The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-03-08

Ill UIldDit w tulN VI vi dtil
thing but the dreadful tidings; the gal.
lerics were filled with spectators who OK
pccted impeachment proceedings to take
place additional scraps of rumor passed
from lip TO lip, and in the Senate many
a bill owed its passage to the utter indif-
ference which Senators felt concerning
any legislative action. 1t was rs il
they said in their hearts. "where is the
use OF law or the issuing of any opin-
ion upon public obligations when honor
is so chcaply soldy' When in the House.
the committee made their report. it was
"A strange scene. Mr.. Clymer was excess
lively agitatcd members left their desks
to come crowdng down the aisle listen
ing eagerly to every word of that fatciul
reading n stilnes, like the hush before
some awful storm settled over us all
faces grew pale and eyes were shining
with tears. for we felt As if flags must be
at half mast when so great n calamity
had bcfallen the nation. Then yesterday
IN the Senate It was like attending iu-
neral, but, in the midst of all this distress
and excitement. those who saw the Pres
ident, report him as calm and unmoved as
il nothing had occurred beyond the usual
course OF affairs. There was story that
he vented his emotion by driving u ia.
voritc horse till he nearly killed it "but
the man In the iron mask" never al
lows emotion to show itself In his face.
SECRETARY BRIsTow.
In striking contrast TO the usual wash
ington display one finds Secretary sris-
tow quietly living in house Oh X. street,
which l. by no means spacious or SPLEEN
did. Now and then he gives quiet din.
ner to a few friends. and Mrs. Bristow
has held her regular Wednesday reccp.
| lions, but there has never been any at
tempt at show any apparent desire to ri
val or outshine Others. Yet. Mrs. Bris-
tow is an heiress in her own right to hun
drels of thousands, ; she is universally ad-
| mircd and dearly loved by all who know
| her. - IL is not quite necessary to be dis
honest. There is only this fact: when
social position and dignity are matter
of heritage; where the signet of refine
mcnt and honor is Lightly written and the
consciousness OF their possession innate,
there is very little thought given to out
ward assertion of prc-emincnce. In car
rying out our beloved republicanism we
are too apt to forget this; we like to sheer
at the old phrase, "noJtesse oJlige !" we
like to assert that Zone man is as good as
another il not n little BETTER till some
day when we have exalted our pet ideas
into practical demonstration we find the
demonstration trembling before us.
Well, we are waiting now TO see
"wHAr NEXT?"
and the "neXt" is very likely to be the
official beheading of at least one more
cabinet minister. The President Ger.
tainly finds himself in most disagreea-
bic position where any other man would
be in despair. There's an odd sort of
poetic justice in the fact that all this dis
astcr occurred on Ash Wednesday when
sackcloth and ashes are in order, and that
Mrs. Belknap should have queencd it to
the very last. The President declares he
has never had Il suspicion OF the sccrc.
tary's integrity, and even when he ac-
ccptcd his resignation he had no idea OF
any crime in connection with the sudden
resignation.
Isn't that little odd. or is Mr. Grant
obtuse when lie chooses TO be: lie has
been IN the most intimate personal rela-
tons with his cabinet officers he knows
their salaries and he ought to know some
thing OF their private incomes. Has it
never occurred to him to inquire how a
splendid establishment and Partisan toll.
cite could be sustained "without visible
means OF support:'
Gen. Bclknap resides in one of the
| handsome houses built and owned BY
Gen. Babcock on G.. Il. The landl ord
and tenant live very near each other, and
though jury has acquitted one, the rea
shadow over his roof is scraccly lighter
than that is so heavily shroudlng the 9th
or with its black disgrace.
said prominent Republican yesterday
"Well' we might as well let the Demo
crats run the country awhile they could
scar cely make a worse series OF blunders
than We have made.'
o! the miserable strife OF party. If
American, would only realize the grand
eur OF being American citizens, If they
would only aim to put before the world
| ia prominent places our best men. how
proud we might be Surely in these
days when the old issue, are 50 nearly
oblitcratcd there need not DC such bitter
partisaushlp.
Nou see can neither think nor write
| OF anything but the one subject, which
has possessed Us all. aud indeed there has
been little else Of public interest. The
Hawaiian Treaty Is being discussed, but
nobody care, much, Fernando Wood
began making speech ia it, favor on
| THURSDAY, which will he memorable. not
for it, subject matter, but because he was
| interrupted by the necessity of hearing
the committees report upon the case of
Mr.. Bclknap. That fact viii live in his
tory, 50 Mr, Woods remarks will also
survive. Plnchback Is again before the
senate. That case reminds one of the