The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-10-28
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 23. 1876.

ASHlNGlUN tORkESfUNDENCE.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. %, 1876.
DEAR WHIG:-Washingto has been lift,
ing it's head ambitiously of late years il
many directions, but the latest sign OF
progress is its rivalry TO Brooklyn in the
Moultonian Mutual Friend business. | dc
think that the Getty of Churches" is left
far behind, for our Moulton was every.
body's mutual friend. No sooner had the
Beecher excitement died away, and one
Moulton retired into obscurity, than another
bursts upon the astonished business men OF
Washing ton like a meteor, and the bloody
tears of much weeping distig cured the faces
of the financial men of the Nations Capt.
tai, when the melancholy news came that
our mutual friend Charles Moulton one o!
our most prominent real estate brokers had
arisen and stolen away with 800, 900 of the
money of others, leaving behind him a
gaudy Office, many notes endorsed by un,
suspicious citizens, and character that
couldn't cancel the ink off the figure head
of deceased postal card. Such was the
confidence of business men in Moulton that
he could borrow money readily, and his
checks were always promptly honored.-
Moulton was a man who did business on a
large scale, and varied it with small bust
ness enough to leave Racheis-male and
female-mourning for their losses in all
classes OF the community. He was pleas
ant. plausible fellow, gifted with the mag
netism of good manners ana happy
address. His victims, like the flag end OF
an auctioneer's budget, are too numerous
to be mentioned here. When last heard of,
the absconding Shylock was in Richmond.
The MCPHERSON STATUE.
The unwilling CT the Mcpherson statue
took place, with appropriate ceremonies, in
Scott Square, on last Wednesday afternoon.
The parade was fine and extensive, and the
orations were extensive and fine. Gen.
John y. Logan was the orator of the day,
and did justice to the memory of the
deceased Mcpherson.
The new National hymn "Salute to the
Flag" was rendered with grand effect and
was IN appreciated feature of the occasion.
The full Marine Band, of fifty pieces, were
several times called upon to repeat the
hymn, and the rendition was most happily
received. The hymn and music have
already been sought after by the most
prominent singers of the city.
SALUTE TO THE FLAG.
:" nfurl to the breeze, on land and on sea,
Our emblem of liberty, the flag of the free.
The army shall WELD it as their scepter OF
power
The navy shall shield it as the hope of the
hour.
While the South with the North proclaim
in one voice.
The flag of our Union is the flag of oul
choice
CENTENNIAL.
The tidal wave of Centennial visitors is
now at its height, and at all points we see
groups of people standing, in a daZed and
torn-up state of mind on the corners of our
streets, or gazing open mouthed on the diff
ferent buildings of the city, which we pass
and repass every day and hardly notice.
The crowds that pass thu ough the city,
either coming from or going to the Cen
tennial, are really enormous. Every street
car is filled with wanderers. Standing up,
seated on carpet-bags on the floor, and
crowding and .jostIiug in every conceiva-
bic style.
1t is really pleasant to see how these peo-
pie all fall in together: strangers to each
other, with only the common tie of being
strangers from home. Many of these peo-
pie have never been a hundred miles from
home before. and are unaccuStomed to the
rules and regulations of the world at large
but at home they are men and women, III
the strongest sense Of the word, and worth
Il thousand of us in this and other cities,
who know how to use our knives and forks,
and have the rules of etiquette more com
pletely committed to memory, and more
particularly observed, than the ten com
mandmeutS. If any one has my heartfelt
sympathieS, it is the Centennial who only
spends Sunday in Washington. We have
a beautiful city, and are the headquarters
of all the brains in the country: yet il
must uc acknowledged that to 4 stranger
we are Il tritic dull on Sunday. The pub
lie buildings are all closed on Sunday, and
the only places Of interest in the way OF
sight seeing that are open are the grave
yards. This Is another centennial fact that
impresses one. Throughout life the grave
yard Is the only place always open to us.
We stand outside the buildings con
tanning our hopes and fondest desires, un
Die TO get in, aud We go to the grave yaro
when every thing else shuts us out.
\ murder occurred in our city last week
and as usual the party who accomplished
the feat of passing his victims soul out Of
hole blown through his body, pleads in,
sanity from drink as the motive power o.
his crime. The victim was a respected
beer-vender.' The assailant is an ex
clerk of the War Department, named
Werlich, and of little use to himself OF
the community. The shooting grew out
of a dispute respecting the relative system
of army drill in Germany and America
Werlich claims that he was intoxicateG
and the unfortunate affair resulted from
an accident. He is in durance vile, await
ing the action of the grand jury, while the
unfortunate beer vender" has been bier 6
out to the graveyard, which, of course
WAS nnan InrniNp him