The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
lFrona our Special Correspondent.l

WASHINGTON LETTER.
Prom our Special COrreSpordcntl
WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 80, n.
: We are gradually picking up such of
) the matter incontinently dropped at
the outbreak of the riots, as still pos
sess any public interest, but turn to
their reconsideration in a very Ian.
guild way. after the intensely exciteing
experience of the past ten days. The
effect OF the scorching heat that has
prevailed since Thursday of last week,
also disinclines US towards any thing re-
quirlng great amount of mental en-
ergy. Although We have fioored the
commune, have our trains all running
again, are apparently progressing to-
wards satisfactory result in our ne
gotiations with the revolted boatman
OF the Chespeak- and Ohio canal, and
feel tolerably sure of our supply of
peaches from the Mary land, Delaware,
and Jersey orchards. the movement of
troops is still quite active, indicating
that the government will not stay It's
hand until there is a full compliance
with law The benefits of Govern
ment strong enough to enforce the
respect of the lawlessly disposed were
never more willingly acknowledged,
even bS Bourbons, and the deluded
advocates of State rights absurdities.
than now, because we have freshly be-
fore us the anarchy and bloodshed
from which we were saved by the eff
cency of handful of U. S.troops under,
command OF men who have been ed
ucated i'll the art and science of war
fare and who rarely fail us in an
emergency when municipal authority
was at an end. and State Govern.
ments in condition of collapse, stood
coerring and helpless before all infuri-
ated mob, a few hundred Federal sold
iers stepped firmly into the breach,
rolled back the red tide of piIIage,
arson and murder threatening to over
whelm us, and scattered the dangerous
elements in irremediable confusion.
and the hope is now entertained that
the Congress TO assemble in October
will hasten to undo part of the sui
cidal work of Its predecessor, by max
ing prompt provision for an army and
in some degree commensurate with the
duties required of it, even in time of
nominal peace, saying nothing of the
emergency just passed and liable to
occur again at any time. Inquiries al
ready made show that many of our
railroad corporations formed during
the iipsh times OF the war and ofinfiat-
ed values that succeeded for a few
years. were unable to sustain them
selves under the combined effects of
contraction and business depression
that followed the revulsion of 1873 and
have gone into the hands of receivers.
Others are tottering and can only hope
to avoid the same fall by the most
economical management. This much
can be urged in the extenuation Of the
reductions Of wages that have been
made three or four times, il some
instances. But it has often been done
without discrimination of judgement,
seemingly regardless Of the thousands
of families reduced to the verge of
starvation; and while the forbearance
of faithful employees has been thus tax
ed, the nominal salaries of rev favor
ed officials (also heavy stock holders)
have remained untouched and their
actual progts have been swollen out of
all proportion by the 10 per cent divi-
dends declared, when other capitalists
have only been too glad to accept 6 per
cent interest on theiE investments.
There are also other well founded
complaints, on the part of men who
have furnished brain and muscle to
these monOpolies, that while their
work has often been doubled, their
routes so arranged as to oblige them o
board and lodge away from home,
leaving but $3.50 or $500 per week
families often containing six members:
aud, in addition, the companies have
obliged them to lose much time. The
B. s. o. road, enormously rich, ap-
pears entitled to exceptional notoriety
In respect to the greed and cupidity of
its management.
Some complaint is heard that the
Syndicate is obtaining money under
false preteDses, when it advertises, as
it is accused of doing, virtually, that
the interest on the bonds it has
for sale is, by law, payable in gold
But MIR. Sherman explains the matter
differently, and is understood to de |
fend the syndicate.
Genl. Howard appears to be still
manouvering to outwit Joseph. Capt.
Raun has had "talk" with Joseph,
White Bird, and Looking Glass, to ne
gotiate peace but without definite re
suits apparently. In. the meantime
Gov. Potts has got his back up"
about something and proposes to wipe
out every hostile by the aid of volun-
teers.
Anna Boyle, a dramatic prodigy, be-
tween IA and 10 years of age, has
been invited by many New Workers,
among them Mayor Ely, and Generals
Barlow, and Mcclellan, to favor them
With her rendition of Juliet, which she
will do in that city the present week.
She has already become famous in this
and as she is Washington
ian we are all very proud of the dis
tinction she has achieved. She is
said to be under tue tutelage of Grace
MAXWELL.
THE MEN WHO ARE TO BLAME.
From the Grand aaplds Mich Eagle.