Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1862-06-13
Vol. VII. A..
Washington as it Was and Is.

81 washington as IL was ana ls.
The New York Express has copy Of
! the Charleston Mercury, of May 22d,
from which itextracts the following:
A Southern gentleman accustomed
to moving in Washington circles during
the administration of the last President
of the United States, would, in the reign
OF Abraham the First, recognize in the
public buildings alone any familiar fea-
lures of the former self of the once proud
Federal capitol. Gone, all the vim and
dash Of its chivalry; gone, all the south
ern sunshine of lovely form; gone, all
The towering minds from her Legislative
halls; and, gone, all southern principle
and feeling Yankee" is written eve
rywhere--in the capitol, in the White
house, at the Smithsonian, and in tho
departments; and one can trace the OBJ
sequious lineaments of the Yankee race
in almost every face to be met on the
avenue. There is the plsce-seekcr from
New York, with testimonials from Gree
ly; the locker after big contract from
Pennsylvania, with communications from
Cameron, and the savory politician from
Illinois, with bow for everybody con
his side of the house" The social trade
of the city is turned over to usurpers;
and the Yankee shopkeepers from branch
houses in New York, Philadelphia, and
elsewhere, occupy the stores. They find
their customers among the soldiers from
their respective States and cities. Thus
you find (" No. 16 Bowery," on the ave-
nue., and the Philadelphia Arcade De-
pot" around the corner. The carriers in
the streets, and the boot blacks on the
corners, are strangers in q strange city,
but, with genuine Yankee impertinence,
making themselves perfectly at home.
Even the thieves and lewd women of tho
city hail from the congressional districts
of Cochrane, Wade, Lovejoy, Hale and
Grow, and claim to be their constituents
All seem intent upon securing at least a
bale of Treasury notes, OR green backs,
as they are called there, and there seems
20 be no lack of them. They are in the
hands of every body, even the negroes.
In fact, to use commercial phrase, the
demand exceeds the supply;" and re-
Gently thirty or thirty-ive clerks were
engaged in clipping, signing and propar-
ing the notes for circulation. God only
knows the amount already issued Tho
rsupply seems TO depend on the material
used III their manufacture-paper aud
ink.
The larger hotels, with tho exception
Of Wizards and Kimmells, have all be-
come Yankeeized. Upon the demise of
Tillotson Brown, of Browns hotel, re-
Gently, the hotel passed into northern
hands. That phantom of Washington
life-Beau Hickman-still haunts them.
The advent of new population into
Washington has restored Beau's prestige.
When the writer of this article was in
I Washington three weeks since, Beau
sported semi-military costume. He
stood in the Rotunda Of Browns sur
rounded by crowd Of opcn-mouthed
/ Down casters, engaged at his old tricks
Dan. Il. Sickles, the once commander of
the Drunken brigade" stood in the
doorway, giving his mustache that pecu-
liar twirl, which every one who has seen
him can well imagine. Dan has been
broken of his command, or rather con-
gress has refused to ratify his nomina-
ton for brigadier general. Dan has
lost caste, and grows more and more dis
sipated every day. There were about
ten thousand sick and wounded in tho
Washington hospitals.
The mansion Of the late Senator Doug
las has been converted into an hospital,
as well as many other prominent build
ings, including the residences Of promi-
nent southerners who have vacated them.
At present there are but few regiments
Of soltiers in the city, and business
among the camp-followers is dull. Ma
ny are following up the Federal army
with their stores; and, if the advance on
Richmond be not successfully resisted,
our eitisons will DO bumiliatcd by the
presence Of Yankee traders in the stores
Of their own merchants, the occupation
by Yankee spectators Of their business
narls, and the Dissertation Of the public
buildings, by turning their churches,
markets, and other public resorts into
stabling and hospitals, as in Washing.
ton, Winchester, and all other southern
cities yet occupied by the invaders"
SUcu rs LIFE. SO lately dead; SO soon
forgotten. IT'S the way Of the world.
We flourish for while. Men take US
by the hand, and are anxious about the
health Of our bodies, and laugh o. our
jokes and we really think, like the fly on
the wheel, that we have something TO do
with tho turning Of it. Some day we die
and are buried. The sun never stops
for our funeral; everything goes on as
usual men laugh at new jokes; one or
two, memories still hold our names and
forms, but tho crowd moves on in It's
daily circle and in three days the great
waves sweep over our steps, ana wash out
the last vostigo Of our earthly footprints.
~ Esy- An Arkansas traveller says be