Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1876-12-18
WASHINGTON LETTER .
SPECIAL CORREkPONDENCg.

WAsHINGToN, D. G. Nov. 20, 1876.
''Just ss il used 10 I've, the butterfly
beforr.' The said butterfly, which all are
"nxlous to each. is Il certainty regarding
the person who is to be our next Pre>i
dent; and this .'hcfore" the days of anx.
tty which have followed Tie election.
How can VIC wait with patience the un-
rayclins Of the tangled skeln, when every
thing and everybody must stand perfectly
still until the task is accomplished? Our
city is dull in the supurlalivc degree, the
natural reaction from the excitement of
the week succeeding election. Business
J men have a oppressed appearance and our
merchants lean listily Oh their counters,
and earnestly wish for the good times
cominy-when? A little dash of snow
yesterday succeeded by a cold evening
and frosty air to-day, have given our
| ladies a pretext for donning Heavy cloaks,
furs and a little arrangement for the
throat, called ''fascinators''-a if the
faces above them needed such aid.
No one met ON the street seems hurried,
and rs the demand upon our own time is
not pressing, there is plenty IF time tor u
friendly greeting, u" exchange Of the
items OF gossip picked up ON our walk,
anil then for y fisit to the Smithsonian
Institute, half hidden in it park of leaf
less trees. to view the addition to the COL
lection of minerals procured at the Cen
tcnntal; 10 ascertain if the Egyptian
mummies arc still in good state Of pre-
scrvatiOn. and to make other equally
profitable observations before rroceed,ng
10 the Cochran Art Gallery, where we
linger some hours over the beautiful and
rare Paintings, the statuary and, perhaps,
learn of anOther art MS we stealthfully
Watch the spooney pair who 60 slowly by
u. evidently far gone in the tolls If
Cupid. A call at the White House affords
no opportunity 10 see The President. who
IS busy preparing his last annual message,
but an inspection Of the East, Blue and
Green rooms and the Crimson drawing
room. aid other objects of great interest
shown US. interchangeable door, amply re-
pays us for all the labor it cost Of course
l stop at the Treasury where, BY obtain
ing all especial permit, can view all the
proceedings of money making, though
they Will not permit me TO make any.
You can also see how they destroy it,
taking enough to make one rich. sOiled
and tattered, and in a very short time re.
duce 1t to pulp and then make it into IA.
PR. dislike to see the money 80 in this
way and hasten my departure to the post
cfhce, where there is DULY time TO see big
rattle snake. which Was sent through the
maj! alive. but was never called for. There
are also dolls and other Cnristnss pres
'nts, sent IN the same way. for all the
Children in town. In an adjoining room
clerks are opening and disposing of '.un.
called for" letters from all paris If the
United States. How much of sweetness
mi sourness is utterly thrown away it,
|nese thousands Of letters, which never
1ud their owners. The ter,!ant young
nan at my right, evidently from the
'ural districts, who gazes in Open.mouthed
wonder at these lost missiye>, is probably
If this was the .ate of the ten.
Ter message written to Angelina some
ears since, and directed under the excite.
''ent OF just having Offered himself for
ler acceptance, to Gre. inland lnstead of
greenwich. "a circumstance for congratu.
atom perhaps). A messenger tells me IN
polite way that the office il closed ~
l>i'ors at ) O'Clock. go leasu:!v home.
10 dIr'ng the lapse between my arrival
nd dinner, try to find out who is to be
ur next President and thus catch the /
utterly. 0. K. n.