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our WASHINGTON LETTER.
POLITICAL GossIP.-JoURNALIsT mag
ISISGs-THE END OF THE FASHION
ABLE sEAsoN.-sTAR ROUTE
CASES BEFORE JUDGE COX.
tFrcm our regular Correspondent,

tFrcm our regular Correspondence
WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. q, $50
placid has been the political sea since
the beginning of President Arthur's
administration, that those journalists
who thrive on sensation have been
sorely put to their wits to raise artifi-
cial tempests, and hatch dire and
dreadful plots from hot imaginations.
The success of the Malone movement
lin Virginia, and the consequent ems
couragement it has given to political
"readjusters" in other States, has, it is
said, infected prominent political lea
ders of both parties here, who nope for
nothing less than to carry the next
presidential election through coali-.
ton of Blaine Republicans and what
are called progressive Democrats. The
plan, according to imaginative jour-
nalists, is to widen as far as possible
the breach that has been made between
President Arthur and Mr. Blaine, and
to keep the latter in the foreground
as the leader OF the active and militant
element of American politics. Mr..
Blaine, it is argued, will draw from the
Republican party the host that cham
pioned him in 1876 and in 1880, which
with New York and the solid South, is
counted upon to carry him to the
White House. The combination con-
templates Democrat on the ticket as
Vice-President, who guessers say, will
be Senator Voorhees,. 1t is, of course
altogether premature to discuss the
presidential election of 1884 now, and
| give you this only as piece of sem
sational gossip; but we have seen so
many political surprises in the last
fifteen years, that those interested in
the future no longer confne their
speculations to the probable, but also
to the possible, or may be, to the i'm
possible, than which, Hugo says, "noth-
ing is more imminent"
+ What is here called the fashionable
season will terminate on the 22d inst,
whichis the beginning of Lent. Wash
ington society in its higher circles, is
largely composed of army and navy
people, who belong almost exclusively
to the Catholic or Episcopal churches.
These denominations are very scrupu-
lous in their observance of Lent, and,
though military and naval society, they
set the fashions for all the innumerable
inferior grades. With the commence
ment of Lent, the round of receptions
and dances will cease, and society will
take itself TO church fairs, and enter
tainments which have an avowed re-
ligious objective. But, as it is well
known, the real objective of society is
marriage or Irritation; and church fairs
will be successful, for the reason that
they promote the association that facil
itates these ends almost as well as
balls. To see and be seen is the real
object OF youth, and 1T is difficult to
tell, except by ocular analysis, where
youth ends and old age begins in
Washington. You can form no opin-
ion from data of life and action.
The grand jury has at last voted in
favor OF presenting all persons whose
names have been prominent in con-
nection with the Star route cases, and
the attorneys are at work framing in
dictments upon the evidence present
ed. The names of Brady, ex-senator
Dorsey his brother, and brother-in-law
are among those that have been pre-
scented, but the list comprises dozen
more. They will be tried before Judge
Cox, the same who was the nudge in
the recent Guiteau trial.