Litchfield enquirer., 1838-01-11
Correspondence ef 1he W. Y. Daily Erpress

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2d, 1888.
 The play-days of the children of a larger growth pupils of the nationscholars of the republc-wran. glers in council, all Overgone with the year 3, III pursuit oi the centuries which have preceded the present. New Years Day, at Washington was mer; wa was May"~a May atmosphere. a May sky, May every thing. The ladies of Washington, and she in all the gaieiy and fashion of the Penn sylvania Avenue surpassed even Broadway of New. York-and altogether small city upon this side of the Atlantic ever presented such a congregation of beautiful butterflies and birds-which means nothing more than the favored and better part of creation Henceforth, judging from the opening of the new year, Washington may Outstrp New York in its great car nival of free offerings and good wishes.
 The Presidents house was for the first time public ly opened under the administration of the "Succes- Thc splendor of the day-the unwrinkled and un- clouded face of nature-the multitude in the city and the fact that 1t the first Levee ot the new Presdent-gaye an unusual interest to the scene t Oe
 body-shook hands with every body--was glad to see every body, and hoped that every body and every bo in attendance in great numbers, and as usual, were honored with the everlasting smile and smirk of the widower President The ladies bowed niost gra. cousy to their Sovereign, who was quite reveren
 The ceremonies of the drawing rooms-tbe recep- ton rooms-the once Green and East Rooms, were as they were under the fTeQeceSSor AdMInstraiion There was the same confusion of tongues-the same noise and bustle-the same attendance of Foreign Ministers in their Court dresses-the same number of officers of the Army and Navy in their American un- fOrms-the same marchings and counter-marchings through the Presidents suite of rooms-the same band of music to enlven the scenein brief the same every thing with perhaps little more refinement and order, and a company somewhat less Loco FocO, Samnl, Bang-ish, than was usual with the Ex-Presdent.- 1 The whole, however, was very Democratic-vERy, l assure you PIebeians and Patricans weie upon a 1 level Foreign Ministers and Cabinet Councillors stood upon equal ground with the humblest men in tendance Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and most of the Whig Senators and Representatives in at tendance, and seemed to attract far more attention | than the President himself Benton, the Golden Mormon of the Senate, saw wandering through the East Room-perhaps cOgitating upon his famous East Room letter" solitary and alone," with none % | poor to do him reverence" Hundreds were smiling upon his associates in the Senate Chamber with warm and heartfelt aspirations that the post of honornow particulary honored by the people masse-mght ere long be occupied by the but the poor EEpunger | and distinguished Hamburger stood solitary and alone amidst the taunts and jeers of his opponents.
 putting his ball in notion" His task, like that ol 1 Ssyphus seemed to promise no termination. MT Benton's ball. if kept in motion until 1t reaches the summit of the ambitious hill he s striving ascend
 will surely, like the stone of Sisyphus, fall back with furious mpetuosty. There s no peace for such men
 Alas, thought I, as saw this great leader stridinG over the East Room, alone, drowning and dscontent ed is this the reward for drawing black lines around inc Journals of the Senate,"-for aboIishing Bank raos-or exhibiting the yellow gold through the in teTstces of the long Gken purses of open network