Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-12-05
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From Our Own Correspondent
WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. /. 1879.
The Washington City Of today is
materially dfferent from what it was
twenty or thirty years ago. Then you
walked through slush and mud, and
paid fancy prices for back hire when
you TO e. Now you may walk
throug heutthe city on fine pavemeDts,
or may get into streetcar and ride
for miles for five cents. Fine build
ings have gone up on every hand. two
of the finest being the Corcoran Build
ing, known as Reporters Row." and
the Shepherd Centennial Building, cor
nor of 125h street and Pennsylvania
avenue. sss
Twas walking the other afternoon
with Hon. Kenneth Rayner, Solicitor
of the Treasury Department, When~he
pointed out to me dilapidated build.
ing on the south side of Pennsylvania
avenue as the place where Henry CLAW
was wont to take his lunch, on his
return home from night sessions of
Congress. "One night Clay was walk
ing with Mr.. WeUster,H said Judge
Rayner, " when he proposed 10 90
over to the restaurant referred to and
get the left leg of a turkey why
the left leg,3 Clay ? responded Web.
ster Because it would make a gre at
difference if there was but one lea left
replied Mr.. Clay with a twinkle of
the eye."M There are but few men in
active life who were cotemporaneous
with Mr.. Clay, the most prominent of
them being Judge Rayner, who will
sit down for hours and recount The
triumphs in debate of the peerless
Wing Leader, whose reputation ACQUIRES
additional lustre as time passes The
house on 10th street, opposite Ford's
old theatre, n whiche7th martyred
President breathed his last, has been
sold to Mr.. Schade, who publishes a
newspaper in the basement. / have
always thought that the house should
have been removed and monument
erected on the ground to the ex-Presi-
dent. The only thing remaining of
the assassin Booth is portion of his
spinal column, now preserved in alco-
hol ia the Medical Museum, formerly
Ford's Theatre, in which he shot his
victim. The United States flag,
which caught his spur as
Booth jumped from the opera box
to the stage, by which fall his leg was
broken and the alley through " hich
he gall0ped for his life, are still
pointed out 10 curiosity hunters.
The indications are that the Green
hackers wlll hold the balance of power
in the, House, The disaffection of
Congressman Speer and FELTON,, of
Georgia, is said to be serious, and one
or two Western Democrats will likely
join them. In that event, the Green
hackers will impede legislation, unless
they are given a share of the loaves
aud tishes-a cOnsu % nation devoutly
wished for by the average Congress-.
man.
L astonished President Hayes the
other day when told him that East
Tennessee had given him larger ma
jority than he got in Ohio. He agreed
with me when [ stated that in making
new State, Virginia might have been
left intact, and East Tennessee should
have enjoyed that distinction. East
Tennessee ans covered themselves with
glory during the late unpleasantness,
and one of the mistakes of the Repub.
lican party was in not discriminating
them from their dislOyal neighbors. l
hope the day is not far distant
when your people will send able and
influential representatives. to Congress,
to the end that their claims upon the
Republican party may be fOrcibly and
successfully presented.
The friends of Hon. Horace May
nard, in several of the Southern
| States, are talking him up with great
| His record as Union man during
| the war makes him more available IS
candidate than Judge Settle. or any
one mentioned for that honor from he
| South. If any Southerner is given the
nomination, [ am of the opinion that
it will be Mr.. Maynard. whose reputa.
ton for, ability and integrity is
National in character.
1t is known here that it is at Speak
er RandalPs instance that the Louis
lana Democracy are about to change
the mode of electing Presidential cleo
tors in that State. 1t is believed here
that the Florida Legislature will re-
sort to a similar device to stif1e the
voice Of the Republican MAORI y
there. Now, [ am not one of those
who would counsel the Republicans to
engage inssuch questionable acts, as
subverting so time honored system
as that in vogue for electing Presiden'
tial Electors, but the Democratic
leaders should be given to I'M
derstand that if they continue
to perform such glaripgly political
chicanery, the Republicans will be
forced TO do the same thing in New
York and Connecticut, and thus
efectually settle all of their Presi-
Dental aspirations.
Over one hundred families of col
ored emigrants from North Carolina,
passed through this city last week foi
Indiana, where they will be employed
as laborers, house servants, etc. The
West is teeming with plenty, and il
Southern Democrats persist in deny
ing equal rights to the negroes, they
/ will have no alternative left them bui
to repair TO other localities where they
may enjoy all the prerogatives vouch'
safed them by our admirable Consti'
tuition.