Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-19


Beaver conference. Mr.. Cooper would
,ave an interest in any conference touch
ng the gubernatorial nomination, anu he
would have been likely to be informed
Ifter the fact, at all events. All The evi-
lence goes to prove that tie conference
vas dream.-PAiladslphia Press.
Now will the Press please look all
.he evidence . squarely in the face and
tell us what is the conclusion of political
common sense. Two or three weeks ago
it was not known what was the pro-
pramme of the Stalwarts on the guber-
Material nomination in Pennsylvania
next year. QUAY had announced
himself for Grow and Cooper
was for Cooper. Meantime Quay,
Simon Cameron, Cooper and Beaver
have been on to Washington. Now
Quay tells the Press reporter that
he has dropped Grow and is for Beaver;
Cooper tells it that he himself has with
drawn from the race and is for Beaver :;
and there is not i Cameron dependent
from one end of the state to the other,
who is not for Beaver. lie is entered
in the race and the Cameron faction are
his hackers. The Press must be either
for him or against him. If it is for him
it ought to say SO, but it cannot any
longer deceive its readers rs to the sig
nificance Of Beavers candidacy. The
Continental hotel Citizen Republicans
threw down tie gage of the battle their
opponents have promptly picked il up
and named their man, and now do the
Citizens propose to quit the field
"IF youth but knew, and age could
do.''
MIR. HENRY JAMES, JR., shows such de-
ciIed partiality in his novels for England
Oyer America, that in reviewing them the
English critics confess to an embarraSs-
ment on this account. American rev lew
e-s will likely take the hint.
THE Citizens profess to be satisfied with
Beaver " if he is not forced upon them. .
If they take him without forcing lie will
not he forced upon them. But Cooper
says he and Quay have agreed upon him
and that settles it.
IF the Record is to be believed, there i:
to he general cleaning out Of the fedora
offices in Philadelphia, so that men may bt
put in charge who are better political ma
chinists. Ha:tranft, now collector, is tt
90 as minister to Berlin, and Tom Cooper
shall take his place as ruler Of the custom
house. That would be nice holida!
gift!
THE Brckerviile church case has gone
over until after the holidays. One of thu
Gui;eau iurymen's wife is sick, nigh untt
DEATH ard while the country viii! sympt-
thiZe with Mr.. Hobbs double attiiction, i
is 4 relief that the trial is adjourne.! ant
the public will be glad to hear no mere o
1t until 1882. The less the popular min'
is vcxed with law matters during the holI
Gav season the better it feels.
GEN. JOSEPH f. JOHNSTON has Furnished
to the Press another chapter of the clos
of the rebellion, iii explanation Of the ieu'
between himself and Jefferson Davis. Af
ter giving 4 graphic account of the ncSo
tiations for capitulation between Gen
Sherman and himself. he charges Mr.. .Ief
fcrson Davis with removing $500, 0Go il
specie southwark and never accounting 70
it, Johnston says Col. Paul, an em:nen
| artillery officer of the Confedcracy. ant
now prominent lawyer Of Richmcnd, :
man Of high character, told him that Ii
inspected the specie before its rc;nova
from Richmond, and after it had bec'
loaded ready for transportation iEc:
was a car loal OF it. Aud Gen Braure
gard Was convinced that Davis ha,! 81, 800
| 600 in specie at Greensboro. Only Sl19,
| from
TIE English people and papers arc quit
exercised over BIaine's dispatch t4 Mr.
Lowell on Nov. 10, respecting the moiili
cation of the Clayton Dulwer treaty. The,
criticise the peremptory abrap!ncss c: it
tone, and the use of such phrases rs "rc
quircs notifications, - ''asserts the right t.
control the transit, I" necessary changes,
and "will not consent TO pei pc:uatc III
treaty. Ali these lie outside the orli
nary dp!Om .tic vocabulary. Some resent
| this as the language Of menace; soint
ridiculc it as clumsiness and want OF ac
quaintance with diplomatic usages on tn
part of Mr.. Blaine, saying, "why brins II
the matter while the relations Of the tw
nations are So cordial:" 1t provokes III
| Standard to observe that such languag
reminds one Of the confidence trick
| Others think that the professions of pecr,
liar friendship end oddly in an avowal o
the des;rability of putting England OF
precisely the same footing as other ia
| tions.
The Tribune admits that J. Eancrol
Davis, reappointed to his old place as as
sistant secretary Of state, " is III admir-
| ably trained officer, has discharged tn
duties Of this place before to the perrec
satisfaction of his superiors and the cpun
try, and has since been minister to Ger
many Also, that Mr.. Thomas c
| Acton, who is to be treasurer, is L:
| old official, with an entirely clean an
upr isht official ana personal record. Bat
it ruefully accompanies its commentaries
| with the suggestion that '' Judge Davis. 0