Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1876-10-05
Our Washington Letter

SPecial Correspondence of the OBSERVE,
WASHINGTON, d. C,Sept. 90, '76.
Babcock's case will be given
to the jury to-day. Mr.. Rid
die is now making the closing
argument for the prosecution.
While in the public mind there
is little doubt of his actual guilt,
few have any idea that he will
be convicted. There are sever
al government clerks upon the
jury, and it is easy to conjec-
ture how so unusual a thing oc-
cared.
The twenty Apache Indians
who have been in the city for
some time are to be sent to the
Centennial. Three years ago
these Indians, who are a part
of Cochire's band, were exceed
| ing hostile, but now they are
partially civilized. One of
them, "Taga," a son of Cochire,
died on Tuesday and was yes
terday buried in the Congress
sional Cemetery.
In the political world the
skies look bright for the De-
mocracy. The Republicans here
concede Indiana and are very
shaky about Ohio, while the
few honest men of that party
! don't pretend to say more of
New York than that she is
doubtful. At Morrisssey q
Co.'S. rooms in New York yes
terday, Williams was the favor
lite OF betting men for Governor
of Indiana at the rate of 500
| to $50 on Harrison. p. p. and
L. says, cold lack Chandler
wipes the sympathetic tears from
/ his eyes as he sees the hundreds
of discharged clerks file out of
the Departments, and turning
to his private Secretary he ex-
claims between his sobs, by
Jove, old fellow, this is terrible ;
just think what a hole this id
democratic inhumanity makes in
my campaign fund. l could
have got two per cent. out Of
the salaries Of every one of
these poor devils that this Con-
| federate Congress has turned
out to grass. Did you ever
hear of such blasted cruelty?
Blow me if it don't fairly make
my bowels yearnp and Zacha-
triah went carefully over the
dccimatcd list and doubled the
assessments on the remaining
employees" There is every
prospect for a speedy settle
ment Of all the difficulties be-
tween the Tammany and anti
Tammany factions in New Y TX,
Last evening meeting was
held and notes Of a most con-
ciliatory nature passed between
the chairmen. An Albany dis
patch of yesterday says Comp
troller Robinson is preparing to
send out to counties the usual
notices of the portion of school
ard State tax that will be re-
CURED of them for 1877 and
the 3 11-24ths mills levy Of the
last Legislature. The total of
taxes thus called for is official
ly stated at $3.50, ia, 80 an ac-
tual reduction upon last year of
is, 577, 506,29. This assessment
speaks volumes in itself and
clearly proves that Governor
Tilden makes no idle boasts
when he speaks of reform.
What he has done for New
York he can and will do for tie
nation, and under his admins
tration the millions saved to the
people of New York will swell
Into billions saved to the peo-
pie OF the country. The last
dying spasm of the Radical par
ty is an order issued to COM
manders of barracks in the
Southern States to issue one
; ration per day to each negro
"refugee," what ever that may
mean, but / suppose that every
negro who chooses to leave his
home and loiter around any mill
tary station and claim that he has
left his home through intimida-
tion, is to be fed at the govern
ment expense, and when cleo
ton day comes on he will be
triumphantly conducted to the
polls aud allowed to vote where
ever he may be, whether he be
entitled to vote in that particu-
lar precinct or parish or not.
This amounts simply to what
used to be called cooping,w where
a number of floating voters
were sometimes kept for sever
al days and nights and given
all they wanted to eat and drink,