The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-12-23
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WARRINGTON, d, c.. Dec, 1S, 1882.

[FRoM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. IS, 1882.
Congress is now getting down to its
work, and with that great and sagacious
body has come to its great and varied
crowd Of adjuncts, hangers-on, camp
flowers, tooters and parasites of all kinds
and of both sexes. There are the tariff,
Banking, Indian, Whiskey, Iro and
Steel, Dakota admission, Railroad and
other lobbies small and great with their
agents and assistants whose name is le-
gion. In addition to the above there
are the innumerable smaller satellites,
male and female, which revolye singly
or in consultations around the Congress
sional luminaries. There is the lovely
and accomplished Mrs. Anonyma, who
has that celebrated claim, you know, for
her dear dead husbands services as great
counsel in the great whiskey suit. There
is the typical claimant who has grown
gray in the steady pursuit of some gigan-
tic sum Of money wrongfully withheld
perhaps, bat which every sane man
knows the gray-haired claimant will nev-
er get. Then there are the typical
Judge" and "Major," and Colonel"
whose military ranks are brevets granted
In the har-room and banded over drinks
for which none of them are ever able to
pay.
The second Star.route trial attracts
more interest here than the first, and the
prevailing opinion now is that somebody
will get hurt this time. The counsel and
defendants in the case are numerous
enough to form little jury of their own,
and they are making desperate efforts to
get their case prejudiced, Every re-
source that shrewd counsel can suggest
is being employed not only to secure &C.
lays, but to effect public opinion. AS
saults upon the Government counsel, and
upon the Court, of the most outrageous
and unheard-of nature are among their
devices. A long and varied experience
pursuaded a witty Frenohman to con.
clude that 1--WE ought only to be aston
ished that we are still able to be aston.
ished." But he had never witnessed 0
Star-route trial, with its dramatic sur.
prises. An ex-senator indicted, then in.
dignant at the delay of his trial-a delay
either necessary or proverbial-but
turned non est when called before the
array, finally coming into the erens
"smiling" and going out sorrowful. Re
turning to the contest with his war pain
on, printing two or three columns o.
battle-cries, and then falling back into
the arms of the medicine-man. There
is broad margin of eccentrlcity as
signed to every one in the embarrassed
situation which is occupied by the Gun
ming men who imposed on Mr.. Dorsey
too contiding, unsuspicious nature, bu
this charity does not extend to thei
counsel learned in the law. Human ex
perience was not fully prepared for tn,
part played by some of the counsel for th,
defense when they appeared before Judg,
Wylie and modestly requested that gen
tleman to certify to his own Judicial dis
qualification. TIE court is crowdet
daily, One of these days 1 may fin,
time and opportunity for pen sketch o
The scene presented and tho prominen
figures in it.
The recent braggadocio in the Frencl
newspapers incident to the rumor tha
the United States intends to demau,
reparstion for the wrongs of American
sailors in the Island of Madagascar,
attracting much lainful attention AN
provoking much angry comment here
The claim made by the French that O
account of the utter impotence Of ou
navy that Of France could ruin ever
American seaport is f,lt to have muc
: ground of shameful truth. And here
hne opportunity for Mr.. Robinson, {
New York, aud other dorghty member
OF Congress VIII Sc pleasant duty it ha
: hitherto been t. periodically twist IL
tai oI the British lion, to turn their II
tention to cutting the comb of the Cali
rooster, which crows SO Justify. tn
: farmer and the merchant of the islam
1 towns may often find it difficult TO AT
D preciate the need for powerful and e
4 ieotive navy, and yet it enters closely 8
| a powerful factor into the question {
| his daily expenditures. The navy of an
< mercantile and maratime nation is {
. once the pioneer and protector of its fol
= ,ign trade, and when either of the ciii
r zens named has to pay few cents NOR
for his teas or oodees, for example, bC
e cause some foreign power has monopol
lied the trade, be begins to find that
! great navy is useful after all.
! We all had a chance to look upon IA
wsll-known physiognomy of Genera