Year: 1873

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 countenance, or strangely distinguish

 ed expression of face. There IS an

 old saying that "such nose IS worth

 kingdom" but l thirk such mouth

 as Grants Is worth dozen kingdoms that is about the difference between

 this mighty republic and all Europe together. It is evident that he means

 aggrandizement this term; that IS, It

 there IS the least show to chip into

 Mexico and the West India Islands,

 he intends to do And my belief

 is that tine quicker it is done, the bet

 ter for all hands. It is the inevitable

 and so go 1t at once.

 Gov. Mccormick is looking better

 physically than have ever seen him,

 and is feeling pretty good as he has

 right to, over his general and great

 successes in legislation for Arizona.

 He has got the Washington wires

 pretty much in his own hands, which

 is great thing to do; 1t is a trade

 that requires more patience and hard

 work to acquire than that of anything

 else can conceive of. would rather

 fight the Modocs single-handed for

 the same length of time than nose

 about that cavernous old Capitol for "a succession of years, the target for

 all sorts of missiles that wound worse

 than lead or steel.

 Speaking of steal, much has been said of Credit Mcbilier corruption, ISc. It strikes me in this connection, that the newspaper gentlemen of the age have suddenly become the only really virtuous people extant; but I have yet to learn that newspaper men are anything more than human. When they come to be gods and look such without clothes on, 1 will take it all back. am glad to see Mast out in Harper's again if he don't fetch some of them damned Tribune Peck sniffs and Uriah Heeps to task on the score of average morality, to say nothing of the least charity or decency --then. verify, the pen is become mightier than the pencil. But when I saw Grant standing out there, in view of the late Liberal movement, 1t seemed that the sword was necessary to sharpen both the other weapons to enable them to keep the lever (the press) which moves the world in mo- ton at all. There was a world of melancholy reflection the other day (Monday) in the Senate on seeing the hum bled condition of the leaders of the Liberal movement; disappointed ambition cutting into the flesh of majority, and all so passively indif- ferent whether school kept or not I was present last Winter when they were on their horse to glory, through Custom House, French Arms, and all that sort of thing, which is dead and as will soon be the virtuous who conjured it up on a cry of "anythng to beat Grant" What a fall was there Sumner ill his chair and muttering over the glories of a half cracked head; Frank Blair imping around in para lytic misery and ill view of his sena- torial successor; Trumbull gliding like the smooth-faced eel that he is, waiting the coming man in his case; Schurz looking and acting as though his harp were forever hung on the willows; and the entire cabal of the virtuous, cultivating the arts of peace with their late arch enemies. On the other hand, Morton, Howe, Cameron & Co. are reelected and run the machine. It is the old story of the backsliders and deserters in all great parties-they may be very good men and all that, but the people don't want them to keep the taverns in which they step and maintain. Organizations like the late Democratic and present Re- publican parties, are not to be extin- guished by personal proclamation founded on self, spite and theatrical It may appear by this that I am little better than one of the wicked, as old Falstaff would say; in fact. had been Q recipient of Credit Mobilier stock as some of those in the Lower House, I'd have told Congress as did Bingham of Ohio-Z"I have it, now you make the most of it." Had Colfax come out that way, the would have had little more to say; but he discovered too late that bold face Is better at all | times than smiling one in this dirty | world. Posterity has ceased to criti-