National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-06-29
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
THE DREADED FIRST.

To the Editor of the National Republican:
SIR: The first of the next month is looked to
with dread by many Government employees.
And why2 Because the heads of departments
are going to show to the country that they are
on the reform by the discharge of few poor
clerks, messengers, watchmen and laborers.
These are the men that will go. Now the fact,
Mr.. Editor, is not that there is toe many in the
departments, but there is too many loafers,
who hold their position through the influence
of big friends, and are not worth their salt.
They come when they please, go when they
please and do as they please. Men or women
of that class seldom or never get discharged.
They arexbpo heavy. Now, sir, q few words in
regard to civil service reform. First, none
should be retained but married men or those
who have mothers or young Sisters and broth
ers to look out for; second, no married women
should be retained; third, no boys or half grown
young men, who really do nothing and get
better pay than many men who have large
families to support. Appoint or retain men
who value their places as q means OF living,
and not as places of sport and pastime.
Hoping you will give this place in the "Peo-
pies Column" remain yours,
CO. 81. TWELFTH STREET NORTHWEST.
sTUBBINs ON STREET PREACHERS.
Tothe Editor of the National Rspublican:
Stubbins thinks twenty-five years. faithful
service as Government clerk ought to entitle
him to peaceful slumbers, if his health per-
mits, and deplores the annoyance Of night
hawks crying in the lonely hours, whip
powini whippowill I whippowilli under
his window in ceaseless clamor, TIL the very
drums of his ears ache with the incessant
beakings, and asks what right his neighbors
have to come to his house ct unseemly hours
and play on his musical instruments unlimited,
thus depriving him OF rest and in6icting pain?
A mans own drums are private property, and
when they are in his own house they ought to
be let alone. But this is not Stubbins' greatest
trouble. He says he would like to do little
mediating on heavenly matters and q little re-
prospecting of his daily conduct, preparatory to
offering up HIS own silent prisons for pardon
and guidance, and, therefore, he is distressed
that his soul Is divided between desire to
commune with his conscience and his Maker,
and anxiety concerning when the noisy mid
night haranguer, with the hymn book with
songs, and Bible under his arm, and half
decade of colored boys at his heels, is going to
begin to shout. Just 90, on Fourth of July
when he was a child, he used to watch the
man who had charge of the heated iron, that
he might put a forefnger of each hand in his
ears when the explosion of the cannon came.
NUFF Sen.
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WASHINGTON SOCIETY," g OSSLP.
~ Cs.Fay,r'in Courier ournal.
Miss Mary Lee, one Of the bellies of this city,
is engaged to a Mr.. Mann, Of Minnesota. He
is wealthy widower, without children, and
can allow his wife to spend her winters with
her relatives in this city and her summers at
St. Paul.
On. Friday, the 18th, Mrs. Whitley, the
widow of Colonel Whitley, formerly of Louis
vile, started for Colorado, where she meets
her intended husband, Mr.. Richmond. Mrs.
Whitley was Miss Bradford, of this city, and
had only been the wife of Colonel Whitley a
few years when he died. She was left poor,
and with tive little boys to support. She has
continued to reside with her mother, who took
carelof the children while she was employed in
the Internal Revenue. Mrs. Whitley is quite
young and remarkably handsome in form and
face. She LETT here with an elegant trousseau
and valuable presents from her many friends.
She took her children with her. Business pre-
vented Mr.. Richmond coming here to be mar
ried, so she was forced to overlook the indel-
granted after earnest solicitations on the part
Of the gentleman. Her mother succeeds her
In the Internal Revenue.
Mrs. Bristow arrived in the city last week.
She is with her husband at the Arlington hotel
for the present. General Hammond, who mar
ried Miss Sophie Wolfe, of Louisville, has been
m the city for few days. Miss Mollie Wolfe
is visitieg her brother at Fort McHenry and
Baltimore, Nd. Mr.. and Mrs. James Trabue
are at the Gilsey House, New York, where
they are receiving great attention. l have
lately read several articles from the pen of
Mrs Trab1e, and wonder thas she has not
more frequently contributed to the press. Some
of her letters, written from Europe, are de-
lightful descriptions of what she saw. In con-
versation with an Englishman, at the White
Sulphur Springs, she astonished him by the in
formation she possessed about English affairs,
and as he too had been on the continent, they
kept up an animated conversation for several
hours.