The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-11-25

state until aftor the second Wednesday
In February, over tho electoral vote
After the presidential question is finally
settled, there will be fight over the
silver question, contest OF great moment
involving vast interests; while, on the
other baud, there will be supplementary
legislation for carrying the Resumption
law into effect. Again there will doubt.
less be introduced bill to elect the
president BY the popular vote, the present
condition Of the question having prepared
the country aud Congress for an emphatic
adieu to tho old system.
Our local, social, personal and political
affairs possess per Sc very little that is,
or should be, OF interest to tho country
at large, but since the war Washington
has become fashionable aud social cen.
ter, the winter Mecca OF tho shoddy aud
refined. Miss Mary Emma 10 tho reno.
test village Of the state cares little who
is elected. or who compose tho cabinet
or whether we resume or not 4; but she
reads with never-tiring interest of tho
receptions and kettle drume at which,
orhaps, tho wife or daughter of "our
member" figured, and the dress and
flowers worn by Miss Flora McFlimsey
arc known and talked about, " It's true.
It's pity" in Oregon and Maine. Mis-
Mary Emma camo 70 the Centennial last
summer, and did" Washington in three
days, and now with whctted curiosity
Chat Is what tho proIone call woman's
intelligent interest in her country's
ailairs) she will be more anxious than
ever to know who was there and lust
how she looked
The social season has not opened with
its usual briliancy. There is TOO mush
anxiety from political causes for easy
abandonment TO reve!ry There will be
changes, no matter who is president, Is
written on every wall. Changes have
taken place already Tho young naval
officers who are so essential to gay life in
Washington have been ordered away or
iurloughed on reduced pay. This vacan.
cy will be to some extent filled by the
artillery officers who arrived last eight,
but West Point eau never fiji the place
of the Naval Academy ia the imagine ton
OF Mary Emma.
Apropos Of the artillery, its arrival
and cantonment here has created a pro.
found sensation. What is the occasion I?
To this question Gen Sherman, who is
at the Ebbitt House, will make no an.
swcr. While their presence creates
vague anxiety and iorcboding, owing to
the peculiarly sensitive condition Of the
public mind, there seems to he no real
occasion for alarm, the president himself
giving assurance to this effect. Never.
theless, the more excitablo Of all classes
are thoroughly convinced that the sun of
1876 will set in blood. Just as, before
the war. it was impossible to make any
one believe that such catastrophe was
possible, now. since that terrible cxper.
fence, many arc apprchcnsivo When it is
altogether improbable.
But whether your correspondent is
called upon to recount legislative or mil
ltary conflicts, whether tho ovont mounts
the bsrbed stecd to fright tho souls Of
fearful adversarios, or capors nimbly ip
u ladies chamber to the wanton Pleasing
of tho Marue band. in whatever "ques.
tionablo shape" it may come. no has
secured tickets to the Reporters gallery
and will write you about it. L.