The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-01-15
Washington Letter.
From our regular Correspondent

us assurance that the Union Is safe,
even IL in Maine the political cauldron
is boiling ut a white heat. Our Scna
tors aud members dropped into their
places on the 9Th rs quietly and nat
urally rs If no long vacation had
intervencd since the last days work
Mr.. Randall cooked his eyeglasses,
squinted his eyes, and threw back his
head in the manner peculiar to him
self when in the chair, and went
promptly into business. In the SEN
ate the mattcr.of-tnc proceedings
obtained and now Congacss Is In the
harness again for long pull, rs we
think, though WE are promised u short
session hy the legislators, and the
daily Post, the leading Democratic
paper here, is strongly urging, as y
national necessity, that Congress ad-
iourn long prior to the presidential
conventions in June. This is all very
pretty talk, but past experience, if it
be Il criterion, shows that Congress
Is, the first year, no matter what the
country demands. II l. impossible to
expect the passage of the appropria-
tion bills till just before Adjournment
for so many steals and swindles are
embraced in them that common pru-
dcnce dictates to those interested the
prolongation of the session until
such II time as an adjournment Toe.
comes Il necessity and then drives the
appropriation measures though both
houses under the lash % haste and
has ever been the rule, and we ven
turc the prediction that 1880, rs in
past even years, will require our sum-
mcr heats and Potomac flats malaria
TO force Congress into rustication.
The residence Of ex-senator Stewart
Of Nevada, was recently nearly des-
trOyed by fire. Castle Stewart rs
it is lnmiliarly called, has been one of
our curiosities, hence its partial de-
struction has excited more than ord-
nary interest. senator Stewart was
one of the so-called "Rcal Estate
Ring" which, purchasing large areas
of vacant grounds in West End" in
1870, induced the investment, 10y the
British government, of several hun
Il ed thousand dollars in the purchase
Of lots from them and erection of IL
residence aud Office for its minister
and embassy. Mr.. Stewart followed
with his castle, eXpending on it at
least 500, Ou0 other members invested
largely in houses, and, us II conse-
quence of their shrcwd management
OF capital, so strong an impetus was
given to real estate in that section of
the city that our aristocracy adopted
ii as the fashionble quarters, and have
nearly covered it with costly resi-
dences. Hundreds of acres of COM
mons which, during the war, were
occupied only with sparse huts and
shanties of those who herded their
cattle and goats upon them as public
pasturages, are now covered with
stately dwelling-hollses that II plebian
hardly dare enter on any preteXt.
Castle Stewart stands II monument to
mark this change, which has given
Washington its best ornament-true
progress-and though reverses have
since rendered the Senator bankrupt,
and sent him back to his practice of
law for his daily bread, we here can
have only the kindliest of feelings for
him. 1t is curious to note the de-
probation which has occurred in the
values of the household furniture and
decorations ofCastle Stewart. Though
costing over 100000, when new, an
appraiser now estimates them to be
worth about $4,000. Lace curtains
that cost 81 600 pair in Paris, in
1871, are valueless of course, AMI so
with much which gave the Castle"
its paltatial features when the Senator
was in the hight of his glory. His
gorgeous temple" has faded TO him
out " uS ~ auu XII CNtlldSlluS DcnCnt
remains.
We alluded, last week, to Miss Hor-
tons attempt to shoot the son of Sena.
tor Morgan, of Alabama. Since then
she his been admitted to bail, Mrs.
Belva Lockwood becoming her surety,
and has been provided with a COM
Portable home by Mrs. Spencer, who
with other so-called strong-minded
women, took her in charge, as she
was i'll necessitous condition. Miss
Horton alleges against Morgan not
only seduction and breach OF marriage
promise, but the vlest persecution
since she came here to enter suit
against him. She got a place in the
Treasury and lost it through his char
ges. Wherever she went to Il board
ing-house, he followed her with SLAM
der and had her turned into the street
and to such extent did his persecution
go that she was driven to desperation,
so that she felt irresistibly impelled
to Kill him Another allegation is,
that she was promised relief if she
would return him the letters he wrote
her, on which she based her suit for
damages. Her statements are i'm
DlicitlV believed Inv those who baVo