There are a uumtier of the last-named
class here in ottiee who would be bet
ter servwl if they did duty in some
one of the m-itiy prison houses in the
States. The facilities for travel will
always assemble a great crowd at
Washington upon a chauge of admin
istration. Large as the crowd has
been it would have been much larger
if
Hancock
had been elected. The 100,000 offi
cers that would have been retired by
him, and supplied by an eager, hun
jrrv office-seeking Democratic crowd,
would have brongui fully cn times
that number of aspirants here on in-1
auguration day. the General was
next to the President-elect the lion of
the occasion. When he came to the
city, on the 3rd, ten thousand people
were at the station t j hurrah and give
him a glorious send off into the city.
