Year: 1877

The Strength Of the Administration Lies


in Rutherford's Household.
Deacon Smith Portrayed-A Word about


Judge Black.


Especial Correspondent N. o. Democrat.l


WASHINGTON, March 3, 1877.


IL there Is any portent In the sky or
augury in the heavens, the advent In
Washington Of the first President who
was not elected by the people must be
called inauspicious. The count-in was
completed about daylight Friday morn
ing, and a little after nine the benef-
ciary thereof arrived at Col. Tom Scott's
depot. Thursday had been bright and
pleasant, as had been twenty or thirty
days before 1t. To-day, which is Satur-
day, Is bright and joyous too. But
yesterday-the Friday which witnessed
at once the completion Of the long and
wicked count-in, the consummation Of
the most desperate political con-
monsters Of the French Mountain"
conspired ainety years ago, and the
coming Of the Great Unelected to the
seat Of his ill-got poWer-this Friday
was as dismal a day as is ever seen In
the climate OF Washington. No one
who has ever seen a dismal day in
Washington needs telling what sort Of
an experience it Is. But there are those
who may like to know: A low, dull,
leaden sky OF clammy clouds that seem
to press the atmosphere close down
y,at No ~ o,I Iaf ,n1 vi
in through every, pore OF the
a peculiar quality Of sickness and
greasiness aDoutAit not seen Of any
other rain that falls upon the face OF
the earth so dank that 1t blackens the
asphalt pavements, and so wet that 1t
saturates the brick walls, until the
houses actually look


LIMP AND BEpRAaGLED.


| No day Is so dismal as rainy day in
! Washington in winter time. Well, on
such day, and under such skies, the
! Count-in was ended and the Counted-in
arrived. There was nothing remark
| able Iii the scene at the depot. The
chief stare Of the curious who had
braved the storm, was directed at Mrs.
Hayes, who seemed q little hurried by
her dreary introduction to Washington,
and at the


THREE PRETTY CHILDREN


who are to assist in making that great
old barn OF a White House homelike.
It is fortunate for the men who haye
done this job; fortunate fe Sz58 f4an
hands; ard, perchance, fortunate for
the country, that the President who was
not elected is calculated to disarm
hatred by his geniality and to avert
| contempt by his abounding good tenn
per, while his domestic surroundings
will prove among the most amiable
and graceful that ever dispensed the
hospitalities Of the national mansion.
People unconversant with the ways OF
Washington have very little idea what
part Of the fortunes of an administra-
tion hinges upon the social flavor and
TONE OF THE WHITE HOUSE.


This will be the strong point of the
Hayes administration for whatever
IN ay be the defects in Mr.. Hayes title
to the occupancy Of the White House,
there has never been within it's walls a
more companionable man than he is, in
there ever been woman more thor
oughly mistress Of the science Of MAX
ing, or Of the art Of adorning a home,
than his wife is. So let me say, by way
Of warning, to those OF my friends who
are girding on their armor for four
years onslaught upon the fraudulent
President and four years war upon
the colossal fraud of which his presi-
dency Is the fruit-that, fiercely as the
tempest of wrath may beat against the
White House walls from without, there
will always be within them that calm
sunshine Of pleasant woman's face
which, as the fable tells US, may sub
due the tempest; and one of the most
unassailable of the defences of this
born and ill-starred regime, will
be the


TACT OF THE LOVELY WOMAN


upon whom devolves it's alI-important
domestic responsibilities.


To-day I saw in the lobby of Willard's
Hotel remarkable figure. I at once
discovered that it was a man. The alti-
tude of this figure was about five feet
seven and one-fourth inches. It had
evidently been higher, but exceeding
weight Of the cares and responsibilities
which are inseparable from truly good
life in this wicked world, had produced
a slight alteration Of the lower limbs
from the perpendicular, which is fast
ceasing to be mere alteration, and is
rapidly becoming pronounced case oil
curvature. The body OF this remarka
} BILE figure was OF remarkable length
and suggested that the Creator haC
phragm several inches lower down than
} usual, in order to afford room for the
extraordinary development of true
goodness which is known to exist in the
bosom Of this wonderful parsonage
The heed WAS of A. Dncllliar cast heinC