The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-08-08
Wa3hinyton Letter.
,From our regular Correspondent


| in Washington again before the middl
| of September. | should not expect hin
to stay away much later than that date
His plans for seeking quiet repose in tn
woods of Northern New York have al
| ready been sufficiently published. H
! evidently intends to come back fresh il
rl,e autumn for the hard work that mus
| pr,cedr the session Of Congress, and, in
l I'd, must continue while Congress- /
| h .ro. But it should not be thought thu
t!.e President is going to be simply idl
during his absence. For five mouths b
las been constantly denied the oppor
Unity no seeks to ponder CAREFUL.
many important topics and to study tn
national questions which are somewha
new to him. This opportunity he vii
ave while absent from Washington
and it will he Of great advantage t.
i'm.
DR.. Newman is reported to have sale
hat the memorial to bc erected owe
General Grants body should not b.
conventional and meaningless, like tbs
granite shaft erected to homer Washing
ton at the Capital" DIR. Newman's
opinion upon such IL matter is not "'
nuch importance, but there are othcr+
,ho ought to knew better about The
Washington Monument. Those, how
yer Who live within sight Of the grra
hiatt know that the design jnstifss it
,elf. In the homely phrase Of the hous
,old, "the Monument grow. on you.
1t has grown to he y part OF the dali
If, of thousands who have never Ola.
lyz.d their feelings in regard to it. IN
consciously tho eye seeks it, and dwell
upon it. Its vastness and simplicity
lilies it with nature, and it affects the
mind after time, Ms flo the sea, thu
Ike. the cataract and the mountain
As VII great natural objects have, it ha'
$ moods. II has many aspects. In thu
grey Of early morning, in tho bright
sunshine Of noon, in the mellow evening
IN tho starlight, in t's deeper darkness,
the Monumen, gives distinct and..sera-
-.te impressions to the beholaer. Th'
.tLering ,nistS, the driving rain, the
gently alling snow, the f,rce lightning
n seem to have purpose in their dsa
Jugs with the great shaft AS they d.
.hsn they come to surround toHerr &
rag or fall upon the tossing ocean.
:rncral Grants friends will Il" bate,
han ! think they will if they obtain 70
i'm 3. s,tistao; Dry u memorial as is tn
Washington Monument.
The court-martial Of Payma,t.
General Smith i. dragging its slo
sngth along this hot "ea'Le'. 1t i
fought that the testimony may he .
mis- I'd some day this wc'k aud the a,
: .ment begun. This is one Of ,hc not
u nsrkabls courts martial ever held in
Navy in time Of p ace. The prtse'
ureau. of the Navy were rs'ablislr
1872, aid until the recent cour,
martial u Surgeon General Wal,
,src never WAS, | believe, n trial Il
cad Of bureau. The court is Al imp
a. one. All sit with their full unitorI.
II except the judge advocate, Lie"
.emlcy, who is 80 active that aresnla
inform would be little burdsnsome
ic wears whi,e dress uniform. I
v,cuscd, Of c-urs-, is in uniform. IL
ttorncys OH both sides are contesti'.,
he case vigorously.
A Boston paper says that "Wa.hinx
OH has had a temperature Of abou
ninety degrees Cor something like fort
nyht, but there seems to be all ut,e
in iscrcmcr to vaca, ions on the part o.
Employees this year, in spite Of the ex
raordinary inducement to get AVA.
Which tho temperature offers" 1t h"
long been the fashion t. write abou
Washington as a hot and unhealthy
place in summer. As a matter Of fact il
the heal,hiest city in the Eastern
States. And during the hot spell tn,
thermometer docs not rise as high AZ i
does in Baltimore, Philadelphia, ane
New York, while cases If sunstrok'
| are almost unknown. Washington il
| really one Of the most desirable places
,or summer residence.
The 306 medals struck off for thu
de sgates who voted for Grant in tn,
| republican convention Of 1876, ar
better appreciated now than they wer
three or four years ago Ono of then