Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-02-26
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, Feb. %, 1879.

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act of Congress. We now have, b.
custom, six National Holidays
Christmas, New Years, Washing
toms birthday, Decoration day, 4tl
of July and Thanksgiving day
The Government Departments ar
all closed to-day, and the streets arr
filled with people walking about
taking their ease. Parades are IL
order and bands ofmusic are at play
Cannons are lumbe ling off at inter,
walls. Altogether Washington seem;
in happy mood at this return Of
the day which gave the world the
immortal George. 1 walked around
an hour this forenoon and found
large number of Tennessee
friends. The list runs: Hon.
Horace Maynard, A. J. Kicks, Col.
]. NJ. Thornburgh, L. G. Houk,
Captain Jaques, Major E. G. Camp,
J. G. Flanders, Morgan Llewellyn,
Lewis Lenoir, James Welcker and
Ed. Hayes. Mr.. Maynard and
wife are on their return to Knox
vile. 1t is unders TODD that the
health of Mrs. Maynard demands
that she spend some time in the
climate of her old home, and that
she will remain at Knoxville. Mr..
Maynard seems in jolly, good
mood, and evidently feels happy to
find himself again on the soil of his
native land, and surrounded by the
friends of his former days. He
contemplates returning to Constan-
tinople about the first of April.
They start for Knoxville, as l un-
derstand, on Monday morning.
Captain Kicks arrived last night
from Ohio, and is, as usual, in ex-
cellent spirits.
1t is subject of congratulation
among Col. Thornburgh's host of
friends in Washington that he has
baffied the destroyer and has re-
turned to the Capitol looking in
finer health than ever. A promi-
nent official here said to me lately,
b" | am glad that Thornburgh looks
so well again. He has the most
nerve for little man l ever saw"
The Col. goes out of Congress with
an unsullied record. No Jobs have
furnished his official ermine. This
is recognized by the officials here
and the hero Of the "battering>ram"
gauntlet is appreciated and honored
at the National Capitol. 1t is I'M
derstood that Hon. Ken. Wheeler,
will succeed Judge Andrews. His
is recommended by
Col. Thornburgh. Postmaster Gen
eral Key is warmly for him,
and there is little doubt
of his appointment, 1 am not aware
that any other applications are in
for the place. Judge Key is be-
coming to be regarded as one of the
best Republicans in the Cabinet.
lie refuses of late to appoint Dem
ocrats to office, as | am told. He
lately rebuked the bulldozers at
Spring Garden, Ala, by discontin-
ling their pOstofice, because they
had treated a government agent
with contempt. The agent went
there to investigate some Irregular
ties of the Postmaster, and the citi-
zens arrested him on a technicality, |
and he now awaits his trial under
bond. Mr.. Key brings them to
their senses by intimatlng to them
that when they learn to treat
officers with respect he |
will restore their postoffice.
In politics, cipher dispatches are
trumps, and the Republican party
has a sleeve full of them. Tilden
has made pile of money in stocks
this year, and is expected to get the
again.
The Greenback party lead
ers met here to-day in caucus,
and declared war on resump-
ton. They are the coming
party, they say. The Republicans
from Maine to California (that party
owns no territory south of parallel
49, are sick of Cancellation. The
President says "'nougn." The
Grant fever is booming"
Senator Logan was the object of
the widest popular demonstration
here this week that has been wit
messed in years. But moe was
said of Grant on the occasion than
of Logan. The silent man is al
ready nominated by reclamation.
Roy.