Year: 1878




The beginning of another Autumn
finds Washington in more than ordi
narily, good sanitary condition; and on
exemption thus far from a single case ol
yellow fever is a source of great falicita
ton. The terror with which its march
up the Mississippi has inspired thousands
is lifted little by little as We near the cool
nights that will bring with them a Ger.
tain antidote against the extension here
of the infection. But the terrible details
sent up every hour from the South have
moved the great heart of this community
as the tales of burning cities never did.
No great calamity has eyer called out
such almost uniform manifestations of
sympathy, and few are found unwilling
to contribute generously in proportion
to their means. The bitterness engen
dered by political strife is forgotten in
the dread presence of this relentless de
stroyer at whose touch whole towns melt
away. The noble response of the North
and West and of Southern communities
not included in the area of this terrible
visitation, prove that sectional prejudices
and feuds based on partisan differences,
are little more than skin deep among
the great mass of intelligent American
citizens; that the law Of humanity of Il
common brotherho dis as high above
such petty considerations as the heaYens
are above the earth; and it sweeps away
the accumulated hatreds and resent
ments of decades like chaff, when it's
current is stimulated by such appeals as
those coming up from decimated cities
of the lower Mississippi.


The feeling here is that the Interna
tional Silver Congress was a failure so
far as the adoption of the double stan
dard is concerned. Although our repre-
sentatives are said to have labored assid-
uously to that end. weight Of opinion
seems to have been against the practica
bility of any such consummation at
present; and tie prospect of any returns
from the money spent in giving several
gentlemen pleasant trip to Paris seems
rather remote. But reports that Amer
lean exhibitors at the Exposition they
are taking more than their share of
awards and diplomas may prove par
tial compensation to those disappointed
at the outcome of the Silver Congress.


Buffers denial of any knowledge of
the Sherman Anderson letter, has served
to dispirit sanguine Democrats who had
been so much elated by previous reports
to the effect that he had seen it and that
it would be sprung on the public just be-
fore the November elections, insurlng a
Republican stampede and a Democratic
coup d etGi.


Kearney has come and gone. His
coming excited no rejoicing, his going
no grief. Excepting the call of Cohen
and few of his vagabond gang, he was
left undisturbed at his hotel and he and
his private secretary" found no impedi
ment to locomotion by the crowds at
tending him on the streets 1t was, in
short, anything but the triumphal entry
into the city of the deliverer of its toll
ing masses, Reputable people of all
classes appeared intent on letting him
severely alone. The various labor orga-
nizations seemed TO wholly ignore him,
and he gained only such distinction in
this way as Cohen and few of his rag
muffin disciples could confer. He went
early to call at the White House and on
such members of the Cabinet as we're in
town and was civilly entertained for a
few moments at each place, then with
drew. He took advantage of the oppor
tunity offered while looking over the
stacks of currency Uncle Sam has stored
away in the Treasury vaults for rainy
day, to inculcate some of his peculiar fl
nancial views to the clerks detailed to
pilot him about. But they had no diff
Guilty, in controverting them with good
sound doctrine. He found himself so
quickly floored that he gave up the at
tempt to dedauch Mr. Sherman's "leche-
rous bond holding assistant pimps as a
bad job, evidently thinking his audience
were Of those given over to believe lie.
His speech was simply rehash Of the
old one he has repeated so many times
since he left his sand lot admirers.


MAXWELL.