Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-12-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From our Regular corsspoudeu..l


WASHINGTON, y. G., Dec. 18th, 1854.
The class oi people who will be moro
affected than any other by = change OF
administration at Washington, are the
small shop-keepers who have been In tho
habit Of giving unlimited credit to the
Government clerks. Up to the very dny
Of election, the continued nscendency OF
the Republican party was so assured, that
one dealer here increas d hrs outstanding z
accounts $5 1000 in one week, and new he
is trying TO get a settlement Tor at least q
part Of the $4,000 marked doubtful" on
Ills ledger. The clerks. No rule, are be-
ginning to practice little more prudence
in the hurbanding Of their resources, and
naturally enough they think that the pay
ment Of honest debts Ia a poor way TO
economizc. They therefore laugh at their
creditors and simply tell them that judg.
ment day Ia " good day to settle up, and
if.ihat ia Toe busy q day, The day following
wonld ,lo.
Tie last session OF Congress al journed
leaving any number OF appropriations for
any number Of public buildings TO be ereci-
ed here, there and everywhere. The gen
eral craze not only among Congressman
but among their constituents IN Tor public
building, aud the more expensiye the bet
ter. On the calander now at tins session
are bills for expending seventy millions
for Government structures, the most of
which there 10 not now. and will not be
for many years, any earthly Use for, hut
by the pntornalistic tendencies OF the Gov
eminent, they mu.t be expected whether
they are needed or not. A town out in
Texas wants a two hundred and City
thousand dollar building for Its posoffice,
although the Office fails by considerable
amount TO he self sustaining. aud what is
true Of the Texas town Ia true of almos,
every place that Is now clamoring for a
public building.
Two events that are calculated 10 cause
sort Of social earthquake transpired here
IN one day Last week. Ono was the suicide
Of PROT De Wolowski, who hid the musi-
ca tutelage OF all Of the beat families of
Washington, aud who was slso confronted
BY his own daughter with charge OF in
ceat. And the other was the elopenient
OF the affiancsd bride of New York ban
krr, with mn office clerk. The last named
event creates some sensation because the
female partner in the elopement is of tho
upper strata in Washington society, and
the circumstances Of her flight peculiarly
cruel, because fifteen hundred Invitations
had gone out for one Of the swellest oI
the swell weddings of the capital, whicl,
was to have taken place on the llil inst
The treachery Of the girl in the csse was
brought about by the attempt OF the old
folks to saddle u husband upon her whom,
she did not and could not love, and the
verdict Of the jury is that she served 'em
right.
One oil the first things that the rev
Democratic administration should do up
on ito accession to power, is the uncere-
monious bouncing of the Landscape archi
tect around the capitol, whose abomina-
tions abound oil every hand. In the ont
rageous devastation that has been wrought
here under the name of improvement, the
once beautiful plat ot ground both east
and west OF the capitol have been trans
formed into an unsightly aud unconcruou'
field Of concrete walks with small patcle,
OF shrubbery here and there that have n,
little attraction as the bnrdock plants that
line country road. The large and mag
nifcent trees whose foliage made the west
entrance TO the capi ol really superb re-
sort for the stranger and an attraction &c
everybody, have all disappeared under the
blighting edlct of this taste ,forsaken archi
tect. and their places are supplied by WALL
walls, walls, some with purpose, bn
mere without any other purpose than thu
expenditure of money and a cantributisr
TO the inevitable contractor. II the disni-
fed character of the capitol and Its sur
roundines must he preserved. we must &c
rid of the landscape idiot who would re-
ject the stately trees in these grounds n
beneath his ideal Of landscape beauty.
DON PEDRO