Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1883 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Washington telegram: “Postmaster General Gresham, the only Cabinet officer who has remained in Washington any considerable portion of the summer, has a large budget to call to the attention of the President, and it is quite probable that a number of Postmasters will be removed. Among them are some Postmasters who being proprietors of country newspapers have inserted the latest advertisement of a lottery company, which sharply attacks the Postoffice Department and the Administration on account of recent decisions excluding lottery letters from the mails In view of the successful evasion of the recent order of the Postmaster General against lotteries, it is expected, too, that another order, more stringent than the former one, will soon be promulgated.” President Arthur has decided to appoint a commission to examine all conditions of hog-raising, to settle the rumors of disease among American swine. The President will choose one man, the Chicago Board of Trade one and the Agricultural Department two. A Washington telegram of the 13th inst says: “Additional telegraphic reports from State Agents of the Agricultural Department have been received from Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and Dakota. They show that the frosts since the Ist inst have damaged the corn crop in those States from 5 to 15 per cent, the greatest injury having occurred in Ohio. Notwithstanding this the ptatistican of the department says that the 2,500,000 acres increase over last year’s planting will probably keep the total yield from falling below 1,600,000,000 bushels. The total for last year was 1,625,000,000 bushels, so the decrease will not, he says, be serious enough to cause a short supply.” A Washington correspondent telegraphs: President Arthur left for New York Friday, and does not expect to return much before Oct 10, unless specially called back. The President has had the time hang very heavy on his hands since his return. There are no politicians in town; none of the Justices of the Supreme Court are here; the society people are slow in coming back; the hotels are as quiet as grave-yards; even the office-seekers stay away. Sunset Cox came on here to work on the Speakership, but he could not find a man in town with a vote, or any influence, so lie fled upon a very short notice. Washington officials decided not to send a search-and-aid party this winter to the Greely expedition, and the men. will be compelled to subsist as best they can until the middle of next summer. Many are disposed to think, with Simon Cameron, that if the North pole was discovered we would not know what to do with it Some of Lieut Garlington's friends are disposed to think that his critics have been unnecessarily and unwarrantedly severe on him. They express confidence that a full knowledge of all the facts in his case will vindicate his courses