The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-11-29

From our regular correspondence
WASHINGTON. Nov. Is, 1879.
The Political Rehabilitation Of WASH
iMgtoM-A Return Of Statesmen
and Diplomats-ke"ewal Of
Life on the AseMMc-A Con-
huct BctWeeM the Eng
Hsh aMd tie amer
icaM Government.
Washington is beginning to e
assume its society smile and po-
l,tlcal manners. Congress with
it's numerous nOuhlescript train is
beginning to arrive. The execu-
tive and his cabinet have at
length settled down in thei,
homes. Foreign ministers, at
tacl,es Of legation, military and
naval officers may again be seen
driving or promsnading on the
great Boulevard that stretches
from the Treasury Department to
tue Capitol. Dashing govern
ment clerks, aristOcratic daughters
of u bankrupt old regime, and sty
lish parvenudOm, opnlent in gov
ernment contracts, vie in the dis.
play of Partisan fashions and
| American manners Oh Pennsylva-
mia avenue. In short the politi
cal mill, Mammons court, and
Vanity fair, have been again
brought III proximity ut the only
place where they tam he seen in
such Development, OH this side of
the globe. What are these to lis
or We to them that We should read
about them and write about them
Has not every American citizen
Il political sphere in his municip
ality, county Or States Aud us
for the spherelcss sex, Or at least,
those whose sphere is in dispute,
have they not social realms of
their Own-littlc pent up Uticas
OF fashion, narrow and pruvinci-
nal they may call them, but they
contain the germ and the ele.
meMts Of all that We Mpe in Wash.
ingtOu, Boston Or the prumicst
court Of Europe. But 1t il we'll
for one, both bodily and mentally,
to get out of his accustomed rmvi
rUnment for a little while and, as
she most eminent investigators
have not thought it beneatl, them
to study the lOwliest forms OIL
life aud the most primitive sys.
TENS OF polity, the American citi.
zen and cheyenne will find tLci,
horlzen brOadened and their $
tuDness enchanced by s,udying %
l.tical movements and social ten
denotes, at the only seat OF Ma
tiOnal Government that is Access
sible to them. Those who imae
inc there in nothing worth know
Ing outside their own village il
Virginia, will make Il greater mi.
take than the greatest mistake q
DR.. johnson, for the village which
he mistOOk for tine world was
London.
The habitue of Washington
who has heen away during the
summer will !obsrrve but few
changes. The city has grown tn
such grand proportions that the
addition of u hundred or more
houses make no prrceptible aldi>
ton to the mass. 1t is only when
some new and imposing building
is added, like the annex to the
Smithsonian Institution, or the
new Government printing Office
in South Washington, which are
about half completed, that the ar
chitectural growth can be seen be
comes conspicuous. Few capitals
have so many and such splendid
public Offices as u own, ant o,,
none is 50 much money lavisl,ed
for interior adOrnmeut and luxu,
ry. In this respect the contrac;
between the U. s. Treasurer Oft
ces and the Bank of England is
striving and Suggestive. In the
Treasury Department Offices are
richly carpeted, supplied with mil
rols, easy chairs, and lounges, in
the other only coarse mating GOV
ers the stone floor, and it is in
other respects furnished with lit.
tie less severity than u prison,
The appearance of the committee
rooms Of the Houses of Parlia-
ment CONTRAST with the chambers
of our own congressional commit
tees as does the cell OF a recluse
with IL ladies boudoir.