The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-09
affecting geaistrr.
wAsHIN GrON LETTER.

Notes From The Cify-SOmething
About Newspaper Representative
-WTs. MyEa tlaik Gaiues-A Word
AbOui Our COngressmeD.
Special Correspondence of the Register.
WASHINGTON, d. C., May s.
am not going extra limits" when /
state that Washington is in an uproar and
the people thereof, are snxiousIy await
ing the report of the House Judiciary
| Committee relative To the Florida comics
sions or the McLIn-Dennis disclosures.
! Mr.. Hayes, Mr.. Devens and Mr.. Sherman
strongly assert that the McLin business
Is n fraud, from beginning to end, manu-
'actured by the Democrats tor partisan
purposes.
SAD The famous l.. q. Dennis to me
three nights age; "My God, Sir, this bus
| mess is thousand times worse than you
| ims CINE. You don't know anything at
all about its magnitude and your cohcep-
ton is TOO weak 10 make a picture OF lis
enormity. Talk about IA confession
| There has been 10 confession
yet" "Will there be further develop
men,s?' "MaEe no inquiries, mine is rot
to say nythIng pro or con. l cant st-
ford to deal lightly with great matters
| pushed him no farther, for l never be-
! levc there is any wisdom in interview
| ing man who communicates with you
us one gentleman does with another, 1. C.,
on social grounds.
NEWSPAPER PIGMIES! GIANTS.
People who are far removed from the
National Capital are, rs a rule, more or
less II iuencod by the ne1CS, dispatches,
letters, etc, which the newspaper men
send sdrift TO enhghten, stsrtle and terri
fy.
Although l began my literary life rs 8
letter writer,-I must candidly confess
that there are in Washington very few
correspondents for whom l have any re-
spect at al. Come and sit in the re.
porters gallery and listen to the senseless
.alk, sec the puppyish annoyance, and
witness stolid, suPerlstlve stupidity DIS
played by those calling themselves
Correspondents, and you will
wonder that the American press
is not infinitely more debssed
than it is. Bohemians, scribblers, as
| Judge Thurman ssid, gstherers of gar
Duge living on husks, tyros. writers, pig
mes. Among the able men represent
! ING newspapers are George Douglass, ed
| itor of the Capital and correspondent Of
| the Pittsburgh Leader, White of the TTi.
! hume, Carson Of the Tones Mcbride,
! Adams, Hardaway, NordhoB, Col. Pa
gand and Shaw of the Boston Transcript.
| George Alfred Townsend, Cath" Is an
! excellent descriptive writer; nearly rs
! good satirIst Us Juvenal. His letters
are always crisp In expression and
| crGmms- with objective .ntorma.'or, bu.
! | AIN told tina. Townsend Is LrcachG ous.
| MrCrow, managing edi or of the Balti-
more SUM- remarked, IN conversation
with me, Townsend is no doubt q fine
writer, but he Is not reliable" admire
his st7le. however, and look upon him as
= man of genius. Richardson, Of the
! Baltimore Sun, is a truth-telling, hare
working correspondent, whose stipend Is
much too low for representative OF q
wealthy journal which works its men
| like machines.
In former letters l have spoken CT me
New York Sun. Ny allegiance to the
great paper is still mistaken. The Cd
ltorial staff is p strong che, made up as it
Is of educated and experienced men.
| Gibson, the Washington correspondent,
stands in bad door among Senators and
members OF the House, and he is some
lines accused of downright news-.tea!-
J ing. So I was informed by al old and
! reliable journalist. My own opinion Ct
Gibson Is the outgrowth OF my respect
for tae most influential journal in Amer.
! lea; hence it Is Il good one. A CORE
spoudent must Of necessity become de-
! tactive. and on entering the world of
politics. strife, corruption and rascsity
| he may assume ano,ber shape, as did the
angels who warned Lot about the de-
s.ructron OF Sodom. The angels told
Lot the news. They had II as 3 secret.
How many of us forget that we have Sc
crets.
MRS. MYRA CLARKE GAINES
LAST Thursday evening l called upon
Mrs Myra Clarke Gaines, or rather &C
companied q gentleman from LOuisIans,
an old friend Of the distinguished lady.
Mrs. Gaines is quite low OF stature petite
as the word goes-light OF step
and quick in action, and as yourS look.
ing Us most women at sixty. am intro
duced by my friend.
"Ah, sir have q fond respect for
YOUR name. 1t Is more than familiar to
rne as its possessor. in days gone by, was
= dear friend to my husband-my hus-
band, the noblest of noble men,
Mrs. Gaines is fluent, and may say
brilliant talker am not apt to call
women brilliant takers. Many of them
are called so by such writers rs Ray
mond, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, but
her G4ttery comes in st.er free pass to
houses, parties and hops. | heard
so.c4lIed brilliant lady talker on the
train the other night, on my way from
hearing Booth IN Baltimore, and l was
sickened. Stuff Trashl
Looking at Mrs. GaiLes, SAID l to my
self: Here is woman a. once remark.
able in her life and by her liie's work.
Married at an early age to q man whose
heroic deeds are, at once, his
eulory and his monument, her young
If, nassed on evenly and smoothly, quite
csreiess.y, in 8 certain sense, reminding
one of ordsworth's lines:
aWhcrc rivulets dance their hayward
And Srauty born of murmuring sound
Shall pass INTO her face.
After the death of General Gaines. be
gsn struggle which has been carried on
Tor thirty years by this brave little
woman. Against her were arraigned
r,pias. talent, craft, cunning, villainyi
bat she fought on and on, guided by
what She called her "husbanc's noble
maxim" until st last she conquered.
"Daniel Webster" said the brave little
r.usn. was for my husband during his
Tf. but after ny husbands death, the
MASSACHUSETTS lawyer came up against
me Sec the spirit OF the world, sir.
They didn't know this little woman's
heart o.,,
Today the little lady is hstterod by
-bosa who but shor. time ago would