Middletown transcript., 1874-01-10
Letter from Washington.
Washington, D. C.. Jan. 6, 1874.
u PusLlsHEp EVERY sArpRDAY BY
Edward Reynolds. .
TIE HOLIDAYS

past ten days have been gloomy enough,
however, fer the many who are in neody |
circumstances. The teachers, for exam
pls, have several months buck pay due
them. Five young lady teachers walked
all. the way to Georgetown. q few days be-
fore Christmas--none Of them having five
cents to pay for car fare-to borrow the
amount Of months pay each from mem
Der of the District Ring who, they had
heard. was lending messy at ive per cent.
u month But the poor girls had only
their fatigue fer their pains. and returned
to Washington foot-sors aad sad. They
had been misinformed. The gentleman
refused to lend them, for less than ten per
cent month, any Of the money he had
made out Of the appropriations Of Congress
for !" improving" Washington; and that
they could not stand. Since then, how
ever, they and many others have been
obliged to get money at that rate. A very
large number Of families, white and color
ed, whose heads have been employed by
the Board Of Public Works and cannot
get the pay due them, Or who have been
obliged to take it in the form of some Sc
curity upon which they have been able to
realize only forty or fifty per cent. on their
bills. have had, also. anything but plea
SAINT time of it. 1t must have been graft
flying, however, to these poor people. in
their dire distress, to learn. from the Ad-
ministration papers, that some Of their fell
low -citizens, in special favor with the
President. and peeuniarily interested with
him in enterprises Of great pith aud mo-
.,nent." are prosperous, and therefore "gay
and happy" The following paragraph in
.one of the dulles had the effect of making
ths needy, and defraudea, and over-taxsd
people Of Washington forget their cwn
.wrsngs in the fullness Of their gratitude
to Providence for having been so bounti-
Iful to their beloved fellow citizen:
"a HANDSOME DINNER SERVICE.
The handsome dinner service set of
Governor Shepherd, now on exhibition at
the furnishing store Of j. w. Boteler a.
Bro, on Pennsylvania avenue, between
Ninth. aud Tenth streets, attracts univsr-
sal admiration, and is pronounced one of
the most Beautiful and complete sets ever
imported. Il is salmon colored. with
wide and exquisitely executed tracing of
dead gold, Of entirely new design. with the
letter IS" handsomely executed on each
piece of plate. The dessert dishes are
beautifully decorated with fruits and flow
ers. each piece differently finished. All
of tie fiat ware is cut edged The entire
set is composed Of Eve hundred pieces. con
sisting of plates, fat and deep, of all sizes;
covered dishes, sauce tureeas. cassbSlcs,
meat and fish dishes, compoteurs, breakfast
and after-dinner .eo6ees. The entire SGT
cost $4,000. This service was designed
by Mr.. j. W. Boteler. while in Paris dur
ing the past summer, to whose taste aod
judgment the Governor vas perfectly sat
is6ed to leave the selection Of eolors.
shapes and everything connected with the
gettipg-up of the set. That he has faith
fully executed the charge an examination
Of the service will fully testify, ard re-
dound to the credit of the gentleman en-
trusted with the execution Of this delicate
but important order. The set is register
ed in Paris, and although the colors can
be used hereafter, the form and style of
the decorations must remain entirely uA-
fringed upon, and can only be ordered
through the house Of Messrs. j. W. Bots-
Ter x Bro"
True. some discontented people, and
there always will be some of that descrip-
fion, you know, who will murmur, and
mutter. and threaten, aud so make the
rich unhappy, say that the display by the
Governor, in store window on our prin-
cipal theroughfare, in times like these
when hundreds of thousands of men, wo-
men aud children all over the country are
without bread to eat. of q s.. 600 dinner
set imported from Paris was vulgar piece
Of fosteptation; and ssAe of these malcon.
tents even 60 SO far as to say that it il
hard enough, in all conscience, for a peo
pie to be robbed without being invited b,
the thief to admire the sxtravigant expe
diturs of his i'll gotten gains.
THE CANDIDATE FOR THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
sa' l heard one of the best lawyers in th,
Senate say, = few days ago, that tho opin
ion OF Attorney General Williams on th
! case of the Trginius should be, of itself
e enough to convince the President that b.
is csmnitting grave error in endeavor
ing to ceerce the Senate to confirm MIR
Williams as Chief Justice of tho Suprem
Court. The opinion Of Mr.. Williams en-
braces two points which contradict eas
ether SO glaringly that the Dogberry fla
yor Of the opinion. as a whole. is palpabl
90 any smart school-boy. Mr.. William
holds. 6rst. that the register Of the VI,
ginias being fraud upon the laws of tn
United States, she had no right to carr
the American fag But he also hold
that. BY carrying the A@erfcan flag (afts
having unquali6edly decided in prsviou
paragraph, be it romem bered, that she ho
no right to curry it, she was as much ex
empt from arrest on the high seas by th
lawful protectors of any country to whic
she might be bound with hostile istsut, !.
If she had been peaceful trading vcsse
According to Mr.. Williams, any pirat,
ship which chooses to disguise itself 10 A
.smerican colors obtains thereby the rigl
Of American protection. Very compl
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