The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-04-18
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Extra keasi0u-The Cipher Dis
match - Political Matters - Blaine
and butler Social Matters. &c ..Ac.
CErou our reg,,lar Corraspondent


WASHINGTON, April -. 1877.
There seems to be much uncertainty
as to the time when an extra session OF
congress will be called. The secretary
OF war said yesterday that if the Louis
lana, difficulty could be satisfactorily
ended before that tune, the extra ses-
sion would begin on the 18th Of May.
The Louisiana difficulty is the uncertain
quantity, and a very uncertain quantity
is. The commission. IL Is understood,
have about ended their mission-nego-
stations, labors, or, perhaps, medding is
a more definite term for all that they
have done or could do in that distracted
state. There is much anxiety among
the Sou,berners In the city.to know the
purport OF long dispatch in
| cipher sent by the commission
ers to the president. II
Il the first dispatch of any consequence
that the President has received from
that source. It came directly to the
skefaIyfh t4Ae s4af Was ta aSeEn oTTff RE
President up TO late hour last night
had not made the contents public.
After the excitement preceding and
since the Presidential election,
POLITICAL MATTERS
Now seem to be in the condition of the
river described by Cesar. ,"of such in.
credible placidity that it is.impossible to
discern with the eyes in which direction
1t flows" The letter of Mr.. Blane's
created little sensation for it was sup
posed by some, from his long silence,
that he had been subdued to acquiesce
il the Presidents policy. When he
made his defiant speech in the senate,
last month. and boldly assumed the
championship Of
FACKARD AND CHAMBERLAIN.
Nearlyall his friends deplored his action
as rasl and i'll advised. But there is as
littleequivocation in the blast which he
sounds through the Boston Herald as
thee was in his speech where he called
upon heaven to wither his hand aud
| psalyze his tongue in case he deserted
his Republican friends in the south. The
Indications are that he intends to make
war upon the Presidents southern poll
cy if he has to do it single handed and
Alone. There has been much gossip re-
Gently in relation to q
sort OF partnership between
MIR. Blaine and Mr. Butler, by which
they should mutually oppose, one in the
senate and the other in the house, the
Presidents policy. But it is not at all
probable that any such arrangement has
even been thought OF by the gentlemen,
and ii is impossible that such combina-
ton could end in anything but utility,
49, -ttonpted.
There is at p.,-o,,
litical stagnstion at the iiHo.ai IS Wen as po-
The old >"al capital.
LEADERS or SOCIETY
have Oil abdicated. The names of NJ.
Fish, Mrs. Robson, and their brilliant
satellites and parasites are no longer
conspicuous in the unwholesome STUFF
that composed the society column of In,
CITY Journals, and the average corre.pon.
oent has not yet been able to adapt him.
self to the new order OF things, or. ratb.
er the new order of things is not clearly
defined. Airs. Hayes and her cabipe,
seem as little disposed as the sterner half
OF the administration, to be content with
mere Imitation Of the old regime. What
reforms will be silently effected in
fashion, repasts, entertainments, etc. are
not yet apparent. These are matters
that We are disposed to treat as frivolous
and unworthy the consideration of any
but women. handles and, il Il is not mul.
tiplying synonyms, young naval officers.
But when we remember that p arts il
France. and Washington. though hap.
PLY In milder sense, America, and that
the subtitle influence OF fashion and man.
nsrs have always left deep impress ION
national life and history. 1t will not do to
treat a. unworthy OF consideration the
magnitude Of womens' bustles, the mum.
nsr Of courses 1t table, Or indeed. anv.
wing that 70 material OF csrsmonisl.st RI.
rational capitol.