The daily gazette., 1877-01-06
Our Washington Letter.

DEMOCRATIC coNGREssMEN RETURN TO
wAsHINGToN-THE EFFECT OF RURAL
INsPIRATIoN-CHAND GALvAN-
ISM OF HAYES FAILURE-RED
PLUMEs AT THE NEW YEARS RECEP-
TIoNs-PREsIDENT-EL TILDEN Ex-
PECTED IN wAsHINGToE-THE CoNsPI-
RAToRs LACK MONEY TO MAKE THE
POT BOIL AND BUBBLE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 1877.
From Our Regular Correspondent
The larger number of members and
senators who made flying visit home,
during the holidays, have returned to
Washington. Your correspondent, after
having heard the opinions of some of
them, has come to the conclusion that
the effect of rural inspiration is to make
stiff Democrats "rigia." 1 do not think
that L eXaggerate, when 1 say there is
wavering in the column of the office
holders. Chambers galvanic treatment
is pretty generally conceded to have
failed, even by those who hoped to profit
by it. The situation is what might have
been expected. 1t was openly said here,
before the election, that Mr.. Tilden
should not, if elected, take his seat. On
the seventh of November the issue be-
tween the Republicans and Democrats
was emphatically decided. But there
Immediately arose another, not unlocked
Gf,ri hDf l,n off n1 ~
the people. The office holders through
their interested champions of the press,
in the Senate and in the cabinet, con-
tinue to make Il show of resistance. But
it is mostly "cheell" and voice, pratered
nha They would all like to be Re
turning Board, and count themselves
In,
The opinion has gained wonderfully
during the holidays that there will be no
organized resistance to the indication of
Mr.. Tilden. Republican members from
the New England States frankly admits
that the opinion is widespread among
teeir constituents that Mr.. Tilden has
been fairly elected ..s.
The transition from office to the ordi
nary means of livelihood is, the enovated
government clerk, like removal from a
warm bed to q snow bath, healthful,
perhaps, but as likely to kill as to cure.
The government is sick from the morbid
influence of $4,000 of these patients.
The faculty decided, on the 7th OF No.
yember, that they must be removed, and
that their beds be disenetfected. They
are making show of resistance TO this
heroic treatment But the deputies of
the faculty have no opinion in the mat
ter, and will see that its commands are
strictly followed.
The last official new years reception of
the present administration was not re-
markable for anything but an abundance
of snow, and q superabundance of red
plumed artillery officers. Y our correspond
ent took hold of the soiled but originally
white kid glove that covered the hand of
the President of the United States, and
shook it in business like way, as it was
the duty of your correspondent to do
Gen. Grant failed to recognize in me an
enemy of''the party which he represents"
and one who has given currency to some
truths uncomplimentary to his party, and
his administration, and passed on, re-
flecting that q man might, without vio-
lence to moral sensibility, take the official
digits of the President, while to grasp the
hand of him, who has done more than
any other man to bring ruin and contempt
upon Republican institutions, and to
make 1876 the political antipode of 1776
would be deed to make a consistent pa
triot hesitate,
We must forgive individual wrong and
love our enimies. But there are wrongs
against people. against humanity, and
posterity, too stupendous and balefully
far reaching for any mere man to con-
done.
There seems to be some truth in the re-
port that Mr.. Tilden proposes taking up
his residence in this city at very early
day, in order that he may more effective
ly prepare for the onerous laborS that
await him after the 4th of March. From
all but the officeholders, who, 1otwith-
standing their immense numbers, are but
a small minority of our actual population,
he will have a most cordial welcome. 1t
is also said that Mr.. Hayes will become
the guest of President Grant few days
before the latter leaves the White House,
and that after the 4th of March the relat-
ion of host and guest will be exchanged,
Grant remaining to fix
things with the army. The President has
ordered the removal of stores and munit-
ions of war from the arsenal at st. Louis,
as he told gentleman yesterday sin an
ticipation of trouble"
The Secretary of the Treasury has call |
ed for an appropriation to defray the eX-
pense of the transportation of troops,
which the House, considering the useless
not to say unconstitutional and criminal
object of their removal will be in no tenn
per to grant. Already the bungling con-
;pirators begin to feel the pinch OF pow
erty, and realize the importance of their
before the hell.broth is half
cooked. G. A S.
GENERAL RUGER'S 1NSTRUC- |