Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-09-12
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
wAsumeroS, September 2, 1879

hot season is about over, and the Watering !
places and fashionable resorts are gradually |
yielding up their temporary tenants, people are
returning to their homes and business Is again
resumed with renewed yigor and earnestness.
The Government officials who led from the OPP
pressiye heat and dust of the city, are again |
putting in an appearance, and by the middle Of
the month probably the majority Of them will |
be found performing the routine duties Of their
respective Offices.
1t is said that owing to the declining health
of Mr.. Dent, Mrs. Grants father, that the Presi-
dent and family will return to Washington
about the 10Th Of the present month. The Ex-
ecutive Mansion is being thoroughly renovated
and repaired, whilo the grounds surrounding
the mansion are being materially changed and
beautife1. Additional walks are being laid
out and another fountain is to be placed in the
grounds.
On Tuesday morning Of last week the Groni-
Gle published lengthy document from Judge
Advocate General Holt in relation to the eAe-
cution of Mrs. Surratt, one Of the parties to the
assassination Of the late President Lincoln. II
will be remembered that President johnson re-
fused to commute her sentence to Imprisonment
for life, Notwithstanding Eve members Of the
iurt that convicted her, in consideration of her
age and sex, Joined in a petition to that effect.
After A. j, commenced to "swing around the
circle, and became better acquainted with the
desire and sentiments OF the rebels, he seemed
I, have repenied signing her death warrant, and
excused by asserting that Judge Advocate
II ut withheld the petition, &C., and that be new
until flo thn
Andy is still circulating in Tennessee, to in1u-
ence rebel voters. Judge Holt, with great mag
nanimity, has remained silent under the impu-
tation mp to the present time, and now, probably
thinking that forbearance has ceased to be a
virtue, has come forward with an array Of facts
which fully and completely vindcates his ofIic
al conduct, and proving by such witnesses as
the late Secretaries Seward and Stanton, ex-
Secretary Harlan, Hon. John A. Bingham, and
a namber of other equally reliable gentlemen,
that he not oay presented the petition with the
other papers in the case, but called particular
attention to it. The vndcation is complete,
and exhibits painful dissimilarity between A.
johnson and G. Washington in regard to prop
agating fiction.
Slowly but surely the money OF the bnck-pay
grab is finding its way back to Uncle Sans
cash-box. On Monday Representative Bird, Of
New Jersey, returned his little overplus, amoun-
ting to 81 $40. "Conscience makes towards Of
us all"-Or is 1t policy that make so many Con-
gressmen virtuous?
The Wawaset investigating board completed
their labors on Wednesday. The report has
been sent to the Secretary of the Treasury for
approval and will probably be made public in
few days.
The business Of the Patent Office is rapidly
augmenting and is managed with acknowledge
ed skill and ability by the present Commission
er, Hon. NJ. D. Leggett. The following is a
summary of the business of the office for the
past week : Applications. 400; caveats filed,
66 patents issued, 25l; reissues. 9; designs,
I trade marks, 13.
General Eaton, Commissioner of Education,
is now in Vienna, on business connected with
his bureau. DR.. Warren, rho is in charge, Is
almost daily in receipt of letters from number
! of Southern States, which indicate a growing
interest in educational affairs in that section OF
4 the country. By all meaus let them be encour-
sged.
7 The chronological man at the Agricultural
3 Department, whose business it is to receive ard
: classify bugs and insects, is not happy. HI
5 says the abolition Of the franking privilege i.
: depriViug the Department of its usual supply o
:, specimens-in fact respectable bug cant b,
induced to crawl that way in consequence of tn
:, inexorable demands of Uncle Sam for stamps
e Efforts will be made at the next session of Con
e gress to provide a remedy aud saYe the museur
, from becoming bugless.
e The star gazers at the National Obscrva atnry
D on the 9th ult., discovered very feeble GOMEZ
Rear Admiral Sands says, "The comet is nov
s. faint object, and is recediug both from th
III earth and the sun" Another was discovere
Oh the 2jth which is brighter and is apparentl
'e approaching the sun, and, by proper nursing
e may become visible to the naked eye
o The total shipment OF postal-cards from tn
"a mandatory at Springfield, Massachusetts,, la.
- week, was 5,266.sO0. The shipments rang
~ rr'm 74IOOO to ,O6l 800 daily, and yet the de
- maud is greater than the supply.
The approval By the President and Secretar
of War Of the finding of the military commi.
sion that tried and convicted Captain Jack an
his Modoc "braves" meets with very genera
. appreciation. The President has Designated th
Sd Of October for their execution. While Pre-:
ident Grant is decidedly in favor of human
=, treatment Of the Indian under ordinary crcun
- stances, he is also in favor of doing them Jus
>, tice for which Captain Jack 4 Co.. are Just no,
~ particularly bitter on the President aud his In
dian policy.
=, The fearful storms and foods that have pre-
y, vailed throughout the country for the past wee
or two, may be accounted for upon scientiii
)" principles. "Old Probabilities" has gone
=, Europe and left the weather machine in uexpe
- rienced hands, and pretty mess they are ma
,e king OF ii. They have turned loose upol
y us alternately, waterspouts hurricanes and tor
e nad0es. Things are fearfuly mixed Thi
u catastrophe has but one parallel in history, ant
!; that happened some time ago. Phaeton, sol
q OF Apollo was fast young man, but WASH
much o! drlver-he thought he was, but ht
IS wasn't. He induced his old man, Apollo, to le
s. him drive the chariot of the sun for one day
s. Apollo reluctantly consented, and the Young
a man being unskiled in the management Of The
u celestial coursers, Suffered them tG run
wild, and they would have set the world on fire
II had not Jupiter, who happened to be passing
o that way, tgoing over to Vulcan's blacksmith,
q shop TO get some lhunder-bolts pointed cam.
, pretending the situation, struck Phaeton into
II the Pc where he was drowned. Let "YounR
. Prob" draw lesson from this bit of very an
o eent history.
: The indications are that Col. Hughes, the re-
$ publican candidate for Governor of Virginia, ia
: going to be elected. The Richmond Enquirer
man doesn't like il. Hear him "Back, vul-
!, lures, fresh from your Wooden feasts in South
: Carolina and Louisiana your foul beaks will
U never tear the bosom Of this old State. God and
her children will defend her p 1t is evident
that the Enquirer mau has got something beside
9 dirty socks in his boots.
The Internal Revenue receipts for the month
a lOf August was something over So, 800 000
b The biennial examination Of pensioners will
begin on the 4th Of September, and General
s Baker, Commissioner of Pensions, has issued
very stringent instructions to examining sur
!, geons throughOuttbe country. This examine
! ton is of great importance, aud to prevent fraud
j the Pension Bureau has taken every precaution.
About fourteen hundred surgeons will engage