A Gloomy Picture

The Washington Capital, discussing the situation, points to the following gloomy picture : The country, suffering terribly from Sfteen yeara inaladministration and disbeartened by the corruption of its agents, that has undermined and rottened through the very foundations of our poLitical fabric, is brooding over a revolution more violent and deadly than any that ever shook to pieces a civilized community. While accredited thieves openly plunder honest industry at the North, armed carpet-baggers ñght for the spoils at the South ; thousands on thousands of laborera are out of employ, and over all hangs a deadly pall of hard times and heavy taxation. Party lines have disappeared. There is no legislation that can give us relief. The creditor has his hand on our throat. The blood-letting, hotwater, Sangradio practice of inflation will not help us, and it is too late to try the tonics found in a healthy currenoy and the recognized laws of trade. A clergyman, writing to the Zion's Advocate, says : " I once married a bright young couple, and, as I took the bride by the hand, at the close of the ceremony, and gave her my warmest congratulations, she tossed her pretty face, and, pointing to the groom, replied, ' I think he is the one to be congratulated.' " A Delaware man committed suicide simply because some one left a basket and a baby on his front step. He was afraid his wife would object to step-children.