The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-07-20
Our Washington Letter.
WAsIIINeroN, D. g, July II. :


lolling ABBOTT oyer red-liot concrete
paveincnts, signing for lodge IN
some vast Wilderness, +" with an ice
berg or two at CONTROL" we turn an
envions eye upon the northern Es-
ouimaux, who sits all day upon
Fsolidified snow banks eating frozen
cod-liver oil. Heighol the comforts
of this world are very unequally dis
tributed. How odd it seems every
day or two to read press dispatch
from some neighboring springs"
telling the world that it is so cool
there. Indeed if it keeps on this way
somebody will freeze to death before
fall. But suspect these reports are
merely free advertising lodges
Every place where IA little water
comes ont of he ground has dug
spring, built big boarding house,
and digniiied it with the name OF
!" Summer resort" These are all well
enough, aud nice quiet places for
families to spend the warm season,
but when they come to send teie-
graphic reports of the number OF
blankets they have to sleep under
every night, it begins to appear just
n little eauZy. | noticed one OF these
treports the other day from a resort
which personally know to be about
as hot as any place in creation, ex-
cept St. Louis and his Satanic Maj
icsty's winter residence.
Ii the Congressional campaign
wakes as hot as the weather, there
will be Il lively time of it before the
returns are all in. From the stu
about committee headquarters here
it looks as though some tall work was
to be done Tie cqhtrol of the next
Congress is an import4nt matter, and
both parties will make Il hard strus-
Gle for it. The advantage is decided
" with the Democrats, and from
careful survey of the field, do not
see how they can lose the House
while the Senate is already theirs
after March 18th next by irons 10 Il
rs majority. A candid estimate o
the probabilities by States recently
made by the Post, gives the House
Democratic majority of not less thai
30 or IS, and the New York Sun fig
ures about the same way, both est
mates agreeing that the chances ar
In favor of larger majority. II
spite of all buster, the Presidential
fraud investigation has greatly dc
moralized the Republicans, and glvel
the Democrats a fresh advantage
True, the state of things that h;.
heen proven was generally known o
believed to exist by vast maJorit
of the American people, long age
but when it comes to be confessed i
detail BY the rascally tools who pei
formed the dirty work, It Glincht
matters aud places honest people o
their metal. The common verdict
that these raseals, bad as they al
pear from their own showing, are nj
to be compared with tho grandt
scoundrels who hired and baeke
them up. The great oatcry of unr'
liability made against these witnesst
fails of its purpose, because peopl
know that they were regarded '.r'
liable and good enough when the
were wanted to make false return
aud aid in accomplishing feloniol
results. They would have ever bee
bmYp natriots, It seems, if thu
hadn't Sold ON John Sherman and h
pals. Tile innate sense of justice
the honest American people will ri
up and crush out the perpetrato
and the benefciaries of that gre
fraud. Aud whatever else the inye
tigation may have done or failed
do, there is one result SD patent al
pronounced as to be quite beyond t
dlnnlaiu of doubt. 1t has sunk {
slecayed remains of Hayes humb
civil service reform beneath such
mountain of contempt that resurre
ton is impossible.
The committee has not done mu
for &nule days past, having taken
9th of July recess, but they are M
ut it again. kellogg, who has be
whining around all winter eursi
Hayes aud promising to tell sol
truth about the Louisiana eleetit
was sent for at the White House j.
before he went on the stand, and a
pears to have made his peace W
his fraudulency. His tone is entir,
changed. What the considerati
was cannot be stated yet. IA
Chandler has been here recently C
sulting with the Republican ca
paign committee, and among
teatures of the canvass agreed W
was tile plan of making a hMd ii:
iii the States where United Sta
Senators are to be chosen by the l.
islatures elected this fall. Evl
conceivable effort will be made
save Conlling aud Howe, aud to
Chandler elected in place of CHI
tianey. Also to secure Republic
successor TO 0glesby of Illinois a
Barnnm of Connecticut. This
with view of holding the Sen
next term, but to keep the Den
cratic majority down, and with