The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-06-06
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, May 3Oth, 1877

WAsu1NoroN. May Both, 1877. 10
Private citizens as well a public Of
6cers and politicians have been talking
much during the last weeks Of the CHS
holm tragedy il Mississippi and the
similarly atrocious one in Louisiana.
Considerable discomfort from various
quarters has been making itself mani
fest through the press, because the
President has taken no steps to avenge
or investigate the matter It has been
generally supposed that the reason why
the administration remained silent on
the subject was that the mattors were
both peculiarly local and the action on
them depends upon the Governors of
those States. This, however, can hard.
" be the case. The government can
net have been insensible to the horrors
of such proceedings and whatever may
have been the motives or circumstances
causing the acts, they indicate a lawless-.
ness that is far from justi6able. Peo-
pie cannot be allowed, under any Cir.
cumstances, to take the law and its ex.
ecution into their own hands in such a
manner, and the probability is that the
President is only waiting to give the
governors opportunity to mete out jus.
tice in their own provinces.
England, having fully ana freely dis
cussed the matter, decides to receive
Gen. Grant with all the honors ana
etiquette usually observed towards ex-
soyeleigns. "Things have changed
since Reuben died" in England az well
as elsewhere. When Ex-Presidents Van
Buren,, Fillmore and Pierce visited Eng
land they were received merely as pri-
vate citizens, but the seventeen years
between then and now have wrought
wonderful changes in the condition of
international relations. To be sure,
General Grant bears with him wherever
he goes great military record, but that
would not give him the honors of a SOW.
ereign. Evidently the United States
and Great Britain are nearer together
in brotherly love than they were score
Of years ago. ..'|"
Last week Treasurer Wyman, who
has been failing in health for some
months, resigned his Office. Secretary
Sherman urged him to remain but he
declined, at last consenting to fill the
less wearing position of Assistant Treas.
urer, and Mr.. Gilillin was appointed
U. S. Treasurer. Many bitter things
are being said against Secretary Sher.
man and his financial policy. He ex'
pressed himself as firmly determined up
on the accomplishment of two things:
the resumption Of specie payment at the
earliest possible moment, and the effect
ing of as large reduction of the public
debt as is possible before the meeting
of Congress. His definite plans by
which to accomplish these ends are oper
for cabinet discussion and counsel
Under very rigid order of the Secre
tary's no claims against the United
States are to be paid unless by his per
sonal order. r.
The Presidents family did not move
out to his summer residence at Soldiers
Home as was expected, and as he would
have done had the weather remained a.
hot and sultry as it was the week before
It will be a rare change for him wher
he does get away, not to be besieget
with callers at all hours, for he has ha,
hardly an hour to himself since his in
auguration. Being an early riser, he i
usually at his private desk at six o'clock
breakfasts at eight, and before ten tn
ante'rooms are thronged with visitors
The President received an urgent invi
tation, some time since, from Gen. Arm
strong, President of the Normal an,
Agricultural school at Hampton, Va, t
attend its anniversary celebration whic1
occurred last week. The President &C
cepted the invitation for himself an
family, provided it did not inteferc will
the public business, but when the tim
arrived, having SO lately been to Phila
delphia and New York, he deemed
inexpedient to absent himself agai1
from Washington and his official dutie
here, so,i rather than disappoint TIL
school entirely, Mrs. Hayes and he
lady guests, with Mr.. Rodgers, tn
President's Private Sacretarv. ti+~o.