Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-01-09

I bodily uncleanliuess. rushed IN to take
I their annual pull at the Presidential
/ hand. Country bellies and beAux were
there, from Maryland and Virginia;
and proud young married couples WI o
| had brought their first, and as yet, only
| little totterer to shake hauds with the
| President I observed. 10 tiis thorough
| ly representative and Democratic thronR
an ex csbiEet officer, ex-membeTs ef
congress, common la0OTers, merchant
princes, and sailors with the peculiar
gait taught them by the waves. The
crowd was too large to be admitted all
at once. II was formed in an irreg-
ular column, about six abreast, and sd-
mitted by policemen in squads OF about
forty at time. AS each iustalment
passed through the antechambeT, it APP
preached the reception room Of the
President between 4 doHfls file OF po-
licemen facing inward. Taese, without
appearing to do go, very closely and in.
tenuy seTulinized each caller rs he pass
ed in. 1t, of course, proved an unneces-
ssTy, but it could hardly be called y
foolish, precsution. 1t would be quite
easy, on an occasion like this, for
out his bodkin and make a
If detective should not see 1t in his eye
before he entered the presence. The
marine band played in the ante-cham-
Der as the interminable column, with
constant sccessions TO its rear, filed into
the presence of the President, who bad
stood for three hours, without cigar,
heroieally smiling aud shaking hands.
He was In full dress, black vest and
necktie, his originally white kid glove
showing evident signs of fatigue. The
representatives OF the press had been
early favored with positions from which
they could observe this pageant, with its
foreign and domestic, patrieian and ple-
bian features. To your correspondent,
the most interesting portion of the spec
tacle was not the representatives OF the
foreign governments, in the uniforms of
their respective courts-foI once outvie- |
iUg the ladies in gayety and variety of
costume; it was not the President, whom !
custom has made something of court |
ier; nor pseudo Colonel Fred Grant, |
his pretty wife in pink silk, Mrs. |
Grant in birthstone silk, nor Mrs. |
Fish in black silk. The spectacle !
most interesting to him, as it would |
have been to you, was that which |
he has described at greatest lepgth-the
reception OF The pJebS, the orotdauDl
vmgus, the people! The admission Of
the humblest citizen, as it were, to the
court circle, his peership there, his right
to aspire to the highest place there, Is q
step that 1t has cost something to make,
aud which, in the retrospective annals
Of the wonderful future, will be deemed
well worthy to marx an epoch and a
century. There were many other recep-
tions, official and non-official, in Wash.
ton, where grace and beauty received,
and from which iueipient manhood de-
parted with an intoxication more SUBJ
tile, softer, and perhaps, less pernicious
than Of wine. But philosophers are not
agreed on this point. 1t is said there
was less drunkenness than usual; the
man who has an inioKicoReter, and the
statistics, perhaps, knows. The addresses
Of fifteen hundred homes that would be
open on that day, with the names of tie
ladies' who would receive in each, had
been published in the papers; but these
we're not half the number that had their
atclp trings out.
And now may not your correspondent /
pay his respects to your readers, and |
wish them the compliments OF the sea.
'on? Perhaps every writer, however OBJ.
'cure, may have two or three readers
Who do not shun that portion of the pa
Der that is over his name. Perhaps
bese have observed beneath his not
very hsppy efforts to write something
yossjpy and interesting, a deeper pur- !
oose-to hold up for them a mirror of I
'ur government with which we, as citi-
ems, are too little acquainted, and
which ia al national eg0tism has pre-
rented US from criticising until gross
TrOnRs have crept into its every branch,
md uatl gross rascals have fortified
themselves in its highest places.
FoUCHE.