Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-06-20
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON June 6. 1874.
MARRIAGE OF NELLIE.

tainly was a real novelty. being the
first one that has occurred there in q
generation. Our Presidents have been
singularly unfortunate in respect to
daughters, either having none, or hay
ing parted with them before they came
to reside in the National Mansion, and
thus has the nation been cheated of a
great felicity.
1t was a national affair-yes, an inter-
national affair, and came very near be-
ing centennial also. How strange
that old England should come in and
share half the glory, and carry off all
the game! Are we coming under Brit
ish rule again? desire to know. Time
was when the pesky Britishers couldn't
come up the Potomac and take prizes
right under the guns of Fort Washing
ton. They burned the White House
once to be sure, but didn't get away
with anything valuable, as Satoris has
done, and not one of our young men
ever attempted to fly to arms.
But this was because Miss Nellie so
willed it, exercising her woman's right,
and it shows that times have changed,
and we are no longer afraid of the
British. We are rather ahead, perhaps
in the affair, as we shall furnish old
England with a sprig of our Cnsarism
as the New York HeraM would call it,
and they may need something in place
of their efforte royalty. The wedding
itself was like others in high life, splen-
did in all the appointments, and hon
ored by the presence of the rich and
powerful. It need not be described
specially for none of our lady readers
will ever be married there, and of course
will have no occasion to copy the pro-
gramme; and the splendor of the mar
riage is ridiculously small factor in tho
happiness which follows or fails. The
girls will please remember this; and
that it is better to 90 up in the scale of
happiness from the starting point, than
to 90 down.
Everybody of course is afflicted with
reflections in consequence of the we'd
ding, al all the young men feel as
Towlinson the coachman of Mr.. DOM
bcv did, when that gentleman selected
a Frenchman to arrange the wedding
cortege, when he led Miss Skewton to
the altar, and are ready to declare that
ono good ever come of foreigners
there was Bonaparte the head of 'cm,
and see what he was allus up to"
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
The civil rights bill passed the Sen
ate after a long discussion, and by nearly
a party vote. Mr.. Thurman and Nh.
Stockton opposed it with considerable
earnestness, rs unconstitutional, and MS
interfering with purely State matters,
while they believed that no good could
come to the colored people by forcing
the question of mixed schools. Freling-
huysen and Howe led the debate on the
other side, arguing that equality of
rights must be maintained, and conse-
quences would take care of themselves.
There was u fair sprinkling of colored
men in the gentlemen's gallery, and
decided lack of white listeners during
the debate, and it was found impossible
to create any large degree of interest in
the question. 1t needed the voice and
enthusiasm of Sumner to arouse feeling,
and without him in the play, it became
almost no play at ALL And thus the
great agitation, which seriously began
with John Quincy Adams about forty
years ago retires from the Halls of G on
gress, with it's most eloquent champion
departing without making a ripple.
And with this agitation and Sumner,
it was also apparent, that the prestige
of Massachusetts, in the Senate has de-
parted also. There was no leadership
by the Bay State on this occasion-she
stood behind Wisconsin, and behind
New Jersey, her glory manifestly gone,
and not so much as the ghost of dead
craftsmanship to grace the occasion.
Boutwell,, it is true is not very we'll, but
had it been otherwise, the result would
have been the same, as he lacks the
power to electrify the Senate. Thur
man predicts that the Supreme Court
will find the bill unconstitutional, and
rs lawyer, he is one of the ablest in
the Senate.
MIRACLE WORKING.
This is IN age of wonders-of great
discoveries. The scientific world is
overlooking with them. But greater
than them all are the constant develop
ments of so-called spiritual phenomena,
Scientists have, from the first, ignored
investigation into this philosophy, until
it has come to be considered quite the
thing to condemn, without examination.
This practice is changing, and OCCASION
ally we find scientist, like Prof. Crook
of London, seriously, conscientiously
and earnestly bringing the facts of sci
ence to bear upon we'll established re-
suits, in order to discover, if possible,
the hidden law, through which such
results are obtained.
Among the most wonderful phenom-
ena ascribed to direct spiritual interven-
ton, is that power, possessed by certain
persons, to cure disease by the laying
on of hands.
There is now in this city one of the