The daily gazette., 1877-05-02
Special to the Baltimore Sun.
FROM WASHINGTON.

Ihd Teras Pacific Sui s,dy Scheme
Capture of the Solid ySoyth-,A Vis-
iondry Source Of Prospsrity Con-
1 spirocy Against 4 Senntor-Hsct.
Il THE TEXAS PACIFIC RAILRozp.
WASHINGTON, May t,-Itis asserted
very confidently that the President will
in his message to Congress at the extra
session recommend the Texas Pacific
subsidy-that he will do this as a part OF
his Southern policy Nothing that the
President can possibly do would be more
popular with the Southern members and
the Southern people than such recon-
mendation. Every mail from the South
that comes to Washington brings evi-
dence Of the universal demand in that
section for a government guarantee to the
Texas Pacific. The people Of the South
have been so wrought upon by the spec
ious arguments ofthe Texas Pacific, Ope-
rators that they look to the completion of
this road, as the dawn for them of q new
prosperity greater than that which they
ever enjoyed. In Louisiana, for instance
the politicians and the business men get
almost as much excited over tnis subject
as they do over the wrongs inflicted upon
them by the. carIet-bag governments.
They seem to think it will be a grieyous
injury and neglect ifCongress refuses to.
subsidize a Pacific road for the benefit of
the South. ...tf ..- .,,.. 49,, pl...s..
THE SOUTH CARoLINA CANARD.
It is stated that the writer of the letter
detailing the alleged murder of the col
ored preacher, Scott, in South Carolina,
which threw the New England Confer.
ence inro such spasmso OF indignation, was
Alonzo Webster, the postmaster at
Orangeburg, S G. As it has since ap-
peared that Scott was not only not murder
ed, but that no attempt was made to
murder him, it would appear to be the
proper thing for the Postmaster General
to inquire of Mr.. Webster as to the truth
of the matter which now involves him.
THE HAMBURG AFFAIR.
Ii is learned that Corbin, the South
Carolina carpet bagger, who claims seat
in the Senate by virtue of bis election by
the Chamberlain Legislature. is working
hard TO- procure the Indictment, at
Charleston, of Gen, NJ. C. Butler on ac-
count of the Hamburg affair. Corbin is
having help in this matter from here, and
the idea is that the Indictment will have
bad effect on Gen. Buffers prospects for
admission to the Senate. 1t is said that
the United States. grand jury in Charles
ton has been packed for this purpose.
The friends of General Butler do not
fear that he will be able to defend him
self and to show up the conspiracy against
him. ...,s4.. ',....l! -. |
.,t 90. WASHINGTON NOTES.
A report is circulated, though it cannot
be authenticated, that the subject of re-
ducing the pension agencies throughout |
the country has been considered by the |
administration. and that the number of |
such agents be reduced to twenty. There
are now about fifty. The appropriation
at the last session of Congress for COM
pensation to pension agents and the
expenses of their Offices was S215,OO0.
Captain John j.. Guthrie, superlnten-
of the sixth life saving district, gives an |
account of the great gales on the Virginia |
ard North Carolina coasts on the 10th and |
18th of April, fully confirming the ac-
counts of their severity and the value of |
the life saving stations in such emergen-
cies. ......,' ...'-..