42
Washington
DC
March
3rd 1871
½ past
1 o’clock at night
Dear Wife: Good luck again. Well you ask what is it. The House past a resolution today giving me
the seat against Beard. So far, so good. But the House went further & passed a
resolution giving the Ga members of the 41st Congress $5,000 – five
thousand dollars each. The tax on it
will be about $150, But after paying
expenses including the contest & board here, will leave me at least $4,000. I go to New York Sunday morning & will
buy you a good clock. This is all you
have written for. Hope I will hear from
you in the morning. Well I have been
lucky all my life & can’t say I
deserve it. I have always wondered why I
never got hurt in the War. But I reckon
our Father thought I was not fit to go.
This is the last day of the 41 Congress & I think we will sit all
night. It is now 15 minutes of 2 o’clock
at night & no prospect of an adjournment.
I do wish you could see the Capitol buildings. They are most magnificent. Over head is a fancy glass roof showing the
coat of arms of each state. The lights
are all in the roof & the gas is lighted by electricity. In the twinkling of an eye the whole overhead
flames brilliantly. The whole house is
six hundred feet & 4 inches long and 300 hundred feet wide. All solid granite. It is a huge, grand pile & will never be
disolved til the judgement day. It is
said to be the finest building in the world.
Well kiss my boys & give all my love.
Your aff husband
Fes
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