Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-11-05
TISHIYGTON LETTER.
Senator'S PqiseF' Home, PrspuiRg for the
Regulqr Session, ENastiagtoa Erteading
her STRIPS and Suburbs, IViadoms Way and
tie Real Republican Way.
From our Regular Correspondent
Washington, D. c. Nov lst, 1881.

Washington, D. c. Nov. lst, 1881.
The extra Senate session has passed into
history; senators have been "passed' to
their homes and Washington is left alone
with only month to complete her toilet,
which is to be Of unusual elaborateness, for
the coming season. Preparation tcl the
season is usual at this time of year, but
this year the preparation IS unusual. Dur
ing the past summer, larger number OF
fine residences have been built in Wash
ington than were ever before erected in the
same space of time. The Capital, as city,
has wonderfully extended It's environs and
its roots. Wealthy men from different parts
Of the country are making investments and
erecting fine houses in the more favored
localities. The population of the city is
now nearly two hundred thousand, an1
during the winter, Washington is visited by
as large a fashionable crowd, which comes
here to attend receptions and enjoy the So
cial advantages of the National Capital, as
Saratoga, Newport, Long Branch, and half
a dozen other summer resorts can boas: ia
July and August The visiting population,
will be larger this winter than usual, for a
new Cabinet will be appointed, and each
new Cabinet minister will have lis en-
tourage. Moreover, the Senate and the
House, which viii pass completely under
Republican control, VIII have much patron
age to distribute. Each candidate for
speaker-and the candidates are legion
will be followed hitler by large ciientage,
each hoping his fayorite will be elected, and
will give him q clerk hip. Nine-tenths of
these must OF cyi''sa be disappointed, and
will have to borrow money to get home.
The plan proposed by Senator Window
and which is said to have had the approval
of the late President, would do much to abate
tie eyi, and the misery Of Office seeking
here. Senator WINDOWS plan WAS to have
an examining board of three men in each
state, wLo would test the efficiency of all
applicants for olerkshiPs, place their names
on Graded list, and have vacancies filed
in the Departments, as they occur from
those standing highest on the list, giving to
each state its cue proportion OF cicrksAi9s.
I, IS safe to say that no plan, however
Ideally admirable, will be adopted BY the
party that now holds the government
through these Offices, held it, in spite of
Hayes defeat, by means Of these Offices;
and hopes to hold it in the future by the
same means. Thorough civil service reform
means the end Of the Republican party as
dominant National power, and the Devil
will turn Methodist before this party car
rics it out. It's fight over the Lynchburg
vostoficc,. and its liaison with Mahone, fur
nishos 2 brief OF the Republican true posi-
ton on civil service reform. just before
GarGeld's assassination, member Of his
own church, who Lad held tie post Office at
Snowyillc, Virginia, for eight years, and
managed it with uhimr eachabie correctness,
and who was endorsed By nine tentAs of the
patronage of the Office, both Republicans
and Democrats, was nevertheless removed
to give place to disreputable, ilIitcra,e old
roae, who lived and lives two miles AMI a
half from the post Office, where he has made
a petty fortune by means Of a small log
apple brandy distillery.
Ex-Postmaster Felley, of St Louis, is
prominently mentioned as the coming Post
Master General Mr. Felley and his friends
are confident. In order to view the land
+cape DER before he enters upon lis heritage,
Mr. Felley visits the Post office Department
daily.