The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-10-14

WA.IIINGroN. Oct. lI, sd

winter CON iemcnt of politicians, place
seekers, and pleasure seekers. Members
OF congress, some of them with their
wives and families, are coming IN on every
train. The Journalistic bohem'1' IS here
from San Francisco, New Orleans, Bos'
ton, Duluth, and other places like New
York, and St. Louis, too numerous to
mention and he uoseth around newspan
per row, the hotel Hobbies and govern
ment departments, his cars spread wide
to wndward for inspiration OF news,
while IN matters of Legislation and diplo>
mqcy-for his comprehension nothing is
too vast, Tor his inspection no thing is too
minute. A pen portrait Of your modest
correspondent.
THE UNHAPPY OFFICE SEEKER.
The Office seekers from the rural is
tricts are here of every age, sex and walk
In lite. They have either not heard of
civil service reform or are determined,
like the Ajax of the Rochester conven-
ton, to defy It. They have child.ike
faith in the power and potency through
all the avenues OF the place and influence
of their eloquent member of congress,
the Hon. Mr.. Stumper, who made such
fine speeches in his late canvass and who
knows the ropes at the capital. unhap-
nv children of week IN Washington,
doomed to follow your jack-o-lantern
representative from hotel to caucus, from
caucus to sample room, and from sample
room to =; but there are places where IN
nocent people must not follow our chris
tan statesmen. The office seeker will
see placardcd over the doors in the
treasury department, and in the burnt
and flooded ruin, where the so-caled Gus
todian OF the German vote presides, the
words "No vacancies, applicants Tor
office cannot be seen," and, unless he Is
from Ohio, he would better return to his
native state and develop her resources.
THE SOCIETY BELLE
has also returned from seashore au(
mountain. What the wild waves hay'
said to her, or what she has said to then
is not articulate or leglblc, except in tn
half pathetic pcnsiveness Of mature
beauty, for she is one season nearer tn
ago when woman becomes pas0e, am
heartless, tickle soclety is beginning t.
turn to the treSher debataHtcs who will en-
Joy with a zest, which she can no more
presidential, cabinet, and diplomatic, re
ceptions, together with hops at the hotel
and germans az marines, and TO be call
ed the "ieigning belle" IN the societ,
column OF the city papers-the stale dis
tinction OF every girl that comes to Wash
ington.
There is another familiar specimen
here, who, though she receives no FIJI
some praise Of newspapers, has a ia
more solid claim to the title "reigning'
| than the society belle. She may or may
| not be beautiful, in a plastic or chromati'
sense, but she Is
AN INSULATING RAVnnING ANGELIC
TlEND,
whose genius aud nessC are more con
vincing of the terrible creative and DIES
tructive might that slumbers IN woman
than the lulmlnations OF all the champion
OF their sex from Lucy Stone to Phoebe
Cousins. 1t she were not consummatt
diplomatist she might permit herself t
smile at policies that do not take her into
account; but she is so absorbed in he
vocation of lobbyist that it is doubtful i
she has time TO congratulate herself tina
Radical changes in parties, in admlnistra
ton, In government itself, will no. Grad
icate influence. that nothing, in shOr t
will do this but Radical change in the
nature OF man.
| IN MATTERS OF NgWs
| will not attempt this week to anticipate
the wires, Excitement over the contes
tor the speakship is growing daily NOR
intense. There is much gossip of com
binations TO defeat Randall and Of coun
tor combinations to defeat the comblners
Randall is apparently tar ahead, thougl
Mr.. Sayler has Just arrived, bronzed anC
glorious from the Ohio campaign, will
the prestige of a good fight there, he ma,
yet make it lively and vigorous for tn
Pennsylvania. ! have just been to see
MEssRs. RANDALL AND con,
neither OF whom have the pallid, harras