The Baltimore County union., 1875-11-27
Letter from Washington.
HuMoRs OF THE SUNDAY PREss-THE NEW NATION
AL INTELLIGENCER-A NEW "JACK DOWNING"
TAKING "NoTEs' THE MARYLAND DEMO
CRATIC TRIUMPH sATARIzED-THE AP-
PRoACHlNG SESSION OF CONGRESS.

AL INTELLIGENCER-A NEW 5AoA Do"Mn6
TAKING ''NoTEs' THE MARYLAND DEMO
CRATIC TRIUMPH sATARIzED-THE AP-
PRoACHlNG SESSION OF CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, D. c., November 22d, 1875.
The National Intelligencer, the spicy two.dollar
weekly with an old name, lately started here, has
an attache who signs himself "T. HuAphrey
Brooke of Caroline" He groups bis contribu-
tions under the modest head of "Notes." he i
a most comical genius-a sort OF cross 6stwsA
nJack Downing'' of Old Hickery's Presi6Yntisl 7
era, and ''Don Piatt' OF the Grant era, (Withent |
the lack of moral principle, which characleriZes |
the writings of "Don Pirate" as he is called !
here, with tincture OF Mark Twain's irony |
running through his veins of thought, and yet |
differing in some respects from each OF those |
satarsts--in fact nondescript of whose charac-
teristics despair of conveying correct Idea
For which reason, in order to vindicate my high |
appreciation of him, while giving the Republican |
readers of the Union chance to have little lnn |
at the expense of their "Conservative" leighbors, |
let s'T. H. B' speak for himself. First, then,
here is dash at the triumph which the Ring |
have secured by fraud in your State, iiyou have |
fairly put the case in your scorching editorials
which seems to have been made in answer to an
editorial in the Democratic Nea0s of which Rev.
G. W Denison is the reputed editor, as follows;
"Maryland has gone Democratic, says Brother
Denison The Dutch have taken Holland are
Won going to celebrate as small victoy as that
Dearly beloved brother2' You are wlcOme to
Msryland. That State is like the lrishnan' S tea
never twice ia the same place. rmemOer
during the war the song 'a0e' used to slrg OF
"The despot's heel is on thy shore,
Maryland Ny Maryland"
But when Gen. Lee and myself crossed he fOto-
mac to take possession of our promised and we
found greater opposition than if we had marched
| against the city OF Boston The despots heel Is
on thy shore, and may it be forever more, Tor all
| 7 care heard some Of the loudest guns ever
listened to in NV Maryland and made some as
| crooked tracks as q worm with thousand legSi
and whenever any wishes to buy lly i!tsSsss IS ~
send d~az4 4gelr PCS 4 tao an cor
fcderate bond, and pll call it square. That State
is about the best thing the Democrats could car
ry. 1t only amounts to six one way or half q
dozen the other. Take her, brother Denison, and
may you tehappy. Remember me also in your
Democratic prayers, dearest brother, and save
Don Piatt if you can"
Having thus satariZed the Mary land "triumph''
'T. H. B." turns his attention, in this style, to
the promised
DEMOCRATIC DRESS PARADE,
Even if you have no victory to celebrate-bring
out your music and let the band play The lit
tie boys will be delighted. Sersnade yeur Dem
ocratic members Of Congress. Give Sam Randall
toot. Never mind what Don Piatt says. The
leaders in the parade will thus render themselves
prominent for appointments in the House-and
this is undoubtedly the object OF postponing it
till December not to have too long run before
they leap-into office"
The senior editor and proprietor OF the Nation
al Iatelligencer is DR.. Thomas Foster, an e1-
perienced newspaper maA, who had portion Of
| L -, ;loJ a.
ger. He also is very sarcastic writer and good
at lampoonery, when there is call for it, but
generally mere serious and logical in his moods
for | suppose his associate does not aim so
much at logic as drollery. DR.. F. is politician
| of the old Wing school, and advocates the reyi-
val of the party of Webster, CLAY and Greeley
whether seriously, or merely for hidden pur-
pose, is not easy to infer from his writings, for
he strongly supports Grant.
Following up the perhaps rather conocastic,
though too truthful editorial on tho career and
fate of poor Edgar Poe, which you copied last
week, DR.. Foster in his last issue affords US this
specimen of his STYLE the imeliness OF which will
add to its interest:
"We cannot help noting the overweenng de-
sire manifested by the sem-oficial report OF the
ceremonies forwarded in stereotype plates TO the
Chronicle and other daily papers, TO exclude eve
ry one from mention who might impugn the pro-
priety of the indiscriminate idolatry of the hour
towards man of Pee's habits Of life. AS an il
lustratiou, in point Notwithstanding, at the re-
quest of Professor Elliott DR.. j. E. Suodgrass
sent documentary evidence sufficient one would
think to satisfy any one who would want 10 be
satisfied, that he, Dr. s., WdS at Poes funeral,
nevertheless in his statement after enumerating
a number of others who were present, he adds,
| and possibly DR.. j. E. Snodgrass editor of the
| U,ejIn hara find tha
gentleman who was the first to come to POe's
rescue, and who helped to put him in the car
riage which conveyed him TO the hospital where
he died, and who unquestionably attended his
funeral put in the hypothetical category, as
,ia- Nl al uaoID+y "a
and made-up facts, as he already bas done in the
article which we copied last week, written in
1861 with a basis for his statements previously
written IN 1854 when memory was fresh, not
thrown out at this time to sustain theories gotten
up tWenty-six years after the unfortunate man s
dsath-gotten up to serve apparently the purpose,
as we predicted last week, would become mani.
fest at the dedication: that is, to falsiy the facts
OF history and elevate a brilliant svowed panthe-
| ist and fatalist into the calendar of Caristian
saints, against all moral and religious policy" :"
Tne approaching session of Congress is already
becoming topic Of speculation and prophecy
The Democrats hereabout fnd q pretty large
crumb of comfort-in imagination large, at least
in the fact that the House is to have majori-
| ty of their sort in it. And wall the hungry fell
lows may SO feel, in view of the large number Of
places with large salaries attached, which they
intend to claim as the spoils of Office. Already
the Sunday Gazette, which is intensely Democrat
ic, is counting the chickens in advance of the
Matching time. | send you its table of House
offices and salaries, which you can append here
or print elsewhere at your convenience But in
any event preserve it, so that we may see how
much of "curtailment" the Democrats will un.
dertake when they themselves come to handle the
loayes and fishes OF office. THORNTON.