The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-06-26
BALTIMORE LETTER.
4 Word About HOtels-The swami
Thompson Marriage-Selby shows
Up the Ex-GOvernOr-Our Three
Congressmen.
Special Correspondence OF the Register.
BALTIMORE, June q.


BALTIMORE, June a.
/ have been detained here much
against my will for week, stopping dur
ing tina: time at "BarLums," the oldest
hotel in the ty. The house stands the
adverse times we'll and keeps its reputa-
ton up 10 the old standard. The man.
ayers own the property, ana thus escape
the heavy rentage which destroy so many
houses, and have lately thrown the Me-
tropolitsn and Wizards back TO the
gloom of desertion. believe one Of the
best hotels in the city is Peppers, near
the City Hall. | have tried it, and pro-
nounce it excellent in every respect,
and cheap. Bsrnum's has always had q
strong hold on old Marylanders,
particularly on account Of it's proximity
TO the residences of many of the older
inhabitants now dead and whose heirs
! have been driven from this quarter of
the city by the close march of trade and
traffic.
swANN.THoMPSoN.
The greatest sensation IN the social
world, since the Lord-Hicks affair IN
New York, or the Goff- -horner episode in
West Virginia 3 the marriage of ex-
Governor Swami to the widow Thomp-
son. Swami is member of Congress
from this city and chairman of the Com
mlttee on Foreign Affairs, place given
him by Randall by way of compliment
to lis lRandall's) wi!e's brother-in-law to
be. The aged ex-Governor has, to my
knowledge, done nothing in the way OF
committee work, having thrown sll the
responsibility upon Col. Wilson, OF your
State, and yet the subsidized
press has so fsttered AMI cringed
before Swami that be not only
looks for recollection, but has his dim eye
upon the U. ). Senate. Mr.. Swann's
political record ssvors Of cunning,
tyranny, pecuatioD, speculation and ven
atty. A Known othing, q Wing, a
Republican and Democrat, he has
managed TO foist himself upon a people
who, If they gave him his deserts, would
drive him out of the State. Geo. 7.
Kane, lying dead in the City Hall, broke
down Swann's influence when Know
Nothingism was growing apace here,
and Tor that Kane was accounted the
bravest man in Maryland. Swami al
WAYS hated him. Elected to Congress
after an expenditure of one hundred
thousand dollars, the groom of seventy
two summers is heralded into the matr-
monial world as the Mayor is tOlled out.
The New York Sun, with its accustomed
hatred OF snUbberY, said II was q strange
thing that the Swann-Thompson invita-
tlons should hsve been formulated with
Governor" | have nothing to say about
marriage at three score and ten, but | am
sickened to nausea at beholding the full
some sdulation lavished upon man who
is part of as Corrupts ring as ever dis
gracei Louisiana or South Carolina.
POLITICS.
| sm sorry that | missed the closing
scenes in the SansLe and House of Rep
resentatves, bu& your special corresponds
ent has given full particulars. Before
l finish This liLIer, l must say few
words to the peiple of the State IN behalf
of their throe Representatives, Wilson,
Martin and Kehns. That they will all
be reelected L have no doubt. Col.
Wilson has performed q stupendous
amount of work, and this alone should
suffice for his reelection even unani-
mously. He is now accounted among
the leading minds of the House of Rep
resentatives, and have been told on
many occasion, that the State WAS under
many obligations TO him. kenns needs
no help from IN" pen. The good sense
snd Judgment Of his own people who
have sheen eneftted at his hands, |
are the best judges OF his merits. Among
the members of%he Forty-ffth Congress
no one commands more respect, and not |
one gave promiie of such brilliant lu-
ture as the youngest" in the House.
Martins position on the Committee of
War Claims demanded constant, close,
bard work, work which spoke not voclfer-
Cusly but efectuslly; work unseen by the |
mullitudes, but telt BY individuals who,
yesr after ycsr, have been pititully ask
ing for an adjudication of their clsims
a work which has added materially TO the |
interests of the government on the one
hand, and the welfare Of the people on |
the other. No man csn serve his people |
as well during his first rs his second term.
The system of changing public servants
at every session OF Congress is TO cay the
least very deplorsble one. Our people
should get good men-like those who
now represent them-and retain them.
l say this for their own good.
CHARLES SELBY.