Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-03-23
FROM WASHINGTON


W AshlNbiONi ~ W AhRiNh 10 AS''f
The Senate adjourned sine die on Saturday
at A p NJ, much to the delight of all, and nov
the country will remain at rest for brief spell
until called together in june, which seems now
10 be definitely settled upon. SO yos see we
are 10 have ''the boys with us again, ranting
and caniing over divers matters and keeping
the public in constant turmoil and strife over
combinations, army appropriations, &C.
From all reliable information gathered here
it is determined by the powers that be 10 with
draw in few days the T. s. troops in the
State House at Columbia, S. c., and New Or
leans, La, and Packard and Chamberlain left
to stand or fall as best they may.
Every day since the induction in Office OF
Carl Schurz he has received several hundred
applications from counirymen of his for oific6
written in their native language, and as his
clerks can not read "Dietch" Schurz has TO
read all these letters himself TO see what they
are. His labors will not be SO easy as lie
thought for.
The Senate adjourned Saturday without elect
ing President protein, as usual, 10 be prepar-
ed for the contingency Of the Vice President
ying during the recess. Ferry has vacated it
by his absence, and even il he had returned
before the final adjournment a new election
would have been necessary. Should Hayes
and Wheeler both die before Congress is again
in session, there would be neither q President
Of the Senate nor Speaker of the House to
succeed, and the Office of President of the Uni
ted States would remain for time abso lutely
vacant.
The colored folks are now pretty well estab-
lished in the government Since the confrma-
ton Of Fred. Douglass BY the Senate 10 0e U .
S. Marshal fof InIs District, his Fraudulency
iiayes has appointed Langston (col'd) 10 be
Commissioner in charge of the Agricultural
Department, and to-day it is whispered thai
our worthy postmaster Edmunds, of the local
P. 0. is to be superseded oy coored brudder
of African scent These three departments,
in consequence of their chiefs being negroes,
will be packed full OF blacks, the white clerks
both male and female being dismissed to give
place to ",Sdmbo" and "Dinah." So you gen
eel white people when visiting your national
capital will have the pleasure of bowling and
scraping and playing turnkey to the cornfeld
portion of your eountrymen, on may not
like this pill but you must swallow it. These
dark skin Americans were appointed 10 these
three prominent positions for no peculiar or
special qualifications, but simply because they
were "Niggers," and is the result of the North
ern idea of making them citizens and bestow-
ing upon them the equality OF the white race,
merely for the sake of their votes.
Blaine, in the debate in the Senate upon the
confirmation of Douglass lcol'd J herein before
alluded TO- said he had known Frederick Doug
lass for twenty years, had invited him often
TO his house and received him within the
domestic hearth of his family, when to do so
and treat him as an equal was almost
crime, and had warm admiration for Mr.
Douglass. There are a great many white
people in Maine whom Sunstroke Blaine would
not invite in his family circle, and if they can
stand Blaiue's conduct we can. Where are the
noble yeomany of New England 10 allow such
a man 10 represent them in the Senate.
In ell the political discussions of the day it
is remarkable that the Grant administration,
though but two weeks dead, seems to be al
most as completely forgotten as though it had
existed before the food. No reference is made
to it except in the language of condemnation.
There are good many things only worthy to
be remembered in order to avoid Them in the
future.
Robert Toombs, of Georgia, says he sees no
result in Hayes proposed conciliatory policy
towards the South beyond good time for
the boys" who obtain Offices and the disrup-
ton of the "Radcal party"
The administration is in quite n state Of
mind about the extra session. There are several
reasons why Mr. Hayes wishes to avoid call
ing an extra session if he possibly can chief
Of which is the fact that ahont half Of the
Democrats and nearly all the Republicans do
not want to be called hilher in midsummer
and precipitated into a long Tipperarv fight
for the Speakership under the broilrg sun Of
a Washington July. lie believes that BY next
December, the policy he has inuagurated will
have SO far broken the party ties in the South
that it will be impossible for the Democracy
to control the organization Of the House on
the caucus system. In view of these consid-
erations the President, who was counted in, is,
as said before, in profound state of mind
and believes he can carry the army over upon
the general resources of the Treasury and then
have Congress kindly allow his little deficiency
at the beginning of the next regular session.
lie might wake up next December to find that
such policy, because it merely suiis his per-
sonal convenience, does not accurately repre-
sent the temper OF the country.
Poor Rutherford b. is doing bis best to
condone for his crime ofs,ealing the Presidency
and last week appointed a Democratic post
master in Virginia, and at his horrible inno-
walton the Radical party elevates its Ebenezcr
as if it smelled something.
The diving winter made n ptiful squirt at
existence by trying 10 get up a snow storm on
Saturday. II was an amateur affair, and
,petered out into thin slush and rain, but to-
day, We gods with little G J what storm
and still storming-while fakes as big as a
hen. roost, and laying too. We announce the
fact as il affords the best opportunity of the
season for original poetry on the Beautiful
etc. DgMocRITEs.