The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-10

whip aud after fooling with him
awhile handed 1t back. The negro
then ran to his cart and seizing piece
of gas pipe about q feet in length he
returned to the fray. The captain of
the company demonstrated with him
to no avail, when on his continuing to
call the boys names, they made rush
for the colored gentleman who ran
followed by the crowd. Turning on
his heel lie struck the foremost soldier
with his gas pipe knocking him
fiatter than Il pancake. The hue and
cry was then raised and the way that
darkey took leg bail for security has
not been excelled in that section for
years. He escaped and it is well he
did.
No person who has visited WASH
ington for as short time as we did but
that wishes to renew the visit. A
gentleman OH the train told a gentle.
man from Ridgway that Washington
was the most interesting city on
the face of the globe, and he
had been in nearly all the principal
cities of Europe and other great
divisions of the old world. The
Capitol alone would consume days, were
one to examine the numerous works
of art that abound in the gigantic
structure. Theu the other places of
interest would occupy weeks and
weeks. and still the mind woulo not
tire of the endless panorama of won-
1erful sights to be seen in the Amer
lean capital. "See Naples and die"
was the proverh of those who lived in
other cimes, but see Washington and
live with IL firmer belief in the stabi'-
ity and grandure of our institutions.
No American should fail to visit the
Capital city, il only for day, for then
would all say with the feeling of pride
that swelIed in the breast of the im-
mortal Webster, II was born an
American, live an American and
with the grace of God I shall die an
American Time has proved in the
location Of the Capital as in many
other matters the great wisdom and
foresight of the founders of the Re-
public. Volumes have been written
on this subject, and yet other volumes
can be written and the subject not
be exhausted.
TO see Washington is good but to
see the city on the OCCASION of the
Inauguration of President is better.
Countless thousands of people cluster
around the grand stand at the east
front Of the capitol to witness the
inauguration of james A. Garfield.
He steps with manly tread from the
ranks of the common people to take
in his hand the scepter of authority
over 50, O0o, 900 of people, and there is
no objection. No family name makes
his title to the the position secure, no
long line of ancestry backs his COM
ing. Quite the contrary. From the
towpath to the presidency is the tale
of his elevation, illustrating the daz.
zling possibilities that are within the
reach of every youth in the land who
is willin5 with patient toll and honest
purpose to cline the towering ladder
Of fame. What one man has done
another may do. At the same time
we see another man step from his ex
allied place back to the ranks OF tn,
common people. In this act is the
grandure of our free institutions made
more transparent. And more firmly
are we grounded in the belief that the
foundations of the government lai,
10y Washington, and Jefferson, SUP,
ported by their children will be secure
and sound even after the march of the
relentless centuries shall have crum
bled the pyramids into dust and
lowered the majesty of the column o
Trojan.
The night of March 4th ushered in
one of the grandest display of fire
works that the city had ever known
The crowd was an immense one thai
witnessed the sublime sight. Such
Il pushing and surging mass we haC
never mingled among, and it wa.
with great difficulty that foot hold
could be retained. From the Capito
to the Treasury building where the
main fireworks display was made
which is a distance of one and hal
miles down Pennsylvania avenue, .
dense crowd of men, women and child
ren, filled to packed suffocalion th,
broad thoroughfare.
Leaving Washington at 81 o'clocF
Saturday evening we arrived at Ridg
way Sunday evening at about {
o'clock Quite change, commencin.
at Harrisburg WAS noticed in the as
pect Of Nature. While at Washing
ton the weather was fine, and thu
snow nearly all vanished. we wer,
now confronted with snow from eigh
teen inches to two feet in depth. Anc
AS Capt. Sch9ning. marched the com
pany into town lie took particular
pains to march us through snow up t,
our waists.
All agree that the trip to Washing
ton was a great success.