The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-04-28
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
Congressional PeculiaritIes Presiden
Hayes and Her Friends-A Wedding
In High Life on the Tapis-Dr.
Mary Walker Martyr to
Principle.

WASHINGTON, d. c., April %.
TO The Editor Of The Leader:
The lanterns which form the pedes
tai for the Goddess of Liberty. over tn,
great dome of the Capitol, glows rec
and lurid these nights like bale of firt
portentous of evil.
have observed this popularity about
congressman: Those who had to dc
the work of Hercules to get here,
usually rest from their labors aftel
their arrival, while those who won
easily, through popular will, work like
beayers-early and late. 1t is not all
rose color to even the most common
place member of Congress, after the
wearing effort of placing his own and
wife's relations in office. He has a
private calendar of cases of his con-
stituents to look after. The double
dealing and downright deceit he is
forced to practice, is sometimes appal-
ling to an honorable man. once saw
in the House reception room three
beautiful young ladies exhaust n pack
of visiting cards in their vain effort to
bring out the members of a committee
having in charge certain legislation.
After these baflled demoselles had de-
parted, knowing the page, asked if it
was really true whole committee was
non est. He replied with great naivete:
"They were hidden in a cloak room,
and they told me to lie by the cube foot
or they would have me dismissed
Mrs. Hayes brought a goodly number
of guests with her on her return from
Ohio. Among them were Mr.. and Mrs.
Augustus Parsons, nee Heron, whose
welding she attended in Columbus.
The Presidents cottage at the Sol
dier's Home is undergoing some i'm
provements; outside broad veranda is
being built, and within some changes
in the sleeping accommodations.
On the list of June a niece of Mrs.
Hayes, Miss Lucy MacFarland, is to be
married to Erick Bergland, Lieutenant
of the Engineer Corps, native of
Sweden, a graduate of West Point,
and recently candidate for the profess
sorship Of mathematics, made vacant
by the death of Prof. Church, at West
Point. Lieut.. Bass received the ap-
pointment. however, and Lieut.. Berg
land is ordered there as instructor in
engineering. The wedding takes place
at Lexington, Kentucky, and is TO be
an elegantly arranged affair.
A bill for the relief of DIR. Mary
Walker was offered in the House of
Representatives last week. If it is
ever passed fear it will be like George
the Fourth's relief to Sheridan-when
it is too late-for DIR. Mary lies sick
unto death in Providence Hospital from
pneumonia. This singular woman is
of the stuff that makes martyrs in
stead of accepting the inevitable. She
has battled with the impossible until,
while yet young in years, her health is
consumed by the indomitable pluck
that has defied alike her sex and that
Moloch, public opinion. Before con-
tumely and insult she never quailed.
Living life without reproach or fear,
she starved rather than sacrifice her
principles. And is this the end of all
this self-abnegation-but free bed in
hospital, and lonely death to close the
scene? Verify her troubles began be-
fore she was born. Like Tristram
Shandy, she should have been a man.
EnTrrr