The Shores Of Time

From the Philailelpliiii Proes. The streets of Washington art' liaed with oldbattcred reeks that the aves and winds of politics have cast ashore from time to time. It is a fact, howover, well knovvn here, that a majority of those who are forced out of public life and settlc in Washington turn out as "nee'r do weels." I know a gradual of Harvard college, who was himsel the president of a college, a senator in Congress, and subsequently in a position of almost unequaied power, who ' settled" in Washington. Drink and carda DTOUght him to ruin, and hc was, if 1 am not wrong, once in jail and mauy times in the station house. He was a mnnínr Hfthnlar. an eloouent speaker mil an ablo thiuker. lt was nol unisual for hiiu to accost bis former 'rienda and ask for a quarter to buy ïim something to eat. Wherc hc is now : do not know. Iknovvof as sad a case n the -a man of coraniamlnr mind andpresoncc and raiely gifted is an orator. Ho was at one timo a nember of the oonstitutional convenliou }f Kcnlucky, aftorward a nicmber of ;hc state legislature of California, and ivas clected to codify the laws of that tate; was an elector on the Fremon ticket in 185G; was receiver of public moneys in one of the territorios, and Biibsequently surveyor general, and theu servcd two terms in the house. He was sought by all the scientific, religious and literary societies here,_ and stood as high as any man in either branch of Congress. Well, what of it? you ask. WelTthis of it: For severa 1 years past that man kept one of the lowest dives and brothels in tho city, whcre younsr men and weak men werc lurodbyruni, cards andwomen. Ho died tho other day in this mi&erable hovel, nd was followcd to the grave by a depraved creature of the town whom hc called his wife. I can point out to you ex-senators hcre who eau scarcely buy their brcakfasts, who aro so geecty ana dilapidated that they will cros3 tho strect rather than meet an old friend. There are ex-cabinet ollicers who used to bespattor "us common oeople" with mud trota their earriage wheels as tliey rolled grandly on, who are now not rceogmze l by their former associates. Thcre are ex-generals in the army, vvhose nanies have lionorable niention !n history, whose dceds will never bc forgotton, and on whoso shoulders the doublé star oí a major general set with pilde, now so poor and helpless that they are often hungrj, without a cent to buy food.