New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-17
A Wall from Washinstou.

| Washington Correspondence Cincinnati CONNER
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The business men of Washington hav,
| had hard time this summer, and there il
| great depression felt among them and il
all branches of trade and labor. One O.
the principal business men of Washington
told nue. yesterday that there had neve,
been SO poor a summer for business men
He says there is not q store, or grocery. OF
shop but has lost money this summer, and
following as it did ''short winter"-tha1
Is, three months session Of Congress-
there are many IN most Strengthened cir
cumstances.
Why" said he. ''look at it. Congress
was in session three or four months. The
minute it adjourned land being hardly
willing to wait for i'll OF went the President
to Long Branch. Pretty soon Fish followed.
then Delano and Creswell, and Akerm an,
and the whole lot of them. Well, what's the
effect! Washington was cleaned out as dry
as if Yellow Jack had stalked in here,
Every hotel was deserted, and the board
inghouses could not pay the rent. The
government business was in the hands of
clerks who had no responsibility, and half
OF them were away too. Why, at one time
there was all the members Of the cabinet
absent and eleven heads of bureaus. What
do You think of that! There are nearly. if
not quite, as many heads of the bureaus
absent now, and by Monday the whole
cabinet will be away. Let me gee. Among
those absent now are Judge Richardson,
assistant secretary Of the treasury; General
Smith, second assistant postmaster general;
General Spinner, treasurer; General Walker.
superintendent Of the census General
Baker, commissioner of pensions: Mr..
French, second auditor; Judge Barron.
fifth auditor. There are others, but | cant
think of them now
well, how much business is done here,
Do strangers come here when they can't
see the responsible oficers' NO. sir.
There are no strangers here. Nobody is in
the city. and business is as dead a. the
Ptolemies. The capital might as we'll be in
st. Louis. Why, sir, until Grant and his
menagerie came in we never had any very
dull seasons. The President and the gov
officers remained in town all sum-
ner and attended to their business. The
result was there were more or less strangers
IN the town all the time, because all the
government business was going on, and
that brought people here. You don't want
to see Dent If you have business with the
President; you don't want to see Bancroft
Davis If you have business with Fish. and
you don't want to see Walt Whitman If
you have business with the Attorney Gen.
eral: That's why people don't come here.
EAS SAAS Va SONCA0AAC0t OuCcES nave TO
away, the little ones have to also. Then
all the fashionable people think it nm.
healthy here because the government
officers are away, and they will lose caste.
and go OF they go. Don't you see. tell
you Grant has been a greater injury fo
" Arlington than Bill Tweed has to New
York. >'o"
Il tell You. sir between this administra.
aon and the territorial government We are
having pretty hard time Do Won know
hat there were never more than half "A
many houses for sale and rent in Washing.
on as there are now. It's true. air. WIZ
ook at the hotels. Willard is shut mn and
!0ld out. 1t will remain vacant all winter
The Kirkwood is sold out and shut nm That
will not open this winter. The Seaton Hons"
las failed, and the building has been leased |
o the government for ten thousand dollars
year. The Jenness House is closed for the
ummer. Welcher is shut up. The Metro.
'olitan will probably be idle. The nronr;e.
or failed In business, and the Lease ia mt
Nobody can be found to take it. IA for The
ther hotels, they are all losing MONEY
hey have no guests, because there ia no
'ody in town Don't you see how it is!'
could not help seeing the force of nv
riends remarks. There is nobody in town
ure enough, and business is stone dead r.
oes not need the word Of business men ~
ee that: Whether justly or uuiustlv. thev
y al the trouble on Grant. Saw what Won
M, ne Is not personally popular in Wash.