Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-12-29

bright eyes and bright red cheeks, and
all that sort of thing, is so rare in Wash
ington, even in midwinter, as to amount
to curiosity almost, 1t is true that
we often have thin sprinkling of it,
temporarily whitening the streets and
housetops; but it invariably melts un-
der the genial influence of the sun with
in few hours, leaving our broad thor
oughfares in sloppy and slushy eondi-
ton that is equally inimical to sleighing
and warm feet. This time, however, old
father Winter has given us a genuine
touch of the North Pole, and the smooth
and whitened surface of Pennsylvania
Avenue, with its hundreds of sleighs
skipping in and out among each other
on their way to the Capitol without re-
gard to race, color or q was going to
say "previous condition of servitude," }
anything else-is a joyous and exhil-
arating sight, worthy of the frozen
Neve
The fall of snow may have had the eff
feet of cooling off the hot heads in Con
gress, for it is notable that the excite
ment and acrimony in debate, which
characterized the first week or two after
assembling, has materially subsidized.
The leading southern democrats, nota-
bly,, preserve calm and dignified re-
pose, and, evidently, do not want any
war. 1t was only the other day that
Senator Gordon of Georgia, in the eau
Gus of democratic senators, gave utter
ance to the following words, which are
well worth recording and now appear in
print for the first time, and that "unbe-
knownst," to the Senator himself "Gen-
tlemen," said he, earnestly addressing
his colleagues who had gathered in a
knot around him, have you ever expe-
rienced the conservative influence of a
15-inch shell in process of combustion /;
in process Of combustion, with the pros
pect of it's Immediately dropping into
your own household? 1t has a highly
conservative influence, and we down
South know what it is. We've had
enough of it Now, if you want to
fight, try il this time aCe'Hstay at home
and make the money
As the holidays approach, debates on
the adjournment question grow more
frequent. Heretofore, it has been Gus
tomary for both Houses to adjourn over
from day or two before Christmas till
about week after New Years but this
time, in view of the existing complicated
state of affairs politically, there will be
no regular holiday recess" In all
probability the House will adjourn on
Friday (day after tomorrow, till We'd
nesday, the 9th if no business of ex-
traordinary Importance compels it to re-
main in session, it will then, most likely,
Immediately adjourn again till the Sat.
urday following, when it will adjourn
till the first Wednesday in January. 1t
is probable that this programme will be
adopted in the House to-day, and that
the Senate will do likewise.
Last Monday was the occasion of al
interesting event, something in the ma
ture of cremation and something il
the nature of maceration. During tn,
past ten years all the steel and cope
plates, transfer rolls" dies and othe
paraphernalia, captured from counter
feiters of bank notes, legal tenders, an
gold, silver and nickel coin, by the Of
e ficers of the "Secret Service" of tn
/ Treasury Department, several hundred
in number, were cremated, or to spea
, more correctly, melted, in the furnaces q
g the Navy Yard. At the same tim'
d nearly million dollars worth of cour
terfeit bills, ranging from twenty fv
e cent fractional currency to hundred do
Il lar Dlli5, WeT6 IuaCSIdtSu VI ISuuCe
0 to pulp by the sixty-horse power engin
If recently provided at the Treasury fC
y that purpose. Formerly, all capture
IS counterfeit money, as well as all redeem
ed notes were destroyed by fire in larg
n furnace located in the basement Of til
n Treasury building but this process CAV
n rise to very unpleasant odors permea
S ing the entire building and the vicinit
5. thereof during the combustion of Ii
If filthy and greasy paper money, and II
macerating process, which is odorles
was substituted and works like charm
- Aristocratic FIVE hundred and thousan
: dollar bills 60 through the hopper I'M
~ the revolving trough or cylinder in con
n pany with plebeian quarters, are tho
of oughly mixed up and disintegrated, al
come out at the other end in one eve
stream of pulp, just as when, starting
!, life, the pulp which made them went i
to the paper machine. This pulp sci
for FIVE dollars a ton and is used for p
per making the value of the mon,