Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-07-24
WASHINGTON LETTER
fFrom Our Regular Correspondent. ]

Ihtiure win lhe present administration ~
III was viii, all that have preceded il
A With the rejection of the dolphin" ",
J have the prospect before us Of the like
4 fworlhiessncss oi the "Chicago," and the
t"Ailsuta," and The "Boslon," aud the
"Miau,onomah," the last named now mid
! 10 he top heavy because OF her machinery
! The "Purilnn," which isa craft thst ha-
i Ecost mint Of money, IL said TO have a
faculty Of pi-pell,ng herself Sideways
$crnb fnsi,ion-nnd the dieeuse IL incurable.
sAfter all, expect we shall be compelled
10 buy our war vessels abroad, for nothing
sscems Of value TO US unless II ia imported.
I Ii is really to be hoped that the civil
gservice equine which our new adminislra-
s,ion is riding with free rein, may not
Ss,unble iu the first heat aud before the
Trace between the linus aud outs is fairly on.
! To be sure, the quadrupcd is already af-
llicied somewhat, but when we remember
. that rough usNge is apt TO produce spa
Svins, etring-balt, and the other accessor-
les that conduce TO an early demise, we
tbeg that the horse may not be compell-
{ed To appeal to the S. +. T. r. o. Z. T.
a. for protection.
3 II n general sweep out of all the Reg.
Sisiers OF nll the local land Offices in the
country is TO give the Angenn stable of a
q past administration perfect cleansing, as
Il Mr.. Sparks proposes, what will be done
Gwith the Receivers Of the same land Of
Or are they class of public off
fcinls in whom there Ia no guile? Mr.. s.
himself having been one of them?
n The interest that cenlered in the
d American meat.canners and grain ship.
\ Epers over the recently threatened war IN
h Europe, has died out with the most sud
Eden kind Of audiences. The extent o
= The orders from abroad included nine mil
Elion pounds of canned meats, some few
Eaat-bottomed boats, and two hundred
Elhousand swords, which latter article wil
Enow OF course be beaten into plow. shares
81 In the matter of nepOtism in this coun-
Htry, we must hide our diminished head
Ewhen we contemplate the army OF relatives
FOL the counts, and earls, and marquises
land other scions Of royalty, who annually
Hdraw from the people of Great Britain, L
Eadd to their already huge possessions
Emore than eight hundred millions of dol
lars. Indeed the appointments to al
lucrative Offices under the British Gov
Eernment are very rarely conferred upo,
aany who do mt have some OF the roya
blcod Ia stock.
"A 1t would seem to me that II matters bu
little whether this Government hasa for
EeIgn policy or not. With our conuerc
EpracticalIy swept from the seas by ou
Hown policy, it is no wonder that we ar
Granked by the foreign powers as countr
Hwl,icli has no need OF foreign policy
Eve take an exceedingly small. view O
Hwhat comprises politics, so small indee
that our foreign ministers themselves ar
&selecied because of their services and pe
6cuniarv contributions to the success of th
particular political party with which the
affiliate. If they, nor Congress. nor th
people take no serious view of our foreg
interests WHO will?
n :he old Liberty Bell, which has bee
doing duty at the New Orleans Exposilio
since January last, md but recently passe
through this city for its old home in Ind,
pendence Hall, Philadelphia, IA great
revered by every Philadelplian as well .
the lovers of liberty throughout the coui
'H.ry. Its advent amorg us has brought |
the front some facts relating to iis or
MhuhuTeu anu Ten years history. III III
Hbeer generally supposed that the enormou
E Hcrack in this hell was made by the enthr
siasiic bell.ringer when it was proclamrr
liberty throughout the land andeo the in
Ehnbiiants thereof in l7T6, but such ia n,
he case. The bell was in excellent cor
II dition for more than half centui
Mailer that or until 1882, wine
/, knpon the death Of Chief Justi
John Marshall. its mournful cadenc
were suddenly brought to an end by Il
abrupt opening Of the seam, even viii
the funeral cortege was passing the do
9 of The old hall. For one hundred and I,
. years the old hell has hung in the ha
GOnly 10 I've disturbed upon two occasio
Epiior TO it's final death wound, those occ
b sions being ile anniversary of Indepen
Eence on the 4th Of July in every year, a
The tolling all day on the OH of Jn
1926. npon the receipt ot news of I
" 3simnltaneous death of John Adams a
J. Thomas Jefferson on the 4,h of July
:. that year. Don PEDRO.
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