Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1882-06-28
From our regular correspondents
WASHINGTON LETTER,
Wsshlnalon, June ", 1859,

Interest IN the star route liihl' now
IN progress, does not seem to DO ~
great here Us might be expected prob
ably because those who understand tho
ms aud outs Of tho matter do mol eX'
poet that anything serious will come OF
Il, In tho first place proof Of u coaspir'
acy Of this kind, where everything II
done under the form 0l law, II IN eS'
ceeding difficult matter to establish
All the circumstances aud common
sense conclusions may point clearly
enough IN one direction, while distinct
legal evidence fails. And furthermore,
with the lax notions Of moral obliqui-
ties In official relations with Uncle sam,
which prevail here at the Capitol rem
der the verdict of u jury in such eases
mighty onsartin." WITH ol'o' such
galaxy of legal strength rs is arrayed
on the side of the defense there Is daily
manifestation Of the fact that the prose-
cution is heavily overwcishcd. The
Acknowledgement does not give much
personal attention to the trial, and such
lawyers rs Corkhill, Bliss, and Mer-
rick are no match for the half dozen
ADLER ones on the other side.
Tho Republicans have never worked
the mine of political assessments Tor
campaign purposes with such boldnesS
and energy as they are applying to II
now. Circulars IRE being sent to every
employee of the government, male and
female, from heads Of bureaus, clerks,
postmastcrs and officials of various
kinds, to the page boys at the Capitol
and the watchmcn and scrub-womcn
everywhere. Two per cent OF the pay
received is the amount demanded. This
amounts TO from Sc to SO each from
the laborers and apprentices, ctc'' and
to much larger sums among the better
paid classes. 1t is not easy to tell
what the entire levy will amount to,
but the legislative, executive, and judi
cial appropriation bill, which includes n
greater part of the employees of the gov
eminent, calls for Sl9,777,O0O. and
two per cent. would be $780,, 5iO-a
snug sum for campaign fund. Add
to it the amount from other employees
not included in this bill, and the sums
to be received from monopolists and
moncycd interests whom they have ben
Gifted, and it will readily be seen what
an advantage the party has in entering
the canvass. Most of the money will
be disbursed this year by the Congress
sional committee, and they intend to
put it where it promises to do the most
good. There is to be no delicacy or
backwardness.
But in spite of all this, and, all the
power of the Administration added to
it, the party managers are deeply
alarmed at the political prospects. The
situation in the three great states OF
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York,
is anything but assuring to them, and
the President himself is reported as
feeling the deepest solicitude. Great
efforts are to be made by the party in
the South. Realizing that it would be
vain to expect to maintain their present
representation in the House from the
North, desperate contest was early
resolved upon in certain Southern
states, and every alliance or combina-
nation that promised the slightest tenn
porary advantage has been seized upon.
1t was to this end that such shameful
course was pursued with reference to
contested seats from the South and
seeing the bent of things, there are
dozen or more carpet-baggers hanging
around Washington now who are be-
moaning their ill-luck that they did not
run in some Southern district and then
come up here and make contest. 1t
had been imagined that the era of car
pet-baggers was at an end, but it may
be expected that the South will once
more swarm with this genus, if the re-
publican programme is successfully exc
cuted. The game is a desperate one,
and it may fail; in fact, the best judg-
ment to be obtained here now is that it
will fail most ingloriously. PhoNO.
A Long Island minister has dis
covered over 100 families in his vicinity
who never saw Bible, and two per-
sons who never heard of Jesus Christ.
"We will now take up collection for |
the heather in Africa. d" .,a-..t-
The Springfield Republican has dis
covered, or thinks it has, signs of a