The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-03-04
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FROM WASHINGTON.
tFson our Regular Co5espondsakl
70 Tzs IDzsoR NEW NoRTz-wssr:
II wss our fortune few days since to get
In the crowd vending their way to one Of
the Presidents receptions.
"DAT" ATTENDS A RECEPTION.
None can form just conception Of this
rab6c Aond'shokisg without going through
the ordeal. OF course everybody in Wash.
ingtou goes At least once (while others at-
tend regularity to zee the President amid all
the divenities of human nature. On each
Thursday evening, Pennsylvanis Avenue
strect-cars, carriages and sidewalks are Allied
with town beauties, with turned-up dresses,
with powdered hair, under strange.]ooking
hoods-preseuting very much the appearance
Of . huge bundle of blankets protecting
the thinly.dresscd forma. In the vestibule
tho array Of low cut vests and light kids
tripping TO the lstles' dressing -ruvu, where
silks and laces abound, IL . feature The
entry Is the embodiment of humor and fun ;
even though packed and jammed to replc-
ton, 20 much 10 that escorts looking for
partners stand on tip.toe against the wall,
on the lookout for lost bundles of dry
goods"-is good stand point for admiring
snow white shoulders and well.deined
FORMS After passing through the Red to
the Blue Room, you suddenly find plenty
Of space. Passing along before the grave
form Of General Michler, you soon grasp
the hand of the President Mn. Grant, in
her Paris lilac with Grape and point lace;
Mn. General Dent, keen, dark eyed, thin
woman; Miss Dent; young Miss Grant in
rose-colored silk, with Miss Nellie Grant,
the pet Of the White House, gliding in and
out, presents tableau worthy of . better
description than We have space to give. We
pass on, jostling with citizens and strangers,
native and foreign, high and low, rich and
poor, each perhaps wondering what pleas.
ure there is in seeking the hospitality of the
White House under such circumstances, even
though they may not have come out with
whole raiment or no sensitive twinges In
the region of ribs and toes, many Of whom
do not most assuredly.
TIE GOLD CORNER.
The gold-gsmbling committee (Banking
and Currency have taken vo!uminous tes.
tiunony respecting the September gold panic
reaching over z, 900 pages-in which the
President, Mrs. Grant and oil the govern.
ment officials are cxonerated from any &C.
ton or intcrest-evcn without the usual
WITHDRAWING process on evidence-but
Messrs. Butterdcld and Corbin seem iwpli-
Gated, both of whom, it IL reported, will be
exposed In connection with the ever-memo-
,able Friday. It ls shown that Mn. g. and
Gen. Porter (the Presidents Seretary) were
offered half million for their influence
with the President to prevent Secretary
Boutwell, from selling gold, both Of whom
promptly refused to have anything to do
with the matter. The report Of this COM
mite will expose much Of the msnoeuver-
ings of the ''Gold Ring" and dodgcs of the
''corner," )" all Of which will be interesting
to the public.
SELLING CADET6HIrA
The House Military Committee, in their
| examination OF the sale of Cadetships by
members, promises some rich, rare and spicy
developments, showing how soms OF our
poorly paid legislators manage to turn .
penny to the 81, 600 paid them by this un-
grateful Republic. Al every ono knows,
the law provides that Cadets shall be taken
from districts where they have been raised.
The evasion Is by moving applicants to Ger
tain districts for the time actually required,
when he ID admitted, the member pocketing
$500 for his fraudulent Offices. in the matter.
IT'S said these men are known, and win be
brought to testify of their Cadet brokerage
TIE SUPREME COURT DECISION.
A bombshell ID thrown into financial cir
cles by the late decision Of Chief Justice
Chase, that al debts contracted prior to the
issuing Of greenbacks shall bs paid in gold
better now then then, in view of the gold
premiums then and now. We give the fol-
lowing table showing the debts Of the ssv.
cral States prior to the passage Of legal ton.
der act, and falling under this decision:
| Peunsylvanta: 4 a0eo. 600 \ Iowa .....1 so1Oo(
New Y0rk. ... lA010O 900 II New Jersey 90. l,1olOl
Louisiana ..... 43lAoWN Missouri -, ;. l176AQM
Massachusetts. lL0o6OOOl uinois ..,.... kO68OO[
| North Carolina l3ll6OOO, Rhode lsland.. 0QOl
| Arkansas. 446x OOl Michlgan...... kl04Ok
Maine. ........ l,lSxm II Cosnectjcut.. 100000
Vermont ...... 647,0WN Tsnneesoe, RR 81 ~ 4u(
Ohio. -. ..... 10ll40OON Kentucky ..... 10o6OOl
MARYLAND ..... Gl60ON Kansas. ...... lsQ0oC
u. nsupshiss. 61,0ON Virginia ...... 4le01, ,O0(
Indians ....... 100000 South Carolina llM,OOl
Georgia. ....... A644Oo0k Alabama ...... 417N0ol
1E1RENCHxENT.
The bill sbolishisg the Thanking privilege
still hangs In the Senate. A good result fol-