The Portland daily press., 1870-07-28
DAILY PRESS.
ND.
Thursday Morning, July %, 1870.
Letter from Washington.
WASHINGTON, d. G., July 25, 1870.

| WASHINGTON, d. C., July 25, 1870.
WHERE'S THE NEW zEALANDER?
refer, OF course to that impersonation of
Macauley's. There's use for him here. The
Federal capital is a ruined city-amost Con-
gress has "cut its stick" now some ten days
since. The Franco-Prussian war-which SO
far is call cry ald little wool'-has become an
old story. We have already forgotten that
such person as NJ. Anatole Lucien Provost
Paradol lived, or what is of more moment
here, died here. Nobody turns round aOy
longer to point out little and ancient Baron
Gerolt, the Prussian Minister: Senator Srm-
ner, always the first to come and the last to
leave, will depart, "a sadder but wiser man."
within two or three days. There are stray
bachelor Senator and Representative or two
still lingering, listening to some siren song or
bound to some Delilah's lap. The President
was off to Long Branch on Thursday last.
San Domingo is dead, and Babcock knows it,
Porter is lett on duty at the deserted White
House. Dent swells in borrowed Importance
at Long Branch. Fish has gone fishing at
his residence on the Hudson-where most OF
us wish he would stay forever. Robson will
be at Cape May in day or two, enjoying the
latest novelties of the cuisine and summing his
good-humored bachelorheod in the winsome
smiles of fine belledom angling for prime
take. Cresswell has gone to Maryland, look
ing after the party chances thereabouts. Bout
well will stay awhile and keep at work on his
funding operations. Cox will take up a mod
est line of march for Ohio ere long, and Bel
knap will 60 to Long Brarch. So you see
everybody is out of town. The capital is de-
serted. and The New Zealander will find am
pie opportunity Of moralizing over the swami
ties and vexations of spirit" which usually
fret about our path. Perhaps tue most con-
elusive sign Of desertion is the fact that the
hotels-Willarl's, at least, for the sake OF COM
pany at breakfast, the landlord being social
and hating to eat alone-have reduced the
price of board to $3.50 per day. "What fall
was there, my countrymenw To what dire
straits must Sykes have been reduced ere this
was done. But in spite of all these things,
Washington is really enjoyable-or would be
but for the extreme heat which has afflicted
us abby those who are able to loaf and in
vite their souls to do the same-a la Walt
Whitman. The wide avenues, the shady
parks, the cool corridors of the stately public
buildings, and more than all, that constant
concentration here, ever acting on the alert
and sensitive mind, of the national impulse,
necessities, passions and judgments,-all these
and more give Washington charm of its
own. There are associations too, which I'm
ger about 1t, that are swept away by each
mornings recurring tide of driving competi-
tion and hurrying trade. After all, men can
see other ambitions here than the merely vul-
gar one of getting rich, which just now is the
one central purpose of most American lives.
In the light of a life spent, as Mr.. Summers
has heen, in the service of man and of the
nation that should par excellence represent
the human cause, one may see that intellect
can find reward in being harnessed to other
labor than that of dragging Mammon for
ward.
THE PROSPECTS OF THE CAMPAIGN,
As set forth by both parties seems to be
good. The nation accords 90 Democratic
representatives in the next House. They
themselves claim 102 at least, while the Re-
publican count accord them about 10. have
just examined letters from the South and am
enabled to form some idea of the situation
there.
SENATORIAL ELECTIONS
Come first. The seats TO be vacated on the
Sd of March next and those of Willard War.
ner, Alabama, Alexander Mcdonald, Arkan-
sas, Willard Salisbury, Delaware, T. G. Nc
reerey, Kentucky, John S. Harris, Louisi-
ana. Hiram R. Revels, Mississippi, Joseph C.
Abbot, North Carolina, Thomas Il. Robertson,
South Carolina, Joseph S. Fowler, Tennessee,
Johu w. johnson, Virginia, Waitman I.
Wiley, West Virginia, making in all eleven
vacancies, of these two are Democrats and
seven Republicans, while one, Fowler, is
nondescript. In their places we shall certain
ly see the following Republicans:
Arkansas, Alexander Mcdonald or Gov.
Powell Clayton, Alabama, Willard Warner or
Gov. Smith, Mississippi, Gov. Alcorn, South
Carolina, probably NJ. Cardoza or Mayor De.
laney, colored, West Virginia, w. T. Wiley.
The following seats now occupied by Re-
publicals are doubtful: Louisiana. 7 s Har-
rs, North Carolina, Gen. Abbott While the
following aye filled by Democrats. Kentncl,,
Gov. Stevenson, Tennessee. Judge Cooner'
Virginia will probably send Gov. Walker in
Johnston's place.
There is strong probability that the Re-
publicans may carry the next Delaware Leg
islature, in which case Gen. Torbel or JudSe
Fisher will fill Saulsbury's seat-not his d ace
aor tna' ~ ~ - W De noPeu VIII never oe hled
s,n Ssa,n e ~ aeuapi.ua.e, .ie hepuDlicans VIII
T1n,e. 'e - nS S,u,;s, eei.ain, luouSh II GOV
EIa{"n, ~ ''Du ",d Am,, ao Ien' nere rom
.,"1." ~ "nu n.a.,,1 nan:as' :s ~ wlH pe 10
rn"or.a;, H. 10 oenaeoiS quite
Th;s ;s aar.o;nIn tr,,o of T,au. VIII prove
60 Iii n''.,i, y, C.;Sy c. ~ mnose sue
tho ,,ros,oots 80 ,"nd g.. ihasas' but
nrob. h;itv tI,a nsr,noro,s ~, LII, oo'I tn aii
r." s~o,' ~: ,;.: Wll Henu IVY Oeiia-
.Ho,r nn;., Ill h 4s. anu I.o'n oa!oLla, SO
.non sain WIZ pe .i'ee aniohS tne incoming,
a."nns nse Nv -. run .ne oou,n INSTEAD OF three
as now, oi lne Outgoing senators, while they
~ may iose one rom Dela"afe' Ii they DO we
S1,a i hTt T1,;s sH VI tne new senators - their
Steto ond Ca,os; iS sOou oasiS Ior LII aiI
otate ana Congressional canvass. we snAh snAh
probably lose three COngressmen Inrrexss IL
Caroine, four in Louisiana, onH III :. "
seven certainly in Tennesee ana one -, ~. ~
ginia, in all sixteen. L think tGao .ns .;,
most gains to be made ny l,n;, Soe.u, Az
which our friends s..mn az. gan =; " 0tu tn nd
bama, one " lpaa "no;S Notonano ~ n;.1 ou. ou.
in MARI tho oat,,at nu IN Ua,ooras;o "a M ,, ~ az
South at ten. No election will be called in