Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-03-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

| NrlOiu Oui IecSuAdE Correspondent
This is the season for the migra-
ton of Well-to- do northern people
south ward, and the number that
are passing through Washington
this year on their way to the
southern states especially to
Florida, is immense. Notwith-
standing Congress has adjourned,
the hotels here are crowded with
these southern-bOund leisurers, who
are fleeing from the sharp winds
and sudden changes of the capri
cious north, to seek pleasure and
comfort in the genial climate of the
Gulf of Mexico.
Many Congressman may yet be
seen in the city, especially about
the Departments, where they are
trying to have that little matter"
attended to before they leave. Even
newly elected Senators are here
making earnest effort to secure the
appointments to federal offices
which they promised to their friends
before they were elected. President
Arthur has been feeling quite indis-
posed of late and has decided to go
to Fortress Monroe this week for a
little rest. He is still undecided
about his contemplated trip to Flor
ida. If the bottom facts were
known about the Presidents indiS-
position, it would be exposed that
he is too high liver for the good of
his liver. Unless he sets his face
like a flint against it, the President |
will be made a social slave. With
the great increase of wealth in
Washington has come its Encourage
of French Kitchens and other dia-
bOlical, dyspepsia breeding i'm
provements. There are now ten
banqueting millionaires in Wash
ington where there was not more
than one before the war. Arthur, |
notwithstanding his fine physique,
cannot stand up under too much |
gluttOny; he has not the cast iron |
stomach of Grant, cannot cOntine !
himself TO whisky straight like |
Johnson, or drink tea and eat prunes |
like Hayes. Hence the necessity |
of fishing excursions to Canada and |
Florida or other means of escape |
from the eternal rounds of feasting
which have become the bane of |
Washington political life. Some
strait laced reformers have assumed
the role of critic upon the Presi-
dents proposed manner of recrea-
ton, and preach him little sermon
cites through the press in which he
is told that fishing expeditions are
incompatible with reform. They 4
would better go to the root of the
evil and preach against the system
that enables the party of moral
ideas to send festive Presidents to
Washington and surround them
with loose lived, gormandizing mill
iOnaires. When the Presidents
stomach is out of order he cannot
do better than charge it to malaria,
and seek relief from the f1eshpots of
Washington in such recreatiOns as
the laws OF hygiene and the advice
of his doctor suggest.
The reunion of the Society of the
Army of the Potomac which is to
be held here on the 10th and 18th
of May, ought to be an event of
unusual interest not only to the vet
Grams of the civil war, but to all the
jewellers in the fair city of Wash
1uSlOHs Ii any OU3hl |
the history of that army to be I'M
derstood. This Will be the four
teenth annual Reunion of the So
ciety, yet for the first time since its
it is now to meet in
the city through which its soldiers
into Virginia twenty odd
years ago. The fact that the army
Of the Potomac has waited so many
years before coming back to the
city which was SO long its base of
operations and which is now its
natural headquarters is Il delay
which may be asCr.bed to the fact =
hat the Society has never before ]
been invited to meet here.
The old soldiers who have not
,een their Capital since the grand
'eview OF 1865 Will find 1t wonder
ully changed. This beautiful city
n its springtiIne garb, with its
promise of becoming much grduder
Is the Republic increases in great
less and wealth, viii afford IA strik-
nc contrast 10 the village about
which they marched and biv0uack- =
d twenty years ago.
All the clerks of the Senate and
House are still busy arranging the
,apers of both Houses, which have
D be assorted, iudeXed, and placed
N fife. 1 . Is no@slittle work, and n
he files of the House have become
D bulky and burdensome that the
1atter of accommodations has be-
ONE serious one, and national ri'
0nfire for their RESTRICTION has been ga ga
iggested. ~ la
OF the one hundred and forty by
lembers retired from last Congress, n,
ne hundred are applicants for Gu
,deral appointment. One of the t n1
members, in eloquent rel
: pleading for place, said, II must I'M
ave a place al cannot earn my liv- =.
lg without onep sE4a9 j q
Washington, March u, 1888 v