Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1891, Page 14

14 BRADDOCK’S ROCK. An Historic Boulder at the Foot of Twenty-fourth Street. WHERE THE GENERAL LANDED His Ii1-Starred Expedition to Fort Da Quesne Recalled—The Character of the British Com- mander-in-Chief Made to Appear in a Better Light by Kecent Investizations. Written for The Evening Star. 'F EDWAKD BRADDOCK, GENERALIS- simo of his British majesty’s forces in America, were to revisit this earthly stage | and observe that the lonely spot on which | he disembarked in to begin his ill- starred expedition against Fort Duquesne is now the geographical center of the | American capital, bearing the name of his| once humble aid-de-camp, George Washing- ton, he would doubtless exclaim, as he ex- claimed regarding his surprising defeat near Pittsburg, “Who would have thought it?” Probabiy nobody would, for the coincidence | ra but such is the irony of | ‘The ground whereon k first set foot is practically the key to the city of Washington, almost equidistant from either end of it, and affording to an in- vading force the readiest approach by water. NO CITY OF WASHINGTON THEN. At that time, at the opening of the French and Indian war, and for balf a century after- ward, there was no city of Washington. The country hereabouts was a comparative wilder- ness. George Washington was but a stripling | colonel in the Virginie militia. No one dreamed | of independence of the h crown, and all ng themselves | s of the French. | mial vill the English colonies w to resist the ener Alexandria, down the Virgin: ge eight miles | , Was the Thithei modore Keppel, had pro- on with two regiments of 500 men each, to be augmented later b: 400 Virginia troops Braddock himself with his own personal retin ted from the remainder of his p Jed on this side of the river ¢ a Island, at what is now a street northwest, | then a stre 's vessel was drawn close upt L i toa big | boulder protrud the bank, upén whi mped his booted feet and struck a draina de in disera- barking. Curiously enough, spot marks the right wing of a b ere from which the cap : a froma bird’ @ view, away around sout | atward to the | gressional cemetery. considering Feorgetown with its extensions as a part of Wasi it forma almost the center of a «am ceut drawn between the extreme limits of the District of Columbia. BRADDOCK’S ROCK. The boulder has ever since bee those who have known « at m known, to i, as “Brad- dock’s rock,” and to this day it is still intact and unmolested by stone chipper or relic hunt deemed of any account in history, though if the Braddock expedition | against Duquesne had been successful, as that led by Gen. Forbes was three years afterward, this unpretentious boulder might now be es- er Plymouth Rock, famous for the landing of the pilgrims. Braddock would doubtiess have won for himself not only the fame which fell to Gen. Forbes and to Gen. Amherst for the capture of Crown Point and Ticonderoga, but also that which Gen. Wolfe secured in 1759 by his success at Quebec, all resulting in the rel quishment of French authority on the Ameri can continent. Braddock would probably now be revere: as one of the prime early heroes of this western world and the course of his entire ree would be accounted as paths of glory. tthe unfortunate accident of defeat has changed all that. Since success is the only standard of merit and achievement, the world delights not to tread in the footsteps of failure. Stille peculiar and melancholy interest at- taches to the career of Braddock. His route from here to the scene of his death has been accurately traced and verified in detail—his firsterowsing of the Potomac near Harper's Ferry, then again above the junction of the Little Cucapon: thence his march to Cumber- land, M ‘to Pennsylvania to Smith- field and Fort Necessity; thence north to Con- neilsville and Mt. Pleasant, and northwest to the Pitt-barg and Greensburg turnpike, and finally due west across the Monongahela to the dismal battle Likewise the interesting incident of his landing on the 24th street rock 4s well authenticated. although the proof rests solely upon oral tradit A most diligent in- over even the slightest mention of it in any printed book or news- paper. Nevertheless many well-known anti- quarians bere have given their positive assur- ance that the tradition is perfectly reliable. It is therefore a circumstance worthy of general Rotice that such an interesting landmark should and unvalued right here at the ‘THE NAVAL OBSERVATORY GROUNDS. Acurious fact concerning the rock is that the river channel is now nearly half a mile distant from it this fact only serves to confirm the tradition still more strongly. The rock is deeply imbedded in the sod-covered bank just outside the brick wall inclosing the U.S. Baval observatory grounds. Below it the bank makesa sheer descent of twelve feet, stretching off for 100 yards or so in swampy, level lawn. From the farther edge of the lawn ® thick growth of little willow trees, such as commonly spring up in deserted water Courees, reaches clear to the river's presen: margin, entirely obstructing the view of the Fiver from the rock. The Potomac’s retreat | from its former bed is weil established by local | surveys and by other means. In fact, it gradu- ally took place under the cye and within the memory of Washingtonians now living. T late W. W. Corcoran, millionaire banker, philanthropist and patron of art, used to refer to “Braddock’s Tock” as ‘the favorite “swimming hole” of bis boyhood. when he mingled with both white and col-| ered urchins of his own age in true demo- eratic style. Only shortly before his death three years ago he expressed surprise that the river should have left the old rock so high and dry. But little imagination, however, is re- quired to fancy the channel again flushed asa twenty-foot “swimming hole” or flooded asa thirty-foot harbor. On the crest of the rock, firmly imbedded in it, is a big iron spike, stamped on top with a British imprint, and this, it is eid, was used to make fast the Moorings of Braddock’s vesse!. REVISION OF POPULAR OPINION. A recent literary discovery here, throwing a strong side light on Braddock. will probably compel a revision in the popular estimate of bis aims and character, to the peace of his soul. ‘The discovery is the result of investigations made by ir. Edward Clark, architect Of the Capitol, wio, besides’ being « talented and successful practitioner in his chosen profession, is also an enthusiastic anti- query and | bibliographer, sparing no pains or in his interest in verifying the tradition to “Braddock’s Rock” that pon Braddock received new light he has found proceeds from an exceedingly rare book printed in Londen in 1785, entitled: | erything bearing An APOLOGY for the LIFE f GEORGE ANNE BELLAMY, Late of Covent-Garden Theatre, Written by Herself, &e. j the current opinion is evidently | colonies, and chanced to meet and confer with pursuit of his fancy. So active was | should have aching | act or none at all.’ his eager attention. | purchaser of sil Miss Bellamy was the most gifted actresses in the British jom, « real genius inher way, and enjoyed the acquaintance of the leading celebrities of her time. As the re- puted wife of John Calcraft, M.P., she secured | for him the agencies or paymasterships of no | Jess than a dozen regimental commanders in the British army, among them that of Gen. Braddock, thus multiplying Caleraft's income toa princely figure. On page 193 of volume two Mise Bellamy says: ien. Braddock, to whom I had been known from my infancy. and who was particularly fond of me, was about this period appointed to goto America. From our intimacy he gave me his ageney without my applying for it. While he was making the necessary preparations for his voyage be was more frequently than usual at our house. The evening before bis departure he supped with me, accompanied by his two sides-de-camp. Maj. Burton (who had just lost his much-loved wife and my darling friend) and Capt. Orme. Before we parted the general told me he should never see me more, for he was going with a bandfal of men to conquer whole nations, and to do this they must cut their way through unknown woods. He produced a map of the country, saying at the same time, ‘We are sent like sacrifices to the aliar.’ The events of the expedition too fatally verified the general's ex- tations. On going away he put into my ands @ paper, which proved to be his will.” BRADDOCK’S WILL. This will was drawn up in favor of John Cal- craft, to whom it bequeathed property valued at £7,000. One page 55 of volume 3 the actress narrates further, after referring to the news of Braddock’s death: “A demand was made from the treasury for the government plate left us by the late un- fortunate Gen. Braddock. The demand was rejected, upon which a suit was commenced. But that failing we were left in possession of the royal donation, and the lions, unicorns and hares made their appearance ut our table. Miss Bellamy’s evidence cannot but carry great weight. and it direetly contravenes the statement of Braddock’s conceited hopes and extravagant expectations, asset down by Benja- min Franklin in his autobiography, from which derived. Franklin was then postmaster general of the Braddock at Fredericktown, Mé., in May pre- ceding the battle. Commenting on what be calls the blind confidence and fatal prejudices by which Braddock was deluded throughout the expedition, he says: “In conversation with him one day he (Braddock), was giving me an account of his nded progress. ‘After taking Fort Du- quesne," said he, ‘I am to proceed to Niagara, and having taken that, to Frontenac, if the sea son will allow time, and I suppose it will, for Duquesne can hardly detain me above three or four days, and then Ican see nothing that can obstruct my march to Niagara.’ ” WRITERS WHO HAVE HANDLED HIM HARSHLY. Here unquestionably is the source whence the modern pictures of Braddock’s charactor were drawn by subsequent historians and romancers, including Charles McKnight in his | fascinating “Old Fort Duquesne” and Thack- | eray in his “Virginians,” and including even hington Irving. who handles the mander somewhat roughly in his hington.’ Aiter all is said_the truth of the matter seems to be that Braddock, inaisputably a brave soldier, was only too conscious of the difficulty and doubtful result of his enterprise, but that | having once set out upon it he determined ship that he should | untitted by temperament and train- © with treacherous savages and is lurking in ambush. Instead of ving been a boastful and vainglorious ¥, as the schoolboy of today is taught to conceive him, he only appears to have been too proud to shew by look or sign his own con- viction of the hopelessness of his undertaking. Even Irving admits that he was a stranger 10 fear. Irving then adds beautifully: proach spared him not, even in his grave. The failure oi the expedition was attributed both in England and America to his ob: his technical pedantry and his military But whatever may have been his faulis and errors he inw manner expiated them by the hardest lot that can befall a brave soldier am- bitious of renown—an unhonored grave in a strange land, a memory clouded by misfortune and a name forever coupled with defeat.” WASHINGTON'S ENDEAVOR. Washington himself endeavored unsuccess- fully to disabuse the popular mind in his own day of its prejudice a Niles’ Register for May, 1818, we read an inter- esting conversation held with Washington while President by the aged William Findley of Youngstown, in which Washington said Braddock was unfortunate, but that his character was very much too se- verely treated: that even in his manner of fighting he was no more to blame than others. It is also a matier of record, illustrating | Washing- ton’s regard for his old chief, that he favored the erection of a monument over Braddock’s grave, but had no opportunity of doing so until after the revolutionary war, and then the grave could not be identified. When identified years after, however, it was outrageously desecrated, and ‘the falien’ hero’s bones were ruthlessly scattered no one knows whither. But perhaps Braddock’s greatest misfortune was that he was doomed to suffer for more than a century un- just misconception and misapprehension by the very people for whom he labored in vain. ANOTHER SILVER FPCOL Reason Alleged for the Recent Rise in the Price of the Bullion. On the 6th of this month dispatches to Tue Stan quoting the Evening Sun of New York told of the operations of the big French pool in silver. Yesterday it was learned that while there were indications that the first pool was liquidating to some extent another pool, alo European, had begun to work to the same end and was ready to take hold where the first pool had left off. A New York dispatch dated the 19th says: “The plan of campaign seems to be based on the same lines as that of the first pool. The Evening Sun says there seems to be no doubt that the silver act of July, 1890, has committed this government to an active part in silver spec- ulation. By that act the government must pur- chase 4,500,000 ounces of silver each month. Up to July 1, 1891, it must coin 2,000,000 ounces of tnis silver monthly. After July 1 the coin- age becomes optional with the Secretary of the Treasury. “This, however, has no bearing on the main boron of the case, since the same amount must purchased each month. At the present time the government's annual purchases of silver to full a of the silver act of 1890 use up 54,000,000 ounces of silver. ‘This coun- try’s production of silver for 1890 was 62.930,831 ounces. This leaves 8,000,000 ounces for the totaP requirements of the arts and to fill the export demand. Up to the passage of the July bil this country nlways exported annually from five to ten million ounces. “The Mercantile Safe is Company of New York reports on hand on June 19 5,256,779 ounces of silver. As was told June 6, one con- cern is thought to own at least 500,000 ounces of this amount. Outside of this wpe there is in this country probably about 2,000,000 ounces of silver bullion at various points. The only other large supply of silver is said to be Monterey, Mexico, where about 2,000,000 ounce are held in the shape of lead ore, pending cer- tain railroad construction. “Mexico produces annually about 40,000,000 ounces of silver, of whick sbout 25,000,000 ounces are coined. The rest is shipped to China and Japan via San Francisco. ‘The pro- duction of the white metal from sources other than those named is inconsiderable. Ruy paper is active and stronger in London. ‘This 4s owing to the passage of the bill in the lower house of the Spanish cortes giving the Bank of = the power to increase its note issue based on silver. “A bill has aise been introduced into the Portuguese cortes favi country, says: bill by the United si silver to 59 ounce in New ofa free coinage tes would put nee in London, or $1.29 = i ent im favor of silver in Exgiantr ong nt must tell in theend. The United States made mistake in adopting a limited silver act. They either passed an unlimited coinage ver on the grounds ent above and on those presented June 6, which were the basis THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D.C, SATURDAY, JUNE 20. 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. A CAMERA IN CHINA. Peculiarities of the People Seen in the Streets of the Capital. WHY THE BARBER THRIVES. Differences Retween the Chinese and the Manchu — $mall-Footed Women and the Way Their Feet Are Treated—Finger Nuil Guards—Costumes of the Women, Correspondence of The Evening Star. Pexrxo, May 1, 1891. © THE ORDINARY traveler in China the population of the vast empire’ is apparently quite homogeneous. In some of the remote in- terior provinces there SFP )re still numerous abo- riginal tribes, but these arenever seen, and they are scarcely known ex- cept by name even to ethnologists, but it is remarkable that throughout the whole of China, from the great wall in the north to the borders of Tonguin and from the sea const to the western boundary, the physiognomy and general appearance of the people should be so uniform. I mean that they would all be recognized as Chi- nese at a glance, There are differences of stature and of costume, and pronounced dif- ferences in language, which are very confue- ing, so rauch 60 that the people of one province cannot converse with those of certain other provinces. In Peking the language spoken is Mandarin. This is the language of the official and learned classes throughont China. But the people of Shanghai and of Canton do not know it. “Again the Cantonese dialect is quite unin- telligible in Shanghai. DIFFERENCES IN COSTUME. Changes in costume are no more noticeable, but in everyday life the common people all over the land dress about alike, allowance bejng made for natic conditions, which influence theamount ratier than the style of habiliment. But when for visiting or on festive oceasions the people don their best clothes the favorite Styles of different sections can be istin- uished, Shere are two distinct elements in the popn- lation of China, which, though not conspicu- ously different in physiognomy, can still be recognized by certain peculiarities of dress and personal adornment. These are Chinese and Manchu. The former have occupied the land for so many centuries that all traces of their origin, all traditions of the ancestral home and early wanderings have been lost. Perhaps they cae across the mountains and steppes of Central Asia. It may be that the gertus of the earliest Chinese culiure and writ- ten language lie bur: to discharg ee TES din thé plains of Mesopo- eek eee eee eee ann | nen Peches aay te ante a ia ee, most cheerful show possible. It is no | P b t! ion to bis gene: fertile valleys of Shansi, where the rich loess mold affords an inexhaustible source of agri- culturai wealth, and where we know the soil hos been tilled for thousands of years. But this is mere speculation. THE CONQUEST. ‘The most remarkable event in the history of China is the conquest of the great empire by the Manchus. Just before thie invasion the Manchus wero a small, disorganized people, fighting among themselves, and likely to be made subject to China. Those who believe with Lord Woiseley in the future greatness of China warlike and aggressive power need only read the story of the Manchu conquest to learn how utterly absurd such presumptions are. A great leader, Noorhachu, arose among the Manchus. He formed a small army, marched upon China, and established the Manchu dynasty, which has reigned for 200 years, One ever-present reminder of the Mancha conquest is the shaven pate and the pigtail now universally worn. Shaving the head is a very ancient religions custom in the east, and the Tartars doubtless originally adopted’ it from some such ceremonial, but just how or when is not known. In China, however, it was in- forced upon the people by conquerors, who re- quited itas a sign of submission. Ever since e barbers have enjoyed good business. A CHINESE BARBER. As I write I hear a peculiar short sound, like a vibrating loose reed. I look up and a barber is passing the gate with his red lacquered outfit suspended from a pole on his shoulder. I tell my “boy” to call him into the compound while I ‘take bis photograph. On one end of the pole is the barber's chair, a low stool with drawers at the end containing brush, comb and other articles.’ At the other end a circular stand with the brass wash basin on top. Extending up from this is a staff upon which is hung a blue cotton towel and perhaps a length of hnmau hair to be used in improving the queues of patrons. The barbers occupy a very low position in the social scale, but thi staff indicates that it has not always been thus for near the top thereof will alw peculiar, square,box-like device, like the crow's ip’s mast. ‘The same structure is to be seen on the tall flag staffs at the entrance of official residences. The precise meaning of these symbols seems not to be known in either case, but it is said that when the present fash- ion of hair dressing was introduced by the Manchus the barbers were provided with sich staffs as a = of ofticial authority from the conquerors. This is only one of a thousand in- stances in which a custom among this change- less, ancient le has been perpetua a its origin and meaning are outarely for. ten. lives, but in Peking and in a few other excep- tional cities they are occasionally met on the streets. The Manchu women can be seen at almost any hour on Legation street in Peking. They are distinguished at © glance by_ their ‘aliar manner of dressing the hair. i ts such @ woman justration rej the usual visiting contume, » Jong em to protect the Le =4 nails, which are pl verge piney Hg for ‘they show that their possessor performs no menial labor. 1.00 tmall-footed women of Chine are popu- ly supposed to to upper classes. But in a country whore scholarship alone the way to the highest offices of state, wl the humblest peasant from the remotest fron- tier may by industrious study win official rank and power and compete on equal terms with the wealthy sons at the capital, what upper classes can there be except those of wealth and learning? The emall-footed women belong to families, be they rich or poor; who can bring up their daughters without requiring them to form manual labor. They are not, there- fore, found among the farmors and laboring classes, but belong to all other ranks and con- ditions. In North China they are frequently met in cities and towns and the traveler will often encounter them hobbling slowly, wearily along over the rough coun‘ry roads, sometimes sinking down to rest and nurse their deformed and painful members. But the smallest and most compressed feet are found in the south. OOTED SINGING GIRL. My wife has paid especial attention to this subject and she has given me the following ac- count of the barbarous custom. “It is said to | have originated in the tenth century, when | Prince Li Yu commanded his favorite’ but in- ferior wife, Yao Mang, to bind her feet with silk bandages into a shape that would resemble the new moon. It then became the fashion and it has been practiced for centuries with no modification. The bandaging is usually begun when the girl is about six years of age, with bandages of white cloth about three inches wide and two or three yards long. The foot is bent. downward and four of the toes are bent under the sole, leaving only the great toe extended. The heel is bent down and forward. Then the foot is tightly bandaged. The bandages are always worn and daily tightened. Sometimes a toe becomes atrophied, or a bone is removed to make the foot very'small. At about the age of fifteen the bones stop growing and the pain is no longer felt, but some girls are even then unable to walk and require to be carried about.” During the early years the pain of this opera- tion is excruciating. One would think the lit- tle girls would go crazy over it. Every morn- ing when the bandages are tightened th scream most pitifully, and yet for fashion’s sake they must suffer even greater torment and discomfort than our own deformed, small- waisted and short-breathed devotees to s false and artificial ideal of feminine beauty. <The singing girl here depicted with s small foot must passa very miserable existence. She is unable to stand many minutes grithout pain. It will be seen from the pose that her weight rests upon the heel. She is a professional painted beauty, whose sole object in life is to get as much pleasure out of it as possible, but she is handicapped, and is not likely togo gnd- ding about mue! Romyx Hircucoce. 4 BALLOON ON A SKIRMISH. ‘Will Be Started on a Trans-Atlantie Voyage Before July Fourth. To cross the Atlantic is the enterprising mis- sion upon which a balloon will start from Ger- mantown within the next week or two, says the Philadelphia Press. The balloon will not carry any passengers, but it is intended to pilot the way for a mon- ster air ship that will carry at least two voy- agers. The inventor of this new air ship is Charles P. Fest of 4555 Lena street, German- town, Pa, ‘The experimental machine that will be started across the Atlantic is completed and is an exact model of the larger one that is expected later to carry over the inventor. The hot gas that will inflate the bag will be generated from gasoline, which is chosen on account of its enormous Volatile proportions and great lift- ing power. in the completed machine the gasoline will be carried in a rectangular tin can holding ex- eetly ten gallons. A small tube runs from the can to an upright brass pipe about three inches in diameter and about six feet long. ‘This pipe is lined within and without with asbestos. It pasres up into the gas bag, while the tin recep- tacle remains below. ‘The gasoline is ignited at the tube that passes into the pipe near the bottom and the flame shoots up the pipe to the top, where it is arrested by a cup. To EUROPE IN THIRTY HOURS. ‘The bag is made of a preparation of paper and is rigged so that it cannot sway and come in contact with the flame. This flame will be constant, and experiments show that the ten allons will last just forty hours, or ten hours longer, according to Mr. Fest’s calculations, than will be necessary to carry the air ship across the Atlantic. “Mr. Fest believes that the balloon will make the passage in thirty hours. Mr. Fest declares that it has beew clearly proven that there is a constant air current to the east that will waft his air ship across the ocean in forty hours at the outside, and the only problem that has prevented seronauts trom crossing the ocean before has been that of keeping a balloon up sufficiently long to make the voyage. ‘The existence of these currents was shown by Prof. Wise when be made his trip from St. Louis to New York, and he then de- clared that he could cross the ocean if he could only keep his air ship atloat, e date for sending the balloon on its trans- Atlantic frip haa not yet been fixed, but will be decided on shortly. It will probably be before July 4. —_——_~<es—_—_____ Shot Himself on His Mother’s Grave. ‘There was a sensational suicide ut the Corwin cemetery, in the town of Newfane, N. Y., Tues- day afternoon. The victim was Jas. Warren, about forty years of age and alife-long resident of Niagara county, with the exception of the past year, during which he lived with a sister at Albion. Mich. He came to Lockport Wednesday from the west, took the afternoon stage running to Olcott, and when the Corwin cemetery, about six miles from Lockport, wasreached, he got out and told the driver foask William Kinney, living a short distance beyond the cemetery, to come for him in about an hour. Mr. Kinney received the message,and on going to the cemetery found Warren 1; rone upon his mother's grave with a bullet in his head. He had shot himself through the mouth. Warren was uot dead, and was taken to Mr. Kinney's house, where he died at 11 o'clock that ite He was conscious before death, and said: “I'm sorry [made a bad job of it.” His resort to suicide is attributed to despondency caused by protracted illness from rheumatism. THE EARLY MAYORS. Some Exciting Municipal Contests in alty, assailing Gen. "We ruins, was built. ghost story connected with that h ago Mr. Richard Gibson, the there and hada usual demoniac freaks these visitors This City Years Ago, YOUNG BLOOD EXCITED. Recollections of the Weightman-Lenox Cam- paign—More Abeut the Authorship of “Kathleen Mavourneen"—Stories of Alex. H. Stephens—Gems From Census Office Letters. Written for The Evening Star. AN ARTICLE WHICH APPEARED IN ‘un EVENING Stan a few weeks ago on the Yr, changes time had effected in the neighborhood of the bank of Lewis Johnson & Co., which had been for so many years located on the corner of 10th strect and the avenue, it was stated that Mr. John Boyle, “once mayor of Wash- ington,” resided on 10th streot near Col. Peter Force's residence and library. Mr. Boyle was one of Washington's most respectable citizens, held in universal esteem, but was never mayor. In 1848 Col. Force and Col. Seaton Were both in the field for the mayor- under circumstances which gave our democratic citizens a hope that be- tween these two whigs they might elect democrat, and they put up the strongest and most unexceptionable democrat to be found in the city, Mr. John Boyle. The whig party was largely in the ascendancy, so the unfortunate complication by which two such men as Col. Force and Col. Seaton were both in the field arose from the obstinacy of Col. Force, who re- fused to withdgaw or to submit his claims to a meeting of citizens called for the purpose of making © nomination. To the com- mittee appointed to " wait upon Col. Force his only reply was as he was first in the field he proposed to remain. there until the polls closed on the day of election. Mr. Seaton said he was entirely in the hands of the meeting, either to nominate or reject him—it Wasa matter of indifference to him, so his friends disposed of him as they deemed best. The result of these reports to the meeting held at the city ball was the renomination of Mr. Seaton. Col. Force continued in the field, however, and Mr. Boyle was nominated by the democratic purty. Mr. Seaton was elected, re-~ ceiving more than 1,600 votes, Mr. Boyle be- tween 500 and 900, and Col. Force a little over 400 votes. With this small number of votes the contest was a very bittor one, and the Na- tional Intelligencer next morning announced the result and said: “Mr. John Boyle, one of our most respected citizens, received the full vote of our political opponents.” THE WEIGHTMAN-LENOX CONTEST. In 1850 Gen. Weightman was placed in nom- ination by a letter addressed to him from “sixty respectable whigs.” We, the young whigs of Washington who were not included in this respectable list, protested against this mode of nomination, and besides we had grown tired of the qualification of age being deemed a prerequisite for all official prefer. ment. We had submitted long enough, we thought, and called a meeting of the young whigs and nominated Walter Lenox. The con- test was a very bitter and personal one; Mr. Lenox and his friends were denounced, but made no reply. A pamphlet was issued ighiman by Mr. | Chase Barney, but Mr. Lenox repudiated any connection with it except an effort to prevent, and Mr. Carlisle and. Mr. Joseph ‘I. jradley made reply through the press of the day in be- half of Gen. Weightman, but both said they should support 3ir. Lenox. At this time a let- ter was addressed to Mr. Seaton asking him to reconsider his determination of withdrawal, but he declined and supported Mr. Lenox, who was elected. The direst calamities were’ pre- dicted to follow his election, the idea of young man being mayor of ‘Washington was such an innovation. The election of Walter Lenox mayor, succeeding the appointment by Gen. Taylor’ of Richard Wallach as United States marshal for the District of Columbia, was too much for the gentlemen who had here- tofore absorbed all the honors, but so admira- bly were the duties of these important offices performed that silenco succeeded the clamor in acknowledgment of the merits of these two gentlemen. ‘The infusion of young blood into the municipal office produced » healthy con- dition in its affairs, and during this term of office the movement ‘which led to the railroad connections with the south was begun. It was n era. The young men had come forward and proved that age was not an indispensabl> qualification for official preferment. When the administration of Mr. Lenox was organized John W. Maury was pPretident of the board of aldermen und Maj. B. B. French president of the board of common council. Mr. William 'T. Dove and Maj. Thomas P. Morgan, who represented the first ward in the councils, alone survive of that administration, and Mr. John F. Ennis and Charles §. Jones are the only two whose names appear as promi- nent in that canvass. The late Stine H. Hill was for some years president of one of the boards of council. Mr. Hill married a Miss Varnum, whose family owned the row beginning at the bank of Lewis Johnson & Co. It was then called **Varnum’s row” after the owners of it, one of whom was an early Speaker of the House of Representatives. It is now called “Vernon row,” I believe. THE BOYLE FAMILY. Mr. John Boyle was for many years chief clerk of the Navy Department and his sons were prominent in official positions under the government. Capt. Junius Boyle and Eugene Boyle were in the United States navy, from which the latter resigned, and at the battle of Monterey commanded the company from Washington and led the assault on that forti- fied city, in the capture of which they shared the honor. Dr. Cornelius Boyle was for years previous to 1861, and subsequently from 1865 tuntil bis death, practicing physician here. He was provost marshal in the confederate service after the first battle of Bull Run. I find he was nommated for the board of aldermen in 1850, but declined the nomination. Nicholas Burke Boyle was consul for years at Port Mahon. Franklin Boyle was the owner of the howitzer, the famed “Buby Waker,” of which Mr. Amos Kendail, when Postmaster General, complained in the columns of the Globe that in celebrat- ing the victory of Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison, the whigs, with this howitzer, had disturbed his family. The name was painted on it and it was brought out on every occasion when a victory was celebrated. “Before Mr. Davis was the brick house on the southwest corner of D and 1ith streets, which was built by Mr. William J. Stone, was occu- 1d by Col! Peter Force, who there published e National Journal, and subsequently, in the year of cholera, it was the principal hospital of the city. John T. Towers, years afterward maror of Washington, was & medical student with Dr. Burrows, and in attendance at the hos small boy at that time, living in the row on D street between 11th and 12thy and remember the terror which pervaded the city. I watched with awe the many dead who were hauled from this hospital. One of the oldest houses in Wi is on the southwest corner of 12th and D streets, When Gen. Van Ness was first married he re- sided there until the mansion, now, alas, in There is » well-authentieated jouse. Years ar us” Ve eevinfelty pours ery “Bf. Nicnonas Caovcu.” ‘THE OTHER SIDE. T really have no desire to take one leaf from the brow of Mr. Crouch’, who, as far as I know, has left no other composition comparable to the exquisite air of “Kathleen Mavoureen, clatuns to have composed. The song which has survived the century since it came from its authoress, Mra. Crawford, must surely have | deen sung long before Mr. Crouch was born—it to the same air we are left to conjecture. The | circumstances which disclosed its existence in ® volume of German songs, written more than a , Would seem to settle the question | titer reached | century ago, of its antiquity. Mr. Wheat's me at my homein Vineland, where I was enabled to obtain more particulcrs of the finding of this comporition from Mra: Coyle. fn 1867-8 Mrs. Coyle returned to Europe and visited her musical alma mater at Milan, and alter some stay there with the old profestora, San Giovani and others, returned to Paria, stopping at Munich on her way, which, with its broad streets and squares, reminded her of Washing- ton and deterimined her stay there of several weeks. She obtained from a musical cireulaiin library while there a number of rare Toasted compositions and thus continued her studies One day in the summer of 1868 her maid brought her from this library some volumes of music, and looking over one of them she’ was sur- prised and delighted to find an old German Song to thefair of “Kathleen Mavourneen.” It came to her like “sounds from home,” and she flew to the piano, and sang the song from mem- ory to the old German air, note for note. The Words of the song were in’ old German text, which she could not read. Ske noted the circumstance in her diary, but un- fortunately that was mislaid.” On her | Feturn sho spoke of it, and the article from the Springfield Republican recalled it to my mem. | ory. As early as 1850-51 there wai rman professor of music here, Mr. Berlin, s most thorough musician, who was conductor of our Philharmonic Society when Mr. Keeckhotfer was leader, who disputed Mr. Crouch’s ¢laim at that early day, and said the air was a familiar one in German, z STORIZS OF ALEX. H. STEPHENS. The letters of Mr. Corcoran which appeared in Taz Evewixe Bran have exhibited the dead philanthropist in a more endearing light to his many friends and recalls other incidents of his benevolence. One is related to me by an cye witness of an interview with Hon. Alexander Hf. Stephens which is entitled to be recorded The Hon. Alexander H. Stephens and Dr. 3. P. Hambleton were summoned to tes- tify before the congressional committee on reconstruction as soon as the commitiee was organized, and were among the early arrivals from the south after the war. The long and tedious journey it was, in those days, exhausted Mr. Stephen's strength, and when he reached here he was confined ‘to his bed for several days. Dr. Hambleton was put on the witness stand the day after his srrival, and reported to Mr. Stephens the daily proceedings of the com mittee. One day, when he returned from the Capitol, upon entering Mr. Stephens’ room at the Ebbitt House, he found Mr. Corcoran seated by Mr. Stephens” bed side, and after the doctor had related the proceedings before the committee Mr. Corcoran rose to and said to Mr. Stephens he had called to pay his respects and to leave with him a check which he would oblige him by filling up with such @ sum as would be useful in relieving the wants of himself and friends, as be knew the condition in which the war had left them; that the people of the south had been his friends in his early business life and he had a desire to do all he could to repay it in their hour of need. Mr. Stephens thanked Mr. Corcoran very warmly, but said he could not accept his kindness, for he saw no way in which he could ever repay it. His health was Precarious and he did not know if he would be able to do anything to earn the means of repay- ment, and to accept such unbounded gencros- ity without the remotest means of repaying it would be, in his opinion, a crime, and he must decline it. Mr. Corcoran then obtained from Mr. Stephens a promise that if he or any friend needed aid he would inform bim. The only friend who presumed todo any- thing in the way of financial aid for Mr. Ste- phens was Robert Toombs. Mr. Toombs would hear of any financial strait into which Mr. Stephens’ generosity had placed him and he would, wholly unsolicited arbi ucknoes teak Stephe n ns, place to his credit the amount to remove the embarrassment and then keep out of his way long enough, as he hoped, to be spared the reproaches for interfering in Mr. Storeet affairs, who insisted on giving an obligation for the debt. Mr. Toombs was @ very wealthy man. When the war began, in 1861, Mr. Toombs had several crops of cotton in Liver- pool, from which he realized a ver large sum, as most the cotton was held until he obtained 60 cents. pound for it. He took dehght in sending up to Liberty Hall, Mr. Stephens’ residence, from Atlanta, car loads of every- thing in the way of provisions, wines, &c., “for Alex's tavern,”"he would say.’ He distributed his wealth most liberally but unostentatiously among those whom the war had left penniless. GEMS FROM THE CENSUS OFFICE. A volume of mingled pathos and humor could be gathered from the replies received at the census office to the circulars o: inquiry ad- dressed by thousands throughout the country to obtain information of the condition of the industries of all kinds, which will form so im- portant an element in the great work approach- ing @ successful completion. These re- plies come in shoals, thousands upon thou- sands, and only an occasional and exceptional one attracts the eye of the examiner. ‘This one comes from California and isevidentiy intended as an earnest desire to conform to the law. To the printed question for what purpose was a mortgage (if any) placed on the farm he re-~ plies: “I mortgaged the d—d place to buy @ team of mules, wild as——, but have made enough by them to pay my debts and to pay the mortgage when it comes due—write again.” The letter accompanying the schedule says: “I am engaged in hauling freight between Hopeland aud Lakeport. If you need anything in my line give mea call.’ If you nced information in matters of business I am your ‘Injun’—anything about hauling freight, shearing sheep, bad debis, baling hay. fishing, hunting bear, stove wood, thrashing machines, weaning calves, sucking mules, pigs, orchards, hay rakes, setting saws, anything ike that I will acewer. ' Any information about the ‘Switzerland of America,’ cheerfully given. Love to ail. Write soon.” “—— —, Mule Whacker.” Joux F. Core, Rudyard Kipling's Health. The departure of Rudyard Kipling from Lon- don for America was kept a secret and it was not known that he had any intention of visit- ing this country until he arrived here, says a New York special. Since he came he has himself secluded and it is apparent that I friends are seriously concerned about his health, although one of them said that his con- dupeteh ecegwneds Is Sten ae tee patch sugges it two since Kipling was here, and his career in that time suggests the whirligigs of fortune which are sometimes the lot of authors. When he was here before he was entirely unknown. He went about the city with his manuscripts under bis arm, trying to sell them to publishers here and there, and in every case his offerings were declined.” One publisher, who had the tunity then to buy the stories which are called ‘Plain Tales From the Hills,” and could have them for a mere song, did, after Kipli Pocume femons to Losats, reset 4 After his ‘The house became uninhabitable, and the wiley of Mr. Gibson appealed to ber pastor, a Catho- to exorcise the ghost. 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