The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-07-17
WASHINGTON CITY, July II, 1862.

Dear BuNetin:-This first intrusion, will
f l trust not be received as an unlimited
guest-but feeling assured OF your kindly
, regard, have made an effort to forget to-
= days attack of "spring fever" and pen a
few thoughts down for you, which though
they NAV scarcely elicit single smile of
approval from your highly intelligent circle
of subscribers are yet given with heart
and will. claiming no other merit than a
: truthful narrative.
At the outset, permit me to congratulate
"you and yours" upon so suspicious be-
ginning in so arduous an undertaking.
know that your motto will ever be onward ;
and since you promise to sustain conseiva-
tire course-one that will never depart from
those true democratic principles that have
withstood the wreck of ages nd the march
of strife in our national experience, there is
no room left to doubt. that yours will be
bright future without a dark cloud-a
/ pleasant communion with apprecative
minds without dissenting voice.
The people desire Especially in times
like these) source of intelligence that will
prove as full Of hope and comfort as it will
abound in interest, and the little city of
Maysville, will, among other patrons. surely
, shower upon you a generous support-in
word: a patronage that will never lapguish
in the hour of need, or for moment desert
because of growing Indifference.
Your readers are sufficiently posted in the
warlke drama that is still being enacted
with all its sad realities, without any pre-
sumpiial comments or elaborate descriptions
from my humble SELF and in drawing aside
the curtain, let it be to speak Of less terrible
scenes.
The past week has been with Washing
tonans more remarkable in the sudden
transaction from cloudless sky to capricious
storms, than any that have preceded it since
did not seem to admire the freaks of nature
on more than one occasion, while many
promised excursions, down the Potomac, had
to be indefinitely postponed.
If there is city on the wide expause of
earth, where Fashion struggles to outrval
herself, that spot has certainly here as the
poet wrote:
ga local habitation and q name
And especially does the old proverb, ''In
Season and out of Season." apply to the Me-
tropolis OF the nation. Pennsylvania Avenue
which designates the main thoroughfare,
presents at certain seasons of the year very
nov nd h.
strangers seem never still; and while on the
one hand there is pure arstocratic atmos-
phere that is courted and breathed by all
the fair representatives. of upper tenn .
there is also on the other hand full devel- .
opement of all the folleS that are known to
man. To have a realizing sense of what is
usually termed "a fast life,'' it is only neces-
sary to miagle with the 'bon tons" of Wash
ington City, who, are never weary of the
s'1Iy- .--i-;-i, ~ -r-:,'y IL, .t----4..4
to enormous charges for 'indsp ensables;"
few months sojourn will satisfy the most ex-
travagant taste. Verify there is need for an
inexhaustible purse. if any would follow our
upper ten" in all their varied whims, with
whom dollars only assume the importance
of dimes elsewhere, and thousands are re-
garded as single drop in the great balance
Of wealth. .
Live and let live" is a maxim that
has never found its way into any of the 10
calities that profess to cater to the inner {
man, in this much sought city; on the con- {
trary, the invariabe custom is to demand S
he half you make and as much beyond it, t
Is face of brass can have the effrontery to c
suggest.
Blu. enough of one truth. I cannot ask
90 large limit in your valuable columns
md must necessarily be brief
1t is currently reported to-day, and by
hose who have the best opportunity of n
moving, that Congress will adjourn on the a
ourteenth. Some few measures of minor r
Importance, remain to be considered; and y
ince most of the members have ventilated y
heir patriotism in eloquent speeches, and q.
'atient forbearance with the weather, the v
Probabilities are dec;d eddy in favor of an T
arly departure to their respective homes. L
The masses are now busy with the thought
I foreign intervention, upon which the
pinion of the best statesmen conflict; but in
ny event, are earnestly looking for a speedy fir
nd to this sad struggle that has already g
'ft its desolating blight upon our once hap w
Y land. Alas! for the day that severed the re re
cred chain that has so long bound a great ii,
MON together! But amid the sorrow and ar
lie gloom that has cast q dark nall over o
om es that were once SO joyous and SO free, IL. ~
is a solace to every lover of his country, =
feel that Our fiaO has bpaD gallant 1y -,