The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-05
Our Washington Letter.


| WASHINGTON MONDAY, December 91.-The lasi
day Of tho old year sixty-six has mantled itsel1
with snow. and old Father Time has his retreat
sounded in y chorus Of sleigh bells. This is the
first snow Of tho season, and most extraordinary
fall within the memory OF half dozen seasons.
Washington woke up to-day and found tho sloigh-
ing PRIME but had no faith in remaining; hence
half the day went by before the first horse and
cutter appeared upon the Avenue; but this after
noon tho town is wild over runners and bells, and
everything available is brought out. Twenty dol
| lars per hour is the moderate sum charged by tho
hiring stables for the use Of their sleighing turn
outs-a sum considerable for young, spendthrift
Department Clerks working at s12OO per annum,
and Of whom many are among the cava1cade, that
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deity.
You sec that General Sherman is in no hurry
| about getting to Washington to report on Mexican
matters, and makes himself as comfortable at st.
Louis as though stationed there in rotiraey. The
GUS letters to The News, that the Who'll. mission
surned ; out such broad, indubitable .'sel" that
both projectors and executors each in tiff at
the other for having had anything TO do with it.
Tho President is mad, and Seward growls ntin-
ually to himsel'. Meantime, Campbell, the duly
accr edited United States Minister to the Republic
of Mexico, takes the brunt of the general ill-hu-
NOR by adhering to the tenor of very laconic dis
patch pate t from the State Department which bids him
credited, until he finds some vestige of its life or
undeniable deneise.
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to the Capitol on che wings Of the wind, az he is
the most aggravated Of them all. private letter,
written to hs brother, Senator Sherman, indicates
intention Of forever washing his bands Of similar
service in future The fiery temper Of the Gene
raj could not brook the system Of tria,ng and de-
ception that was practiced upon him in his fruit
less chase after Juarez, and he is prejudiced to
IN extent that causes him to regard tho natives
nent. i do not know that the General viii come
at all to the Capitol on this business Tho Gov
ernment has no wish to rouse Sherman's wrath,
and will, therefore, let things rest for bit. The
only thing that can mar 50 peaceful solution of
Of inquiry into the mission Of Campbell and sher-
affair is OF so delicate nature. and palpably embar-
RAISING to the President ana Mr.. Seward, that the
Radicals viii hardly lose momen' in its introduc-
ton immediately after the resumption OF the ses-
sion In this event thcro viii be very protty ket
tie of fish, which will get itself into very hot water
the moment Sherman throws in his report Of ope-
It appears that the grand mass welcome to Con-
gr gress which signalized the proceedings Of the
come an object Of litigation. The keeper Of a
local restaurant had been engaged by the mana
twenty five hundred dollars, and under such con
tracts were the edibles produced to regae tho rad
cal stomach. The caterer has since made every
effort to get the sum promised or discount, but
always with failure Now he goes to the law, but
it Is scarcely probable that judge Or jury viii be
q score or two of clerks to Congressional commit
tees, who have nothing but their four dollars per
diem during the session, and have SO slim hold
grand feed for their returning masters, in order
thst they may hold the clerksllps more securely.
They have a. had some very sharp diplomatic play
ernment-R we may believe: Mr.. Sewards ssshad-
ows," and they are tho only sources from which
That famous dispatch Of old seward's in which he
notified Louis N. that 'snext spring" would mt do
for tho departure Of the Franco Mexican army,
while his imperial promise remained on record to
take them off sooner, it seems was shown to the
French Government, which Immediately returned
it in huff with q complaint at its gross lam
finally did receive the dispatch in question: but tho
moment he ascertained that Matamoras had been
occupied by Gen. sedgwick, up went Napoleon's
language" aud it's parchment, to Minister Bigelow,
who has had to retain Ine custody Of it from that
time. This is the reason that the Paris Moniteur,
and other Partisan journals swear that their gov
ernment knows nothing Of such dispatch as that
that which it refuses to entertain on paper, and
returns to the party or government asking such
consideration, is wholly unknown to it, and may
bo ignored, though every line was conned previous
With tho festivities Of tomorrow, New Years.
will open the gay season in the capitsl-that IS to
tai Of late years has fallen strangely into the habit
Of not having gay mirthful seasons, and outside
ers tb
Lent, and the regular fortnighty crushes at the
Presidential mansion, we arc pretty tolerably GER
tain to pull the winter through without event Of
social jollity, such rs used to comport with the
dignity Of the olden time. In the why of amuse-
ments the bill is not 80 bad. Two theatres, one
frau, taking all the spare change there is left
in tho town, which isn't much, since Ristori and
her tremendous charges fitted mercfully from US.
Italian opera. Washington has great afectation
for opera, and particularly italian The impress
sario will take q harvest away with him.