The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-14
CAPITAL CURIOSITIES.

SKETCHES ON THE FLOOR AND IN THE PARIoRs
NENTs.
washington correspondent writes to the
Chlcago I1mes:-WashiDgton society is all
py the ears In regard to the story recently
commenced in "Old and New" written con-
Jointly by Miss Wise and Mr.. Severance, she
grand daughter of Edward Everett, he a
and his first season in Washington is a severe
but perfect travers of the swell, shoddy, car
pet bag oligarchy that has grown up like other
mushrooms here in Washington with the
republican party. The story is unmiti-
gatedly slangy in style, but grizzly true
atlon. Among lot of severe
things, it chsracterizes the officials
here as 1.-THE mob" which is uncomfortable
true, and as the truth plainly told generally
makes US squirm, why, they are all squirm-
ing here like bundle of cells. Not very long
since party of the mob met at a sewing
circle at the house of General Beal, when the
| story was discussed with not a little acri-
| mony and feeling, Mr.. Severance being pre-
sent. Miss Richardson, daughter of the Sec
rotary ofthe treasury, goes up to Mr.. Sever
ance and says:
"Mr. Severance, belong to the mob"
lob, no, Miss Richardson"
certainly sill" interrupted Miss Richard-
son, you have called the officials the
mob As daughter of one of them be-
long oft, but If do belong to the mob
wish you to understand, sir, that none OF
my relations keep livery stable" After
delivering herself Of this kind, gracious
and most lady-like speech, Miss Richardson
smoothed her ruf1led feathers, looking about
her with triumphant air as though chal-
longing the admiration of the party for her
mastery annihilation Of the enemy, sat
down, and we have no doubt felt better and
more amicable toward the rest of the world
for having informed the assembled crowd
that this young man, whose father kept a
livery stable, had dared to raise his ewes and
call the ponderous- Drained officials the
mob" This shot at early antesedents erea-
ted quite sensation, and made not a few of
the marine, army, and navy legs retire in
to their inner closet and pray that no youth
ful, malicious, and ill-breed member
of "the mob' might find out that
they were born in garnet, in a kitchen, and
stable breed or root out the hOrri Die fact that
they, in other days were the shining light in
a wayside nm, or had drawn in intellectual
status at miscegenation college. 1t is ru-
mored that Roscoe Conkling, the Adonis Of
the United States Senate, has bought the
controlling interest in the New Fork Tri-
bune, which has been so long hawked about
Wall street, with no takers, thinking to use
it, probably, to secure the liberal republican
vote for president in 1876. All indications
seem to be tending toward a flop of the adj
ministration in that direction. Morton is
doomed man so far as presidential honors
are concerned. since his attack on the Ger
man element. In his unidentified and
strictly personal reply to Schurz the other
day, he, in allowing his spleen to run away
with his discretion, has turned his presiden-
tial aspiration cake into very soggy dough.
SENATORIAL DIGNITY AND rEcoRUM
has had it's superanuated old frame terri
bly, shaken, by having circular entitled,
ITO the lovers of purity every where, !" thrust
beneath their heightened noses, purporting
to emsnste from the Woman s dub, at WASH
ington. 1t is mild form of Woodhullism,
and goes in for cleaning of the Au-
gean stables of Washington morality and
placing women on what it considers clean
basis in her maternal relations, giving her
the right TO select sound fathers for her
children. Addressed to the present Senate.
one can readily see the joke. 1t seems as in
the lame, the halt and the hhni, all the SUI
peranuated old fossils in the country, had
managed by hook or cl ook-or Doth-to hoist
themselves into the soft spots of the United
States Senate. Men without any legs, to
speak Of like Morton, Ferry and Brownlows
without their full compliment Of arms, like
Clayton; with only solitary eye, like But
but fearfully cut short in torso,
like Schurz; or with plenty Of
body and short in the legs, like Consling;
or with full set Of limbs, eyes, etc, supple
m6nt6U Dy S0N0Idi nlllllODS OF OOlafs, Dul
no head, like Stewart; who, having a
good physique, are the victims of a tongue
like Sargent. The moral and phi ysieal weak
ness, lameness and crudeness of that august
body would make it total wreck were it
no. for the presence of few healthy menu
b5rs. Such men as Thurman, OF Ohio, whosa
worst vice is snuffing; Carpenter, of Mis-.
souri,, who, in spite of all that is said, is
Woodworking, painstaking senator, who
shares with Thurman the credit of beins, the
Ii, . L. A. III,
South Carolina, whose lips, hands, nd life
are above reproach, and a few others are the
lesven of the whole lump. They Shine with
double lustre when compared witt the senile
Oglesby, the nonentity Gilbert, The unfortu-
nate Chandler, and the balance of the mass
of incompetenoy, rolling, Staggering, and
laundering on the door of the United States
! Senate. PHILIP.