Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-09-03
Correspondence lft.e Sispterisi?rn Register.
WlsuINGTuH CRY, AUG. 81, 80.

W 2sUINGTUS NTTE, aug. u, %.
Mr.. REGISTER II shall not trouble
YOU with much talk about Congress or
/ politics. The patches of papers you get
in exchange will suffice for that. Whit
want, and l suppose you want too, is
little quiet talk in quiet way.
Very we'll then. let me tell you that
people here are beginning TO hope that
they will be able to get rid OF Congress
before the Isl of December, which at one
line looked very doubtful. Then. at fur
thest we knee there would be an adjourn
menl- so as TO give time for members to
slip home by telegraph ana back to earn
their mileage, Now You must not take
it INTO your head from this lha, the Wash.
ingion people don't like Congress--they
do--parjcuiarly the boarding housc-keep-
ers, and the hotels, and the cigar shops,
and the shops of all sorts. Bat il is with
Congress as il is with husbands. Wives
like to see them occasionally, but they
don't ike to have them hanging about uLl
The time. Congress makes markets dear,
and piles up a heap Of chores that have
10 be put about when Congress IS away.
Washington City, the City Of dis
tances," is getting more and more like
what she was meant TO he; mean she
is getting ship-shape. They are building
some fine churches, and other public Ed
Iifces. and have at last got a very cyediia-
Ible looking City Hal. We don't know
yet how many people the Ci,y contains,
hut it is WEI above $4,000 no doub:. As
for Omnibuses. it bids fair to beat that big
lot, "alI creation" You cant have any
ding better than they are, for use or beau.
~, and plentiful as they have got 10 be
they are still weekly increasing. We
havea Union Line" Citizens Line,
and "NayIor" Line, a taking you from
a couple to 3 miles for Up.
You have long heard OF Washington
being the busiest City in the world; well,
think it has lost its distinction. The
"ways" are mach improved everywhere,
-. and when all the IroE Bridges are IN that
the corporation has ordered, we shall be
getting ready to invite " outsiders" 10
come and look at us. BY tie bye, talking
of Iron Bridges, am told there is some
fuss about that Iron Bridge that was to be
over the Potomac at the Point Of Rocks.
If rumor is to be relied on, the company
have got scared since the tumble Of .
bridge on the Erie Railroad, and want to
back ont, bat whether the "olher side"
will consent is not quite so certain. On
the whole, don't think they will. Con-
tracts are contracts, and people must not
, allow themselves 10 be scared or bullled
: out of them. Our Washington Bridge
builder says the broken bridge was none
of his work, he never saw 1t, don't aP-
approve of the plan, and has not the small
est intention Of being held responsible for
it. His bridges, he says, are their own
vindcarion, stand by their own strength,
and upon their own merits, and he intends
= TO stand by them. | susp ct the lawyers
: will get job out of this yet before it is
done of.
There were some fears here couple
of weeks ago that the cholera would per-
haps pop over the Bridge from Harper
Ferry and come this way; but happily il
has not, and suppose will not. It's a
matter devoatIy TO be wished that the peo-
pie Of the Ferry will in future years take
measures TO keep their place more clearly
than in the past; they have plenty Of wa.
> ter, and certainly it would not cost greal
: deal TO build reservoir somewhere on
, The hill, to supply the necessary fluid 10
the population. But before anything can
he efecmaIly done, Harper's Ferry must
he incorporated. Mr.. Duke would no
doubt chcerlulIy DO his part i'll procuring
an act Of Incorporation from the next Leg
isIalure. am glad to learn that the good
people of the "Unterrihed" Shepherds
Town so completely escaped. Such i'm.
munily is The reward.of cleanliness and
precauuon.
felt regret that You could not be graft
fed by the election Of Mr.. Berry TO tie
Convention. Twas an unkind cut, that,
from the ''metropolis" of Jefferson. How
ever, don't be revengeful; stand above it.
Somehow ii strikes me that the White
Basis party will be stronger in the Con.
yenlon than was anticipated, and that a
new policy will be developed that will
have the tendency to put Virginia "prin'd
inter parcs." The time of the Conven-
ZION ought not to be spent in Pililu party
wraugIrng They must first discuss the
great question Of whuf is TO be The States
IDoiicy, and make Constitution to fit. If
They proceed thus, with an understanding
at lhe start of the general aim, business
will proceed rapidly and successfully. But
Iif the great preiminares are not first set
lied and laid down, there will be wrang-
ling and squabbling al nauseam, which
means in free English, "enough TO make