The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-11-22
From Our Regular Correspondent

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WAsHrNGToN, d. c., Nov. IA, 1879.
During the last week Washington
has relapsed into summer, malaria, and
mosquitoes. Think of thatfor the mid
die Of Novemberl The city is filing
up with unusual rapidity; many Sena-
tors and Members of Congress have
returned to their accustomed haunts. !
will not be tooexplicit about the haunts.
The rapid filling up of the city is in
part due to the coming unveillng of
the Thomas equestrian statue. 1t is
expected that fully $4,000 people will
come to Washington to see the i'm
posing ceremony and grand street pa
geant. Preparations for unwilling the
statue on the 10Th inst, are well adj
vanced. The detached pieces arrived
yesterday, encased in i've separate
boxes, which have been safely unloaded
and conveyed to the fourteenth street
circle. The work of unlocking and
placing in position, it is expected, will
be completed by Tuesday, the leth
inst. 1t will be time to criticize the
statue after it has been unveiled, but it
is sincerely to be hoped that it will be
superior, in point of art, to the other
bronze equestrian monstrosities of the
Capital. No city in the world has as
many colossal equestrian statues as
Washington. One is seldom out of
sight of huge bronze cavalryman.
Generals Washington, jackson, Greene,
Mcpherson, and Scott are all mounted
on huge chargers. Washington's and
Jackson's steeds are rampant, like
CRASHED colts at a militia parade.
General SCOTS animal is supposed to
be walking, but his feet are in a posi-
ton never assumed by a horse except
when he is balancing himself prepare
tory to scratching his ear with his hind
foot. General Greene is on a hinge,
angular, but picturesque brute, and is,
perhaps, the best of the paddock.
can send You nothing this week in
the way of political news; there will be
sufficiency of that when Congress as
sembles. The different Departments
are busy with forthcoming reports. In
the Patent Office, Commissioner Paine
is engaged in completing a revision of
the code, which will be submitted to
the Secretary of the Interior about the
LIST of Dec. Among other changes it
is said that he will suggest dispensing
with the model, which, according to
the present law, must accompany every
application for a mechanical patent.
Postmaster-General Judge Key is
engaged in an effort to protect rural
gullible, greenhorns from city swind-
lers Evidence has accumulated in the
Post Office Department sufficient to
show that none of the so-called lotte
ries is anything other than a fraudu-
lent concern, conducted upon fraudu
lent principles. Enough has been sub
mitted to the Postmaster-General to
warrant him issuing orders to the post
masters at New York, New Orleans.
and Louisville that no Post Office
Money Orders shall be paid to certain
lottery dealers and ''curb-stone brokers"
who advertise to buy and sell lottery
tickets on commission. These dealers
are designated by name and firm as
follows: w. Il. Porter and w. G..
Creighton, alias b. III. Porter & Co.,
New York; Wiley Barrow, alias I. j.
Commerford, alias Thomas I'll. Hayes
d Co., 1853 Broadway, New York !;
Theodore Zrosch, New York; e. J..
Commerford, alias the Commonwealth
Distribution Co., Louisville, KY; b.
Nathan & Co., New York; Williamson
d Co, alias the Royal Havana Lottery
Co., New York J; b. Frank Moore, alias
M. A. Dauphin, New York, and nj. a..
Danphin, New Orleans. Another lot
Of orders against other alleged frandu-
lent concerns will be issued to-day. AS
there are a number Of these parties
doing business under fictitious names,
the Postmaster-G General has also order
ed that postmasters shall detain ordin-
airy mail matter addressed to these fic-
titions names and send it to the dead
letter office. This is merely enforcing
an existing law. Judge Key holds that
the statutes give him power to prevent
the mails being used by fraudulent
concerns.
Mr.. HUTcHINs' MAJoRIrY.-In the
Twelfth Congressional District Hon
Waldo Hutchins, democratic candidate
for Congress, defeated his opponent,
Col. Nicholas Smith, by over 34Oo ma
Ijority. Col. Smith, who married one
Of Horace Greeley's daughters, was the.
independent Grcenback Republican.
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