Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-10-01

picture of life in Washington
1t is useless to deny that the war has, in
a measure, polluted the tastes of the peo-
pie, bringing, as 1t has Enthusiastically,
train of evils TO the doors Of Washington
previously but little known until II is sad
| dening TO behold the degeneraoy of the
people, part cularly in the middle classes,
to-day. The stranger cannot fail to OBJ
serve the large number of jabbering for
eign rowdies, who congregate at the cor
ners of the different streets. Many OF
these fellows are exiled vagabonds, who
are here on the lookout for the first dis
honest government official who has some
| thing to sell. Ii makes no difference
whether the property be con6scated turnl-
ture, captured horses or qaartermaster's or
commssary stores, the purchaser has no
principles to lose, aad why should he be
scrupalous in making bargain.
There are scores Of professional gam
bers here from New York. Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Boston, plying their arts
most dexterously to inveis lie as many I'M
suspecting officers and soldiers as possible
into their meShes, after the paymaster has
been round, asd in which | am sorry to
say they often succeed, roObing the fool
ish men of every cent of their hard earn
ings. Brazen faced harlots promenade
the avenue, and dash through the streets
in open barouches, dressed in the most
Aashy costume, their faded features COW
cred with chalk and rouge, Half intoXi-
Gated rowdies roll the streets in open car
riages, smoking their cigars aud shouting
indecent language. In fact gambling IL
centionsness, drunkenness. and every spe-
Gle OF evil, run riot through the city, until
now protiigacy Ieigns supreme. | would
like to tell you a few facts in relation to
the ''ilhgent hotels" of this dusty place,
and of the recerche style in which nothing
IS served. But enough of Sodom and Go
morrah.
Hon. D. S. DICKINsoN's VIEWS
Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson declines to be
candidate for reelection to the Office of
Attorney General of New York, on ac-
oo,,n, e domestic considerations. In his
1ottor r,ol,ing I'M. announcement, he sub
mts the following striking observations;
"The rebellion has received - iva 'n-
blow. 1t has now little power for mis-
chief, save in its spasmodic ST uggles as it
gasps out its ignobe existence. 1t may,
by galvanic applications from its friends
in the loyal States, once or twice rise to
its feet and stagger on a little further
but this will rather hasten than postpone
the hour of its final dissolution. As 1t
passes away, and the law ia preparing It's
halters and dungeon and Punishment for
conspiriug leaders, let US pray for the for
/ givenuss of the deluded masses who have
been cheated or driven into his wholesale
murder to minister to the unholy ambition
! Of some of the most fendish monsters whe
/ have ever desecrated earth. As for the
mole-eyed politicians among US, whose
( poverty of intellect has not enabled them
to comprehend the magnitude Of the crisis
when they shall cease to encourage the
murderers of our sons and brothers. let us
endure their exhibitions of depravity auo
the ebulitions of their spite, without a
murmur, and in sheer pity measure out &c
them, as an antidote to their Intellectual
virus, that scorn which is made more en-
phatic by expressive silence"
Two MINDS OF DEMOCRATS. The
following is an extract from a speech o
Ex-Governor Wright, of Indiana.
clearly shows the difference between tru,
Democrats and Copperheads;
The assertion has been made that non
but the democratic party could save tn
country. Which class of Democrats do yoI
mean are to save the country ? Thoma
Jefferson was ii genuine democrat. He
had a Vice President by the name o
Aaron Burr Mr., Burr was inside tn
democratic organization. Were they no
both democrats Coming from jefferson
to jackson, we find that Andrew jackson
had Vice President by the name Of JOIN
c. Calhoun. Was not Calhoun inside TIT
democratic organization as much as Gen
era jackson himself? Coming from
jackson, we find Stephen A. Douglas
and was he not representative of tn
old jackson democracy ? At that tim,
the country had a Vice President in tht
person of John {. breckenridge, who
was democrat too Then we have JEFF
ferson and Burr, jackson and Calhoun
Douglas and Breckenridge. Do you fol
low these last? When you hear a MAJ
saying that the only party that save The
country is the democratic party be sur,
and ascertain what he means by the de
mocracy, whether it is genuine or bogus
There can be no such thing as true dem
ocrat who does not go in for the war.
RATHER BLUNT. Jayhawker Jenni
son of Kansas, replies as follows to thu
applicants for the chaplaincy of his regi
ment. The colonel evidently has but lit
tie veneration for those holy men who can
not fight as well as pray:
headquarters 18th Caoa1,y Regt. }
Leavenworth, Kansas, Sept. l5. (
Rev. Gentlemen Your application
for the chaplaincy of the 18th are re
celved. In opposition however to Scrip
tural injunctions, we are attending Jus
now more closely to our temporal thai
our spiritual requirements, and are not il