Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-01-28

government on earth. This growing popu-
lation is to be one not Of ignorance or
squalor, but of intelligence, thrift and plen
". How measureless the work of such a
Republic!
1t is asserted about the Capitol that the
election of Gen. Grant as President of the
New York Worlds Fair Commission is only
one feature of another grand hippodroming
campaign which has already been inaugur-
ated with view to keeping him prominent
before the public for the next four years. He
is filled with the same fatal delusion that
ruined the two Nepoleons, and he thinks
that as the child of destiny he has only to
keep himself on the surface of life to float
back ultimately to supreme power. The
Grant idea is that he needs only to keep above
water, and the irresistible current of fate
will carry him on to final success.
The Senatorial elections have nearly been
completed, but no one can foretell the polit-
cal complexion of the Senate until after the
first of March, because no one knows what
Malone will do, or who will be the new Sen
ator from Tennessee. Leaving these two out
ofthe case the Senate will stand thirty-seven
Democrats, thirty-seven Republicans and a
Republican in the chair If Malone acts
with the Republicans, or If a Republican
steps in from Tennessee, the control Of the
body will pass out of the hands of the Dem
ocrats. Malone and Tennessee are there
fore, at this writing, objects Of great political
interest.
In speaking of Malone, we met, day or
two since in the Clerks Office Of the Senate,
our genial old friend, Gilman of the Rich
mond Dispatch and one Of the most reliable
and brilliant correspondents at the Capital
he holds to the assertion that Malone will
act with the Democrats, and further says,
"Mahone is the most moderated man in
Virginia-he has occupied very conspicu-
GUS place in the politics Of the State since
were next 10 those of Stonewall jackson.
He is the son of an Irishman, and was sent
to the Virginia Military Institute, perhaps
before the time that Stonewall Jackson was
professor there. He is rather a rash man,
and can fight bad plan Of battle SO well
that he will almost make it as good as good
plan of battle ordinarily fought. At the
close of the war the railroad between the
tidewater and the West was 80 wornout that
twas hardly worth anything, Malone con-
solidated the several parts of that road under
one corporation, remodeled the track and
became President at salary of $25, 900 pei
year. He held the road several years and
it made him rich. He was the man who
beat Wells, the carpet-bagger, for Governor
by producing Walker, Of Norfolk who was
elected. While he has acrimonies against
the Democratic lead, he is on the whole in
accord with the people of Virginia, and
thinks he will act with the Democratic party
1t is very generally known that the Re-
publican United States Senators have resolv.
led to prevent consideration of the resolu
ton unseating Kellogg, even if they have tC
delay the business of the Senate by fillibus
tering. They do not hesitate to announce
that if by the latter course Of action on thei
part an extra session of Congress is mad
necessary, "the Democrats must take the re
sponsibilty" This is a terrible warning
Its logic is about equivalent TO the suggestion
, that the citizen who resists the entrance of I;
burglar to his house is responsible for thu
disturbance
The bill to retire Gen. Grant was called VI
, IN the Senate on Friday last, by Senator Lo
, gan. Its consideration was pressed, but {
demand being made for the printing of thi
amendments which had been perfected il
the Military Committee it went over. These
amendments provide that the General may
be required to do active service and be en-
joined from interfering with any other officer
of the same rank. If the Democrats in thu
Senate make party question of it, it will
be defeated. 1t is not thought, however, i
will be made party a measure, and the Senate
will pass the bill, but its chances in the
|, , House are very doubtful.
In passing through the old hall of the
House of Representatives, where are TO be
who added to the glory of the country, one
cannot fail 10 witness the absence of all o.
the representative men Of the South. 1t il
true that there is stained statue of Georg,
c Washington, which the Commonwealth o.
: Virginia gave in the twelfth year Of the Re
public, to be seen, but with this exception
there is no figure TO tell the story of South
4 ern greatness. The Lees, Jacksons, Cobbs
d Calhouns, McDuffies and other ilustrious
: men Of the South whom the nation has en-
: balmed in its love and its history are no
here. A stranger who did not know the his
tory of this country, would suppose iron
+ what he sees in the Capitol that the fowe
OF genius had never bloomed in the balm
= climate of the South. And yet, Virginia helC
: the reins Of rule for generation or two
South Carolina was in the habit of debating
her own terms; Maryland, Georgia, Tennes
5 see and every other State of the South ha
y sons for whom no marble is too white an
u no cbisel is too fine.
u "'rhe bari" seldom fails in these days
> Millionaire Sawyer, of Wisconsion, has sc
cured the nomination. Millionaire Olive
= Of Pennsylvania, is the nominee of his part
: and of the Clan of Cameron, and will doubt
; less succeed Senator Wallis Senator Franz
Hereford, of West Virginia, has returned b
= his seat and is evidently very sore over hi
= defeat. lie attributes his defeat to the Jus
, Of money" What shame and burlesqu
upon nation which boasts of the intell
. gence and patriotism of its people to hav
= it paraded through the columns of the pres
I" that seat in the Senate of the United State
= has grown to be purchasable commodity
= What departure from the purity of thos
" days when such statesmen as Webster, Clay
Calhoun, flanagan, Cass, Benton, Douglas
Allen, Toombs and a host of other maste
y spirits were chosen because of their tran
scendent abilities and purity of character
such charge IN those days would have rem
: dered the party against whom il was mad