National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-12-11

The Democrats are going into caucus to-day
to see what they can see. The fragrance
arising from the recent appointments tickles
their nostrils with a sensation which has bred
certain nauseousness that they cannot toll
crate.
st. Fiacre was a great lover of flowers, and
instituted the first gardens in France; he is,
therefore, the patron saint of the gardeners.
In the last century o man in Paris took 1t into
his head to build coaches and let them out for
hire. The Office was in wine-seller's shop,
patronized by gardeners and dedicated to St.
Fiacre. This is the reason the name of Gfiacre"
was given to them that they still retain.
The lawyers of Flint, Mich, are disguised.
They had promoted assiduously quarrel be
tween q wealthy farmer, named Newcomb,
and his wife, and succeeded in tanning the
connubial spst into frst-elass divorce suit
Unhappily, the plaintiff and defendant met
and made it up, but the lawyers arrested them
in bed at midnight, and succeeded in obtaining
their preliminary expenses.
Hereafter we trust President Grant will
make arrangements to have the press of New
York and the neighboring cities supplied with
printed copies of his messages.-N. Y. Com
nleTciGl advertiser. =.
A very good idea indeed, owing to the fact
that the evening papers Of New York have
always been very unsuccessful In securing his
annual messages in time to print in full. The
next ones we hope will be furnished In time
and shape so that those papers can have the
full benefit of them.
IT'S sad to reflect upon the fact that the grand
old State of Virginia, "the mother of Presi-
dents, is likely to be depopulated; that her pro-
verbally hospitable homes will be as banquet
halls deserted, and that her patriotism can
never again manifest itself in gathered battal-
lions to celebrate the unwilling OF loving me-
mentoes of her fallen chieftains. All, all, are
moving into the post Office of the House-so
far as the Offices hold out. There are not
many left, and the Mother of Presidents re-
fuses to be comforted.
He was a weary-wOrn wording, whose face
presented to the passer-by a picture full of
care and sorrow. He had come from afar-olf
and had tarried in our midst stranger, save
to few in whose favors he had placed his
trust with that confiding care which rankles
harsh in disappointment. As he trfpped into
the street car on his way to the railway
station and took a seat in the corner he
jambed his carpet-bag with n nervous shove
between his knees and said, ''Thank God,
have started" and a long pause followed, in
which each individual passenger made it a
point to look the weary-worn wording over
from understanding to understanding. ~
was born and bred in the lap of the Democ-
racy, but 'twere better to have been born and
nurturcd in the lapse of time when that name
had no significance. l am fifty to-day; 1 don't
own I cent, and with pangs of rheumatism
in both legs stood by the polls in my native
town from the coming up 70 the going down
of the sun and palmed off tickets on the in
dependent voters in favor of the honorable
member from the Ninth district. 1 asked him
yesterday for clerkship to committee, but
he offered me position in the folding-room,
and when accept it, the moss on his nose will
be long enough to harvest with a sickle. am
no galloot that he thinks he can pay by fur
nishing an opportunity to sling brown paper
and paste for living" and he CRASHED his
teeth, little dreaming that there are hundreds
in this broad land of ours who would gladly
step into the position.
1t is all right, of course, but rather notice
able, is that busy, eager crowds of men who
swarm into the lobby of the House and sway
restlessly to and fro, moved by feelings of ex-
pectancy and greed for Office. 1t has been
fifteen years since this goodly portion of our
body polite have had an opportunity to be-
siege the lobby doors of Congress as priyi-
legged class, who have claims upon party at
whose disposal the varying wheel of fortune
has placed many offices both of tempting
and desirable proportions. Fifteen years is
ample time to whet the appetite and make
sharp the hunger for place; and that this long
expanse of time has fully accomplished these
ends was clearly evident yesterday in the wild
eyes and vacant, eager stare of those who
lowered closely around the entrances to the
floor on every hand. 1t was not motley crowd,
nor i'll made by nature, nor sloVenly clothed in
dress, but one whose hot impotence seemed
to bear it to extremes in strong endeayor to
pursue the thread of chance that was drawing
them on with that alluring hope which is, to
most men, irresistible. Two hundred offices
or more, for which two thousand men are
pressing to secure, presents a picture which,
of itself, is amply interesting without the minor
shades of detail which the close observer
could not fail to note. The picture, when
considered in humane view, will not admit
of ridicule. There are features in it fraught
with quaint and funny facts, but, in a general
aspect, it cannot fail, we think, to touch the
chord of sympathy. Two thousand men
moving down in solid rank and file upon two
hundred offices, urged on by the pricking
force of hard necessity, is not thing for
laugh. Ten men for each position, and one as
eager as the other to succeed! Ten men who
have lived in expectancy for fifteen years, nine
of whom must be disappointed, because of the
established rule of natural philosophy that the
space of one square inch will not accommo-
date ten square inches under even the most
favorable circumstances. Ten men who have
hoped for this Bourbon ascendancy with that
broad and yearning expectation which no one
but constitutional office.seeke can appre-
ciate, nine tenths of whom will be compelled
TO return to their respective homes to suck
and crunch the pulp and seed of sour grapes
by saying to their friends that this and that
defeated them, when, in reality, at first their
shadow of a show was too thin to cast q
shadow.
Another 'Three-Cent Man"