The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-01-19
OUR WASHINGTON TER.

AotANNAoss u, JsH TO- 10
The speeches Of Senator Howe yesrer
day and Senator Logan to-day together
with :he special messuge OF the Presidcn,
have very soothing effect on the mind
Of the people here. Had the Metropoll.
tau P,ess waited u little before commit.
ting themselves in opposition to he course
ct toe President and Gen. Sheridan III the
Louisiana afflir., it would have been hap.
p,,, today.
This will be an eventful week. The
discussion vi Southern aff.irs. (Loui.oua
III particularly. and the trivia iu, estigation
concerning the Pacific Mail Subsidy is the
attraction OF the hour. Schu,z has spok
en aud the country will know what il has
known before, that Senator Sehurg is op.
posed to the Republican party, and Of
course takes every opportunity to do it
harm.
The recusaut witness, Irwin, is now in
our District Jail. His quarters, arc tx.
ceedingy comfortable and he has all the
walters bic means can afford, which i,
abundant. Who would wish more?
4 specimen brick OF the ten thousand
lies told by the Southern Associated Pres.
Agents has ust been sent over the coun
try, from Livingstone, Alabama. 1t re.
lates to the evidence before the Invest
eating Committee of Congress. and gives
rose colored view of the black transac.
tons in that section. Murders and whip.
ping Of negroes are done without motive
Outrages in Choctaw are proved mere in.
ventions and the United States an.hnri,ies
made arrests, seized houses and property
without any grounds. The SINE author
ity says that voters were not inundated
at the last election. and the proof shows
an increase OF one third over the vote Al
Grants election in 1872. It is likely
that the country will prefer to bear from
the Committee who took the testimony
before swallowing this sweet dose.
The New York Bank Note Company
who are demanding that the work hith
erto done in the Treasury Department
shall be sent TO them. in their desperation
exhibited 100 sheets of Government fbrs
paper which they procured in some irrcg
ular way. General Spinner has iust sent
90 OF hio lady force to the Glenn pape,
mills to make careful count and dlscov
or, it possible. how the COMPANY got pos
session Of this paper. He may make it
warm for these monopolziDg gentlemen
who seem to stop at nothing TO serve their
interest.
1t is now said that the Committee or
Southern Affairs are not sati.fed with tbc
Conclusions vi the Sub COMMITTEE which
lately returned from New Orleans. aud
that tho iull Committee will take new
testimony regarding the Ljuisans matter,
in controversy. Tho President will not
be ready with his message and documents
until "Wednesday next. when he will re-
ply III full ~ the Seusie resolution regard
ing L9nisans
The Pacific Mail Company inves,igs
lion has at last brought 10 light the in
teresting fact thar $40 900 was paid I,
two Washington correspondents of thu
Metropolitan press. ThsIe is little douh
that more oil it found res,iug.place in
The pockets of others Of these iudenend
cut correspondents who have 10 indo-tli
ously soush, to hlacken the characters o
meD, and to make capita! for the Demo
cratic party by crying out corruption
Dom Plat, OF Sunday Capital, toe, who's,
paper is always filled with attacks upor
the characters Of leading Republicans ha,
$4,000 of the corruption fund. His per
sonal friend, Irwin, hastens to say tina
this money wat not puid to him as aleg
cd by MIR. Albert. bis discussing agent
but was borrowed and repaid. Thos
who know OF Piatt's reputation for pay
ing, either at homo or abroad. will tax
this briber's contradiction Of HE own ag
ent's sworn statement with many al
grimaces.
The Department of Superintentenis q
the National Educational Society wi
hold IN Washington on the 9th and 2St
Of the present mouth, an adjourned meet
ing. A very full attendance Of State an