The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-03-26
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

II seems to be settled in Ohio that the
Hon. b. L. Wade is to be the Repub-
lican candidate for Governor.
The first number of Democratic
journal, with the aggressive title of the
Rip-SaO, has appeared at Brook Haven,
Miss.
JOSEPH Brooks, one of the numerous
claimants to the Governorship of Arkan-
sas, has been appointed Postmaster at
Little Rock.
THE Republicans have n majority on
joint ballot in the New Hampshire Leg
isature, which insures the choice of
Republican Governor.
EX-SENATOR HARLAN, it is said, will
be candidate for the United States
Senate from Iowa, to succeed Mr..
Wright, who declines reelection.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN SMALL, OF New
Hampshire, who failed to receive re-
nomination for Congress, accepted.
nomination as candidate for Representa-
tive in the State Legislature.
Our President and our only ex-Presi
dent "met by chance on the streets of
| the national capital the other day, face to
face, eve to eye, but neither showed any
! sign OF recognition.
HoN. DAVID p. Lowe, formerly mem
Der of Congress from Kansas, has been
appointed Commissioner of Pensions, i'll
place of j. II. Baker, who has been APP
pointed to the position of United States
Marshal for the Western District of Ar
kansas.
THE vagaries and varieties under the
Civil-Rights law are abundant. Two
negroes got drinks nj the bar of Willard s
Hotel i'll Washington from white man,
and, going afterward to the barbershop,
were refused a shave by man of their
own color.
WHEN the oath of Office was admins
tered in the United States Senate on the
9TH inst, Messrs Andrew Johnson and
Hannibal Hamlin were sworn III together
by Henry Wilson, presiding officer of
that body. Thus the spectacle was at
forded of three Vice-Presidents, two of
them out of office, standing at the bar of
the Senate together.
The social amenities of the Nevada
Legislature are shown up by San Fran
cisco paper as follows "Hogan rose
to speak on the Virginia and Umatilla
; Railroad bill, when Van Hagen rose and
; said that he hoped Hogan would be de-
cent. Hogan made some reply, when
Van Hagen took up n book which was
lying upon his desk and threw it at the
head of Hogan.
GEN. ScHENcK is not the first poker
playing representative we have had al
the Court of st. james. When Henry
| Clay was there he negotiated with my
Lord Castlereagh by day and played
poker with Lord Castlereagh by night.
Indeed, it is related that he was lucky
| enough to win ten thousand dollars OF
my lord one evening. Men are shocked
3 mt Gen. Schenck who regard Mr.. Clay
with just veneration.
Gov. BooTH, Of California having re
o signed his office, III order to take his
seat in the United State Senate, Lieut.
Gov. Romualdo Pacheco, native Cali
e fornian, becomes Governor He is 4
/ years old, was educated in Europe
= while yet a young man was elected
County Judge of Santa Barbara county
where he was born, has been in boil
/. branches of the Legislature, and ha!
+ been Treasurer of the State.
: The official vote of New Hampshir,
G foots MP Goreyn0r-Cheney rep, J
Il 80, 225 Roberts dem. }, 80, 1853 Whit,
pro }, 754 total vote, 10, 202 Chene,
over Roberts, I'D. congressman
!, FIRST Distrjct-Whitehous rep.
-, 169 Jones (Dem.), 14,004 /; scatter
;, ing, 326 Jones plurality, 3S5. .Secont
q District-Pike (Rep.), 1896; Bel
it DEM, 1903 scattering, 202 Bell
}. plurality, LAT. Third District-Blai
;, (Rep,), 12,3SS Kent Oem.), 1871
scattering, 1913 Blair's plurality, 207.
n Hon. NEWTON BooTH, the Independen
Senator from California, of whom grea
expectations have been INDUCED by hi
a friends, has delivered his maiden speec
y in the Senate, the subject being tn
70 Hawaiian treaty. OF the man and tn
speech, the Washington correspondent
of the Chicago Times says He car
= tured the Senate as an orator, and de
d monstrated how he had made such sue
k cess upon the stump in his State. He
~ a very fluent speaker, and reminds one
. in his eGse of expression and tendency
earnestness, of Matt. Carpenter in hi
palmy days His voice is clear and mt
e steal, and his action is very graceful
!. One Republican Senator, in speaking {
;. him tonight, says he will be the success
3 sor of Matt. Carpenter in capturing tn
IL galleries He is just the style of n ma
e to become very popular.