The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-06-29
oar UaShinDtOn Letter.
WASHINGTON, D. c., June %, 1877.

NO POLITICS FOR OFFICE-HoLDERS.
The Administration will promulgate to
the public in a few days order strictly
forbidding all Federal office holders from
participating personally in active political
manifestations. as well being or becom
ing members of political committees, either
ex-of1icio otherwise, and holds that while
the enforcement of this rule Will probably
work for a time against his party, it will in
the end benefit it and concludes by saying
that if any Federal office holders think
their duty to their party requires their in
dividual cxertions he has no objection to
their resigning their offices, but they must
give up one or the other.
THE PRINTING BUREAU.
The report of the committee of inveStiga-
tion wherein they condemn the loose man.
agement of the Printing Bureau, as well
as the employment of two or three times
the number of employees really necessary
many appointments being made of persons
friendly to the Presidential aspirations of
Mr. Bristow-is not at all relished by the
particular friends of the la:e Secretary, who
retort by asserting that the report was made
in the interest Of the Bank Note Companies
to whom Mr.. Bristow refused to make
awards. At all events, there has been
big leak in this Bureau for the past decade,
and it is about time it was stopped.
BEECHER At THE WHITE HOUSE.
Henry Ward Beecher called upon Mr..
Hayes on Wednesday last and prevailed
upon the Administration to retain a lead
ing member of Plymouth Church ana
witness in the Parsons Tilton-Beecher
adultery case, one Freeland collector of the
Brooklyn district, whose resignation had
been called for. Rutherford B. did not
however, commit himself to the ParsUn,
but turned the matter over to ''brother
john" of the Treasury PORTFOLIO, for ill.,
vestigation and report.
THE INDIANS.
From dispatches received here through
army sources we are informed thata mother
big Indian war has begun. We are in
clined to believe. however. that the picture
is vastly oveI drawn, as the main dispatch
reports only one hundred Indians on the
war-path.
NAIL CONTRACTS.
The awards for mail service under ad-
vertisement of April 10 give entire conf
dence here in regard to accuracy, impaTti-
ality and promptitu6e in every particular.
They complete the entire mail service of
every State and Territory, aud will go into
effect on Sept. 1st. proximo, and continue
until the end of each term respectively.
THE WHITE HOUSE BEsIEGED.
The executive mansion has for the past
few days been over-run with delegations,
each one having some axe to grind. Mr..
Hayes listened attentively, as usual, but
they departed without receiving any ad-
ditional information as TO his intentions.
KENTUCKY RADICALS.
Considerable dissatisfaction exists among
Kentucky Republicans at the non-appuiut-
ment by Mr.. Hayes to important positions
of Gen, Harlan and Col. Bristow. Harlan
wanted TO go in the Cabinet and Bristow
gazed eagerly toward the Supreme Court
Bench. Great complaint comes from Ken
lucky at the small patronage bestowed
upon them by the Admin istraton, and at a
private meeting held at Cincinnati the
| friends of Bristow determined To- still furth-
er urge him for the vacancy i'll the L. 5.
| Supreme Court.
GRANTS EXAMPLE.
! Notwithstanding the repeated assertions
t that Mr.. HAYES would spend the summer
! in Washington attending TO the duties Of
/ his office, his good intentions have broken
/ down, aud he will no doubt spend as little
| time here as did his predecessor, Grant.
/ His trip to New England will consume a
week or more and then he proposes a trip
! South, winding up at the Greenbrier White
| SulpEer Springs, Va. The programme as
at present mapped ont will undoubtedly
| keep him from our city the best part if not
! all summer. This ''circuit riding disease
is evidently "ketchin'."
GARFIELD's DISAPPOINTMENT.
Gen. Garfield, aspirant for the Speaker
| ship through the ovcrnres made to him by
Mr.. Hayes, now bewails his disappoint-
ment, regrets giving up his chances for
the Senate, and is quite outspoken in his
denunciatorv mutterings at the treachery
| Of the Administration. After all his sacri-
fees he gets no favOrs he asks for at the
| White House, and his influence with the
| Adm in istratIon amounts to just moth ing.
The letter of Mr. Hayes promising him the
Speakership will be made public some time
in the future, when it will be more effective
than at present. Mr.. Hayes feels no little
embarrassment at this fate, having been
! a little more free when he wrote than
sound discretion would have dictated.
THE MEXICAN INVASION.
The recent invasion of our terlitor V
on this side of the Rio Grande by Mexican
troops, and the capture and holding OF
them as prisoners by Gen. Ord, was sub
ject for the consideration of the Cabinet at
their meeting held since our last letter,
| when the conduct of Genera Ord was ap-
proved by the entire Cabinet and we fee
assured the endorsement given him will he
approved by all the people of the country,
regardless of politics. The invasion bav.
ing been initiated by The Mexicans, will
afford us good excuse and justify us in
the directions given Gen. Ord to cross over
on Mexican territory and thrash the mar
auders of our people on their own soil.
This little episode in our political career
may lead to more complicated relations
with our ''sou-western' neighbor than was
at first supposed. ANDERSON.
ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE SToRM-A
special from Mahomet, ILL.,, says the heavi.
est storm for fifteen years passed over tha,
place on Tuesday afternoon, and extended