The Press., 1885-04-09

Beecher is back again from featuring tour in the south, in which he made politi- cal concessions most astounding as coming from the brother of the woman who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. It may or may not be true that Harriet Beecher Stoves immor- tai fiction did a work in the popular mind and heart, without which Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips and Abraham Lincoln would have been impotent But, .estimat- ing her at the lowest, who would ever have expected to hear from the brother of such a woman this declaration to 8 reporter of The Louisville Coulier-Jo Journal, with much more to the same effect 'I cannot alto gether approve of the refusal of the white people to count the colored vote ill their local elections, when, by doing so, they would place their local government in the hands of this class but think that if ever people are justified in such meth ods, the southern people are. * * * One might have pardoned it's South Car olinas) white inhabitants if they hal risen against the blacks and massacred them en masse, The heroism of the southern peo- pie in enduring this state of affairs, and the manner in which they reasserted them selves are unequaled in history, Such forbearanee was never shown before. MT, Norman J. Coleman, of Missouri, who was last week nominated to be con- missioner of agriculture, has been spend ing some time ill Washington. When il became settled that he was to be appoint el to the office, he said he was much en- barrassad at the prospect of having to mau- age both g government bureau and 8 big with my coits ?" he exclaimed. "They'le Il n<3, r;n on and break 'em here,'' said 3 friend. 'sGreat Sc ,tt P was the reply "why there are fs'rty-tWo "t 'em, all promising trotters r
 General Grant has expressed himsrf in regard to his own condition in an eml- nently characteristic way, He says: "My chances of pulling through tt'is a.e one i'll 1 hundred. l have no donht; but some- times do feel that shall get better. l 1 think if I have another struggling spell shall go off very quickly; and if you q e. tors can tell how long man eau live un- der water when he is drowning, then l think can form some idea of what time I shall have to live when the next strangling comes on, if it does come on. If I have not the choking, think l shall finger for some time, for | feel so much better the
 
 same determined, caltn courage that has always been characteristic of him when in l face of an enemy.
 By cave-in at the Croyley eo1liery Rt Raven Run, Pa., Monday, ten miners were buried under a mass of rock that fell between the gangway and the surface l. 100 feet above. Exploring parties who have attempted to enter the mine report it complete wreck. Miners who are &C., quainted wit the workings declare it not only impossible to rescue the men alive, but are doubtful whether even their bodies can be recovered. It is doubtful if the mine Is eyer reopened.
 Says m ex, U. s, senator; "One of the curious things that happened to me at Washington was to have Virginlan, a colonel, come up to me at the Riggs House and begin talking with all the fla miliarity of an old friend. He told me his name and the office he wanted, Then he launched out iuto discussion of his family aff,irs. He had..Cus.is blood in his veins, and was married to descendant of 1 George Washington. 'The Custis fam ily,' he said, 'was blue-blooded, and hon. ored the Washington family by alliance with it. The Washington were only poor white trash, sah.'
 Courant: With Chief Justice Waite on 1 the bench of the supreme court, MT. Whit ney in the cabinet, MT. Evarts and MT. 1 Dawes in the senate, Professor Phelps and ] General Jackson in the diplomatic service, and MT. Harrison in the governorship, Yale college has no reason to grumble. She doesn't insist upon having the earth.
 
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