The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-05-16
Our Washington Letter.
Special to the REPUBLICAN.

breast, &C." And l have been think.
ing that if Mr.. Hayes and Mr.. Tilden
happen to have any Of these strings
about their physical selves, they will
be given an excellent opportunity to
jar, should these two gentlemen accept
the invitation of the chamber of COM
nerce of New York City to attend its
annual banquet. However, it is not
likely that the meeting will occur and
the many sharp newspaper articles that
have been set up in anticipation are
probably doomed to become only SO
much waste matter. 1t is sad to think
of the little consideration our states.
men have for the chivalrous knights
of the quill.
But the saddest and most exaspera-
ting thing l know of is to wrestle with
all the hard names in a European war
dispatch of a column or a column and
half, only to find note at the bot
tom stating that "the foregoing dis
patch is probably false" That is ard.
Considerable gossip has been geing
through the papers recently, to the eff
feet that Attorney General Devens
was to be sent to Constantinople to see
that the belligerent Turk took no un-
fair advantage of the Americans abroad
who might be sojourning in Turkey,
and Mr.. Maynard, our present Minis.
ter to that country, withdrawn. Now
President Hayes says if there is to be
any change in his Cabinet, he certain.
ly hasn't been consulted about it,
while Devens says that if the President
wants to send him to the land of the
Moslems, he knows nothing of it.
Senator Gordon is in the city and
denounces as falsehood the story
that he has been offered the War port
folio. He says he thinks the publica-
ton stating that he was to have the
place, was born of malice and with an
intent to injure him.
Ex-Presedent Grant is now the guest
of MIR. j. w. Paul, in Philadelphia,
whe is relative of Mrs. Grant. The
General and wife will spend a couple
of days there; afterwards they will
porceed to the residence of George w.
Child Esq, and will partake of his
hospitality until the day Of sailing for
Europe, on the 18th inst, at noon, in
the American line Steamship "India-
na." Ex-President Grant on his ar
rival in London, tits announced, will
have a special audience with Queen
Victoria, and be the guest of Mr.. Dis
raeli and other eminent men.
A prominent newspaper correspond.
ent who has jnst returned from Ohio,
and who endorses the policy of the ad-
ministration, says he was surprised at
the opposition he found TO it in the
Buckeye State. He is apprehensive
that the result Ofit will be that Ohio
will be lost to the Republicans, princi.
pally on account of the dissatisfaction
the Southern policy has produced
among the Republicans there. can
scarcely believe, however, but that his
fears are unfounded.
Out in the far west Mormon temper
appears, to use religious phrase, to
be getting up on its ear again. and the
Latter Day Saints are girding them.
selves with the carnal sword to resist
the United States authority. If Brig
ham Young thinks he can defy that
authority because there has been no
army appropriation and there is
chance of a reduced army, he will find
himself mistaken. The Mountain
Meadows Massacre has not yet been
atoned for.
Cross and Crescent are banging
away at each other across the Danube,
but no important change has taken
place on either side since my last
None will occur until they come to
closer quarters. 1t was old Snarow
who said "The bullet is foolish the
bayonet alouo is wise" If this say
iBg is ever true it is particularly SO