New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-09
Especial Correspondents Of the Republican
AFFAIRS AT THE CAPITAL.

WASHINGTON, July 5, 1876.
EDITOR REPUBLICANS:
The ever GLORIOUS Fourth" was only OBJ
served at the national Capitol in spasmodic
and irregular manner. A majority of our
Legislators and other officials, great and
email, and also some of our military COM
panies with many private citizens swelled
the throngs which celebrated the anniver.
sary of our one hundredth year of
national life in the city of fra.ernal
affection. The boats landing at the
various places Of resort down the
Potomac were crowded to suffocation
and to the resulting discomforts were added
the presence ON every boat of just enough OF
the rough and disreputsble elements Of our
city. Georgetown, and Alexandria to mar
all the pleasures of the day. Still others Of
our residents availed themselves of the
privileges of the street car lines to
get outside the city limits for quiet
day, or more veneuresome still, sought
some shady point along the line of the
railroads running East, West or South, and
there consumed baskets full of solid and
liquid refreshments and smoked the pipe Of
peace. The city was quite generally deco
rated with flags, salutes were fired, bells
were rung, and the rising generation made
it lively during the day and evening with
fire crackers, rockets and pistol. Two
murders and one accidental loes of life
were among the casualties. From tho &C.
counts reaching rs from outlying villages
the observance of the day was more general
than for many years. The weather was
very snltry in the merning. but several
smart showers in the afternoon cooled tho
atmosphere and rendered the evening very
pleasant.
The general state Of uneasiness and dis
gust over the seeming indifference of tho
Confederates in the House relative to the
passage of the appropriation bills has
been temporarily allayed by the action Of
both houses during the last hours in tho
fiscal year, in adopting the President's
suggestion, by extending the provisions Of
last years appropriation bills for ten days.
It is hoped that before the expiration of
that time the bills now in dispute before
conference committees may have been ad-
justed, and the interests of the country re-
ieved from the perils threatened by final
failure to get them through. 1t is currently
rumored, and very generally believed, that
Randall and his committee have been
appealed to by New York Democrats
to hasten their passage, ss the doubt
and delay attending their discussion
in Congress was re-acting very damagingly
on Tilden's cause in the commercial COM
munities of the country. A determined eff
fort was made by the Tilden-H Hendricks re-
pudiationists last Saturday in the House to
repeal the resumption act, but the Repub-
ican minority, by ilibustering, defeated
the move. 1t is said that Hendricks has
made it's repeal condition precedent to his
acceptance.
The Senate has refused to concur in the
House amendment of the silver bill, as
amended by it 1.-THE Senate), and it is now
before conference committee.
The naval appropriation bill has become
. law; but the Senate has refused to pass
the army bill with the provision transfer
ring the Indian bureau to the War Depart
ment. It is believed that the Postofice bill
will 60 through without any further ma
terial changes.
Tomorrow was designated for resuming
Belknap's trial, and notwithstanding the
intensely hot weather, it is thought that .
majority of the Senate has heroically re-
solved to push it to conclusion before IN
adjournment is consented to, which will
grieve many members of the other House
up for q reelection, and who regard their
personal attention in their districts - I'M
peratively necessary to their success.
Plans for the campaign are being quietly
matured by the managers of the two great
political parties; but the terribly hot weather
tends to delay either . Union or Confed-
crate advance; but the arrogant speech Of
Tilden, few days since, has had it's effect
in arousing the legal sentiment Of the ooun-
try to the dangers menacing the recon
structed Union; and his il-timed bravado
and boasting will bear unexpected fruit.
Many expressions of regret are heard
among the representative men of the nation
who come here from time to time, at the
prospect of war in Europe, which now
appears inevitable, and which may ulti
mately involve the whole of Europe. 1te
consequences can not be foretold; but il
would undoubtedly favorably affect the
prostrated condition of business throughout
the United States by creating demand fol
our surplus products of the farm and manu-
factory, stimulate the carrying trade and
aid in restoring the ascendancy of our mer
camille marine. MAXWELL.