The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-04-05


into for line of steamers 10 run between New
York and SANTANA Bay. All effort will be made
to build a railroad through the richest part of
the island, and good deal of white emigration
is expected Baiz is said to favor the project.
He is mulatto, educated n France. and is de-
| slrous of more intimate association with whites.
His great ambition is to come to Washington as
| United States Senator fromthe State of Domin-
60"
| The Postmaster General was at this time max
ing extensive changes of Postmasters of the
class which do not come under the appointing
power of the President. Some four or five
hundred removals and appointments We're made
each week, and the consequent pressure of of
| tice-seekers upon the First Assistant Post
master General, Mr.. Earle, is thus depicted
This morning his ante-ro3m was filed with
| men and women to the utmost capacity, while
many were clustered about the door and loiter-
| ing in the corridor. The assembly was a motley
| one. There were daintly dressed women. and
others quite the reverse: hhrd-hsted. bronzcd-
featured countrymen. wearing coarse clothing
and broad-brimmed, slouched hats: and nicely
dressed men. sporting broddcloth and shining
| beavers. As l stood in the door of the ante
room the door of the private office opened and
a portly dame emerged. vdrv red in the face.
painting. and evidently much agitated. There
was an immediate rush for the door but il was
| quickly closed and the skilled usher kept the
crowd at bay. Cards VERB thrust forth and
| imperous demands made for admission but to
no avail. So much time is occupied by these
| interviews that Mr.. Earle has to attend to his
! department duties at night and 40 to late hour
the light may be seen streaming from his win
dowS. Such is one of the penalties of official
| position at Washington"
DR.. Mary Walker. WHOSE pantaoons have
been conspicuous about Washington. this dozen
| years or mOre--invading composing rooms. and
| editorial sanctumS, bcseiging the departments
! with the demand for clerkNhip and Congress
! for pension or au appropriation-wa in NAV
| 1869 an applicant for the post Of librarian Of
! the Interior Department. While the Dr. was
! awaiting an interview withthc Commits siouer
of Patents, Mrs Myra Clarke Gaines the not
ed litigant. emerged from the Commissioners
room and aftera scrutiny Of the others peculiar
toilet thus accosted her: Ms this Mrs Dr.
! Walker"
| The DR.. acknowledged h fr identity with a
smile.
Mrs Gaines-"Wi YOU allow Inc to rive YOU
piece Of adyce:"
| DR.. Walker-'I will not pay ANYTHING for
Your advice, but if it is given freely will be
happy to receive it,
Mrs Gaines-''I shall make no charge for it,
and if You act upon it you will be benefited"
DR., Walker indicated !ier readiness to hear
the advice.
Mrs Gaine>-"Wcll, nv advice j. ta 20 home
and pull those brooches of al once ana not dis
/ grace Your whole sex by wearing them"
I Dr. Walker-lf do 50 wilI YOU adopt ne
a. your ,laughter:"
Mrs, Gaines-"I do not think Womb. |
/ have too many ajopted daughter, aIreadv.,
DIR. WaIker-"f Won wduId a,Iopt me IL,
! your daughter and give ME everything you
have in the world. | would not abandon nv
| principles and IDEAS or change NV mode Of
dress
I Mrs Gaines-"Nou are iniuring Yourself bv
| dressing 50. Had but on brecche, should
! never have succeeded IN establishing my right
no. nor even my husbands. ana with the ble>-
sing of God never wijl.~
DR.. Walkcr-'.l GU may not dress in This eos
tune and yet dress as unbecominglv in some
other garb. You wear feather, and flower, in
! your hair while there is nothing Of th, kind 10
| be seen about mine"
! The argument upon the dres, question WAY
/ ed warm and had attracted. unite . crowd If
| clerks and VISITORS when hhII >tr,,rt and tho
| Commissioners MESSENGER annnarad "a III.
nouncc that that official was rea,Iv to receive
I DR.. Walker.
v \ few DAYS later Dr. Walker applicd At tb,.
! State Department for the position of Secretary
\ Of Legation at Madrid.
The new administration decided that the col
I ored man should have recognition i'll making
4 appointments. and Postmaster General Crcs~-
| Alabama and Mississippi railroads. The a.
| pomtment Of son of Fred Douglass to a posi-
ton in the Government Printing Office created
quite Il stir. one white printer was said to
have left his case, and Columbia Typographical
Mon took up the matter but before taking
action, Douglass was removed from the case
and made a copy holder, and that was the last
Of it. Mr.. Ebenezer d. Bassctt colored, Of
| Philadelphia. was appointed Minister to Hayti,
and was thus described after an interview
when he was in Washington to receive his in
structions from the State Department: Mr..
Bassett is a bright mulatto, rather good look
ing, has heavy mustache and wears a very
shlhy beaver,-dresses well. has q decidedly
pleasing address, He conyersed very readily
and intnllioaut1,. ~, . ,.orio+ f .i. IL
I: ~ '"ii''E u toti's' i'
saiu ne ulu not IKE sumner, as he was too
much Of an ariStocrat; and on being asked if if
was trua .,s .,,,or.od j., A., ,,,.oe1,,.,u. .,.4
W o. 'l'oiteu III wy he" sp"peIs' that
he spoke four languages iluently, laughed. and
said they had given him credit for more Than he
,,. ,,,t;+I''1 - ''''''i :. ~
vas 'h'i'iVu to' " men d ooH ne litu >tudieu
French, Spanish and German, and had acquir-
ed considerable proficiency in Them. but hayiro
L. : -
nv OCCASION W USE 'ile TWO lofiLef' MAJ lald
them aside though he still retained the Ger
man. which he founa usof,,I in pbi1o,lolnl,ia
decoration DAY (Mav 20 was marked and
marred by a display of sectional feeling which