The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Nomination Of Gan. B. F. Butler by
Democrats OF Massachusetts,.
Radicals will lave Enough Business
at Homo to Engage Their Time.
Wells and Anderson Promise to
MANAGE Radica!ism in Louisiana,
Washington Contributing $1,000
DaiIi to Fever Sufferers.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 81, 1877

| Edji0r B.oOEhaceR LedQer:-
The nomination Of Genl Butler by a
| Democratic meeting, claiming to be a
State Convention, at Worcerter, We'd
nesday, was not unexpected. The peos
pie of the whole country have expected
such a thing since the people OF Maine
have 50 generally voted for the only
candidates in the field who could hope
to defeat Radical nominees. The Dem
o~cratic party ought to be convinced by
this time that the chief desire OF the
people is to get rid of. the Radical par
tv. and the Radicals may as we'll I'M
derstand that fact too. If Geu1 But
can do in that matter what better men
cannot do, then the paoDle will vote for
Gen'l Butler. There is numerous IN
stances even in sacred history, where
the wicked were used to confound the
wicked. Whether the regular Demo
cratic Convention nominate q candidate
or not il is now settled beyond ques-
tion that the bulk of the Democrats
will % for Butler. 1t is now more than
likely that Maine gave the Republican
party IL shock. it viii not soon recover
from. and it will be severely fe't IN
Massacli a~ssetts.
As I have before said, n inevitable
and happy resni. of these things is to
attract the attention of Radical leaders
to afr .irs Of their States, ani to compel
them to cease the sectional agitation
which has been their stock in trade for
the past ten years, Butler once seated
in the State House. the ruling classes
Of Massachusetts would have enough
to think of at home without troubling
themselves about the rights of South
ern negroes or the fiction of Southern
claims.
Wells and Anderson, of the New Or
leans Custom House, propose to man
age the Republican party OF Louisiana,
and make no secret of it. The eminent
unftness of these me- for responsible
employment should have caused their
dismissal from Federal position long
ago. But not having had any effect it
may be that Mr.. Hayes will put in
force his civil service rules, and let the
traders in politics share the same fate
az Filley, of Missouri. and the New
York Custo ON House officers. Anderson
proposes to run for Congress. Perhaps
Secretary Sherman will permit him t"
hold his place in the Custom House.
even if elected to Congress. He held
his place in the Custom House and a
place in Jail at the same time. Great is
reform, and great IS the party of great
moral ideas. s-
In this District, in August. the an
mail death rate among the whites w's
about twenty n per thousand per an
mum Among colored people it was
ahont sixty per thousand This Is a..
most the usual discrepancy, the ne>
groes dying nearly three times as fast
az the whites. The difference is great
est among children.
This city is now contributing Sl.5oo
per day in cash to the yellow fever suf>
~ferrers, besides sending provisions in
great quantities. Since responsible
parties took charge of the. contribu-
tions and disbursements. and system
was introduced in oil matters pertaining
to the subject, a marked increase is no
tod II.