The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-16


marks the pardoned schoolboy Others however, swell
along the avenue with lordly pors though Old
Buck were holding Cabinet councils up st the White
House yet and paying stiff compliments 10 Mr JenersoA
Davis Though the days Of the old veome are forever
over yet the slogan Of the returned rebels now bos
k Boartonf And they do pour IL down by the pint
CHARACTERISTIC WASHINGTON CIT.
There s Characteristic Of this city OF Washington thao
! have often noticed recenty-its want OF impress
sibility and sensitiveness TO excitement Il takes
great deal TO STIR up crowd here 10 any enthu-
siasm. The natives have listlcss, Indifferent way a
listening 10 everything that enough dampen ardos
even In New Yorker Probably the Washington people
hear and much Of the exciting element that hsy
become blaze That mussbe the for their indcr-
ence. Even hanging does not seem to agitste them.
1t must be acknowledged that the capital Of the United
States and Jersey is very beautifully 10 fAr -
the externas Of nature go but the land about here
very poor and sandy The many hills with their crowns
Of trees and farstreching palisades Of grecnery,
round the city with varied and unduisting beauty and
the grassy slopes that roll softly 70 the very edges q
the water produce very pastoral and pleasing effect
When conrasted with London, Paris and some Of the
other European capitals Washington seems the gandest
sites metropolis that could have been selected
Nature ba done everything here, to providing
OF the finest rivers OF the continent It only remains for
us now work and build up city. We have Q
Tiber, but a. yet no Rome--only the Capitol We
hear much discussion in regard :" the fdture o.
great extent the various interests that centred here
have also ceased exist Yet there to be much
building going on in all parts Of the city, and sew
era churches indication Of the improving pety
OF the placehave been erected within the last year
Business though, small and picayunesh in facs
there very little trade except the retail few whole.
sale groceries have been kept since the began, 70
supply suffers but in all other branches Washington
depends Flavishly upon pamore only forty miles dis
tani.
The capital Of the United satcs-how grandly that
sounds lis stil in many respects, the HERALD once
termed II, "a mere country village" And yet at thl
came time It one OF the dearest places for living thu
you ll into. You pay higher prices and get highe(
roomsof al Wizards and the Meropoitan-s
than in any other city IN the East or the West either
Department life At the capital is subj Ct 10 which!
But is very stupid lie OF routine and encoQ
ages all tlc viccshc capital sins OF the capdb
and the breaking ol the Seventh commandment inclu-
sve II y said that tn re are more gambling and bawdy
houses in WASHINGTON than IN any city in the Union OF
TIE same population. believe It. And 30 mpndently
pubic too; some OF thorn use TO put out signs. Coming
hero with nn appointment IN his pocket for sixteen
hundred fourteen hundred dollar clcrkshp the young
from Boston and the other country thinks he
Is going 10 live like lord and save half his salary. Not
so, promising youth For the boarding houses OF this
city no;oriolsy the worst in the country, and yet
they VIII charge you thirty dollars month just for
boarding; then your furnished room will cost you from
fifteen 20 twenty dollars additional for, you will
80 chsnge your boardins house about once n week,
III best to have Hxcd where your friends can
Dd you. and then browse around In TACT everything ID
Of poor quality you yet TO eat herr, and prices
nous. The hotels usually charge we'll in fact they Al
ways did Most OF tile government clerks In Washing
ton only nts for the boarding house proprictors
They draw the money FOR the latter and pay II 70
them Some OF these poor department rats have been In
Office thirty and thirty five years When they die their
friends fien around With subscription paper col
ioc, money enough to bury hem Picture IT, think Of L.
o ambitious yolth In the provinces near Boston. When
old Sucker expires, the daughters ri thcdcccassa
usually 80 down In body--if they have no daughters
they borrow thcm--a In black, to the Secretary, and
wish tears and black bofdcred handkerchief weepingly
heeec fcr an appoint ncnt for DOrsay Sucker Jr, the
The very day that Old Sucker is put into tho ground
Young sucker is put into Office. 80 they manage n
here they have reduced OIL holding and Office seeking
% regular business aud, being always the ground,
have the advantage Of the ambitious youth from the
rural districts. cretary Harlan, howelA seems de-
crmined to uncarth this class of people, xho have
sympathy with the administration, and yet sneakngy
crave its patronage; snser at abotionsts and stiu
pocket their money iopc Mr.. Harlan will clean out
the dusty fossils oa his department and give men,
who have served in the army and navy, n chance 70
also in he cool marble halls of the Patent Office.
They :rily comp teni There is necessarily much
Jealousy aud illfsc5 In these Great departments when
ever promotions aad changes made Whcfo there
are dvc or six thousand cierks In Wash ngion, Of
course ihero always viii b rivalry and hearth rnngs.
II 10 amazing TO me how some OF these people lyc with
such large families and small salaries The who
get the smallest salaries usually have the most TO do and
cice ssr..
whether the close of the war will make living in Wash
ington any cheaper Is as yet An undecided question
Next winter prices may probably come down, though
they have not fallen lercepiiby so fur. shall study
the sahjcct II don get sick trying experiments my
stomach the different hotels aad boarding houses and
prepare report FOR the benefit of country members Of
Congress readers OF the HERALD and others who propose
bringing their wives and families here next winter. 10
live not TO live: that II the question. ! favor
OF living, if 1t be possible. Congrcss will perhaps vote
In the shtnc way.
wha, 10 do with Ford's theatre seems 10 be tho
puzxl NJ question in Washington at this tmr II In ouv
white elephant He asks hundr d thousand dollars
for H. when IL is worth about half much wish the
government would buy IL and make public library and
reading room OF it, There is not reading room IN the
whole ctynot the pretcnce OF one even But We 1--we In
days OF hope