WASHINGTON, August %, 1876
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whats the news % There is no news, we be-
lleve, but old news. The shooting down OF Ken
dali on the Avenue will scarcely last as a nine days
wonder, though as present idea of hotel conversg-
ton, II is quite sufficient theme. The war with
Mexico IS In sfatu qno. The fear is that the cloud
will again blow over without distilllng any OF the
bounleous blessings of bloodshed After the PIN
ming up OF Father Richie like big beetle in a mu
scum case, the old gentleman is remarkably staid
and inilexble in his resolution ''to break no more
butterflies the wheel" We like this Il was one
of the rudlmenta lessons OF his new position which
we. have chad TO beat into his pate. But the old
codger gets along very so-sosh, surprising, we
think, already the unpa raeled devotion 10 the one
idea, the ipse dirt OF the Administration, surpass-
ing IN this, the lnexorabe, the nfexible the lugu-
brlous and subhmely QuIxotlc John Jones.


John Jones, What associations the name re-
calls. John Jones How prolific of assinine pro-
fundIty the bare meaton Of the name John
Jones! Bombastes Furiso never dreamed of such a
Ialleyrand. John Jones Surely the administra-
ton OF John Tyler was providental, from the pro-
vldentla coincidence OF absurdltles in character OF
the master and the man. What - VERY singular
coincidence, as John B. Weller would say. in the
mullsh stolidity, and chahy grandlloquence of the
one, and the exalted and potential imbecilty of the
other. John Jones! tell thee now, Horatio, we
ne,er, thank God. shall look upon his like again +
John Jones! The man of verblage-the man of
straw-the man OF Ross-John TyIers man Did
you ever, since God made you, see anything to
compare, with the Immaculate copartnership of
John Tyler and John Jones! But we are e!aborat-
ing. 1t is strange that all this should arise from
contemplation OF the " organ" Caesar had his Br,,-
ius-Chailes the Firsthis Cromwell-John TYLER his
John Jones, and Colonel Polk has-a good many
things TO bother him haint he, Father Richie bless
your old bones.


The President inspected the clerks in the General
Post Office to-day. Unquestonatey he discovered
shat some OF them would not be the worse for sa-
ponaceous fabrication. His tour of Inspection how
ever, was OF about the utility Vctora's re-
view OF the Horse Guards, while the baby i crving
;, We hear that Cassius M. Clay has raised an in
dlgnauon about his ears in Lexington, Kentucky
Wi.1 MS abolition paper, which may end in blood
zens, and swears he will defend himself 10 the
last. But you viii have heard of the particulars
through more direct route. From our Information.
II appears, that there Is chance OF war in Ken,
lucky before war with Mexico