Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-05-17
Correspondence of the Gold Hill Daily News
WASHINGTON. May G. 1879.

WASHINGTON, May 6. 1879.
Congress has the Spring fever. and
will soon have the fever and ague. Ad.
journments are frequent and p~rotracted.
When in session the individual legisla.
tor sits listlsssly before his little desk
dreaming. perhaps, Of the time when he
was . bright, intelligent school boy, or
gazing hsavenward toward the galleries,
wondering why the bsdizensd ladies
above, the gallery goddsssss. fail to eS.
cite the devotion, the enthusiasm, the
romance Of the little divinitiss with
whom, years ago. he exchanged furtive
glanoes and apples in the school room.
Alas said Charles Lamb. as he passed
the play ground Of q boys school. it
makes me sad to think those fine youths
will soon grow up to be frivolous mem.
bsrs Of Parliament.
There are some ladies in Washington
who ought to be pretty we'll acquainted
with the legislative history Of their
country. They have. to my knowledge.
displayed their exquisite p%araphonialia,
from the galleries, almost daily for six
consecutive sessions. Then there are
others who como only on occasions. The
occasions are when their Hon. husband,
or father, or brother, or uncle is to make
his greatest effort.
Thy voice Ia heard In rolling drums,
That beat to battle. whore he stands;
Toy face across his fancy comes.
And gives the battle to his hands.
A moment, while the trump-ts blow,
He sees his brood about thy knee:
The mex. like firs he meets the foe,
And strikes him dead for thine and thee"
It is remarkable, il true, that some
star.sysd woman is at the bottom of all
this. The desire to make himself at-
t~ractive to the feathered eoqustts incitss
the forest songster to split his tuneful
throat, and Darwin argues that 1t is the
same forco that causes Mr.. Garfield to
trill rev-o-lu-tion ! Well, it beats
Kslly's moter. the electric light, and the
latest improvement in churnsl
The veto thunderclap has almost
ceased to rsverberate. and the pros and
cons are staggering hither and thither
trying to brace for the next bout. The
Democratic papers Of the city arc trying
the effect Of pictorial editorials. The
Post has o ballot.bor supported by bayo.
nets, and the Sunday Go,ete has q large
prophetic woodcut, representing the
polls In 1880 guarded by soldiers with a
provost marshal endorsing tickets, and
permitting only those whom he pleases
to vote. The picture in the Gazette 10
much the finer and more artistic Of the
two. Can it be that the public is bscom-
ing tired Of political literature, such rs
1t Is, and is craving the grosscr. more
palpable expression OF caricature ? BY
looking at a picture wo take in the whole
story at . glance. without ~ eternal pro.
cession OF words. words, words, and our
brain, II we have any. is rested.
Apropos Of newspapers, do you know
that you can buy the large New York
dailies and the Philadelphia Times
cheaper in Washington than you can in
the cities where they are published9 I
buy these papers sometimes for two
cents. The nowsboys become over
stocked, or "stuck," as they call 1t, al
most every day, and are compelled to
unload at q sacrifice. Washingtonians
are forced to read papers published else
whore to learn what goes on in Congress
and in their own city.
Last night there was q mass meeting
at Lincoln Hall, in sympathy with the
Kansas colored immigrants. Speeches
were made by Senator Windham. George
@. Gorham and others. A characteristic
letter was read from Bob Ingersoll, say
ing that he would gladly have accepted
the invitation to address his fellow.
citizens at Lincoln Hall but for the fact
that the controllers OF that building (the
Y. II. @. Az had passed a resolution
denying him the privilege OF speaking
within its sacred walls, but that he en-
closed 500 to aid q little 80 great q
cause. Fred. Douglass has been making
speeches on the opposite side OF the
question. and employing all the powers
OF his remarkable %sloqusncs to persuade
his c%o-colorists to remain where they
are. He told them at Baltimore that
they were tropical plants. and that he
could think OF no moro melancholy and
inharmonious picture than q Niger in q
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