Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1840-08-18

"'pair of rich ten light man. he
q lamps, $50 ltN
2 eUery splendid cir chandeliers, 7
each for eighteen candles, "a 3
french btonzed an gilt bracket 4
lights, each for candles, 4Ol P
beautiful thin lamp, supported
BY female figures 1
2 sgilt astral lamps, on the end Ia T.
bles," as
8 clamps on pier table, 8
$50
Here, Mr.. Chairman, our Democratic
President shines with the empowering
lustre Of one hundred and eighty lights.
Had you the eyes Of tabled Argus, he
would blind them all. Ii really appears
as if he had intended not only to bedizen
the vision Of his democratic friends, but
to rival the effulgent beams Of his palace,
..the glorious king of day himself. Bril-
liant and princely, however, as the East
Room had been fried up by the late Pres
ident, destined tohave its colours bright
ened, and its powers Of attractions in
creased by the exquisite taste Of its pres
ent occupant-for, in an official report
made in December last, the following i'm
portant and gratifying information is CON-
municated TO Congress.
The East Room in the Presidents
mansion has been greatly improved, by
being newly painted and papered "acith a
rich, chaste, beautiful paper"
The former paper was a '.fne lemon
color "with rich cloth border but
Mr.. Van Buren, had doubtless been ap-
pf4ked, either BY one of his sons, who at
the time was on most familiar intercourse
with, if not resident at the Court of ST
James, or. perhaps, by more formal
communication through the Lord High
Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household,
: that wallpaper Of the ''lemon color" had
during the progress of the last year, be-
come questionable, and had not for sew
i eral months beer generally admitted al
n suitable for the parlors ofthe first grade
k of noblemen, much less for the royal ban
~ quoting saloons.-Hence, Mr.. Van Blu
2 rem, as every person of rank and fashion
q and more especial ly as every gentlenla
$ born was, by the rigid laws offashionabl
- ~ life, bound to do issued his royal man
- date on the first day ofJuly, in the yea
:, of onr Lord one thousand eight hundre
% and thirty-nine, that the ''paper ofthe len
of on color, with rich cloth border" shoul
,ir be forthwith taken off the broad walls
I'D the Eastern room, aud that ''richr chast
" and beautiful paper" should be substitute
id in its stead. That the first clause ofth
n royal ordinance was faithfully execute
W; will distinctly appear from the fOlOwir
sr- voucher:
'ef presidents House,
M To Henry Snowder, DR..
P E. ITO taking of'the paper of the E'
cd Room, as per agreement with c.
i've Wood, sixteen dollars, SIG
ms July /, 1889. Received payment
wn VIM. holland, Esq.
Ter. s.HENRY SNowDEN, his X mark.
d "Witness, ]. B. Rocker.
Zip, .CertIfed by Charles F. Wood
on rsed-"Completing special
iiul pairs of the Presidents House, &c. s
lale Henry Snowden's receipt for work
are the East Room of the Presidents Hol
lleu July /, 1880. No. l."
'nA AnoHicial voucher now in my ha
~ s will also show that sixty pieces OF pa
n ,,;,E SIS each, making $500, were purcha
,oso from S. P. Franklin on the goth Aug
. oil 1880. for the East Room, and that the
Ided Their sum Of $50 was paid TO that gel
the man for hanging the same. And thus
iers. II is made manifest that not less than
tdrS, hundred and forty six dollars ofthe
loor, ev of your constituents and my cons
entat ents have bSen expended during last
natic mer for the qualification Of woma
WIN WIN but costly within, in substituting "a
mare chaste, and beautiful s1Uer paper,
anu golden borders, fer the Questionable
- - IN color. with a rich cloth border.
as a suitable recompense for this I
gate waste Of the public funds, the
80 s handed democracy" of the country
'r;o,,s been officially advised that ''the
Tele- Room in the Presidents mansion has
ceiped greatly improved They must I
gent.'' fore be content.
10 can Mr.. Chairman, there IS a noiabl
or the torical incident associated with this
# Ma Room, 10 which ! may with proPrle
Iendor cur whilst we are within the room
.ons at and before we pass through the M
iouse' iapanned doors into the magnificent
y, sir teal Saloon, where / propose to 6
hoom YOU. That historical event refers
slalS celebrated East Room Letter, Z adt
lseous 70 the Editor Of the eRicAmond :
o I'D err and Dotted al Washington jan
o,,r. Il 1897. Here is the letters
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