The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-09-09
Washington correspondence,

WASHINGTON Cry, Sept. 6, 1912.
Captain Tyier-OG flee holders Look ott-A Storm
coming-Appeaito New York Patriotism on Mon
day ntght-Changes IN the Departments-Classif
cation Of Cierks-ther Wires Things at Hasa-
ington-Eulogy on Woman Boarding HOUSES
President Iyler's Opinion Of the Herald General
James Gordon Benneh-Hs Destiny.
DEAR GENERAL -
That =" the world is governed too much," is an
adage which has hitherto passed for gospel, like
many other old saws full of falsehood and deception
that have been handed down by our grand-daddies;
but Captain Tyler about to point out the mistake
The spirit OF the odifelow is at length up; his very
hair begins 10 brstle la porcupne, like Old Hcko-
rvs; his nose has arched out into perfect eagles
beak; he has taken TO hard smoking, and has even
been heard to say, BY the Eternal G-dr' There
Is something brewing, take my word fort, and be-
fore they are aware of it., he will begin to hur the
oifice-holders of your city down the Tarpeian Rock
Captain Tyler can beay with perfect equanimity,
the yindctlve attacks on his own reputation; but
he not the man to permit his country or the high
station he holds, 10 be dishonored. The insult Of
ered TO both at the Ashburton dnper has reused up
the whole nation, and the miserable apologies, ex-
plantations, backing out, NC ale received with con-
tempt. Fish Is the only who acted like an
American, and il the others had the courage to in
suit their country in the presence of British Lord
their miserable cowardice now in shrinking from re,
sponslbihty, should degrade them still over l hope
your great city VIII speak on Monday next in tones
OF thunder, and that ITS on-voice, responded to by
the whole country, may follow in the wake of the
Warspite, boom louder than her guns, and satisfy
fuence out OF their money temples and dens of IL
| centlousness and inlqulty.
We TO have sundry changes here in the differ
ent departments, artcularly in the War Office and
| in that branch connected with the Indian service
| Secretary Spencer is as keen as hawk and has
| discovered the utter lncompetency of many of the
| officers and clerks. Old c., who has been in for
some years, and who now holds in his hands, with
out bond or any sort of responsibility, large
| amount OF public money, and who is as pretty
specimen OF the granny you would wish to see is
sure to 60 There are Just 500 ofiice-holders here
that should be dismissed. would dispose of them
| thus:-
Make grannies and set to practising obstetrics 80
| Let out as harlequins, man-monkeys and ourang
To be exhibited as natural curiosi.ies, and dis.
| posed of to private Cabinets so
Hired to Tom Marshall to lecture practically on
| the evils Contemporaries, so
To be disposed OF for old co' and cold wictuals, 800
z IS
| In every instance where these fellows have wives,
the President should appoint her to the vacancy ;
nine out Of ten of these ladies handsome, intel-
gent, industrious, working all day for a lazy hus-
band and then writing for him night after night to
bring up his arrearages his bad conduct is such
as to cause him to be menaced with dismlssion his
|
by her affecting pleadings averts his fate Oh the
man that can treat with cruelty such and gen.
| erous affectons-whO, tor the qualification of his
own lndugencies, can entail poverty, anxiety and
suffering on his brght-eyed wife and the little dar-
| llngs round her cherries hearth-is unworthy the
| name OF man, and should be Missed and secuted
| from the world. Give me the man that knows how
| to lovea woman-.that appreciates the sex-who
langushes Tor her Establishments and feels that her
smile, either wife mistress is essential to his
| happiness give me such man-even if he be
touched with libertnism-and feel that he is worth
zen times as m much, be trusted ten times as
who permits brow once fair and beautiful to pale
under his neglect; a step once agile fawn's to
fall stlessly on the floor and eye, once beaming
In hope, to grow dim and lustreless amid its tears
Alas there are hundreds of such cases here, and
they hang like pail over the retired streets Of oul
CITY, Many. OF the details are heart-rending in the
extreme, and venture to say there is no place in
this world where woman is SO much ga suffering
angel" as In this gay, but miserable metropolis
Very many of the public clerks here accom-
plished, upright exemplary men,. who work like
| machines and do not get half paid but they live
with difficulty, die In debt, are sometimes compel
led to be buried by contribution, and then the com
mon resource OF their bereayed widows is -
boarding house And who does not know the
| history of these establishments in Washington
hard struggle for edit to begin with-a little run
of custom-a falling of-bills, duns, consables, dis
traints, sacrifices, ruin, broken health and SANDER
tor this viper never fails TO strike its fangs into the
| fame OF an unfortunate widow, at the head of a
boarding house. If she he beautiful, SO much the
worselfor her if she have daughter, though che be
pure as the shrned Madonna herself still the foul
breath Of envy on her fame and il withers before
the innocent maiden dreams that light word has
been whispered. Such is Washington, my dear
General. If there be place in this Union precisely
like lt-where there Is SO much talent, dissipation
beauty, misery, poverty caumny, and real virtue be-
| set with temptations, | am yet to know it. The
Herald and Captain Tyler are destined to work
great reform here. Your paper is universally read
10 ('apfai N IL Tho the
conducted on true philosophical and benevolent prn-
cples Your very structures produce no bad feelings,
for every one sees the pety of your motives. Go
on in your great crusade for rational liberty, and
against vice in every shape. The intellect OF the
world-the spirit of the age, is with you. You will
triumph over contemporary envy, and monuments
will rise hereafter in yonr honor.
d. d. d.
Government Humbugs-Colt's Submarine
| Explosions.