The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-11-24
WASHINGTON LETgER.
The PoIiiicaIand Social Ise.hab-
ilitation Of Wasliingion-pte-
pairing to InEngurafe The In.
augural Ball, elc., etc.

pairing to Lnnngurafe The kn.
augural Ball, seic.s etc.
[Froin our Regular CORRESPONDENCE
WAsHScToN, D. e., Nov. 20, 1880.
Washington has, during the pres
ent week, begun to assume its socie-
W smile and political paaoply. The
Executive and his Cabinet have at
length settled down in their homes.
Foreign ministers, attaches Of lega.
ton, military and naval oflicersmay
be again seen drivingsor promen4d-
ing on the great boulevard that
stretches from the Treasury Depart
ment TO the Capitol Pretty govern
ment clerks and dashing paryenu-
dom, exulting in government CON
tracts, vie in the display Of French
costumes and American manners on
Pennsylvania Avenue. In u short
time the political mill, Vanity Fair,
and Mammon's Court will be again
in proximity at theonly place where
they can be seenff I'm such develsp-
ment on this side the globe. What
are these TO US, or we to them, that
we should read about them, or write
about them? Cannot every Ameri.
can citizen find sufficient political
excitement or annoyance in the af-
fairs of This township, municipality,
county, or State? And as for the
other sex, have they not social realms
Of their own-little pent up Uticas
Of fashion, narrow and provincial,
we may call them, but they contain
the gem and elements of all that we
see in Washington, Boston, or the
proudest courts in Europe. 1t is
well for one either bodily or mental
ly to get out of his accustomed envi-
roment for little while, and, as dis
tinguished Investigators have not
thought it beneath them to study the
lowliest forms ofexistenco, the Amer
lean citizen and cheyenne will find
their horizon broadened, their pleas
and usefulness enhanced, by keeping
the run of political affairs and social
tendencies at the only seat ofnation-
al government that is directly access
able to them. 1t is fatal mistake
to suppose, like DR.. johnson, that
there ia nothing worth seeing out
side Of London, but there are those
who are lik DR.. johnson to the ex-
tent that they believe in tho univer-
salty of their own village.
II is not expected that the coming
session will be very interesting in
itself, no one knows what n Congress
may bring forth. but there will be no
lack of interest in official and politi-
cal circles in relation to the new ad.
ministration.
Preparations for the inaugural GER
emony on the 4th of March, are we'll
under way, and the pageant is ex-
pected to excel all previous inaugur-
al displays. Hotels and boarding
houses are expecting a golden har-
vest; preparations are making to ac-
commodate in tents the various vol
nnteer military organizations that
have signiied their intention Of Wis.
iting the Capitol, at that time, to
take part in the inaugural parade
The inaugural ball will be held in
the National Museum, which has
just been completed. This edefce is
spacious, having, perhaps, the largest
single, unseated hall in the United
States, and it will no doubt accom-
modate all who can pay the exhorbi.
tant entrance fec usually charged on
such occasions. G. A. S.
|
The Jackson Herald says that there
was mistake in the vote for Judge
in thatcounty, which reported Elem.
ing l,204, but which should have
been l,l54, thus again putting Mr..
Brown ahead, even allowing for the
mistake claimed by Mr.. Fleming
These two contestants have it turn
about, in getting elected.
A recount Of the whole district
has been made and Browns plurali-
ty is 81. This, we suppose, will end
the contest.
BY TlgE GOVERNOR.