New-York daily tribune., 1861-05-26
THE WAR FOR THE UNION.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Ssus Our Own Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, May 90, 1861,

The TRIBUNE, daily, semi-weokly, or weekly,
you are my friend, and | claim that touching
relation although I may never have had the
honor to exchange cards with you, or dine, or
take drnk--O4 cold water with you. Still Al
you should ever visit the Capital despite my ad.
vice, with your youngest daughter, 1 shall oe
most barpy to take her out to the camp OF the
sth Regiment, although carriage-hire is expen
siye--runniDg the chances of getting domestic
absOlutiOn--gO with her 10 Mrs. Jhumadlddls
hrst " at home"-tho residuary legatee OF accu-
muIated profits in tie negro trade, which her
husband much to his regret, could not take with
him-proyided | am expected point out the
inUstrious living portraits, civic aud chivaIrous,
sf Columbia's most favoIite sons and daughters,
and do every thing but dance, to fT out the most
grave and responsible duties of fashionable life.
But / repeat, lest THE long psrenthsis may have
weakened the force of my opening cd u alton
DO not come to Washington. No one wants you
here, the President is not at all lonely, nor do
any of bic Secretaries suGer from lack of society
Even if Gen. Scott wished TO fall on bis sword
he would have to do il in an audience at least as
large as the full panel of q petit jury. There
are ten candidates for every Mayor, and
twenty for every Brigadier-Generalcy, aud
from that running down to messengerships,
five hundred to a thousand eoch. The bOtel-
keepers, always bospitable, have abundant drafts
on bed aud board and will not miss you But
II you ,cM come, notwithstanding, borrow the
uniform of militia Colonel, and hire pair of
epsulettes of Horshman & Co., aud when you
arrive here travel on your military renown--talk
about raising brigade or building feet OF gum
boats. If nothing else comes of il, you may get
IN invitation to dire with Secretary-perbaps
get sporadic free drink or TWO from some
brothers in arms, if the water does not agree
with your stomach, and you step up to the
bar
But must hint to you that unless you have
five hundred dollars with your banker, which you
can check out for campaign expenses, you had
better negotiate moderate loan before you buy
your railroad ticket, and ask your esinabie part
ner to put half dozen shirts, with few relays
of other necessary articles for the journey into
your valise. Pleasure and sightseeing here is
adjusted to O Federal money standard, quite
dcpletory to short purses. Stay away. You can
wear out your double soles last enough at home.
and waste your stock of good nature over your
servants and children in your city brown-stoDe-
'front.' or country villa, without swelling the diy-
dends Of railway corporations or feeding the
money -tills of those who take in strangers en-
route, or at the National Metropolis.
And again, Agricola Of the Grain States man
Of broad acres, corn-felds, cattle, and comfort
do not let Amos or Asa, or Abner slough of
their maternal homespuo to get into diplomatic
black, and, with q letter from the Hon. Ddy.
mu. Duuderhead, NJ. c. of the District, to the
President, come on for q clerksbip. On this
point, as Fisher Anes said in a magnificent
burstOf eloquence, "my emotions are unutterable."
Clerkshps In the abstract are well enough. They
are reputable, and your son had better take one
rather than TO travel on Western river and
play poker or enter into partnership in the
manufacture of bogus coin.
man of advanced years, who has lost
fortune by failures of creditors to pay, panic in
stock, or loss of cargoes, when lie looks into the
sad eyes of his wife, and the sweet faces Of his
children, may take the bread Of the Government
and pass it into their mouths not only without
Obloquy but with honor. But to young man,
with the glow of health and stamina Of csnstitu-
ton, hardy by labor, and brown with toll, let him
ssoid The portal Of Department as he would the
door of prison. If my sons must come to
Washington l would rather see them driving
public carriage, two in hand, than have them
look to clerical life as a permanence. You doubt
this but bring in copy of the Holy Evangelists,
md will testify to its truth. A stipendlary TO
livery, he may, in time own coach, rise to be
the proprietor of an omnibus, afterward build
railroad, and retire 10 quiet life with bis side
pockets well lined with fret mortgage seven per
cents and regularly paid coupons.
Suppose you get, without weary waiting and
worrying anxiety, your appointment, the path Of
peril ia just opeuing before you. You bring your
wife here, simple with tho habits of country life,
reasonable in wishes, and conteuted in the mar
row circle in which she has moved. Soon silks
and laces, furs and folly, get possession Of her
thoughts in the haberdashery Of the Avenue
Sbe skirmishes on the outposts of society at the
Presidents levee, or the grand Vanity Fair of
music by the Marine Band each about as select
"a q camp-meeting or a cattle show. Then comes
the Inflammation Of bills at Harpers and HoOre':;
% on then follows in the train of embarrsss-
ments tae anticipation Of salary ut from five TO
ton per cs9t,a month in usury, and when mis-
cradle with Expenditure beyond your means aud
confusion Of money affairs comes the inauguration
OF hostile Administration. Then comes the
shame aud the real sorrow-then self respect re-