The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-12-22
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


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WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. r., 1874.
A DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE.
A mild season has thus far been geDer-
al over the country, but in Washington
the weather has been especially delight.
full up to the present time. The climate
here is certainly one of the healthiest and
most enjoyable Of any in the country
The gentle rain from heaven descends for
a few hours at a time at long intervals.
The wind blows roughly for the portion
of a day and then during most of the day
time the health inspiring sun sends its ge.
NAL warmth through IL streets to the
great happiness Of the many poor who
can lily afford to make adequate provis.
ion for real winter weather. Not two
days Of weather worthy Of the season has
been our portion and, for the sake of the
poor and improvideut, we hope that old
Boreas may make his visitation here as
usual a very short one.
TIE CENTENNIAL TEA PARTY.
The dead headers, which abound in
Washington, are troubled to know how
they shall succeed in getting into the Cap.
itol on the 10th inst, to attend the great
Centennial Tea Party. Congressman,
newspaper men, and even the ladies hav.
ing this party in charge are being bored
by these characteristic looking individu.
ais known mere as dead.headers or dead.
beats for passes all for the saving of one
dollar. No dead head tickets will be is.
sued, both the members of the different
Centennial Committees and those who
have been invited to assist in the enter.
tainment will be compelled to walk up to
the captains Office and pay in the small
sum OF one dollar,
II REPUBLIC MAGAZINE.
The December number Of the Republic
Magazine, published in this city, has just
gone to the press and will contain most
valuable information. The article which
it contains on the late elections, a com.
parison Of the vote of 1874 with 1872 is
worthy of a careful perusal by every re.
publican. The report of the recent Chat.
tanooga Convention, containing its address
to the country the articles on our For.
eign intercourse and Canadian R~eciproci.
ty {; Railway Postal Service, and the
equalization OF Soldiers bounties abound
with facts and good suggestions This
Magazine is the only purely political mag.
azine published in the country and com.
ing from the National Capitol it has me.
qualed facilities for obtaining accurate
information, its corps of writers are men
of age and experience. 1t is not quite
two years since il first came into existence
its circulation is increasing rapidly.
The business Of this Session OF Congress
being SO great and the time so short it
has been hoped that there would be no
adjournment over holidays. The hope
now is %forlorn one. They will take a
vacation as usual, but it will be a short
one.
KING ~KALAKAUA.
The continuous indisposition of King
Kalkaua has prevented his presentation
to the President. The object of tho Wis.
it Of this great King of a little island, is
hard to divine whether it is to learn the
internal working Of our government, the
habits of our people and get introduced
into fashionable society or to negotiate
the sale o. his island to our government
or out of pure curiosity is yet to be de.
termined, To be sure we have a trade
with this island Of a few hundred dollars
yearly and we should not lose sight OF
that ; but whether this consideration en-
tirely warrants an appropriation Of S45,-
900 to wine aud dine him is indeed ques.
tionable.
A RUsE.
The States in which Senatorial elections
take place this winter are well represent.
ed here by the friends Of the aspirants
of thosn high ond hnnorahln positions In
New York the lukewarm democrats wish
to coalesce with the few lukewarm re.
publicans, and re elect Senator Fenton
with a view to so mould public opinion
that 10 the Democratic Convention fol-
the nomination OF the candidate for Pres.
ident in 1876, the platform and princi,
pies shall be such that they will take il
all of the lukewarm republicans who are
there whose desire for government office
is paramount to the principles Of any par
ty. In Michigan, Wisconsin and Mime,
sofa, the successors to Senators Chandler
Carpenter and Ramsey, the Grange or.
CARNATIONS by the opponents Of these Sen,
ators are said to be forming a coalition
with the Democrats with the hope, In 9
close contested fight, that a sufficient
number of the republic legislators may
be induced to compromise with the Dem
ocrats. But such rumor is untoundeC
and it is believed here that the wisdom o
those republican legislatures will Dot al
low such a scheme to prevail, and thai
the present Senators will be re.electe9
without one dissenting republican vote.
REPEAL OF NOTIFIES A FAILURE
The report Of the Commissioners of In
ternal Revenues and Customs when ana
Used fully supports the views OF Genera
Butler expressed in his great speech OIL
the moiety laws near the close Of the las
session. He then said that the repeal O
the moiety laws in both Internal Revenu,
and Customs cases was all experiment,
that would be sure to fail, and i. has fail
cd accordingly. The revenue 10 this ex
tensive country canno be collected with
out -esorting to the aid Of informers
Shares offered generally 10 the citizen
who become possessed of the knowledge
that frauds are being committed. A gen