The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-11-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
General Thomas, Equestrian
Statue-Bronze Art nj the
Capital-Department Work
-POstmaster-GeneraI Hey Still
Wrecking SWindIes.
from Our Regular Correspondent

has relapsed into summer malaria,
and mosquitoes. Think of that for
the middle of November The city
is filling up with unusual rapidity;
many Senators and members Of Con-
gress have returned to their accus.
haunts. ! will not be too explicit
about the haunta. The rapid filling
up of the city is in part due to the
coming unwilling Of the Thomas
equestrian statue. 1t is expected
that fully 25,ooo people will come to
Washington 10 see the imposing GER
emony and grand street pagent.--
Preparations for unwilling the statue
on the 18th inst. are well advanced.
The detached pieces arrived yester-
day, encased in FIVE 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
18th inst. 1t will be time to criti-
CHE the statue after it has been un.
yelled, 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 colos-
sal equestrian statues as Washington.
One is seldom out of sight of a huge
bronze cavalryman. Generals Wash
ington, jackson, Greene, Mcpherson
and Scott are all mounted on huge
chargers. Washington's and Jack
sons steeds are rampant, like grass
fed colts at militia parade. Gener-
al SCOTS animal is supposed to be
walking but his feet are in a posi-
ton never assumed by a horse ex
cept when he is balancing himself
preparatory to scratching his ear
with his hind foot. General Greene
is on hugh, angular, but pictur-
esque brute, and is, perhaps, the best
of the paddock.
can send you nothing this week
in the way of political news, there
will be u sutficiency of that when
Congress assemblies. The different
Departments are busy with forth
coming reports. In the Patent
Office, Commissioner Paine is engag-
ed in completing revision of the
code, which will be submitted to the
Secretary Of the Interior about the
LIST of December Among other
changes it is said that he will sug-
gest 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,
gullable, greenhorns from city swim
oilers. Evidence has accumulated in
the Post Office Department sufficient
to show that none of the so.called
lotteries is anything other than a
fraudulent concern, conducted upon
fraudulent principles. Enough has
been submitted to the Postmaster.
General to warrant him issuing or.
dcrs to the postmasters 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 de-
signated by name and firm sfollows:
w. X. Porter and W. G. Creighton,
alias B. H. Porter & Co., New York;
Wiley Barrow, alias T. J. CONNER.
ford, alias Thomas II. Hayes & Co.,
1853 Broadway, New York; Theodore
zsosch, New York, r. j. Commerford,
alias the Commonwealth Distribu-
ton Co., Louisville, Ky5 B. Nathan
& Co., New York; Williamson & Co.,
alias the Royal HAVANA Lottery Co.,
New York; B. Frank Moore, alias NJ.
A. Dauphin, New York, and NJ. A..
Dauphin, New Orleans. Another
lot Of orders against other alleged
fraudulent concerns will be issued
to-day. AS there are number of
these parties doing business under
fictitious names, the Postmaster. Gen.
cral has also ordered that postmas-
ters shall detain ordinary mail mat
ter addressed to these fictitious names
and send it to the dead-letter office
This is merely enforcing an existing
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