Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-27
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Correspondence of the Bulletin.

OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Correspondence of the Bulletin.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 20, 1877.
The sayings of Madam Rumor have
not been very numerous of late. The
old lady has nearly exhausted her store
of startling fancies and therefore has
RECALLED us with little of her gossip
She says Secretary McCrary denies the
correctness of a reported interview will
him, wherein he is reported to have
made explanations of the action of the
Iowa Republican Convention in tabline
a resolution endorsing the Southern pol
icy of the President, and claims that he
never saw the interviewer, whose guess
ing in no manner reflected the Secreta
rvs sentiments She further puts As
sistant Secretary Mccormick on the
fence and has him in doubt whether tc
remain in the Treasury, or resign anG
retain his place on the National Com
mittee. Another fancy Of hers is that
the President will rescind his order con
vening Congress October Is, and defer
the meeting to December. But this
seems contradicted by the activity Of
the various Cabinet officers in getting
their annual reports ready for submis
sion at an early day. She has excited
our people with statements that the
enormous subscription made of 4 pei
cent. bonds will lead to corner in gold
but those who reflect that Secretary
Sherman is thorough master Of fnan
cial matters, and that he can absolutely
control all shipments of gold from the
country under the subscription, simply
smile at the absurd gossip.
1t is pleasure to turn from the UNI
certainties of politics and note that
which must interest the lover. of the
real and the esthetic
THE NAVAL MONUMENT.
At the foot of the Capitol grounds
where the main entrance from the west
front opens into Penn. Ave-, is now an
immense monument nearly finished. Ii
is about forty feet high, is called the
Naval Monument, and is erected to the
dead Of the Navy who fell during the
war of the Rebellion. The fund was
contributed during the war by the off
GERS, seamen and marines Of the Navy
and the contract for its erection was
made with Simmons, the sculptor, at
Florence, Italy. Congress made large
appropriation to defray the cost of the
pedestal, and last year brought the mon
ument to New York in a government
sailing ship. The browning figures are
History and America. History holds il
one hand tablet and in the other q
stylus. Amirica stands weeping at His
tory's right, with her head bowed on the
latters shoulder Both figures face west
and present an attractive view to the
spectator. Below these browning fig
ures there are several smaller statues
among which are Victory, holding ;
wreath in her upstretched right hand
Neptune, Mars, and Peace with an olive
branch in her hand. Other emblematit
figures and statues are artistically intro
duced, aud the whole, including the
base and the fountain, makes one
OF the most attractive ornaments of the
city. Fronting up the main avenue anC
thOrOughfare where all who visit the
Capitol must necessarily see it, and with
the foliage of the Capitol grounds anG
trees giving relief from the immense
white dome which is its background, il
must become hereafter one of oul
things of beauty, and tend still more tc
make Washington the Monumental City
of the Nation. Our bronze statues OF
Lincoln, Jackson, Mcpherson, Rawlings
Scott, Washington and Thomas, are now
unsurpassed elsewhere, and we have a
promise, of course, of others.
CHINA
=, We, are expecting a Chinese Minister
here who will make this his heaquarters
One of his assistants, Yung Sing, was
brought here some % years ago by a
Congregational minister He studied at
Yale with distinction and was noted for
his quickness and intelligence. He was
made Chinese Commissioner of Educa-
ton in America, and now has 100 young
men under his supervision at the various
schools and colleges of New England
all OF whose expenses are borne by the
Imperial Government. He wears nc
queue, having Imperial permission to
dispense with it and also to wear al
American dress, and having married an
American lady with whom he lives, he
has become SO thoroughly Americanized
as to make it difficult to distinguish him
as a foreigner when in company. China
like Japan, is fast acquiring all the ad,
vantages given by the superior progress
of the Anglo Saxon, and will soon have
engrafted upon her institutions through
the men she is educating here, all that
puts us in advance of her in so far as
heathenism will permit. No nation can
make superior progress that is bound
down by superstitions of idolatry, and
while China is hedged in by her peculiar
religion and its terrible enervating infu-
ences, she cannot equal in aggressive OF
belligerent power the AnglO-Saxon, who
educate her best youth for her.
WHISKY RIGHTS.
We had test case upon the power OF
body of men organized into club, and
having club-room, to sell liquors at
their own bar without license. Our
Court decided that club was gov
erned by law precisely as an individual,
and that it was in contravention of the
Statute for either to sell liquors under
any pretense without first obtaining pro-
per license. The club will appeal from
the decision to the higher Court, on the
ground that as it sells only to its own
members, a visitor brought into the club
room by member not being permitted
to buy, no license is requisite. Should
the appeal be adverse the question arises
what will the club do? License to sell
carries a public right for any one to de-
mand a drink, hence we fancy that our
bodies of gentlemen who have been able
to indulge their propensity for drink UNI
der the specious guise Of the privacy of
a club-room, will have to mend their
ways or admit the great unwashed into
their midst. FELIX.