Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-01-13

WASHINGTON, d. c.. Jan. 9, 1877.


1t is stated on good authority that the
President will not send to the Senate the pa
pers and documents relating to San Domingo,
as called f"r by Mr.. Summers resolution, until
after the House shall have taken action Oh the
resolution now pending before it. Ben. Butler
has assured the President that the Senate resp
lti rs would pass the House this week after
a short debate. The President has given up
all hope Of his scheme passing this session.
General Grant, either with view to reward
Senator Cotkling, OF New York, FIR not car
ryiDg his State for the Radicals in the recent
elections, or t" pay him for some service not
yet made public, or in order to carry out
some scheme 10 which there is job, has
promised Conkling that if be will get rid Of
Chief Justice Chase, who recently was stricken
with paralysis, he can have his position. One
i the means TO accomplish this is to pass a
law pensi"ning the Chief Justice IF on full
pay during life. The mercenary knaves rec
kon everything by dollars and cents. But it
will fail. The Chief Justice, like Richelieu
will not be killed off by this Barradas and his
master, but is fastening to Washington t.,
resume his seat, and show the sche,ners that
he is true to his country and to the duty
imposed on him, and connot be purchased, as
is the fashion with those who would buy him.
The pertinent question is, What decision,
involving money or land, is to be made or
reversed that it is necessary to have the Chief
Justice out and the pumpous blonde ConkIiug
in his place? What shape will the next
Presidential jnb take7
The National Capitol has at last awakened
from its Rip Van Wrinkle sleep, and is begun
ming to make up for lost time. Improvement
is the word of the hour. Pennsylvania ave-
nue.. extending from the Capitol to the Whit.
House, distance Of mile and half, and
magnificently broad, has been paved with
wood, and in consequence a grand ] llifica.
ton, one which will make glad the heart oI
Grant. the great jollficatnr, will be held o.,
the 22i and 28d Of February. 1t will be a
tumble Of the 4th If July, mixed with Thanks
giving day, Christmas. the Italian Carnival
and the Roman Corso, only that the horse.
will be speeded along the magnificent avenue
in the American manner. The days will be
succession of sports, and the nights will be
turaed into day, aud jollity will be in order
all the tine; crowds will, no doubt, be attrac-
ted here to see the grand carnival. aud the
hotels arc in good condition to take care Of
them.
Among the most noticeable improvements
in our hotels, is the beautiful fresc.''ng "f the
magnificent Arlington hotel, situated at the
west end, the fashionable part Of the city
Messrs. T. R essIe & S"n. VIII" are also pro-
prietors of the Fort William He,xy hotel,
Lake George. New York, opened the Airing
TN last winter, aud in the fulfill.n-nt "i their
design of making it the hotel Of the country,
spared no expense in fitting it up in the most
luxurious and beautiful manner.
Determined to exceed their FIRST efforts, the
Messrs. Rressle had IL corps ii artists engaged,
during the recess Of Congress. in painting and
frescoing the walls and ceilings Throughout
the house. An allegnrical representation OF
the four seasons on the ceiling Of the capcious
dining hall, attracts u great deal Of attention.
being a work If rare artistic merit. This
work is by the celebrated Brunidl, whose de-
corations on the walls Of the Capitol are well
known. The cst III the frescoiny Was over
$50, 900. Previous to the recent Decorations.
the Arlington was pron"unce.l the 6nest h"-
tel in the country; its claim to that position
now il far beyond question.
The friends Of Governor Hoffman. Of New
York, have certainly behaved very hand
.s,mely in Withdrawing his name AS candidate
fur the Democratic nomination f,r the Presi-
hency in 1872 The New York World. the
New York Telegram, aud other New York
papers most emphatically endorse the action
Vi the s.schems Of the Tammany Suciety, VIII.
have declared through their organ, the New
York Leader, that Governor H .tftnan is not
i candidate, aud that New York desires the
b., cmne from the West which APP
pears t. be, by common conse,,t, the wish of
the party, judging from the Democratic MEM
bers of G 'ngress and others who visit the
Capital. The Leader gues further and most
proclaims ex-senator Hendricks, Of
Indiana, as its choice for the nomination,
This action on the part Of New York "r
Tammany, which politically is New York,
settles that the Dem. ,cratic candidate
for the Presidency will be . western man..
The recent usurpation Of authority by
The President in sending United States
troops into the Northern States to intimi-
late voters aud to assist the Radicals in
carrying the elections by fraud and furce, rs
has been the rule at the South, has been most
,ignally rebRked, FIRST by Governor Hoffman
1f tho great Empire State, who spoke in the
language of the Constitution for the, we'll
kpoyn. rights Of the States aud the people
asxt We have the Radical Governor Of Penn-
,ylvania, John W. Gesry, who, not content
v;|h e>hrk;ro tho p,>.;1no% fop he oufp,oo