The New York herald., 1877-09-11
w A SHIN GTON.
FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 1871
oossIPs ON OUR MEXICAN RELATIONS AND
THE sPEAKERsHIP QUESTION.
II is an old saying that ideness is the mother OF
mischief The extreme dulness OF affairs just now in
Washington. which city is as quiet as Goldsmith's
"Deser,ed Village" will therefore readily account for
the several sensations which has been necessary to
invent to keep the national capital IRON relapsng into
utter oblivion.
lmprimis, the Mexican situation s reported to be
very grave It said the State Department is in
receipt OF information that the sending OF 1900 Mexi
can regulars TO the Rio Grande means Our Mn
lister. Mr.. Foster, is reported TO have warned Mr..
Evarts that these 500 Mexicans, ostnsiby sent to
preserve peace the border, were in
tended to tackle General Ord and whale the
Yankee boots oil him. II the reader
will turn back TO the Washington dispatches OF the
HERALD Of the week before last he will Gnd fact
announced that these troops coming TO the bor
der a the suggestion OF Sohor Maa and General Bena
vdes, both OF whom by separate. but simultaneous,
unanim'ty, RECOMMENDED that regular troops should
be sent 10 the border TO cooperate with General Ord
In keeping the peace the frontier which redommen.
dation was made from belief that the regulars would
assist the authorities checrully in carrying
the extradition laws than the Mexican militia with
their local hates and preudces Again. regular troops
respect each other ana command respect. The Mcxi-
can regulars and United States regulars would have
common sentiment in chasing down and punishng
the gaeriHeros and other irregular bands who enjoy
the sympathy of the Mexican militia
In this connection complaint is made that the Moxi.
can authorities have not delivered to the United
States the two raiders who crossed at Rio
Grandc City, and who il was acknowledged, had
violated the extradton laws Justice is always slow,
and the Mcxicans are not TO be blamed because they
have not suggested to US tho way of securing the
tradition Of these 1t lies with take all the
iormaltics OF the law The prisoners said to have
been removed from camargo to Matamoras, the near
est point at which Mexican federal court located
Under the law the Mexcans must hear claim for
extradition through their federal and not through
their State courts II is asserted that they have gone
so far as to transfer the prisoners 10 the vicinity Of
tho federal court at Maamoras If SO, and the Amcri
can authorities at Brownsville have been slumbering
IN their duty It will be how much Of justice there
is in the charge that the Mcxicans acting In
good faith.
Again the Speakershp is o constant theme Of trou-
bled discussion with tho specuaors but far thero
ia tuo reason for disturbing the general conviction
that the democratic candidate will be Mr.. Randall and
the republican candidate General Garfield Some Of
lately In their adhesion 70 Mr. Randall whio tho back
ing down oi tho sorehead republican element In so
many county and State conventions s regarded
strengthening the chances OF Mr.. Charles Foster as
against General Garfield in tho preliminary CAUCUS
Otherwise Mcssrs. Randall and Garfield may be re-
garded standing as prominently IN the affections OF
their party they did when the gave eli midday
the Attn Of March last
The outgrowth Of this spirit OF sensation and spec
ulation Is further found in tho predictions aud posi-
tive assertions that the noxt Senate will be organized
democratic basis, and yet the same persons who
unwilling to cOncede the ghost Of chance to tho
republicans IN organizing the House, where they are
In . minority OF only eight or ten votes, confident
that the democrats With . clear majority OF tour
nvo against them. will got control OF the Sopate In
other words, while tho democrats with preponder
ance Of only nine votes in nearly threo hundred,
count upon undsputed organization OF the ouse,
they unwilling to allow the republicans to control
the Senate with clear majority oil live In total o
only seventy -sx votes.
1t should bo remembered, In Short that tho adven,
OF Mr. Hayes 70 tho Presidency has not yet weak.
ened the republican party elevated The democrats
to universal dominion.