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TALK oF THE. CAPITAL.
The Statesmen Who Toll in Washing


Washington Letter 70 v. 7. Sun.
Senator Pendleton's house is for sale.
1t is not vulgarly advertised, as mere
ordinary mansion would be. But II is
delicatelv limited that Mr.. Pendleton
would consent to consider q handsome
offer for it. The Pendletons, alore OF the
people who built houses too fne TO 1--we IN
here, will be sincerely regretted. Gentle
man George is at his best in his own
house, and his gentle and amiaole VIE
exemplihes a type too rarely seen IN
WashingtOn-the wife of prominent
man who is not always slashing around,
cringing to this one and bullying the 9TH
er. under the delusion that she Is doing
great things Tor her husband.
For the last week Mr.. Blaine has been
fairly dancing with rage over the alleged
intention on his part to sue the owners OF
Puck for their cartoon Of him. 1t is true
that the cartoon worried him considerably,
but some anti-BlaIne man, inspired, II Is
said, by the bold. bad HattOn, set the re-
port going that Mr.. Blaine wanted 10 get
into a fight with an illustrated paper.
After they had worked this for two or
three days they started another canard,
TO the effect that Mr.. Blaine's enemies
had bought up 100000 copies OF the carl
cature to distribute before the meeting OF
| the Chicago Convention. AS Lord Byron
said. to be kicked to death by jackass Is
an ignominiOus death, and for James
| Gillespie Blaine to be defeated by a funny
/ paper is enough to break the heart OF
any statesman, even if he is retired from
/ business.
The Bateman-Swaim difficulty gets ug-
! lier as it gets older. The rooms of the
celebrated army poker club were IN New
| York avenue. within a stones throw OF
Bateman's Office. Bateman is credited
with having been the banker OF the con-
! Germ. Swain is very astute man, and
| Bateman is another of the same KIND, and
| Secretary Lincoln means to give his viz
| tuous Indignation full swing this time.
The chief characteristic of Secretary
Lincoln's personal appearance is his IN
nocent and guileless countenance. He Is
said to be like his mothers family-a
| Todd all over. The TOdds ase all simple
| and innocent people, and the Secretary OF
| War looks like one of RaphaePs cherubs-
| full fledged and come to the estate OF
! trousers and high hats. Just now be IS
off with Secretary Chandler on junket-
ing expedition to Fort Monroe on the
TallapOosa. Last week SenatOr-elect
Blackburn made up a party and
took them down to Fort Monroe
also on the Tallapoosa. Senator
| Vance was invited to go, but
| declined. Senator Blackburn may have
paid all the cost Of the expedition, but II
would have been better for him if he had
taken his guests down on the Potomac
| river steamboat line. for when the Senate
! demanded that the House increase its ap-
| preparation for ordnance TOR the Navy De
| partment, and the vote was taken on
| April "a, Mr.. Blackburn moved that the
| Senate amendment be cOncurred in, and
Secretary Chandler receive $4O0, 900 more
| than the Appropriation Committee thought
he ought to have. Secretary Chandler is
a pretty safe man for Senators and Repre-
sentatives to let alone.
Senator Hale wanted a fine house, but
| observing that the palace builders OIL
| Washington had mostly come to grief, he
| built himself a splendid house at Els
worth, Me. Mrs. Hale has gone back and
! forth this winter experimenting it, and
has perhaps sighed that it was not in the
| District Of Columbia; but it is better to
have the house located in Ellsworth and
Senator Hale in Washington than the
| house in Washington and Senator Hale
| located in Ellsworth.
Senator HaWley, the unfeathered song.
ster Of the Senate, continues to lead in
| singing whenever chOruses are admissi
BILE. Even at literary and aesthetic re-
| unions such inspiring melodies as "Raly
| Round the Flag" are sung, Senator Haw.
! ley setting the pace as it were. He car
| ries a large tuning fork IN his trousers
pocket, and when the sharp twang of the
instrument is responded to by the robust
bassO of COnnecticuts fayOrite son il
makes Senator Logan sick.
Two portraits have lately been added
to those which decorate the walls Of the
Executive Departments-thOse of Score
tary Windom-whO, by the way, returns
in June-and eX-Secretary Blaine. The
latter portrait is by Mr.. G.. p. K. Healey
who has just left, after spending the
winter here. He also painted a portrait
of Senator Sherman for the Treas
ury and Secretary Lincoln for the Wal
Department. His full length Of President
Arthur is much liked, and will make the
seventh of his works at the White House
The full length Of the President, now
hanging in the corridor, by Mr.. L. +. An
drews, is not satisfactory. 1t has an all
of fOppishness. The dropped rosebud il
too suggestive. The portrait makes &
New York dude of him.
Among Senator Sherman's intelligent
and influential citizens who were wit
nesses to the DanVille Outrages was al
individual who admired the bicycling
which is a feature of Washington, anC
remarked that he would buy a cyclop9dii
himself if he knew how to ride the thing