Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-01-29
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
From our REGULAR Correspondent.

quietuS. democrats, uFeenDackers anu
Republicans united in demolishing it,
and il is as dead as door nail, in so far
as the 18th Congress is concerned.
Weaver, of Iowa, paid his respects to
General Logan during the course OF the
debate, in trying to get even with Lo'
gan, for asserting that the proposition
of Weaver to- pay the soldiers in gold,
was demagogical. If SO much of these
personal attentions was not to lie taken
in the Pickwickian sense, we would say
that Mr.. Weaver fairly skinned the
swarthy sharer in the salary grab steal.
The Senate still labors assduously from
IL to l.30 o'clock from Monday till
Thursday and then adjourns over to
Monday, while the House pegs along at
its "Revision of Rules;n hence legisla
lively speaking, all is quiet on the Po
tomac. sam Cox fairly outdid himself
in real wit and humor in his recent re.
ply to Mr.. llorr, of Michigan, who as.
sumes to be the Republican jester, and
who, few days since, attacked Mr.
Cox with great sarcasm and ridicule
upon some trivial question. Nothing
equal to it ever before came from sam,
and for an hour he kept the House in a
roar OF laughter with his witticisms, di.
rected at the ponderous gentleman
from Michigan, whom he compared to
Falstaf in safety from eternal punish.
ment, whom as Shakespeare SAID, the
devil would pever have damned lest the
the oil in him in should set hell on fire.
The outrages committed by negroes
upon the persons of our citizens continue
to fearful extent. In our last we
chronicled the cold blooded murder of
Mr.. Hirth by four colored men. Since
then prominent lumber dealer, Mr.
Libby, was dangerously beaten while
attempting TO save policeman from
deadly assault. Another, a Mr.. IIar.
man, was knocked senseless with a
brick thrown by one of two negroes
who met him in one of our crowded
streets. A stranger was a'so severely
hurt while passing through Lincoln
/ Park and it does seem that between OF
fences against person and property Sam.
DO is holding n carnival Of crime in our
midst which unless checked may lead
to serious consequences, yet the radicals
are moving heaven and earth TO secure
the right OF suffrage for him in order
that he may rule here again through
his votes. Pandora's box and negro
suffrage are kindred evils and the Dis.
trIct would be as prosperous under the
one as the other. We would AS soon
entrust our interests TO ghouls as TO the
average colored voters who live and
swarm in our slums and hells.
| The Grant boom is on the wane here.
| The dead beats who have been out to
grass, and have grown lean since 1877
sent Grant out of the White House, are
losing their influence.
The Women's National Suffrage Con.
yention has been in full blast here since
the 2lst, and presents greater array
of feminine talent than any of its pre-.
decessors. Miss Susan b. Anthony is
the presiding officer, and she performs
her duty with the utmost self.possession,
and apparent fullest knowledge of
parliamentary law and the responsibili.
ties Of her position. She seems born
to command and to preside. Every
angularity of her physiognomy, form
and character-and no single point
seems rounded with an atom Of the
line OF beauty and symmetry--display
that force and decision of mind reQui-
site to enable the control and directi on
OF others, s,.while her tongue moves as
rapidly and incisively as that of Kathar.
ina before Petruchio tanned her bellee eer
ency. Our Mrs. Sarah Spencer is the
secretary, and though she lacks Miss
/ AnthoDy's angularity, for she is hand.
some and graceful, yet she has a vim
and intellect that fits her also for lead.
ership, which she never hesitates to as.
sumo whenever Congressional commit
tees are to be addressed, or bodies of
men harrangued. Mesdames Gage,
Stanton, and a score of other prominent
suffrage advocates are among the dele.
gates, and as Misses Phoebe Cozzens.
Devereux, and other talented spinters,
assist in the pow-wow, your readers can
readily appreciate that the wondrous
suffrage question is being ably and fully
handled. They promise US, rs in the
past convention, the millennium when.
ever granted the ballot through their
desired Constitutional amendment.
Not speaker buthas told us that given
the right to vote, women would nut
down the Infamous national traffic in
whisky, and reform all the evils Incl
dent to our political institutions. OBJ.
servation in Wyoming Territory, where
women vote unrestrictedly, has render.
ed us perfectly skeptical upon all these
assumptions. Butthe fact remains that
no convention, of either sex, ever as.
sembled in Washington which exhibit.
ed more talent and general ability than
this one.
The inevitable DIR. Mary Walker, Of
course, appears, but on the background,
for her sisters will not admit her TO full
equality, owing to her extreme radical
views upon dress and society usages.
DIR. Mary has assumed full male attire,
even TO wearing shortened hair, natty
little cane and gentleman's hat. BE.
yond all this eccentricity is the fact
that she, in contrast with Mrs. Stanton,