Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-02-05
NUMBER s..
Women OF the Lobby.

| between the confines of Conventonality and the
inner limits of improprety-ay proAgacy. The
lobby brings every session large number of
them from the near Southern and the far North
ern cities. They do not set mp openly as traf-
fckers, nor do they feel able to live at the ho-
! tells They are attached to boarding houses
about town, and they are a little loose, but not
leprous yet. They ill out rather an indednabe
part in the agency of the lobby. Exactly what
they do is hard to get at They are probably
the general utility women, ana are cast in SOU
brette characters. II looks as it they were the
mistresses of the lobbyists themselves in many
instances. They, however, are very crcumspect
in the daytime, and at all times in public. They
offend none of the external proprictjes; neither,
however, is their circle of acquaintances in Con-
| gress-which Is always in this article to be con-
sdered the objective point-large. With sundry
SOuthdown members and Pacific coast Congress
men they are seen now and then for the ma
tional legislature, epitome of the republic itself,
has its crudity Ns we'll as its culture its BEASTS
as well as its men. Some members put up with
what those of longer service would not stoop to
accept, and as varied are tue prices and tastes
of the honorablcs. The Identification Of them
with the lobby, though doubtless correct, rests
more for its verihcaton on supposition than di-
rect evidence. They have no visible means of
support. They have no acknowledged or re-
cognized business. They are without any 'nat-
ural protectors" In the places where they
board will generally be found some poor but not
unpurchaseable members, or mayhap even Sen
ator of the kind who talks through his nose and
eats with his knife. With these the guerillas
are well acquainted, and they come to Il very
cooperative understanding. Nearly always the
! personnel of this class changes every session.
! They become little too notorious towards the
! last for the emnently respectable tabernacles of
hash SO they must be new every year, They
never are in want of funds; and from accidental
divulgtnces now and then, from occasional re-
ordinations among themselves, they let out Mt
once their character and their purposes. Their
great day resorts are the parlors of the Senate
and the House. OF these elegant apartments,
before the session has far advanced, they become
hnbitual features as Mrs. Billpushcr ara Miss
MembcrhOoker do of our lirst-class hotels Their
business there seems to be to call ont Legislators
on their cards, and to have n few minutes pri-
vate conversation with them, after which both
returned to Downing's for oysters aud pale
sherry. The exact purport of these daily vista
tons and cardings is conjectural. Considering
the fact that real ladies do not make q habit OF
it, and that the they pair OIL with do not
stand the very highest for either intellect or
honor, the inference is obvious, or, at least, al
most so. In these same parlors, too, they have
every day or two, long conferences with recog-
nized lobbyists, who are then presumed to give
them their instructions and to bring them to
book.
The remaining classes Of women workers
be briefly dashed of
One of the principal of the minor kind COM
prise the women local to Washington, who bore
for clerkships for themselves and for their fam
lily. without aspersing the female clerks as
class, indeed without treating Of them COLLECT
lively at all, it is beyond doubt that members of
Congress are sought day in and day out for
| clerkships by young Washington misses who
hang around the capitol, and, moreover, that
some of those who succeed in their efforts do
lose dearer thing than life the price of it.
| / ia in m ri " xA WaghiuutOn
to hide things under bushel. That Senators
and members maintain women who are clerks in
| the treasury, in the postotiice and in sundry
other departments is as notorious here as the
coming of Christmas but once year. These
things are true. The men can be named, and
named every day Every now and then social
catastrophes among these convenient clerks tell
| the story Of who they are. That this is mon
strous is true. That it is worse outrage upon
the decent women who are clerks than upon the
criminals themselves is also true. That it is ~
sober and yearly increasing fact is most true of
all.
There some very singular facts floating to
the top of affairs here, as the discharge of this
huge fostering sore which has been proped clear
to the bottom. For Instance
Among the lobby women last winter was the
daughter of present United States Senator
whose father years ago refused to let her marry
the man of her choice. She eloped with him
! he deceived her by Ock-marrage, he having
two other wives, so-called, living he took all
her Jewels, and even most of her clothing, and
abandoned her. She went to the bad headlong,
and refused all overtures TO return home, and
the father and daughter used to pass one another
in the capitol year ago-she was u wanton and
! he II SenatOr-and never speak. Nor did either
! ever betray the event to any one. He called
her dead and she consented TO be dead even TO
! him.
Another Senator's wife, who is an invalid
] ha f,r ma nuni iq hat bpr hua
band has stocked no less than six of his mis-
tresses the civil service as clerks, and that
he adds to the number every session. 1t viii be
interesting to note how he votes on Mr.. Cragiu's
anti-MormOn bill.
Another Seuator, II Southwest carpet-bagger,
fosted his mistress on the treasury department.
last year. and was influential enough to have
her salary continued while he sent her on to
New York to undergo an abortion. She died.
The Senator himself drew the arrears of pay, os-
tensibly for the mother of the murdered woman,
who has yet TO the first cent Of it.
| Another honorable, this time Of the House, was
driven out of leading hotel six years ago for
notorious conduct with married woman, and
that with the consent Of 10 husband. That
husband is now clerk of that Congressman
committee, his wife is the Congressman's mis-
tress and her son is page on the floor Of the
House. and waits on his mutual fathers every
day-COr New York World.
PRIZE FIGHT BETWEEN Two WoMEN.-A brutal
exhibition took place at Newtown, Long Island
the other evening. Thomas Carnochan aud
Michael Fitzpatrick matched their respective
wives for a mill, without regard to the rules of
the prize ring, the only condition being that the
woman who was first unable to come to time
was to be declared the loser The stake
barrel of whisky. The room in which the
women fought was packed with the friends and
relatives of both families. The women wore
short dresses, and their busts and arms were un-
covered. Their entrance announced by the
spectators with wild yels of delight, and the