Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-04
our washinetsn Correspondence.

WAsHihafoh, Aprn 4.
C6llqpsiRg. - This duh town, which for
some weeks has been inflated TO the propor-
tions Of city, by reason Of N. O.s and
Strangers, is now OOllapsing to its original
and inherent meagerness. The N. O.s are
gone, save a few who remain 70 "fx up"
post-ofices, and other crumbs Of the public
pap within the gift Of themselves and the
Administration. And the strangers have
either seen the elephant or succeeded. So,
Of course, they have let. The streets are
unfrequented and quiet; the hotels like the
banqust-halls referred to by the poet; the
shops full of dust, and with ne'er buyer.
A few people remain here to urge their
claims, and see the thing through. A few
more have been stranded here by the ebb of
the money which on its food bore them
here, but now leaves them impecunious, and
without credit. ......
The two or three weeks Immediately suc-
! ceeding the Inauguration, as am informed
by the telegraph operators, the dispatches
sent over the lines were of this purport /:
Get letters from prominent men" Send
on strong papers, Recommendation
from business men will help you"
Within the last fortnight the dispatches
have run thus: "Send draft on New York
for $25." Forward 800 by express"
"Dead broke. Fork over"
An expensive place is Washington, and
one easy to become dead broke'in. You
pay price and. a-half for everything you
get-saving and excepting oysters-which
bivalves are obtainable at reasonable rates.
If you are at hotel, you pay per diem of
So so for q room and the use of its furniture
and your meals. Do you order a pitcher of
ice water2 You have an extra in your
bill. Is it cold The ERE is an extra" Do
you use gas at night2 There's another
extra. Then the porter, the boot black, the
chambermaid, and the waiter at the table,
all expect fees, which if you give not, you
may look out for yourself Naturally, when
you come to settle your little bill, you are
sstonished at its plethora and the leanness OF
your purse. 1t q almost as bad here as at
Niagara. for paying out money. At almost
every turn you make, some, body or some
thing asks for money. Not even the Arabs
cry "backsheesh" more persistently than do
linen and things" here. The custom of the
Government in layishing money on its
public works" has much to do with this.
II begets a habit of expense, and recipro-
cably of entreaty for money among the
people.
Valuable Clerical Services.-The Sunday
Morning Chronicle of this city Ia new paper
and deserving success) has a word of warn
ing to the newly-appointed clerks in the
Departments here. 1t bids them remember
that the salaries they draw are in most
cases larger than they have ever received
before, and cautions them against devoting
them to billiards and drinks a caution, to
Judge by the appearance of the billiard
rooms and saloons here, quite timely and
prudent.
Apropos of clerks Secretary Smith dis
covered the other day in overhauling the
list of clerks in his Office that one (second
CLASSY clerk, drawing a salary of 81, 400, had
perpetual leave of absence, and lived in a
| city in Ohio not 100 miles from Cincinnati,
! where he discharged the duties of clerk in
the Interior Department in Washington by
editing Democratic journal. Mr.. Smith
applied the guillotine at once. This was in
the department whereof the pious and con-
| scientious Thompson was head.
ectionahsm.-Large numbers of Clerks
have been removed. There's some
wailiDg of course; but there's need Of
radical change here. The Northern
lation of i9,000 900; the slave States Of
about 100000, of whom 100000 are
blacks AS blacks have no rights which a
white man is bound to respect they fcourse
could not be expected to share in the dis
tribution of clerkships here. So this leaves
| 9,0000 coo of SoutherneTs and $4,000 900 O
Northerners, among whom to divide the l,50(
clerkships in the Departments. Numerically
one would say there should be two Northern
men to one Southern. Now, under the las
Administration, the account stood thus:
Clerks from the Mort 2
Clerks from the South. 81
CleIks from the District OF COlumbia..,..".,o..4 40
You will observe that, of the 1865 clerks
the moderate number of 1872 came from
slaveholding communities.
In the rebound which the present Admin
istration is making from this state of things
complaint may be made of "sectionalism
There are some peculiar circumstances how
ever, to be considered. In the first place, O
the 5000, 900 Soutberners, something ovel
they claim, in the Union. Then of thos
that remain, a large number are Secessionist
in principle avowelly, and there are man
more, who, though not faVoring secession
still less favor Black Republication, and re
fuse TO hold Office under B. r. Administra
tion. In view of these circumstances,
7 would not be surprising if the ratio of South
ern to Northern clerks were not preserved
But, do not believe it possible, in any way
to so utterly destroy that ratio as the las
Administration did. And yet the Democrat
talk of sectiopalism and claimed to be a ma
tional party, and the only national party
Such a showing as the above, demonstrate
that the Democrats in patronage were as sec
tional, as they were in policy
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