Year: 1877




and comments thereupon are as varied aa
the wind, which demonstrates that more
attention has been given it than one would
SUPPOSE. His quietness upon the re"
monetisation of silver, surprised his friends
here, and is the more to be wondered at'
II IA held that he did not come In contact
with "the Presidents" order, the discussion
of such subjects as he indulged In are not
20 much those Of politics as OF infusing
general information to the people for their
enlightenment in regard to the workings OF
q good sound government. How he could
talk some two hours and refrain from CIV
ing all praise to the party of "great moral
idess to which he has been harnessed SO
long can only b. explained by the sugges-
ton that It was undoubtedly prepared here
A. Rutherford's soothingly quiet pen' pour
ing oil on the troubled waters, can be seen
all through 1t.


THE ADMINISTRATION


has determined to permit but one OF
family to hold position in the same Office
and accordingly called on the different De"
partments to know what good there was in
keeping 50 many of the same kind in the
same Bureau, and careful investigation OF
the answers given satisfied Mr.. Hayes that
the nepotism must and shall be broken up
Immediately, so the official guillotine will
soon commence seeing around the heads OF
many nonopolisers of Govt pap.


4 THE RAIDS,


are running around town hunting up con-
solation for the "lost cause" In Ohio. The
last dying kick is for Garfield to take the
stump for the Senate, whilst the small fry
do the general shaking up in order to make
the campaign lively. =. "A more forlorn, diso>
late looking set Of disconsolate reprobates
has not been seen around here Tor 10 these
many days, and now is the time for our
friends to stir up the Goals Of Democratic
fire, and "burn EN-" out root and branch, q
result we shall expect to realize by such a
big democratic majority in the coming
October election that chrome will have to
be offered to get sight at radical.


THE sPEAKERsHIP,


bids fair to be more closely contested than
we at first supposed. as by private Informs
ton we learn that not more than fifty OF
the democratic members have so far really
pledged themselves to vote for any particu>
lar candidate. and we surmise that the re-
suit will yet be caucus combination of
"ye great unknown" there being so many
rivals for this important position of the
legislative branch of our government, in>
deed almost looked upon as the first place
in the country instead of the White House,
20 long blackened by successive corrupt res
publican administration. A strong infuenc
is at work against Randall, who is loosing
no opportunity to clinch everything in his
own behalf relying to great extent upon
the exertion Of his friends in caucus.


THE RADICAL CUSTOM HOUSE





in New York, has turned out TO be so foul
with corruption that the report of the inves-
tigsting committee was held back for some
days, as 1t made such a bad showing
that It was deemed imprudent to
allow the public to become aware OF
its contents. That corruption abounded 10
the Custom House no one would pretend .o
deny, but the Administration here was most
astoundingly surprised at the sweeping con-
demnstion made by the committee, as well
as the exposure of so complete den of in
fanny Is the Office had grown to be, and all
under the rule of sunstrokc Blaine, O, id
P, analytic Morton, and the rest of the
bright and shining lights Of tho party with
"grest moral IDEAS" whose characters can
be no better illustrated than by repeating
the remark of radical In the House (who
must certainly have forgotten himselD after
Ben Butler had sermonized on morality,
when be exclaimed, "Amen! Let's all steal
something." The force of the language
employed by the committee to express their
utter contempt for the whole affair, the
management of the office particularly is Of
the strongest nature and most pointed in lite
meaning, and entirely in keeping with its
censure, and the committee whilst recon-
mending An entire cleaning ont Of the whole
establishment, could not take leave OF the
Secretary without saying that the investiga
tion did not commence day too soon.


THE SPANISH INSULT


te our flag, upon Investigation, seems to D.
more serious than was al first reported, and
the firing Of shell, which exploded short
distance from our vessel, being followed up
by continuous discharge Of grape shot, de,
termined the outrage to be premedtated
This plsy!np with such missiles has become