The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-11-15
FROM WASHINGTON
Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.
WASHINGTON, Nov, 81 1885,


man who was the most positive that his
choice had been elected was put down as
having the least information.
With the exception of the crowds about
the newspaper offices, whose constancy
seemed equal to awaiting the inaugura.
ton of the new president, the other in.
terested parties seemed either satisfied
that the election had "gone their way,
or were weary OF whiting for returns that
con tanned but little comfort, and many
went home to very general extent.
The feeling to be of disgust with the in.
terminably contradictory dispatches, ,aud
a common expression was Lets wait for
the morning papers
A feature Of the suspense which char.
acterizes this campaign is the tampering
with the wires of the rival companies OF
the Western Union. Iu this city the
headquarters of the Congressional Dem
ocratic Committee on T Street, supplied
" NhS o"ihhiOio auu OulO 1SltSIhpll
Company, we're deprived of the returns
for several hours last Wednesday, the
wire running into the committees rooms
having been cut, A line man was sent
to investigate the trouble, while members
of the committee also took the matter in
hand. The cut was at last found and
the wire spliced 1t was a clear cut. and
evidently the work of an experienced
hand. A brokers' Office on F street was
suspected.
In Baltimore the same trouble was ex-
perienced. The Baltimore and Ohio
Company was engaged to supply the
Maryland Club, Academy of Music,
Crescent Club and other places. The
wires were tested at o'clock aud found
all right, but soon after Z o'clock it was
discovered that they had been tampered
with. Investigation showed that they
had been tied with wire, or connected
with smaller wire to lightning rods or
iron pipes attached to buildings, thus
destroying the circuit. The, tampering
showed the work of experienced hands.
The company has offered a reward Of
$500 for the arrest and conviction of the
offenders.
The firing of salute of 100 guns in
Judiciary Square at 7 O'Clock last night,
announced that the Democrats were tired
of the bluff game of the Republicans.
Assured by undoubted dispatches from
Democratic headquarters of Cleveland's
election, and resolved to pay no more
attention to the figures of the Associated
Press, the local Democrats fired their
guns in triumph.
Thousands of the department clerks
were bulldoZed into contributing money
which they could not afford to part with.
Many of them had to put off payments
to the grocer and butcher in order to
meet the demands of the Clnpp agency,
or such intimidators as Ellis Spear.
They gave reluctantly, and would not
have given at all hid they not been
made to feel that if they failed to meet
the demands for contributions they need
not expect to hold their places after the
4th of March in case of Mr.. Blaine's
election. Now that Mr., Blaine is defeat
ed, these clerks are beginning 10 under
stand the extent and character of the
wrong perpetrated on them-a mean and
cruel wrong, disgraceful to the party and
its agents. They are realizing too late
that they should haye trusted 10 the law
to protect them, and declined to be bull
dozed into parting with much needed
funds.
The Congressional Cemetery at Wash
in9ton is called SO simply because there
are no Congressman buried there. 1t Is
beautiful plat of ground in which there
are lot Of stumpy, dwarfy pieces of
granite boulders erected, with the names
of deceased Congressmen chiseled out
upon one side, and the date left blanl;
IN those cfses where the biographer was
too lndolent to look it up. William
Writ and few of the prominent figures
in the army and nava! service have actu-
ally been buried here, and doubtless
their remains still lie here, but generally
speaking it is not place for permanent
interment. Henry Clay was buried here
but Kentucky demanded that the bones
OF her son should nourish her own soil
and as soon as the monument had beer
erected over his grave his remains wer,
eXhumed and taken to Lexington. An,
sen BullinGame was also buried here fol
a while, and so was Preston s. Brook.
whom Burlingame had challenged tc
mortal combat for a difficulty prowins
ont of Brooks assault upon Mr.. Sumner
In fact one can read the events making
up the Congressional history of the past
forty years by the Inscriptions upon
these rough, and uncouth blocks. Here
We read of Henry Winter Davis, of Rob
ert Rantoul, of Thad. Stevens, of Tristan
Burgess and an army of others whose
public career has done much toward
shaping the destinies of our great coun.
try and this great people, aud live ovel
again the epoch in which they enacted
their several parts. Ono of the most
remarkable of the memorial stones here
is the monument erected to the memory
of twenty-three young girls who were in.
simultaneously hurled to eternity by the
arsenal explosion in 1864. The names oi
these girls are all inscribed upon the sides
of the shaft which is inclosed in a small
plat Of ground. and which on each reeur'
ring Decoration Day is filled with tn,
choicest floral gifts of the relatives and