The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-04-10
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
WAsHINaToN, ID. c., April 9Th, 1877

! SpaFrOWS are tlpSy win delight, singing
anew the same old song, and wooiug again
with the same old love. New grass is spring
ing from new graves and old moss freshen-
ing upon old tombs, while the wee violet,
with eyes filled with tears, is pcepug from
the little mounds between. One hardly
! knows whether to be glad or sad, for there
| is so much to be glad for and so much to be
sad for. But we rather guess one about
! evenly balances the other, since mirth is
like the revels of champagne, and sadness,
the headache that follows. We are having
delightful weather at present, and our prin-
cipal streets present a very gay and lively
appearance. Every one is ont, who is for
tunate enough to be possessed of the need
| ful, wherewith to purchase their Spring
! goods, and those who are less fortunate,
content themselves by dropping in and pric-
| ing, with the usual remark that they will
call again.
ALLFOoL'S DAY.
The first OF April passed off without much
fooling. The daily newspapers had their
customary hoaxes, and that was about all.
The tribe of street-beggars who {" haint had
nothn' to eat since yesterday mornin,"
kept it up in energetic style, considering
their prolonged fast: and now and then a
parboIed- faced school boy invented some
deviltry that guaranteed him in the pro-
duction of that ancient melody:
"April fool, go to school,
Sit on a three-iegged STOOL sc.
THE TIGER" EXCITED.
During tho early part of last week the
| Board of Police Commissioners held a spe-
cial meeting. and beside doing other things
| passed a resolution instructing the Superin
tendent of Police to shut up all the keno
banks in the city. On Tuesday evening
this order was carried into effect by ser
geant, who was detailed for that special
duty. The keno bankers were as politely
requested TO close up their banks as if they
were doing some kind of legitimate bust
ness. The bankers said they woa,d, and
! the police sergeant departed. The follow
! ing night, however, more than half of them
| were re0pened i'll other streets, and the
little game goes on rs snhlimely us ever.
Everybody is happy, and the poor fool who
risks his money on the game and loses it
has no sympathzers. He should have let
it alone.
The faro bankers are somewhat troubled
| in mind since the keno game was suspend
ed (?l They don't want to move or to be
required to shut up. During the session
| of Congress, about twenty five faro banks
are kept running in this city every night.
| When Congressman, and the crowds that
are drawn by them, leave, but twelve Of
! the banks remain open. These twelve are,
! it is true, doing but very little business, it
! is said, but dull as it is, they don't want to
be forced to suspend. 1t is rather strange
fact in this connection that not single
gambler or gambling house keeper has been
presented i'll our courts for the past four
years, Notwithstanding that if the District
/ Attorney chose to do so he could have every
, faro bank in the city raided by the police
on any night that he might name.
The policy shop swindlers and lottery
ticket robbers-all OF whom are backed up
by a we'll known firm here on one of our
! principal streets-also fear the Board of
| Police may direct that they, too, shall be
suspended, but they think, as they have
got along for the past ten years without
police interference, they can continue to do
so. The victims of this swindle are for the
most part ignorant colored people.
MExICo.
our frontier are said to be greatly exagger-
ated, and intended more for purposes of
speculation than any thing else, and with a
| view of sounding public sentiment in ref
erence to another war with that country.
Be that as it may, the opinion here is that
it will require something more than the
stealing of cattle by a lot of desperate Mex
lean marauders to inveiSle this Govern
ment into a war, when the real purpose is
with a view of getting possession of Mexi-
can territory. However desirable this may
| be for certain interests, and however much
| it might stimulate American adventures,
it is hardly thought that the people are just
now in the humor of adding any thing more
to their present Southern troubles. but pre-
fer waiting until they have civilized what
| they now own before experimenting with
new acquisitions The theory of the Mon
roe doctrine and of manifest destiny and
all that sort of sentimentality, may sound
nice in Fourth of July speech, but when
involved in a practical shape it assumes
quite q different character
SPINNER.
Spinner has resigned. Spinner is re-
signed. The old watchdog of the Trea-
sury, so called, because he kennels in the
d, pirtment building, goes out, and some
feel that great stone has been wrenched
from the very foundations of the Govern
ment. The President and Secretary begged
| We ancient Spinner to reconsider" con-
| slider, consider was the refrain. But Spin
| ner would not consider or reconsider. He
was growing old and infirm and must re-
| sign.
He considerably dated his resignation
the first of July. This was necessary, for
every female clerk in the department has
| to embrace and kiss the venerable Spinner
before he leaves. There are over a thou
sand, and the three hundred under his i'm.
mediate control have to kiss and embrace
| in tears three times. "liave you en-
braced >" is the question asked by one
female clerk of another. \ placard over
the door announces, " Embraces and tears
between ten and twelve" Long lines are
formed of female clerks. each armed with
| two handkerchiefs and a spttoon.
BAD WEEK FOR wAsHINGToNIANs
At Mount Clare, somewhere on the Bal
| timore and Ohio Railroad, Washington
ian was run over and killed few days ago.
| Another, named Jonathan Jones. bridge
| builder, was found dead in his room in ST.
! Louis. He had been drinking freely. as
many of us do, and cast down by the
failure of congressional claim for $780,
600. Still another, this one an object of
civil rights. passed in his checks in Balt-
more on Wednesday in a sudden, unex-
pected and apoplectic manner. Death,
however, is as little to be trusted as a shot
gun, mule, or Connecticut. J. ii. p.
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