Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-10-05
Col.respondence.
Our Washington c Correspondence.

Washington. and his jauntings about for
information and pleasure, have made
occasion, as you know, for animadversions,
day by day of the time.
The Democrats, in all this small bust
mes, proceed upon the principle that there
is nothing so little as not to find heads
little enough for it, and perhaps too lit
tie to admit anything greater magnitude !;
ami if it can get into small place, it can
certainly find room in larger; and so it
is suited to all heads. Well, they do
make their theory work too successfully,
somehow.
With the Presidents return to the
Capital with his family comes the thought
that the summer is passed, and that there
are but two short months between now
and the meeting of Congress-, in which
the President and his Secretaries have to
think out and write out what they have
not already done of their reports of facts
and opinions and suggestions based on
them, for the information and advice of
the national legislature.
The thoughtful patriot is warranted in
feeling just little bit anxious about aE-
fairs. Our Democratic brethren wouldn't
regret to see taken some pretty serious
mls-steps nation-wse, so that the. domin-
ant party were brought thereby into dis
favor with the people, and they themselves
elevated to its place. They would gladly
promote quarrel with Spain, untenable
on our part, on Cuba's account, in which,
if we persisted, England and France
would unite with her against us and drive
us to the wall, to the disgrace and des-
truction of the Administration and the
Republican party; or in which, in fear of
the consequences of coming to extremi-
ties, we should ignobly back out and eat
humble-pie, to similar disastrous results
for our party or which, at the best, even
did the American spirit rise superior to
all combinations against u.s. would bring
us Cuba prcmaturely only to add territory
add population to the yet sectional south,
to secession and Democracy, at an enorm-
Gus war expense, all to be added to our
present great national Indebtedness and
to the taxes of the people.
The incidents in the payment of the
public dept, are another matter in which
they would rejoice to see the Government
trip, and in which they are doing their
prettiest to mislead and disastisfy the
people.
The XVIII amendment still affords the
miscalled Democracy grand pretext for
rally of all there is left of the old ma
tion-wdc prejudice against us.
These are examples of the items Of bust
ness en- hand. 1t is to be hoped that the
President and his Secretaries are the bet
ter able for their duties for whatever of
recreation they have enjoyed.
The Morning News has made Assistant
Sec'y Richardson and his treatment of the
clerks, the subject of very spirited COM
mcnt for two or three days. s. -
A sad case, in this connection, has
just come to my knowledge. A lady
Treasury clerk, regularly dividing her
salary with her aged parents, residing in
the interior Of Newly ork, and her sister.
who was required at home to wait on
them and keep them company, was sum-
moned home one day early last spring to
attend her mothers funeral. Her own
illness was added to the affection of her
bereavement, but in her anxiety about
the retention of her place, in view Of the
change of administration, she hurried
back from her mothers grave to her-desk.
Thither she dragged herself daily, and
toiled unrcmitting through the hours, re-
plying, to the remonstrances of her init.
mate friends Of the clerks, at the obvious
total unftness of her cordition, that she
could not afford to stay away (referring
to the docking rule adopted by Asst
Sec'y Richardson) she did not know
what would become of them without her
salary; for herself. she would rather 90
to her mother her father would, in the
course of nature, soon be gone, and then
her sister would be the only one left to
need her; and she hoped some way would
BE- provided for her, and then she could
60, and DO at rest. Finally she became
80 feeble that she could not ascend the
stairs TO the floor she worked on without
stopping to rest on the way; and Dep'y
Com'r Parnell hearing of it last week
Wednesday, at once sent her home in the
Internal Rev. carriage, with encouraging
words about her pay, &c. The kindness
came too late. She died on last Thursday
night, after an illness in which during the
last half Of the interval delirium deprived
her Of the solacc of recognizing the pre-