The Morning herald., 1878-08-22
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From our Special Correspondent.i
WASHINGTON. D. g., Aug. 2l, 1878.

~ WAbHlN6TONs -. Sss aus -,
II General Sherman has gone, - the
|"National Republican" thinks, to the Texas
border, the act probably means business.
1T is to be regretted that Conkling's Senate
COMMITTEES, appointed specially to take
charge of our relations with Mexico st .
time when, as now, the Administration
threatened war, did not make At least . par
.ial report before Congress adjourned. The
fact that war with weak and demoraliEed
people like the l[exicans can have but one
result is mot an argument for such war.
There is practically, no limit to our re-
sources 10 men and money. OF tho latter
Mexico has none whatever. If war ID de-
clared We shsll add On immense strip oi
valuable territory to our present domain,
assume several millions of dollars OF doubt
full claims against Mexico, add alec to our
debt the cost of the war, and still have the
same border troubles we now have. II
there is any honorable means of avoiding
the con est we should avoid It, and Con
press. II II assemblies in time should take
such action ss will compel the Administra-
tion to be cautious.
Various charges, which seem to have some
foundation, and which will certainly be To-
yestigated, are made In connection with the
bill, passed at the last session OF Congress,
by which the United stLtes general govern.
ment Is made to guarantee the payment of
principal and interest of the District Three
sixty-dve bonds. A New York Bank held
several millions Of them and made an en0r-
NOUS amount by the rise In value Of the
bonds conse quent upon the act Of Congress.
It IL charged that ready money was paid to
some members and that others were guar
anteed the profits on certain amounts Of
the bonds. Two members OF the Senate
Committee on the District Of Columbia
both Radicals--are mentioned as having
profited In the In last mentioned way. On
the part of the House Committee the names
Of men of both parties are mentioned. The
subject is of great interest, as these bonds
have been largely purchased In tho east and
north.
II we are 10 believe that Kearney ever
dany commanding position among work
ingmen, we must admit that he seems TO
have lost 1t. Whether his own coarseness
and lack of method have injured him, or
uIb duvOCdCy VI ouGlciS Will W - 10y ys'o' y
for long time. Whether Kearney injured
Butler or not is another. That each injured
the other is likcly. Kearney may in some
things be worse than Butler, and In Others,
Butler worse than Kearney. You remem-
her the indifference of the woman when her
husband and the bear were fighting 1t Ia
cosy for most of us to refrain from she'd
ding tears when we see Kearney lose his iu-
fiuence with the deluded laboriug man, or
when it becomes plain that Butler has lost
aal hope of preferment. -.
The Health officer says Washington will
not have yellow fever as an epidemic this
time, but he expects q few cases. He will
quarantine as soon as sit reaches Norfolk,
the only place from which 1t is likely to
come to Washington. The high govern
ment officials have very generally left the
city, but upon engagements made prior to
the fever scare. HILTON,