Daily Republican., 1878-11-20
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
A Building Needed for the Centen.
Mai NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Outrages
The Electric Light.
Correspondence of the Republican.


WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. is, 1878.
The next congress should make an
appropriation for building to display
the exhibits that were generously do
mated to us by SO many foreign nations
at the close of the Centennial exhibi-
tion. These gifts Of nearly three score
nationalities are being damaged and
will soon b, utterly worthless, as they
are still hoxed and packed away in Gel.
lars and garrets in the old Arsenal and
other buildings. We owe it to tho do
nors TO provide place where their gem
erous gifts may be displayed to be seen
by the visitors at the nations Capital.
II this cannot b, done We should no
longer insult them by keeping them
out Of sight; but generously propose to
return them free of cost. to the coun
tries that 80 wasted their generosity up
on our nation.
The most important thing the bour-
bons will be compelled to do on the as
sembling Of congress will be to investi-
gate Jonah. Did he really swallow the
whale is the question, or was the party
swallowed by greenbackers. In this
examination it will be strange If the
bones Of some political carcasses are not
left bleaching on the sands of time. 1t
remains to be seen whether any rag
money patriots or anti. .resumptioaists
can be found to lead iorlorn hope, for
the repeal OF the resumption act. No
political grave will be deep enough to
bury those who, shall initiate such a
contest.
The evidence that will be brought
before congress of intimidation, outrage,
murder and denial Of the rights of suf-
frage will be sufficient to occupy the
Who'll session and when it is laid before
the country it will show what the de-
termination OF the bourbons are with
reference to a solid south. The Policy
of giving place to men who have no
loyalty) for the old flag or love for the
union has been fully tried during the
last two years. The legal powers of the
government are now to be tested, in
the punishment Of those who have null
lifted the laws, and these powers are to
be administered by officers appointed
under the banner of conciliation. If
Louisiana and South Carolina by their
juries, fail to convict these violators
Of law, then our form of Government
Ii a failure, and we should he
prepared in time for the overthrow
of free government and for the advent
OF aristocrats, tyrants and Kings. The
country looks with great anxiety to the
President and his Cabinet in this hour
so pregnant with momentous conse-
quences. No weakened vacillating
course will secure the respect of the
people.
The electric light is commanding
great interest among the scholars and
scientist. None are more terrified than
the monopolies, the gas light compan-
les, that fear that the day of doom has
come, and that large dividends and gilt
edge gas stock are things Of the past.
All honor to Edison and others who
make this essential to our comfort
50 cheap that the poorest may enjoy the
blessing. The mystery Of the gas meter
will have passed away as one Of the
things "no feller could find out.' Que
thing most inscrutable to every pater.
familias whose basement is graced with
one of these mysterious black boxes, is
the disproportion between light OBJ
tained and the size Of the gas bill. The
times have been pinching and economy
has been used in all directions, even
on gas, but the thing won't work.
Confidence that less light meant lighter
bills has been found a teeting phantom.
Railroad Companies, manufacturing as
sociations, men of all kinds of business
have met with reverses, and found
themselves with diminished receipts,
and the gas companies have fouriShed
at the expense of their Impoverished
consumers. Edison bring on your light.
The old and the new world will write
your name chief among the benefactors
OF mankind. Fax.