Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-07
WASHINGTON.
Waiting for the Verdict-Diamond Cut
DiamOnd-Fears for FoIger's Health
Dr. Collins Charges.

WASHINGTON, November 5.-Next Tuesday
night promises to be great one in Washing.
ton. 1t is the night Of the day of great poIiti-
cal nights over the country, concerning which
tnere IS the greatest anxiety felt here. That
large class OF people known as government
employees are anxious almost to pain. The
citizen is also greatly interested. The way that
States which have held elections this year have
gone has heightened to a marked degree the
interest generally felt on such occasions. Next
Tuesday night will probably be the most lively
"of year" election night known in Washington
Tor years. Great preparations have been
made to perform that act known as re.
ceiving the returns. The Democratic Campajen
Committee will do what is unusual for them.
Iney Will have returns independent of the
reg uiar telegraph company bulletins and hope
70 dispense much comfort to the true and
FAITHFUL The Republican Committee will as
usual receive and promulgate dispatches to the
common com nero or their faith In the front por-
ton or their headquarters and distribute beer
10 the back room to the chosen few. The
democratic newspaper Of the city will have
nIuminated returns on canvas SO that the
CROWD on he-aVenue there assembled Ia front
may read and cheer The Republican news
paper of the city will also have an Illuminating
apparatus. but it will not last long very proba-
bly,. The outlook is that the returns will ba of
per viii not care to display them. Ali male
washington will be on the street next Tuesday
night and many until late the next morning
y y VIII De such a night in the city under or
dinary circumstances only Presidential cleo
ton is capable OF producing.
THE REToRT DIRECT
M W. w. Corcoran Is the wealthiest man in
Washington. For many years. with only a
very rare exception yhe has been able to have
everything both public and private about his
own way. He owns the Arlington Hotel
property. He is desirous of enlarging that
mouse or accommodation and making great
nosteiry: lady named Mrs. Freeman owns
large three-story brick house Adjoining the
She, too, is blessed with an abundance of
shekels, fact of which Mr.. Corcoran seems
not to have been fully cognizant. The other day
Mr Corcoran casually addressed a note to Mrs.
FREEMAN reading about ss follows: 'Desirina.
20 enlarge the Arlington Hotel would like to
Decome possessed OF your property adjoining.
IL you will communicate at what figure you
value your holding will send you a check for
the amount" Mrs. Freeman does not wish to
sell her property, and did not relish the tone of
ME-. Corcorans note She replied as follows:
Desiring to extend my flower garden would
IKE TO b come possessed of your property ad-
1oining-the Arlington Hotel. If you will COM
lpg Will send you check for the amount"
This was most certainly the retort direct. and
must have nettled considerably the recipient
thereof
THE EFFEcTs OF IT.
have heard the friends of Secretary FoIger
say Within the past few days that they have
great fears about the result which defeat In
New YORK will have upon that gentleman.
overwhelming defeat will result as disa strously
TO the upright and honorable Judge Foger as
the crush of the political avalanche had upon
Horace Greeley. Mr.. Folger Is an old man.
though not yet broken physically. He has
been. however, accustomed to a life of Quiet
and honor. The bitter New York contest has
already told upon him. The fact that he was
nominated by a forgery has. / believe
hurt him es much in mind as a
dirk knife stab would in person. He is not by
any means the man he was five months ago.
That he has partially, in the unwonJed excite
ment OF political campaign, lost the nics
balance Of mind for which he had for years
been distinguished is plainly shown by his
letters written for publication in the past two
months. His letter accepting the nomination
was unworthy of himself and puerile He is
not the man of business that he u ed to be He
does not seem to grasp the details of execu-
tion In the Treasury Department. His visitors
have not found him at all satisfactory in the
transaction OF business He is nervous and
little highty, where he was formerly firm and
clear Of mind. These things, it is said, gene
rally go before breaking up Of an aged man
No wonder his friends fear that an overwheln-
ing defeat in New York will make a second
Horace Greeley of him in the end. The bearer
of name as honored by his Rorefathers and
by himself as that of Folger, might well be
greatly exercised over the position and associa-
tions in which he is now found.
THE JEANNETTE BUSINESS.
The recent publication of certain things
unsavory about the Jeanette expedition by a
brother of Mr. Collins the Herald correspon-
dent who was lost with De Long has not
created any great surprise among those who
have had inside information about the matter.
1t will be remembered that long time ago
this correspondence told of bad feeling bick-
erlng and charges Of mismanagement among
the officers OF that Inflated craft. These
things have been so far left in the background
by the board investigating the loss of the Jean.
nette, but they will be duly inquired into before
that board adjourns. The charges of Collins
that Melville neglected to start in time upon
the search for his missing comrades and that
when he came upon the remains Of those dead
he blasphemed the body of Collins. are new
ones, and will be hard to substantiate There
ton was mismanaged, and that one
great cause of the loss of the vessel was
the lack Of harmony The verv sailors them
selves seem to have shared this feeling They
divided among themselves-some for one Off
Ger and some for another. The first great
cause of the division of feeling seems to have
been an order of De Longs that all the officers
and men be physically examined before
plunging into the Arctic AS several of the
crew, aud at least one officer, had contracted
adisease that they did not want their possession
thereof to be known, there was instant grumb-
ling. In the light Of the good name OF the
navy, it would certainly be best to stop the in
vestigation where it is. But it will have to 90
on now, and the scandal officially unearthed.
P0T0MAC