, 1865-03-03
washington citv.

| a New Jersey paper descants upon the i'm
moral aDdputrid condition Of society at Wash
ington City, as follows;
"lt is ptiable thought for once happy apc
innocent people to reflect upon that their capi
tai city islot this moment the most corrupt plac,
IN Christendom. The slums of London, th,
Quarters of Paris, the sinks Of Rome. the bag
nos of Vsniee, are outdone, and hide their di.
minutiye beads. To find parallel for Washing.
ton IN ting world, we must rake among the swell
terlng lanes and alleys of Lucknow we must
1 ransack III feculent wharves of Canton, or hold
our noses 'uthe loud sinking purleurs of Hong
Kong. 10 iPd a parallel in history, we must 90
PACK 70 i Se under Nero or Borgia; we must
FlSlt AYIgnoh where Aretine wrote dis letters;
we must 60 to the powdered Paris of the Regent
u Orleans or the blood beslobbered Paris of the
Jacobins, or we must visit London when Charles
l.! held his court at Whitehall, when Rochester
payed mountebank and Buckingham murdered
shrewsbury, and Grammot robbed at faro
Whlle the Kings mistresses quarreled in his pal
age, and the Kings ministers blackguarded one
a1other in the Council Chamber, and the KING
himself dissected the bastard babies of his maids
ofhonor
Under the old regime there used to be a GER
tam degree OF corruption and flthiness about
Washington, but it was the mediocre corruption
and filth that awaits upon commonplace Con
griss-taro banks, assgnation houses, and a
celtain attendance of predatory wire pullers.
log rollers and claim agents-a state of thinos
dliagreeable enough, yet quite tolerable, be-
cause always hid away in the dark and never
suffered to become rampant. But now the mass
has seethed and sweltered beyond control. it has
quite broken through the crust of decencv. II
has sweled up and boiled over and peryaded
thewhole place with lava lux, the suiphurous
yaPors whereof have spread abroad such an i'm
pepgnous leprosy that every mans skin itches,
ana every mans face is as white as Gehazi's.Z
rye false, Jeering, scurvy, goddess profigacy has
attained to a sublimity of height and dept6 an
az absorbing pervasiveness never before known.
ltI traits are written in bold staring type upon
tfe Wnole city, from one end of the avenue to
tle otheri from the licensed lester in his palace
qeYlslng plans for carrying elections overa bot
qe OF Bourbon whiskey, to the salaried rogues
ana fanatics who jangle in the national halls !
over the nation dead body, embruitinp them /
ielVes like followers at a Counaught wake. and |
luArreling for their shares of the plunder in |
his great cause of Jarndyce vs. Jarndvce: from |
ne pampered tavOrites who loaf about Stanton's 1
headquarters, to the miserable black wretches in |
ags who snarl over the oifal thrown out from the |
legro camps. There is a hardened, shameless.
'roze faced ettrontery in the manner of perpetra-
ing these villainies which is, beyond measure.
ornble to contemplate. The infection has per-
aded ali ranks; no corner of society has es-
aped. The Massachusetts, transceudtalist, the
'ew York merchant prince, the Western Reserve
reeloyer, the feryid preacher, the smooth faced
0nntrv hnv- the paaeh ohnalsod o.;s1 IL, l.l.-
ng Negro. from the rice fields, al of them, as
Don as they come here, are caught in the de-
'auched Thirl, are sucked into the gddy m@l-
from of brutal orgies are infected with the
lckerish pollutioni and straightway run races
5ho shall soonest pander away their fayors and
heir virtue for the highest price. Mammon and
llllnery, leechery and lust, turptude and sell
shness intemperance, epicurism, sensuality.
hoddy and greenbacks. These be your gods oh,
aPitai OF the United States The new polythe-
'm Of intamy has been the growth Of four short
ears under the fostering tutorage Of reform
lg government. -Four years more Of such rro-
ress, and such reform and He'll will have been
clean raked Of its vampires and iends and
evils topeople the streets Of our caravanserie,
latit will be a safer place of residence for ordi-
ary men than Washington city