Clayton herald. (Clayton, Del.) 1867-1870, 1869-04-03
THE END.
Our washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 80, 1859.


PRESIDENT GRANT sURRENDERs.
On Monday, the President was so Sc
verely afflicted with neuralgia in the
face-an eilment he had been suffering
with from Saturday-as to refuse to re-
ceive any visitors whatever.
TENURE oF-oFFIcE ACT.
The Senate refusing to recede from its
Amendments OF the Civil Tenure Bill,
ask for committee of conference.
SENSIBLE.
A bill has been introduced into the
Senate to make the penalty in the Dis
trict of Columbia for charging more than
the legal interest, six per cent, the for
fixture of the excess of interest only
Money will be easier in the District when
that law is passed. In some respects the
legislation for the District is the most
advanced in the country, because the
District has no constituents to make
S'naIors or Rep esentatives afraid of fol-
low ing their convictions.
WHY WOMEN ARE GIVEN PLACES.
An article, originally appearing in the
n. Y. Independent, which is extensive
ly taken here, and copied into the Star
OF this city last Friday, purporting to be
written by woman CLERK in the Urea
sury Department, over her own name,
charging That numbers of young women
are thrust upon. the Departments by
Senators AMI RhMost.tiyes ON ac-
count or their personal advantages, VINO
shave scarcely education enough 10 tell
the day of the week by counting house
calendar" has created really painful
sensation attongsoms of the more deli
cate and sensitive of the lady clerks in
particular, and aroused the indignation
of the whole sisterhood in general. l
know OF one widow lady who, talking
with friend, another clerk, wished, in
tears of anguish, that there was anything
else in the world she could d. to make a
living for herself and chill, and she
would not endure these repeated insults,
these humiliating associations, another
day. Another laly similarly situated,
who lost her husband in the war, and
who constitutionally and by misfortune,
is perhaps morbldly sensitive, even de-
plorei that her life was prolongel to
bring her to the necessity of getting her
support in this manner. These are ex-
treme cases. But we may very well be
reminded by them that the ladies EN-.
ployed in these Departments are, fol-
the most part, away from their families
and friends upon whom they have been
accustomed to depend, TO stand between
them and the indifferent world. This
fiippant, indiscriminate accusation,
therefore-whfci, ifaf 15mc, they could
afford to let pass unnoticed-is here a
very serious matter, and as cruel as it is
unjust. While am not prepared to dc
ny that there are some instances of wo-
men getting into the Departments
through the recommendations of per-
sons actuated by improper motives; on
the other hand, l speak what 1 do know
when 1 say that there is no other city in
the Union in which the same number oil
women will present as high an average
of elementary education, real culture,
and elevation Of character, ss these same
deserted female Government clerks
Every community from which these la.
dies come, is interested in their fair
fame. Many of them, too, being de-
prived Of their special providers and
protectors, have become specially the
daughters of the Republic, in whom all
her sons are specially Interested. Lei
them not suffer unjustly.
GOV. WELLS REMOVAL, &c.
Or course tho odioas charge made
against Governor Wells, of VT. and Mr..
Dudley, Chairman of the Republican
State Committee, of unlawf1lly obtain
ing letter, their arrest therefor, and
the removal of the former by Gen. Stone
man, in consequence, has excited pain.
full interest among Republicans here
From the degree of dependence place
upon the source of my information in the
promises, will venture to say that the
following will be found, on the hearing
to be had to-day in Richmond, the true
state of facts in the case:
The facts about the letter are these =
Gov. Wells was shown, by respectable
man, an already opened letter which
contained a scheme planned by mar
who pretended to be "A friend of the
Governors at that time, for preventing
the otherwise confidently expected
nomination of the Governor for the Do.
sition then held by him. He took copy
of it, AMI handed the original back. :
The person for whom the letter was in,
tended, asserts that he never received it
and that the letter was stolen somewhere
before it reached him. On the othel
side, the theory" is, as lawyers say
that he did g GIVE it, and dropped 1t IL
certain Office where lie was known t.