The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-03-19
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

POlITlCS AND POLlTlCIANS.
SCHUYLER CoLFAX lectures will have a
financial value to him of $4,000 this sea-
son.
A MAJORITY of the members of the In
diana Senate are lawyers, and i'll the
House there is quorum of farmers.
Mr.. WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, of the Cleve-
land PlaiRdcaier, is candidate for the
Clerkship of the next House of Repre-
sentatives, and is now i'll Washington
looking after his chances for the nomina-
ton.
ANDY JOHNSON is accused of having
bribed nine members of the Tennessee
Legislature, and thus secured his cleo
quite sensation in Tennessee, and a
committee of the Legislature is investi-
eating the charges.
HORACE MAYNARD, who has just been
appointed Minister to Turkey, repre-
scented the State of Tennessee mt large
in the Forty-third Congress- He is q
lawyer by profession, and began his
career as a member of the Thirty-fifth
Congress, being elected to each succeed
ing one except the Thirty-eighth.
Four out of the five Representatives
of South Carolina in the Forty-third
Congress were colored men. Messrs.
Raney and Ransier were born i'll the
State, Cain in Virginia, and Elliott i'll
Boston. Mr.. Raney was reelected to
the Forty fourth Congress, and Mr.
Smalls, also colored, succeeds Mr.. Cain.
SENATOR BooTH, of California, has
been tackled by the insatiate interviewer
He said that in the present condition of
public affairs he shall enter no caucus
He was elected as an Independent, and
shall so conduct himself. He admitted
that there might be circumstances which
would induce him to act with one of the
parties, but lie did not say which.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says "Tom
Ochiltree. United States Marshal of Tex
Us, who was superseded last winter dur
ing the spasm of removals in Federal
offices, has returned to Texas to assume
the duties of the Marshalship, his sue
cessor having not been confirmed. This
is the first case under the Tenure-of-
Office act, fact which has created some
amusement IN view of Andy Johnson's
entrance into the Senate.
The Baltimore quite Democratic)
says "Mr. Tilden is, we are told, II
candidate for the Democratic nomination
to the Presidency. Now we desire, as
they say i'll Congress, to put III a word
just here, for this is the assumption at
which we revolt, our conviction being
clear-and the sooner our friends i'll New
York understand it the better-that, III
view of the past as well as the almost
certain future, no candidate will be taken
from New York. Mcclellan was viz
tually a New York candidate, his New
Jersey home on the heights of Orange
being but nominal Gov. Seymour, u
public man whose ill-luck in no degree
detracts from his high merit and just
distinction, was purely New York and
the Greeley absurdity had the same root.
After this series we really think the
Democracy of the country ought to be
excused from any New York preference. J"
A WASHINGTON correspondent records
the following pleasant incident The
first official act of Mr.. Ferry, of Mich
igan, the new President pro tenn. of the
Senate, was to administer the oath of
Office to the Hon. Newton Booth, the
new Senator from California, and it was
there that the gentlemen met for the
first time. During the afternoon Sen
ator Ferry, in hasty note to Senator
Booth, referred to this fact rs pleasant
circumstance, the introduction of the
latter Senator TO the Senate being CO.
incident with Senator Ferry's election to
the Office of President pro tenn, and ex-
pressed the hope that the incident might
prove bond of continued friendship.
Senator Booth, in Acknowledgement of
the compliment, wrote pleasant note to
Senator Ferry, in which he said 81
hope the coincidence will prove the com
mencement of "A pleasant and friendly
acquaintance.
The following preamble and resolu-
ton were introduced in the Arkansas
Legislature, ON the last day of the SEES
sion, by Maxwell n colored Republican
member of the House, and unanimously
adopted
WHEREAS 1t is now fully ascertained that the
present State government has been, and will be
by the general government fully sustained
and.
WHEREAS, 1t is the duty of all peace-loving
citizens to lend their aid to the lawful authors
ties of this State, to build up the country, ant
TO encourage industry, education and immigra
ton to the end that we may be an enlightened
prosperous, free and happy people be it
Resolved, That we, individually and collect
lively do now publish to the people of the Unitet
States, that peace and quiet now prevail and
to all who desire to come among us, that W,
will receive them with open hearts and warn
welcome promising them safety to person anC
; property, aud freedom of speech