Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-12-11

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gain by his factions opposition. The House
on the first day OF its session by its action
Indicated a disinclination to renew the con.
test, and as before stated the Senate last
winter formally recognized Mr.. Kellogg as
Governor. 1t is scarcely possible that the
subject will again receive the attention of
either house OF Congress.
The Richmond Dispatch says that the eau
Gus programme for House officers "means
that the South and the West have formed an
unlimited partnership, and that whilst that
whilst that partnership exists the section
New England) which has so long monopo-
IiZed all the offices need expect no favors"
Jess so. Virginia is carrying out her part
of the programme to the letter, and has
swooped down upon the offices in a way that
puts, not only New England, but all the
other states of the union, out in the cold.
Not since the days of the war, when confed-
crate prisoners were marched through our
streets, has there been such an Eruption of
gaunt, hungry Virginians. Our restaura-
teurs have TO make complete revolution of
dishes 10 suit the new order of things. Baked
beans are supplanted by bacon and green's,
and pumpkin pie is nowhere. New England
may as well hang her harp on the willows.
PernapS While Senator Hamlin is defend
floor OF the Senate, as he proposes TO do, he
Will also be able to explain and justify that
clause in the law which makes IL cost lust
eight times as much to deliver a COPY of
IKE STAR, fol example, to subscriber liv-
ing in Washington, who prefers TO receiver
through the city post Office, as IL does to send
the same paper 10 a subscriber at the most
remote post Office in the country, or in Can
ada, for that matter. That is a feature of
fafn r-rrN To- I'll.
little intelligent vindication, to reconcile it
with common sense ideas, and if the gentle
man from Maine thinks he is equal 10 the
task IL is TO be hoped that the Vice President
pro tenn. Will recognize him and award him
The floor at the earliest day practicable.
AS mere matter OF political policy, and
to avoid a palpable opening for misconstruc-
ton, IL would doubtless have been wiser for
President Grant TO have allowed ex-senator
Henderson TO continue In the government
prosecution of the whisky cases. But after
all the American people will DE very apt to
sympathize with the hot Indignation of the
President over the gratuitous assaults upon
him by Mr.. Henderson in his stump speech
style of prosecuting the case. This the more
especially in view of the fact that the prose-
cution had been successfully pushed only
through the steady CO.. operation of President
Grant, in accordance with his instructions
to let no guilty man escape.
The Boys" who were recipients of the Pa
cihc Mail subsidy fund are not, after all, it
seems, 20 be allowed to keep their share of
the swag without something of fight for it.
Mr.. Riddle, for the steamship company, APP
peared IN court this morning and stated that
lie had dismissed the cases heretofore in en-
tire misapprehension of the wishes of the
company, and without authority, and he
moved the court TO reinstate them The
court so ordered, and they were reinstated on
the docket accordingly. Whether they will
be vigorously prosecuted or not remains to
be seen, but IL is generally understood that
the company means business.
1t is stated that Cassius NJ. Clay, of Rem
lucky, is already at work trying to get his
name put on as second on the democratic
presidential ticket with Tilden as first Cas-
sius will have his labor for his pains. He
has boxed the political compass so often
that Ire has the respect and confidence of no
party lie would be as great pull back to |
the democratic national ticket as Sam Carey
was 10 the Ohio democratic state ticket. |
The 8 Fat Fugitive" is what the New York
World styles Boss Tweed. As yet no trace of |
his oleaginous footprints have been found,
and there seems scarcely probability OF his |
being discovered by the &" sleuth hounds of |
the New York detective corps, VINO have |
heretofore distinguished themselves by ar |
resting g Nathan murderers."