Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-22
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF rHx mos1roR.I
WAsH1NeroN. Anr. 16. 1878.

they have been exploded and contra
dicted by the more scrupulous Democrat
ic sheets published nearer the seat of
Government that first gave them public
ity, by republication in papers so remote
as to reduce the chances of their readers
ever getting at the truth to their mini
mum. Several publications in the Post
Dem. daily organ here) and other pa
pers calculated to dlscredit the title of
Sec'y Sherman to some real estate owned
by him in this city, implying that he
could not have come honestly by the
money paid for it. intimating that the
appropriation for its improvement was
secured through favoritism, and insinu-
ating that the taxes assessed against it
were merely nominal as compared with
the amount levied against similar prop
erty of less fortunate owners, moved one
of our prominent real estate men, a Mr..
Rohuer, to publish detailed statement
covering all these hints, in the Post.
While that paper evidently believes in
yielding nothing to sentiment in po-
litical warfare, it is counted as honest
as is consistent or profitable for an in
tensely partizan Democratic paper. In
commenting ON Rohuer's communication
clearly demonstrating the unfounded
character of these implications and in
situations, the vouchers for his charac-
ter and reliability and admits that it
| (Rohuer's letter. seems to set Mr.. Sher-
man right so far as his individual con-
nection with the speculation is concerned.
| only refer to this here because what
appears to have been an ordinary bus
mess transaction throughout has been
so distorted and so perverted by con-
slant reiteration that Sec'y Sherman
has been placed in false and most dis
creditable light and stands little chance
of being righted by some of the papers
responsible for giving currency to these
baseless ISLANDERS, l may add upon the
authority of Mr.. Rohuer that Mr.. Sher-
man does not own single one of the
houses erected on square 100.
The more light let in on the Door
keeper business from the time the Ex-
Confederate Democracy took control
down to the election of Field, the more
regardless its administration seems to
have been of law and decency and the
more wontonly insulting to Union senti-
ment. And should it prove the last
straw that breaks the Confederate con-
troll and diction in the lower House,
not a few Democratic leaders will be
able to discern in it the hand of retri.
butioe justice
The greatest failure of the session is
Glover. None have forgotten the I'M
pudent, gratuitously insulting letter he
sent the President Out of charity
many suggested he was intoxicated
when it was written When entrusted
with the conduct of the investigations
great hopes were entertained of him by
his associates. He marshalled his caves
troopers and set to work. But he found
he needed experts. They were giver
him. Some of them, at least, were tn,
most notorious dead beats who hang
about this town every winter looking
for job in their congenial vale of in
formers and spies. They have don'
nothing so far but dig out an occasion
al den of Democratic freebooters. No
a Republican scalp yet graces the bel
of ''big injun" Glover; and he has mani
tested such a strange perverseness ii
stumbling on to and roofing out tn
wrong parties that he has come to b.
regarded somewhat as the bull let loos
in the china shop, by his brethren ant
they can only lament their futility Il
: giving him such latitude for mischief
Jay Gould is said to have retired
: from the field under the sorrowful con
: viction that the backbone of the monop
e oily power has been hopelessly broken il
, Congress. Its best not to take to-
much for granted. but unless his lobb,
can succeed in getting the Pacific roa'
!, funding bill. recently passed by tn
: Senate, referred to some House Commit
tee that will not soon be called for RI
port, its members feel the game is a
up with them.
Sec'y Sherman's success with the Ne
York bankers in disposing of the So
100000 IL per cent bonds, seems
be regared as having so materially sin
pli6ed the resumption problem as
have rendered it practicable withol
: doubt, at or before next January, prov
9 ded Congress don't interfere.
The developments in the McGarraha
claim are watched with some interest b
those in one or the other rings, and pc
haps with fear and trembling by not
few of our present or past statesmen
The cases of aggravated assault in tn
> city within the past year by the lowe
order of roughs upon females. far GU
b., number those of any similar perie
:, within the history of the city. Eve
Il men counted respectable heretofo
seem to have become infected by Il