New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-15

reason to be proud of their organization,
and seem determined to lead our columns
to victory in November next.
Especial CORES pondence OF the Republican,
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL.
WASHINGTON, September II, 1876.
Some of the Democratic managers mani
fest disposition to evsde the responsibility
for the delay in the transaction of public
business in the departments, sure to follow
in some of the bureaus the Wholesale
slaughter of clerks now taking place, while
shouting themselves hoarse over their re-
trenchment exploits in cutting down the
force. Already the Controller of the Cur
rency declares his inability to keep up his
current work with tho force SLOWED him;
and this complaint is likely to be made by
the heads of several bureaus where the
work instead of diminishing 10 constantly
increasing, before next December. Almost
every year since the war there has been .
we'll advised reduction of clerical force, con-
sistent with the requirements of the service;
for instance, in the second Auditors office,
where, ct the close of the war, several hun
dred clerks were necessary in the examine
ton and auditing Of the hundreds of thou
sands of claims filed there, the force has
been reduced by . Republican Congress a.
most every year, keeping pace with the
diminishing amount of work to be done.
While giving the late Democratic House
duo credit for al ito boosted retrenchments,
it is we'll that every one, having business
before the departments, should be able to
fix tho responsibility for any delay in its
adjustment. Notwithstanding the popular
delusion that the male clerks employed in
the departments here are composed of
broken down politicians and political dead
beats, who do nothing but draw their sala.
ries and spend them in dissipation and riot
GUS living, there is vast mount of COM
plicated labor accomplished. requiring Q
high order of intellectual ability for its
proper performance, and the equivocal man
ner in which the female employees of the
government departments are often alluded
to as the fav0rites of members of Con.
gress and other influential officials of
doubtful morality, is clusi and
rank injustice to large MajvIity
of them, many of whom are the supporters
of infrm parents, younger b1oth"rs and
sisters, or their own children. General
charges of an offensive character could
with no more injustice be made against any
other community of like numbers, any
where, because it might contain one not
rigidly orthodox III her life or expressed
views. A wall of distress is going up all
over this city from the victims of the late
official slaughter, the notification of dis
charge being regarded as sure hsrbinger
of the distress, restitution and death that
can hardly fail to come to scores dependent
upon these beheaded clerks.
The stream of centennial visitors who
have made the national capital hating
place on their way to or from the Centen-
NAL Exposition has heretofore been almost
exclusively from the West; but within the
past week q counter current has set in from
the East. These opposing waves meet IN
our city, mixing their constituent atoms
into cosmopolitan mass, and keeping the
generally civil and obliging custodisns Of
the public buildings busy answering eager
interrogatories and plotting the curious
visitor to the points of greatest interest.
The number of admissions to the Phila
delphis Exhibition appear to be steadily
IN nah 10 IN ho
last months of it's existence, which shows
that the heads of . majority of American
citizens are very level, because, not only ie
everything in and about the grounds better
arranged for inspection, but the hotel and
boarding house arrangements are more
satisfactory and complete, and from thii
time on cool, invigorating weather may be
anticipated. During the three first months
q very large number of visitors were driven
to the sesshore, the mountains, or to thell
homes by the extreme heat, before theil
programme was half completed.
The Baltimore Gazette, which has made
itself specially notorious during the present
campaign by the vicious tendencies of it,
teachings to the Ku-Klnx of its own local
ity and to those further South, intimidated
by the furious fire it has concentrated
against itself, makes haste to disavow any
rebellious sympathies. The recent demon
stration by Democratic "Plug Uglies' il
that city, whereby Republican club wa
dispersed and some of its members seriousl!
wounded, will be generally attributed II
| its influence. There is no room to doub
| that in many Southen communities Dem
| ocrats are organized and armed for tn
purpose of carrying the November election
| bv fraud, intimidation and murder, if necea
sary TO the sccomplishm emit of their revolu
tionary plans. The most skeptical may b
convinced that this is not Republican Ii
nor false alarm, BY perusal Of Southern
Democratic papers, in which al I hsv
stated - to the organization and armina
il admitted and approved. Tho Significant
Of "Tildsn and reform" becomes very q
parent in the light Of such revelations, IN
especially 20 when taken in connection Wit
the uncontxadieted charges ct present res