Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10
THE SITUA EION az WASHING
rOS-a RIRD,S EYE VIEW.

| THE SITUATION AZ WASHING
TON-A BIRDS EYE VIEW.
Matters at Washington are not ex-
actly in that healthy state that induces
wholesome, refreshing sleep to the
men in power. Things are tumbling
promiscuou-ly and men are feeking to
stand from under. AS yet it is only
the beginning of the end. When the
| stencil shall have died away, when
| the storm shall have ceased and when
the pure air of Democracy shall have
disinfected the Government so long
| fouled with Radicalism, men will look
back with Wonder that SO huge a mass
of putrid CORFU ption should have stood
up go long. No man can now foresee
what a day or an hour may bring forth.
Things are moving. Col. Fred Grant
has been ordered to his regiment now
| on duty away up in the Yellow Stone
country. When there he III be safe
from. harm. Lonely Grant! Babcock
has Leen dismissed from the White
House in disgrace upon the charge Of
having surreptitiously taken and pub
lished copy of Attorney General
Pierrepont's letter to the Western
District Attorney, threatening accom-
p!ices for testifying against members
of the whisky ring. The letter was in
the Presidents possession at the time.
Unfortunate President! Poor Babcock,
vicarious sufferer, thy troubles have
only Just begun. Scapegoats will for
some time be III strong demand. "Devil
take the hindmost" is now the cry, or
rather Democratic Congressional in
vestigating committee will get Linn,
and that is worse. And the President
is in fresh trouble about that same
Babcock trial. Miserable Grant! The
st. Louis Times boldly charges that
the Presi lent and the Attorney General
and Babcock together arranged the
plan of operations by which Babcock
was acquitted Unhappy Grant! The
Times charges tt the Attorney got
AOOOIASy
at st. Louis all the points against Bah
cock and communicated them to the
President, to Babcock and to his couu-
sci, who remained in Washington ell
the while. Guilty Grant! More work
for a Democratic House of Representa-
tives of an enquiring turn of mind.
Indeed, as we learn from a telegram
handed US just as we had written the
last sentence, evidence of Attorney
General Pierrepont's guilt is already
n the hands of the Judiciary Com N IT,
tee of the House and his impeachment
may be expected at an early day
Alas Ulysses! Proof of Belknap's cor
ruption has accumulated until it
appears he sold everything in his de-
partment that would fetch a price
Wretched Grant In the Post office
u Department under the adninistra
honest" Mr.. Jewell, of Connecticut,
the employer of Hester, it appears
that 1000 mail contracts for the next
four years have been awarded or
''straw," that it is to say fraudulent
bids. Unfortunate Grant! And Min
lister Schenck is on lis way home in
disgrace, at the demand of the Eng
lish Government, thus demonstrating
that III one instance, 1t least, the
British Lion could accomplish with
single growl, what the American Eagle
utterly failed to do after years of
screaming Poor Grant! And the
Delano with the Presidents Ger
tifcate of high character in his
pocket is summoned before a Demo-
cratic investigating committee and
must tell all he knows about stealing
in the Interior Department or commit
perjury and then be caught and
convicted at last. Luckless Grant
And then too, old man Gideon Welles
aforetime Secretary of the Navy,
predecessor of Grants man Role SON
he who went to Washington poor mall
and has cotton ricll there on a salary OF
ten Thousand dollars year, meanwhile
supporting his family in handsome
style--oli man Weiles, We say, the
predecessor of this Robson, is sum
moned before the committee to tell all
he knows about the infamous Secor
claim-the claim upon which it has for
years been openly charged that Robe
son defrauded the government OF
$4,000, and there was present to a
lady III the case, too! Grant, oh Grant,
Grant!