Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-03

probably never have known put TOT my Ill.,
 tercourse with him. I have been annoyed at
 the hippant way in which many of the re- porters have spoken of him, and, though it
 is perhaps rather late in the day to do so.
 wish to say something of him and how he
 impressed me. I found him and his 15dks
 ActdteS who seemed to act as a sort of a
 safety-valve to keep him from becoming too
 much engrossed in any one thing and to pre-
 vent his talking too much, for at that time Spencer was still trying to find the rest and
 quiet he so much needed when he first came,
 wandering about the National Museum try ing to gather some idea of what was intended to be done and shown by the rather chaotic mass of material scattered about, and as soon as I offered my services to tell him something about the place he seized upon me and would have me tell him all could. It wasn't much could do, though. I had merely to suggest an idea when he seemed to grasp it ID it's fullest extent and to appreciate it better than I could have expressed 1t. To say that he was hypercritical is an insult. He was full of the iveliest interest and sympa- thized with everything he saw.
 One would never have suspected him to be the profound philosopher he is. In appear ance he rather suggested an intelligent farmer who had come to Washington to ''see the sights" He was dressed in dark trav- cling suit, wore @ small soft hat and big com fortable looking shoes, and generally carried his hands clasped behind him. had imag- ined, as one involuntary does, that there would be something impressive, even awe inspiring, about him, but there was nothing of the kind. Indeed, I was rather disap- pointed at his simplicity, and yet find now, when read his books, that there is usually the same simplicity about his writings that l found in the man. True the ideas are deep, often unfaihomable, but the language IS sell dom more than the average intellect can grasp. I was amused to find that the objects which seemed to please him the most Tn the museum were 6 number Of photographs of the Zuni chiefs, who visited the East year ago, and views of their towns and countries. These are printed on the ground-glass win dows of the hall devoted to the collections from Zuni, Moqui and the other Pueblos, and are really remarkably fine specimens of the photographer art.
 We'll leaving Spencer, let us take a look at southeastern Washington, ..the part of the city that was intended to be the court end of town. l suppose most of your readers know that the Capitol faces east and really turns its back on the city. I have been told, and I suppose it is the true story, that when 1t was decided to have the city east of the Capitol the owners of property lost their heads and put the prices of real estate up to such sublime height that it was impossible to follow them, and that in consequence the city was driven off in the opposite direction.
 took drive through that part of the city
 
 1t was intended to make of the Capitol For instance Pennsylvania avenue, east of the Capitol, is laid out with park along the middle of the street, the roadways running between this park and the sidewalks this park is now ap propriated by the street cars. Then, too, there are more wide streets and more little parks and breathing places than in the same area generally, but alas. Boss Shepard knew it was useless for him to improve those wide streets, for nothing can now stem the tide that is carrying the city northwesterly and so one misses the clean concrete that m akes wheeling pleasure in the west end. On the east branch of the Potomac, beyond the Capitol and the southeast division, is the Navy Yard. I hadn't been there since a short time after the war, and, as I was then l quite young I still bore the impression then | left in my memory of great area and general | vastness, but the place seems to have l crowded and small It is dangerous to re- 1 move from one's eyes the magnifying glass 1 of time, or to insist upon having objects 1 cleared of the enlarging haze of years, isn't l 1t My visit to the Navy Yard had the same effect that return to the drill ground at | round the world and had learned to measure 1 with larger standard than the paces of an | awkward squad, or the strength Of the best | fkick' at football.
 It seems rather hard lines that Senator | Windom should have failed in his efforts i to secure re election when he has but just l finished handsome house here. I wonder ! what he will do with it It is refreshing to | know that his successor.is straight Republi- l can who has never been identified with any faction (not that mean to cast any asper sion on Senator Windom) but will he be | 
 was glad to see that exsecretary of the Nav Rnhncnr1 hoO Had ry1kI ~~1o during the debate on the naval appropriation bill. It was an insult to the whole House that three members of the Appropriation committee should attempt to control the bill without permitting the regular Naval con- mittee to have word to say as to it's con- struction or management. Poor Robeson ,as he expresses it) has been ''badly showed under" and must step down and out on the 3d of next month. He has but short time n which to work furt her mischief REX