Show correspondence abe be bast raye rays of guo tuo extra neslon m abe ibe experience of a prospecting senator and hia ills wire wife Wi reThe the na dional of Ornament ornamental ai soldiers what it C of Dancin jr will madame be the fendral fen general seal fral of the army lile Ille delorm form gorm her command A pot fo mortem filor tarn tain at tack on the corn kitchen ciau clau clause washington nov 21 1877 E editor ft deseret newa news all signs indicate that the extra session of congress is drawing clieaf near its close though tho the probabilities are that it will be prolonged a few fowl days beyond the date dato that thal has baa been thought of for adjournment the regular session will follow so close dose upon the one ond that ia Is about to close th that atthe the interim might better be callei called a than an aft adjournment member members of congress and their wives will hasten basten home fori nori a few days to attend to domestic affairs and the ladies vill will have an opportunity to tell their neighbors what they havo have seen and heard I 1 heard jest yesterday erday from the chief bf the fire department of a senator and his bis wife from a far southwestern state who have brought with them the prospecting pioneering one ering bias blas peculiar to their habitat they were not content 16 6 make the hackneyed rounds of the departments navy yards nian institution art gallery gadery and national lunatic asylum no 00 reference to congress but in their walks during the delicious indian summer days wandered into a 11 little atle church like edifice which t they found to contain a burnished nire fire fir engine and hose carriage the polite foreman explained the perfect machine and made them acquainted with the eom bom complete piete system of electric fire alarms he lie unlocked a little box and displayed a small leyer lever which a babas finger might move but which would cause half hair a score of distant bells to strike and mobilize nire fire companies in diali different erent part the city the cd ed visitors were botn both much interested and the lads breathed a fervent wish that a fire might occur while she was waa there as she would so much like to seo see a practical illustration of what bile blie had just heard the words had bad scarcely passed her lips when a keen bell like note was heard instantly the automatic stable doors flew flow open the ers era were ed and fofar trained aid ald harnessed harness ed horsey thundered at it ruil lull I 1 gallop byda the tho brick brlek floor 16 lag ing ip in front of th theogine engine an aa oser 1 eeli I 1 sprang ang to thel rp per Eer cres ahad abad abd thi thirty it wv e front tho the aund fop bop pop n 4 of the alarm till tin the engine rie like ilke X brass brus inthe the adit ec ion lon af pf of the lne the fare fire 3 adt thase predl dug ie second shadi civet givet 1 I 1 siad and the senator r time nearly hearly fo and hwd to gei get a street corper and hud IL lamp post between them the nt lh and d diflo fire engines Thede the democrats moe mod arenita little chagrined that IN they Y haid hald haver been bean beaten by a coalition of the Texas delegation and the buthe fint fiot hermy bill ati ari army men stems small email heli when heir compared with the st hAbus military establishments abdis across the fhe water yater but when we compare the expense oto tl tle tie e army with the he expenses of of european armies hd uhe disparity I 1 Is not ao so striking cpr instance we pay our army off meers leers averaging the grades 2200 2200 a year per ra man RD and to privates per year the pay of the english 4 officer brages averages isso 13 1380 soper SUper per year and of the enlistee enli stee man loo in england ther I 1 Is about one officer to every twenty men 1 we have an officer to every nine men our total pay of officers is twenty nive five per i cent more than our dur total tota pay af m men eia ela in Eq england eggland gland giand the total pay bf officers is full thirty five per cent less lesa than the total pay or of men general sherman iman remarked not long since that the superfluous staff wa eating I 1 up the tho army army the jbf of the them evil is asat af west point from prom this ins titu altu tian issues isu aa every every ye year ar mome more than thaw than loo graduates expensively ed educated by and to whom the govi goti government eril by terms of contract contracts owa owe a support during their natural lives and also to their families ami lies iles after them three years ago senator thurman introduced a bill to reduce r e duce the number of appointments to io yest vest west point by ona one half the bill iii ill was referred to the senate military I 1 ary committee and pigeonholed pigeon holed and still the national military alitar anadem academy y zoea goes on at full bia bla blast grinding rin out lieutenants at th erate enate rate of per annum all of draw pay with tactical regu jegu larity but most of perform no ho other military duty to be sure it would be a great disappointment to rich garis with brass brads bot but tons to bave this male seminary cut off in the floer flo of his youthel without the naval and ind tary iary academies the bon boti ton ions of feminine washington would have pa 0 other resource for d dancing anc ane ng partners than clerks and such members bf congress as is have left their wives in thor their districts apropos of dancing the indications are that thu shiar amusement will not be as po popular a pastime ai as it was was last winter in er tho thos shermans Sher mans has I 1 think made a bre adill in the custom but if that estimable lady would inaugurate a reform in ller her owl pifa military establishment and order hi her bi husband the general to trip rio more we might see sev a rheumatic m quickstep in the 0 i hrell arch orre orro of reform the last time I 1 saw thea thed eil ell eral dance was at a masquerade at dillards villards Vil lards hotel not quite a year yean since bince gen banks who wlm was once a dancing master was waa on thel noorat the same samo time though in a different r set iet and I 1 must record that Gen banks was the better dancer dance rot of the two but gen sherman bherman seemed to have the greater taste for young and pretty girls in the selection of partners the session would have been incomplete without al at least one fun funi hon A cox at least that seems to have been mr coxs op opinion luion for yesterday he made an elaborate iosif mortem attack F on the corn kitchen clause of the parla paria exposition bill 4 I 1 say post mortem for the clauce had been removed before the bill was wa pe dented but mr coxhead cox had loaded for lor that clause and evidently thought good so be wasted 1 I do not cot think many shared his hia deia dela 4 slon some home of mr coxs best friends deplore depiore his flat and heavy ear orts to be humorous andic is abt agreeable to see a man manof of real ablitt ty and wide experienc eju public affairs rs wa wate waie ta his eberg energies ies les in elaborate effort enn urt t to 0 rival a circus clown I 1 C A S |