The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-06-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Gideon j. Pillow seeks TO be Judge, and
GideOn's SerTices-Gen. Ord's Mission
SuccesSful-The Mormon Sensation
Washington Canard's-The EIlenton
Trials, &C., &c.
From our Special Corsespondens.i

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From our Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 4, -.
! As probably rem srn bered by most OF
your readers, Gideon J. Pillow, after
being educated at the expense OF the
Government, and being honored with
high command, hastened to contrib
ute his share to its destruction and the
success of the rebellion by surrend, r
ing to the bogus Davis Government
the large PARTON of the United States
army under his command at the out
break of the war, and the vast amonut
OF property entrusted to his custody.
his cruel treatment of Federal prison
ers so unfortunate as to fall into his
hands, is equally matter of history
But 1t Is gratifying to note the fact that
after good many years devoted to the
ieisurely consideration of the matter.
he has accorded the Government his
forgiveness for coercive measures dur.
ing that struggle, and is willing to serve
1t in the Judicial capacity lately occu
pied by Judge Emmons. Since his
arrival here to personally assure the
authorities of his willingness to assume
the cares and annoyances of that posi-
ton. he has written a letter to the
President, cordially endorsing and Civ
ing him permission to rely on his (Pil-
low'S support; he also points out how,
by stealing two Mexican States and
extending our jurisdiction southwark
to national boundary which he de
scribes, the Mexican problem can be at
once solved and an effectual quietus be
put upon marauders on the south side
of the Rio Grande. The GOODNESS and
nonchalance with which he proposes to
take forcible possession Of r portion OF
a friendly powers territory without so
much as saying "by your leave"
brings wildly back to the recollection.
that school of fillibustering politicians
who flourished during the administra
ton of Pierce and Buchanan, and were
i banished from the Natl Inal councils
by the success of Mr.. Lincoln. Pill
!, low is said to be quite heavily backed.
Itappears that General Ord's mission
here to obtain permission to pursue
the cattle thieves who have harassed
Texas citizens 81 many years, until
they shall have been overtaken and
punished, has been successful The
matter was the subject of Cabinet
meeting, and Secretary McCreary has
| instructed General Sherman to accede
; to General Ord's request 1t is also
understood that the Mexican authori-
ties have been notified of the action
taken, while disavowing al unfriendly
feeling and desiring a COZ / u ,tion of
amicable relations. 1t is not believed
that any allusion was made TO the al
legged fillibusteriDg movement, either
at the several conferences had by Gen
eral Ord with prominent officials, or at
the Cabinet meeting which especially
considered Mexican affairs.
From late developments it would
appear that we are largely indebted to
the imagination of New York Herald
correspondents for the late Norman
sensation, they having bse Ell sent TO
Utah with instruction to supply the
Herald readers with accounts of a
threatened rebellion. One of them
was so faithful to orders as to report
his own valuable life in imminent peril.
1t seems that the canard sent from
this city relative to the formation of a
Blaine party, was so attenuated as TO
find very few sufficiently credulously to
swallow It, and the sensational state
ment of the National Republican, to
the effect that vast numbers of the
most prominent citizens and political
workers of the country had so far COM
pleted arrangements for organizing a
third or administration party, that its
success was almost an assured consum-
nation, seems to have elicted little else
than ridicule and derision. In this
mornings issue it performs the gastro
nomic feat of swallowing itself, and
devotes quite lengthy editorial, show
ing the absurd character of such an
undertaking. Three or four days ago
it spoke of it in tones OF ceutious ap-
prevail
Tha reported request of the British
Government for an investigation of the
circumstances of the death of McClel-
lend a victim of the DeKalb butchery,
who has been ascertained to have been
a British subject, reduces the Govern
ment to the unpleasant and altogether
humiliating necessity of cohfessing its
lack of authority in the premises, and
the evident Indifference of the State
officials to it and their disinclination to
permit any investigation.
The failure of the jury to agree in
the Ellenton riot cases, just tried in
Charleston bafore Justice Waite and
Bond, disappoints no one here; and it
is accepted here as notification to all
concerned that no bull dozer, however
black his crimes against his Republican
fellow citizens, need apprehend any
trouble from the Courts in States un
der Democratic control. There is only
two alternatives for them-either to |
leave the South, or stifle their convic-
tions and become Democrats.
The cases of two postmasters recent
ly appointed in Louisiana is very sig
nificant of the reign of terror in that
bulldozed State. One of them declines
to accept the offer because assured,
from the open threats of assassination
that his life would pay the forfeit in
case he presumed to exercise the func
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