Show THE NATIONAL CAPITAL afie advent af the lenim official at ht whitt fl fu blare vay the wash my ton ahmu wear brass button the poor mana bond ati from our regular after the serias serifs of fashionable ex which during the past three months has followed one upon the other in such rapid as to tire the bodies and pall upon the souls of the devotees of fashion in this city a halt ii called alie peni i leaion of lent lifts arrived land fr alio ensuing MX weeks instead of ball party reception and rout ye wilt anduray cr in former days the body clothed in th and ashes and thomast tho most rigorous re health wai observed during the be aar wednesday but christianity haskell haS kepl paoA with pro grasi and td day mhd sackcloth gar in entis a fasting and prayer nal pleasures arc replaced with short very short devotional exercises daily and the of daintily prepared fish alie jot and j thera WAS an immense jam nt lie houi ay iy night and the Bp acion public colim I iier ohp ture of every kind was intended at alio that lie reception should be condu strictly airola high order but by degraca one af pf 01 the ine of demarcation ut had been drawn ai la t alie assembly was ma madelia delip with all that the ord nord n in wash the chief of ayery of the and odthe foreign legations were thara but b ide ia bliem ah unfortunate number who in way had juggled led in on fake doubtless or through want of knowledge f tho character of those to rhonl invitations had been issued were two distinct clashes of guest theao who were invited to alte and those who adu by card to alio vestibule td una portion ortho house the albira corp of journalists in washington were consigned after full deliberation As thia is alie third official occasion ori which this mark of distinction has been conferred upon of gentlemen none af them attended alio society correspondents pon dents who arcadie and choso whoso papers had ft desire d receive ail account of this crowd were kindly furnished with cards like the follow ing admit bearer to alie vestibule of the executive mansion lo 10 thomas lincoln ci sey U jart r ing and grounds other correspondents pon dents received the intimation that if they would come up o the white house and slip into it that it would be all right several ladies have the to be connected with the press but who were attending at invitation of congress and their cami his were stopped at alio door and the whole party subjected to a goner al mortification luck attended alie distribution of invitations about depal ment the understand ingras that the line wai to at anatoe of the higher official but at the close iho invitations down and cop yil and sc all dissatisfied mhd sain is true arid havy ant af ure offended havo really been ah om kiil gathering instead of in martn cd clift fora the proposed ten dallai his boan designed by alie bureau of printing and engraving and ye leeray eray received alio appi yec rotary it n little larger than a legal tender not i ini the hand for ncr of lie obverse side appers an n at benjamin fran klaif in is tiit flo feud U y refunding certificate with handsome and oilier fance figur ert below in itt H the legend tl certifies deposited the united states treasurer 10 to net of or TO rundin the debt on the reverse I dollio border is anade up of aid lallay work tle te gendia displayed one cent for nine for three months and forty cents for one year also ill script that thase certificates when to the number of fitti or bo exchanged for tour per cent bonds tho bureau willbo ablo to deliver tacio in the courso of a of weeks the bill authoring their issue in the house bite lie rate of inter aft from fo four per cent and iho other extended chef proceed tie thrill 19 bonda adwell as ilia aa aho section of the army loh bill permitting railroad botu banios to do a general xylograph tylo graph ite finally to jay ala strite St tite m the t ollowa ug woi ds telegram aro authorized o lo 10 trims b railroad rail rond leave lines and file their acceptant af pf lla restriction and obligation imposed on 65 of Sat uloa or uio covern for public at batca to bo fixel by the accordine accor dins to lie provi iiona af litlo ca relo graph monopoly will caaso tho day the rul CHII anler with the corn liany this aty is not fua distant every friend of of telegraph should ferl vrr tue stroke of work already done wd ivington mar lit 1879 |