Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-02-12
letter from va.hington.
WASHINGTON. February 9. 1886.

WASHINGTON. FEBRUARY y, 1880.
Editors Register.-The tremendous
riots in the big city OH the Thames fur
nish the principal topic of conversation.
Whilst 1t Is no news that London is al.
ways teeming with proletaires. part
hungry and whole hungry, just along
now the swelling crowds overflow far
beyond the banks. Those enemies Of
mankind who wear the name OF Social
ists seeing their chance, mixed them
selves with the masses, and seizing their
opportunity of meeting Of about 10000
in Trafalgar Square around the Nelson
monument, applied the match and
brought OIL one of the most forbidding
outbreaks in history. Shops, stores,
magazines Of all sorts Of articles, from a
loaf of bread To sword knot, were
rifcd without let or sparing, yet 1t
seems there was wonderful modera-
ton us regards assault upon life. L shall
make no effort to DO more than refer TO
the painful comparison that out in Seat
tie, Washington Territory, a mob Of
perhaps not more than tiftieth Of the
London horror could not carry out their
purpose mot perhaps wrong in the ab-
stract, without bringing on serious
bloodshed. The London mob was quite
unexpected, or the authorities would
have been prepared for them.
Senator Sherman opened fire ycster-
day OH the President on the ground of
the latter's refusal TO furnish the rcas-
ons for certain removals. Mr.. Edmunds
was expected to move first in this mat
ter but bad cold prevented. The
quarrel, after all, is not very wide
one, for il amounts to no more than
whether the President aud Secretaries
may retain certain papers on file relat-
ing to suspended officials though called
for by the Senate, OH the ground that
these papers are part of the Presidents
"reasons." 1t would seem to the writer
of these lines that all proper papers may
be handed over, and the President still
retain his reasons as much as ever. Let
the President remove for reasons of his
own and offer new nominations. If the
Senate don't like them, let it refuse
confirmation.
Some of the fast ones are talking about
the next Presidency, and who-do you
think-he is? No other than Mr.. Whit
ney, the Secretary Of the Navy, who,
they say, is the only eligible candidate
in the present Cabinet.
1t appears to my perhaps dense brains
that the newspaper fusillade against
Secretaries Lamar and Garland is car
ried on very much with paper bullets,
sans the interior ball. The people at
large don't "take stock" in the enter
prise. Sensational and nothing more.
News comes this afternoon of the sud-
den death at Governors Island in New
York harbor of General Winfield Scott
Hancock, at 8 p. m. today. The cause
is not stated. He will be lamented with
no mere partisan regrets. He was
among our very best public men and
deserves the respect SO universally felt
for him.
Thanks to a merciful Providence, the
past two days of warm sunshine have
diminished the snow-heaps at least one
half. Had it rained instead, repeti-
ton, or worse, of the terrible floods in
the Ohio and other rivers would have
occurred, with results not dissimilar
over other great tracts Of country.
Yours, &C., JADIS.