New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-07
Especial Correspondence OF the Republican
FROM WASHINGTON.

hCEd ~ bAS hnbAOhsi oNPAeNi botOAO AOE IAouy
very many years. The morning of the first
opened cold, cherries and utterly gloomy.
The blueish. gray atmosphere was soon
filed with the snow fakes, driven almost
horizontally along by piercing east wind,
singing the unprotected faces opposed to
its fury like the wounds inflicted by vac
cinatlng instrument. However, the city
was early afoOt. The usual receptions were
held by the President and his Cabinet min
listers and at the residences of many pri-
vate families, although the preparations for
the conventional Observance of the day
were not on the magnificent Roale which
has heretofore obtained for some years,
and the same economical restrictions,
it is evident, are to govern "socie-
ty" in the gayeties and designations
mapped out for this seasons campaign.
About the usual number of inebriated
swells we're seen on the streets struggling
in their obfuscated condition with the snow
drifts, which by P. M. had become quite
embarrassing to pedestrians; and many of
them are undoubtedly indebted to the
vigilance of the police force for exemption
from frost bites.
The severe cold of the past three weeks
has laid an embargo on the navigation of
the Potomac; and the almost unprecedented
severity of the storm practically isolated US
from the balance of mankind from early in
the evening of the first instant until late
hour on the second, when the belated trains
began to make their appearance.
Yesterday morning presented scene
rarely Witnessed in the national capital.
Everything having surface was loaded
with snow, the streets being covered to q
depth of more than a foot. Our entire
population, acting with singular unanim-
ity of purpose, have united for systematic
enjoyment of this rare New Years gitt-the
| juvenile portion with hand-sleds, and the
adults by sleigh-rides and other appropri-
ate outdoor winter sports and pastimes.
The asinine according to the ultra re-
form estimated decision of the House COM
mittee sent to South Carolina, in favor of
the Hayes electors, and the refusal of the
Florida Supreme Court to interfere in Til
den's behalf, have depressed the Demo
cratic heart here as nothing else has done
since the election, and cOrrespOndingly
elevated Republican hope and expectation.
II Louisiana fails them, there is nothing
left but submission to constitutional re.
quirements, or the Inauguration of Tilden
by means that would subject every active
participant to arrest and punishment for re-
bellion against the laws and constitution
and the response of the leading men o.
che South has not been of such q
character as to encourage a resort to
such desperate expedient. No one be-
> lieves that there is any legal power to com
/ pei the Returning Board of the last named
t State to undo the work it has done, As II
, the Grover.Cf6niH Conspiracy to defraut
) the voters of Oregon of their presidential
choice, it has already so, tainted the grea
/ cause Of Honesty and reform and impsrt
\ cd such a rank Odor, not only in Republi
3 can nostrils, bat in those of large faction
! of Tilden's supporters at the late election
as well, that it has become an actual ant
/ positive element of weakness. IL was the
( ill-advised expedient Of c0terie Of despe
8 rate gamblers who had exhausted ever.
l other possibility, and hastily devised il
: hoping to gain something by the addition
! OF another complication.
The latest utterances of President Gran
relative to the November election hav
still further embittered the BourbOBs of tn
opposition, because they are so utterly I'M
answerable. Relative to South Carolihi
ne said that Democrats even now cOnoedC
the State to Hayes; that in Edgefeld count
= nOn-residents carried the county by TIT
most outrageous proceedings, returning
twice as many votes as there were legR
voters IN the county; that Tilden could onl
be said to have carried Florida by counting
the votes of q county in which there wa
no registration, and in which there was tn
. | most utter disregard of law, and that tn
Board of Capvassers, if 1t had any respeC
for its oath of Office, could not do otherwis
. than reject its vote. Referring to LOdi
lana, he believed that there wa
no legal process by which the d.
be reversed. He is reported to have SAT-
that, except in Delaware, perhaps, he did
not think there had been q fair, free cleo
4 ton in any portion of the South; that
Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas there
= q legitimate Republican majority; that tn
Democratic contestants for offices in Sout
a Carolina and Louisiana would likely hol
"a out till the presidential contest is decided
" quietly Withdrawing if IN favor of Haye
II and overturning the present government
in less than twenty-fOur hours if Tilden
a declared the winner. He is represented
a have expressed doubts whether the que
4. ton will have been settled by the fourth
X March, bat that the President of the Sci
4. ate, as acting President, would encount
a. no serious endorsements in carrying
r. the government.
We are likely to very soon know, no
ID that Congress has reassembled, what pr
= grsmme Mr.. Tilden has decided up'
mr. through his numerous managers ia &c
gress, who have visited him during the
N cess for instructions.
he With Mr.. Hewitt's failure to inpeach
m. management of the New York POstofh'
4. he appears to have occupied back seI
q. doing penanoe, probably, for his stuT
NJ. mistakes and his bungling management
the indictment of Postmaster james.
Mr.. Barnes, the New Orleans agent of
y, Western Union Telegraph Company,
10 here, under the surveillance of the ofi'
stt who brought him, waiting the pleasure