Year: 1872

Some of the Washington correspond.
ents who have gone over from the ad.
ministraton to Greeley, in the hope ol
sharing the plunder Of office, which the
Chappaqua has so freely offered to his
supporters, are frantic with alarm at Their
impending defeat. They have SO far step
ped in that to return is as hard as going
over, for how can they claim from the
present administration patronage for the
future whose published record shows
them to have played the traitor to their
former friends, and bent all their ener-
gies to the support Of the coalition enemy.
Nothing save success can place them in
respectfully comfortable attitude for
gathering the harvest Of their labors.
They are fixed already, and cannot be
any more certainly dead ducks " from
anything they may do. Hence they are
manufacturing capital for galvanizing the
! Greeley party into fresh life and anima-
ton. The doleful future offers to their
party no chance for the actual raising of
money for the campaign, so they have
! gone to work and raised an immense
sum with their gray goose quills. Two
million five hundred thousand dollars of
Greeley capital for carrying the Novem-
Der elections have been raised here by
correspondents who haven't second
coat to their backs. The plan is good
one, for it is the only one whereby a GER
tain class of voters can be retained in
their par!y-if they can only make their
poor greedy dupes believe that there is
| yet so large an amount of pickings in a
party which has been already morally
money made here in Washington by cor
respondents who haven't dime to wet
their whistles with. This is powerful at
| tractive capital, but how are their vota-
ries to get tangible hold of it. That is
the question


SAN JUAN AGAIN.


There has been quite a scare here over
the reports, now ascertained to be false
and foundationless, that the English had
caused the suspension Of the arbitration
of the San Juan boundary question with
n fair prospect Of defeating the present
conclusion Of Emperor William of Ger
many in favor of the American claim.
Mr.. Bancroft has just telegraphed from
Berlin to Mr.. Fish:


"The decree of the Imperial arbitra-
ton, which has been committed has the
form, not so much ola decree in council,
as Of II cabinet order.


1t does not enter into any elaborate ex-
position Of the decision, but without di-
vergng in the least from the point pre-
sented for arbitration DEGREES that the
claim of the United States of America is
most in accordance with the true inter
pretation of the Treaty Of June 10, 1916"


BLOODED BRUTALITY.


Cadet Diggs has just been expelled
from the Naval Academy at Annapolis
for hazing" and brutally abusing the
new colored cadet who recently entered
that institution. 1t appears that he led
the assault which was made upon the
colored boy. 1t is hoped that this will
put an end to lawless proceedings which
are born Of prejudice. AS beneGciaries
oe the nation it is simply out of the ques-
ton for the Government to submit to the
insolence of these would-be advocates of
caste in our Republican country.


CAPITAL ITEMS.


The Veteran Legion, of Allegheny
county, Pa, arrived here Thursday and
were escorted by the veteran Union Club
of Washnton to their hotel and thence
on visit to the White House. Accom-
panied by the Marine Band they present
ed fine appearance in their black Uni
form.


We are at last to have n new Jail be-
yond all peradventure. The foundation
excavations will be commence this weel,
on the site selected at the AlmshousC
grounds on the Eastern Branch Of the
Potomac.


The War Department has just trans
mitted to the House Appropriation Com
mittee the estimates for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1873. The amount is
$780, 600 for the army proper and doe:
not include estimates for Notifications and
for West Point Academy. The Nava
appropriation estimates will be about the
same as last year-a little less than S20
> 600 600.


Miss Nellie Grant has just returned t
this country and to her home at thi
White House, after pleasant and i'm
proving sojourn of several months il