The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
CURRENT OPINION.

and Orvil Grant" murmurs the Hart
ford Times.
..One theory explains the dollar mark |
Is a monogram comprising the initials |
u 5. for United States, and the Boston
Post SAYS as Grant" is the way to put
it. 1t will be noticed that Grant is af- /
ter the dollar.
-" There is not one of Gen. Grants
most fragrant blunders which Conkling
has not approved not one of his out
RACES upon the rights of the people and
the states to which Conkling has not
been a consenting party" charges the
New York Tribune.
Conkling's chances for the presiden-
cy do not appear to have been much
improved by the Endorsement given
him by the New York republicans.
He has got to about the end of his string
in the matter Of getting delegates.-Pha-
ddelphia Chronicle Dem).
The trading posts were made To yield
thousands of dollars to carry on the Grant
campaign in 1872, the same as the crooked
whisky stills at Chicago, st. Louis, and
elsewhere, yet there are some men who
will pretend that the radical party is not
responsible for these frauds. Pittsburgh
Post.
From the Boston Herald: Gan ex-
change says, The identical chairs and
desks of Cas-, Calhoun, Webster, Clay,
Douglas and Benton still remain in the
senate chamber, and are in daily USE
We should suppose that those six chairs
would accommodate at least half of the
present senate" New York Herald
| (Lnd).
| The mystifed Peoria Democrat asks:
"While the republican conventions now
being held throughout the country are
commencing the administration for pros
ecuting the whisky rings, how is it they
have never a word of commendation for
the action of congress IN unearthing cor
ruption throughout the different depart
ments ?"
Morton has been defeated in an at
tempt to get up his infammatory Mis-
sissippi idiocy out of its regular order.
The vote seems to have been test of
the Eense of the senate on the subject,
and stood thirty-one to twenty-eight
against proceeding with the considera-
ton of Morton's resolution.-C Chicago
Tones (LndD.
Great Godl Whittier are we drift
ing? Is there no secret place on the
face. of the earth where an honest man
dwelleth and money is safe Statesman
after statesman, official after official,
book-keeper after book-keeper fall vic
Tins to the epidemic. They even accuse
honest Bristow of mule stealing.-Rob-
ertson Tribune.
-" Mr.. Conkling," says the Chicago
Inter-Ocean, "is not the type of man
around whom bad men congregate."
Perhaps not. As we understand the
matter, he is chiefly accused of being the
type of man that congregates around
bad men, such as the Grant administra-
ton. This seems to be a nice distinc-
tion.-,S. Louis Times (Dem).
| Lamar will turn out to be the most
dangerous man to the republican party
in the present congress. He has that
supreme wisdom of the politician-abil-
ity to know when to hold his tongue,
and strength enough to hold it. He is
shrewd, steady, alert, cautious, prompt
and wonderfully strong. He is man of
fascinating address.-Ohio State Journal
(Rep).
! The latest victim of the investigA-
tion is L. K. Lippincott, chief clerk of
the land Office and unknown to fame ex-
cept as the husband of Grace Green
wood. His fraud consisted in reissuing
Chippewa scrip for 600 acres of valuable
land, instead of cancelling it according
to law. The net profit of this transac-
ton was about S25, 900, which he divided
with one Buxton, who disposed of the
scrip.
Ben Butler and his two prostitutes
have not yet shown any improper con-
duct on the part of Mr.. Pendleton. The
thirty thousand dollars paid to Mrs.
Bower by Mr.. Pendleton were paid to
him as her lawyer by the firm of E. G..
Leonard & Co., as a debt due her de-
ceased husband, who had been a member
of the firm. Gen. Butler and his female
allies had better try again.-,Sarannah
Netcs (Dem).
There will doubtless be cold shiver
running through the crooked whisky
group in a day or two, when Gen. Hen
derson, Col. Broadhead, Stilson Hutchins
and District-Attorney Dyer appear in
Washington to assist in the general over
hauling of the whisky frauds. President
Grant should send Babcock off at once on
a mission 1t may be possible that not
even "the old man" can be saved
Courier-.journal (Dem).
! In this Centennial time it seems odd
that in the race for the presidency thir-
teen candidates should enter for the strife.
Here are the democratic entries: T. +.
| Bayard, of Delaware; G. B. Mcclellan,
of New York; Horatio Seymour, of New
York S. E. Church, of New York; S.
j. Tilden, of New York; J. S. Black, of
Pennsylvania; T. Hendricks, of In
diana; Allen G.. Thurman, of Ohio;
William Allen, of Ohio; Asa Packer, of
Pennsylvania; James f. English, of
Connecticut; David Davis, of Illinois;
Michael Kerr, of Indiana.
The following are the dying words
of some of eur eminent statesmen, re-
Gently deceased Shed no muleteers for
me.-B. H. Bristor. Thegam is played
out.-Ioke' Bob Schenet Stand by
your po.t-traderships.-7eot T A,mee-
Bsiknop. ! am glad that die young
1t would be a terrible thing to grow old
and sinful Williams. My son, never
write letters. This is not
suicide, but assassination.-John b. Hen
derson. If had only been born twins /
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