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ciuua iu iiiu u uivii vnuco.---Life in Washington—Mrs. Lincoln—Fun in the White House.One of the saddest evidences of our socialdemoralization as a people, and the depth andextent of that demoralization, is seen in theutter unconsciousness of the ruin and miseryof the country which prevails in Washington.That unconsciousness seems to environ theWhite House. No woman ever had a betteropportunity to show how a patriot mothercould do for her country than Mrs. Lincoln.It is said that the golden opportunity is,thrown away. The N. Y. Tribune says:Mrs. Lincoln is engaged in qualifying herself for the more delicate exigencies of her elevated station. She is about to resume, under competent professors, the study of the French language, with which her education made her familiar, but the practice of which lias long been interrupted by the quiet but unceasing occupations of domestic life. We al-fo understand that, in other and similar ways, Mrs. Lincoln proposes to add to the many accomplishments for which she is already distinguished, and which supply to the saloons of the White House its most brilliant adornments. ”The Washington correspondent of the N. I Y. Evening Post, referring to the prevailing - 1 gaiety and thoughtlessness in the national capital, says:“From Mrs. Lincoln, driving in her grand coach, and Mr. Lincoln, amusing himself with Herman’s feats of ‘ prestidigitation, ’ down to the young officers dancing gaily at the balls, every one seems to consider the present time one especially created for amusement. There is not the slightest seriousness anywhere, that I have been able to discover; it is all fun. And any one who looks or speaks earnestly of the critical condition of affairs is regarded us a bore by all but some of the older heads. The mournful faces are all at the homes that the war has made desolate.”We should be glad to believe that this was an overwrought picture. But private advices leave us no room to doubt. Even the White House is made the scene of Herman’s wizard feats; and all the while our soldiers are sick, suffering, and dying in the camps, tho strength of the army wasting from inaction, and the very pillars of the Republic made to tremble by the fearful blows of rebellion. It is a sad picture. The Lord have mercy upon us!Dr. Clark, in Ijadies Repository.A poor Frenchman, whose wife aroused him from sleep, with the cry, “Get up, Baptiste, there is a robber in the house 1” answered sensibly—“Don’t let us molest him. Let him explore the house awhile, and if he should find anything of value, we will take it away from him.’’ Philosophical Baptiste!first whi as n our O me ] wer sent Gra extc reb( 000 com mor ers, desc O mer day timiBForyestandprisV goir prolAent: Wa in ^ issu bet is a storVthewasTwasSIlourganult;tvoic Ii you silk of i ami swa iitheituforlocPitdo,! achic is hi of 1asideThi
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Frankfort Tri Weekly Kentucky Yeoman
Frankfort, Kentucky, US
Wed, Feb 19, 1862
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