Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-06-24

From our regular Correspondent.

Congress has adjourned, leaving our
village to resume that degree of ex.
treme quietude which characterizes the
recess. Though our census taker shows
that we now have a population of no..
600, an increase since 1870 of nearly
10000 people, yet the absence of all
manufacturing industries enables Con.
gress, by its presence, to exercise
marked effect upon our city's business,
and particularly upon the streets and
promenades. Our hotels are, through
adjournment, half closed, and every
other channel of trade or business, or
pleasure.seeing or going, is similarly
effected. Adjournment to us is as Jack
Frost to a summer resort. The Capitol
is deserted. Its bright flags which have
Haunted so gaily over the halls since
the first Monday of last December, are
furled. The crowds which thronged
the lobbies have migrated, and we shall
see no more of them till next winters
harvest of spoils brings them back
again to us. The House proceedings
during the last twenty.four hours of
the session had less of interest or
excitement in them than we have ever
seen in the past. At 4 o'clock on Tues.
day it adjourned till 10 p. NJ, Wednes.
day, which gave but two hours for bust.
ness before the hour for final adjourn.
ment arrived. This Unprecedented
action avoided the rush, excitement
and turmoil attending the last hours OF
Congress, where they are devoted to
one prolonged session, extending
through the whole night and until
noon. In some respects it was wise
proceeding. for it killed a score of
swindling, thieving measures, whose
friends had hoped to drive into passage
under the usual press and inatten ton
| of the last hours, while other and meri.
torious bills are merely delayed.
| WORK or THE SESSION.
During the session l,l97 bills and
| Joint resolutions were introduced in the
Senate, and Ass bills and joint resolu-
| tions in the House OF Representatives
| The number introduced during the first
| Tor extra session were respectively 773
and 1926, making grand total of S,7s4
bills and joint resolutions introduced
thus far during the present Congress.
DEPRESSING NOMINATION.
Business people in Washington com.
plain very bitterly of the depression
and dullness which has set in since the
Chicago nomination. Whether we'll
founded or not, there was n general
impression among all classes here that
that the nomination of Gen. Grant
would be a great thing for Washington,
and Democrats showed quite as much
anxiety on the subject as Republicans.
Notwithstanding that the personal
influence of Mr. Hayes and the mem.
bers of the administration was ex.
erted in favor of Secretary Sherman,
the great msiority OF the office holders
were also in favor of Grant. They had
an idea that Grant could be elected.
But the election of Garfield is consider
ed as involved in doubt and uncertain.
ty, and business men say, in conse.
quence of this, all the ofiiceholders of
Washington have shut down, and are
making nothing but absolutely neces.
sary purchases. As is known, not
a gun was fred in Washington over the
nomination of Garfield. subscriptions
had been made for the firing of
thousand guns over the expected nomi.
ination of Grant, but the subscribers
declined TO permit their money to be
spent in salutes over any one else.
From advices received here from the
South it seems that the same feeling
of disappointment exists there among
the colored voters over the failure to
nominate Grant. In many towns and
villages extensive preparations had been
made to celebrate the nomination of
Grant, but Garfield they had never
heard of. and everything fell stillborn
on the announcement of his nomina-
ton.
George c. Gorham has at last become
reconciled and says he is going to Cali
fornia 10 stump the State for Garfield.
Mr.. Blaine expects to spend about q
month at the White Sulphur Springs,
and then take the stump.
There was much disappointment that
Mr.. Blaine did not speak at the Gar.
field serenade on Thursday night last.
In fact, with the exception OF General
Logan, all of the speakers after Mr..
Garfield were of the small fry genus
The enthusiasm, which was meager,
was manufactured by the paid clerks of
the several departments, and the pyro-
teonics burned were paid for from the
slender means of the same parties.
The demonstration was q failure in
every particular but one, and that one
marked the whole as a success. When
the procession brought Mr.. Garfield out,
reeking as he is with the memory of
Credit Mobiier and DeGolyer jobs, he
leaned on the arm of Secor Robeson,
Grants late Secretary of the Navy. OF
all the rotten wrecks OF the Grant re-
gime, there is none, not even Belknap,
whose official life is 80 ordorous with
the stencil of crime, jobbery and fraud
as this man Robson, and the confiden.