The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-01-15
WASHINGTON.
A Lively Letter from Our SPECIAL
Correspondent.
WAsHINeroS. Jan. 8. 1885.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 1889.
The holidays are over. Congress
has reassembled. Society Is on its g.
nal racket, and the Republic malad.
ministration of twenty five vaIlega.
ted years is about to go into liquida.
lion and evaporation. In two short
months, a new president will be 10
the White House, q new Cabinet will
sit at the National Council table,
new chiefs OF bureau will take the
place of the Republican trained po-
litical bummers, and, unless the
government is 10 continue its old
course a la infer, new, faithful, and
honest clerks will be appointed in
the place of the drones and sine
curists who have infes ted and infect
ed the government offices until the
civil service is an Augean stable of
labary nthine intrigue. favoritism,and
political aud social debauchery. II
Mr. Cleveland for one IN oment mag
ines that he can carry on an honest
working government with such
timber as Grant and Hayes stocked
the offices with he will find him,
self mistaken when it will be too late
to mend.
Many Republicans here think
that Mr.. Clcveland's late letter
means that he will dismiss only
those who have been making Repub,
lican speeches !; but it is difficult tn
see how the clerk who wrote politi
cal articles, collected money, and did
various other campaign works is
less guilty of neglecting his legiti-
mate duties than the more conspicu
Gus haranguer. If all clerks who
contributed money and worked in
one illegitimate way or another for
the defeat of Mr. Cleveland shall be
dismissed, then the marble halls OF
the Department will be indeed emp
ty.
A gentleman by the name of Mr..
Blaine and his wife are in the city
with their interesting family, and
though never popular in the social
world, are making themselves daily
more and more odious. Mr. Blaine
and his wife and family were q few
weeks since so certain Of occupying
the White House. that they had not
only portioned the chambers out
among themselves, but it seems had
decided upon certain people whom
they would not receive. The pres
ent president Of the United States
was doubtless one of them, and his
recent invitation to Mrs. Blaine t.
assist him at his New Year
reception was resented by that
lady in a discourteous note Civ
ing as her reason that the President
had not assisted Mr.. Blaine in the
late campaign.
Preparations are making for an
immense concOurse of people on the
4th of March, when the first non
sectional Inauguration for at least
a quarter of century will be
celebrated. The South will doubt
less send more people to the Capital
than she sent on the occasions OF
Buchanan's, Pierce's, or Polk,
Inauguration. The population o.
the South has grown somewhat
since then, and there are better
ways of reaching Washinhuon thar
when the last Democratic President
was installed.
The grandest ball room ever seer
in the world will be that prepared
for the inaugural ball of President
Cleveland, at the new Pension
, building. The executive committee
has carefully measured the space
which will be available, and find thai
two hundred and fifty sets can b,
comfortably formed, leaving ampl,
space between them for the move
ments OF the floor managers. Thus
two thousand dancers can be on til,
floor at time. In addition there
will be room enough for two thou
sand promenaders on the sides
Then there will be the galleries
which are to be erected to bolC
: three thousand or four Thousand
spectators. Many of the rooms O
the building will be available fol-
space for any possible overflow.
Efforts are being made to secur.
quarters for visiting military or
CARNATIONS in the public buildings
as on the occasion of Garfeld's
Inauguration. The number of these
organizations is so large and the
representation is so numerous thai
it is imperatively necessary that the
heads of the various department.
should assist the Committee oil
Public Comfort as much as possible
in this direction. The Chairman O.
the committee has made formal aD