New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-14
NEW ORLEANS, FRIDAY, JULY IA, 1876.
Especial Correspondence of the Republican.
AFFAIRS AT THE CAPITAL.

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WARRINGTON, July :, 1876.
| EDITOR REPUBLICANS:
The alleged purchase of several State
delegations to st. Lonis by the reformer,
Morrissey, and the judiciOus and effective
| disbursement Of the .'barrel of money"
there, are regarded by many Democrats
here as the modest beginnings of we'll
matured plan to secure the success of the
| Democratic party next November by the
Wholesale corruption of voters. Indeed, the
| indsoreet boast has more than once been
| made il this city since Tiideu's nomination
| that millions Of dollars are already availa-
BILE for that purpose.
The st. Louis nominations were last night
| ratified at the City Hall. The decorations
| and display of fireworks were tasty and
brilliant, and the attendance quite lnrge-
but did not approach that of the Repub
licans' meeting held two weeks since, either
| in point of numbers, the individual re-
spectability of most of the participants, or
the spontaneous enthusiasm manifested.
The applause last evening was confined al
most exclusively to those Immediately sur
rounding the stand and the members Of the
few ward associations present Among the
speakers were Randolph Tucker and
Harris, of VirginiA-two extreme Estate
rights" men and open defenders of the re-
bellion and the rebel atrocities practiced
upon disarmed prisoners Of war; Magruder
and McCreery. of Kentucky, Tarbox, just
convalescing from the terrible shock re-
celved in the House few weeks since;
Eaton, of Connecticut, and Sam Rand al.
They were unanimous as to their estlma-
ton of the sinful character of the Repub-
lican party and pressing necessity of de-
stroying it root and branch. The peaceful,
harmonious condition of the country under
Democratic rule we're feelingly, almost
tesrfully, alluded to. Reform of the civil
service-the ousting of eighty or ninety
thousand Republican officials and installing
more than that number Of famished, hollow
eyed, gaunt Democrats, appeared to excite
unbounded enthusiasm and enlist the
hearty sympathy of the unwashed throng.
The feelings OF salary grabbing Randall
almost everpowered him when he came to
his own pet theme-economy.
The massacre of Custer and his command
which seems now only too we'll authenti-
Gated, has directed the attention of the
country very generally to the proposed re-
ductions of the arny-proposed by our
Confederate economists-at time when
our few remaining regiments are being
wiped out, one by one, by the disaffected
Indian tribes in the West just what has
happened to Crook and Custer has been
often predicted in the House and Senate
this season by men having long experience
in legislating for the interests of the gov
ernment, but without appreciable effect
upon the indiscriminate cutting and slash
ing of the appropriations. The murder of
those men is one of the bitter fruits of
partial restoration of Democracy to
national power. Secretary Chandler's
inopportune discovery of the antewar
method of investing public funds has
created quite stir of CONSERVATION
among the reforlners of the House and
quired him (Chandler) to turn over to the
Secretary of the Treasury the Iadian trust
funds; and while taking an inventory of
them, it was discovered that frauds had
been perpetrated by officials under Demo
cratic administrations prior to the war,
which now amount, including the accrued
interest, to between $4OO0,O0O and 8, ,0OO,-
0O0 What line of defense will be adopted
by their present apologists in Congress has
not yet been developed. The dismissal of
Yaryan was at first eagerly seized as an
other evidence that President Grant was
wholly "given over to hardness of heart
and reprobate of mind" but subsequent in
quiry into his antecedents and character |
caused him to be as hastily dropped.
The deadlock upon the legislative, ex-
ecutive and judicial appropriation bill con-
tlnues. 1t was confidently announced and
generally believed that compromise had |
been made upon all the bills now before !
the conference committees; but the ina !
bility of the committee to agree upon the !
bill named dissipated the premature con-
clusion that all would be plain sailing now |
to the close Of the session. 1t is, however,
believed that way will soon be found to |
surmount all existing obstacles to an ilnme- |
diate passage of the bills now in dispute. |
The committee charged with the considera-
ton Of the resumption act with view to |
its repeal has not yet reported its conclu-
sions to tho House.
The alleged bargain made with Hendricks |
before the meeting. or during it's session, of |
the st. Louis convention, to the effect that |
he should have the nomination in 1880, re-
gardlees of the result in November, and his
unanimous nomination to the second place |
on the ticket, have rendered the imitation
lists more than usually aggressive and un-
in their demands.
The weather is unusually hot and dry,
and is severely felt at the Capitol; but tie
Senate nevertheless manifests an earnest |
purpose to 60 through with Belknsp's trial
Presumed yesterday. and reach decision
before an adjournment is consented to.
MAXWELL.
Centennial Music.
Among the RATS of new music which
have flooded the market lately, the sweet
est production is the Shaws Garden
composed by Hugh A. Wetmore,
. native American. The composition is
6odico%od fo Hopry Sbou,. IT,, xpbooo |