Litchfield enquirer., 1877-03-01
Good Sense.

There seems to be a great change in Republican feeling at Washington regard ing the carpet-bag state governments. Not only does Gen. Grant refuse to interfere in favor of Packard and Chamberlain but it seems to be generally understood that MT. Hayes will not favor them. The in. vestigations, though ruled out by the Commiss on. have had their effect on public opinion. Ex- Gov. Wells, of the Louisiana Returning Board, is no longer mistaken for the Christian statesman he seemed to some, in December. Even the Washington National Republican. the organ of organs, is out in favor of the new policy.
 There can be no doubt that the quiet, reasonable course of the Southern De- mocracy has contributed largely to this change of view. It is the "Copperhead, i" and not the Confederate who was last month for war. and who, this month, fllibusters to prevent the count,
 The good under standing between Re. publicans and Southern Democrats was a good deal disturbed, for few hours, last week, by the publication of an arti- cle in an Ohio paper supposed to reflect Mir. Hayes views, and demanding the in. terference of the administration against the Nichols government in Louisiana It turned out that the article in question was not only published without the knowledge of Mir Hayes. but without the knowledge of the editor of the paper himself who was lying dangerously sick at the time.
 The New York Sun represents that Gov. Jewell has completely supplanted Gen. Hawley as the leader oi the Republican party in this state. No doubt the late Postmaster General has pretty firm hold of the party machinery. but the rank and file of the party (outside New Haven, ) still believe in "Joe Hawley!" The fact is that the bitter hostility of Postmaster Sperry of that city has rendered Hawley unavailable" and has given Jewell the lead; but good many Republicans in the State of Connecticut love Hawley none the less because he is hated by Sperry. Gov. Robinson of New York attacks the Normal schools of that State. Only fifth of those who have graduated at them are now teacbing, it appears and less than three per cent of the teachers of the State have had the benefit of their training. The same difficulty prevails in other States, and the high expectations indulged in when those schools were started have not been realized. Phe Springfield Republi- can maintains that this is because they have generally been mere high schools and not true training schools for the bnsi. ness of teaching. t4's4
 We do not remember to have seen the real derivation of the word ''bull-dozing'' given in any of the papers. It is said to be this: In the patriarchial times, before the war. when a Southern darkey had done something specially reprehensible his punishment was what was termed a f"bulfs-dose," l. @. one hundred lashes. Hence the prevalence of the expression for the sayerest punishment, of any kind.
 The judiciary committee of our legis. lature has reported bill providing fo, minority representation on town boards, by the ''limited vote."
 Theodore Tilton has been doing Ken. lucky, this season. and he reminds it's people of Henry Clay. They wanted him to settle and go to theLegislature. but he escaped by night into Arkansas. - Spring. field RsspabHcan.