The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-05-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
fFrom our Special Correspondent !


ceipt of large numbers of letters from
business men and politicians daily. pro
testing against an extra session if poSs-
ible TO avoid it. Congress can hardly
regard this as complimentary to itself
and it is undeniably true that sufficient
number of reckless or crochety men
manage to get elected to each new Con-
gress, to throw every business commun-
ity into tremor. lest their meddlesome
proclivities lead them to tinkering ex-
periments with the finances, the tariff,
or other matters of National importance
upon whose stability and exemption
from sudden or i'll advised changes, the
legitimate profits of millions of invested
capital are dependent. 1t is the chances
of these unfortunate selections Of Ma
; tional Legislators that awaken the appre-
tensions of business men at every new
session. In the present instance there
is added a fear of reopening of the old
| partizan-strife- that has been coaxed into
taking rest for the past few weeks.
But no legal way has been devised for
the support of the army, except through
the passage of the usual appropriation
bill. 1t is also understood that the Eu-
ropean war will nesessitate additional
appropriations in order to fulfil treaty
stipulations, and to properly provide for
the preservation of American interests
that might otherwise be jeopardized by
the chances of war; and the Department
of Justice also requires additional aid.
The Government has as yet received
no formal notification of the existence
of war from the representatives of Rus
sia and Turkey here, although our Min
listers at st Petersburg and Constantine
pie have formally announced the fact
When those representatives shall have
notified the Government, a proclamation
Of strict neutrality will be promulgated,
urging upon all officials and private citi
zens, rigid compliance with our inter-
national obligations. The evident dis
tress of the Tory administration of Great
Britain and the uncomfortable alterna-
tiyes to which it has been reduced by the
reported demand of Austria, that it faith
fully observe the stipulation of the Paris
treaty of 1856, guaranteeing the iniegri
ty of the Turkish Empire, excites very
little sympathy among those here who
remember how persistently that party
intrigued and plotted with our enemies
during the war of the rebellion, for the
destruction of the Republic. We await
every dispatch from Europe with an
interest only second to that felt in the
rumors constantly reaching Washington
from our armies at the front during the
war; and all the indications up to date
are generally accepted among the well
informed here, as proof that every first
and second class power in Europe is
rapidly drifting into the terrible vortex
of war whose limits, neither with re-
spect to extent, or duration, can even be
predicted with any degree of certainty.
The specializing mania which has swept
over the country has reached us. Many
excellent brands of flour are manufac-
tured at the Touring mills in the neigh
boring city Of Georgetown. Flour that
forty days ago sold for IS 80, IS now in
active demand for 81 or S12, with good
prospects of further advance in a few
days at farthest. Many of our bakers
took the infection badly. The legal
weight of 16 ounces per loaf was reduced
to 13 or IA ounces The police were
secretly instructed to waylay the carts as
they were sent out in the morning. Re-
suit: Work-house has accumulated large
supplies of the confiscated staff of life,
and the offending bakers fined 81 for
every deficient loaf in some cases
amounting to more than 800. In ad-
dition, some of those who attempted to
to escape the minions of the law by fast
driving, were mulct to the tune of $50
for that ofense. Popular verdict: Serv-
ed them right.
The President vigorously denies all
sympathy with the alleged new party
movement which some members of the
Cabinet are charged with entertaining
According to the same authority, the
National Republican, he secuted the
idea that he had any intention ofdesert-
ing the freedmen of the South, but stat
ed that his Southern policy was the re-
suit of, mature conviction, and that had
he been elected in 1872, it would have
been applied four years earlier.
A lively fight is going on for the Rich
mond Post Office between Miss Van
Lew, present incumbent, and Mr. JEFF
or1s, discharged assistant. They have
both been here to urge their claims with
the President, and it is barely possible
that he may deem it the shortest cut TO
be rid Of parplexing matter to disap
point both and take 4 new party. Miss
Van Lew appears to be the fyorite Of
the public generally. The collectorship
Of Internal Revenue, in the same city, is
the prize for which many are contend
ing. The Richmond and Baltimore
Office seekers have proved troublesome
lot; and there is nodoubt that for cheek,
intrigue and persistency, they outrival
those ofany other section
Our market is literally supplied with
all the spring vegetables, and strawber-
ries are becoming so plenty that the
hucksters are already hawking them
about the streets for sale. The country
about Washington in Its spring robe Of
green. MAXWELL.