The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-08

attend to their Aligion during vacation,
during the sessions generously give the va
cation TO their religion. Eut Washington
has iniquity not in official position and
which stays all the year around. Drinking
dcns and hels Of iniamJ are found in every
part Of the city and the police in their at
tempt to preserve law and order are poorly
sustained by the courts and churches. On
Christmas day on Pennsylvania avenue n
dozen young men drunk until they fight
and one is shot dead and others are bruised
and mangIed, and the culprits are taken to
the District Attorney and then let 90. The
sins rampant in New York and Brooklyn are
rampant in Washington. Two thousand
bar-rooms grocery stores and aroth-
ecaly shops, where Intoxicating liquors
may be had, 12,083 arrests during
the last year, 42,j citizca, that
can neither read nor write, over $4,000
OF stolen property capture by HE police
last year are statistics all suggestive to an
intelligent mind Washington needs more
policemen. The beat Of policemen IN
Washington and Georgetown is twcmilcs
per man Only nine mounted men n that
vast city, its population in nine yeas more
than doubling, rushing up from 5000 to
$1,000. But what vast Improvements since
the day when the drinking saloons under
the National capitol were more thrifty
than any establishments in the city, and
Senators and Congressman went there to
get inspiration before they delivered their
speeches, and recupcraton afterwards.
Thanks to Henry Wilson, the Christin
statesman, anda few Kindred spirits for the
overthrow Of that determination. Durngtha
war there were one hundred gambling
houses in Washington and over five h,n-
dred proteSsed gamblers One Of tlesr
gambling houses cleared in one year c,rr
$jO0,O00 During the session otcongt,s
the keeperof a gambling house presented
10 the Sergeant alarms orders for the
greater part Of the salaries for many of the
congressman, these congressman having
lost at the faro table until they had thts TO
mortgage their salaries Go in some of The
twenty gambling horses still remaining and
you will find CLERKS Of department, and
book-keepers and private secretaries. Go
in some Of The more costly establish.
ments near Pennsylvania avanu, and
Fourteenth street and you viii find
members of Congress, officers Of the
army and gentlemen distinguished the
world over They have curiou, way of
flushing things up in Washington. | fear
the reporters Of Washington are not - wide
awake US our reporters They would give
the States Of the Union public information
as to how some Of ,hair Representatives in
Washington spend their evenings But in
many respects there have been vast changes
in our national capital. Durliing abolished;
clubbing Of Senator ended; no longer dos
Covodc, Of Pennsylvania, brandish 4 spit
toon over the head Of Darksdalc, Of Missi,
sippi; nor TO Grow and Keipp take cacl
other by the throat; nor does Griswold club
Lyon, Lyon securing The tongs and striking
back till both roll in IN angry scuilc Oh
the floor Of Congress. II is a matter Of cor.
graduation and high hope that never sine
the foundation Of thc government has thee
been SO many genuinely Christian men n
the heads Of departments in Washington,
in senatorial and representative chairs as
now. What state of encouragement
when the Queen of American society at
Washington, by her simplicity Of apprel
in the White House, has put condemnation
to that extravaganza OF wardrobe which
well nigh shipwreckcd some other admins.
trations, and by her removal Of the ntoXi-
eating cup from state dinners, has suggest
eI that in high social position people may
be jolly andyat stay sober, Whatever may
be thought Of The politics OF the prcsidcn-
tial mansion, there Ia, never been one since
the days OF Washington a purer White
House, with less rum and tobacco and more
Methodisthymn books and higher style OF
personal morality than to-day"
IT doesn't do 4 bit OF good to take a
twelve mile promenade in fourteen foot
room with the baby and sing or dnclaim
"IIootchie pootchie, puddcn and pie" Use
DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup and be done with it.