The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-08

But now that he has ceased to make
history for us, and is again with the
people as citizen, where no civil act is.
open to public criticism, the good he
has done, the purity of his intentions,
and the intense love of his country
which actuated his public acts, should
compel all patriots to forego earping
upon criticism and do him honor as ex-
President.
Mrs. Sartoris had her boy christened re-
Gently in one of our Episcopal Churches,
and has left US, perhaps, forever. She
has no intentions now of returning
soon, and is preparing for permanent
residence in her English home. She
and her mother, Mrs. Grant, have won
golden opinions from all who ever met
them in the past public life of the Pres
ident, and no one has ever met them
but now extends the heartfelt wish for
a safe and pleasant voyage.
FRED. DOUGLASS.
All our papers have Joined in the hue
and cry against this distinguished col
Ored man. Immense petitions have
been presented to the President, pray
ing for Douglass removal. But the Of
fender deems it, as he says, "a tempest
in TEAPOT" and does little but call
public attention to the fact that the
same lecture was delivered here a few
years ago, and then elected many COM
pliments from the papers that are so
roundly abusing him. At that time he
was only "nigger," and people could
afford to laugh at his criticisms or
spleen, but now he is United States
Marshall, and the same words become
rank offense. This we presume is nat
ural, but we Opine that in a few days
more the ferment will have subsidized,
and the people will admit that his lee
ture had many truths in it.
Thomas Jefferson characterized our
large cities as ulcers upon the body po-
little, and in so far as size permits, no
observing person can deny that Wash
ington has it's full share of the evils
which concentrate in all cities. But
we hardly like to have negro tell US
of our shortcomings, and we must throw
a stone at his glass-house by saying,
that while the coIored citizens compose
only one-third of our population, they
furnish two-thirds of the criminal cal
endars of our courts.
SILVER.
The glut of this precious metal on the
Pacific Coast gives our Postal Depart
ment much annoyance, inasmuch as it
causes great difficulty in making pay
ments to contractors who carry the
mails. The people buy their stamps
with silver, but refuse to receive it in
return, and demand greenbacks or gold,
neither of which is possessed by the
postmasters. The department has not
as yet devised means of relief, and ap-
parently cannot until Congress gives
some additional legislation.
WHY APPLICANTS FOR PENSIONS HAVE
TO WAIT.
The Pension Bureau has now on its
files nearly $4,000 unadjudicated pension
cases, besides some $4,000 so-called "re-
iected cases." about 2, 900 of which an
nually require to be re-Opened on the
presentation of additional evidence.
The work of the pension office proper is
quite as we'll up as ever before, but re-
plies to references to the Adjutant-Gen-
eral and Surgeon-G Generals office. The
average time required to obtain the hos
pital record of soldier is from twelve
to fourteen months, during which the
applicant has only to wait with what
patience he or she may possess. An
other cause of great delay is the stead
lily increasing difficulty which, as time
advances, the applicant meets in OBJ
tanning the necessary evidence to Sc
cure the issuing of the pension certif
cate. In view of this increasing diff
Guilty, Congress will at its next session
be asked for a sufficient clerical force to
bring up the present applications and
secure prompt attention to claims.
THE WEATHER
here is magnificent, as well as the open
air concerts of our marine band, which
plays alternately at the Presidents and
Smithsonian grounds, mingling their
duIcet strains with the merry warb-
lings of the gaily-plumaged birds, which
SO abundantly abound in our parks.
FELIX.
Washington, D. c., May IS, 1877.
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