The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-09
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON LETTER.
Conkling's speech-Thcl Long we'd
nosday-One of Nellie Grants suit |
ors - Pacific wall subsidy Novel |
Advertisement-Fun of General
II. y. Roberts.
WASHINGTON, Feb. I.
Ere this, the whole country rings, as did |
the Senate chamber last Thursday and
Friday afternoons, with the words of Sen
ator Conkling, on the long lived Louisiana
question. His speech was one grand pero.
ration of six hours delivery, in which his
"weghty sense did flow in fit words" 1t
was very powerful and logical answer to
the fallacious sophistres that have been
presented on the democratic side # the
quarrelsome question. With The keen-edged
weapon of sarcasm, he thrust into the very
heart of the denuncialions and snetring
epihels of the opposite side, and fed them
to the full with their own words and opin-
ions. 1t was a brilliant, and, by far, the
ablest defense of the administration that
has yet been made. A larger audience
gathered to hear this speech than had been
seen at any previous time during the con
sideration of the Louisiana troubles Every
seat in the galleries was filled, and hun
dreds failed TO gain admission. The heavy
rain that prevailed all through the day on
Friday, did not prevent the ladies' from at
tending in large numbers On the floor of
the chamber additional seats were demand.
ed for the large gathering of distinguished
men there present, among whom were
Secretaries Belknap and I,obeson, and
others of the Cabinet, prominent members
of the House, cx-Gov. Morgan, ex-senator
Wade, ex-Collector Tom Murphy, and
many others.
THE LONG WEDNESDAY.
We have been having little touch of
solsttial experience here. True we have
not had one continuous day of six months,
but we have made a slight approach there
to, and at a certain point on Capitol Hill
have had a day of forty-six hours duration
The phenomenon was not wltnes sed be-
You'd the House of Representatives. Its
session of Wednesday last continued all
that night, and when the sun dawned upon
the world Thursday morning, within thd
legislative hall 1t was sill Wrlnesd ~. and
when yet another day ,i,w med as FRIDAY.
10 at the House il was Wednesday even
then and Ben. Butler, inasmuch as pray
or was not his souls sincere desire" then,
at least, remarked that as it was still yes
terday no prayer from the chaplain was in
order. The spectacle presented in the
House during that long Wednesday of
forty-sx hours, strongly indicated that the
struggle to pass the civil rights bill in
volved the sacrifice, for the time being, of
other rights quite as civil. The scene was
more characteristic of rude, barbarous life
than of civil life. Gas brackets were con-
verted into pegs whereon boots were hung,
the desks were turned into hunks, copies
of the Constitution and Congressional
Record were in requisition for pillows, be-
sides other metamorphoses of like charac-
ter. The employment of the wakcful
members seemed to be chiefly eating, drink
ing, story telling, getting off jokes, and
cutting up antics in true schoolboy fashion.
Such are the pillars of the Republic that is
our nations pride.
ONE OF NELLIE GRANTS sUIToRs
1t was my high privilege, the other day,
to bask alone in the presence Of one of
Nellie Grant Sartoris' suitors, from which
class of beings her marriage does not seem
to have set her free. We were sole occu-
pants of street car until arriving eppo-
site the white house, when he alighted and
made bis way for that mansion. His sim
gular conduct, aged appearance, ragged
and conglomerate style of dress, rendered
him quite noticeable, and it seemed strange
that such as he should have occasion to
visit the presidential palace Of the United
States, notwithstanding the democratic
customs of the nation, that make it alowa-
bic for high and low, clean and unclean, to
pay their respects to the chief magistrate,
and all in high authority. But he after
wards proved to be an insane man, and
tried to gain admission to the white house
as Lord William LIE Borne, just from New
| York for the purpose of marrying the
Presidents daughter, soon TO arrive. lie
was ordered away, but with no effect. Al
length, owing, probably, to his exalted pc
siton, he was served like Reid, Irving anc
other high and mighty ones, arrested, bu
consigned to different quarters from them
PACIFIC MAIL SUBSIDY.
OF the Pacific Mail subsidy nothing o
further comment need be made, lest, lik'
other correspondents, / should get into
scrape. But
"Through LIES dark road its sordid way 1
wendS,
An incarnation OF fat dividends"
But that our public men do try to keel
their hands clean would be inferred from
the immense pile of soiled towels l saw
taken by laundrcss few days since from
the Office Of the sergeant atarms for th
Senate. From the appearance of th
towels. however, dit must be trumps O
which they hold handful at their game
before cleansing from the stains thereof.
NOVEL ADVERTISEMENT.
The following novel advertisement fror
one of the best dentists in this city has ar
peared in one of our evening papers fo
/ more than month
Wanted.-The front Tooth of a gil
fourteen years of age. viii pay literally
and replace artificially Call after p. n
No girl has yet been found, it woul
seem, that is willing to subject herself
the requirements of the old Mosaic dispeI
sation, "a tooth for tooth" The DENTS
! | ihns advertising has heen subjected