The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-12-09
Letter from Washington.
O THE EDITOR OF THE REGISTER:

TO THE EDITOR OF THE REGISTER:
The correspondent of weekly pa.
per, has, in my opinion, a more difficult
task to communicate anything of in.
terest, than does he of the daily. If
should write that the House met to-day
and organized by electing Mr.. Keifer
speaker, etc., your readers would simp.
" have lain before them what they had
known days before. Instead of report.
ing matters of general interest and ma
tional importance, which are flashed
over the country and published to the
world in few hours after occurring
and which would be stale reading ere
his article reached his readers, he OF
the weekly must depend upon picking
up such little scenes and incidents ai
the metropolitan press fail to notice, in
order to make his effusion in any way
readable.
The arrangements for admission into
the House galleries, to-day, were some.
what exclusive. Ladies were admitted
without question, but the common run
OF mankind had TO produce members
card or some other equally as potent q
passport, or he would very quietly be
told to stand aside. Not being just al
that time the fortunate possessor of the
requisite pasteboard, / very resignedly
wendell my way to the Senate cham.
Der, where all were on equal footing.
1t was quito interesting to observe the
greetings OF the Senators as they col.
lected ON the floor. The interchange oil
cour tesies could not have been more
cordial had all been of one political
faith. Senators Window and Beck
were the recipients of many hearty
congratulations on account of their re-
cent reflections. 1t Is noticeable
fact that as stranger seats himself in
the gallery his usual first inquiry II
(which is Edmunds," and generally
next comes "show me Mahone." Gen
Logan, Don Cameron, Wade Hamp
ton, Ben Hill and Bayard are mucl
sought for, as are also the senator's from
New York. Several of the desks were
ornamented with bouquets and baskets
of flowers. Capt. Bassett, assistan
doorkeeper, entered the Senate cham
Der fifty years ago to-day as a page
and has been an attache all the tim,
since. His hair is very white, but h,
is remarkably erect and we'll preserved
The Guiteau trial drags its wear,
length along. 1t is declared by goot
legal authority that his own TESTIMONY
has greatly W eakened what was befor
considered strong defense. He oc
cupied the stand four days and wa
subjected to most searching cross ex
animation by Judge Porter of New
York. He got badly tangled and a
times terribly angry and boisterous
Medical experts have occupied tn
stand to-day.
), Since writing my last the II. r. 20
has placed in the ladies room, over th
star fixed In the floor mural tablet
II is of American marble and in golde
letters is inscribed, "James Abraham
Garfield, President of the United States
July 2, 1881" Above the Inscription
are two draped flags, and over a
stands an eagle with outstretched wing
and grasping ia his talons bundles {
arrows and laurel leaves. The Who'll
, is very tastefully designed and lie W
ry touching reminder of the cowardl
act of the miserable wretch, who o
{ that balmly midsummer morning star
' led the nation and the world, as pnl
> that tragedy of April IA, 1865, has eve
done. May he not escape just retribl
ton. IL. +. y.
Washington, Dec. 8, 1881.