The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-09-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.


WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. II, II.
The collections reported Saturday
evening in behalf of the Labor x
change" fell far short of the amount at
first thought absolutely necessary to en-
able it to begin operations. Nevertheless,
it is understood that it will at once be
organized, a headquarters having been
rented and partially fitted up for that
purpose. A resolution was adopted by
the board of managers at the Saturday
meeting to the effect that it is not the
purpose to furnish employment to others
than actual residents. Alien tramps will
please take notice and govern themselves
accordingly. Mr. T. L. Tullock was
unanimously nominated as Superintend-
ent. As illustrating the liberalizing eff
fects of religious Professions it is noted
with many comments, that the name of
church pillar" according to his own
views) is down for the princely sum of
% c-nts ESTIMATED to be worth from
$4,000 TO S50O00) in close juxtaposiuon
to the poor wording who subscribes
from four to twenty times as much, whose
two hands are his only capital. No re-
Election is intended upon any church;
but the instance is only mentioned to
show how certain men whose regulations
are founded chiefly on their success as
mote shavers," ""curb-stone brokers" and
other devices for flttening on the neces-
sites and distress of their fellows, have
made their membership in the church
to contribute to their qualification of
their avericious propensities, givingif at
all, grudgingly and in the meanest pro-
portion, to any call of charity.
Advices from New York make it more
than probible that many of the politi-
clans of that city and State, even wish
that the old Boss" were dead, tongue
tied or deaf and dumb and couldn't
master the art of communicating his
knowledge by any of the methods known
to that unfortunate class; and we can al
most hear the curses and maledictions
showered upon the offcious intermed
dler who nabbed him just as Continental
Europe opened It's sheltering arms to
the fugitive; on the ship that brought
him home, and on the untoward combi-
nation Of circumstances that at last in
duced him to open his mouth, like very
Pandora's box, to blast and blacken rep
utations heretofore only under suspicion
or wholly spotless.
Members of our orthodox churches, |
particularly, and the public generally, |
are somewhat interested in the reported |
challenge of Bob Ingersoll to the form |
er TO prove that either Thomas Paine or
Voltaire recanted the doctrines they ad-
yocated in their life time, or exhibited |
remOrse for the same on their death |
beds. The New York Obserrer is SAID to
have accepted the wager of battle and |
MIR 1ngersoll hasaccordIng to the Graph
ic, deposited 81 900 in bank to be forfeit
ed in case the Observer succeedes in con-
vincing the Tribunal-one member to
be chosen by Ingersoll, one by DR. Prime
and the third by the two-of the correct
ness of its position. Ninety days to be
allowed the Observer to collect its evil
ience, ninety to Ingersoll after it is SUBJ
nitted, then thirty more days to the
affirmative to procure rebutting evi
lence. Then the arguments before the
Tribunal whose decision is to be final to
both disputants.
Southern Democratic politicians show
of fear, lest the sentiment in
heir section in favor of reputation may
nave been p-ematurely or too brazenly
and so prove to have fatally
their cause in 1880. Northern
Democrats are likewise alarmed for fear
IF the party effect of such outspoken dis
honesty and wholesale cheating of cred
tors as he proposed and offended because
many of them stand in that relation to
most of the lately rebellious States. A
lalt has, it is said, been called, but the
disposition of our "erring brethren" is
clearly apprehended i'll this business, is,
indeed, matter Of public record. Vir-
yinia has reduced her 1870 debt of SIS
100000, S15OOOOO0 by a peculiar method
Of funding which has left her creditors
out of pocket just about that amount. In
other sections it might be known as rob-
berry, downright, sheer robbery, and it
S now proposed to 're-adjust" it. Those
remembering the definition tacitly at
ached to that term by the Gubernatorial
rivals in the late contest are not at a loss
Is to Its signifcation. Tennessee pro
poses to 're adjust" her debt by paying
lbout % per cent and calling it square
With those who have trusted to her word
md honor. Because her creditors re-
used her terms, which was to accept
mall percentage of what was honestly !
lue them, North Carolina has for years {
to make any provision to pay
Ter debts. Alabama reduced her s27,
10000 at one blow to s2l 100000, repu-
liating the S6OO0OOO out and out. Then
he Ere adjusted at the rate of SOC on 81,
nd now proposes to slough off 5000,
100. A nice outlook, truly, for our Ma
ional debt with such conscientious f.
lanciers in control of the Government. 8