The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-05-18

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personal presence. He is the Com
mander-in-C Chief of the army and nav,
and to illuminate the sophistry that al
his executive business must be exc
cuted at this point is whimsical an(
absurd.
Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, hi
wife and suit, arrived here this morn
| ing from tour across the country
and is quartered at the Arlington
which is the "upper-tendom" hotel o
the city, though in outward show it il
less attractive than Williard's
Ebbitt's Metropolitan or the old Ma
tional, since its improvements. The
Arlington is owned by the rich Wash
/ ington banker, Mr. Corcoran, and thi
fact alone attracts many ''hifilutins'
of the shoddy sort to its lodgings ant
table for a short sojourn only, for it,
rates of fare, by week or day, would
bankrupt nine men out of ten. Think
of 5000 per week on the second floor
front rooms, for one traveller or guest
or what our distinguished Soutl
American gentleman s bill will be il
ten days, with sixteen of the most ele
CANT rooms in the house, carriage hire
etc. The Hiwaian King, who wa.
here about this time last year, had thu
same rooms for ten days, at Uncle
Sans expense, and the bill was about
$751; Should any one from Kansas
have any notion of visiting Washing
ton or the Centennial this summer
they should avoid such hotels as the
Arlington, unless they want to throw
away the value of forty acres of land
for supper, breakfast and night:
lodgings. Mr.. Dom Pedro seems to
be quiet, unostentatious individual
travelling to see and, not to be seen
for he absolutely refuses reception;
and display of any kind. Mrs. Dom
Pedro is an unassuming little woman
in appearance, and not long for this
world, She will soon be enroute fol-
Germany, and when there among the
celebrated doctors she hopes, through
them, to prolong her life. Her leige
lord had not been at the Arlington but
few moments before he ordered q
carrio5o aud presented himself hnfnrr
the priest, from which circumstance ]
infer him believer in the Catholic
faith. One would have supposed that
this would have sufiiced him on Sun
day. Not by any means. lie desired
at once to be driven over the city and
get a glimpse of the capital of the
great Republic he had heard so much
about. When he came to the capitol,
with its huge marble proportions, an
outside view was not enough He de-
sired to see its inside, the paintings
and statuary. His curiosity seemed
unbounded With Mr.. French, Ser
geant-at-Arms, of the Senate, he pene-
trated every part of the building and
its five hundred steps to the dome,
when he pronounced the view unsur-
passed, and the capitol building the
finest he ever saw. He then drove to
the house of Genesal Robert L. Lee, on
the Potomac, saw the graves of sixty
thousand soldiers in the National
cemetry, and was much interested in
the various things he saw. To-mor-
row he will visit and inspect other
places of interest in the city and learn
as much as possible of our civilization,
after which he will 60 to the opening
exercises of the Centennial at Phila-
delphia. The Nations law givers will
also go over to the opening exercises.
Judge Browns bill for the protec-
ton of settlers, on the heretofore :ille-
gal quarters of land, has passed the
House and there is no good reason
why it will not pass the Senate soon.
This bill effects settlers all over Kan
sas where public lands are yet to be
purchased by the settler, and allow
him or them to locate in any manner
so the forties are contiguous.
The celebrated contested case of
Farwell VS.. Semoyn, from Chicago, has
finally been disposed of after a long
and holly contested warfare. The
Chicago Inter- Ocean says of our Rep
resentative: Brown, of Kansas, who
was managing Farwell's case, has
shown himself a very able lawyer, and
his argument, made on Saturday, can
not be refuted." There is latent
power and force in the Judge that,
when fairly aroused and brought out,
shows him to be no common man, and
should judge he had but few, if any,
peers in the third district, and certain
ly none of his years, and since | nave
lived in Kansas some twenty years |
know something of her public men.
see the name of Thomas Ryan par
by the Commonwealth, at
Topeka. | am at some loss to know
whether this is one Of Bakers jokes or
whether Mr.. Ryan is bonafide candi-
date. Now, if Mr.. Ryan has such
matchless popularity over the State or
IN the third district, it seems remarka-
bly, strange that such widespread en-
thusiasm should have lain dormant so
long, and still more profoundly strange
that it should break forth like noun
tam avalanche without Thomas hay
ing done anything startling or very
changed his course of life.
Those who know our friend Baker
know how he likes to ride on tidal
waves, and seeing Ryan's stock rum
ming up, very naturally concluded to
step on. However people may think
IN Kansas about this sudden populari-
~, it is considered here, by old Kansas
as unwise and dangerous
o Ryan. Then this looks little as
.hough Topeka claimed everything in
he district, like Lawrence was wont
o do in former times, and as Atchison
loes to-day. Whether the Arkansas
md Neosho Valleys will aid Topeka |
n Mr.. Ryan's election is yet to be