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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN,
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SANDERSYILLK, GA.
Jan S, 1807. 1y
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Attorney at Law,
SPBSSStILLE, CJSOl&IA.
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IN POLITICS, CONSERVATIVE; IN RELIGION, CATHOLIC; IN MATERIAL INTERESTS, PROGRESSIVE.
jSTo. 2.
BANDERSVILLE, GA, 13, 1869.
VOL. XXIII.
BUSINESS. CARDS,
Ii. b. WART HEN
*lltorney at f.flsr,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
Jan. 31, 1867 5-iy
LANGMA1E& EVANS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
• • ’ v ' sa'?ti>v rsville,* %a-.
i 1WJLL attend tbe Courts of Washington, WiJ
- kinson, Emanuel, Jettersou« Johnson, Hancock and
; Laurens counties. Otiioc on the Public Square o|;»
losite tiie Court House.
m-TiWAP.n S. LAN'OMADK,] [hKYERLY D. KVANN'S,
pf Jan. 3, 1867. 1-ty
PiLg.W. II.'Will'Ll K Ii.
tSURGEO.T HEJi'TfST,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
f « . BUSI’EOTFULLY iiifornlsthecitizens
; Was I lingtoucounty and* the public
K^rQlTTTrr ge up fa 11 y, that he is- now prepared to
>ract-icc liis profession in all its various brandies,
if*! lie nitrous oxide adm nistered. 'lqetli extracted
^without pain.’ Terms cash . Corn, buepn, <^e., taken.
June o, 'tsfic. ly
A, S. HAKTUIDfiE,
Commission' and Forwarding
JVTEIRyOIH^IIsrT,
Xo. 92 Bay Sired,
S.A YA XXA II, GEORGIA.
BUSINESS CARDS.
C. B. W1LKINEON,
B. J. WILSON.
CARL, EITING & CO.,
CO M M i-SSlON 'MEItCfl A NTS,
149 Bay Street,
SAVA BAN II GEORGIA.
ADVANCES male on consignments
OF COTTON AND TIMBER,
For sale here or for shipment to Northern and Eu
ro pcan ports.
B. J. G UI LAI ARTI >
JOHN FI-ANNERY;
11. K. WALKER,
with
,L J. Guild! ARID k CO.,
— a N i> —
General Com m iss ion
MERCHANTS,
Savannah*. - Ca,
Liberal advances made on'Consignments. Orders
promptly tilled, at iowest market- rates.
Ragojno, R-ipk ami Iron Tieh, eonstanl!} on hand.
Aug li, 1:08. Bin
| UA!!TRii)Gli& NJTF,
I (Late KltV.A V. HAKTK1DE ,t COJ
f C O M Ml S SIO N M pRC H A N T S
| City Hotel Building, Buy Sue..t,
j Savaiiiiali, da.
| SOLICIT CONSIGNMENTS OF
gCOTTON & STAPLE PKo!)UCE,
AVI.ieh will meet prompt attention.
ADVANCES IN CASH. BACON, BAGGING, ROBE,
>{' ?IES. .&g:, ON CROPS OH CfiNSl.USHEETS
AT EQUITABLE KATpS,
Liberal Advance-
A. FKE1DENBERG ii BRO,
S3 3 fi ole a ale miel Retail
Dealers in Heavy and
FANCY GROCERIES!
Canter of Barnard and Broughton Sts.,
SAVANNAH, GA.,
YT” EEC constantly on hand a full -supply of Ba-
J.3L. eon, Salt, Fish, -Foreign and Domestic Li-
qm-rs, Wiijr-s, IE.van i and West India » rnits, Sc
aurs «>1 tiie best llramls and of direct importation,
&c
Haver? from the up country, Tvi 1 find it to their
advantage to examine our Stock and prices, before'
purchasing cNcwdere.
Oct. 7, 1868. tf
Wilkinson & Wilson,
Cotton Factors
AND
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GENERAL COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
No. 90, BAY STREET.
SAVANNAH, - - - GA.
Are prepared to receive Consignments of Cotton
orproniee for sale in Savannah, or forward to
their friends in Hew York, Boston, Baltimore or
I'hiludelphia upon which they will mak liberal
advances upon easy terms.
V keep oa hand Bagging, Rope and iron Ties
of the very best quality which wo oiler low to our
patrons.
We are also Agents for the sale of the celebra
ted Sea Fowl Guano, alt llano highly recoiinnended
for AVlieut as well as Cot;ou.
We refer to any one who has done business with
us herctofore.-
Ang. 19, Lj«8.
BUSINESS C ARDS.
JOSEPH W. STAN-SBEURT,
late of Baltimore.
IIEKttr D. LAW,
New York.
tf
SLOAN, GROOVER & CO..
J. W. STANSBERY & €0,
Successors to the late firm of
‘ -E.; D. SMYTHE k CO. -
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN'
CBOCKEBY,
China and Glassware,
at the old Stand
No. 109 Broughton St.
AH VA SNA IT, G E 0 R G 1A .
We bog tp inform onr f. iendd and
Merchants generally, that with abun
dant Capital, a direct commuuication
with the Factories of Europe, ahd pos-
scsiiig greater facilities than any Firm
of the kind in the Sjqflth, w:e guaran
tee to sell as low as any lipase in the
country, and we would assure them
that their otders shall receive our most
careful and prompt attention:
Notice.
The husincss of the late' Finn of
E- D. Smythe & Co., will be Liqui
da'ed ibv US only.
Sept. 2, 186S. tf
THE CENTRAL- GEORGIAN.
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6 6.00; 8.50 12.00,15,Q0{2>.00f34.«ol-50.®!: 75.00
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’2-It20.00jafUmflO.00'50,00*70.00-so.
.S0.00[l|0 : 0u
B&sk and Job irork, of all kinds,
PROMPTLY AND N'EATLY EXEOUTED
AT TIIIS OFC1CE.
BUSINESS CARDS.
Flour ! Flotir!!
r r , IlE Subscribers in connection with their Ilonse
JL in Charleston, have opVned a Branch at Su-
vaunah, Ga., wher&they will keep eon.-tautly on
hand ahull stippli of all grades and qnaiitities of
Elonr.and Groceries generally, and Wliieb will be
sold on the most favorable terms. NIx.^BJO) huu-i
dred harrcls in Store. 1'r-ees vary Irom 97 50 to
g io 7-1 per barrel. Tl;e latter we warrant to be the
best in the -market
STENIIOUSE & CO., ‘
S5 Berg Street,
SAVA ETA IT, GEORGIA.
<!>cU7. 1868. i ly
Jones 4' Way,
EACTOBS
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COMMISSION 1 MERCHANTS,
• It.; Z I 1 . li - - ' 11 -. I
SAVANNAH, GA.
•If'IIS JO.NES, late Treasurer of State of Georgia.
CHARLTON li. WAY, Bavauuah, Ga.
Uet. 7, 1 SiiS. tf-
ESTABLISHED 1845.
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VM. II. TJSON.
YM. W. GOltDON.
TIS0K & fiOBDON,
Cotton Factors
—and—
Genera! Commission Merchants,
96 Bag Street, Savannah, Ga.
Bagging and Rope or Iron Ties advanced on Crops.
Liberal Advances m
toil.
Grateful for liberal
oftort will be made to i
fidriiee.
Hug. 19, ISA
tc.e on consignments of Cul-
patronage in the past every
-oi.tinue to meiii public con-
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Ciagiioi n E. Cunningham a Rang-’,
MSaif Street,
Savannah., Gra.
Liberal Advances on Cott n consigntd
to our Correspondents in NewYoik
and Liverpool.
S. E. BOTIIWELL,
K. w. WOOUIJIIIIJGE.
C0THWELL & IVOOBBRiDGli,
C0TTO FACTORS,
c on Cotton to our friends,
-.lows :
K*ru bonk, Bros. Co., Liverpool
Coi iir.AN, Russm.l & Co Philadelphia
Fennkk, Benni.t & Bowman,. New York
Jacob >eaveh J-’ost. n
HIai.l, Mvn:-.s& Thomas, Baltimore
May 15, 1£6S, - R-
W. SIMS.
vnti
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J. II. WIIEATOX.
cJCottoo Factors
AND
Aapiaaixa o<!>sjsaa033®sr
’ MERCHANTS,
SAVANNAH, GA-
ionsin mails Solicited and iJ.-
fmilfantes Promptly .Hade.
Aug. 19, lloS. 6m
Ol the late Fii in of L.,/. Guilmartin & t-J;
E. W. DRUMMOND & BRO.
iiexwal shipping
AND-fc •« ,
Commission
X
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154 BAV STREET,
Savannah. Georgia.
Aug. 19 1868.
F. H. IBIEIEECIsr
COTTON FACTOR
AND
General ConiMission Merdianl,
BA Y STREET,
SAVANNAH, GEO.
Jag. 19, 18--8. Cm
A. M. SLOAN',
Home, Ga.
C. E. GROOVER,
Brooks Co. G;i.
Hug. 19. IsG^t.
C. F. STUBBS,
Maeon, Ga.
A. T. MACINTYRE
Tiioniasv’.Me, Ga
tf
AND
G crier eel Commission
115 ECU ANTS,
74 BAY STREET,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA,
Hug.,19, ISOS. tf ,
EXCLUSIVELY
WHOLESALE.
- UllJJfiS,
jiEDlcisflZ,
CHEMICALS,
PERFUMERY, \
SOAP, '1 OILET ARTICLES,
PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES,
■ BRUSHES, etc.
Love and Aire.
I played with you ’mid cowslips growing,
When I was six and you were four; -
When garlands weaving or flower-hails throw
ing,
Were pleasures soon to please no more.
Thro’ groves and meads, o'er grass and headier
With little playmates, to and fro,
We wandered hand in hand together;
But that was sixty years ago.
You grew a lovely roseate maiden.
And still our early love was strong ; 1
Still with no care our days were laden,
j They glided joyously along j
j And I did love.you dearly—
j How dearly, words want powei- to show,
i I thought your heart was touched as nearly:
j But that was fifty years ago.
; Then other lovers came around you,
! Your beauty grew from year to year,
: And many a spiendid circle found you
| The centre of its glittering sphere.
| I saw you then, first vows forsaking,
j On rank and weath voar hand bestow f
i O, then I thought my heart was breaking—
! But .that was forty years ago.
And I lived o-i to wed another;
No cause she gave me to repine;
And when I heard you were a mother,
I did not wish the children mine.
My own young flock, in fair progression,
Made up a pleasant Christmas row ;
My joy in them was past expression—
.But that was thirty years ago.
; You grew a matron, plump-and comely,
You dwelt in fashion’s brightest blaze,
| My earthly lot was far more homely :
{ But I too had my festal days,
i No merrier eyes have ever glistened
Aroqml the hearth-stones wintry glow,
I Than when lay youngest child was christened;
But that was twenty years ago.
Time passed. My eldest girl was married,
And now I am grandsire gray ;
One pet of four years old I’ve carried
Among the wild-flowers meads to play.
In our old fields of childish pleasure,
• There now, as then, the cowslips blow,
She fills her basket’s ample measure—
And this is not ten years ago.
But though first love’s impassioned blindness
Has passed away in colder night,
I still have thought of you with kindness,
And shall eo till our last good night.
The ever rolling silent hours
Will bring a time we shall not know,
When our yo,ung days of gathering flowers
Will be an hundred years ago.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A. J. Ill Mi k CO..
M- FERST & CO..
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN ‘
Wines, Liquors, Segars and
FAXOY GROCERIES, CANDIES, &e., &c.,
Removed to corner
BiY arid WHiTlKEil STREETS
| SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Iliousc in N<iy York, 4*9 it roadway.
■ 1968.® it
J§!m lelalisn & Co.
DEALERS' IN'
teill '-uuTuili ’‘lull Hi ’ii:}.
CRAWFORD, VAX HORN & Si MS,
CO-
TON FACTORS
A XI) GENERAL COMMSSIOX
■■ s < -. y -
merchants;
No- 9 Stoddard’s Range,
- OPPOSITE C. R. Ii. BANK,
Savannah, G a.
Cqt
>rn, Oat-, liny, Feed. ,
of B oiujluon und Jefferson Sts.,
E\ VANN AII, GEORGIA.
1868: > • 'Gin
O. G. SPA! KS
AKDEMAX, Jl!.
R DEM AN & SPARKS,
Join in i ssion JiSerch ants,
.Macon, Ga,
TO THE PLANTERS
)DLE AND SOUTHERN GEORGIA-
1AYENTY YEARS we luiye served you.,
[believe faitiil'ully. Uur success depends
jnir prosperity, litm-e we have zealously
|to pionijote your iLterest andudvuncedit l.y
1 .ill our pmvrr. As Ceniinissiou Mer-
ue egaiu tender j-nli our services at our old
hvliieli .as withstood tile ti .tiles ot a burir-
Bare (thereby provingits S’curity), and where
(>e lo merit the very liberal patronage always
.ale ©f Colton is our speciality. We flatter
ves none eiin excel us. To old iriends we te-
inuks ; to new ones, we say try ns, w e wilt
,)dense yon. ' .
1.1 accommodations given.,40 enable you to
i eibp.
1863- - 6>n
AGENTS FOR
OSGOOD’S PATENT ELASTIC
COTTON GINS,
AND DEAERS IN
New York Buggies, Carriages and
Plantation Wagons; also, Woodruffs
Concord Buggies.
Commission fqr Selling Cotton
will be §1 25 per Bale.*
.4 ne. 19,1 Sf 8. 6m
Chas. C. Hardwick,
Of the late firm of Clark, Jones & Co.,
GKEW^iR^Xj
G/. (Xc/ianI;
■' BA Y STREET,
Savaimali, Ga*
A up. lrt, 1868. 6m
B. A. STOVALL
FACTORS AND . GENERAL
OFFICE, POULLAIN’S RANGE,
Jackson Street,
A U G U ST A , GEORGIA.
Consignments ot Cotton and Produce Solicited.
Strict Personal Attention to Business. SFJ
(K-t. 7, .fStiS. . tTh
PALMER & DJ-ITISII,
W holesale and Retail Dealers in
HARDWARE,
CUTLERY, FILES EDGE TOOLS,
Agricultural Implements,
Powder, Shots, Caps and Lead,
RUBBER BELTING & PACKING,
14S Congress and 67 St. Julian Sts!,
SAVANNAH, GA.
19, 18G8. 6m
W, F. MAY.
Agents for New England Hose Man
ufacturing Company.
Saddles, Harness A' Trunks,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer ig all Kinds of
SAS-ea.Bft'B VMS,
Comer of Whitaker and Bryan Sts.,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Orders for Rubber Belting, Hose and
1 aching ; also, Stretched Leather Belting,
Filled Promptly.
Aug. 19, 1S6S. lv
eT olm Oliver,
lilt i in nil
. if
aa&2>l2T,B iXFUD CS1L
A'o. 6 II lulukcr Street, Savannah, Ga.
Dealer in
Sashes, Doors,Blinds, .Mouldings,
Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty,
And all Painters’ and Glaziers’ Material. Mixed
Paints of all 6b)ors aud Shudcs.
Aiie. 19, 1868. 1 y
m)
mt *
The subscribers, are prepared to cfler induce^
ments to purchasers of Goods ti.eir hue.
A. A. SOLOMONS & Co.,
TfVIialesale ftrwggists.
Corner Congress and Whitaker Street?,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
jgmETAiL store at toe old stand.
'ilABKiiT >X^b T Ai*L.
Cct. 7, 1868. , Cm
Furniture Warelio’usc,
13S BRO UGIITOX STREET,
Savannah, Georgia.
New Work made to order, Repair
ing, Bell Hanging, Mattress Making
and Upholstering,
.IT SHORT .VOTIVE.
\Y HOLESALE GROCERS,
AND
Provision Dealers,
Cor. Bag and Drag/oir Sis.,
SY VANN A IJ/- k GEORGIA.
GEO. C
A. J. MILLER.
Aug. 26, 1868.
e. P MILLER.
Cm
A. ir. CHAMPIOF
Dec. 16, 1868.'
FREEMAN.
Cm
CO.,
E. D. SifYTHE.
Tn03. F. BUTLER.
COOPER, 0LC0TT & CO.,
Savannah,— Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
BOOKS,kTATMlMARY OF ALL KINDS
COPYING BOOKS, & SEAL PRESSES,
Large Stock PEN KNIVES, oar oicn importing
and -low as the lowest WHOLESALE and retail
News, Priming and Wrapping Papers.
A large stock 1‘RIETIXG JAILS gf all kinds,
BLANK KOOKS and WRITING PAPERS
In large svpplg, and ordered as wanted.
Foreign and .American Books Imported
to: ORDER . Y';
one looker many, at Aew York rates, and all bools
sold at 1' CRUSHERS PRICES.
I GOLD PENS and PEN and PENCIL OASES
E. B. SMYTHE & ۩.
Importers and Dealers in
GLASSWABE
CtROCKERY &. CHINA.
North West Corner Bay & Absrcorn Sts•
(OVER MESSRS. ED1IANDS, OARUNER 4 CO.,) 1
lifter First' JVOTrmher .Veit,
,rd»3 ’ Tori
140 Cungress and L7 St. Julian Sts.j
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA..
Aug. 26. I86S. tf
TU- S. J. ItUXEAR. llENr.T A. STLLTP.
TH0S. J. ])Ui\BAli &
Importers and Dealers in
BRANDIES, HISKIES, GINS, WINES,
SEGARS, TOIl A ECO', Ac,
"A*- KN TS FnU SMI I IIYS
CELEBRATED PUII.A DELPHI A ALES
147 Bay Street,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
T>cc. 16.18HS. 'lv
Jc I1N 03L£Y,j JR., 1
Augusta, Ga.
R. E. TCILSOS
A'orth Carolina.
DAVID R. ADA.its, UENRY E. WASItEURS,
Of. Eatonton, Ga. . ; Qf Sav.-mnaU, Ga.
ASEIRRT a. ADAMS, of .imericu?, Ga.
ADAMS. WASHBfKN & CO.,
FACTORS
mefiton/
(Sf/crcSianlij
OSLEY & WILSON,
OENER'AL
COMMISSION' MERCHANTS
AND- AGENTS FOR THE SALE OF
manufactured Tobacco,
2-95 Broad Street,
A U G U S T A , G -E O R G I A .
- AGENTS FOR
Chesapeake Phosphates.
Oct'. 7, 1863. '6m
ISAAC T. HMD & CO.
WAREHOUSE
AND
ConuiussToii
:lnT|ants,
A Iso," A gents for
Gullet’s Patent Improved STEEL
ipEUSH COTTON GINS.
Corner Reynold, and Ale Into J St's.,
‘ AUGUSTA, GA,
WILL DEVOTE THEIR STRICT I*EI!ONAL ATTENTION TO THE
Slorage and Sale of COTTON^ and
all other Produce.
Commission -for Selling Cotton
will be $1 25 per' Bale.
Orders for Bagging,, Ikpc, Ac., promptly
j Dorr! C, 1868.
ea
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Office Xo. 3 Stoddards Lower Bunge,
SAVANNAH, G.A.
*—,v» ifies.
attended to. Liberal Cash Advances made
ai alt times on Produce in store.
Aug. 19, isC8. . .. . Cm
. Books, Stationery
AND
FANCV GOODS.
TH5 subscribtre have liow on-hand a full assort
ment of
School, Classical, miscellaneous and Sun-
• dajr School Books,'
All kinds of Blank Books auu a large-stock of
all sizes and qualities et Wriling Papers. Al
so a great Variety of Faber Goods, Musical In-’
stromenls, etc,, wfiich Jheyi offer ut VVlmlpsale and
Retail, at the lowest Cash, prices.
■Titos’.- RICHARDS A SON,
- . 20E. Broad Bt. Angusts, Ga.
J|0v. % 186?. . , “ Ita
The Ladles of the White House.
\VinJe the interested p.oliiicians are
speculating, proposing and intriguing
in refefeV.ce to the Cabinet of General
Grant, the ladies, far- and near, are b -
ginning to inquire*tv hat sort of a person
is Mrs.,Q eneral Grant, and what are her
quaiifientinns far tin. honors of the
\\ r hile House? Here we have the i. —
teresting theme of the ladies of the
White' House, broadly suggested, from
Mrs. George Washington down to Mrs.
Andy Johnson. It is a theme for a
ler.yy volume, gik-^.dged and copious
ly illustrated with steel engraving.-;
but for our-p,eseiit purpose a few pas
sing remarks, will do.
Our “.republican court ’’..under Mrs
Washi iijyton was originally loeate.il at
No. 8 Cherry:street, Franklin square
—at that time the Washington Heights
of N e\v Y ork City. The members if
the Cabinet and of Congress were scat
tered about in their private residences
or boarding houses, between Franklin
square arid Water street and thence
along to the Battery. The administra
tion of the honors ’of the Execu’ive
Mansion by Mrs. Washington was sub
stantially a reproduction of the eti
quette, costumes and ceremonies of St
James and Sr. Cloud. A learned his
torian on the subject says that b
levees were-numerously attended by
tbe fashionable, elegant and refined ;
that the. rabble/ the coarse and bois
terous partisan and impudentplacehun-
ter wore rigorous'y excluded ; that full
dress was icquired of all her visitors,
and that there was n« admission for ini-
terlopcrs “with boots, frock coats and
roundabouts, or with patched knees
and holes at both elbows.” Her re
ceptions were sole cq elegant and court
ly- ,
From New A orb thg gcneral govern
ment was removed to Philadelphia,
where the same system was maintained,,
and thence to the newly laid out hut
almostinvisible cily of Washington, as
the permanent national capitd, under
President John Admns,In 1800. . M r s.
Adam's* was a highly accomplished* wo
man of the colonial aristocracy and
the federal school,, and she maintained
as far as practicable the courtly forms
and ceremonies of Mrs. Washington.
But in a very-interesting letter oil her
new' hou.-'e in the hamlet' of Washing
ton she has left upon rlid record tne
primitive expedients to which she was
driven to-'make things passably com
fortable—expedients: and makeshifts
whicli seern to have given her much
amusement. Hr this w / have suliciei t
e ■ idence of her adinirable quabties f. r
the position, the time and the place
President Jdferson came to Wash
ington a widower. He 1 was free fro r>
the power behind the throne, and be
ing a thoroughgoing radical of the
Fiench school; in soc ety as in politics,
his advent maiktd araiiieal revolution
—yes, .a. revolution in dress and man
ners only less marked, that) Biemhange
in France itself with ths overthroar of
the monarchy, tile clipping of thefin6
feathers of theRourboifsand the pro
clamation .of the republic. Jefferson
would have no couitly ceremonies
about him. His own dress, even at his
receptions, beijig that of a plain farmer,
he had no objeciions to boots, frock-
coats or sleeves, out at -both elbows.
Everywhere the new philosophy of life
was received with acclamations, ani
th-us from. 1-301 we may date uofc- only
the downfall of the stately politics,
but a general decay of the stately so-I
ci-ity of the old federal party.
Under*-’e olumrvand rc.«v. Rnriv*u*i_
and charming “Dolly Madison,” ;J a new
dispensation of social life was intro
duced in the While House,j espe
cially after the peace with England ctf
1S15. Her reeeptioHS were gay, spark
ling and delightful, and her popularity
was unbounded, and she.resigned in
Washington to the end of her ljjpg
and liappy life. Under Mrs. Monroe
and Mrs. John Quincy Adams, we.had
in the social reuuions of the Executive
Mansion a happy bl nding of dignity,
refinement and republican simplicity.
Mrs. J. Q Adams was the last of the
school of Afarlha YYashington,of whic(.i
she was a worthy representative,
General Jackson, another widovyer,
like Jefferson, brought in another
change. Fashion, beauty, and the
doves and loves and graces were fright
ened away from the White House by
boisterous politicians, the Nimrod
Wildfires from the backwoods of Ten
nessee, the bear caters from the cane-
brakes of “the Big Muddy,” and the
alumni of Tammany Hall. In truth,
Old Hickory was so absorbed in party
politics that before be knew what it was
all about he found himself entangled
in a feminine Cubnet imbroglio, from
which there was no escape but in a
new Cabinet out and out, Flis Sicre*
tary cf the State, Martin Van Buren,
obligingly gave the hint to his col- -
leagues by resigning, and they all re
signed, and this was the making Qf Yap
Buren. The mantle of Jackson carried
him into the White House, next in or
der of the succession ; but being a
widower, too, and wholly taken up
IlL'O hia II liaf rirvnJ
with the politicians, like his “illustrious
predecessor,” there was nothing bril— *
li ant or fascinating in the social admin-
istartion of Van Buren except his splen
did rig from top to toe, his s’hining hat
and boots, his glittering state chariot
and his royal table. He was, in fact; a ‘
Federalist of Democratic professions.'
General Harrison, next in the While
House, promised a better state of things
with the family gathered about him;
but be was tortured to death in a single
month by ravenous office-seekers.
His successor, John Tyler, a widower
at first, but next happy in the posses
sion of a young, arid peautiful and ac
complished wife, revived the dear,
delightful acceptions of ‘Dolly Madi
son,” and introduced those pleasing
summer afternoon promenades, to the
music of the Marine Band, on Wednes
days in the Capitol grounds andon Sal*
urlajs in the gardens of the White
House, south side, looking down tba
broad Potomac almost to Mount Ver
non. Mrs. Polk, a strict disciplinarian
as a church member, and the young
ladies of her family; in a subdued tone,
maintained the social cheerfulness of
the East Rjom established by Mrs.
Tyler. Mrs. President Tyler modest^
iy withdrew herself from the public
eye and was only once seen by a visi-
lor to tbe White'Mouse, who blundered
into her sitting room and fonnd her
seated by the fireplace knitting a stock
ing and smoking a pipe. But Mrs..
General Yiiiss, Old Zaek’s favorite
daughter, in her mother’s place, did the
honor of the establishment with the
artlessncss of a rustic belle and tbe
grace of a duchess.
Under Filmore, another widower,
the social glories of the East Room
somewhat declined, although his ex-
exliency was esteemed by the ladies as
a very nandsome and charming man,
though not as he thinks old Air. Blair,
“the greatest man that God Almighty
ever made.” Mrs. Pierce was a con
firmed invalid, and so the administra
tion of General Pierce was distinguish
ed only for its political character. The.
old bachelor Bucanan, on the other
band—a devoted ladies’ man, with
his handsome and amiable niece, Afiss
Harriet Lane, os mistrss' of ceremonies,
made the President’s receptions re
markably enjoyable. Nor can it be
justly denied that Mrs.’ Lincoln dis
charged vastly iiicrcased responsibi 1 itis
of her position-as if born and trained
for it. Mrs. Johnson is relieved from
the cares of state by her daughters,
Mrs. Stover and Mrs. Senator Patter- .
sun, who are universally stfteempj as
eminently worthy tbe distinction they
have attained.
This brings us down to Mrs. General
Grant. An unpretending, unambiti
ous woman of the West, the wife of a
man who but the other day was called
from his lanyard to put down a gigan
tic rebellion, how will Mrs. Grant disY
pense the honors that await her ? Like
the daughter of a good aud esteemed
citizen aiid, the wile of a great soldier,
bravely and .well. Hay, we under
take to predict that though last, she
will not beTHe least in our list of the
honored ladies of the White House.
[Y. Y HeralcU, f
This is the way a French paper chron- d
icles an accident.Qri Saturday, an ac«» J
eident, which might have been attended $
with sad results, took place in tliia cityn
(Paris.) A bricklayer, having lost
balance, fell froth the sixth story of :
house to the street. Fortunately^fp
women, who were Chatting on the sit"
walk,-received the falling inamon Hi
heads and broke his falL The brrift-
layer was taken up safe and soums—-
The bystanders shuddered to think fliat
but for a lucky chance the accineni-
-would have cost him his- life. Thb two,
women were instantly killed,i v
I UT, *
Two murderous wives are inguil -iik
New York. Qjie killed her husband*
with a rolling-pip and the othej* with*
poker.
