Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-03-29
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March "a, 1877.
Packard and Chamberlain stock Is
quoted as ranging higher than At any
time since inauguration, aud still has
al upward tendency, while that of
rival claimants is correspondingly de.
pressed, and President Hayes is just
reaping the harvest sown by meddle-
some and indiscreet friends, who rush
ed pell-mell on to ground where wiser
men had hesitated to tread. 1t is un-
doubtedly true that the President new
or authorized the negotiations under
taken with view to turning over
South Carolina and Louisiana to Nj
coils and Hampton, nor, the assurances
given them that Messrs. Chamberlain
and Packard were to be at once en-
trusted to the teEder mercies of their
followers by the administration. But
the effect OF the Cabinet decision la fa-
yor OF q Commission to Louisiana,
which has determined the President TO
continue the stdtu quo until the Com
missi0ners return and report, isvirtu.
ally the same upon the scores of mer-
Southern Democratic
politicians here, as though he had gone
squarely back on pldges made by him
self rather than by unauthorized med
dlers. Hardly a day has passed since
the 5tb inst, that one or more delega-
tiOns, headed by such men as General
Gordon and General Butler, have not
xrfa hn Al %
immediate withdrawal of the troops,
and recognition of Nicolls and Hamp
ton; that their political opponents had
any rights to be consulted in the prem.
ises seemed to be regarded as to the last
degree absurd; and the tone of the
Southern press leads TO the belief that
Democracy everywhere South OF the
Potomac, regarded every peint gained
and that in few hours at farthest,
they would be in possession Of the ma
chinery of every State Government
throughout that regain. Hence tht
lcry that comes up from the South thi'
morning, denouncing the administers
tion in unmeasured terms, because il
has reluctantly decided that to now
withdraw the Government military
forces would invite bloody collision
of factions, and that such result would
be almost absolutely certain to follow
such an impudent movement. 1t ought
10 be understood by impufSive people
Everywhere that the President will moi
decide the many InOmentouj ulatter-
involved in these two cases upon er
parte statements of interested parties
and that be will move only after the
most exhaustive effortsare made TO act
upon a clear apprehension OF all the
facts. 1t is understood that Mess:s.
Evarts, Key and Schurz favored, an
Sherman, McCrary, Thompson and
Devens oppose the recall Of the troops
An earnest effort is being made by
members of the Cabinet to devise q
plan that shall be applicable to all ap.
pointments, promotions and discharg-
IS in and from the civil service, that
will correct the abuses that have erept
into it until they have assumed the
proportions of colossal evils, and at the
same time secure more efficient trans
action of public business.
Blgglns, an insane man, who charged
Gen. Graut with such startling criib es
that he Was petted and made much OF
by Democratic investigating commit.
ter Two years ago, which was searching
high and low for d. Ia, upon which Ia
found articles of impe ichment, until
he (Biggins) explained that the Gen
eral cut up the reprihensiole didoes
co nplained OF, not in person, but vica-
riOusly through his own spirit, has
brought snit for 100000 against cur
|ex-President for Incarceration in the
Insane Asylum, although it does not
appear that he mad anything TO do with
it, some members of the Police Force
having captured and taken him (Big-
gins) to the asylum, on the certificate
of two physicians. He constantly haunt.
ted the vicinity of the White House,
and met the General on one OF his
walks, and threatened to "kn0ek his
head off his shoulders" 1t WAS open
to the defendant to plead the statu te
of limitation, but he refused to take
advantage of it, preferring thorough
as personal AND politi
cal enemies had attempted to utilize
the circumstances to his disadvan-
tage. IL is evident that the gentle.
men OF the legal profession retained by
Mr.. Biggins can have very little to do,
and differ with Franklin in his esti-
mate Of the Identical character of time
and money.
Notwithstanding the terrible state
of suffering that the nomination OF
Fred Douglass AS Marshal of this Dis
trict, brought to some members of the
Washington Bar Association, that gen.
tleman was confirmed, has qualified
aud catered upon the duties of his Of
flee, and not few of the proud eau.
casian race-hunkers to the core, too
are applicants for positions under
him, but harmoniously with the an
uouDced policy of the administration.
he declines to turn out faithful officers
TO make place for others. LOGAN.
BRIDGEPORT.