The daily gazette., 1876-11-13
Our Washington Letter.
From our regular Correspon 5ent.

From our regular C0rrespon lent.
WASHINGTON Nov. II, 1876.
Soon the focus of interest will be the
National Capital. The Centennial Expo
sition has closed; the result of the cleo
ton is kno wn. In three weeks Congress
will assemble, and Washington will be
alive with busy legislative and political
life; alive with statesmen, politicians,
fashion and the demimonde; alive with
social gayety; though there will be less of
this in official circles than there has been
Tor the last eight years. The present ad-
ministration with its loud charac.erless
cabinet, and retinue of shoddy Worship
ers, is sin the sere and yellow leaf" They
are one and all desperately sick. The
ides of March! The political and social
life of Washington are intimately inter-
| woven, and, while the cabinet ladies and
| those of the bureaucracy will make a
desperate effort to go off with a flourish
of colors, music, and the glitter that
characterized the halcyon days of Will
liams and Belknap, it will be dismally la
| bOrious to appear gay at their own fu-
| neral. On the fourth of March they must
turn their faces from the marble halls and
asphalt streets of Washington and read
their doom in the face of the bronze god
dess on the dome of the capitol. The
1 StSoo lChOWHtu LeCH
Chandler, cabinet campaign leader, and
matchless organizer; Atty. Gen. father
Taft distinguished for q short but sweet
career, and z. NJ. Gen. Tyner, distinguish
ed for nothing, will make up an interest
ing little procession towards. the setting
sun.
| Don Cameron who carves with the
sword of his father, Morrill, of Maine,
| demagoglcal minister of finance in the
interest of politics; Robson of the Navy
and Fish of foreign affairs will deploy
towards the north and east, or, as Caesar
would say, "0d SeptriOnes ct orientem."-
Gen. Grant it is said will perigrinate the
world after the fourth of March. AS for
the lesser-lights and parasites they are
| like the etc, etc, in an auction list, too
numerous to mention. Among the Dem
new brooms figured conspicuously; they
symbolized desire for more thorough
reform than could be hoped for within
the Republican party, change, clean
sweep; nothing short of this and fumiga-
ton will purify our civil service. The
whole thing is infected, it must be re-
reformed altogether. This, will cause
though painful to individuals; is kind and
necessary for the health of the nation. II
n nations right eye offends it pluck it out
The distress will be einfinnitismal conpaf-
ed with that which the whole county
has suffered from the ruinons wasteful
misgovernment that these people have
helped to create and uphold. After the
fourth Of March there will be a general
emigration from Washington. Many
clerks have proprietary interests here
Others have bought property for which
they have only partly paid. 1t is safe &c
say that they cannot now sell for much
more than ha'e the money they gave
Some will be able to rent or sell to those
who come in with the new administra
tisn, hnt the latter will not pay higl
prices, they have not been educated IL
the flush and shoddy school of the pres
ent regime. They have been accustomed
to pay for their own furniture stationery
and postage stamps; in short they are not
used to travelling in the government
landaulet, and they will not, cannot give
for rents and board as much as the dainty
clerk and clerkess of this administration
are paying. Then 1t is believed that the
clerical force will be still further re-
duced.
Mr.. Randall and the Democrats were
thwarted last winter in their efforts to
lop poffsupertiuous members, but eRepuh
licans will no longer oppose, since their
personal and political friends are no Ion
ger involved, The path for Democratic
ECONOMY will be smooth, and this great
cumbrous, corrupt civil force will be re.
duced until the clerks will have elbow
room to work in, and each one of them
something to do. Indeed the reduction
is political as well as an economical ne
cessity. The probable ousting every -four
years of 10000 office-holders with half a
million souls directly or indirectly depen-
dent upon them is a strain and shock to
which the country can no longer be safe
ly subjected. At any safe the present
clerical force will go. If it will take my
advice it will go South and grow up with
the country. In Georgia they would
have tie privilege of voting for Alex.
Stephens and Ben Hill, or in Louisiana
they might see how the Mississippi river
and the gulf of Mexico are not tinged
with the blood of murdered negroes, nor
the cross roads adorned with genuine
bloody-shirts and deaths heads.
The closing session of the e4fth Congress
promises to be one of unusual interest; it
is not improbable that it may have to de-
eide the result of the election, and a bill
will doubtless Ieintroduced to decide the
elections in the future by the popular
vote and thus relieve the country from
such anxiety and confusion as that to
which it is at present subjected.
Mr.. Blaine has bid adieu to the House
over which he so long presided as chair
man, and which, when he decended to
the floor, he almost succeeded in CONVEX
Jlng lnU0 Dear-plt. "Inefe VIII De no
one left in Ithica to bend his bow" for
Mr.. Butler will not appear until the first
session of the 45th Congress. From pres
ent indications Mr.. Blane's senatorial
glory will be ephemeral. Ex-senator
Morrill, OF Maine wants his place back
again and his popularity and influence in
his native state is second to that of no
man. In Senate, if may predict, Mr.
Blaine will not shine. Tospeak vulgarly
the Senate is not his style. 1t is wise
dignitied. deliberate, body, prefering ar
gument to the impudence of assertion,
and meeting the libels of malice with the
truth of history. To say nothing of Thur
man Bayard, and Ben Hill (who will pro-
badly be the successor of Norwood of
Georgia) he will be met there by that
alert compendium of stubborn statistics,
Senator Beck of Kentucky, On the
Republican side he will be eclipsed by
the much better man, ADLER and more
brilliant Senator, between whom and
him there has subsisted bitter feud since
the time that James G. Blaine called Ros-
coe Conkling turkey cock.
The coming winter will doubtless be
one of great activity and excitement at