The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-06-16
Our Washington Letter.


FROM our SPECIAL COhREsPoNDENT'l
WASHINGTON, D. O., June 8, 1888.
One of the warm weather sights IN
Washington is the Saturday afternoon
concert of the Marine Band in the White
House grounds. These form one Of the
pleasantest parks in the city, and they
are open and used at all times in the
most democratic way, so that the way
faring man can go and stare into the
Presidents basement window If he feels
like it, and any time before two o'clock
in tho afternoon can walk right into the
Presidents house. The first Of the con-
certs for this season took place to-day,
beginning at half-past hye, and continu-
ing until half-past seven. 1t drew large
crowd-as it always does-part of which
was gathered around the band on knoll
some distance from the house, the rest
being scattered over the grounds. Near
the portico of the White House, where
the President was with some friends,
stood cluster of people, with their
backs toward the music, and gazing up
curiously. They pointed out the Presi-
dent to one another. He was moving
about among the ladies of the party, and
in the exercises of his rights as an
American citizen wore a soft white hat.
Attorney General Brewster was there,
and Indies of the various Cabinet tami-
lies. The crowd on the grounds was
well dressed and decorous, AS 1t always
is. To some Of them it is evidently n
social episode something to be enjoyed
and remembered, Now AMI then man
of some distinction will stroll through,
all the grades of people in the Govern
ment service are seen, and there is no
crowd in Washington without O few
newspaper reporters. The negro ele.
ment is in considerable force, from the
unmitiguted and unintelligent contra
band to the mulatto girls in hashy silks.
Taken altogether, the crowd is one of the
uuiniportant but typical sights of Wash
ington.
Mr.. Merrick will probably conclude
his argument In the star-route cases to-
day. Abiding to Mr.. Ingersoll's orator
ical burial of Rerdell, Mr.. Merrick said
he would bury Dorsey alongside of Rer-
dell, "nnd it, Notwithstanding the coun-
sells prayers, Gabriel when he passes
over those graves should blow. and the
corrupt and buried Dorsey should arise
= an immortal spirit, and come into that
last grand court before the Great Search
er of all Hearts, before Whom we must
all appear, and the Great Searcher and
| All. Knower should ask him, Were you
I not in the flesh known as Stephen W..
Dorsey the spirit would answer 4 don't
, remember, "
The compromise made by the Govern
= ment with Gilman is questionable
& transaction. The matter is good deal
, mixed up, but it is certain that SAT, 00O
- were stolen from the Government, and
: that Ottman was accused of having re-
b ceived the stolen money, of which Sl9,.
r 900 we're seized by the Government fiji
il GERS and 81 900 attached in bank. Ott.
man has been tried twice, but without
u being either convicted or acquitted, and
u now that the papers in the case have beer
3, made public it is shown that there was
!. really less justification for the action Of
the Department of Justice than had beer
: supposed The whole matter will bc
l. thoroughly investigated when Congress
r meets, and public curiosity will not b,
v satisfied until it is known exactly wha
- were the influences which caused tn,
voluntary surrender by the Government
of its own money, and how that none.
! was divided among the parties concerned
y MIR. Bliss, Mr.. Crowley and as they know
e anything that the money which they re
ceivet for Ottman did not belong to him
" but to the Government, from which i
g had been stolen.
,e Everybody in Washington goes t.
1t Europe this year. All the diplomat
h have gone already, and Mr.. Frey, wh'
keeps this country from drifting into {
war with Switzerland, was the last t.
pack his trunk aud skip after making hi
adieux to Mr.. FrelinPhuysen. Such Int
tie incidents keep Mr.. Freliughuysel
II alive. If it were not for presenting Bar
on This and Count That TO the President
y and receiving farewell visits in grea
y. splendor at the State Department, Mr
a. Frelinghuysen's joints would all get rus
! ty. He has the custody of the great sea
, of the United States, and at first he use
u to sit up all night with it; now it is pad
u locked in chest, and Chief Clerk Brow
" sleeps on top Of it, AUGUST.