The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-07-22
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.

WASHINGTON, d. c., July 18th, 1876.
DEAR WHIG:-Our thermometer has been
wrestling" with 9G to 100 degrees in Wash
ington for the past week. Little colored
boys. without trowsers, were apparently
roasting potatoes in the shade. Our ma
tional capital can get hotter with more
aggravating heat than any place this side the
torrid zone. Wide streets and avenues are
to be commended when well shaded, paved
and watered. But when a Board of Pub
lie Works, under general system of judi
cious improvement, cut down the trees and
planted others, something was done for the
Washingtonans of the next centennial, but
the present inhabitants have realizing
sense of that punishment promised i ma
iority of us by Messrs. Moody and Sankey.
The past week was hot enough to delight
the oldest inhabitants. The sun boiled,
broiled and scorched us; the houses alb
sorbed and reflected it; the trees and grass
wtbered under it, The sun did its worst
to the city, and the city reciprocated on
the sun, and both took out what was left
over on the inhabitants. The number of
deaths by sunstroke were appalling, and
the worst of it is that the worst isn't over.
OUR NEW POSTMASTER GENERAL.
The Hon. James n. Tyner, of Indiana,
who was, on Tuesday, the 18th inst, nomi
mated by the President and confirmed by
the Senate for Postmaster General in the
place of Hon. Marshall Jewell was born at
Brookville, Indiana, January 18th, 1926.
He is a lawyer by profession. From
1851 to 1861 he was Secretary of the State
Senate, and in 1860 he was a Republican
Presidential elector. In 1861 he first be-
came connected with the post office sys
TEN, serving as special agent of the depart
ment from that year to 1866. At a special
election in 1869 he was elected = Represent
alive in Congress in mace of Dan. y.
Pratt, the present Commissioner of Inter-
nal Revenue, who had just been elected to
the Senate. He served three full terms in
the House, being twice reelected, retiring
in March, 1875, without having been can
didate for the present Congress. During
his last term he was member of the com
mittee on post offices and post roads. On
leaving the House last year he became Sec
ond Assistant Postmaster General, which
position he filled with credit, and was
mainly instrumental in unearthiug the late
contract frauds on the department. He is
well posted on all the rules and regulations
governing the mail service, and is decid-
eddy the right man in the right place.
AT THE CAPITOL.
Congress. l believe, is still in session, bit
very little of Importance or benefit to the
country transpired in either House of Con
Sress during the past week. The weather
has been SO oppressive that have not had
sufficient courage to enter the ex-Confeder-
ate sweat-box to see the show.
While passing through the old Hall Of
Representatives ION last Friday, which is
now used for the exhibition of statuary,
number of strangers were cIUwding around
to see eight or ten workmen with crow bars,
blocks and rollers, bringing in some heavy
cases, said to contain a statue of Samuel
Adams. Among those present were three
Englishmen, evidently visitors to the Cen
tennial, who had extended their visit to
the capital of the nation. One of these,
acting as spokesman, inquired, loud enough
to be heard by everybody present, whose
statue that was. A wag replied it was
Clusters. "Custer, Custer" replied the
Englshman, "why you don't mean the
general who was killed by the savages a
few days agoa' "The same" replied the
wag, GLOW long has he been dead 81 in
quired the Englishman with much con-
Germ. "About two weeks replied the
wag, "but you see we do things up pretty
quick in this country" The three Eng
llShmen looked at each other, and NUT
tered something about those H. Americans,
and were last seen vending their way
through the Votunda toward the
EX-CONFEDERATE SHOW
to witness with what oommendabe haste
the ma, ority of that august body awarded
the handsome pension to the Custer fam
lily, in consideration Of Clusters services to
the Clymer committee, we must suppose,
for when Gen. McDougal, of New York,
proposed a bill granting proportionate pen
Sions to the heirs of the rest of the com
mand they refused to suspend the rules for
the purpose. They (the Englishmen) had
also the satisfaction of seeing
SAM RANDALL
kill his friend Tom Scots fast mail train
Wont there be fun now in Sans district:
Sans epitaph will be: Killed by false
economy"
The withdrawal of the facilities afforded
by the fast mail service will be loss Sc
verely felt in many portions of the coun-
try. The fast mail trains were started by
Gov Jewell, who received the cheerful CO.
operation of Vanderbilt and Scott, and
have been running ten months with sue
cess unequaled in practical railway opera
lions. One of the conundrums asked dur
ing the Presidential campaign will be,
"who took off the fast mail trains?' The
responsibility is easily fixed. 1t is quite
likely that the millions Of people benefited
by the service will demand its restoration,
and that Congress, at its next session after
the eection), will make due provision to
this end, if 1t is not sooner done.
Hopefully yours, j. II. Z.