The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-07-27
PALLADIUM CORRESPONDENTS.
Washington. VisitOrs..Clerks, Examining
Out-.ssProfessOr1 WilcOxs.A Judge in
TrOuble-.PubIic Domain Patents, &c.
WAsn1NoroN, b. c., July 10th, 1859.

the South, many Of whom only tarry with us day
or two, their way north to visit old friends, who
perhaps they have not since before the rebel-
ion The result of the Virginia election is having
much to do With their numerous arrivals. / have
never knowna time during my six years residence
here, when the people of different parties were so
universal in predicting glorious future for this
country as they now. Time are dull to be sure
money scarce and but little to do for the laboring
mainland regret to say that marketing in Wash
ington is almost as high as it any time during
the war-yet with crops generally good, and pros
pect of Virginia being properly reconstructed, the
people are hopeful. 4-., 81 f. III sf y s.z T-ef
CLERKS.
The heads of the different Departments have about
concluded their changes in their respective bureaus,
and there is but little inducement for oce-seekers to
come to Washington now. The changes in the De-
partments have thrown great many penniless
clerks who lily prepared to seek Twelfth God.
the citizens of Washington How they live, God on
~ knows. They have experienced their seed time
and harvest but have laid by mary red In the days
of prosperity when they were drawing from Uncle
Sans purse sums, varying according to the class
they respectively belonged, from 81 200 to 81 800
year, many Of them who had no one but themselves
to support, held high heads and considered at
home, no doubt, of some considerable Importance.
and that the Government could not we'll dispense
with their services. Now behold the change! Their
day of retrbu.ion has come, poor, disconsolae OBJ
ects of pity
The Mill of God grinds slowly, '
~ And grinds exceeding small .ssr III
With patience, stands he waiting,
With exactness, grinds he ALL
eW sG EXAMINING OUT a-1s-sE-
This proceeding is often resorted to among heads
Of bureaus when applicants claims pushed so
energeticaly thatthe appointment can no longer be
refused without offending the politician who has him
in charge. 1t is done in this way: Jones, we will
name him for convenience, received his designation
for examination before the board of examiners, and
reporting to the proper officers, he is sraghtway put
Through of sprouts Seated at a table in
nicely carpeted Office, he perhaps INDUCES in pleas
ant ancipatons of future comfort, easy work these
hot days aud good pay. But he is too fast. He
ought to remember the old adage about counting
chickens. But he knows that he has good business
education, that he has heretofore been engag ed in
work far more difficult than any which be requi-
rcd of him here, and why should he anticipate fail
ure in the examination :? He does not know that
they are more or less severe in proportion the
Board is DESTROYS he shall succeed fail The usual
questions in Mathematics all solved then writ
ing, spelling, composition, statement of accounts, &c.
1nen IoHoWS most OI puzkteS, Impossible proDiemS
and questions, bearing no possible relation to the
work proposed, the sole of which is to procure
the failure of the poor puzzled and worried applicant.
One who up to all the tricks of the examination
having been fully prepared before presenting him.
self rejected because the sample letter which he
was requested to write was too poetical The De-
partment requires the services of men with every
conceivable style Of education for the multfarols
employ ments which they furnish. Some requir-
ed to perform only literary labor such correspon
ding others to keep accounts, and others again are
required to perform labor merely mocha nical.
"PRorEssoR" wilcox.
Washington people, and especially the Strong
minded women of Washington, glad to hear tn at
Prof ]. X H. Wilcox is in New York, pitching in
to the New York Tribune. He cannot hurt the Tr-
bune by pitching into it so much as he hurts the
cause of woman suffrage in this city by advocating
it.. At least so the women think. During the past
two years in which Washington has been afflicted
with the selfstyed professor, his only earthly OBJ
ject has seemed to be to make himself notorious To
this end he attended all public meetings for whatev
purpose organized, generally managing to get in
troduced as Professor, else introduce himself
thus, never missing an opportunity of getting his
name in the city papers. Nobody ever knew of what
science institution he Professor, and nobody
ever cared. But everybody understood Thoroughly
that he was Professor. A year ago when the peace
convention held its session in this city, Alfred Love
presiding, Wilcox rose to make speech, and in
troduced to the audience Mr.. Wilcox. He took the
trouble to correct The President saying he Prof
Wilcox of Washington. But his favorite means of
attracting attention to himself and his professorshp,
has been riding the woman's rights hobby. His
championship of the cause was SO inudi cious, his
own appearance was 50 ridiculous, and his conceit
and egotsm apparent, that the better portion of
the women who organized the society here remained
away from the meetings on his account. They are
sincerely rejoiced to hear of him in New York. doing
nothing more quixotca that pitching into the Tribe
uns.' The Professor is young man of perhaps Is
80 years of age, and about six feet high, stout,
quite eshy, pale spectacles for near sighted.
ness, and carries with him air of the most forlorn
absurd, lackadasical importance imaginable. y-
JUDGE ASSAULTED.
Again is the Judge of our Orphans Court attacked
IN the ancient town of Badensburg, six miles out of
Washington, by lawless, cowardly mob to say the
least, and nearly drow ned. JeB1 tLACds aTaH
Judge Purcell is man of sixty years of age, has
been Judge of the Orphans Court of the District
Columbia for nearly twenty years, and has large
and respectable family. At the last session of Con-
gress when Senator Trumbull suggested the removal
Of him. twas opposed the grounds that the Judge
was both efficient and honest in the discharge OF his
duties. ,.4-rT eFf se EqFa5r7tsf JEIuf "a
don't propose to vindicate his, character, for
know his department generally is deserving of the
severest criticism, but do deprecate that in town
like Badensburg, within sight OF the Federal Capt.
toll, where the people are supposed to he half civilized
that they should be guilty of such cruelty to old
man, whatever might be his faults; and still more
to notice the ghtness with which the majority of the
press treats the matter. If such lawlessness is al
lowed, we may expect repetition for any frivolous
excuse. " -+@' f-'% 80 " 'N
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. samiI $50
Returns just received BY Commissioner Wilson
of the General Land Office, show disposal of 2ss
acres of the public domain during the past month"; al
the following local Offices Grsenieaf, MIMI, 1s, 5ss
acres Winnebago City, Mimi, 1905 acres Topeka
Kansas, 1893 acres Detroit, Mich, 1850 acres
New Orleans. Louisiana 4.57Q acres The craa To,