Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-11-26
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correspondence of the Gallipolis Journal.


Correspondence of the Gallipolis journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 90, 1868.
Ed. GALLIpoLIs JoURNAL:-Now tina
the mighty masses of Americas sons
have loudly spoken and effectively
endorsed their favorites ftly spoken
words, "Let us have peace, as surely
as the sun shines on the living head o
our noble President elect on the 4tt
of March next, will he then as laconi
cally and as emphatically declare to the
then disloyal and turbulent traitor:
South and North" There SHALL bs
Peace"
The dried leaves now so profusely
strewn over the green sward of the
grounds of the White House, are fitting
symbols of the withered hopes and
blighted schemes of its present occu-
pant and his party, and are as the ivy
when the oak is scathed, left to fly
trailing and scattered in the winds o.
heaven, emblems alike of the fading
year and the merited doom for politica
treachery.
The fuel of dry facts and kindling
fancies, which was applied daily during
the late conflict, has been raked out,
from beneath the political cauldron,
and it has ceased for time, "to bub-
BILE, bubble, boil and trouble" but
noxious exhalations are emitted from
the rising scum, which on exposure to
purer air, assume, as of old, the form
of evil spirits. Gigantic naturalization
frauds, personal intimidation, and
wholesale bribery, are a few of these
fatal geni, SO deadly to the life and
honor of the Democracy.
General Grant, on his return from
his western tour, was numerously Wis
tied at his headquarters, by the officers
of the army present in the city, con-
gratulatory of his election; and the
presentation by letter of a magnificent
gold watch safe, set with diamonds,
must constitute as useful as unique, an
accompaniment to the inevitable cigar,
be, with his habitual nonchatance, after
playfully toying with its silken tassels,
laid it aside in silence, the eye only ex-
pressive of kindly appreciation.
AS foretaste of the way and man
ner in which for the next four years
our Government is to be administered,
l may state, that General Grant has
instructed Gen. Baden to destroy with
out presenting to him, all claims and
applications for Office, and as result
General B. is daily surrounded by a
pile, two feet in depth, of these dead
futterers for official position.
The second session'of Congress hav-
ing adjourned sine die, the third
session will assemble on the 1st Mon
day in December as by law provided.
Senator Wade and Speaker Colfax were
each present in their respective cham
bers, which after adjournment were
filled by large number of lettering
visitors, who with true democratic
gusto, lounged in the seats of the abb
sent members, many dreaming, without
doubt, of the possibility of future
day, when they too might represent
some Alaskaor Cuban Territory, within
the National Halls. Speaker Colfax,
in his own verse style, stated that he
was going to Ohio to get married and
return to this city on or about the
25th inst.
The political arena is now destitute
of its principal gladiators, and conse-
quently the few spectators must seek
elsewhere than in the lobbies and ante
rooms of the Capitol, for the gratifca-
ton of their several tastes. Upper-ten-
dom has decided to take no denial in
relation to public ovation to our
President elect, but the victim was
hardly Gagged, when sharp pang of
paternal love for an absent cadet at
West Point, fired the parental heart,
and strong in the noble impulse, un-
fatigued by travel on the Western
plains or unwearied by pony-expresses,
off he dashes to spend week or so
amid the courtesies of Roe's Hotel and
the Empire City. These sudden ar
rivals and departures are sad hampers
to the festivities proposed by the
beaux and bellies who fain would shine,
where success stands crowned with
patronage as well as victorious laurels.
But Washington shines, though all is
not gold that gltters. The lovely, sun
nv warmth of the past few days, has
glistened the lovely Potomac with sill
very ripples, and filled our Avenues
with the votaries of pleasure, and the
gaudily bedezined birds of fashion, if
not birds of paradise. ,#....
The arts of ancient Greece shine
forth in splendid contrast with the
modern "Grecian Bend,'' from oppos-
ing windows; few literati congregate
in the bookstores, and many in the
"cigar emporiums," more learned in
the brands Of imported Havanas, for
getful or negligent that Connecticut
raises much seed-leaf, and New York
is just the spot where branding-irons
can be handled with ready facility.
The first thin ice of early winter,
clear and seductive, often entices the
skater upon its treacherous surface,
and then down he sinks, shattering the
fragile crystal; so also bright and
smooth, in dress and speech is our So
cial surface, but deceptive and brittle
will that surface be found to him who
risks moral life or limb to gain an en-
tree into Washington fashionable life.
But more anon. n. H. W.
Bs5" Hon. 81. S. BUNDY has been
appointed Trustee of the new Lu-