Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-07-13
WAsHINoToN, D. CT
july 4th, 1894.

July 4th, 1874.
Mr.. EpIToR:-Once more after some
what protracted intermission, ! resume
the Office of your occasional" correspon-
dent.
When was in this city in December
last. / think wrote you, concerning the
assembling of the 9sth Congress. To-day
fortune SO orders it, that | can write Of
its adjournment
Last Thursday was the day first agreed
upon for the adjournment, but it was
postponed until Saturday; and at a
stormy session, it was further postponed,
and fixed for IL o'clock to day.
As the hour drew near the house be-
came exceedingly noisy and disorderly /;
reminding one very much of the adjourn
ment of the Vermont Legislature, at
which order does not seem to be regarded
az Heavens first law, unless that body has
changed materially in the past few years.
There were several bills however of
considerable Importance which our side
of the house were anxious to get through,
but which the noisy opposition, both by
disorder and the thousand and one par
liamentary quibbles and lodges, were
trying to put off until the hour for the
adjournment should arrive, and thus pre-
vent their passage. But somehow or 9TH
err, the sympathies of the old clock which
faces the speakers desk in the House of
Representatives seemed to catch the spirit
of the scene, aud very miraculously its
hands not only refused to advance, but
actually moved back upon the dial, and
by the providential lusas maturae, as we'll
as by two or three postponments of ten
minutes each, the work was done and the
house adjourned much nearer one o'clock
than twelve.
1t is due to the democratic members to
say that the clock was repeatedly called
to order, by certain members of that side
of the House, and also that a motion was
made by them to remove two bronze stat
uettes of Indians, which stand npon each
side of the clock, but which they mistook
for negroes, and to have white men put in
their place, iDtimating that there the
trouble lies" But the indians frowned
savagely down upon them, and men,
acing flourish of their tomahawks, which
the maker of the motion fancied he could
see, caused him incontinently to withdraw
his motion.
visited to-day, the government wharves
on the Potomac, and saw the immense
quantities Of supplies and reiuforcements
that are continually going forward to
Grant.
conversed with several sick and
wounded soldiers just up from the front,
and all are perfectly sure that Grant will
succeed, aud say that his army is much
stronger to-day, than when he commenced
the campaign.
Most of the heavy siege guns which
have been placed upon the Notifications
on Arlington Heights, are being removed
and transported to Grant, who is already
getting them into position; and soon
their laundering voices will proclaim that
the defenses of Petersburgh are crumbling
away before their irresistible assaults.
Every one here is confident of success
even the poor WORKOUT, wounded and
MANNED soldiers, who come up from the
battle field, with the dust and stain, and
blood of the contest fresh upon them,
smile heroically as they say, Grant is
sure to win, and our sufferings we count
as nought, for it brings victory"
w. E. NJ.
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