Mi mi H f I 1 Tr7clrl AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER. ".jJTit.iSS-' Yolt "VII. JVow Bloomfi eld, Tuesday, 3Iiircli 4, 1873. - . 1 TVo. O. pt Io0infidtr pints. IS P0I1U8II1ID IVEUT TUESDAY MORNING, BT FEANE JSOETIMER & CO., At New Bloomfleld, Terry Co., Ta. Heine provided with Bteam Tower, and large Cylinder and Job-Presses, we are prepared to do all kinds of Job-l'ilnting in good style and at Low Prices. , ADVEUTI8IXO KATKSl Tranttint 8 Cents per lino for one Insertion 18 ' " two insertions 15 " " "three insertions Bnalness Notices In Local Column 10 Cents per line. Notices of Marriages or Deaths Inserted free. Tributes of Respect, &c, Ten cents per line. YEARLY ADVERTISEMENTS. f)ne Inch one year 10,no Two inches " " $ 18.00 OTs-For lonper yearly adv'ts terms will be given upon application. The Female Lobby. Life iu Wnshinetou. Bt, DONN PIATT. AT any time during the session of Con gress one anto room to the Senato Chamber is filled with females gathered in groups about tho learned law-makers, or attracting them singly. Some of them are wives or daughters of the Senators, somo are strangers visiting the capital ; but the majority is made up of women pressing claims before Congress. To get a better look at those feminine agents,'' one must visit the lobby to the rear of the Speaker's chair in the House of Representatives. It is a long low cor ridor under tho reporter's gallery, finished and furnished in the same florid style pe culiar to the entire building. On tho same side are doors opening to tho hall of the House, on the other the Speaker's pri vate room, originally intended for the families of the members, but of late so iuvaded and occupied by the female lobby, that families of members shun the place, and tho Spoakor himself is driven to the Clerk's ofilco when ho wishes to see a friend or write a note, lloro' we find the female lobby in all its glory. It appears clad in all tho tints of the rainbow and fairly dazzles ono with its display of jewelry. Some of this is cheap, but most of it is really costly. To the man of the world the dress is a shade too vulgar and the manner slightly loud and coarse. Some are young and fresh, but the majority are on the wrong side of -forty, with a hard look about their faces, and lines that are tracks of tried feelings past disappointments. - "The average Congressmen is not a man of the world. lie marries before he achieves greatness, and bis knowledge of life is limited to a very primitive social condition, whore he encountered and wed the plain, homely little woman who shares with his elevation without adding much to its dignity or grace. When such a man comes within reach of the more ordinary specimens of these legislative Dolilahs, he is somewhat intoxicated by their attentions . and votes away vast domains, subsidies ' or huge monopolies, under the influence of two tender eyes or ' the confidential tap of a saudle-wood fan. The study of the average Congressman from a social, or, Indeed, any point of view, is not only of interest, but important, if we wish to un derstand and appreciate the working of our free institutions. Taken from the common walks of life, he finds himself translated out of a little office where pov erty waits on business, and an humble home, barely possessed of the ordinary com forts of life, to the gorgeous magniQ ceuoe of a marble palace gorgeous be yond his wildest dreams. As he approach es its many entrances, obsequious servants bend before him and the roaglo doors swing on easy hinges, as if conscious of his rights and privileges ; nimble pages obey bis slightest wish and anticipate his needs. His mail matter suddenly swells to an enormous extent. The average Congressman appreciates the mail matter. It costs him nothing and indicates his great ness. In the committee room where his delegated body reposes in a velvet cushion ed chair, under ceilings where gorgeous freseoings weary the eye, he has a realizing greatness. This Is not diminished when the committee, after half an hours heavy labor on public, affairs, draws the bottle from a hidden recess of the heavily curved walnut closets, a bottle with which to re fresh their gigantic minds. The average Congressman revols in sta tionery. The man who never read a book with a taste for reading, and regarded pen, ink and paper as punishments, suddenly wakens to a thirst for stationery. He seizes on hot-pressed satin surface, gilt edge, French, English and Yankee paper 1 How he does eye and grasp the snowy envelopes neatly packed and put at his disposal I He makes a requisition for his stationery in the house, and sends it to his boarding house to astonish his wife. In the committee room tho clerk, if he is an amiable man, draws other and further stationery for him. Much depends upou this. Once the Com mittee on Commerce was honored by my presonce as a clerk to the same. Some days after I was duly installed the mes senger entered the committee room laden with stationery, in response to my requi sition. 'Hero Colonel," said the obliging mes senger, "lock this up and don't let tho Congressmen have any, they waste it so." But it is when the average Congressman, first comes, in contact with the female lob by, that he realizes his translation. These are to him, refined, fascinating and beau tiful creatures. His poor little homely wife fades into naught. His lifo seems to have been barren until then and now he regrets the early marriage- that shuts him out from a union with one of these elegant women ! Thoro ore two sorts of processes by which fraudulent legislation is ' perfected. One is called "ring," which means a combina tion of rogues for some purpose i the othor is called the "lobby," and designates agents living hero, and employed by rings and individuals to push their evil schemes through Congress. . I have mado the acquaintance of several specimens of thoso two sorts of jackals, and propose photographing thorn some day to enlighten my readers as to the nature of this branch of our Nationid Legislature, that costs the people more than the legiti mate law-making power, tho judiciary and tho executive. I was turning this over in my mind du ring the late session while I sat on tho sofa in the Cave of the winds, listening to the blowing to and fro about me, when I hap pened to cast my eyes to the ladies' gallery above, and out of the gloom saw a memo ry come in the shape of a fair face. Tliese galleries were not constructed with an eye to effect, so far as fomalo loveliness is con cerned, as tho dim light from above gives a ghastly paleness that not only destroys the beauty but seriously damages the ex pression. : Under the circumstances the face failed to locate itself, and my memory was dim and uncertain as the flashes of a former lifo that come to us at times be tween sleeping and waking. I was so disturbed and haunted by this memory, that I loft my seat and sauutered into the gallery, seating myself near my fair friend, and without rudely staring I found my mind gradually gathering up the disjointed fragments of the past, until the fair face was framed in and located. It was a very sweet face, not so young as it was, bnt with a prevailing expression of childlike innocence. Add to this a man ner of great refinement, set off and adorn ed in the extreme of the fashion, bnt sub dued to the best taste and most artistic harmonizing of colors, and I had an old acquaintance before me. Although I look ed my fair friend in the face, I saw that she had either forgotton me or was not dis posed to renew the acquaintance. She was talking in a quiet, basy manner to ft well known member of Congress, and I consid erably withdrew as if I had been looking in the face of an utter stranger, instead of one well known in times gone by. An hour afterwards I happened to be on the entrance to the Senate Chamber, where the multitude of marble steps seemed to run out and flow down, whoh my fair friend came by, accompanied by her Congression al escort, late of the gallery, and almost brushed me with her dress the two de scended. I saw a neat private carriage, drawn by a handsome pair of bays, and driven by a coachman in livery, drive up. My friend of the law making power helped the lady in with a bow ; the door swung to with a bang, and the fair one drove away, while the Solon came up the steps, humming a tune and snapping his fingers, as if especially pleased with him self. Having a speaking acquaintance, 1 begged pardon for my ourloslty, and asked Solon the name of his friend. "Mrs. , of New York," was the quiet response. The whole of theso surroundings were apparently so lifelong and respectable, and so entirely different from those that I be lieved formerly hedged in tho lady, that I was in doubt. But no; tho longer I thought upon the mattor, the more I felt satisflod of the identity.' And the remembrance was singular. Whilo detained in Washington during the war, awaiting orders, I was in vited by a brother officer to a wine supper. The people giving the entertainment were strangers, but taking my frionds word, I went. I was particularly struck with two of the guests one a slender youth with largo, dark eyes, and a broad, thoughtful forehead, whom I took for an Italian or a Frenchman his name has sinco taken its place upon the roll of immortality ; pinned there by tho most fearful crime ever com mitted the Othor a beautiful woman of twenty, in fact, but much younger in ap pearance. I found this young lady ex ceedingly charming, as she was not only lovely in person, but lively in mind. We broke up at a late hour of tho night, or rather at an early hour of the morning, aud being ordered away a few days after the wine supper and merry peoplo there assembled, soon passed from mind iu tho hurried eventful life of , tho camp. They were destined to return. Could tho future have been anticipated, death would have sat at our board that night, and phantom visions of dreadful events dimmed the glit tering lights, and settled in horrible gloom on tho , countenances , of tho assembled guests. t . . , , To one death would have said: .."I will claim you at Chancellorsville," to anothor: " We will meet at night and I will save you from the gallows." i Of that littlo assembly in the supper room, two only survive I and another. While we wore here in command at Bal timore, and after Col. Fish got into his difficulty with Baker, so that I had for a time immediate control of the Provost Marshall's office, I received a card at tho Eutaw IIouso, from a lady waiting to see me in the parlor. Repairing to the re ception room I found my fair friend of the wine supper at Washington. So far as her beauty went sho . remained the same, but her wardrobe evinced straightened circum stances, of poverty. She gave me a long acoouut of her troubles, and wound up by offering to go to Richmond in the employ of the government, and return with all tho information she oould gather up for tho war department, in Washington. I at once engaged her, but did not send so suspic ious looking an agent into tho enemy's country until after I had given her a fair trial in Baltimore. She proved the most adroit, cunning, self possessed detective that I ever saw or road of. She afterwards made two successful trips to Richmond, re turning with valuable information, although Mr. Stanton had no question but that she took to tho Confederates as" much as she brought away. I left the army, and saw and heard tio more of my pretty little detective until the day I mot her in the ladies' gallery so ele gantly gotten up and surrounded. That is, if she really were the same. All doubt on this subject was removed by a note I received the next day, inviting mo to an interview at the fair woman's lodgings. I found her surrounded with elegant up holstery, and yet more fascinating in tho delicate morning robe that so adorns a beautiful woman by the concealed ' effort to adorn. A tall, square built, iron gray man of an intensely respeotable appearance was introduced as her husband, and as long as he remained no allusion was made however to the past, othor than the few words of in troduction as an old and valuod friend. Soon as he left, however, she turned and said : " How kind of you not to recognize me yesterday. My poor heart was in my mouth when I saw you approach. But you have such tact you have such a kind heart ; I was relieved in a moment when I saw that you started as if only attracted by my charms." "," , "Why, wouldn't your husband put up with the part you are, I suppose, conceal ing from him?" " My husband 1" and she gave a silvery little laugh" My ' husband, that fellow 1 Why he isn't my husband. ' Tjut if the Hon. you Baw me with yesterday, were to suspect for a moment, I would be ruined." " Come now, this is interesting ; tell me all about it. What little game are you up to? Believe me, I won't betray you." "That's clover) you never have, and I don't add to risk by ; telling you. Well, I ant no longer a detective, a spy ; I am lobby agent. It is my business to persuade honorable members to voto for my bill." " What is your bill ?" ' , , "The one I am employed to worry through."' " Well, does it require a sham husband, a handsome carriage, and all this sort of thing to set up a lobby agent ?" " Certainly. Without a husband I would not be respectable ; without a carriage and all this evidence of wealth I could not be attractive. It pays, however. I could re tire now on a hundred thousand. , But I am horribly ambitious ; I want a million only think of it, I must have a million. I have sold myself for money and I want a big price,", , , ,, .. " And do none of tho honorablo repre sentatives know who you are ?" " Why, you goose 1 1 thought you know bettor than that. Why, the ring always reaches into the House and Senate, and some of our directors are tho most respect able men in Congress. There is orie, the most benovolcnt, plbus, philanthropic in dividual in the world. Ho is so intensely pious that ho nover speaks to me ; never theless he pays mo heavily. There is an other a most rcspectablo gentleman, who bows to me profoundly in the gallery and on the avenue, and presonts me to his fam ily with a lofty air, who would look at me with intense astonishment if I were to thank them for my ' clothes, carriages and servants. Yet he contributes." " Why, this is so damnable I can scarce ly credit " ....' " Yes, it is very wicked, and I'd rather you wouldn't believe it. But after the schooling you gave me in deceiving, you ought not to wonder." " You mcau that for a hit. . You forgot that that sevvice was in behalf of your bo- loved country, and this " " But do you mean to Bay that men- iu high position connive at this wickedness?" "Look around you; see tho enormous fortunes realized by officials, and you will see that mine is not tho only carriage rol ling about Washington that is a fraud, and I am but among the host of the wicked, You are too much a man of tho world Col, to be astonished at finding a good deal of sanctimonious respectability covering ras cality. It is tho cheapest cloak to get and the easiest to wear." "And bow do you iufluonce these So Ions?" - " Sometimes one way, sometimes onoth. or; but always in being very quiet aud ex clusive. The men bought cheaply are not worth buying. My businoss is among tho higher sort, that will not stoop to common carrion, and cany with thorn great moral character that not only covers thomselves but all the little rogues that vote with them." :.;:,! " Aud do you often fail ?" . : "Sometimes; not often, for my mission is to capture the leaders. The lesser lights are left to coarser means. . Some surrender to delicious littlo suppers, others to per suasion, others again to love. There is General , proud, sensitive and sus picious, he comes to me with all his griefs and I listen to them. You'd bo astonished to know how little the tongue aud the ear have to do with this business. .Then there is Mr. , whq began life with a homely, unrefined wife, and is now ashamed of her. Poor man ! he is really in love with mo. "Aud will all the money you get pay for the degradation you suffer iu return ? You are a woman of fine iutollect, au intellect that approaches genius. : You could com mand admiration, respect, wealth, by de voting your gifts to an honorable pursuit." Her face Hushed for a momeut, and thon starting to her feet and pacing the floor in some excitement, she exclaimed ; , , " I learned my power when it was too late. But you are the last man to upbraid me. Do you know when I discovered my powers as an actress? I will tell you. Un der your tultiou while in Bultiniore. came to you starving and you sent me into private families to worm out , their secrets and betray their Intentions," , " There you go again. That was the service of your country, and the peoplo possossod of these secrets wore our ene mies." , - " What was the difference, so far an my character went 1 But I do not regret- have nothing to regret. I have no friends, no relatives, no country. I never knew a man who did not eithor insult me or cheat me; I never knew a man who had not a stony heart and claws like a cat. I hate them all They would hunt me down, and so I huut them down when I oan." ' " But you have made money enough, why not leave this horrible business, aud from this out try and possess your soul in peace, i ou are young yet, ami can have many years of happiness before you." " You want me to dosist," Bho Bald, in terrupting me. " I have two good reasous for going on. It is not avarice, although having sold myself to the devil, I am right in getting the best price for my poor send. But lot me show you my ' two reason for going on." ,., Sim walked , to an arched recess, and, pulling aside a heavy curtain, showed me, ploying on the floor.two beautiful children. " There," she continued dropping the curtail), ' "thero are my two reasons., I cannot give my children a good name but I will glvo thorn that which is mere precious than a good name in this mean wicked world of ours. .1 will give them wealth and I will try to teach them to be anything on earth but what their unfortunato mother has been, so that if you betray mo you betray them. I loft dutective business when I loft Baltimore. I try moral suasion now. And so I took my leave, and I give this imperfect sketch of the way laws are made through the lobby, in our beloved Capital. , The Seven Wonders. Tho "seven wondors," of tho world are among the traditions of childhood, and yet it is a remarkable fact that ninety-nine per sons out of one hundred who might be ask ed the question oould not name them. Tbey are the Pyramids the mystery of the past the enigma of tho present and the en during for the future ages of this world. The temple, the walls and hanging gardens of Babylon, , the most celebrated city of Assyria, and the residence of the kings of that country after the destruction of Nine veh. The Chryselephantine statue of Jupi ter Olymphus, the most renowned work of Phidias, the illustrious artists of Greoce. The statue was formed of gold, and was sitting von a throno almost touching tho summit of tho templo, which was seventy foot high. The Temple of Diana at Ephe- sus, which was two hundred and twenty years in building, and which was four hun dred aud twenty-five feet in length and two hundred and twonty iu breadth, and sup ported by one hundred and twenty seven mar bio columns of the Ionic order, sixty feet high. The Mausoleum at Halicar- nassus, erected in the memory of Mausolus, the King of Cariaby his wifo Artemosia B. C. three hundred and fifty-threo. The Pharos at Alexandria, a lighthouse erected by Ptolemy Soter at the entrance of tho harbor. It was four hundred and sixty feet high, and could be seen at a distance of one hundred miles. ' Upon it wore in scribed, " King Ptolemy, to the gods, tho saviours, for the benefit of sailors." Lastly the Colossus at Rhodes, a brazen image of Apollo, ono hundred and ftvo Grecian feet in height, which was to be located at the entrance of one of the harbors of the city of Rhodes. The Halt Works of Southwestern Virginia. The somewhat famous salt-works of Southwestern Virginia have a singular history. ' Where they are located was once a vast swamp, noisome, slimy, and danger ous. Doers, nogs, and cattle would often be found dead there. Vapors continually aroso from the sodden ground. So lonely was it that it got the reputation of being haunted, and when William Cmbtree, a hunter ; settled upon it and claimed it, he found no one to dispute his right. From his heirs a certain William King, suspect ing its value as a salt-field, from various indications, bought it for a rifle and a pony. He opened it, and cleared it, aud dug his wells. It was a profitable business, and rapidly increased. During the war these works were the principal dependence of the Confederacy for-salt. Over a thousand covered wagons waited at one time to load. They conveyed the salt for hundreds of miles into the interior. After sevoral at tempts the federal troops demolished the works, but never held them for any length of time. The company now havo six fur naces, aud make 2,400 bushels of salt a day. tSTAvory singular property of ioe is shown by placing a wire aoross a mass of that substanoe and weighting it so that it will out its way through rapidly. The ice will reunite behind the wire and can be as easily out at any other point as where the wire wont through. A Scotch experimenter has also found that a mass of ice placed on wire gauze and subjected to slight pressure, will pass through the gauze aud reappear on the other side in a solid mass of the same shape and nearly the same weight as before. ! lW A young lady who thought she oould make her voice clear by straining it' made a great mistake.
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