The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-24

immoral agent--that. in short, he was not
"A real bull, and that there was no real
danger.
But in case the Democratic majority now
on the rampage in the House be not inl ated
caoutchouc, but a true Taurus. implacable
as any bull Of the Vatican, as mad as Guy
of Warwcll's 'Dun Cow in case it
succeeds in stampeding the minority, tram
pies the Commission under its hoofs, and
losses the Constitution on its horns. and
goes forth from the Capitol on the 4th of
March, triumphant and terrible, 1t will
then have to encounter It's real adversary
not a faction, not a party, not a partisan
tribunal, but the people, tremendous ont
door congress and court. If it does not
tame down into Il yell-behaved bucoic
animal, it v i'll find its Wild course obstruct-
ed and finished by the grand onward sweep
of the Republic, with its immense train of
human interests its freight of human lives
useful and dear to the world, its treasure
chests of national glorieS, liberties and
hopes. / remember to have heard how
tICt "a b:iilhl' liSib 'jiAsi '''t i-"i''''' WV
Pacific railroad. They stationed them
selves on a slight eminence, from which
they were to charge down on the express
train under full Roadway, their leader first
engaging the locomotive. The affair duly
came ofr--in part. There was 4 great pre-
liminary tossing Of earth, a brief below.
collision. and something went on-and it
was not the buffalo.
Our poor city has been and still is full of
the widest rumors. For instance, soon
after the establishment Of the Provisional
Tribunal, which, strange to say, was con-
sidercd as a Democratic triumph, it was
reported that the General of The Army had
capitulatcd. After ordering away all the
troops whose presence here is Il menace and
an oiiense to the Democratic majority in
the House, he surrendered it was said, to
/ the young commander, ''Citizen Marat,
who ma ANONYMOUSLY returned to the old
hero the sword which he waved about his
pears shaped head when be set out on that
almost forgotten. not to say apocryphai,
march to the sea. 1t was also said that all
the officers of the evacuating force were
allowed TO retain their side-arms, and the
soldiers 10 take their knapsacas and to
carry two days ratIons.
We have no end of rumors concerning
| the Louisiana culpritS They say the Ser
/ geant at Arms has given an order 20 a
! hardware establishment for set of thumb
| screws, q boot" and rack, after the
model of the Scavenger's Daughter in
! the old Tower Of London. Mr.. Clark Mills
! has also a comm ission for an iron virgin
| like that of Nugcmburg. All will go into
| operation as soon as manufactured, but in
the meantime the Committee on the Powers
and Privileges of the House have borrowed
a whipping post and whip from Democratic
! Delaware, which are to be tried in the case
of wicked old Wells. The pions Pickett is
to apply the lash. and the moral Maddox is
10 lub in the brine. It is affirmed that the
Senate Indignantly rejected the proposition
to turn the shaft Of their elevator into an
/ oujliette, bluntly telling the House to keep
their own side.
We are ali feeling much for the prisoners
Of States, Wells and Anderson. They are
great sinners, doubtless since even Satan,
in the shape o. more than one witness
rcbukes their sin-but they are not well
and are no longer young. They are said
to be heavily !roned and imprisoned III that
dismal cell il the crypt, prepared for the
body OF Washington, and in which the
bier of Lincoln has been preserved Here
they are exposed to the visits Of Thomp-
sons and Tomhs lawyers, rats and report
ers. The only reading allowed them is the
Police Gazette and the ongr6sSionaI Record,
aud they are kept on the shmmest sort
OF diet, that their physical strength
may be reduced, and take with it their
moral courage. 1t is not supposed that
they will hold out long under the double
"questlon David Dudley Field and the
"Scsvenger's Daughter
GRACE GREENWOOD.