The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-03-25

WASH In GlON NOTES.
News Culled at the National Capital by the
Chiefs Correspondent.
The colosed people of the city are NOV
ing toward All appropriate celebration of
the twentieth anniversary of President
Linco!n's proclamation Of emancipation
on the 10th of April next.
1t is safe to say that the present Con-
gress will not change the internal
revenue laws. Meanwhile, the national
Indebtedness is being reduced at tie rate
of nearly .$15o, 100000 per year, and, if
this rate of reduction is kept mp, but
little of the debt will remain ten years
hence.
This Congress was evidently not preor-
dained to tinker the tariff OF reform the
revenue laws, and if the American
people want any thing done in this line,
they will have to elect Congress, two
years hence, pledged to do the work,
aud, what is important, make that
Congress keep its pledge.
The most gigantic scheme recently
| proposed by the lobby is transconti
| mental railroad, to be subsidized by
extensive land grants in the interest o1
the Labor League The professed object
of the movers of this scheme is to build a
road that monopolists can not gobble,
aud one that is to be run III the interests
of the peopI Il u not ot-eapita!ists. The
Idea is d.sTf,stss.ses'tiiat it is and eau be
only an idea.
The whereabouts Of s7,0G5,s777 G7 Of
factional currency, is the question that
puzzles the wiseacres of the Treasury
Department. Doubtless much of it has
gone where the woodDIne twineth. What
a tale, if its history could be written.
Into what strange collections it has ell
tered in this and other lands. Month by
month, little by little, stray pieces Of
this currency find their way back from
long wanderings and are grouud up III
the ponderous machinery of the Treasury
Department.
The bill placing Gen. Grant on the
retired list Of the army met the almost
unanimous approval OF tue Senate. The
patriotic speech Of Senator Brown and
the noble tribute paid by him to General
Grant for his heroic deeds in overcoming
and subduing the Southern army, will
long be remembered by those WHO were
listeners. Various Southern Senators
put themselves on record as coDcurring
in these generous sentiments, accepting
fully the results of the war. So, as the
years go by, thro ugh the dicipline Of
sorrow and the growth of commercial
inter State relations the bloody past is
being forgotten and the dawn Of the new
aud brighter day is coming.
TIE establishment of postal savings
repositories is constantly coming to the
front, and demanding the attention of
Congress. Il the system was adopted
the savings of the }aboring classes would
be largely increaeed throughout the
Who'll. country. Private enterprise can
not furnish thi,; great want but tue Gov
ernment can through the bill now pend
ing in Congress. Its passage will call
| into circulation many millions now i'll
strange hid!n. places. It wonld prevent
runs on banks and consequent panics.
| No Liscrsdit eoul.l lie thrown upon Il
post-office bank, and at the low rate Of
| two per cent. interest, and the utmost
credit to Il single depostor Of $500, no
harm can come to banks already estah-
| Iisied.
Captain Eads. who opened the clicked
t mouth of The Mississippi to commerce,
at,,. bull: iron clat.s daring he war iii
less time than it takes I. country cobblcr
| to make :. pair of shoes. is still urging
| lis plan of ship railway aercss the
| continent through southern Mexico. The
plan looks 100 big for human accomplish
| nleut. but that is the way every big
thing has locked until it has been accom-
piissIed. II Captain Eatis can muster Il
more powerful lobby than the presen:
transcon:i,,ellt;i railroad nla agn'-tes, he
are opposed to all competing plans
whether by Panama OF Southern Mexico
we may yet live to see tie dry lane
nayi cation of slip Oh wheels.
SENTINEL.