The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-07-21

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joined the waiting party be whispered
The precious links are forged, let them
never again be broken"
State Of Affairs in Washington City.
Brick Pomeroy in an editorial cores
pondence from Washington, thus pictures
the alarming state Of morals in that city
Drinking saloons, gambling houses hous-
es Of prostitution and designation, are about
the Capitol as side-shOws are about q circus.
Harlots and negroes occupy the galleries,
smile on their pet members on the floor and |
throw kisses to the God and Morality
representatives OF honest constituencies
Prostitutes stop on the streets TO chat with |
members Of Congress for q few moments, /
then walk off together, disappearing IL the |
ladies entrance Of some g eating house
or " European hotel" We have been IN /
Washington many times before now, but /
never saw so much dissipation. Money Is /
no object Members spend five times their |
incomes. Drinking saloons are like palaces
prostitutes dress better than queens; thick /
tongues, red eyes, and private doctors are |
the order Of the day
And this Is legislation Bargains arc !
made at faro banks, or in parlors Of houses /
Of designation. You tickle me, I'll tickle !
you. 4 fresh girl from the country, with q
neat ankle, pretty face, stylish wardrobe, |
| q pOuting lip, a saUcy toss to her head, and /
/ q watery eye viii carry q measure through /
/ Congress after arguments have failed. IF
! the devil should come to WASHINGTON and
/ establish a first class palatial house Of pros
/ titution, filling it with wine and beautiful
/ women, he could legi5late this country into
/ he'll in fifteen minutes. Tho member Of
| Congress who has not halEdozon mistress
! SEES, is called q /" cOpperhead,' and kept out
/ Of the political ring. It may be that our
/ readers VIII not relish these facts. That IS
! their business, not ours We publish
plain, honest newspaper. We have suffered
! IN person, reputation and business for telling
the truth we have won q right to speak Of
/ things as they are. Washington is q city of
/ magnificent distances; Of niggers and APP
| preparations; Of whisky and abolitionists;
Of dust and harlots.
There is more disease, filth, corruption,
/ drunkenness, dissipation, extravaganza and
Icentiousness in Washington than in New
/ Ork and baltimore combined. If q man
walks out with lady here, no matter if she
be a sister, people think her a prostitute, so
| common is this class Of women here If Il
man comes to Washington with his actual
wife, it Is looked upon as a pleasant gag
The clerk Of the hotel winks as If to say
" Ali right, my cOveY know my business"
The best dressed women are the prostitutes
pensioners for. the nOnce on abolition
money wrung from the taz-paying fools who
work their fingers to the b0ne-who pray to
God in the rural districts, and pin their faith
to abolition principles. Hell has but one
hot Washington l-and this under
the rule and administration Of the party
which came in power crying out for re-
trenchment and reform, and claiming to be
the great God and morality element Of the
country.
We well remember when there were but
few drinking places in Washington, and
when the patrons Of faro banks and such
places were men in or past the prime of life
men who frequented such places after
their work was done, and enjoyed a few
hours quietly. Now the case IS different.
We have been in scores of such places on
our tour Of observation. They are now
kept open day and night. BeardIess boys,
young officers of the army, clerks Of de-
partments and other young men, hardly out
of their bread and milk crowd around the
bars, stagger through the streets, fill up the
faro banks and gambling houses-hob house
plants willing down rapidly on the roof Of
hell.
Washington is full of young drunkards,
dust frail women, spectators, niggers, lice,
Office seekers, and thieves. The Treasury
J department is the finest house of ill-lame in
{ the country Here radical members Of
Congress keep their mistresses, along with
Z q few respectable women. For few hours
labor each day the girls, who are generally
! handsome, receive good pay, half Of which,
2 or half Of their pay for night work is
2 given to the radical gentlemen to whom
Q they owe so much for position, and thus
9 members Of Congress who are basking in
! the sunshine of abolitionism can manage to
+ live on three thousand dollars year, and
/ have something Over-mOre than they got at
q home. OF course there are exceptions to
, this wickedness, but they are few in the
c dominant party.
Palatial dens Of infamy are under the
special patronage of many prominent repub-
o licans. To these places the country friends
C OF these members are taken their eXpcndi-
q lures are liberal the inmates " dead head
J., the honorable gentlemen who bring them
c custom, and all goes merry as a bearse down
hill How in the name of God, or the devil,
q honest christians in the country can vote for
J. ! the class Of men now making laws in Con
n gress for the ruling Of the country is more
j than we can tell. Verify the difference be-
c tween the voters and the members is more
a than strange
g There seems to be little value to money
Y here The cost of living is exhorbitant.
J. One member of Congress- with his family,
It servants and horses, lives at one Of the no
|, tells, and pays for his living one hundred and
e eighty dollars per dag. lie has large suite
Of rooms, and INDUCES In much style, but Is
not half as good o legislator as the honora-
It bic gentleman CHR. Brool,s) who was oustcd
O to make room for him.
o Looking over and about this CITY, we feel
r more than ever to thank God that we are no
p Office seeker, and that we are not afraid tC
write Of these things as We find them II
a God cursed US with the last war for our na-
tional sins, He viii annihilate rs as q nation
Y for the SINS wiclledness, extravaganza, cor
o ruption, Ecentiousness, drunkenness and
g dissipation now marking life in the Capital
Q The Gettysburg Compiler publishes q list
,. of over six hundred Of the Confederate dead
Is still having legible marks, on the battlefield
y at that place. The list was prepared by
% Dr. j. w. c. O'Neal, and was gotten up for
y the purpose Of enabling relatives to recover
o thnir dea1 with cerfaintv. thus aaEinr then