Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1876-04-08

hat the judiciary committee nave
the Attorney General to
rive immunity to Col. Whitley if he
.estifies fully and fairly before the
1t IS not doubted that
immunity by The Attorney General
has been put into the hands of the ju-
dietary committee to be used by them
if they think fit.
A Washington paper has an article
Ileadcd, 'To Honest Officials In that
city we should as soon think Of adj
dressing an article to cream-colored
blue birds, or to men seventeen feet
louisville Courier journal.
The New York World of the 1st
inst. says: The resolution introdu-
ccd into the house yesterday denoun-
cling Mr.. Pierrcpont's letter of Janu-
ary 26, threatening the prosecution
of informers, is another straight shot
INTO Grants cabinet. The house has
the people with it in this matter, and
neither senate, president nor cabinet
officer can oppose the protection of
witnesses with impunity. i-....
Chicago Tunes: In the case Of
Belknap the reception OF $4,000 in
hand, followed by the award to the
party Of the other part of a fat post
leadership, is called a JriJe. LII the
case of Grant, the reception of val
uable Philadelphia real estate, or of
a fine equipage, followed by the ap-
poirtment of the party of the other
part to good fat office, is called q
giH. To an analyt tical observer, the
difference between the two cases
consists entirely in the spelling. In
the dictionary Of the White House,
the word Jri1e is spelled g-iJ-t.. In
the dictionary of the War Office, the
word gift is spelled J-r.i be. From
which it seems 4 warranted inference
that in American politics a great
deal depends on orthography. a.- -.
The New York Sun brings this in
dictmcnt against the republican par
ty /: Pecu cations, defalcations, thefts,
burglarlcs, swindles, falsehoods, rob-
beries,- frauds, nepotisms, corrup-
tions, bribcrics, fraudulent appoint
meDt5 and contracts, military sup
pressions of adverse majorities, pros
titution of the public honor to
knavish spectators for gain, ignoble
uses Of public war vessels for bed
chamber purposes by women, high
official civilities to culprits under
indictment for felony, shielding and
supporting by legal orders the no.
torious accompiices of convlcts. open
barter and sale of the public offices
by cabinet officers and relatives of
the President himself. -. g.-
We find the following in WASH
ington editorial correspondence of
the ST. Louis Times: We get nothing
hardly of the work of the investiga-
ting committees through the regular
channels of lnfcrmation. Occasion
ally we hear from Congressman
Clark's committee, which is looking
into post Office frauds, but not one
tcnth of what he has brought out.
The great problem viii! be how to
mass of evidence which proves the
post Office department TO have been
as corrupt as Fagin's fence shop from
Crcssweil down TO the lowest clerk.
1t is already shown that the preten-
ded examination of that department
il 1878 was simply to eXtOrt u fresh
amount of biackmail. Two firms
alone had to give up" nearly $780,
COO to prevent disclosures, although
no disclosures were intended. 1t
was only new set Of buzzards de-
mandin. q fresh carcass.
We thought our claim to having
b en- the first TO nominate Governor
Hendricks for the presidency would
prove irresistible, aud the Sedalia
Democrat, which hoisted his name
in 1874, thus gracefully yields us the
palm: C,pt. Lesueur, of the Lex
ington Inteliigeneer, settles the claim
of precedeucc III announcing Gov.
Hendricks for the presidency. He
says he Uhc CaptaiD was at old man
Hendricks house when Tom was less
than two years old, and his mother
spoke of his p,ecocious intellect, W hen
he Captain L.) called Tom 4 "little
rascal" whereupon the embryo states
man showed fight, and the Capt. was
SO impressed with the boys genius,
that he announced him for president
the next morning. THIS settles the
honor of namihgathe next president,
and the proud distinction rests upon
the classic brow of our friend of the
Intelligeneer. What will Col. Switz-
Ter of the Columbia Statesman say
to this? We cave in to thee. Alex.
"Di,ty work Logan" was the name
given him by his present political
friends fifteen years ago, and i. is just
as appropriate to-day as it was then,
as will he seen by any one who will
take the trouble to compare the gross
ly garblcd speech OF General Ben Hill
winch is being sent around the coun.
try under Logan's frank, with the
genuine speech as it was delivered
We do rot pretend to sanction all thai
Mr.. Hill did say, but we do say that
this campaign document is All insult
to every reasoning man to whom i,
is sent. Important paragraphs of tht
speech are cut out bodily, her par
agraphs are shorn of their meaning
and others are made to assume :
meaning directly opposite to thai
| which the speaker intended. 1t is {
crying shame that men high in place
will stoop to such acts ofpetty mean
ness. We learn from private letter
from General Hell, that OIL his show
ing the garbled speech to one of th'
best republicans in congress, ne onl,
laughed and said, cit is had, admit
but it is politics, and you must ex
pect H." This may be republican
"poiitios," but, thank God, i. is not
and never will be democratic politics
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