The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-13

northern extremity of Wellington Channel
he beheld dense fog-bank, motionless and
suspended In the air--a ''water-sky," rising
above the Polar Sea discovered by DIR. Kane
in 1854. Very much such a sky seems of late
to have hovered over New York, and we can
only still cling to the hope that we shall get
rid of it before the fall season fairly sets in.
The French always associate London with
melancholy vapors, and the.weeping sky typi-
fies for them the conventional gloom of the
English character. When the choice drama
of Jack Sheppard was adapted and brought
ont at the Porte st. Martin-the principal
scenes being in the London streets-it was
christened Les Cheoaliers de la Brossllard--
The knights Of the Fog-and dun-colored
gauzes were stretched across the stage to give
proper effect to the action. If the atmosphere,
of New York does not quickly change for the
better, we shall eventually eclipse the we'll
won reputation of London, and usurp in the
estimation of the lively Gaul the place she has
hitherto occupied. The capital of perfidious
Albion will no longer be to his mind the syno-
nym of sadness and weariness of spirit-the
distinction will be fairly wrested away by the
foggy triumphs of Manhattan.
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CONGRESS - RAILROAD JOBS = THE
CUBAN LOBBY INVESTIGATION.
From the N. Y. Herald.
Railroad jobs occupied more than their
share of attention in the Senate on Friday.
Mr.. Pomeroy moved to take up the bill
granting land subsidy to the central branch
of the Union Pacific Railroad. Mr., Thayer
opposed the motion, and wanted to know the
reason for this pressure to take up this bill,
when it was almost impossible to get any
other bill in the morning, hour. Another
reason Mr.. Thayer had for opposing the mo-
ton was that he had similar bill to intro
duce, which clashed with that of Mr. Pome-
roy The bill to abolish the franking privi-
lege was taken up and discussed by Messrs.
Morrill, and Summer, the latter opposing it as
being destructive and not constructive-a
crude, raw measure, full of faults and opposed
to the interests of the people. An evening
session was held, at which bill was reported
appropriating fifty thousand dollars as pay
ment of the expenses of Spotted Tail and
Red Cloud and their suites during their visit
to Washington and for the purchase of pre-
sents for these savages.
TheiHouse, with the astuteness rightfully
attributed to that body, dropped all public
business for while to look after a newspaper
correspondent who had inadvertently ma
Hgned Representative Fitch of Nevada, by
giving synopsis of the testimony sworn to
by N. b. Taylor before General Buffers Cuban
Investigating Committee. After venting
vast deal of unnecessary spleen upon the
press in general and the New York correspon-
dents In particular, the House resolved to
expel the obnoxious member from the re-
polters' gallery, and accordingly the Ser
geant- alarms placed the unlucky correspon-
dent at the bar of the House, where, after
being lectured by the Speaker, he was called
upon for his defense. The defense appeared
to put new face upon the matter, and in
stead of expelling the correspondent the
House referred the subject to special
committee for investigation. Fridays
vote tabling Mr.. Davis Naturalization bill
was reconsidered and the bill recommitted
to the Judiciary Committee. The House pro-
ceeding to consider the Senate amendments
to the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
Appropriation bill, Mr.. Dawes called atten-
tion to the fact that said amendments were
two hundred and ffty-six in number, all of
them, with two or three exceptions, adding
to the amount appropriated, including five
hundred thousand dollars to commence work
on the new State Department., to cost over
six million dollars. The amendment exclud-
ing from the Court Of Claims all persons who
had participated in the Rebellion, notwith-
standing their having obtained pardons, was
disagreed to, and a substitute adopted ex-
cepting the cases when such pardon or
amnesty was granted during the Rebellion by
President Lincoln. 1t is to be hoped that
the House will adhere to its substitute. The
amendment of the Senate was e9 post t1cto in
its character, and wholly unworthy place
upon the statute book.