The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-12-08
Our Washington Letter,

WASHINGTON, ID. o., De-. s, 1877.
One Of the last bIlIs passed on Saturday was
one providing for the relief of theHuron suffer
ers. The Government Is to pay o. ,OOJ to the sur.
viving officers 500 to surviving seamen and a
full years Sea pay to the heirs of the lost.
CONGRESS - especially the senate-has been
behaving itself in q most unseemingly manner
of late. How its members have haggled and
scolded detained and up0raIded each other.
Ldmund's btterest cups have been poured out
and COnklings most cruel and cutting denunci.
atioDs been let loose. The greatest and strong.
est OF our Statesmen have actually given way
TO hot tempers ana demeanng exhibition. Well.
the extra session is over and the regular session
is under way. The much talked OF adjourn
meDt proved to be naught besides talk, and
everybody is thankful that the tedious fortnight
usually occupied in organizing Congress has
not to be gone through with. Butler and Ke.
logg, happy and triumphant are seated on their
little thrones, ann none can say them nay with
any effect. That they have appreciative friends
is evidenced by the rare floral offerings that
daily ornament their desks.
short description OF these two men who are
Just now so prominently before tine public will
not be amiss here. They are both lawyers and
both Southerners. Butler ella ms the mingled
blood of the Marion's and the Perry's. He has
but one leg having lost the other in the battle
at Brandy Station. He was distinguished
General in the Confederate service during the
late war and is now but 40 years old, but his
light brown mustache and thin hair are already
streaked with grav. He Is full sx feet high
with good proper ions, fine bearings, and clear
blue eyes 1t is said he IS engaged in preparing
vindioation of his own character by which he
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ed.Ot participation in the Hamburg Massacre,
and this explanation will be followed BY an in.
vesugatiOn OF the whole matter.
Kellogg now Senator from Louisana the sec.
ond time has been a resident of that state only
since the war having been appointed Collector
of the port of New Orleans In 1850. Lincoln
signed his appointment TO that Office on the af.
ternoon Of his assassination. When he came
here only decade ago he was black.haired and
heavily bearded he comes back vita smoothly
shaven face and silver hair Verify, uneasy is
the head that wears a crown, heads perpexed
with the various perplexinR cases and responsi.
bility of oticial life fast grow Rray-wituess the
| thick sprnkling OF white heads IN our halls OF
| Congress-
Here is what a correspondent prettly writes
OF Mrs Ames "Gen. Butler (B FL In his four
story gray granite house facing the Capitol
grounds. has with him his daughter Blanche
the wife Of Ex-Governor Anes, Of Mississippi
Every body likes Mrs. Ames-a talented woman
q gentle daughter, model wife and mother
-Four or Ave tiny beauties, one Just tOddlmg vita
uncertain steps, brighten the grand, gloomy
dwelling. and press their pretty faces TO the
window panes, waiting for waddling grand pa
to cross the green to come from Congress home
| TO dinner and romp"
Winter has Raily set in though We look for nc
snow Yet. Last nIRht we were visited by heavy
frost 80 heavy, indeed, that just as the day was
dawning the scene was # hight snow had fal
| len. RICFARD