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The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1860., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
e sky is bright and blue to-day, and we are all glad that Christmas is over. It was like a Sunday in the middle of the Desert of Sahara. At night, the good man Brown, of Brown's Hotel, brought out General Washington's punch-bowl, as has been his custom these twenty years and more, and there was a hop — the first of the season, and I doubt not the last. Perhaps there may be another on New Year's day. This is the no-paper day of the year. At breakfast this morning, I could but think of Hood's November lines. "No sun, no moon, no star." &c. You know the people of Washington are entirely dependent on the Baltimore Sun; and, now-a-days, a morning paper is as necessary a stimulant as the bitters and tansy drams of our fathers used to be in old times. We shall have the "Star" at dinner, perhaps. In telegraphing to you that Bailey was innocent, I was actuated by the fact of seeing him discharged on the trifling bail of $3,000. Today, the report is that he is guilt