The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-08-03
Our vvashIngson Letter

WASHINGTON, u. u
July 30Ch, 1877.
Belknapi Is IN the city, as spruce and
nobby as bean, and as serene as an
oyster in his shell. His many warm
personal friends call on him as freely
as ever in the past, and there is moth
ing now to indicate in his manner and
appearance the fearful ordeal through
which he passed last year, and by
which he fell from towering great
ness into the very depths of public
disfavor. The consciousness of deep
wrongs which were done him by those
whom he implicitly trusted, doubtless
serves TO buoy him up in his disgrace
and render him so much at ease and
dignifled in his intercourse with friends
and strangers right here in the scenes
OF his downfall.
.. WEST PoINTIsM.
Major Reno is also here. He is seek
ing to secure mitigation of his SEN
tence of suspension from the service
for his offered insult to Mrs. Bel, the
wife of one of his subordinate officers.
Under the dogma of West Point In
fallibility Maj Reno ought never to
have been tried, much less punished.
1t makes a wonderful difference whose
child commits. a nuisance. Mrs. Steer
forth and Miss Dartie in David Cop
perfleId could never realize that
James committed crime in seducing
a poor mans daughter. West Point
is quite as blind, and Reno should be
reinstated.
HAYES SOUTHERN POLICY.
Gen. S. L. Woodferd, is stopping
here on his way home from Mississip-
pi,where he has been to deliver a pub
lie grafton. He expresses himself
freely upon the political situation
there and says the whites and blacks
are moving along together in full
harmony upon every subject, save
that of politics. Everybody is a
work. Equal areas of corn and cot
ton are planted which will make thu
State selt-supporting. He thinks thu
white and black vote will divide: no
upon republieanism for that has beer
a dead issue since the democrats go
the ascendency under Grant; bu
against the old Buorbon democracy
He speaks hopefully and confidently
of the future under the PRESIDENT
policy for the colored man inasmucl
as he will thereby the sooner gain ant
exercise all his rights civil and pOliti
cal.
BALTIMORE OHIO RAILROAD.
The trouble of the B. g Q. railroad
company cause little sympathy for tina
corporation here. There Is a gooC
deal of human nature in Washington
among the loyal people, and in con
sequence thereof they will not forge
or forgive the inumerabIe wrongs o
this railroad inflicted not only upor
this city, but upon the general govern
ment, during and after the war. Mr.
Garrett In the past in all his report
laid great stress upon the $4,000, 00l
reserve of his railroad, and yet every
dollar of that reserve is the fruit of a.
deliberate robbery of the general gov
eminent, as the proceeds of the Paci
fic railroad credit Mobiler. There il
an interesting history in this which
will Ventilate fully hereafter. Until
Penn, Central RAILROAD connection il
1870 with Washington the B. 6 o
railroad literally exacted tribute from
as. For instance it is changed a!
much freight upon car load of fiouI
from Baltimore to Washington, dis.
lance OF 40 miles, as Chicago to Ralti-
more, 1000 miles, In every possible
way It sucked our lies blood. It:
profits came wholly from what robbed
US and the government, and poverty
siezed it when competition compelled
it to lessen its exactions. JUNIUs.