Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-04-18
(From our regular correspondent
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON. Apri

o WASHINGTON, April IS.
is There seems TO be much uncertainty q
e to the time when an extra session of Cor
gress will be called The secretary of wa
= said yesterday that if the Louisiana diff
u Guilty could be satisfactorily ended befor
II that time, the extra session would begi
: ON the 10Th Of May. The Louisiana diff
Guilty is the uncertain quantity. and yer
uncertain quantity it is The commission
1t Is understood, have about ended thei
mission, negotiations, labors, or perhap
: meddling is a more definite term for al
That they have done or could do in that dis
tracted state. There is much anXiet'
among southerners in the city to know th,
purport of u long dispatch in cipher sen
by tire commissioners to the president.
is the first dispatch of any consequence
that the president has received from tina
source. 1t came directly to the executive
mansion, and was taken by IN instrument
there in private room. The president
up to late hour last night, had not made
the contents public.
Alter the excitement preceding and
since the presidential election. political
matters now seem to be in the condition OF
the river described ny Caesar, "of such
incredible placidity that it is impossible to
discern with the eyes in which direction it
flows" The letter of Mr.. Blaine created
little sensation, for it was supposed by
some, from his long silence, that he had
been subdned to acquiescence in the presi-
dents policy. When he made his defiant
speech in the Senate last month, and bold
~ assumed the championship of Packard
ana Chamberlain, nearly all his friends de-
pIored his action rs rash and ill.advised.
But there is II little equivocation in the
blast which be sounds through the Boston
Herald,as there was in his speech when he
called upon heaven to wither his hand and
paraIyze his tongue in ease he deserted his
republican, friends in the south. The indi-
cations are that he intends to make war
upon the presidents southern policy if he
has to do it singe-handed and alone.
There has been much gossip recently in
relation to II sort Of partnership between
Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Butler, by which they
should mutually oppose one in the Senate
ana the other in the House, the president
policy. But it is not at all probable lha
amy such arrangement has ever been
thought OF by these gentlemen, and it is |
impossible that such combination could
end in anything but futiity, even were it
There is at present social as well us DO
illcaI slagnation ut the National Capital.
The Old leaders Of society have all abli.
Gated. The names of Mrs, Fish and Mrs
Robeson, and their brilliant satellites and
are no longer conspicuous in the
unWhoesome stuff that composed the So
cIely column of the city journals, and the
average correspondent has not vet been
lble to adapt himself to the new order of
things; or rather, the new order of things
IS not clearly defined Mrs Hayes and
her cabinet seem MS little disposed as the
'terncr half of the administration to be
content with mere imitation of the old
'eSme. What reforms will be silently
influenced in fashion, repasls, entertain
nents' ETC., are not yet apparent.
These are matters that we are disposed
% Treat aS frivolous and unworthy the con.
'lderaton OF any but women, handles, and,
1t IS not multiplying synonyms, young
laval officers. But when we remember
hat Paris is France, and Washington,
hough happily in IL milder sense, America,
md that the subtitle influence of fashion
md manners have always left deep i'm
PRESS on national life and history, it will
lot do to treat us unworthy of considers
ion the magnitude Of womens' bustlcs,
he number Of courses at table, or indeed,
my thing that is material or ceremonial ut
he National CAPITAL. q