Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-10-10
FAYETTEVILLE. TENNESSEE.
i'Aarsday alerniag, October 10 1878
Our Washington Letter.

Special Correpondence.of ucoBsEnvRR
WASHINGTON, ID. C., Oct. 4, '7S
On Tuesday next important
elections will be held, and those
in Ohio and Indiana, especially,
will have great influence on the
vote in the November States.
in none Of the States is there a
clear fight bctwcen the Demo
s4a's and The Republicans, and
atis impossible 10 predict per-
ananent party advantage on The
Jesuit, whatever it may be. But
so f;H as the election of men,
oers OF Congress is concerned,
and the advantages 10 be de-
rived in 1880 from the possess
sion until then of the House Of
Representatives, there seems no
reason to doubt that both the
States mentioned above will
strike a hard blow at Republi-
canlsm. Starting at the adj
journmcnt in June in a cam
paign the chief object of which
was announced to be the recap
ture of the House, the Repub-
cans have LOST already some Of
the votes they possessed. There
seems to be no good ground for
believing they can gain in the
West after unexpectedly losing
in the East.
Senator David Davis has now
but four days in which 10 reply
10 those Washington politicians
who sometime since asked him
TO put himself on record as a
friend Of ''new party" He
should remember that whatever
she result of the October cleo
tlons, he will thereafter be for
ever too late to take the lead.
If the result is favorable to those
who offered him great oppor-
tunity they Will think them
selves strong enough to 90 on
without him. IF the result is
nnfavorable we all know that
the Senator will not attach him
self 10 the falling cause. He
should speak at once.
The Post Of this morning has
an Interesting story Of cipher
kilograms which passed between
the Republican" Visiting States
men, in Louisiana and Florida,
during the miscounting of the
vote in those two States. The
dispatches the Post says, will
be PIT before the Potter Com
mittee, and will show that the
Returning Board at New Or
leans daily informed the Sher-
man-Hale party of the progress
made in The count, and that such
information was often sent to
the Noyes-Chan1ler party in
Florida TO stiffen the backs of
McLin and others in Florida.
This fact is especially interest
ing, as Sherman, Hale and 9th
ers have sworn before the Com
lRittee that they had no knowl-
edge of what the result of the
count would be until it was
completed.
Speaking Of Louisiana, anoth-
eminent citizen of that State,
no less a man than the husband
Of Mrs. jerks, famous as a wit
ness before the Potter Commit
tee, has been appointed to a
place in the Treasury by Sec
rotary Sherman:
For the relief of yellow fe-
yer sufferers there has been
raised in this city nearly forty
thousand dollars in money, and
there have been large contribu-
tons OF provisions and cloth
ing. Two Of our citizens are
now in ST. Louis, charged with
the duty Of loading reliefsteam-
ers with provisions. These
steamers will be sent to remote
Localities where fever RACES and
which are not accessible to the
ordinary means Of relief. One
of the boats leaves St. Louis to-
day, and others will follow
This idea, / believe, originated
here, and seems certainly to be
a most excellent one.
AUSTIN.