Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-05-02
Correspondence.
Letter from Warrington.

AN ApJOUlsNlNG PANIC IN coN6REss-rHE
NAN STATESMAN SIZES MIRAGEs OF TOMB
spSEs-wAsHIN0TeNA As A sANATARiUM-
WHAT THE NEW zEALANpER WILL DO
WHEN 1T Is No LONGER The cAPIrAL-A
SCENE BETWEEN A UNITED STATES sENA-
TOR AND CAR pRivER-sOcIAL REsuMP-
TIoN-THE BELLE FROM DETROIT. AND An
OTHER hELLE FROM KANSAS.
From our regular Correspondent.
This warm weather has the effect TO create
an zdjouruing panic in the breast OF many =
member OF Congress. From ply steal causes.
more easily understood than overcome. " Ash
ington is 3 warmer aud more unhealthy loesli-
~ than many points further South. 4 he capt.
tai city is anything but n ssnsfsrium. even in
the winter, and when the wsn government
clerk, sfer alternating in sitting furnace heat
I'd Depar, me ut rooms, snd subsisting on the
execrsble yciuals Of cheap boarding houses,
finds himself on the verge OF hot summer. in
haling miasma from the swsmps that flank the
CITY on all sides. he need not he accused Of sen
tiu,entsl tiiiousncss. II he disccrns mirages Of
tomb-sfone.. or feels sensations Of cremsi non
run up and down bis back. With the m-ml,r
Of Congress il is much the same: he l. better
fed than the government clerk, but he lack sc-
ciimstion, and the air that he breaihes In the
Capital Is even more pes,iIent thsn that oi
the Departments; and We see men OF pow
erful physique. like Coukling and Blaine. or
tough, wiry veterans, like Chrisiisncy snd
Howe, ,uecumb to malaria and sub-,-t qui-
nine.
In spite Of the millions that have been spent
In " ashington TO make its streets solid aud
smooth. aud TO make ii. public edifces rival
the architectural sTsenjors OF the old world.
the day may yet come when the Capital will be
removed 10 q more beautiful locality. and
when the New Zeslsnder. or some other fel-
low. will wash his tsh nets In Babcock's srtifi-
cial lake, and cslk his boat with pitch from It's
most Arlstocratic avenues.
Last night. while riding on an +. 81. car.
your correspondent was edited by . CONVERSE
ton between q statesman and car driver.
which he will relate rerbdffm. As the car
passed The Ebsitt House. 1t VS.. bosr,ied by the
disfisgse military Senator from Rhode Island.
The Senator was TO all appearance In n state OF
eQuiyocal exhilsrAtion from What good society
calls good liv ing, but what Mr.. Murphy calls
By another name. and, from sentences muiiered
indisiinctiy, With eyes half closed. II was In
ferred that he was thinking Of what he had re.
Gently done. or HAL yet 20 do. In the cause Of
education. Suddenly, from . lurch Of the car.
turuing a corner. CT from q gesture delivered
In half dreamy orsiory, his military elbow
went through the glass window, shatieriux It
iaio small pieces. The driver who Is also con-
ductor on this line approached him with great
politsness and said: Il don't know but NAV
b. 10 blame for this accident. but don't think
I was. and the company will deduct a half dol
lar from nv wages. II | was 10 blame. Of
course 4 must loose the money! '.of course
YOU we're" said the Senator. but a little later.
under magnanimous impulse. he drew from
his pocket twenty-five cents OF the rcmoneiiEed
and extending II TO the driver, said. '.d-n It.
suppose divide, that's all the money I've
GOT The driver reluctantly scc~p,sJ the
compromise when the senator called after
MIN Ia pay you the rest when ! come thi,
way again. and rrsigoed himself 10 the follow.
log soiiloquy. ride these car- three time.
day, gu, - III take csTIiazs altar .his."
Then 20 the driver; oh! you viii know me.
you will see me when you rome TO the Capitol,
YOU will ind me on the floor. guess you will
recognize my fsoe--snd getting of at the Ar.
WeilJusi take keen hook nj ibese whlsker..
take Keen look at these whs,ker- you viii
recognize me again guess
Social gayety has been resumed with ihs ex-
piration Of Lest, but the weather Is rather
warm for violent dancing. and " ashingtou has
been beren Of many OF its transient bellies who
have gone home, and are making preparations
for the summer r.sorts. or for Earspe. Last
winter the best dressed lady at the Capital.
give the opinion Of another lady who IL q con-
noisseur, was young lady FROM Detroit. To
be eelipsed By \ lady iron .froniieS village
caused the bellies Of Baltimore and Bolton .ome
surprise. But there IL no reAson why De-
troii Isodisfs should not have As good taste as
Worth. or be ss successful In sdoruins the hu-
man form divine. Then there appear. another
belle from Kansas, near the Indian rssery alton,
who made her own dresses, and q. much adj
mired for her style" as well As for her intel
iigcnee and ihoroagb bred manners. The facts
are that the distinctions between rural and
urban people are not NJ sharply marked a.
they once were. since now Newspaper, and
tAsliln Journals Deuefraff laule auI
the moral Is. that taste like genius Is confined
~ no locality. G.. A. ..