Year: 1871




phraseology as a coward. The
Beast sat in his chair, nervous
and excited, and, for the first
time in his life, he seemed to
smart and shrivel under abuse
and invective.i lie tried to
reply, but it was q miserable
failure. He could only hint at
Speaker Blaine's Presidential
aspiration, appeal to the pit
with a quotation about 'ways
that were dark and tricks that
were vain in the Speaker, and
remind the gentleman who
cudgeled him that hard names
and vituperation could not kill
him, for that had been effect.
ually tried. 1t was a glorious
hour of triumph for the friends
of Justice to see this vicious
bully crushed by his political
friends. The Democrats felt
that a magnificent breach had
been made in the hitherto solid
wall of the opposition, and the
honest Republicans rejoiced to
know that the day when But.
let could no longer Hector them
and dictate to them had come
at last. From this day hence
forth his power is broken. In
times of violence the most vio-
lent of men became leaders,
but when the events which call
them into existence pass away,
they must sink to their true
level. Ben Butler, the Thief
and Bully, has at last been
turned upon and devoured by
his own dogs. What a glori.
Gus record this Forty,second
Congress has made in the first
two weeks of its existence I!


The Decentralization, ofwhich
| spoke in a former letter, grows
worse and worse every day.
The Republican leaders here
seem to be paralyzed. The
more sensible of them attribute
the loss of New Hampshire to
Grant, and they curse him and
his Administration without
stint. The friends of Sumner
are tickled amazingly. The
wise and polite men among the
Republicans are anxious to get
away from here, and the opin-
ion is that the row in the House
to-day will force an early ad-
iournment. Confidence in Grant
is now a rarity, and Republican
Conoressmen and Senators
openly concede that he can
never secure a denomination,
and declare that, unless some
thing is done to bolster the
declining cause of Republican
ism, the Democratic party will
sweep the country like a whirl,
wind in 1872. Chandler is
cursing, Morton is inveighing,
Sherman is threatening, and
the very devil seems to have
taken the direction Of AFFAIRS
Even the Dents are becoming
alarmed.


The news from New Hamp.
shire created CONSERVATION at
the Presidential mansion yes.
morning. 1t seemed as
though the hour had come, so
described by the
historian of France, who says
that when the morning sun
arose that was no king in
France" His Excellency the
President, who sleeps very
soundly, was up bright and
early, and the discouraging in.
teRigence settled like a blight
upon his spirits. Strange as
it may seem, it happened that
Senator Patterson had made an.
engagement to call upon the
President that very morning to
lay before him the claims of a
young man named Eli Burgers,
of Concord, who was desirous
of being appointed Assistant
Secretary of the Berlin Lega'
tion. The New Hampshire
Senator was promptly on hand,
and, after passing the Dent
ordeal, reached the room sacred
to Ulysses. AS soon as Ulys-
ses saw him he seem to fill with
rage. With a voice still husky
with the matutinal cocktail, lie
said @Well Senator. YOU Y an.