The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-07-14
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
from our Regular Correspondent

departing trains and steambOats carry
away those who seek rest and recrea-
ton amid mountain recesses or where
the sea murmurs, ripples and rolls
eternally. The long days of expect.
ancy and preparation are over, and
the Spookendykes, with all their in
tricate and perplexing questions set
tied, with the usual number of Sara
toga trunks, dog houses and poodles,
sandWiched with the most bewitch-
ing paraphernalia of the milliner's
art, are off for little rest for the old
folks and for new conquests for the
young misses who are deemed old
enough to make their debut in So
ciety. The denizens Of the capital
have no lack of charming resorts from
which to select as to give the coveted
rest, recreation and pleasure. Old
Point Comfort is reached by de-
lightful night trip down the Potomac
on the steamers of the Inland Coast
ing Company, and there is no more
agreeable place than the Hygeia no.
tel, with its 1000 guest, its hops, is
| sea breezeS and rolling surf in WheshJ
hundreds of bathers may be seen dis.
porting daily. Ocean View, Hanp-
ton, the Soldiers Home, the Rip
Raps, Cobb's Island and many other
places made historic in the late war
are easily reached by tourists from
this point. Multitudes of Wishing
tonians do their summering at the
springs in the mountains of Virginia,
of which there are oyer q bakers
dozen that are more or less Celebrated
for their health-giving ana curative
properties. These mountain resorts
are reached in a few hoArs ride by
the railroads centering at The capital.
The population of our city is so large
ly made up of northern people, that
by far the larger portion of pleasure
seekers find it convenient to couple
their usual vacation with the oppor-
tunity to visit old-time friends in the
north and IN the absarce of obliga-
tions in this direction they while
away the pleasure weeks at Asbury
Park. Rehobeth Beach, Ocean Grove
and Cape May. Humanity is so con-
stituted as to make Payne's decIara-
ton that there is no place like home
in some sense grand mistake. Tired
with wearing the same old harness
and following the daily tfead-mill of
toll, even poorer fare and more in
convenient quarters come to act as
restful solace to many weary toiler.
Life is full of compensation, and what
is lost on the side of home comfort is
more than balanced by the credits on
the side of new nerve, power, grit
and courage with which to pick up
again the threads of toll and weave
them into the warp and wool of daily
life.
The Secretary's statement for July
furnishes some remarkable facts show
Ing the debt paying ability of our
Government. During the last year,
while no industry has suffered per-
ceptibly by the burdens of taxation,
Uncle Sans obligations have been re-
duced S137 500, 1884, of which $685.
59l $50 was interest bearing debt,
reducing the annual interest account
S5,923,43l. In August, 1865, the an
nual interest charge was S151 700, 900,
which is now reducee nearly $780,
100000, leaving it only 500, 1886, 709 !;
and during this period of eighteen
years the principal of the national
debt has been reduced over one thous-
and millions of dollars. This large
reduction in the face of the enormous
payments made for pensions and
arrears and the liquidation of claims
OF various kinds growing out of the
war is most marvellous fact in the
nations history. Judging of the flu
ture by the past the next ten years
will see the national debt entirely
wiped out, and future historians will
record for the information of oncom-
ing millions, that this young repub-
lie in single generation, beginning
with no army, navy or credit, euuip-
ped ovrr l 100000 of her brave sons.
fought four years. war. gave SOC, 900
lives as sacrifice to liberty, raised a
navy terror to every foe. established
currency and gave it credit by
force of her conquests on sea and on
land, and when victory came pen-
stoned every soldier and soldiers
widow, paid every creditor interest
and one hundred cents on every dol
lar of her debt of over three thousand
millions, and did all this within thir-
ty years, during which the country
made the most rapid strides in ma
terial development, while the entire
population enjoyed the most marvel
lous prosperity. Surely with such a