The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-03-02
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb'y 26, 1876.
Special Correspondence.


On the 22inst. vivacious Alexandria
dotted her widows weed for the first
time since the collapse of the
rebellion and with much pageon-
try celebrated the anniversary OF
Washington's birth. Baltimore, the
District and the adjacent communities
OF Nd. and Va. contributed largely to
the festivities by the presence of thou
sands of their private citizens and their
military. A carnival, including pro-
| cesbion Of the military, trade and civil
organizations was the great feature of
the occasion. The veneration and es-
TEEN with which Virgiuia's first and lat
ter-day patriots are regarded, and the
exact position which they occupy in the
widows bare&ved heart was ingeniously
and modestly indicated by the pictures
OF Washington, surrounded by those of
Lee. Beauregard and Jackson and 9th
ers of that kidney, adjoining many house
fronts. The promotion of social enjoy
men5 was assiduously attended to blythe
gentlemanly observation-disclosures sosucces-
fully that an old resident or visitor was
frequently seen reeling under the wright
of patriotic me mories, his ardent spirits
stimulating and bringing out the fcater
nizing tendencies OF the day to such an
extent that the usual feeling of aversion
to policemen gave place to one of good
will, and he would escort one, two or
three of them, arm in arm, about town
until some Station House was reached,
when he would playfully desert them
and retire TO some place within ''to
sleep, perchance to dream. Still anoth
er, less fastidious OF more ardently de-
voted to republic simplicity aud the
perfect equality of oil races, (''d-d
Niggers" excepted), with some facetious
introductory remark about always oc-
cupying the best place, would disposess
some ininerant hog o: his palatial sleep
ing apartment in the gutter.
The gloom and dependency surroun-
ding the Democratic hosts, has been
notably increased by the verdict in the
Babcock case. The trial was to have
''panned OUT SO richly with radical
corruption shown to have its scarce
and chief abettor in the White House,
that the revulsion of feelings-the alter
nation from brightest hope to keenest
despair las quite given them dreadful
turn, indeed. It is asserted that some
Of the more enthusiastic reformers held
stakes and, of course, lost heavily on the
result. Their nervous manner and his
torica1 merriment only rendered their
chagrin more apparent. The acquitted
of Genl Babcock by jury of st. Louis,
where whiskey conspritors have not met
the least favorable consideration, has
proved as gratifying to that officials
friends as it has notifying to that por-
ton of the Democratic and s.indepen-
dent" 90 press, which from the moment
Of his Indictment, in advance of any evil
dence, convicted (and executed, 50 far
- eA~f SOoiNAj i1ih OiCfGtJ SIN ulSutLOH-
ed in the decalogue.
The selection of ST. Louis as the place
of meeting of the Democratic nominal
ing convention is regarded as an indica
ton of the s'rag baby vigorous health
although it is claimed to be comprom-
Use between the most extreme imitation
list who hoped by bringing it together in
Ohio to overshadow and indoctrinate it
with the crazy views so rampant among
her Democracy, and the hard money
Democrat who desired to inject into it
propalactic, only possible surrounded by
New England or n. Y atmosphere
However that may be, it is, so far as l
can learn, accepted as first blood for
''Neighbor Phable'' Hendricks who is
so evenly balanced on the financial fence
| dividing the East from the West that
the first decided wind from any quarter
| will send him flying of to leeward, ard
Gov. Tllden whose war against the canal
| cing aud dislike (real or feigned) for it.
has laid him open to The suspicion of
Repub lean tendencies, and made HIN:
unpopular with his party.
The irreconciiahle views and conse.
quant bitterness existing relative to the
tinanc IS threatens Democracy with the
fate that overlook their prototy pes on
the plain of Shinr, and on the least