The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-13

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Gar Arlington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, August Q, 1865
wEeyeopY rBAr CAN LEAVING wAsmSoror
Everybody that eau possibly get away from Washing
ton these broing days has quilted the city Tho elegant
young gentlemen in the varlous departments who get
their months leave OF absence and draw their months
pay at the same timely the philosophical power OF
cohesive araciionhaye gone TO their mammas and
nothersin.iaw My attached friends the extensive
Sucker family divided OF them remalning hero
for fear Of change the Cabine, consequent up
setting OF pacemen, and others departing trembling
alarm for fear that if the Secretary OF should re-
tire, then their chances might be GOOD the
aforesaid secretary remained They i've q constant
state Of alarm these days. PITY, great pity
DEPARTURES the MILITARY ELEMENT
The soldiers havc nearly all gone and left scarcely
garrison in case Mosby any Of those guerilla fellows
who used TO be killed OF often during The wac and
who always turned Up again, should marvellousy turn
up once more some OF these hoe days We don't drink
so much whskey as We formerly did. We keep beltcr
hours we are not quite gay and generally speaking
we are more mora-decidedy So "Peaco hath her VIC.
tories no less renowned than war"
THE REGIMENT BRIcADisR GENERALS
that We nsed to about the steps at Willard has gone
S~s"" '"'y uhoctruapIers no iOufer-tne statB
falling We ase still grea. military people, but we
bave taken OH shoulder straps and spurs blue coats
spd buttons, and gone to money making again Out OF
sixteen hundred male clerks 10 the Treasury Department
abosf s'S hundred OF them military gentlemen
Ano apropos OF the Treasury there has been great deal
o' pAd ieeng there recently ia consequence Of the
touon Of the $780, fund apart by Congress last
session.
VETERAN NDspENsABrrs
AZ 70 those talented and efficient gentlemen those
uet nuspehsable personages that II feared would
NIL resign they did not instantly get their already large
salaries saised-they still on duty They waded
through too much get into Office to think Of giving II
mp SO easily Catch them resgning two or three thou
sand dola-s year. But the poor men who here
Fad and warisome work TO live upon salaries of 81 200
and 81 year. as all kinds OF edibles constantly
hcleasea 70 price and house rent almost absorbed half
money Tor as any will by referring 70 the reso
iutions onerea by various members In the House last
winter l am glad to learn that this subject will be
brought up next session in the House Of Repre-
sentatives. Many of these $1,000 and 91.40o
CLERKS have been professors in colleges; some
are Journalists and others have been rich merchans
and SO far as qualifications for anything are lust
as competent as the men placed in higher positions The
Ia brass II is little singular that these veteran "inds
pensabes'' Of the public Offices sometimes die Do We
not hear thai their places are Immediately filed and that
the whees OF government move as smoothly az the
wheels OF tne hearse which carries of the deunct Gin
sssPensabss - government clerk manages the
himself understand it, he is dishonest person and
should 81 immedisss.y be removed Give him the benefit
sESTlsEIs AT rH. oA.vzr MINISTER'S pooRs.
The guards Of armed soldiers which were n,acsa NJ
the houses Of Secretaries Seward Stanton and ohers Of
Juss - s.sSs s .ne ~ ..sssnstion, are sl kept
night you see sentinel stalking casured,v to and fro
The secesslonistsor rather should say thx bSijS foT
johnson went out without twa oAicers following
closely ct his heels All CANNON. This IL the same
style as their reports about Mr. acon sleeping IN n,s
hoOtG fonr Qo0n
his that the natives have made much progress
for according TO Buckles 'Hisory Il Civilization pro,
mons Immediate relation 10 our duties
knowledge We hencsforth intendto progress Two fold
in Washington. u i.os possible
ay alWeys be knows by their Their sS.iress
they usuey incline to black long titled coats ps
Wnkleism. Their walk is swelling and important rather
than circuspect They red six handerchcfs vigc.
rousiy and Hcrspire profusely bundle of letters or
loud tones sandwichcd with many d-s and G--d-s,
and plentiful of "sirm distinguish their common
the President who was unluckily 20 engaged that
he could not be seen or are Just goig TO call ON their
Old friend, Secretary -, who, BY ne.by, owes his
He knows H. too, as you shall zee, sir wsit Till
ap and show him these papers, sir tstikes his breast
majesticaly) and then sir shall see If republics are
ungratefu We shall see II, sir WON'T you 20 In and
take dYinkf'
Commonly this class disappears after week or Two Of
dgnsnt and writes stunning editorials about the ingrat
tude OF high functionies who have ben to power by
climbing upon the shoulders Of homes men, H., &c
That's revenge.
seem 10 be having good time here
Ex-General Juba Early, who up n this neighbOr
hood last summer and left on account OF the bad air.
has been, and believe still s In the city He swaggers
along the avenue as large as Dutch gtneral On last
friends the street talking arrogank aud loudly Of
''the humiliation OF asking pardon OF the President
and swearing that she would scorn y dcsuch thing
that he had Ghosts OF money in Euro1e "a live on &c
Shortly afterwards he visited low tfatrethe Canter-
bury and became rather beery. The President he said
he could lind sand 60 to he'll with III ac All OF which
sounds remarkably we'll coming from Of sur errng
brethren. Another one Of these worthy genern~ B. G.
H has been arrested and sent to the workhouse for
thirty days by Justice Walter for disordery and
graceful conduct at the National Hotel He had NUN
Der Of paper. paper on !, hi. person anon, among Others Others !.
to General Judah. United States Volunteers
Chattanooga the 10th OF May 1885 rebel surgeon,
named Young has returned TO the city after four years
absence in the rebel army and set up AZ practising
physician, a. though be had but Just been on sum
mer tour Rebe department clerks call occasionally 10
see their Old friends still In Office here hob mob with
them, and have jolly good time generally. one OF
these fellows was in the Post once Department last
week shaking hands and laughing and joking wl.n ,1e m
Third Assistant Postmaster General--who has been IN
once about thirty years-and also with some OF the
other old clerks he had formerly known When we con.
slider that such man had been on helping TO shoot
down our fellow citizens and destroy the government
we are ready TO say with Judge Holt that ~ wolld De
well 70 give thcm little time TO wash the blood rom ,ne.
hands before make such haste 70 clasp them ana
welcome then back TO their homes Some OF these ie
lows just rabid and nsolent they were before
the war; and talk just foolishly about the rgnt OF
State secession this dogma has not yet oeen
whipped out Of some OF them II there Is not any law
70 prevent men from talking treason when they no
longer dare IT, Congress had better egslate on the
subject or remove the capital TO more saiubrious
neighborhood than Washington seems to be oflate.
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