Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-03-20
Our Washington Letter.


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IL neither rains, SHOWS nor halls ;-nor
% is i fair weather. The clouds are lover,
b ing aud the atmosphere, although m dsrai-
II ing. is damp ami CHILLY IL is thought,
;, however, that warm weather is near at
10 haEd. Farmers in the immediate vicinity
C Of Washington arc wakiug arrangements
d to At once begin their spring work.
]. The Board of Public Works, antiei.
e Pated a moderately fair winter. laid their
plans in the fall for a vigorous winters
b work on the streets; contracts were there.
e fore given to pave streets, build sewers,
repair water mains, &C., &C.. and the
e contractors making at once all due pre-.
r parations, commenced operations. Streets
we're dug Up, and the severest winter ever
A. known in this latitude. set in an the work
necessarily stopped; the result of which
: is that there is hardly street 10 Wash.
) iugton, with the exception Of PENNSYLVANIA
J Avenue, that is not IN many places, in
wrecthed condition. The work already
commenced will involve the expenditure,
il is estimated, two or three millions of
dollars to complete, and the investigation
now going on in the District OF Commit.
tee of the House Of the charges Of cor
ruption in the Board of Public Works
will, 1t is feared, tend to retard the COM
pleticn Of the work when the weather does
bscome settled.
The result Of the New Hampshire elec-
ton en- Tuesday is now being commented
upon in the political circles of this city.
The newspaper offices, and offices Of news.
paper men have been throngcd ever since
to learn the latest news from the Key
Stone, (not stated to the Presidential
election next November.
The most sanguine republicans here
dared not expect such victory after
knowing the disadvantages the Republi- I
can party labored under 10 the contest.
The Democrats who have before been so
jubilant over the hope of retention Of
power in the Granite State, are now chop.
fallen. Their last and only hope is gone,
and their opposition to the great princi. :,
pies Of the National Republican party, +,
must hereafter be made in some other !.
way than under their old party organiza. :,
ton. But whatever form it assumes i
masked or unmasked, the country knows
its history and shattered and torn, 1t will 3,
be driven, ifneed be, into the lest ditch. :,
The dinner given by the President to :.
the japanese yesterday evening was
grand affair, and only those high in official g
rank, of course, we're invited. "
Only few of the embassy will respond
10 the invitation extended to them by the N
authorities Of Philadelphia to visit that
,ity to.morrow-General Eaten, Commits.
oner of Education, has done good ser. "
lice to-day in escorting delegation Of n,
he embassy through the various public
chools of the city, with a view to impress :.
'pon their minds our modes and systems
# education. 90
The, bill just passed the House for 10,
quali2aton of bolnties to soldiers is very H.
unsatisfactory to those who have been IA f.,
orable to the passage of bills which would IL,
ecessitatc the depletion in the Treasury .,
t fifty millions or more, while the one Of,
lst passed, it is found on investigation, es,
III require only about two millions. The hr
LENDERS with whom your correspondent IF
ave spoken on the subject of bounties, al
o not seem indisposed to deal fairly with oil
ne soldiers. but they are unwilling to $50
ass any bill, unless it really, in effect,
oes approximate TO equalization; and =
le indications are row that no bill will
e passed unless it does have that effect.
The majority and minority reports of y"
he committee on Ku-Kux outrages re- Jot
entity submitted to Congress disclose two II
rominent features that cannot fail 10 i'm ff
ress themselves on the popular mind, "
iz the Rondish brutality Of a portion of M
nc Southern Democracy, and the almost le
'tal dfpraritv of those of the north. .ii'
heir brutality is already established by ~
,e majority report, in the number of
urders and outrages perpetrated by vi
lem; and their depravity, by their effort =" u"
} conceal and pallate the crimes of their 'o'
'uthern brothern. te'
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Both these reports taken together indi- y.
tie the fearful moral condition of the :,
aders of modern Democracy, and cannot
ii to astonish and mortify mankind gen. ~
-ally at the depth of infamy reached, BY
lis once powerful and respectable party. M
The time occupied by the Senate in -
the ACCESSIBILITY of being in. s.
rmed, at no little expense, the number -