Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-07-13
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The Troubles of the Emperor Ulysses
The Royal White House-RaYages of
Disease in the Cabinet.
THE ROYAL WHITE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON Cry, July I, 1865


WASHINGTON CITY, July I, 1869.
If you will watch; our official life here at
Washington you will perceive some queer
streaks Of aristocracy veining into it. There
is constant tendency to perforate plain re-
publicanism with freaks of foreign snobbish-
ness.
The three or four members of the Cabinet
who can stand the sun, have been circling,
kid gloved. round the city lately to find some
spot for new Executive Mansion, more CON-
Portable and retired like, where His Excellency
can conveniently receive more at leisure few
oh dice visitors who come in carriages.
This Presidential smelling committee, it
seems, has selected the site far out, northwest
of the city, mile or more from the present
White House, two miles from the center of
the city. and three from the Capitol. At that
distance from the Capitol, Presidential royalty
will be more free from the intrusion of the
popular mob constantly pouring into Wash
ington to bother him on public business
The winter receptions at tue new White House
will be more elegant and rGtinne, Of course, as
nobody that eau not afford paltry ten dollars
for hack to draw him there can attend. In
fact, the nObodies without money will not come
to this cOurtly Versailles as now to the White
House.
Ourignorant Democracy has made mistake,
perhaps, in supposing that tire President was
the nation servant that he should make him
self Convenient and accessible to the people
for the transaction of public business. 1t
will learn better when the new White House
is built among the aristocratic shades of
Kalorama Heights. The digniied seclusion
of great office will there be preserved by the
nature of circumstances.
1t is said that the location of the present
Presidential mansion is unhealthy. The
evidence of it is that Mr. Lincoln, the best of
the Presidents, lost his life while his residence
was there, and Andrew johnson, the worst
Of them, as unprovidentially preserved his.
So the Committee of the Cabinet will recon-
mend for the new White House the site of
the city small pox hospital, or some place
thcreabout. That will be an improvement con-
sistent az 4 syllogism. The superior healthi-
ness of this site is established after peculiar
fashion. 1t is argued that had the spot been
taken sooner, johnson, 4 man of full habit
and thick blood, would have died of the small
pox, and that Grant would smoke away the
malaria. and live through it. Anyhow, let
US not, with our stupid notions that Presi-
dent has anything to do with receiving the
people, oppose this removal of his dwelling
from the accessible centre of Washington
City.
At the smallpox vicinity, if he does not
get improved health-which is the first object
of the change-he will at least get more re-
tirement aud time to devote to his circle Of
select friends and to his own business. Scenes
like the following will not then be SO frequent
with his Exccllency's Card bearer.
Colonel Hinton, u good soldier and one of
our best journalists here, went the other day
to the White House in company with friend
who had fixed appointment to keep with one
of the Presidents Secretaries Card bearer
Dent was present; the others were away
The Colonel handed his own and his friends
cards to the malapert General, with an ex-
PLANTATION, aud a request that they should be
handed to the Secretary. Dent spurted pom
pously: ~ carry cards to the President. sir;
| do not carry cards to his Secretaries" The
Colonel turned his back, saying aloud to his
friend General Dent says his business is
that of carrying cards to the President; that
gives him claim to insult us who are no
mans servant-not even his Excellency's."
Dent had sense enough to see that lie had
cornered Tartar, and stepped forward at once
to repair the mistake by taking the cards.
CABINET SICKNESS.
Grants Cabinet, bulded with snowy So
iemnity and bruited silence, has a disease
II Is cdtSu Will Il III IOL 1 goes 10 pieces
like leprous body. 1t crumbles down like
fabric of sand. Stewart went first. Wash
burne was sloughed off like useless limb
Borie, King of the north winds and master of
the sea, has dropped his trident as if smitten
by paralysis. Hoar will quickly follow the
others, it is said. Fish will remain only till
opportunity shows his imbeciity as conspicu-
ously as that of the others. That time will
soon arrive. 1t is not so far away as Brazil
now. Rawins is consumptive.
Borie, resigning his commission, complained
of i'll health from natural causes. He did the
same on the way to Annapolis, resigning his
dinner to the waves.
Borie spurts ink like cuttle-fsh, and tries
to retire with mastery gentlity, under the
cloud. 1t will not serve him. Bores ILL
health was incapacty. \ man may seem to
himself and friends great at the head of a
shipping house, but put him at the head of
naval atIair5-a Cabinet minister-and he is a
nudge.
That troubled the late Secretary of the sea.
He had seen the SchuyIkilI, but Neptune
upset him. The press everywhere understood
Borie. Officially he died ike Cock Robin
killed Of many enemies. He says he resigned
because of ill-health. Well, may be. Dana's
San attacked him most persistently and fierce
ly of all. Perhaps Bories malady is coup
dc SoleH.
- Dr. Schoeppe, who was recently con-
victed at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, of the muir
der, by poison. of Miss Stinnecke. denies that
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