Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-11-21
QUE WASHINGTON LETTER.
General Thomas Equestrian Statue
Bronze Ara at Ihe CaPItaEDePsTI-
ment WorE
From our regular correspondent.

From our regular correspondent.
During the last week Washington has
relapsed into Summer, malaria and mos
quitOes. Think of that, for the middle of
Novemberi The city is filling up with IN
usual rapidity; many Senators and NJ. C's
have returned to their accustomed haunts.
The rapid filling up Of the city is in part
due to the coming unwilling of the ThOm-
as equestrian statue. 1t is expected that
fully %, 900 people will come to Washing
ton to see the imposing ceremony, and
grand street pageant. Preparations for
nnveiling the statue on the 18th inst. are
well advanced. The detached pieces ar
rived yesterday, encaSed in five separate
boxes. which have been safely unlOaded
and conveyed To the fourteenth street cir
Gle. The work OF unlocking and placing in
position, it is expected, will be completed
by Tuesday the 18th inst. 1t will be time
to criticize the statue after it has been un-
veiled, but it is sincerely to be hoped that
it Will be superior, in point of art, to the
other bronze equestrian mODstrOsitIes Of
the Capital. No city in the world has as
many colossal equestrian statues as Wash
ingtOn. One is seldom out of sight Of
huge bronze cavalryman. Generals Wash
ington, jackson, Greene, Mcpherson, and
Scott are all mounted on hugh chargers.
WaShington's aud JscksOn's steeds are
rampant, like grsss-fed colts at malitiA
parade. General Scott's animal is sup
posed to be walking, but his feet are IN 3
position never assumed by horse except
when be is balancing himself preparatory
to scratching his ear with his hind fool.
General Greene is on a huge, angular, but
picturesque brute, and is, perhaps, the
test Of the paddock.
/ can send you nothing this week in the
way Of political news. There Will be
suffieiency of that when Congress assemblies.
The different departments are busy with
forthcoming reports. In the Patent Of
fee, Commissioner Paine is engaged IN
completing q revision of the code, which
will be submitted to the Secretary of the
Interior about the first Of December.
Among other changes, it is said that he
will suggest dispensing with the model,
which, according to the present law, must
accompany every application fora mechan-
ical patent,
Postmaster General Judge Key is en-
gagged in an effort to protect rural, gulla-
bic, greenhorns from Swindlers. Evidence
udo hCCuluuldiCu III IAC pOotOAAASO hCpdA1-
ment sufficient to show that none of the So
called lotteries is anything other than a
fraudulent concern, conducted upon fraud
ulent principles. Enough has been sub
mitted to the Postmaster-General to war
rant him issuing orders to the postmas
ters at New York, New Orleans, and Louis
vile 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 as follows: |
w. K. Porter and W. c. Creighton, alias !
B. Il. Porter & Co., New York; Wiley |
Barrow, alias f. J. Commerford, alias |
Thomas H. Hayes & Co., 163 Broadway, |
New York; Theodore ZsOsch, New York; |
T. ] Commerford, alias the Commonwealth /
Distribution Co., Louisville, KY; B. Ma |
than Co., New York; Williamson & Co.,
alias the ROyal Hayanna Lottery Co., New /
York; B. Frank Moore, alias NJ A Dau-
phin, New York, and NJ. A. Dauphin, New /
Orleans. Another lot of orders against |
other alleged fraudulent concerns are to |
be issued. As there are a number of these |
parties doing business under fictitious /
names. the Postmaster-General has also /
ordered that pOStmasters shall detain ord
mary mail matter addressed to these fcti-
tious names and send it to the dead-letter
Office. This is merely enforcing an exist
ing law. Judge Key holds that the stat
utes give him power 10 prevent the mails |
being used by fraudulent concerns.
Washington, Nov. 14th, 1879,