The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-10-26
From our Regular Correspondent,

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From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. %, 1877.
There seems to be but little disposition
on the part of congress to get TO work.
The house spent most of last week In adj
journment, while the senate mancuy-
cred, fenced and felt tor a
position on the Louisiana
clsc-hackneyed, but forever cursing the
country with new phases. This week
was introduced with variation. The
House tilted on the Colorado case and
then adjourned till Wednesday twas 1t
for the races at PimlcO:), while the Sen
ate adjourned after a session OF thirty
five minutes. This is, in brief, what the
18th Congress has done to date in its leg
lslative capacity. What the members and
senators have done in their individual re-
lationS, is not on record in this world at
least, and will perhaps never be unless
some OF them are garrulous in their sleep.
| would not make the impression that
the private life of politicians Is much
worse than that OF other men, but il
would he well Tor our minds 10 be Ills.
abused OF the
TRULY ErRAL NONSENSE
that our solons are all truly good. Some
OF them may be as pure a. snow, but the
longer one stays in Washington the more
skeptcal Will he become and the farther
will he go to see the statesman of long
residence here to whom ginger is no;
hot i the mouth and for whom "lhcrc
are 10 more cakes and ale
rHE BRILLIANT MATT CARrENItR
was remanded TO private lie, not because
he was worse than the ninety and nine in
this Sodom, but because his wickedncCs
had more honest efrontery about it.
What other senators do under assumed
names, and in the penctralia of luxurious
committee rooms, he blazoned on hotel
registers. There are those as little sus-
pected as Caesars wife, quite as culpable
ss Carpenter.
One learns many things in long resi-
lence: things not easily proved and not
desirable to be proved, for the woman in
the case Is too frequently not of that
class that has no character TO lose. She
has been brought here and placed on the
government pay roll by the honorable
senator. She was in society, as the say.
lg Is, at home, and is in what is call.
I'd society here: and only hint at a con-
ltion Of affIirs which ] know to exist,
and Of which others, if they list could |
tell in order to give reason for the sug-
lestlon that, in the future, when we elect |
A man 10 congress, we invariably c!ec, his |
wife TO come with him.
The ESPIONAGE OF Az ALERT VMoEOUs |
RETTER>HALr
will have more conservative influence |
on the private acts OF those who make
our public laws than all the prayers OF |
The government chaplains, with hymns |
and tracts OF the Y. NJ. e. A. thrown in. !
Nor do mean TO hint that the women
in the departments are worse than other
women, but many Of them are subjected
to incessant temptations, without the
refuge Of home, or the defence Of q
family, and they are lost before they
have time to hesitate ! would not adj.
wise friend to send daughter here, un-
less che were ill.iavored. and 1t il sig
nliicant fact that the ill-favored are not
successful in securing places. In no
place are "contagiOus blastments" more
imminent than here, where old senators,
10 ~ N"N' a. JN'S'Hi uttOlllc ltElINt anu
prudes as chastc as the lthican queen be-
come gay.
l have been led into these reflections
By observing the abandon with which the
average member enjoys an adjournmant
from day TO day in this enchanting eapi
tai, and by
SERIES OF LOBBY TABLEAUX
that the frcQtenter Of the capital cannot
help seeing. For instance ob;e rived TO.
day prominent Democratic member
from Brooklyn corncrcd in one Of the
deep recesses OF. the front lobby, by te-
male, whom, friend that was with me,
pronounced "sumptious." Whether the
congressman succombcd to her blandish.
ments and promised her a place or a vote
for the bill
is no NATTER Or RECORD,
but She held him there for an hour, in full
view Of the passing thronS. lie looked
little bored and little ashamed, or. at
least, one would think he ought TO look
tha! way. But ii Is so common for por-
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