Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-04-19
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.

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LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Prom the "Sentinsl's" Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 10.
The Belknap impeachment trial will
be postponed until the first Monday in
May. 1t will consume three or four
weeks. AS Congress proposes to adj
journ about the 10th of June, the prin-
cipal business transacted by the Senate
must come up before the impeachment
trial is called.
The House is almost in continual
session, considering the Appropriation
bill. The idsa is to get it to the Sen.
ate, so that body "a dispose of it be.
fore the Balknap Ease on. OF
course it will meet with considerable
opposition, be amended, and sent back
to the House. Then the row will COM
mence, and it will all come at the same.
This is usual with legislative bodies.
Tine Senate will endeavor to postpone
the bill AS long as possible so that it
will not be effective by the beginning
of the coming fiscal year. The Senate
is jogging along in its ease and dignity,
while the House il at Nork day and
night. The Senate usually adjourns
from Thursday until Monday. The
House sits every day and evening.
Internal improvements.
The Committee on Commerce, OF
which Hon. WIN. A.. Piper, OF San
Francisco, is a member, has reported
the River and Harbor Appropriation
bill. 1t approIriates 1882, $50. New
York receives about $500, 900; the New
England States about $500, 900; the
Southern and Southwestern States
about 81, 000, 900. From the impover-
ished condition of those people and
their successive reverses, they GER
tainiy need Government aid for the de-
velopmeut Of the country. The North
western States receive about 81 500. 900.
The Pacific coast receives only $751;
900, divided in short division, as fol-
lows: For the Lower Willamette and
Columbia rivers, Oregon, SIS 900; Up
per Willamette. $4,000; Upper %
lumbia river, including Snake river,
S15. 900, making $4,000 for Oregon.
California receives Sl52 600, as follows:
For the breakwater at Wilmington.
$50. 900; Sacramento and Feather rivers,
SIS, 900; San Joaquin river. below
stockton, $40. 600; Monterey hsrbor,
ST., 600; Oakland harbor, $75, 000. Ne
vada gets nothing. Carson river should
be damned.
Low Life I'm Washington.
All weil-reguiated, first-class cities
Eave their lnelodeons, or dives. Wash
ington has one, and is therefore a first
class city. All snch PAGES are Of about
the same low-grade character. The
most remarkable feature about this is
the motley crowd of negroes hat
throng the Is cent upper circle like
red herring in a box. This deadfall
makes three distinctions in the classes
of its visitors. The ''dress circle
price 80 cents, Is reserved for the arts.
locratic young bucks and hcary-
headed old bucks who appreciate the
undressed ballet; the second cotnpart-
ment, 50 cents, is for the ''honest work
ingmen," who bring their strong pipes
along and enjoy a quiet smoke. while
cultivating u taste for histrionic art;
the third section, % cents, is for the
hoodlum element. These three COM
partmsnts are all on the same floor,
but divided by ratings and gatekeep-
ers. The gallery up stairs is reserved
for the darkeys and newsboys. Though
only Is cents is charged, the gallery.
on an average. is nearly ~ profitable
as the floor below. because 1t is invari-
ably crammed to its utmost, while the
majority of the high-priced seats be-
low are empty. Though the same Pro-
gramme IL played throughout the
week, the darkey will go every night
If he can muster the Is cents. This
popular place of amusement" il one
of the causes OF so much persistent
begging in Washington. AS late as Z
o'clock in the evening the newsboys
ask you tn ''please buy a paper" in
such a whimpering tone AS 10 draw
forth pity and . nickle. He picks mp
stray copies and under the pretense of
selling them, begs enough to 'stake
him in" 10 the show and put up for
the beer. The negro bout-black meets
you on the corner, AMI though 1t is a.
dark as the bottom of n 900 foot shaft.
he will want to "shine yer boots.''
Another VIII tell you thai lie has got
ten cents, and wants '.jes five mo-, to
go to the SHOW" He has not a copper,
but this is the way he makes a stake.
Who would allow n colOred brothers.
fun to be abridged because he lacks
five centsf Seated below, You look
above and see a cloud Of EGYPTIAN
biackness. Many OF them have not
had their suppers, or possibly dinners,
and yet they are chatting away AZ hap.
rily and seemingly contented as If
they we're miilionaires. They laugh at
"brndder bones' aud "tamborini," but
do not applaud so Justify as the white
man and brother. because they con.
slider snch characters i'm the light Of a
burlesque upon their race. They take
little interest in the ballet-acknowl-
edging the inutility of their apprecia-
ton by calculating: 900 way! umph!
a nigger's got no biznesst to be a niger,
anyhow" But when the negro char.
acter dancers appear, then the gallery
resounds with deafsning shouts. A
Virginia double shuttle" dance
/" brings down" that part Of the house.
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