Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-13

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March Of ShernaD's-The Dinner
Parties of TO-Day- Economy of
Republican establishments.
Cor. New York Word Herald.l
WASHINGTON. February 4, 1874.
SUM yIvIMUs, vIvAMUs,
which our beaux and bellies translate
thus: while the season lasts lets us
enjoy the season." Society here is con-
trolled by the old Rcman Catholic fami-
lies of Maryland and the foreign lega-
tious, and by the many Episcopahans
holding official positions. So, when a
fortnight hence, the matin bells an
nounce the advent of Ash Wednesday
the season will virtually be at an
end. In the coming fourteen days. then,
there must be the greatest possible
amount of festivity compressed, al
though the wild license of the European
carnival will be unknown.
THE PRESIDENT RECEPTION
on Tuesday evening was not a brilliant
affair. Formerly it was obligatory by
the code of etiquette, for the members
Of the diplomatic corps, the Supreme
Court, both Houses of Congress and the
Cabinet to attend these receptions or
"levees," as they were then called, But
nowadays the elite OF all these official
classes remain away, and the saloons of
the White House are filed with motley
crowd, including strangers from every
part of the republic, nearly all in their
travelling dresses. OF course they have
d right to grip the hand of the President
and to tread on the trains OF ladies in
evening dresses. Hail, Columbia, etc.
PRESIDENT GRANT
is getting very tired of these ceremo-
nies, and, doubtless, looks forward to
March 4, 1877, when he will march forth
from the White House and install him
self in his own residence in this city,
the building of which he will commence
next summer and superintend. He will
thus carry out the idea of Washington,
who built house on Capitol Hill Qong
since torn down., in which he proposed
10 spsnd his winters after the seat OF
government should have been removed
here. John Quincy Adams also owned
a house, and his heirs own it yet, on +
street, opposite the Ebbitt House, in
which he resided when, after his Presi-
dental career, he returned here as a
Representative.
THE PRESIDENTS PAY AND PERoUIsITEs.
Economy is q good thing in Its way;
but it appears to be small business Tor
Representatives, who only secured their
reelection to this Congress by drifting
in on the food tide of Grants popular
itv. TO be hunting for some petty saving
about the White House. They have re-
linguished, for political purposes, the
advanced amount of pay which they
voted themselves lasp year, and they
now groan because they cannot, without
violating the constitution, also cut down
the pay of the President; but if gar
dener can be discharged, or the guam
tity of gas consumed can be diminished
or if the leaky roof can so unre-
paired, it will greatly delight these en-
vious economists.
GENERAL SHERMAN
has planned and is successfully carry
ing out a flank movement against the
Congressional economists. A Congress
man now receives $4,000 yearly pay,
which his allowances swell to S6500, but
the general Of the army receives Sl3,50O
yearly pay, which his allowances swell
TO $l9 27s. This was gall and wormwood
TO the representative from the Tenth
district of Delaware, and there was a
general determination to 60 for" the
generals pay and allowances. But Sher
man has turned out az all the parties,
balls, receptions and fandangoes, night
after night, and has made himself so
very agreeable TO the wives and daugh-
ters of the NJ. G. S that he has their inilu-
enee, and their influence will save him.
No man can be more charmingly pleas
ant than the great commander, and the
way he has chasssed down the middle
in old-fashioned country dances has
been a march through Georgia into
the good graces Of the feminine con-
gress. Why, in
rHE SNOW STORM OF LAST MONDAY
His own parlors we're crowded, and a
Jolly good time had those who we're
there. There is no iormality, no cere-
mony, no etiquette, the General makes
every one have a good time. His ma
tronly wife, it viii be remembered, was |
a daughter Of Tom Ewing. once a presi-
dental candidate. under the soubriquet
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