Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-05-24

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BILE Adjournmens Of Conxrcss.
Correspondence Of the Gold Hill Daily Hews.l
w~AsHrSoroS, May II. 1879.
The annual council OF the regents Of
the Ladies' Mount Vernon Associs-
ton" is to meet at Mount Vernon. June
4. Mrs. Laushton. the regent. will pro-
side for the first tine in three years.
Last year she was in Europe. and the
previous year her husband was too Ill for
her to attend. She is now at her
country place. Torresdals, near Phila-
dslphia. She has not been in Washing
ton since shs left with her husband
eighteen months ago. She will. as Is
customary when the council meets. re-
main at Mount Vernon during its SEES
sion. The vice regents from the several
States also spend their nights as we'll as
days in tho old homestead during the
meetings Of the council. There are
many in Washington who will rejoice to
see Mrs. Laughton here again. There
are three vice regents to be appointed
when the council meets. One will sue.
coed the lady who represented Missouri,
who has died suddenly, another Is To be
appointed from Kentucky. None, save
those who visited Mt. Vernon before the
present regent, Mrs. Laughton and Col.
Hollingsworth. the superintendent, as
sumsd its direction, q appreciate its
great improvement under their manage.
ment. Within eight years the house
has been changed from al uniurnished
barn.like place to q mansion, almost n
tirsly furnished and containing many
objects which would be OF interest apart
from their present situation. Tho furni.
ture now there is all OF the date at which
George Washington and his wife resided
there, sven II It was never owned by
them or their relatives. Most Of It,
however, was used either by themselves
or their intimate friends.
Since tho organization OF the select
committee on the Freedmen's Bank, OF
which Senator Bruce is the chairman,
many letters have been received by him
from depositors in various Southern
cities, ~anxiously inquiring as to tho
prospect OF receiving any further divi.
dsnds. 1t has already been announced
that the committee proposes to hold its
frst meeting on one day Of next week,
and 1t can be stated for the qualification
Of the numerous creditors Of the concern
that II is the earnest purpose Of all the
members to adopt some plan whereby
the remaining assets OF the concern can
be prohtably realized upon. aud the eI.
penses attending the winding up OF its
affairs be very considerably reduced. It
is claimed by experts who have looked
into the matter that the management OF
the affairs Of the institution can be as
well conducted at an expense not OK
cseding one.third Of the present annual
outlay. Aproposition has been preached
to place the institution under the man.
agement OF tho Treasury Department,
but the Treasury officials intimate that
they do not take kindly to the idea, and
IL is not impossible that some better plan
may be suggested.
Pennsylvania avenue is q never-failing
picture OF interest; 1t Is always full Of
people coming from unknown regions
and going to unknown regions. In the
evening there is q crowd around q car.
riags and span OF horses, Q man IL auc-
pioneering his goods, his wife is tho
silent partner handing up the articles,
which he praises to their full value. He
has the attention OF the crowd, wants
their money. and therefore sets himself
to persuade them to want his goods.
BY day some one in the same prominent
locality has the tslsscopist with his in.
strument, ten cents q look, but there is
no great crowd around him; there are
too many people out OF work, hungry
and suffering. They have no money to
pay for star.gazing. The t~elsscopist is
q psripatetio Snowman, somewhat Of q
philanthropist, for his programmes mix
up astronomical information and the
wisdom OF Solomon "Never be idle,"
make few promises" "Speak the
truth" etc. He finds more patronage
in Maine and Massachusetts than any
where, and Baltimore does more star
gazing than Washington. The next
group stops for the Hon. Alexander
Stephens in his carriage. at his hotel,
the Washington. They lift him out like
. child; he stands up tall, emaciated to
q skeleton; a a on each side walks
him along as you teach q baby to walk.
His face is wizened. pale; the stranger
would think him a consumptivo, taking
his last ride.
A residence in Washington is as try
ing q test to church people as removal
to the Far West, whore a mans religious
profession often becomes as broad as the
p~rairies and about as intangible. There
Is plenty OF church.going, but the spir-
itual atmosphere is rather foggy, or
sometimes too sristocratic. Mr.. Moody
did not como any nearer than Baltimore;
he may have been afraid he should have
had to shake off the dust from his feet
and therefore turned his face another
Wy.
Washington Is full Of colored people;
this Ia their Mecca. Marshal Douglas is
their great man, q very Samson OF
strength. He has q fine residence on
the elevated land beyond the Anacoski
river. The house il painted ~lsad.color,
with white trimmings, and stands in q
grove Of cypress trees. They tell us
Mr.. Douglas owns houses in the city and
. fine place on Capitol Hill. His own
people look upon kim % Q man with
Alladin's lamp, a. II they forgot that
with every inch q man must work; no
man olides down hill IN success: he