The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-08
PARTIAL REMOVAL OF THE CAPITAL
TO LONG BRANCH.

From the ~ y. Sun.
The social excitement Of the Washington
season having come to an end for the present,
General Grant, discovering at last that state
dinners and pell-mell hobnobbing Of Presi-
dent, Congressman, and diplomats have not
as much influence upon recalcitrant repre-
sentatives of the people as he expected, is
naturally anxious for an early ad djournment of
Congress, in order that he may resume his
travels and his enjoyments on the seaside
and on the mountain tops He has already
designated Long Branch as the peculiar spot
of his affections, and the centre from which
he will make excursions wherever dead-head
entertainments and free railroad passes may
be most tempting. Long Branch, then, may
be considered the summer capital of the ma
ton. The Western people who wish to have
the political metropolis moved to the Valley
of the Mississippi may not like it, but that
makes no difference.
With this temporary transfer of the Presi-
dency, general breakup of the Cabinet is
to be expected. Mr.. Fish, if the reputation
OF his Cuban policy by Congress should not
compel him to resign his Office, will soon be
watching the white sails on the Hudson. Mr..
Robson, on board one of Porter's steam
yachts, will cruise about again in splendid
luxury, like Cleopatra of old. Judge Hoar
will seek solace in the Emersonian shades of
Concord, and ponder then and there the way
wardness of the political mind and the
mulishness of Senators.
General Belknap may perhaps betake him
self to Keokuk, and receive the compliments
of the good citizens of that lively town on
his refusal to violate the law by giving Por-
ter the appropriation for the Darien survey.
Mr.. Boutwell, will fall back upon his Groton
farm, and from that vantage-ground chal-
lenge the Rothschilds and the Seligmans to
take loan at per cent, per cent, and
4 per cent, all at the same time. Mr.. Cres-
well, the statesman of the alabaster brow,
will retire to his country-seat at Ellicott's
Mills, and coolly rejoice over the abolition
of the franking privilege But poor Mr..
Cox, having to attend to the Indians, the
pensioners, the Land Bureau, the census, the
Patent Office, the prisons, the lunatic asy-
lums, and sundry other philanthropic duties,
may not be able to leave, and will probably
be the solitary representative of the Ameri-
can Government who will remain in Wash
ipgton.
The corps dSplOmdtigue, the reporters, and
the girls of the period, slIirmishing all the
time at the threshold of what is facetiously
called the Republican Court, may be expected
at Long Branch simultaneously with the
Executive. This will be an excellent thing
for our worthy friend Stetson, and for the
other hotel proprietors of the national sum
mer capital. They may all confidently lool
forward to a golden harvest, considering tina
by that time the country will probably have
returned to specie payment.
| The capital movers will no doubt rejoice a
the migration of the President; but whethe
this ambulating tendency of the Chief Magis
trate is in harmony with the dignity of hi
position and with the traditions of his ofic,
is altogether another question, upon whicl
the people may by-and-by have something t.
say.