The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-01-01

md employment IN the phiianshfopic workshop Of the
capital No city needs thorough oyerhauins OF
its moral hull than the IN which have the honor
to live Washington, unqnesonabiy, ought to be gen
esously oStered by the government as mere matter OF
insurance upon this national property Congress well
afford to pay large sums--indsed cannot afford to with
hold them But, notwithstanding this. am sometimes
afraid that my dear constituency, whom ann so fond OF
representing In this weakly way in the columns OF tho
Uaaon are very much like that most unfortunate OF erea
lures the only OF rich parents, early learns That
he need nothing for himself Az In searching for ma
terials for my musings, wend my weary way amid the
muddy byways OF city sometimes almost fancy That
E.op the Fabler really Esop the Prophet when he
wrote instructive aegory OF Hercules and the Car
ter almost fancy that the clouds OF Swampoodie
contain the car the angry divinity and that again the
potent voice declares glove aids those who help them
selves fear my dear reader, you imagine that Penn
syvania avenue Is fair representative of Washington;
depend upon it, the OF your faithful Middle
AGED Man 1t is great mistake, That beautiful
avenue albeit not every irequenter thereof pure
AS an angel, IL only the great receptacle OF what
adorns Washington--the iris, 80 to speak, over
arching the moral cataract Of metropolitan life Ii
you will descend by going eastwasdy or westwardly
assure you load you to suck foaning eddies
boiling. black such fearful jagged rocks lifting
themselves in sturdy defiance against laws human and
metropolitan public the cart load of your moral perplexi
ties has sunk very deep indeed in the mire. and with
the teaching the aforenamed fable before most
earnestly advise you to place good, earnest shoulders
against the wheel of the vehicle you had better push
and give with all your might than to leave the precious
burden exposed to the rains of misfortune aud preyng
beasts Of temptation and crime. To speak plain word,
permit say that you have less publicschoo accom-
notation much juvenile vagrancy and crime and sad
sleeping volcano of young moral depmvity in your
midst as exists in any proportionate degree in any
city OF my acquaintance, and you my friends
are quite accustomed to hear me talk of Paris and
London and New York with the aonchalance of who
knows all about those cities. 1t is misfortune to
stand as huge sieve against which all parts Of the
try hurl their atoms and not to press the sme too far
sometimes we catch the particles Washington Is
never Judged by its resident population, but by the
floating mass frequenting IL for various purposes
therefore 1t behooves who permanently
chored here held fast by love Of the beau
tful capital to make all civic appliances
nearly faultless as possible. Our police should be
model police our schools should be model schools
provision for the poor should be such that yagrancy
might become crime too palpaole to escape detection
II were not -burdened with that sort Of modest diff
aence which quiet interpretive life has caused to be-
come chronic think would play the modern John the
Baptist by donning sober rain,ent, and in
selfdenying labos endeavorng to counterfeit many
cial misfortunes and some vices Perham should
coed but think the last heard Of the original John
the Baptist was the fact that young lady making
herself ridiculous by dancing around his .ead which,
for the convenience Of the satatory performance had
been removed FROM his ascetic shoulders proving
clusively that peaceful phanthropist may Sometimes
To his own inconvenience, be mounted on prancing
charger am very sorry to have caused many per-
feel disappointed by my nonappeance last week,
but it owing to
We Printer Man, his Revenge.
There Is one thing ia which excela very eminent
parsonage that is in particular chirosaphy. Rufus
Choate's handwriting has been lkened to streak of
lightning on spree. But beatthe great Ru-
fus and indeed willing to contend otthe champion
ship Of illegibty against all What follows
and the consequent disappointment Of ny readers last
week. grows out Of my cagrnphic accomplishments,
will be seen by the following note from u. printer
Thomas Typo presents his complimtlts to the Mid
die Aged Man. and begs to inform him That hssetofore
the MSS of the Musings having come riga from the pen,
were deciphorable by using forty-mi ion magnifyng
lens but unfortunately last week. owng to large
amount of composition being delnandety the congress
sional proceedings, the copy of the NJ. was aHoeed
20 al cold and in that condition nohn could be made
Of It but what follows which Mr.. Typo respectfully sug
gests If it had been allowed to appear hou cxplana
might have subjected the Midde-Aged fan to the
picon Of having temporarily transform his capital
covering into receptacle for baked clay Mr. Typo APP
ponds, In its cold condition,
The Deferred Musing.
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THr use OF Woax.- When Charles LIp left the
India House at last he thus wrote II ae forever
on Tuesday week. The ncomprehensibilit,rd my
dItion overwhelmed 1t was like pass from liio