The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-03-24
WASHINGTON LETTER..
From Our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, March II. 1888.

well-to-do northern people southwark.
and the number that are passing
through Washington this year on their
wayssto the southern states especially
to Florida, Is immense. Notwithstan
ding Congress has adjourned. the no
tells here are crowded with these south
ern- bound leisurers, who are fleeing
from the sharp winds and sudden chan
ges of the capricions north. to seek
pleasure and comfort III the genial
climate of the G uIf Of Mexico.
Many Congressman may yet be seen
in the city. especially about the De
partments. where they are trying to
have that ''little NATTER attended to
before they leave. Even newly cleo
ted Senators are here making earnest
efforts t" Genre the appointments to
federal Offices which they promised to
their friends before they We're elected.
President Arthur has been feeling
quite i%ndisp"sed Of late and has deci
ded to go tn Fortress Monroe this week
for u little rest. He is still nndec;de ed
about his contemplated visit to Florida.
1t the bottom facts We're known ab"ut
the Presidents ind;sposition. it. would
be exposed that.lie is too high Il liver for
his liver. Unless he sets his face like
a flint against it, the President will be
made II social slave. With the great
increase of wealth in Washington has
come its ~eatourage Of French Kitchens
and other diabo!ical, dyspepsia breed
ing improvements. There are now |
ten banquetting m,l!ionaire> in Washing
ton where there was not more than one
before the war. Arthur, notwith>tand
ing his fine physique, cannot stand up
under too much gluttony ; he has not
thecast iron stomach of Grai.t, cannO'
c%onfne himself to whisky straight like
johnson, or drink tea and eat prunes
like Hayes. Hence the necessity Of
fishing excursions to Canada and Flo
rida or other mean Of escape from the
eternal round of fea sting which has he
come the bane of Washington political
life. Some straight laced performers
have assumed tho role Of critic upon
the Presidents proposed manner of rec
reatiOn, and preach him little sermonet
ties through the press in which he is told
that fishing expeditions are inc0mpati
bic with reform. They would better
so to the root Of the evil and preach
against the system that enables the par
ty of moral idens to send festive Pres!
dents to Washington and surround
them with loose lived gormandizing
m~illiOnaires. When the Presidents
stomach is out Of order be cannot do
bette: than charge it to malaria, and
seek relief from the flesh pots of Wash
ington in such recreations as the laws
of hygiene and the advice of his doctor
suggest.
The recnion 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 inter.
est not only to the veterans of the Civil
War, but to all the jewellers in the fair
city of Washington. Here. if anywhere
ought the history of that army to be IN
derstood. This will be the Fourteenth
Annual Reunion Of the Society, yet for
the first time since its organization it
is now to meet in the city through
which its soldiers marched into Virgil
mia twenty odd years ago. The fact,
that the Army Of the Potomac has wait
ed so many years before coming back
to the city which was SO long its base /,
of operations aud which is now its natu
raj headquarters is delay which may
be ascribed to the fact that the Society
has never before been invited to meet
here.
The old soldiers who have not seen
their Capital since the grand review of {
1865 will find it wonderfully changed. :
This beautiful city. in it's spring-tlme :
garb, with its promise of becoming
much grander as the Republic increases {
in greatness and wealth, will afford a
striking contrast to the village about
which they marched and bivOuacked '
twenty years ago..
All the clerks of the Senate and
House are still arranging the papers Of
both Houses, which have to be assorted, >
indexed, and placed on file. It is no :.
little work and the files of the House
have hocnno mr. hnll-v and bnr6 an cr,o n