another.
An advertisement In tie London Times l
ads Dear Tom-Come Immediately, if
~ see this. II not, come on sunday q
Mrs. Lander, the actress, has been invest
6 IN Western real estate. She purchased a y
ouse and lot in Fort Scott, Kansas
What can't be cured must be sold fresh"
a proverb among the hog dealers Of Gin
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A crocodile race bv Nm American exhibitor