The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1885-08-07
wAsHINeron LETTER.
From cur Regulsr Corrc,poadeat.) }


wAsHiSoroN, Aug, A, 1885, |
The President viii, leave fosNew York ON
Friday. and unless something uucx pected tran.
spires he will hardly be seen in Washington
again before the middle of September. !
should not expect him to stay away much later
than that date. lie evidently intends to come
Back fresh iuathe Autumn for the hard work
that must preesde the session of Congress, and,
indeed, must continue while Congress is here
But it should not be thought that the President
is simply going to be idle during his absence
For five months he has been constantly denied
the opportunity he seeks TO ponder carefully
many important topics aud to study the nation-
al questions which are somewhat new to HIM.
This opportunity he will have while absent
from Washington, aud it will be of great ad-
vantage to him.
DR.. Newman is reported to have said that the
memorial TO be erected over General Grants $
body should not be conventional and meaning,
less, like the granite shaft erected to honor
Washington at the Capital. Dir. Newm,n's
opinion upon such n matter is not Of much i'm
| portauce, but there are others who ought to
know better about the Washington Monument
| Those, however, WIN live within sight of the
great shaft know that the design justifes
ITSELF In the homely praise of the household,
"the Monument grows on you" It has grown
TO be part of the daily life Of thousands who
hsvenever analysed their feeling. in regard to
it. Uncousoiously tho eye seeks it, and dwells
upon it. Its v. stuess and simplicity allies 1t
with nature, and it affects the mind after o
time, as do the sea, the lake, tho cataract and
the mountain. AS all great natural objects
| have, il has its moods. 1t has many aspects
In the grey of early morning, in the bright
sunshine of noon, in the mellow evening, in the
starlight, in tho deeper darkness, the Monu-
ment gives distinct and separate impressions to
the beholder. The gathering mists, the driv.
ing rain, the gently falling snow the fierce
lightning, all seem to have purpose in their
dealings with the great shaft as they do when
they come to surround n towering crag or fall
upon the tossing ocean. General Grant s
friends will d. better than think they will II
they obtain for him so satisfactory memorial
rs is the Washington Monument.
A Boston paper says that Washington ha.
had a temperature of about ninety degrees fol
something like n fortnight, Tut there seems to b,
an utter indifference to vacations on the par
of employees this year, in spite Of the extraordi
nary inducement 10 get away which the tenn
perature offers, 1t has long been the fashion t
write about Washington as a hot and uuheath,
place in summer. AS o matter of fact il is tn
healthiest city in the Eastern States AnS
during hot. spell IT, thermometer does no
rise as high as it does in Baltimore Philadel
phia, and New York, while cases of sunstrok
arc almost unknown, Washington is really ont
of the most desii able places for summer res
idence.
The BOG medals struck off for the delegate g
who voted for Grant in the Republican conven
tion of 1876, are better appreciated now thar
they we're three or four years ago. One o
them was shown at the Ebbit House on Wedues
, day evening. A Tennessee Republican held i
in his hand with n loving clasp. Il was offere,
-tg=ourur II py genrIeunan from New York 10
day" said he. No money will! buy it unless
am starving. 1t is nova precious relic, whicl
was but little while ago the scott of the politi
cians and newspaper wits. For one, wa
always prouder of it than anything possessed
Now all the world raifes our choice"