The Russellville Democrat., 1882-02-23

decorated with an order and at the same ti9as ;,1cupying cell in pen. i itentIary. It is understood that i when a man with one of the 306 gew gaws dangling at his bosom pres ents himself at the White House, he will be promptly taken to the back kitchen and given sip from Mir. Arthur's private bottle of cherry bounce.
 Strangers in the city who come here to enjoy themselves and see the sights complain of the dullness of society chiefly because there has been nothing going on at the White House; but among the habitues of select social circle there has been no end of enjoyment since the inau- guration of the gay season, Janu. ary l. Dinners are the principal at fractions and George Gorham, sour ed and dyspeptlc as he is political ly, says that this an era of good eat ing. There never were so many elaborate dinners as have been given in the month just closed. The fash ionable up town restaurants have each frequently had two and three large private dinner parties in one evening. where everything was con ducted on the most elaborate scale. These were mostly where private residences were insufficient to ac- commodate the company, At din ner given by Senator few nights since there were twelve different kinds of wine served, and this. was not considered anything unusual. Engagements to dinner are so com mon that ID the last week several prominent gentlemen were compelled to invite their friends to breakfast as the only way to get them together. A distinguished member of the bar to day said to an eminent member of the bench: Judge, ifthese dinners don't stop, the President will soon have several fine appointments aG his disposal
 Among the many new proposi tions offered and discussed in Con gress one of the newest and best is that coming from Mr. Berry, the Democratic men Der from California, making Cabinet officer ineligible to the Presidency foc the term next succeeding his term of office. Cab inet officers would then have time to the legitimate duties of their posi- tions, instead ofengaging in schemes and plots to attain the Presidency. There has never been period since the formation of the government that members of the Cabinet were not employed Tn laying wires to sue ceed their chief and in undermining each other. Several of the Presi dents have enjoyed the felicity of having Cabinets nearly all of whose members were in this occupation, causing discords, heartburnings and distrusts, instead of the harmony which ought to prevail in Cabinet councils. But down to tue time of MT. Sherman as Secretary of the Treasury no Cabinet officer had ever so openly used the patronage of his Department to advance his Presi- dential ambition, and down to the time of Mir. Blaine no Secretary of State had constructed a foreign poli- ey especially calculated to gratlfy hls ambition in the same direction. These two striking instances are fresh before Congress and before the country, and the example set by these Presidential candidates may, if no obstacle is interposed, have bolder imitators in Cabinet officers of the future, entailing most serious and momentous consequences.
 The administration and it's friends are pretty sure to find that fooling with or attempting to crush man of MT. BIaine's ability, popularity, and fighting capacity is a rather danger ous business. It is a good deal like a small boy playing with the busi ness end of a wasp. The admins tration organ here which has just been purchased from Star Route Brady, is undertaking the special job of killing of Mr. Blaine because he is supposed to have had something to do with the political demise of Mir. Conkling. Bat so far the eX. Secretary does not appear to have much the worst of it, One impor- tapt fact which the authors of these attacks upon MT. Garfeld's premier seem to ignore is thatpeople through out the country, not immediately ob sorbed in the result of the next Ma tional Republican Convention, may take a notion to view the policy out lined by MT. Blaine, when Secretary of State, from the purely public or patriotic standpoint; and therefore without reverence to the ambition of persons cliQues, or factions. There are a good many people in this coun, try who understand what sicklv foreign policy we have had during the last two decades and it is not un likely that majority would be glad to support a return from the soft solder of Fish and Evarts to some. thing like the dignity of Jay, Web. ster, Monroe and Buchanan. With. out discussing MT. Blaine's methods or his aims further than this or talk ing any interest whatever in his per.