The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-04-12

Ex-President Grant say he "feels
better for the change" The country
IS every day living in the hope that
4 viii feel better for the change also.
A dispatch from New orleansstates
that Pinchback is demoralizing the
,olored members Of Packard's Legis-
Iature. who are deserting to join the
Nichols Legislature.
The members of the Virginia Leg
islature who enacted the hell-punch
whisky law have been thrown into
a state of CONSERVATION by the infor-
nation that their action will raise
the price of liquor.
The rude force of men like Morton
amounts, in certain exigencies, TO
genius, which weak men like Hayes
tremblingly recognize and timidly
succumb to- The man from Ohio
was not made to battle with Boaner-
ges,
And still another Florida man
comes in for a dose of Mr.. Hayes
soothing syrup. This time it is
Humphreys, one of tho bogus elect
ors counted in by McLin and Cowgirl,
He gets the dictatorship of Customs
at Pensacola Civil service reform,
eli?
The indianapolis Sentiael is indig-
at the statement that Mr.. Hem
bricks is Il candidate for the Senate.
1t saws: "lIr. Hendricks is not in
the Senatorial race at all; he is Vice
President of the United States deiurG
and will take no rctrogradc step
lIooray!
In every conspicuous appointment
made by Hayes or his Cabinet, the
civil service theory of promotion by
merit has been liagrautly violated,
and in most cases to the positive in
jury Of the public service.-N !.
Sun.
We cannot help looking with some
wonder at politician, who begins
his career by advocating the policy
which he was elected to oppose, and
covering with infamy the organiza.
ton which he represents.-N J.
World.
Secretary Thompson has ordered
an inquiry into the sale of the Phil
adelphia Navy Yard and what was
done with the money. This was one
of Robeson's biggest jobs. Half a
million dollars Of the proceeds arc not
accounted for.
Already Mr.. Hayes has practically
given up the fight, and the cormor-
ants are pressing round the dead car
cass of civil service reform, exulting
in its death, and seeking to reap the
harvest which belongs to other and
purer men.-Baitimore GO=sttc.
The New York Tribune sympa-
says of Mr.. Hayes first four
weeks in office that 'it is n great
thing for him not to have lost his
head under the circumstances, y
Very possibly, Tor II wound not have
been u great thing if he had lost it,
Er.
Alfred Z. Lee, late Private Secre-
tary of Governor Hayes, has been ap-
pointed Consul to Frankfort, Germa-
ny. 1t was deemed best to put him
where he would write no more Amer
lean Alliance letters without the
knowledge or consent of Mr.. Hayes.
-Enquircr.
Packard begins to quake. He Oh
iectS to the Presidents instructions
to the Louisiana commission, and
pithily remarks that as he received
several hundred more votes than the
Hayes electors, and as the votes were
by the Same Returning.
Board, he is as legally Governor of.
Louisiana as Hayes is President of
the United States.
Evart's position on the Cuban
question before his elevation to the
Cabinet, induces the hope among the
friends of Cuba in New York, that
he will favor a policy friendly to the
rcvolutionists, and the. probable atti-
tude Of the administration on this
subject is again under discussion.
An awful vengeance has fallen on
the murderous Bender the remorso-
less wretch who murdered his stran-
ger guests in Kansas for their boots
or hat, or whatever he took Il fancy
to. He has been fugitive and a
vagabond, and now an ex.member
of the Wisconsin Legislature has
been mistaken for him in Arkansas.
This is fearful warning,
1t is now stated that Chamberlain
is to be appointed Minister to Swe-
den by way of compensation for his
loss of the South Carolina Governor
ship. This will be a touching miti-
CATION of his affection, as well as a
beautiful illustration of the Prcsi-
dents pledge to divorce the public
business entirely from partisan pol
tiles"
When Wendell Phillips said that
had HAYES announced his Southern