The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-21
wAsHIsaros CORRESPONDENCE.


WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. IL, 1866.
Evening Star-r.r-r. Extra edition! Full
proceedings and adjournment of the con
"vention,' So yells a small boy with rag
ged pair of trousers, and an eye TO business.
Yes: the country is safe. The "Great Con-
vention' has adjourned, and has accom-
plished-vhas, my dear sir!-rsothtng. The
city of brotherly love has been treated TO a
spectacular farce of men joining hands and
hearts, who were hand-in-hand before DIR.
ing, and after the war. Verify, the sight was
grand one; as a specimen Of gymnastics i,
was unexcelled. To caA it convention, Of
free reprsaatations of the people you'd hs :
gsoss nisase OF language, sad nlAnasroas
imputation upon Webster Like the Parlia-
ments Of Paris in the days Of Louis XIVth,
tho convention had but single duty to per
form, viz: To register the will of their soy,
eressn. This 1t has done, nothing else.
Washington has the pleasure of having,
within its corporation, a royal visitor. Queen
Emma, Of Hawaii, and is the next object Of
interest to the convention. The queen arri>
we'd here some days ago, and has been xsit-
ing the many objects Of interest in and around
our city. She is the guest of the government
at Wizards Hotel, over which floats the royal
flag.
Your correspondent was favored with an
introduction to her Majesty, and were it not
for the recollections of pair of blue eyes in
the far West, might indulge in the aspiration
of running fer the office of king Of the Can
nibal tSandwichy Islands Queen Emma is
apparently about % years old, olive com.
plexion, large expressive black eyes, fine
form, and weighs l57! pounds. Is possessed
of a pleasing manner and good conversational
powers. She leaves omorrow for Niagara
Falls. Outside of these two topics, which
cease this week, Washington is dull There
are no amusements except the open-alr con
certs given BY the military bands in the pub
lie parks, 1t which may be seen > fair sample
of Washington life, and ladies. Here comes
a miss of some ~ summers, arayed in all the
gorgeousapparsl of the latest partisan fashions;
litter rat waterfall, &C., her head crowned with
that nondescript compound yclept ''new
bonnet" which is composed Of three straws
ten yards Of ribbon, and costs immensely
How grandly, and with what an evinced self
knowledge Of her consequence and looks she
sweeps the graveled walks. Truly, our city
girls are not the smallest portion Of humanity
Behind her comes, with majestic tread, the
wife and daughter of Aladdin, the Magi
clan, whose potent lamp Is ever filed With
petroleum, the fame, and mot the touch of
which, confers inexhaustible bounties. Hush!
she speaks-s'Sal, this ERE is the most beau
tfulest music ever hearn.'' "What pretty
musi-caners'' Alas! poor shoddr There
is a bane to all thy bliss of wealth. Here
comes dandy, sppareled in patent leather
boots. peg top trousers, and coat that looks
as if the tailor had run out of cloth when he
was finishing the tail, pair Of light kid
gloves, beaver hat, and cane complete his
costume. In any other dress he would be
out of the fashion, and to be out of the fash
ion is out of the world. am writing no ex>
aggeration, but only what may be seen on any
evening at the music in the park.
Last evening Col. W. Penn Clarke, of
Iowa, Chief Clerk Of the Interior Departs
ment, who retires from office with Secretary
Harlan, on the 6rst of September, was the
recipient Of very handsome testimonial in
the shape of gold-headed cane, bearing the
inscription, presented to VIM. Penn Clarke,
by his friends in the Interior Department,
August Is, 1896" The Colonel bore the
Gaming with good grace, and in a few appro-
pirate remarks thanked the donors for their
valuable gift.
More anon. WATERMAN.