The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-07-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Special Corrcspoudent.l

II ~. u, July 1Ot 20.
The merely sensational effect of the
sudden decapitation of Collector Arthur
and Naval Officer Cornell has subsided,
leaving the commentators tolerably well
settled as to the grounds of their approval
or disapproval. Truth compels the
statement that very few have thus far
been heard from willing to volunteer
any defense of what looks ike almost
anything but Civil Service Reform
according to the view of all but an in
significant number of those who have yet
made their ve-dictpublic. "Reformers"
have been further shocked by the
announcement of the appointment of
Alex Reed to an office away out in
Washington Territory. Very few have
forgotten the persistency with which
Reed was urged on the Senate for con-
tirmation as Postmaster of Toledo last
winter. He was rejected each time his
name was presented, and despairing,
seemingly, of getting him confirmed in
| an Office nearer home, he has been ban
ished to the Western wilds. A discrim-
inatiOn Of the Western over The Southern
carpet-bag officials seems to have made
an opening for class of men who have
found it wholly impracticable to secure
such endorsement for official position
among those intimately acquainted with
them, as to induce the Senate 10 look on
their candidacy with any sort of favor.
The investigators have locked up and
gone home. Potter and his adherents
persisted to the last in their refusal to
hear Mr. Shermans witnesses. By them
the Secretary declared he could prove
the most frightfnl reign of terror ever
tolerated by community protesting
civilization, during the late Presidential
campaign in the two Felicianas. Mr.
Sherman said he could show by them
that above 80 Republicans were made
to bite the dust in those two parishes
alone, besides numberless other outrages
only one degree less shocking. o
course they were not the kind of wit-
nesses the honorable Potter and his
fellows cared to hear. 1t was much
more important to show the country
that Mr. Sherman wrote letter to Web
Der and Anderson. But upon such
hypocrisy Kellogg was about the only
witness examined since the Committee
reopened the show, and he appeared an
unwilling one throughout Next to
Potter, people here seem of the opinion
that Butler has proved the most lament
able failure of any of the patriots who
hoped to distinguish themselves by
sowing the seed of revolution. The
whole business has turned out too con-
temptible, even to be called farce. The
evil genius has never relaxed its grip
on Democracy nee it precipitated the
country into the whirlpool Of civil war,
seems to still have full possession of the
party press 1t couldn't do the work
the Republicans would have of it more
certainly, were that party's managers
directing it. In their fear of Genl Grant
and their frantic efforts to kill him they
have brought him into a prominence
that may give him the nomination by
acclamation. Thus early we hear much
about Hayes successor, here; and where
any other name is heard in that connec-
ton once, think it is no exaggeration
to say Genl Grants is heard a dozen
times among Republicans, both "stal-
wart' and Administration. The men,
ton of his name, even with the mercury
dangerously near 100 in the shade
arouses a degree of enthusiasm that
reminds one of old "Wide Awake" times
in 1860. There is undoubtedly feeling
of confidence in him in an emergency,
not accorded any other man. Grant
and Blaine is the latest slate. Thurman
| is a good deal talked about ON the other
side. But it would start the party out
under such load Of ridicule to attempt
to match the bloody shirt with Thur
mans @red bandanner7 that it would
break down before the half mile pole
was reached.
Tn intelligence received this morning
from the Oregon hostiles has startled
every one and seems to confirm the
belief that Howard's engagement was
only with fragment Of the Indian
force The tenor Of all the dispatches
now being received at the War Depart
ment is to the effect that the Oregon
Indians heretofore depended upon as
friendly, have become wholly disafected
and will cast in their lot with those
openly in arms whenever the Opportu
nifty offers. This is probably the case
all over the North West, or soon will be,
unless we gain a decisive advantage
soon. Notwithstanding the confident
assurances OF the other day, this latest
news seems to have created something
like panic in official circles.
Though we have been assured that
Mr. Sherman contemplates no Immediate
proclamation of resumption, the weight
of opinion is that it will have been
accomplished by Oct 1st, and all of Mr.
Sherman's movements seem to be taken
with view Of reaching that end as
speedily as possible. As Indian matters
have forged to the front, the Mexican
situation has receded temporarily. But
its possibilities for surprise we're con-
sidered months ago quite equal to the
Indian question and may yet prove
more startling. MAXWELL
| Utah Letter.
CoRINNE, July 18th, 1873.
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