Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1885 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 18S5,

CLAY AND WEBSTER. 1 Ai Estimate of tha Two Stad;?- d Some Ramiaisceaces Relating t) Tta. ?

Cla, Duel 'With K.imlolpli an.i Mil Itat. lion'a Intrrffirnce Therein. rhilaleljuj i Tim?.i Occasionally one meets in Washington an M Virginia gentleman, a relic of the age vhta William C. Hives rq.re.Hnteil the oM Dominion in the Senate, anil the National Intelligencer was at the zenith of its influence and prosperity the age ot Jackson and Vaa Uuren, and ot" Clay and Webster. I met such a man this morning at a neat little parlor on Pennsylvania avenue, where I had gone to enjoy a tup of French coffee and a loll with butter. IV. Marstella I a gentleman of the old fcbool. who first saw ttie light in Virginia vhen Madison was President and the British were thundering at Fort McIIenry. Ilia farailv is of good, old cavalier stock, who leit England after Hubert's defeat at Marston .Moor and taught a home in the then infant olony of Virginia. The Doctor is an F. F V., born on the eastern shore to a large patrimony. He is as proud of the blood in Iiis veins as the haughtiest Plantagenet or the noblest Howard whose crest is emblazoned in heraldry. He is just such a man a Walter Scott pictures Colonel Lee to be in Woodstock" a cavalier of the cavaliers, a provincial of the provincials, who had rather &uirera thousand deaths than permit a stain upon his honor. The Doctor was originally a Whig, but joined the Iemocratie party before the war and gave his whole .ul to the Southern vause. AH his sons were with Lee in lwil- :" and proved themselves worthy their parentage. Dr. JJarstclIa was a constant visitor here in his youth, and in lsl't became a resident of Washington. He is full of reminiscence and anecdote of the statesmen of a quarter of acenlury ago and loves to ta'k of them. To my qnestion. Who was the greatest man he ever knew?" he replied: "WEHSTER M f Al.HOl X were the most intellectual men I have ever i-een, hut Clay was the greatest man."' Continuing, he said: 'Webster was a lawyer, greater than any other who ever practiced at the bar of the supreme Court. He was an expounder. It was unfortunate for Iiis fame that he did not 0 on the bench in his youth. He would have been a greater Judge than Mathew Hale or Lord Mansfield, greater than Mart-hall or Story. He had the greatest grasp of a subject of any man of his day, and his style of expression was th most powerful, ilia Anglo-Saxon was simple and its characteristic was strength. "He was a large, owcrfully-built man, with immense head, broad shoulders, dark f-kin. black eyes anl threat. buhy eyebrows, .He was called the "Ciod-like," and he deserved the Pseudonym. lie dressed magnilicently, and was a most distinguished-looking man.' He had a grand voire, deep and resonant. The strength of his oratory was in the simplicity and dignity ot" his sentences," the majesty of his presence and the charm of his voice. He was a powerf nl logician, and in his reason inir approached nearer 3acon than any other American. His speech in reply to llayne created a national sentiment which continued to grow until the ieople of the dominant section thought tbe name American a prouder title than all others. So far as concerns the "races of oratory, the South Carolinian had the advantage, but the grandeur, the living patriotism, the broad, expansive nationality of Webster's speech swept all before it. and made the American t'nion a nation among the people of the earth. Although but a youth, J was mnch intereted in the debate. I was a wrapt auditor of both; my feelings and f-entiments were in sympathy w ith llayne, lut my heart sank within nie before Webster had been speakinsr a quarter of an hour. lie appeared like a demi-gotl : 'Ho is up There like a Koman Mutue. He will .-tnii'l Till Death hath made hiin marble. 4:One year afterward he was engaged in the great debate with Calhoun, w ho wrote his resignation of the Vice Presidency while "Webster was replying to Harne. In the debate with Calhoun Welter oppposed oratory to keen logic. Webster's speech was the plea of a lawyer; Calhoun's tli warnin? t a Statesman. It is now admitted that Webster's was the hotter course, bui Calhoun's the better argument. During the prosrress of the debate, while falhonn was making his last speech. John 'Randolph of Jtoaaoke was brought into the chamber. He vas bitterly opp d to Webster. He had in Iiis youth combated the wild form of nationalism preached by Patrick Henry, and combated it successfully. He hated Clay's Cnionism more than he hatetl i 'lay': personality, and he hated I -oth with a cordial haired. When brought into the chamber to 3;ear Calhoun he took a seat near Thomas 11. Ik-nton. Webster wa- in his scat, his dark face covered with a scowl, and his iroad brow furrowed with deep meditation. A hat hun? between ICindoIph and Webster. That eccentric Virginian put his hand on IV-iiton and said: 'Denton, remove that hat. I want to see the face of Web-tcr, and see him die. inch by inch." When Calhoun sat down all eyes were turned toward Webster, but he did not move, it wu expected and hoped by his partisans that he would reply. When requested to du so he refused, iirni simply said: That specli is unanswerable.' TWO AXiXPOTr." OK WKIi-TI i:. The Doctor gave me two anecdotes of "Wehster, which are not new. but they will War repeating. Said lie: 'Webster was a very convivial man. fond of pleasure and social amenitie. On one occasion he was at a supper at Drowns Hotel, ar.d. the wine being good, he imbibed a .Teat deal of it. Jenny l.ind was singing at the Canterbury Theater, and at a late hour Wtbter and his party of friends adjourned from the hotel to the" theater. When they arrived the curtain had just irone up for the iat act, and the cantatrice apjH'urcd on the stage to sing 'Hail Columbia.' Webster joined in with his magnificent bass and accompanied her through the sons:. The audience yelled, ftamied and shouted. T hey began again, ami again sang it through with the same enthusiasm j-ervading the audience. The procedure was repeated a third, a fourth, a fifth and a sixth "tim- before they were permitted to retire. At the rlo-e Webster made a magnificent bow to the diva, such as won Id have made him a J'rince had he made it at a drawing-room of Louis Ie (irand; the singer returned it, and Webster repeated it, and these courtesies continued until both had 1owed in the most la borate manner seven time. During the whole performance Webster held Lis fine silk hat in his hand and Mrs. Webster was tnjrging at Iiis coat, signaling him to desNt. 'On another occasion Webster went to iN'ew York to sound the keynote of the national campaign for the Whigs. A dinner was given at the Astor House, and the intention was that he should deliver his sjeech in resonse to a toast. The party sat Idle at the bo trd and the orator was very 'uli. When lie rose to icake Iiis speech it Infame neev-ary to prompt him by mentioning a subject. After the exordium the prompter said: 'The United States Dank. "Webster then spoke several minutes in favor f the institution, when the prompter said 'The Western Doundary,' and Webster r hanged the theme to that subject. When at was exhausted the prompter said 'The -National Debt.' Webster roared : Yes, gentlemen, there is the national debt.' His a sacred obligation. It must be paid; d d if it shant be paid. I'll pay it myself,' and, with a vacant stare, he ran his hand in his jocket, and turning to a gentleman present, said 'How much is itT This was too much, jiveryone present knew that Webster never had a cent: that his normal '.G iras to be without cash, and his

impecunioslty was proverbial. The crowd.shouted with laughter; an4 Vf a litter sat down and in live minutes was:'at asleep The neit day he delivered one of tue4 greatest speeches of his life." ' , -v , III-JgY t LAV. Henry Clay," Vanl he. "wa not onfy a great statesman, but he was a great man. If Webster wa a law-expounder. Clay was a law-giver. He was a man of ac tion. "He was a creator, a builder, a pioneer. He was more like Chatham than any other American statesman, and he was greater than hatham. Had he been Tnme Minister of lingland in lst)t Austerlitz would have been "Waterloo, as le would have made Marenpro Lcipzie. He was the beau ideal of a party leader as much the superior of P.'.aine as I'rospero wa the superior of Caliban. His motto was, 'Never strike ring to a fear. Come into iort greatly, or sail with God the seas. A KIX1 OF MEN. "He was a grand man, a king of men. I see him now a-s he appeared in the Senate. His form was tail, slender and willowy ; his arms long and graceful, his head small, and his flashing eye. dark blue, could "gaze an eagle blind.' His hands were long, slender, and almot transparent with the blue veins prominent on the back. The chisel of Praxiteles has preserved none such. Dut his voice. In that was the magic of the wizard. Its rhite-like tones can not be described in words. ne must have heard it to imagine how the harp of Orpheus aroused pity in the breast of Phadamanthus, moved Plilto to surrender a soul and gave to hell itself a moment of jov. He dominated the Senate from the day he entered the body. He towered ahove Webster and Calhoun, Denton and Wright. Hugh L. White and Thomas F.wing. Buchanan and Choate. Crittenden and Mangum, as Saul among the Jews. He was a man of magnetism. His friends not only loved him: tber idolized him. Greeley, the Puritan; Lincoln, the Westerner; Wiethe Cavalier: Stephens, the Southerner, and the Creoles of New Orleans were ready to follow his fortunes wherever they might lead. For forty years, beginning with 110, he was the greatest personage on our continent. He was the man who declared war against Creat Britain in HV2. He enacted the tarin" of 1slf. He compromised the Missouri matter in 1S,M. He compromised the tariff trouble in ls:.L He created the Cnited States Pank, after the model of Hamilton, it is true, but he enacted it. He saved the Cnion in 1 ", for if secession had prevailed then the South would, have attained independence. He had the spirit of Coriolanus and the heart of Brutus. No man had so many friends among the ladies. He was the most courtly gentleman I ever saw. Proud, haughty and imperious toward men, to woman he was deference personified, a 'courteous Antony Whom iic'er the word of 'no" woman heard sjicak B0VT WITH WKllSTETt. " 'For years he Was with the Whig party. He molded it to his will, and would brook no rival in its councils. Illustrative of this was his humiliation of Webster on one occasion. During Tyler's administration, party spirit was at fever heat. Daniel Stevenson, lather of John W. Stevenson, of Kentucky, was speaker of the House of Kepresen-

tatives. He was a Virginian and a life-lon.r ; irienu oi ine i resiuem. lie was an accomplished man of great experience in public affairs. He desired the F.nglKh mission, and th Iresident was disused to give it him. but it was doubtful if ho could be confirmed. The Whigs and a inajoritj' in the Senate, and were exasjerated on account of the bank vetoes. Friends of the administration saw Webster, who agreed to vote for confirmation and influence others to do sS. Clay was not consulted. The speaker resigned his seat in the House.and the President nominated him as Minister to the Court of St. James. When the l Senate acted on it in executive sesion. Clay made a most bitter speech in opposition. He denounced the President and his Iolicy in unmeasured terms, and declared that of all the men of whom the executive had sought counsel Stevenson was the most repulsive to the Whigs. While he was speaking. Webster was slowly pacing the lobby with his head bowed and his face expressive of care and anxiety. His word had been passed, but he had not counted upon such a trial. When closing his speech Clay exclaimed. with his long and expressive linger ointing threateningly at Webster: 'And now I want to se the Whig who will vote to confirm this nomination. The debate closed and ever) Whig, Webster included, voted against continuation. The great exjounder. exquisite as was his intellect and powerful as was his oratory, quailed before the manhood of his rival. There were but two men in tincountry who would not have succumbed to the dictation of that naughty leader, and they were not Whi.irs one was'An Jrc w Jackson, the other was John Kandolph of Doanokc. Stevenson was in despair, for his heart was set upon the place, and the President was chagrined and pained because of his friend's disappointment. Clay, whu-e heart Mas as full of generosity as it was cd' pride, saw that vexation was sapping the health of Stevenson and became sorry for him; beside, he only wMied to discipline Webster, and that he had done. Within a few Weeks he told a friend of the President to have the name sent in as:ain. It was done. Clay absented him-elf, and the nomination was confirmed. Ihichanan and Kufus Chojtte fared no better in his hands, lie crushed them as lie crushed Webster. M F.I. WITH RAMMiLIMI. lay's duel with Randolph has been the theme of a thousand iens, not one in a hundred of which has related the facts just preceding it. llandoiph was an aristocrat, a genius, a scholar, and an orator. He know more of our political history than any other man of his day unless it was John tjuincy Adam, whom he hated in common with everything connected with the Puritans. He was to American iolitics what Swift was to the politics of Fngland in the days of ueen .tni or Voltaire to the literature of the Lihteenth century. His sidrit was as haugyty as hi- body wa frail, and his intellect as iMierating as his sarcasm was blight- : ing. His tongue ) 'Otit-vcnoiucd all the worin of Ki!v. ''Randolph deliberately" insulted Clay by an illusion in one of his sjeaches to Field ing s 'Join Jone, comparing I lay and Adams to Black (icorge and Blilil, and supplementing it w ith an invective against Clay such as has no paralel in our language. It was as elegant in the construction of its sentences as it was severe in the characterization of its subject. A challenge was the result, and Dandolph was as much determined to kill lay a he was to feed his hounds the following morning. He was the best shot of his day, and could cut a tape stringat twenty juues. Ohl Tom Benton hated day almost as cordially as lie hated paper nibney, but he knew that if Clay fell in a duel the Democrat party would be held resjonsihle for it. He took it upon himself to save Clay's life, not that he wished him to survive, but that his parly might be successful at the next election. He called on Kandolph the evenin? le fore the duel and asked him to spare Clay's life. Randolph flatly refused, and d d Benton for a meddler. Old Bullion persited and remained with Dandolph till near daylight the morning they were to meet at Biadensburg. and by his earnestness and persistence extracted a promise that Randolph would draw Clay's lire, and if it proved harmless he would discharge his pistol in the air. Fvery one knows what occurred on the ground. When the parties were placed opjHjsite each other. Randolph discharged his pistol prematurely, He hid not know that the weapon was a 'hair trigger.' When the second shot was demanded. Clay fired lirst and Randolph fired in the air. TiF.KTATF.n IIY HARP.IOX. "The Whig convention of 184' was a disappointment to the party. If a primary election had been held Clay would have received ten votes tojllarrison's one; but there were many small politicians, and large ones, too, whom he had offended, and ihey were determined to take their revenge and formed combinations looking to that end. Bejpre the news of (he nomination arrived in Washington, on the day it did arrive, Clay was at

Brown' Hotel. He was much excited, for he was aware" of the opposition to him on the Irt ot many of the delegates. His interests were not skillfully managed, and he was irritated because of the want of tacit on the part f bi-partisans. He was surroimdd by admirer j and the wine circulated briskly. Ciay ppQke li'n mind freely, for he saw that he waa being sacrificed. When the news came that Harrison was nominated heexplotleJ, and closed a speech by saying, 'My friends tre not woith the devil's bringing. By t; d. sir, if there were two Henry Clays in this country cmeof them would make the other President of fhe United States. 'When the news became known strong men wept and hope, and joy went out of juany a heart. He wäs a great man, and we shall not look uion his like again." ALL AROUNDTHE HOUSE.

C'nre of Sirk Children An Ideal Sewing Boom w Dining I loom furniture Table Dainties. The Matron of the London Hospital. Miss F.va C. F. I.uckes, writing in Babyhood on the nursing of sick children says: Sick children must be left quiet rather than kept quiet: theirown inclinations are admirable guides as to what is best for them in this re-iect. We must keep our sympathies keenly alive, and endeavor to understand what our little patients are feeling as wo'.l a.s what it is needful to do for them. We may reasonably try if toys are acceptable for the moment, but if they are rejected there is no object in inducing a child to play. We must endeavor to soothe it, as far as possible, into the restful condition it is evidently needing, and on no account attempt to rouse she child against its inclination, except when the administration of food or other remedies renders it imperative to do so. On the other hand, if the young patient shows a desire to play, that is a good sign in itself, and it i infinitely better to produce the wished lor toys than to risk excitement and irritation by withholding them in what will prove a futile hope of keeping the child absolutely quiet. supiHsing that line of treatment docs not commend itself to him. We can no more afford to disregard the mental condition of juvenile patients than we can venture to ignore it in adults, if we wish to nurse successfully. It may often be a question how far the good of the remedy ordered would counterbalance the evil of the striegle and cry that may be involved in its aplication in the case of an excitable child who is in a veri' critical condition, and the decision ean be wisely arrived at in each individual instance only according to the nature of the illnes and the importance of the means prescribed. In saying this I do not for a moment mean to imply that the doctor's orders may be set aside whenever it is difficult or painful to execute them, but I am anxious to point out that the nursing of a sick child claims intelligent consideration from every point of view, anil that mechanical obedience in some circumstances is the last thing that a skillful doctor would desire. Henrietta Davis in Good Housekeeping makes a plea for TIIF. IhEAI. SKWIXi. KOOM. The ideal sewing-room is rather small, so that there may be no room in it for other occupations than that for which it is designed. It is entirely without cariet or rugs, but with a smoothly finished Moor of hard wood, or one with ä good coat of paint. This prevents the accumulation of dust and makes it very easy to sweep up the scraps and threads which arc allowed tofallfrcelv on it during the day's work. The pins and needles, too. that will gravitate to the lloor, are more easily hmnd. The furniture is of the simplest sort. Two or three comfortable sewing-chairs, not rockers, a table and a cutting-board, or the two combined in a good f utting-table, a bureau with many large drawers and the sewing-machine, are all that are allowed to lind a place in it. A large box about a foot and a half in height, with a cushioned lid Jtnd covered with chintz, is useful as a receptacle for work as well as an additional seat. The walls are of a cheeful tint and two or three pictures may beautify it, but books never enter here," nor any literature except that pertaining to sewing. The Baxar and similar publications are welcome for their patterns and valuable aid in work, and have a shelf of theirown. Th bureau-drawers arc devoted each to a certain sort of contents,one to cotton, tapes, buttons and such small wares, one to pieces of white materials, one to colored linings, one to woolen pieces, one to silk pieces, etc. The room contains a closet in which can be hung halffinished garments, and on its shelves stand the boxes of odds and ends of ribbon, lace and similar thiturs that accumulate day by day. The room is warm and sunny in wiiitef and cool in summer, for itsocctipants are to be as comfortable as posilIo. Its outlook is pleasant, giving an occasional rest to the tired eyes of the seamstress, and the room is in a retired part of the house. There, in those dreaded days when the dressmaker comes, she is received to find all her necessary materials ready for her, and when her day's work is done, she can leave the room 'ccure in the thought that she will lind iio patters disturbed and no parts of her work mising when she returns next morning; for, as the idea of the room pre hides its being used for any other ptirjose than its own, it is to be closed when the hours for work are rnded. If it is necessary, as it ought not to be, to sew in the evenings, let some well prepared and easily-managed part of the work be chosen, so tiiat these evening hours can be sjent in the family circle whi li gathers in the general sitting-room. Dining-room sets show a decided change for the better in shape and finish. Instead of the straight, old-fashioned, cane-seated chairs which were enough to tale one's appetite to look at, there are low, broad chairs with backs lower, upholstered and covered with Russian horse-hide, finished like the famous leather from that frozen land. The colors vary to fuit the wood. There are soft chocolate browns for walnut, an olive for oak, while foi mahogany there is a decided red. Dining-room tables aie made quite different from the old-fashioned black walnut extension our mothers laid so gracefully. The new ones are modeled after a centertable, but, in addition to an upright standard in the center, have four legs. They are exac tly square, and have the c orners slightly rounded; the standard in the center precludes the Hissibilityof any intimacy among the feet at table. TABLE r.F.l l!-K. Chicken a la cream. Cut the chic ken up ami Mew until well done; then make a thickening of cream or rich milk and sifted Hour, seasoning with butter, pepper and salt. Have ready baked a pair of snort-cakes made as for piecrust, but rolled thin and cut in squares. Lay the crusts on a dish, and pour over them the chicken and gravy while all are hot. Many prefer ligh soda biscuit instead of piecrust, but loth are nice. Potato Roll?. Roil six good sized potatoes with the'.r jackets on ; take them out with a skimmer drain and squeeze with a towel to insure being dry; then remore the skin, mash them perfectly free from lumps, ad 1 a tablospoonful of butter, the yolks of three eggs and a pint of sweet milk. When cool beat in a table.vpoonful.'of yeast. Put in just enough Hour to make a stiff dough. When this rises, make into small cakes. Let them rai.-.e the same as biscuit and bake a delicate brown. It Won't Pay after so much labor and capital has been exjiended to build up this medicine, to allow it to deteriorate. You can take Simmons Liver Regulator with- perfect faith, as it is made by no adventurers who pick up the business of concocting medicines, but by educated, practical druggists who have made the study of medicine and its compounds the labor of a lifetime. The care, precision, neatness and perfection exhibited by the very apjearanee of the Regulator proves it to be the best prepared medicine in the market, and J. H. Zeilin A: Co. fully carry out theirmotto: "Purissima et Optima" (purest a cd best.)

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Oar Illustrated WeeUy Letter Fnra tie , ' Katioual Capital XVho Shall 1 Chaplains? Something About the Clergy of the National CapitalWho They Are, Ktr. f Special Sentinel Letter.J ' . Wahixgtox, October lti. An interesting feature for the coming contest for officers of the House and Senate is the light to be made for the Chaplaincy of those two bodies. You would hardly eipect to see a clergyman pull off his coat and settle down to a canrass among grave Senators and frisky Representatives, but they do it. Some of the canvasses for the Chaplaincy have been very spirited. They haTe been, in many cases, participated in not only by the clergymen interested themselves, but by the members of the respective Churches. Two years ago, when the present Chaplain of the House was elected, members of his church, both ladies and gentlemen, interested themselves very strongly in his fight, some of the ladies taking their carriages and spending several days driving about the city canvasing among the members of the House in his behalf. There were at that time as many as twenty candidates for this position, although it pays only $:00 a year. This is a comparatively small sum for a Washington clergyman, yet it is pretty good pay when you consider that his actual employment is not over three minutes a day. The average length of the term of Congress is usually six months, and the number of days in the month probably average'about twenty-live days in the rear. The services of the 'Chaplain are about tllree minutes of a day. This makes about 07." minutes of service, for which he gets nine hundred dollars, or something over two dollars and a half a minute. Of course the Chaplain of the House or Senate is usually chosen from among Washington Clergvnien; so it comes about that Washington clergymen are the subjhot of K'V. EKMl'XD HEZ SWEM. unusual interest here just now. Let us run over the list, or at least a part of it, for there are probably a hundred of them here. Washington is a" great place for churches and church going. It has the reputation of being a very wicked city, but it is diflicult to lind a city north or south, east or west where there is as much church-going as in Washington. (Jo to alirost any of the prominent churches on bundcy morning and if you are at all late the chances are that you may not get a seat at all. Take a walk on the streets any Sunday morning about eleven and you will find steady, streams of people pouring churchward. There are currents and counter currents of these people, for the churches are in every direction. The currents are of all colors, too. for the colored citizens of Washington have quite as handsome churches as the wealthier white population, while the yellow, almond-eyed brother from far away China have "his special service in one of the finest churches in the city in the balmy hours of Sunday afternoon. Probably the oldest church in the city is St. John's" Protestant Fpicop;tl. It stands at the corner of Sixteenth and H streets, just across Lafayette Square from the White House. Here was where President Arthur attended church. Its pastor, Dev. Dr. Leonard, is r verv popular and brilliant young man, full of life and energy, not only brilliant in the pulpit, but cqally companionable in social life. St. John's Church in Georgetown has for its pastor the present chaplain of the House, ltcv. Dr. Lindsay. i:kv. fkaxcis james rimki:. Mr. Lindsay made a study of his chaplaincy, and did it well. He always wrote his prayers before he went to the House, and either relocated them frorr memory or read them from manuscript. Another Kpisconal Church that is interesting is St, Luke's Church, for colored jeople, located ' on Fifteenth street, in the fashionable quarter of the city. Its pastor, Rev. Alexander Crummell. D. D., is a very black, very highly educated and very much beloved man. He is a graduate of Oxford, and is very Knglish in "ids ways. St. Luke's is a "high church," and with itschoir of colored boy singers and high ritualistic ways, is a very interesting place. Speaking, of the colored ministry in Washington, it may be well enough to mention in this connection Rev. Francis James Grinke, of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church. Ho was born a slave in Charleston, in 1SÖO, and after his liberation by the war went to Massachusetts and entered Lincoln University, from which he graduated in '7i. He was the valedictorian of his class, and after leaving college took up law. He soon turned his attention, however, to theology, graduating at Princeton in ISTs, tince which time he has presided over this, one of the most fashionnhlc colored churches in Washington. So able and self-possess-cd r scholar as Dr. McCosh wrote of Mr. Orinke: "I have heard him preach, and feel as if I could listen to such preaching with profit from Sabpath to Sabbath." Still another colored church that attracted a good deal of attention is one fur colored Catholics, also located on Fifteenth street, in the heart of the fashionable quarter. It is an extremely fashionable c hurch with the colored element, very large, very costly, with frescoed ceilings, stained glass windows, a fine choir of colo.ed singers, a line organ, etc. If you want to see the latest agonies in the fashions you want to go to i t. Augustine Church. Washington is a tTeat place for "memorial churches." Kvery religious denomination takes a pride in having at least one fine church edifice in Washington. The result is that Washingtod is full of memorial

churches. There is a memorial church' n Thomas Circle, another one. on tour-and-a-. half fctrec, another on Vermont,aTemie, end probably several Jraore1 Scattered about through - the city., t is generally an easy way to ' : raise tnoney for ,' a church edifice to make, it' a, memorial . church, a sort of monument for somebody or something. .Some of these memorial churches are so arranged that each of their windows is a monument to somebody and bears his name. In other cases the churches themselves are the memorial structures. One of the most interesting of thet-e is the OartieU Memorial Church. The work of raising the money for it was begun when Garfield was alive, and was to be the first President that the Chris-' tian Church had ever had. After his death it was completed as a monument to him. Rev. Dr. Powers, its pastor, was Chaplain of the House in the lorty-seventh Congress. Another memorial church, the Metropolitan Methodist, is preside! over by Rev. E. D. Huntley, 1. I.. the present Chaplain of the Senate. Huntley is one of the best preachers in Washington and one of the most popular pastors. He is also "one of the boys." "I remember him very well," said a prominent, Wisconsin official, talkin to your correspondent the other day. "lie attended college at Appleton, in my State, preparing for the ministry, and afterward became a professor in that institution. He was different ent from most of his associates, fond of athletic sports, such as .rowing, base ball plaj'ing, and anything and everything of this character. His fondness for athletic sports induced him to take boxing lessons, and this accomplishment, I remember, stood liim in a very good purpose on one occasion, at least. He and some more of his college associates had gone from Appleton across to some little town to give some .sort of amateur Tierforruanee for the benefit of some church or Sunday-school there. While they were waiting for the train to return some of the toughs of the town thought they would have a little fun out of the boys, and began guying them at a fearful rate. Some of them were inclined to stand it as best they could, but not h with Huntley. He wasn't that kind. He answered back vigorously; so much so that the fellows became angry and attempted to thrash him. But they didn't do it. Huntley's science that he haa picked up in his boxing lessons came to his aid, and the bully, very much to his astonishment, found himself thoroughly trounscd before he fairly knew what was the matter with him." One of the oldest churches in the city, and one which rejoices in the title 01 "The Mother of Churches" in Washington is the First ltaptist Church, presided over by Rev. Kdmunu Hez Swem. He is a graduate of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, located at Louisville. He is a native of Indiana, having been ordained in Lawrenceburg and made pastor. He became very popular during his pastorate.and his old church, where the Carrolls of Duddington, and John Law and other nabobs of that period atteded church, is very popular. Another popular preacher in Washington is Rev. Dr. Bartlett, of the New Kork Avenue rresbvterian Church His is the most fashionable Presbyterian Church in the city. A good many Presidentsand a host of Cabinet officers have attended there. Of course, Dr. Sunderland's Church, where the President attends, is popular, and Dr. Sunderland suddenly finds himself a popular preacher. Abraham Lincoln in Illinois. "Following is an excerpt from an article by Klihu B. Washburnc in the X. A. Review." 1 landed at Galena, by a Mississippi river steamboat, on the 1st day of April, 1ft 10, ten years after Hanks and Lincoln were splitting rails in Macon county.

J he country was then fairly entered on that marvelous Presidential campaign between Van Buren and Harrison, bv Far the most exciting election the country has ever seen, and winch, in my judgment, will never have a parallel, should the count rv have an existence for 1,000 years. Illinois was one of the seven States that voted for Van Buren, but the Whigs contested the election with great zeal and most desperate energy. Galena, theretofore better known as the Ferro river lead mines, still held its importance as the centre of the lead-mining legion, and was regarded as one of the principal towns in the State in point of opulation. wealth and enterprise. But the bulk of population of the State at that t ime, as well as the weight of iiolitical influence, was south of Springnehl. -Mr. Lincoln was lirst f lectel to t lie lower branch of the Legislature (then sitting at.Vamlalia) from Sangamon county in KM, ami that was lus lirst apiearance in public life. He was re-elected in 1V, PCS and lsio, Uaving served in all four terms eight yeai. He then peremptorily declined a further election. before ins eij:ctiox to the Legislature Mr. Lincoln had read law in a fugitive way at Now Salem; but arriving at Vandaliaas a member of the Legislature a new field was open to him in the State law library as well as inthe miscellaneous library at the capital. He then devoted himself most diligently not only to the study of law, but to miscellaneous reading. He always read understandingly, and there was no principle of law but what he mastered: and such was the way be always impressed his miscellaneous readings on his mind, that in his latter life people were amazed at his wonderful familiarity with books even those so little known by the great mass of readers. The seat of government of Illinois having been removed irom andalla to bpnngheld j in l&!l, the latter place often became the centre of political influence in the State. Mr. Lincoln was not particularly disting- i tiishcd in his legislative service, lie participated in the discussion ot t lie ordinary subjects of his legislation, and was regarded as a man of good sense and a wise and practical legislator. His uniform fairness was proverbial; but he never gave any special evidente of THAT MASTERLY ABILITY for which he was afterward distinguished, and which stamped him, as by common consent, the foremost man of all the century. He was a prominent Whig in politics, and took a leading part in all political discussions. There were many men of loth iiolitical parties in the Lower House of the Legislature, during the service of Mr. Lincoln,' who became a fterwaad distinguished inthe political history of the State, and among them might be mentioned Orlando B. Ficklin. John T. Stuart, William A. Richardson, John A. McClernand. Ldward D. Baker, Lewis W.Ross, Samuel D. Marshal, Robert Smith, William II. Bissel and John J. Hardin, all subsequently members of Congress; and James Semple, James Shields and Lyman Trumbull, Cnited States Senators. There were also many men of talent and local reputation who beid an honorable place in the public estimation and made their mark in the history of the State. Springfield was tue political centre tor ine u uigsoi .Illinois in lfilO, Lincoln had already acquired a high reputation as a K)pulr speaker, and he was put on the Harrison electoral ticket with the understanding he should canvass the State. Fdward D. Baker was also entered AS A CAMTAIoX OKATOR, and wherever he spoke he carried his audience captive by the power ot his eloquence and the strength of his arguments. He was one of the most effective stump speakers 1 ever listened to. It was his wonderful eloquence and his jiowerusa stumj-sK'akcr that elected him to congress from Illinois, in a district to which he did not bclonir. and made him a Fnited States senator from Oregon when he was a citizen of California. John T. Stuart was already known by his successful canvass with Douglas in is:is, as an able sjicaker and opuIar man: and John J. Hardin of Jacksonville (killed at Buena Vista) was widely Known as a iopular and successful orator. These Springfield Whigs led oil' in canvassing the State for Harrison in IS 10. Lincoln and Baker were assigned to the "Wabash country." where, as Baker once told me. they would make speeches one day and shake with the ague the nexi. It is hard to realize at this day what it was. to make a

political canvass in Illinois hijf a century gone by. There were no rafiroh an t but few stage lines. The speakers Were obliged to travel on horseback, carrying their sad-dle-ltags filled with hickory shim and woollen socks. They were frequently obliged to travel long distances through swamps and over prairies to tneet their apjoiutments. The accommodations were invariably wretched, and no matter how tired, jaded and worn the speaker might be he was obliged to respond to the call of the waiting and eager audiences.

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