The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-12-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Irr0m our rcgular IoOlrsspondentl



The nation will, undoubtedly, cm-
balm the memory of Senator GORDON,
the inventor of the rew-fangled Dem
ocratic doctrine of Keep quietl DO
nothing" Though no seAator has
more personal need of the application
of such policy, for the foul blot of
Hamburg clings TO his hands ny the
spot OH Macbeth's hands, yet we put
him up on national grounds, and trust
he may have monument as big as the
Egyptian obelslk erected to his me mory,
so happy are the Democrats in Congress
over his invention. Now they can go
ahead, knowing full well that no Dem
ocratic blunder is involved in pursuing
it. No business has, as yet, been trans
acted at the Capitol, and as the GUS
tomary holidays adjournment begins
on the 10Th inst. and extends 10 Janu-
airy 9th, your readers can appreciate
the near approach the Democrats make
to the ow-not-to-do-it policy. The
death of Mr.. Lay, of Missouri, came at
q happy juncture when the Democrats
wanted pretext for adjournment, so
as to avoid threatened rush of bills
upon the House. These various bless
ings have wonderfully enlivcned the
Democrats, and if the Republicans are
not annihilated between this and next
August it will not be from lack of con-
fidence at the present.
The various posts of the G. A.
Il. of this District will send several
carloads of members to Philadelphia
to join in the Grant reception. The
Grant boom has many followers here,
and while the feeling is general among
them that Grants nomination next
year is by no means q certainty, yet
there is a strong desire TO "whoop him
up" as much as possible this winter
hence the strong delegation which goes
over to Philadelphia.
The rctiracy of Mr.. McCrary from
the Cabinet occasions much regret
among those who know him personally
lie possesses much mole executive
ability and sound horse. sense than he
is generally credited with, and had any
national exigcncy demanded the exer.
else of both these qualities, he would
have % lallcd the lamcnted Stanton as
War Minister. Mrs. McCrary is 9
: uuiet, domestic woman, who made
friends everywhere, and her receptions
were attended by rs many personal adj
mrers as those of any other cabinc
minister's vito. AS senator, Mr.. Ram
sey, who succeeds Mir. McCrary, wal
very popular, and we trust may prove
so while in charge of the war port
folio.
Among the many superb statues
which adorn The public parks ant
squares of the National Capital, there
have none yet been reared to any o
the great and accomplished jurists o
America, whose names and learning
stand ont in our legal literature and oil
, the pages of history as great as these o
, Erskine, Eldon, or Coke. 1t is crafty
, ing, therefore, to see that bill has jus
been introduced in the Senate appro
3 priating $4,000 for the erection of
statue of ex-Chicf Justice Marshall, o
The United States supreme court, in Ju
dietary Square, Washington City
Whether it will pass, depends OH tn
c Congressional appreciation of America
most eminent jurist and greatest chic
justice.
We have two classes of migrator
birds in Washington just now. Tn
tramps from the north, who are moving
/, southWard, and the black-birds' eXodu
from North Carolina, on their way t.
; the happy land Of Canaan, known n
. Indiana. The first are in tribulation a
= finding the doors of the station hous
closed to them after the second nights
lodging, and the work-house open +
them as Migrants. They are therefor
! gathering pennies through the day
Six or eight will meet among the boar,
. piles nj night, dump their pennies int
common bank, spool their issues,
:, get a quart of wliskey us partnershi
\ blanket, and make night hideoIs wit
u their orgies. The black emigrant
come mere by rail, not alone, but wit
! their ebony families, not In small gang
a., but by the carload. Out of none
, and out of transportation, they ar
, given a place of refuge, in colore,
j, church--men, women, children an
; dogs--until money is raised by contri
q buttons throughout tho city TO sen,
: them to their land of promise in th
aguc districts of Indiana, where the
! can SILVER and rejoice as they look bac
= with scorn on the deserted tarheels AN
clay-eaters in the turpentinc forests q
, the Carolinas.
/ The Joint committee of the librar
have pnaer consideration a propositio
$ to purchase the sword worn by Gen
, cral Washington when he resigned hi
\ commission at Annapolis. The swor
is offered for sale to the Government
by Mr.. II. ii. Lewis, of Maryland, VIII
I has come into possession of II, by III
heritancc, through Major Lewis, a nepi
ew of General Washington. The a,
ton of the committee will doubtless il
: spire our Jealous anliquarians to rcsur
rect carload of old hatchcts wit
which George cut the cherry tree.
The English astronomer, Richard A
, Proctor, whose predictions of a mag
nificent metcoric shower kept thousand
of people with their heads out of tn,
window till two O'Clock in the morning
and sent them to bed with cold in tn
head, disappointed and sold, is lecturin!
in this city on "Other Worlds an,
+ Other Suns" Many who remembe
his brilliant display Of meteors keel
away from this shower of worlds ant
f suns.
A subscription list is being circulated
in the house of representatives in aiC
of the INDECENT districts of Ireland
About scventy-five members have con
tributed, and it is expected that tie lis
will be adorned with the names of al
the members of the house, and many
dollars of our dads, before il is sent tC
the Emerald Isle. In emulation of tho
example of our national Representatives
The Irish citizens of Washington are or
ganizing with view TO secure contri
buttons from the citizens of Washing.
ton for the suffering poor of their ma.
tive land, and in view Of the proverbial
generosity of that race, we think they
will make as good showing of contribu.
lions as any other city. The Irish stand
here, in numbers, next below the col
ored people; but when any public
demonstration, involving their nation
atty, is called for from them, they ex-
hibit on our streets an astonishing mass
of drilled, able-bodied men, out of all
proper ion TO the displays of the other
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