Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1890, Page 8

a a THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C.. 8A TIE CALVERT MANSION Its Proprietor and His Warm Friend- ship for Henry Clay. A MANOR OF COLONTAL TIMES How the Estate Was Founded—The Buildings and Surroundings—Remin- iscences of Henry Clay—Works of Art— Sale of Valuable Kelics, ———> @ EITHER enterprise nor Progress are respectors of sentiment or senti- mental people. An old homestead, the place of one’s nativity, clothed with the dearest of memories, is wiped out with the same cold in- difference that charac- terizes the transformation of a time-honored family burial ground inte a commercial mart or public thoroughfare. Cities suddenly spring Up upon waste places and fine old homes of our ancestors are gobbled up by the modern syndi- cate and remodeled into suburban villas. There is no more striking illustration of these facts to be found than at Riversdale—a model old Maryland manor just beyond his- toric Bladensburg. Comparatively few people are acquainted with the associations that brood, one might say. over the transformation of the scenes and surroundings of this once famous resort—a place that was from ita very settlement « haven of refuge for liberty-loving spirits fleeing from the autocratic power of royalty and the brilliant but rapacious military onslaughts and sweeping confiscations of the first Napoleon. EARLY IN THE PRESENT CENTURY. Among the nnmerous old Virginia and Mary- Iand manors whose existence dates with the earliest colonial days or whose histories are linked with that of the most chivalric and try- ing times of the young republic none ocenpy a more conspicuous place or offer more delight- ful reminiscences of a memorable past than this old home of the Calverts and noted ren- dezvous of statesmen, literati and bon vivants. Beneuth the roof of that old house, which is now well nigh gone with faithful service. as it rests and crumbies upon walls rent with decay, have stood Washington, Lafayette, Van Buren, Jefferson, Clay, Webster, Kandolph—indeed, numberless heroes, whose names and deeds compose the best pages of American history. HOW THE ESTATE Was FOUNDED. It is generally supposed and frequently so stated in print that Riversdale proper was in time the home or a home of the Lords Balti more. But such was not the case. Their con- nection with the estate was in this way: George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore—title, Baron of Baltimore—and for whom the monumental city of Baltimore was called, descended from a Protestant family in Flanders, from whence they removed to Yorkshire, England. He be- came knight member of parliament for Ox- ford, secretary of council and advocate of col- onization. Becoming a convert to Cathol- icism he sacrificed all his official recog- nition and sought refuge on this conti- nent. In consideration of his services, how- THE OLD MANSION. ever, he was made a peer of Ireland, with the graut of several estates in the province of Con- naught He was also given letters patent for an unsettled territory in America, which he in- tended to call Cresentia, but before the letters reached him he died. His son Cacilius, who succeeded tothe title as second Lord Balti- more, received from Charles I the patent in 1632 and named the territory in honor of Queen Marie, a daughter of Henry IV of France. When the charter was drawn by the first Lord Baltimore a blank was left for the in- sertion of the name, and to this fact the present name of the state is due, for instead of Cresen- tin the blank was filled by the insertion of “Terra-Marie,” or Mary's Land. hence Mary- land. It was the intention of Cecilius to trans- porta colony to the new ions, accom- panied by himself, but he gave thnt up and sent his brothers, Leonard and Guorge, consti- tuting the former lieutenant governor. Sub- ently the direct descendants of Cecilius followed, and the first owner of the Riversdale estate as a special homestead was Charles, ‘TRE SIXTH LORD BALTIMORE. The wife of Charles was the daughter of Henry J. Stier, a wealthy Belgian, who fied from his native country to escape the fury of Napoleon Bonaparte, who, with his apparently invincible legions, was galloping over the country devastating property and confiscat- ing whatever he imagined was useful to the state, which, as he held, was himeelf. Mr. Stier was a lover and patron of art, and had in his magnificent collection of paintings @ num- ber of Rubens’ happiest conceptions, between whom and himself there was clove family re- lationship. He brought with him to America his entire gallery of pictures and other valua- bies, aud it was he who erected the then pala- tial edifice now but a rapidly decaying remaaut at Riversdale. W THE GROUNDS WERE ARRANGED, The entrance in early days was two miles east of Bludensburg and was carefully guarded by portentous gates, flanked by two supposed necessary and conventional watch towers or lodges. Once inside, before the eye was a sweep of 2,000 acres of rolling woodland and pete dears long, winding roadway led to the mansion, « mile to the southeast, a house of two stories with wings at cither side, « square cupola on the top and porticoes front aud buck, which were paved with white and black mar. ble. The stone pillars supporting the roof of the front porch were origtually intended for the old Capitol building, but being unsuitable Were purchased for the Kiversdale dwell- ing In front of the building was fountain, edged by ehells and surrounded by ancient japonicas in great green tubs. In the center of the basin was a white, wide-mouth, stiff-looking dolphin, through whose throat not a drop of water las pussed for these many Jeers, Back of the house was « pretty shin: jake, in the center of which was an island, au: on the island a miniature castle, reached by « fancy bridge, which long ago joined in the ral stampede to disintegration and rotted away. THE BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS. The surrounding buildings, including those Used as servants’ quarters, now gradually crumbling out of existence; the old reservoir, Propped high into the air, from which, through underground ead pipes, the quondam fount- ain, the well-appointed couservatory and the numerous terraces and borders of rare and bonutiful flowers were old bell. ched hke a sentinel house, that summoued the workmen to gid from their daily labors; the queer octagoual barn, away off to the east, the path te which Jed through bower of the Osage orange, were all in timely keeping with the stately grandeur of the residence and the social attainments of the landed proprictor. INTERIOR OF THE MAIN BUILDING. Entering the center building as it was in ite pride and glory one passed through massive Straightforward from the vestibule was the reception room, painted a light green, with ornamental designs on the wails aud furnished with the prevailing fash- fonable spider-legged furniture, with quaint brass trimmings and upholstered in ex- penrive satins. The entire 9 beck ot this 3 room of glass, opened a) ico pre- tented "scene of arena oe bony tn the lovely lake, its jaunty island and a scope of undalating eaten and woodlands. From the center of the ceiling hung @ crystal lamp im the form of an urn and vase, ornamented by most exquisitely painted wreath of flowers, To west was the drawing room, separated by sod mabogany ‘o the east the state dining room. Th: Is in these rooms were © —- WORKS OF CONSUMMATE ART and in those times the rarest in America. They were made in Italy of fine gray Currara mar- ble, with jambs formed by two marble sphinxcs most tastefully designed and delicately carved. doors, © man’ DINING ROOM MANTEL. ‘These manteis were taken down no longer ago than in 1849 by a Nr. John Fox, a wealthy New Yorker and a member of the syndicate of the first purchase, and shipped east for private use. In the corners of tho rooms stood ebony pede: tals four feet high. bearing bronze’ figures holding great branch candlesticks. The same elogant appointments obtained in the dining room. ‘The arrangement of the upper rooms was in keeping with the stateliness of those on the main floor, some being uniquely and curious!y embellished with scenes familiar in the lives of ancestral relativesand placed directly on the wal THE OLD LrBnany. The library had its place in a quiet, cozy corner to itself in the western end of the build- ing. away from the noise and turmoil of society and domestic affairs, and was regarded as the sucred inner temple of the household. The south, ali glass, openod upon a lawn, which, shadowed here and there by majestic oaks centuries old and dotted by vine-clad summer houses. sloped gently to the lake. Among tho pictures on the library walls hung one of Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison, father of the present President, and not of Andrew Jackson, as has been frequently stated. HENRY CLax’s Room, The room best known to visitors of recent years, however, was the one so often occupied by Henry Clay. The great commoner was a favoredand frequent guest at the Caivert man- sion—in fact, virtually resided there during mnch of his congressional life. This room waa over the reception room and from the window an inspiring panorama of landscape spread out before him as he mustered his subjects of study and penned his cloquent idoas, ‘ihe furuitare was of oak, made of wood taken off the place. The bedstead was tail and Ce. apes, having three carpeted steps by which the sago of Ash- land practically climbed up to dreamy, rest- ful siumber.” A great comfortable old leather-covered chair with a leaf projecting from the arm for writing or reading was ever at his service; his inkstand, a pretty painted china affair, which would ornament a desk even of today und represented in the initial letter of this article, was always at hand. Tho room was at his command at all times. In this room, on this combined desk and chair, he wrote the compromise of 1850. It was fre- quently asserted to those visiting the place recentiy that he there wrote the Missouri com- promise, but that is an error. The Missouri compromise was written in 1821; the one writ- ten at Riversdale was ompromise concern- ing the question of slavery in the then terri- tories. After Mr. Clay's death the room was allowed to remain for many years just as he left it upon his last visit—bis shoes were upon the floor, his pon upon his desk. his inkstand all spattored and spotted with ink. and it was a shrine to which many a pilgrimage was made by both admirers and critica. THE GOLD AND BRONZE MEDALS, In the possession of Mr. George H. Calvert of 1750 Corcoran street, this city, a surviving member of the family and one who spent tho greater portion of his life at the old homestead, is a bronze medal, a duplicate of the goid one presented by citizens of New York to Mr. Clay in recognition of his services to hie country. ‘The original gold medal cost $3,000, but there being in the bust on it of Mr. Clay a detect, it was returned to New York to be recast, but in some mysterious way was lost on route and never recovered. Fortunately, however, at the time the original was cast a few were struck off in bronze, one of which was given by Mr. Clay to his warm frieud and host. Mr. Charles B. Calvert of Riversdale. On one side of the medal was the bust of Mr, Clay in profile; on the otber, surmounted by @ wreath, was the following inscription: SENATE, SPEAKER 1811. War of van with Great Britain, GU : 4. SECRETARY OF STATE 1826 Panama instructions 1828. Tarif? Compromise 1833, Public Domain 1833-1841. Peace with Frauce Preserved 1833, Compromise 1850, WORKS OF ART. America scarcely had a more valnable or de- sirable collection of paintings than were to be found hanging on the wails of the Calvert man- sion when Riversdale was at its zenith as the center of literary, social and politieal attrac- tions. When 3 Stier, to esexpe the fury of Napoleon Bonaparte, fled to America, he brought with him all his belongings tr: ble, imeinding @ rare coll which became American critics and lovers of the arts. final greater and better por- tion of these pictures was a matter of much concern and the cause of a leugthy ence. The discussion finally. tei Mr. Stier offering his son-in-law sixth Lord Baltimore, a choi: hetween the collevtion at a stated sum and a certain amount of landed property a6 u portion of his wito's inheritance, After a careful consideration he chose the latter, and the paintings were shipped to and sold in Antwerp at handsome prices—one of them bringing #25,000—a mas. terpiece of Rubens. Many, however, were left here and were sold at the general sale in 1817. Of these Mr.G.H.Culvert ling two, one by Schwagers and the other by Antonissen, two noted Flemish artists. Two wore purchased by Gen. H. N. Barlow of this city, “The Prodigal Son” and a garden scene, which were supposed to be by Rubens, but they wore not, though they were the works of two of Rubens’ best ‘pupils, These pictures were purchased from Gon. Barlow by Mrs. Blaine, it is said, sev- eral years ago. Mr. G. H. Calvert secured, be- ides other pictures, a copy of Rubens’ famous ‘ture, “‘Chapeuu de Paille”—the beaver hat— keness of Mile. Lundins, a young lady much admired by Rubeus, aud on whose beauty he employed all the mastery of his pencil, VALUABLE RELICS BOLD. The death in 1876 of Mrs. Charlotte A. Cal- vert, relict of Charles B. Calvert, the last pro- prietor of the property intact and the great friend of Clay, necessitated a breaking up and off of the old homestead and everything EUROPEAN CAUSERIE. Max 0’Rell Chats About the Humors of London Streets. QUEER TYPES AND SCENES. 2 The Pleasures of Sanntering—Peculiar- itles of the French—Well-carned Dam- @ges—Count Tolstei on Love—Oscar Wilde again—Ccomment, peices Stevo ‘Special Correspondence of Tr EVENING Stan. Loxpox, July 26. HE pleasures of street sauntering are ignored by most Englishmen. In small untry towns, it is true, aman may stroll idly in the streets, exchanging civilities with the passer-by and picking up the latest bit of news or gossip; but in the Great cities every well-dressed man one meets is going from one point to another, and that generally at high speed, whether he have busi- ness in hand or be merely on pieasure bent. The English are no strollers; to stroll in the London strects is to get oneself remarked as a strange, if not suspicious, person, I have often heard Londoners say that. it. docs snot look rospectabie. The explanation of the mat- ter is this, Ifancy: The ordinary Englishman ig not a keen enough observer of human nature to enjoy the humors of — the street as the Freneliman does. Almost every Frenchman is a born flanenr. (The verb flaner is all but untranslatable; saunter is the nearest equivalent to be foand for itin the English vocabulary.) Artistas he is, it is no wonder that he has brought even sauntering toa fine art. What rich siudies of human nature are unfolded for him in the streets, what little comedies are played for his entertainment! ay, and drama too, and even a tragedy occasionally. For him all the little world of Paris is a stage indeed, und vast is the amusement he gets out of its ever-shifting scenes. The slightest trifles have their interst for him. Who but a Parisian could have writ- ten the “Peripeties d'un morceau de papior?” Who but au Emile Souvestre could have told the adventures of that scrap of paper und in- vested its course along the gutter with an al- most human interest?” STREET SCENES IN LONDON. London is nearly as rich in entertainment for the flancur as is Paris, aud at tho risk of not being thought respectabie I still indulge an old taste for saantering. which, being bred in the bone, I suppose, ia difficult to eradicate, In my peregrinations about London 1 have learned more than Lcou!d have gathered from a score of volumes, ‘Think what a Lurge seetion of the population have to live in the streets and you will sce how eavy it is to read the character of these people. where the Italian is grinding ints piay Look ut the group of women dancing on the pavement. Not girls and children only are capering to the strains of the Jig or polka, but there are four or five matrons of age who have dropped their severn ployments aud have come out with and hair divheveled to dance with much abandon as if they had no husband's «upper to cook and no scrubbing or sewing at home wait- ing to be done, You wili want no sage to tell you that these people do not put by a penny for the proverbial rainy day, and that their homes are comfortiess hovelx which the men forsake for the public house. But they have their virtues, Wait see; we are only sauntering. Let a case of distress come under their notes and their sympathy is quick and generous, More than ouce I havo seen be- friended by such peopie a poor wreteh wno might have dropped and died in Mayfair be- fore Dives would have stopped to inquire what he or she lac ON THS EMBANKMENT, Then there is the Embankment. What char- acters may be seen on the benches of that great promenade any fine day. There is the shabby philosopher smoking his pipe of peace and contentment; there is the discontented mechanic sitting with hands in pockets and looking heartily dixgusted with the way in which fortune distributes her favors, Ho iooks as tho Irishman might have looked when, on landing in & foreign country, ke said to a native: “Have you a government? Then I'm agin it.” instinctively feel that they must not ask him tho timo; no wayfarer turns to him to inquire the way to such a strect. Hero is another type. This one is habitually out of work; spends his win- ters in gaol and in ‘summer picks up a living in tho street. It is such ax he who are in the forefront when there is any rioting going on. His hand is against every man, except when he is drunk, then he becomes a philosopher. I have seen him filled with an evanoscent milk of human kindness, drawn from the yin palace tap and looking as if he were cousoling himself for the existence of the Duke of Westminster's broad acres with the thought that if his grace ever took it into his head to get drunk, he could not, with all his mouey, be more drunk than he bimsolf was ut that moment. Then, again, there are the happy lovers who sit close together and the other kind that don’t; both are entertaining. Tam never tired of observing them all. A BUICHER-SHOP FIGHT. Whilst I am in the street let me confess that the eater of burning fusces has a real fascina- tion for me, that I love a Punch and Judy show and can get up quite an acute interest in a street row. Only the other day I saw a moat engaging one. The usual knot of people and the sound of elevated voices from its midst an- nounced that a lively contest was in progress, Tapproached. Just opposite a butcher's sho} air of excited females were abusing enc other lustily, and soon from words they pro- ceeded to blows, The butcher aud his boy ap- peared to take the liveliost intcrest in the fray, which they stood watching from a safe pos. tion in the background oi the shop. My at- tention was fixed upon that butcher. Whether he was buteherly enough to rejoice in antici- ation of blood to flow I do not know; e glee on his face wax plain, If it was so he had his reward, His mirth was presontly turned into mourning, for the tide of battle having flowed close to his shop front the in- furixted combatants began to seize the pieces of mvat that lay handy and to hurl them at each other. Chops, steaks, kidneys, all the smaller portions of an ox or sheep's ‘anatomy that usually adorn the butcher's window ledge, flew through the air in hit or miss fashion, while it became really funny to watch the face of the butcher lengthenat the disappearance of his cutlets and rognons sautes, THE NUDE IN ART. I was vory sorry to hear, as apiece of news from Detroit, that the influential people of that city have desired the custodians of the Mmusenm to drape all the nude statues, and have intimated their‘intention of boycotting the in- stitution if the Venuses and Apollos are not forthwith provided with tuckers and togas, It is a well kuown fuet in the history of the world that young communities have not a taste for fine art, ‘The reason is obvious: They have no time to cultivate it. If I had gone to Okla- homa I should not have expected to find any art feeling at all; but that in @ city like De- troit, where I was struck with the intellectual life and evident cultivation of the inhabitants,a party should be found numerous and strong enough to issue such a heathen dictate as this seems searcely credible. I am inclined to think it must be a joke. Of course one knows that there are Anthony Comstocks in America, and in England too, as has been lately idlus: trated by the fuss over the Zoo poster, ‘but I am unwilling to bolieve that they exist in any wantity in Detroit. It is very curious. that there should be people who, when confronted with some glorious master] of sculpture, should see, not the postry, the beauty of the human form divine, but just @ person Without any clothes on.’ These people of the earth earthy are generally Anglo-Bax- ons, When I was in America “I heard that an English author, of some re- ate, talking one with Richard Watson ilder about the Venus of Milo, had remarked that, as he looked at her beautiful form, he ged to put his arms around her and kiss Mr. Gilder, who, like the rest of us, has t mit with bis admiration divinity, Would bave grown « pa’ tion, 60 a8 to have slapped your face.” I must say that I have heard in French ball rooms re- marke like that of this Briton applied to women in evening dress, but I do not belicvo that one of the uncultivated peasants and seen workmet be in the Louvre ever have a ht is not akin to — thé, white beauties that Eo is late in making his that love is the father of half a score of reminds me a little of Solomon, after monopolising 9 aang Jagr gh fair sex during the best enough to write nein of the bulk of them. The peculiar views the count hes ad- i a Sl} DAY, UGUST 2, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES. vanced in his last novel. “The Kreutzer Sonata, have called forth such a storm of dissent from go he has had begs or mae em. ‘hi explanation, whi peared in & syndicate of newspa; is not cheering. Count Tolstoi is a wonderful genius, but he is certainly de ing. Some one long ago recommended him as capital reading for any one suffering from a plethora of high — its. His lntest utterances have distinctly added ou fe the Lit try that i ! there should be but one name for the est devotion of an Adam Bede and the sensual pas- sion of Tito Melema; but itis dismal to hear th lumped together and to be told that love and all tho states that accompany and follow it, no matter what the ts may fay, never do and never can facilitate the attainment of an aim worthy of men, but always make it more difficult, ‘THE SUBTLE PASSION. What, stigmatize as unholy ‘the maiden pas- sion for a maid,” that “most subtle passion un- der heaven, that not alone keeps down the base in man.” but doth “teach high thoughts and noble deeds and all that makes a man!” Do away with the golden bond of wedlock and make the earth a silent dungeon for want of the hine and laughter of children! That there is sin in the world we ali know: that much of it 1s caused by “fleshly lusts which war against the soul” is another truism; but to advocate the extinction of the species as a remedy for the evil is much like proposing to cure tooth- ache by cutting the patient's head off. A witty Frenchman has said that one must necds put up with growing old since it is the only means yet discovered for living long. As “tis love that makes the world go round,” most of us will, I dare say. bo willing to put up with that, too, for some time longer. OSCAR WILDE, How true is that saying of Josh Billings that when a man has once stood on his head before the public the public will never allow him to stand on his fect again, The case of Mr.Oscar Wilde is a good illustration of this truth. For several ycats he has beon doing serious work. but at is still difficult to take himseriously. His readers cannot forget the Oscar Wilde of the platform. though he has long ceased to exist and in his stead has appeared the Oscar Tame, who, “clothed and in his right mind”—with his hair cut—does his best to make them fo: get that he ever stood on anything but hisfoe: He gives them poetry that is refined al pretty, and he gives them prose that is poeti cnl; but every now and then there comes some tremendous statement, which instead of being impressive, as itis intended to be,somehow hus the opposite effect and inevitably recalls the attitudinizing Oscar of old, Such an utterance is the one in his article on ‘-Criticism” in this month’s Nineteenth Century. Speaking of journalism. hesays: “It justifies its own exist- euce by the great Darwinian doctrine of the survival of the vulgarist.” And again: “The difference betweeg journalism and literature is that journzlism is unreadable and titorature is unread.” It must be hard to have to label your jokes, but perhaps harder still to have to label your serious statements, TUK LATEST FRENCH FAD. Paris is growing ludicrous with her adjective fin de siecle. Everything is tin de siecle (cou- tury end). There is century-end drama, cen- tury-ond music, century-end literature, dresses, women, men, manners and even menus that are at all remarkable aro characterized as fin de siecle, ‘There is the mothcr-in-law fin de siecle. the lover fin de siecle; in fact, Paris has bat one adjective at prosent and that is fin de siecle, Whatdo the novelty-loving Parisians mean by thisterm? Nothing. What do they pretend to mean? A groat many things; real- ism, materialism, eynic:sia and a long string of other isms all equally ba!d and unprepossess- ing. But you must nover take the Frenchman at his own valuation, his compatriots, and he said: man speaks ill of himself do not believe him; he is boasting.” The explanation of his vagaries ts this: He dreads dullness like the plague and hates hypocrisy ike poison, On the other hand, he loves play acting. And so what happens? For fear ot being led into dullness he will scarcely | be serious; for fear you should take htm for botter than he is he will play the reprobate, But do not be deceived; it is only playing. He has never put on anything more foreign to his nature. I think. than this his latest pose. If tin de sieclo, as he employs it, means anything atallit means absence of sentiment, and the Frenchman is full of sentiment. Here and there, in my country, one may find a woman titute ot it, but I believe never aman. ‘There is a French saying which runs thus: “Drive away a natural trait and it a back tly speedy return of the Parisian's sen- timentalism and the disappearance of this crank of callousness, I take from the Figaro, which is the great journal of ccntur. literature, the following century-end announcement: Madame X., an indefatigable talker, died, bi having in-law sent to the friends of the imation of her demise in these 4 rter past seven this morning law ceased to speak.” * Max O'Retx. ———+or-__ WOMEN AS EARNERS. Pushing Their Way Into All Kinds of Porsuits. Horatio G. Wadlin, chief of the buroan of statistics of labor of Massachusetts, has pub- lished a pamphiot concerning the employment of women in that state, whore the female popu- lation outnumbers the male. Ho says the 182,- 906 women employed in all gainful pursuits in 1875 formed 21.43 per cent of the total female population; the 300,999 employed in 1885 con- stituted 29.82 percent. Comparing the increase in female population in 1835 over 1875 with the increase in the number of women engaged in gainful pursuits in 1885 over 1875, it appears that while tho increase in population was 17.69 ptr cent, the incrense in the number of women employed in gainful pursuite was 64.56 per cent. Mr. Wadlin draws these conclusions from his investigations: ‘As woman has made an en- trance into industry, and has increased her hold upon old branches of occupation and forced her way into many new ones; as she 18 now being educated to take a more active part in all branches of employment, and as she has tasted the pleasures of independence by being able to support herself and others, ono ie forced to conclude that woman's position in industry is secure and will be permanent Every occupation, except those calling for too much out door exposure or too much muscular labor, is open to Women, and if she bas uot already secured a footing therein the next census will show that she has found the way.” see A Famous Steamboat Race. From the Pittsburg Post. Up in the top of the post office building, in the room where the steamboat inspectors are located, hungs a colored lithograph of one of the most famous steamboat races that ever took place on the Mississippi river. The race was betwoon the United States mail packet Natohez and the Robert E, Lee, and occurred just twenty years ago. They ran from New Orleans to St. Louis, a distance of 1,210 miles, making & little over 300 miles a day. The Leo won, her exact time being three days, eighteen hours and thirty minutes, On the evening of June 30, 1870, 4:55 o’clock, the boats swung off from their landings at New Orleans and headed up the river. Both of them were veritable floating palaces—the finest examples of the boat builders’ art—and were regarded as the two fastest boats on the river. They carried no freight and very few passen- gers. Every unnecessary picce wood was left behind aud boats made as tht as possible. It wase race to determine ahich boat was the fastest and great sums of my mother-in. ing from the stacks of both boats, as side H loughed through the water at eid pega | W. Cannon had Capt. J. or the hobert Er Loe and i ( i z E , t 4 F ? Hi : i F iF # i i i i i : i 5 H i F | FFE : i i ; i i t ¢ ; | rebels doubtless had communicated our prepa- Edward Pailleron knows | “When a French- | BATTLES TO BE FOUGHT OVER. Gen. Hamilton’s War Reminiscences May Stfr Up the Warriors. The New York Herald prints extracts from Gen. Alexander Hamilton's remin- iscences of the late war. The author is a grandson of Alexander Hamilton, Washing- ton’s Secretary of the Troasury, From 1861 to 1865 he was trusted with many important mis- sions and duties. After having served sov- eral years as lieutenant in the second regiment of artillery of the New York state militia Maj. Gen. Macomb, in April, 1840, promised him a commission in the regular army, and gave him ‘$ the same time an order signed by Secretary of War Poinsett which admitted him to the West Point Military Academy. There he met Halleck, who afterward became his r-in- Jaw. en the war came he was burning charcoal in the Ramapo mountains in New Jersey, When the tidings came that Sumter had been fired upon Alexander Hamilton instantly ac- cepted a position on the staff of Gen, Charles W. Sandford. One of first services was to secure the detention of vessels loaded with mu- nitions of war in New York harbor; his next was to foila plot for destroying the Croton aqueduct. Meanwhile Gen. Hamilton was en- ergetically hastening regiments to Washington. ‘The twelfth, the sixty-uinth and the seventy- first regiments were mustered into the federal service and marched on Sunday, April 21, 1861. Responding to urgent calls from Gen. Scott Gen. Hamultoa hurried off the fifth and second regiments to Washington, giving them their first marching orders even before he had re- ceived the requisite authority from Gov. Mor- gan. guard to be coutined m Fort Lafayette, Gen. Hamilton was inspecting Gen, Frank Spinola’s brigade in New York when an officer in battic-stamed uniform entered Lafayette Hall. It was Col La Duc of the thirty-fourth. “I have resigned,” said he: will not serve under MeClelian, Icould have been in Rich- mond; we could have taken it, I was only two miles from it whea he ordered us back. I wili not serve under him—he has no «nap.” After some further conversation Gien. Hamil- ton discovered that Col. La Due Pass given to Hendrickson, an “igned. not by Gen. Stone, but by Robert T. Williams, A.AG. to Gen. Banks, Col. La Duc was disinclined to do anything toward relieving Gen. Stone from unmerited punishment, but the false accusation was soon isproved. After serving with distinction during the civil war Gon. Stone reorganized the Egyptian army, then was employed as en- SS ~ Fiorida canal, and in —— © foundation and pedestal for Statue of Liberty on Bedloe’s Island, TRE MAN ON HORSERACK. His wounds and McClellan’ antipathy rele- gated Gen. Hamilton to New York at this jane- ture, but he keeps in touch of the great events: Col. James B. McKeon (afterward chief jus- tice of Utah), commanding the seventy. seventh New York volunteers, informed me that after the second battle of Bull Run «ixty- Officers of rank prepared an uddress to iellan urging him to take command of the Army of the Potomac, march into Wash- ington, depose Lincoln and prociuim himself dictator, He did not believe that Gen, McClellan ever Saw it, for it was made known to the Secrotary of the Interior and the infamous conspiracy was nipped in the bud. Gen. Halleck went im- mediately at 8 o'clock at night with Prosident Lincoln and reinstated Gen. Molellan as gen- eral-in-chief, “Halleck told me,” adds Gen. Hamilton. “that McClellan waa the only general under whom the men would fight.” 4 CLASH WITH GEN. BUTLER. That irritating questions of military rank: Precedence and jurisdiction were still rife in 1864 as they had been in 1861 is attested in an interesting reminiscence of Gen. Butler's visit to New York city when a renewal of the draft riots was feared. Here is Gen. Hamilton's record of it: In the fall of 1864 request was sent through me by Gen. Dix to Secretary Stanton asking for reinforcements of about 3,000 to guard against impending danger growing out of threats of opponents to the draft. This application was referred to Gen. Grant, who unbottled Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler and sent him on wi about 2,600 men, mostly invalid troops from the James river, - Butler arrived Saturday or Sunday and sent for me through my father to report to him. I hastened to father's house, told him I could not report to Gen. Butler, that I was under special orders from President Lincoln aud could only report to Gen. Dix. I consented, how ever, to call upon Gen. Butler, saw him and declined to report to him. He said that he had sent for Gen. Sandford to report to him and that he wished much to see him. Butler was in grand style. The Hoffman House was just opened, newly furnished. Gen. Sandford called and Gen, Butler said that ho had been sent on to preserve the peace of the city. He demanded what force Gen. Sandford had under his command and what amount of artillery. Gen. Sandford declined to give him the information. “I require you to report to me,” said Gen. Butler, “I am a major general.” “So am I,” replicd Gen. Sandford, but I have been one for five years,” . Butler. “And I have been one for twenty-five years,” rejoined Sandford, ‘and I will not report to yon. We are sufficiently prepared to preserve the SCOTT'S ANACONDA PLAN. Gen. Winfield Scott's scheme for grinding disloyalty out of the south is thus set forth by Gen. Hamilton: Taking his pencil and making a blue mark on the map, he drew a line through Fredericks- burg, throngh the Wilderness, &c., and so down to Richmond. “I shall move the army after the September gales are over,” he said to the eight New York officers, “direct by this route to Kichmond. Ishall swing an army from the west through yd south to the sea. I call it my anaconda plan.” Gen. W. T. Sherman was not present there, op Probably learned Lieut, Gen. Scott's plan, On May 24, 1861, the fifth, sixty-ninth and other regiments crossed into Virginia through the bed of the canal at Georgetown, the seventy- first and Elisworth’s Zouaves goiug by steam- boat to Alexandria and the central body ad- Yaneing over the Long Bridge. By daybreak the New Yorkers and Gen. Runyon's New Jersey troops had formidable earthworks well under way. ‘The occupants of Arlington House fled in hot haste, and on the same day Gen. Hamilton, with a detachment of the eighth New York regiment. took charge of it and held it until re- lieved by Gen. McDowell. ‘That the acare at this time was not restricted to confederate thizers is attested in the following entry: ually at Gen. Scott's headquarters unti! he retired at night, on one occasion I was ordered to have five full regiments under arms ready for instant service and at a given signal to Move them to the White House and public buildings, form them inside the iron railing and repel the invading rebels (who, it was «p- prehended. would attack Washington that nigit), while the Prosident and family and the archives of the government were removed to a pluce of safety, which meant the care for Baltimore. This proved unnecessary, as the resident rations to the advancing enemy, then encamped beyond our fortitications, They transmitted | peace of the city.” intelligence of Union acts and movements by |The next move on the chessboard was made means of lights placed in windows of buildings, | by Gen. Dix, who ordered Gen. Butler to re- on eminences, behind papers of different colors, and thus intelligence was conveyed from house to house almost immediately, AMBUSH NEAR BRIGHTWOOD, Gon. Hamilton was returning from a recon- noisance at Brightwood on June 21 when he was fired upon from a thicket and wounded in the leg. Leading a charge of the eighth New Yorkers into the wood he received another — in the chest, which knocked him sense- on Nevertheless he had sufficiently recovered by July 4 to climb upon the platform whence the President reviewed 24,000 New York volun- teers, “I heard William H. Seward address the assembled multitude, the foreign min- isters particularly, calling to their notice the veteran appearance of the regiments, many foreign veterans being among them, and say- ing: ‘There, you can see that the state of New York alone can whip out this rebellion!’ ” MCLELLAN AND THE SEVENTY-NINTH. Hamilton and McClellan met at dinner in Gen, Scott's house on August 4, and they were fated from the outset to develop a friction that ripened into a feeling of mutual dislike. The survivor handles “*Little Mac” with undisguised hostility, as excerpts trom the “Reminiscences” will attest, ‘The seventy-ninth regimont mustored 1,040 men when turne Hamilton to Col. Cameron, brother of Secre- tary of War Cameron. Col. Cameron, who afterward fell at Chantilly, was elected to com- mand the regiment under the laws of the state of New York. These fighting Highlanders were so badly cut up at the first battle of Bull Run that only twenty-two officers and 693 men got back to Washington, and the survivors asked to be sent to Fort Columbus or Fort Hamilton to recruit in health and numbers, as they had sworn in as volunteers for the\war. The President and Secretary Cameron issued orders to have the requisite papers drawn and indorsed, eantime Gen. McClellan had issued orders to brigade the seventy-ninth under Gen. Dan- jel E. Sickles, Then the circus began. The men of the seventy-ninth grumbled, and were finally marched with trailing arms and without their colors into Washington from their eamp, 4 “GENERAL” SICKLES, I burried up to the Secretary of War's house and told him what course McClellan had taken. He was bitterly incensed and ordered me to re- port at the war office at 9 next morning and ring with me Lieut, Col. Eliiott and Gen. Sandford. Gen. Sandford was very feeble and lame, but he rode up in a carriage. His term of serv- ice expired that day, Tho Secretary of War asked him where Gen. port to him, At Gen. Dix’s headquarters in Bleecker street I found Col. Ludiow, chief of staff. He iaugh- ingly told me that Butler came down fully armed and equipped, sword, revolvers, &c., aud he (L.) asked B. if he was “going to the front.” Butler evaded this, Ludiow then said to him: “Gen, Butler, you are more responsible for this war than any man. You voted thirtecn times for Douglas at the presidential convention.” IMPERTURBABLE BEN. “No, colonel, you are wrong,” replied Butler. “I voted fiftcon times for him.” Gen, Dix asked Gen. Butler the purpose of his coming (Grant had probably sent him on to out of the way), but told him he didn’t need him and that he must not appear in New York in « military capacity, but must remove his camp equipage from the battery and confine his command to his troops on the trans; If he desired active service he (Dix) would send him (Butler) to the frontier of Canada to guard against Fenian raids, Declining this Butler remained in the city in citizen's dress, he ani his staff. He sent for Col. Maidhoff of the eleventh regiment (Gen. Sandford’s division), who was under arrost for disobedience of orders, and told him that if he and his regiment would report for duty, he (Butler) would relieve him from arrest and give him something to do. This offer Col. Maidhoff declined and re- rted itto me, Butler was thus inciting our New York troops to mutiny. His sojourn in New York was brief. ‘he lamented Gen, Canby, afterward assassinated through treach- ery of the Modocs, was in command of the United States regulars in New York city, and every precaution was taken to preserve the peace. The foregoing extracts indicate the character and compass of Gen. Hamilton's war reminis- cences. His book may be enriched with re- productions of autographs from his large and valuable collection. He is not a novice thorship, for dramas and poems from his pen have already been collected and publiched CAN ANIMALS BE HYPNOTIZED? How Lobsters, Crabs, Fish and Birds are Put to Sleep. From the New York Tribune. “Cap animals be hypnotized?” was the qnes- tion put recently to a physician who is more or less interested in this mysterious subject. “Certainly,” was the answer, and the doctor then proceeded to tell the how, why and where- fore, citing the experience of an eminent Rus- sian man of science, Prof. Danilewsky of Khar- (Highlanders) over by Maj. Sickles obtained his rank of brigadier general ppl an rower ey te, that he had not given it to him. Did Gov, | O2Peatam mans paper read beforo. the Morgan commission him as general? “No,” said Gen, Sandford; “he told me he wonld not.” Gen. McClellan having been summoned, the Secretary said to him: “General, I ordered Maj. Hamilton, by instructions of’ the Presi- dent, to see that the seventy-ninth regiment went to New York harbor, Now I learn that you have ordered them to be brigaded under a Gen, Sickles, Who is this Gen, Sickles? How does he get his rank? Who gave it to him?” “I do not know,” said Gen. McClellan, “He reported tome for duty as brigadier general, wearing the uniform. it is impossible for mo to know who all the officers are or how com- cepa * “That is so,” replied Secret Cameron, “Col. Hamilton, =p the President and sond for themembers of the cabinet in my name to meet here at once,” officers were all soon there ex- cepting Secretary Chase, whose first assistant, Mr. Harrington, came instead. I had briefly told the President the circumstances. He en- tered soon after. Igave him my chair and stood at nis left. Turning to me be said: “I will fix this busi- ness. Gentlemen, we have no time to discuss this matter. It is enough that there is no Gen. Sickles until he brings me five full iments of his own raising. I told him so when he ap- er I thought I would give him a chance, lo other regiments can be assigned to him.” international congress of experimental pay- chology which met in Paris lust tall. Prof, Danilewsky stated that he had obtained bh: notic results in a long list of animale, going upward from the shrimp, the crab and tho lobster to several fishes (among them the cod and the torpedo fish), the tadpole, the frog, the lizard, the crocodile, the serpent, the tortoise, several birds, the pig and the rabbit—truly a representative and varied col- jection from the brute creation. As to the method of inducing the hypnotic state, ho says he had generally found it sufficient to place the animal in some abnormal position, for ex- ample, on its back, and to keep it quiet with a slight continuous pressure. Under these con- ditions the animal soon fell into a condition in which «loss of voluntary movement was no- less. their susceptibility became Tausesteonst restraint or pressure to which the professor referred as one of the moans bringing on the by tic condition in the animal a The troubles of the ant seventy-ninth means resources for defend ie mare bose aitjested aot kay seeder splondid self, anda of will f "% record throughout the war. was the first condition, according to the pro- MIGHT HAVE TAKEN NORFOLK fessor, for inducing the or hypnot- 1n animals, as well as in men. toinquire into the cause of the loss of Big Bethel and make a careful inspection of the P’Gon. Betler received him overteonsly andi by means of a {io of Ball's Biuff Gen, Chas, P. Stone was ar- | fom the pond sis a RY A emt ane wy a or night Without court-martial pop by 4 ever bicomed out of paradise. any kind Gen. Stone was sent under miltary LITHES ae ee a ee SSS AND LOVELINESS. Means Open to All Women to Develop Grace and Agility. Prom the Chicaro Herald There are several simple means open to women of all classes to fue down the flabby outlines, to develop the agility of 1) free play of muscle that out door ply b and the al ox ercive engenders, Not to be drspieed is that one great biessing free to all “+ at the sanitary conveniences of our city dwellity aMords the cold bath. It ie mot an easy thins vo accustom | one's self to that cold plunge that makes brenthioss, but the siques get to | blood will be « ing vein in the whole body and « tremities tingle with li worth mor; greeabl world mentioned above there “ ays, and tired phy. oment when the ugh every little n the very aod vigor, It is © than the price of the first few disue en if one is a member of Te in the vineyard of the ix always the brisk walk to the scene of one's labors, which the night's rest dnd the ought to fit one for, and wh the bath, if the mind be free from onght to keep the frame vig luxury of the bath 8, together with king care rous and the’ muscles strung up. But it is never a good plan to walk home from. women your chal things. were rec: “Ah! L “You, 1 Chicago. liberty.” ean possibly astonishing differenc pearance; motion that is admar admiration. Ti ing motion and prival “Yen, sir. “She was a handsome girl—vory handsome, and her specch and demeanor showed “1 thought « from one’s labora, except they have a desk aliday long. Better far Mis to ride and on reaching t off with warm water and one’s self down with those will obliged to stand on one foot, the body may balanced by resting the opposite hand on th back of a chair. runs through the entire body; if g it and do not fallin love you haven't a woman's natur conceit, ‘Try first just for onc ‘ir like up with a boune: awkwardness po way and hear the body around start at the da one who longs to be be ought to be willing to practice such simple blood.” “¥ “Did yout “She was very c I thought 1 coul Practice Each part of the body, as everybody knows, is fastened to som hinge, whieh we call that lithe, supple, much admired today every one must be both loose aud lim way to get them so ix to pra exercise which frees the ing each separate: mem ing the fingers round and the hand; the hand iteelf and see for yourself the grace beauty apparent when the action or the waist and the bips is froe Thus secing, realizing, you yourself may prac- tice and obtain. Pragtice before a mirror, getting up from a vigo towels, which wail set the bi warmiy the skin, Then lie rest mind and body for one short yur, with the clothing all loo the brings the dinner hour lat z go fore short, quick walk enervating one's occupation, such bound to Produce a healthful circulation of the bieod, and that meaus good color and clear, glowing skin. Bat there are a lot of simple exercises taught in Delsarte classes and gvmnasiume thi any one may and get much bene other part by & joint. and to acquire Willowy motion which i 80 on the a m the wrist; t forearm on the elbow: the entire arm on the shoulder; the head on the neck; th the waist line; the legs on the hips half of the leg on the knee; the foot on the ankle, All these members, with one excop- tion, may be turned round and round, aud after a little swung very rapidiy by the mere motion of themselves, but the fingers can ly be turned round and round by the aid of the thumb and foretinger of the other hand. A constant, steady practice of just this one exer- cise until every joint is as supple ar rendered will mai ly sud on the of as the lat- plish, for, although Just notice the graceful nect, especially the well-trained nd of the body and supple. chair‘bo that the first indication of motion is in ‘our foot, then in your knees, then im the ond then in the body, and lastly in the shoul ders and head, or so that a ripple of motion you succeed im with y it » al unjointe and y 1 the mame ak © every I thud! Ob! any fal and attractive so - The Lover's Return. From the New York Sun. “I—1—that is, you will excuse me,” he stam- mered as he entered a store on upper Broad- way yosterday and was accorded an interview with the proprietor. “What did you wish, sir?” wae the cold but polite rejoinder. “Well, you may think me foolish, but I must run the risk. About a ycar ago you bad a girl over there behind the railing secretary, I presume. a type writer good “Well, I—I fell in love with her.” Welly bat after a time that my feelings yand sh n in a tender way?” 1 made it a pr jock daily. 80 as She got so she looked for “That is, 1 thought she did. I thought her eyes lighted up as she caught might I sUppoxe the proper way w come ir and ask you to intre one hesitates over those things, you know.” of me. have been to ace me, but—but know,” Whit “About « year ago Twas enddeniy called to le there I met with « bed acei- dent, and only yesterday returned to New York. 1 wanted to write to her, but under circumstances I could not.” “I follow.” “But I thought of her daily, aye! « hundred times a day.” hat was correct.” “And now that I have returned I called to catch sight ot her dear, swe but I don’t see it. Is she with you yet?” “Oh, yes.” face once more pa you'd like to walk over? 1 married her about a year ago, and this is the hour when the baby is asleep and she is at The axe fell. With amoan of anguish on his palo lips the returned lover walked out of the store in @ blind, staggering way, recled down the street as if drunk and uttes he reached the drag store at the ho made a great ofiort, pulled no word until m on a'stool recly whisper “Give me lemon and vanil From the Philadelphia Times. Bommel was as depraved «case in bis par- ticular line as the whole town afforded. fact his fate of drinking were that powerful and numerous that hix name had passed into proverbial usage. Instead of comparing the avorage convivialist with Bacchus —the god of wine—they used At the solicital to say as ‘full as Bammel.” tion of his uufortauate wife the of the district bad frequently tried hard seas him to a realization ot bis wrong. But owing to the fact that ibe wap in rariably supremely happy on these occasions, bis ~seewee lont 4 had hnad he been in that more receptive vr reflective qm pp ee iz up. However, it so ha that one e the ‘tinister tet bine entirely ecrious rm | sober. Consequently he lost no time in attack- him: “Bummol, why don't you be a man and give cffect thoy mighi up this cursed habit of drinking? Do you know you are imporiling body and soul? that may die in— i l i i ; i t i { E H ! k i