The daily gazette., 1877-04-13
Our Washington Letter.

IUM washington SLetter.
From Our Regular Correspondent. .l'sg 3d.
- WASHINGTON, April II.
Like all terrestrial and Internal 10,
calities, (no profaDity intended, I use
internal in a strictly genealogical
sense) tie national capital has its ad-
vantages and disadvantages its draw
backs, and pull backs, and pin backs
as we'll as statesmen, generals.
and judges. who exhibit their metaph-
! orical backsides continually. Just at
present we are suffering from the ply
sical and psychological influence, / had
almost said ipf1uenzg, of Ohio. Since
the completion Of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad that prolific mother of:
Radical mediocrity has been encroach-
ing upon US, -until she is-as prevalent
as the itch in regiment of Home
Gaurds. Private Dalzell come from
Ohio, so did Grant, and Garfield, the
ipdr mobile frdtr,,na who hold respective
/ ly the sword and the purse, the chief
justice, whose head Winnie 7Iteam
modelled at a church festival, (great at
traction admission only fifty cents) ex-
Governor Hayes, and the immortal J.
N. These all come originally from
Ohio, just as rats come originally from
Norway, and we wish they had orgi-
nally staid there, ,i .-'f E.
1t is not material to the issue that
your correspondent should commit
himself to the proposition that ntcl-
Ilectual mediocrity, rs illustrated in,
Hayes and Waite. or moral obliquity.
ahnyun in
mental alteration, as seen in the i'm
mortal J. N. and Gen. sherman are
confined within the geographical boun-
daries OF Ohio. Booth, of California,
y Mitchell, of Oregon, Boutwell, and
Dawes and Zach Chandler are, L be-
lieve, not from Ohio. But If the de-
pletion of that State steadily goes ON,
! what will become of the third common
/ wealth of the union, and where will
/ there be room In the DISTRICT? The
! question of the removal OF the National
4 Capital to Columbus has not been re-
Gently agltated, but majority CT the
American people votedno more forthe
removal Of the Capitol to Ohio, than
they did for the removal of 0hio's gov
ernor to the White House. Yetone re-
| moval has been accomplished why
should we besurpIised at the Other, or at
anything? Among the disadvantages of
Washington Is its malaria, it is the
moral and physical SentinG genti,m of
/ the Western hemisphere. 1t is the
stagnant mean between the North and
South. The air is poisoned by the fes-
| tering detritus of the Potomac, al0ng
the Western and Southern front; By
imperfect sewerage, and by the lIgne-
GUS gases escaping from miles Of rotting
wood pavement. goIr. H41.
If the father of his country selected
this place as pestilent trap TO take off
politicians then he must be credited
with goodness equal to his genius. But
some improvementsi in transportation
and the pharmacopea have enabled the
more wealthy to counteract the influ>
ence of poisonous gases, Gen. Grant
had the best of health; he fought the
exhalations from the swamp below the
White House with good old rye whis-
key, and when lighting on that line all
| summer become monotonous, he took
, the whiskey to Long Branch. But il
is not in the power of every man and
his wife to frisk about like President
and those who have not been acclima-
: ted may generally be known by their
sallow compilations and "the detected
havior of the visage." To breathe the
air even Of city like Philadelphia,
acts upon a Washingtonian like
! tonic. The capital ought to be re-
moved, but little has been said about
it of late, but it we'll be easier and less
expensive to remove the seat of gov
ernment TO healthful locality, than
10 make sink so ill favored of ma
| ture sanitarily tolerable. Some years
ago when the removal was talked Of,
local properly owners formed ring
and conspired with members and
Senators (many of whom were the
owners of real estate) and commen>
ced improvements on an immense
scale. They said, 'tlet us have capi-
tai worthy of this great nation" The
streets were dug up and covered with
poultices of sinking pitch, or cordu
royed with rotten pine blocks, public
edif1ces, and palatial private residences
Of the servants of the people, went up
like exhalations out in the unimproved
commons, but paved streets and wide
side walks swept out to the private re-
sideaces and doubled and quadrapled
their value. There was nothing wrong
III tuio. vi! uOs a 5uybtCL Wy thC
name of Garfield get an immense fee
for writing brief for contractor.
Why should he vote against an appro-
priation? The paid attorneys of the
ring were in the House, in the Senate,
] it Is believed, in the Executive COM
sion. Washington as the capital it
was thought had taken deeper root but
then there was safe burglary, that
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now, when pitch pavements have rot
ted, would it not be good time to
uproot and transplant the capital' '----'
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