The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-12-02
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. ., 1876.

at the head of less than fifty followers,
white and cnlored, has the presence of
four or five hundred troops in any
given locality so convulsed the nation
al Democracy with a paroxism of ter
ror, as resulted from the quiet landing
of few companies of United States
troops at the arsenal in this city and
never before, perhaps, has an occur
renee of such insignifcance been in
| vested with consequences of such
crushing magnitude. The Washing
ton correspondent of the New York
Sua, who appears to have cultivated
his imagination at the expense of
every other intellectual function,
forwarded dispatches to that paper,
| representing this city in state of
excitement and uproar on Saturday,
unparalleled since the day when the
| rebel bombardment of Fort Sumpter
| was first announced. The streets
were tilled-hinted this reliable chron-
icler-by frenzied masses of people,
struggling with their outraged feelings
which prompted them to violently sieze
the nsurper in the White House and
hurl him from power. He circum-
stantially related how eager thousands
poured, Il living stream into the ar
senal grounds on the Lords Day, all
anxiously seeking to know why this
was thusly but failed ignominiously
in their interrogatious and returned
discouraged, because of reticent and
frigid manners of the satraps and
and miniOns in command of this in
vading army. 1t was also said that the
hotels and other places of public re-
sort were crowded almost to suffoca-
tion by indignant citizens of this city
aud the surrounding counties of Ma
ryland and Virginia: all loud in their
denunciations of the tyrant who, by
this military move, has taken another
fearful stride toward the complete
subversion of constitutional liberty. /
don't pretend to give his exact words.
Now Saturday was very windy and
rainy day, and very few people were
in the streets, day or evening. The
first troops to arrive were those who
came late Saturday evening and
their arrival was not generally known
till Sunday morning. Hotels and
other loafing places appeared hardly
as full as usual because of the storm.
Some abuse of the President was
heard, of the high-tone variety,
usual VI ith ovelstimnlated Democrats
If threats of resisting Hayes inaugu
ration were heard it ought not to have
excited even the San correspondent,
as they have been SO frequent in
Democratic circles since Wednesday
evening following the election, as to
have entirely lost their novelty. Very
few people visited the arsenal on
Sunday either, as the continued storm
did not invite long walks. Some won-
der and little excitement in GER
tain quarters were apparent when the
presence of the troops WAS first geper-
ally known, more because of the ex-
aggerations as to the number, the Oc-
casion for their use, and the quietness
observed in bringing them here, than
because there was anything unusual
or alarming in their presence. Some
of the correspondents were, it is said,
u little piqued because the officials
approached for information did not
respond categorically to the thousand
and one questions with which they
were piled. Hence the many sensa-
tional and spiteful accounts sent from
here on Sunday and Monday By, tele-
graph and mail, relative to the matter.
But after all that has been said and
written pro and con about it, find a
good many entertain the belief that
the government has received evidence
| of contemplated raid on the capital,
not known to the general public
Another class, still more numerous
believe it to have been for the purpose
of providing against . breach of the
peace on the evening of the 29th inst.
when it is proposed to celebrate Til
denis electiou--to stay at home, sup
pose-by the Democrats of this ane
neighboring towns. Although tbt
Star scouts the idea Of a riot, many
| ao,rob.nd Sarinus traIlhla and have