Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-26
Letter from Washington.
lrRoM OUR REGULAR coRnEspoNDENT.l


WASHINGTON. ID. g., Oct "a, 1871.
READY FOR WORK.
The president and all the cabinet have re-
turned, except Mr.. Fish, believe. Bureau off,
GERS are all busy with the preparation of re-
ports. Some of them are busy with expectations
of retirement, too, if there be any truth in ru-
mors now ahoat. The navy department is just
now about the most excited, the Hornet and
the Horton affairs coming in just in the nick o
time to prevent Robson and his department
from falling back into the Rip Van Wrinkle
condition common to our navy in the "piping
times Of peace" Mr.. Boutwell, has suppose,
however, more to do with the Horton than
Robson, while Fish will look after the Hornet,
| think that if the bcllicose Span lard wants to
understand what hornets nest means he had
better push his inquiries in that direction. 1t
will be capital opportunity to study philo-
gy. 1t is not probable, however, that either
event will produce any complications, though
the steadlast action of the Haytien government
must do something in creating with us better
state of feeling towards that republic.
If the administration has come home to stay,
congressman in flocks are here arranging to do so
a little later in the year. The coming session
promises to make a gay Jason for the capital,
Old "residentcrs" tell me that the last winter
of an administration is always gay one. A
large number of senators and representatives in
tend to keep house here. OF course they will be
open ones. Besides them, there are TO be many
distinguished persons domicilcd here for the
winter.
PRINCES, LECTURES AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.
Next week we are TO have Prince Alexis.
There will be but little futtcr as no one is
here, no balls or parties will be given. The la
dies think all this is frightful, of course The
lecture courses are quite brilliant though Mark
| Twain's, delivered last night in the Grand Army
course was an imposition, being u mere rehash
of Artemus Wards oldest jokes. Expectation
is on tp-toc to hear Anna Dickinson on "Work-
ingmen and Demagogues." | think Anna has
mistaken her vocation, if what is said be true of
this lecture, in attempting to row up stream and
set her face backwards. 1t does not surprise me,
however. Feminine illogic is queerly logical,
if the paradox be admissible If you educate
whole class into a belief that they are cxcep.
tiOnal,-that they are by virtue of sex, or some
other quality, different, better and finer than
another GLASS; their representative voices
and pens will be sure somehow to
prove that they so regard themselves
and demand therefore better treatment, or offer
worse to some other set, who are not so iortu-
nately placed as they Women, in America,
have been made exceptional; with all the limita-
tons and hindrances in their position. They
are our aristocrats. To some extent, woman, if
you can pcrsonify the sex, is our pope. Her de-
crees are iuiaible in certain direction. When she
discusses politics, somehow there is an aristo-
cratic twang in her talk. The ballot is the best
repubcanizer and the quicker she gets it with
all its responsibilities the better. What has all
that to do with Miss Dicknson's lecture? Moth
ing beyond the belief that she is in it simply
manfesting her mental limitations, teaching us
the extent Of her possibilities. | shall go and
hear her, but it will be as one who fears to find
"Lost Leader"-not but what there is much TO
be said on the auti-abor side, except as to the
Chinese. 1t might help Anna to read Stephen
Powers trenchant paper california Saved" on
this question. The cry for "cheap labor" is the
cheapest stuff in the mental market, and the
brain that puts it forth shows whcreIthe 'sympa-
thes tend, or rather where they are lacking
Anyhow, a Chinese maxim suits this as well as
other things: every good and bad action will,
in the end, receive its merited recOmpense; fly
high or run far, still will it be difficult to es-
cane"