The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-04-20

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Nicholson pavement as smooth and solid
as ten pin alley; and during the flush
Pablo past betium days of the republic,
1t was cmphatically the national prone
made and boulevard. frcqucnted,by the fair,
unfair and vanity fair, and those who
Jared sumptuously and never paid their
fare, a class too numerous in Washington
for public or private welfare. But Gen.
Babcock has long since measured
the avenue. the contractors have been
paid twice over for their worthless. rot
ten Nicholson block, and now the senate
Is debating whether 1t shall be repaved
with asphalt, concrete. cobble stone.
Belgium blocks, or as Senator Oglesby
insists, with dirt, which he says has
always answered him very well for am.
bulatory purposes.
fear we may have undercstimated our
senator's; they walk the earth as well as the
clouds, and talk about common things as
prosily as anybody.
In the house the silver resumption bill,
Us amended by the senate, has been pass.
ed and the transfer OF the Indians from
the missionaries to the soldiers has been
debated.
But the tcdium of legislation is atoned
Tor by the livcliness Of investigation.
The testimony of Whitley. Nettleship,
Ncwcomb, and other ex-worthies of the
the l. 5. treasury secret service
corps. has created sensation
only less profound than that
Of the Belknap expose. To-day General
Babcock was indicted with Harrington,
Whitley, Nettleship. and others. Gen.
b. gave bail in the SUN of $4,000, ex.
Governor Shepherd going upon his bond.
Whitley and Ncttlcship, it is understood,
will secure immunity by turning states
evidence.
The senate will on Monday resolve it.
self into high court of impeachment,
and. 1t is expected that Gen. Belknap will
appear in person and plead to the juris.
diction of the senate. There will no
doubt be stubborn fight on this q,,es-
ton by the distinguished counsel OF the
accused. As In the johnson impeacl-
ment trial, only those who have tickets
will be admitted to the senate gallery. Ii
Is not probable, however. that this trial
will excite nearly so much local or ma
tiOnal interest as did the johnson iT.
parchment.
Emancipation day was celebrated in
Washington by the unwilling of Lincoln's
statue, recently placed in the park OF his
name. The day was cloudy and threat.
ening rain, hut this did not prevent the
concOurse OF immense numbers of col
ored people from Maryland and Virginia.
who came afoot. in the cars, on mules,
and by every conceivable wheeled craft
to witness the ceremony. The statue was
overhung and concealed by large Amer
lean flag, from which a rope extended to
platform occupied by President Grant,
cabinet officials, justices of the supreme
court, members of congress and repre-
sentativcs Of foreign legations. At the
invitation of Prof. Langston (colOred),
who conducted the ceremonies, the presi-
dent pulled the rope and the statue was
unveiled amid the roar Of cannon, APP
plausc of surrounding multitudes. and
music by the marine band.
The group iS.rf ""''os""l size re
| aud, ~~itho"t 4. ~
work OF art in tho ca. ,lh e.
execution. II represents the president
with face full of bemgEity and pity
holding in his right hand the proclama
ton of Emancipation, while his left is OK
tended over the head of a crouclins
slave, halt lifting himself and cropping
| in the dawn Of liberty. The group, both
in mass and in feature, j. an expressive
and impressive history. {