Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-01-01
OUR wAsnINGTONLErTER


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Special correspondence Of the Republican.
WAsHrNGroN, ID. c., Dec. 80.
During the holiday season your cor.
Respondent has given the "nsws mark.
ct" the 20 by, and endeayored to be az
calm and serene as possible. The city
is very quiet at present. As years 90
on, and materialism slowly but certain.
ly is working its way into all classes OIL
people, the celebration Of Christm as Ii
dying out. People look forward to II
as an unwelcoms season, one that
means expense and oyer-eating, and
drinking. How TO get the money ia
bridge it over ia much more difficult
conundreum than where to spend it,
and after the holidays, as January
sends the world back into its
old routine, most Of us breathe more
freely. Ex-President Grant intends
remaining in Washington until next
Friday. This change In the programme
is made SO that arrangements can be
perfected with the Steamship Line be-
tween this country and Cuba, by which
the General will travel. | had the
pleasure Of seeing General Grant in the
street yesterday and he is looking well.
He has grown much stOuter than he
was, when here before. He dined yes
tsrday with Mr.. Levi =. Morton, the
we'll known banker Of New York. The
affair was of most brilliant nature.
AT the ends of the table two chairs were
placed side by side for the uss OF Gem
eral Grant ana Mrs. Morton and Mr..
Morton and Mrs. Grant respectively. In
the centre Of the table was hand
some floral design, reaching almost to
the ceiling, while at each end were
smaller designs. A handsome bouquet
was placed ON front of each lady 5
plate, and bontonniere was provided
for the gentlemen. The guests were
seventeen in number and were only
the personal friends of the General and
Mrs. Grant. II Is understood that
General Charles Ewing, of Ohio, will
be appointed governor Of Utah Terri
tory. Mrs. and Miss Wilcox gave a
very pretty entertainment Friday even
ing to their fair young friend, Miss
Mcclellan daughter Of Governor Nc.
Clellan, ofNew Jersey,) who by the
way is quite beauty. Dancing was
kept up until late hour. The toilets
Of the young ladies were superb;
the two most noticeable were Miss
Almy's, q rose-colored crepe en-
broidered in silver, and trimmed
with white lacs,s and Miss Montgome-
ry's blue silk and d..damasse embroid-
cred richly in rose pink and blue. Miss
Noroross, daughter of Hon. Amos Nor
cross o. Mass, is an assiduous student
and divides her times between the Ii.
brary of Congress and the CorcoraR
Art Gallery, where she is completing
some paintings in oil from copies in
that Gallery. 1t is rumored ill Wash
ingtGt Wat the youngest daughter of
Judge Fisher, of Delaware, formerly
Of Georgetown, d. c., has become con
vert to the Roman Catholic Church.
To give a detailed enumeration of the
different classes Of that ungodly host of
men who regard it as fixed fact that
the world owes them . living,
and that the national capital is
the paying teller, it would bs neces.
sary to lease paper factory. They ale
intricately vast and their name is Le-
giop. There is something SO pleasant
in our atmosphere, something so attrac
tive in our cosmopolitan life, and some
thing so potentially inducive in that
general absence of anything that looks
like work, that the knight errant OF
the besting class finds in Washington
his spot. He meets you often about
hotels. His grade Of appearance is
different; there is the well dressed beat,
and the shabby beat. At intervals
mutation of makeup occurs, and the
well dressed Of six months ago becomes
the shabby and rsversely. The generous
beat, who about once a year has little
money, and squanders it on the first
though not over the same
bar where he owes bills. He forgsts
and forgivss himselfhis bills, and while
his slender amount holds out, is pro-
digal. 1t goes by the board, and he
drops back into the old groove. The
half. .and-half beat are enormous among
that class of men who forget Obli-
cations, who meet some, who go it on
running responsibilities with
no definite idea as to how to meet them;
sometimes successful, always behind
hand, and usually Of compromising
turn of mind. To beat is not natural
among peoplr, but 1t is an artificial
growth that crowds out nature. The
process is gradual; but Of intense
strength, and when 1t once begins to
get its work in, continues to develop
tself, until unknowingly, its victim
s making the rest Of the world his vic.
i'm. Enforced loans from cquaintances
'upply occasional luxuries OF life, while
he intense mental strain as to how
o make his next raise, and how TO-
,eep out Of the way of his last credi
or, render active service in educating
md perfecting him. The bogus news
'aper beat is another interesting knave
rho plies his trade most actively, in
ur city. He has been at some
ime or other connected in some
Vay or other, with some newspaper
r other, and has still in his possession
ome greasy old letters from the sdi-
or at some time back. Upon these he
uild his claim to the profession, and
manages once or twice week TO get in
cheap puff for some departmental Off
ial or Congressman. After this achieve
lent, he goes in to conquer. The
Majors and Judges" about the Ho- 8
sls are Of that heterogeneous set that
knows, no one respects, and
very one suspects OF nothing more