Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-08-31
FROM WASHINGTON
Special corrsspendenee Of The sentinel I

WAsuISGroN, D. G. August II, 1877.
Shermans speech at Mans field is a cause of
much talk here and comments thereupon are
as varied as tie wind, which demonstrates that
more attention has been given it than one
would have supposed. His quietpess upon the
reconciliation Of silver surprised his friends
here and is ;he more 10 be wondered at II is
held that he did not come in contact with the
President order, the discussion Of such sub
jscts az he INDUCED in are not SO much those
of politics MS Of infusing general information
into the people for their enlightenment in re-
gard to the working of n good sound govern
ment. How he could talk some two hours and
still refrain iromgving all praise to the par
ty Of "high moral IDEAS to which he has been
harnessed so long, can only be explained by
the suggestion that it was undoubtedly pre-
pared here, as Rutherford's soothingly quiet
pen, pouring oil upon the troubled waters,
can be seen all through it.
The RAIDS are running around town hunting
up consolation for the lost cause" in Ohio
The last dying kick is for Garfield to take the
stump for the Senate, whilst the small fry
do the general shaking up to make the cam
paign lively. A more forlorn desoae look
ing set of disconsolate reprobates has not been
seen around here for these many days and now
is the time for our friends to stir up Democratic
FIRE and 'burn em" root and branch, a result
we shall expect to realize by such big
Democratic majority in the coming October
election ihata chrome will have to be given TO
get sight at Radical.
The speakership bids fair TO DO more closely
contested than we first supposed, as by private
information we learn that not more than fifty
of the Democratic members have so far really
pledged themselves 10 vote for any particular
candidate, and we surmlse that the result will
be yet caucus of "ye great unknown" there
being so many rivals for this important posi-
ton of the legislative branch Of our govern
ment, indeed it is almost looked upon as the
| first place in the country instead of the White
| House, so long blackened by successive cor
| rupt Republican administrations.
! The Spanish insult to our flag upon inves-
| tigation seems 10 be more serious than was al
| first reported, and the firing Of a bomb-shell,
which exploded a short distance from our
vessel, being then followed up by a coutinu-
Gus discharge Of grape shot, determined the
outrage to have been premedtaied. This
! playing with such vessels has become too com
mon of late with Spain, and we are about
tired of her readiness with apologies. The
explanation Of the Spanish Minister here that
| the firing was the work of an over-zealous
officer is little to gauzy in the eyes of Mr..
Evarts, and our State Department mind does
not excuse the making of American vessels
targets for Spanish gun-boais.
Old P-araly,c Morton seems from private
kilograms received here, to have a hard time
with Grim Death, with the chances in favor of
Grim although death is often cheated of
some of its most promising victims, and in
this case lfprolongation Of life should by any
unfortunate circumstances occur, the Democ-
racy would be robbed Of two U S. Senators
and the Radical Senatorial majority still be
FIVE, through the refusal of this old fossil 10
pay nature her just debt by breathing his last.
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