Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-12-27
HOUSE OF REPRFSENTATIv
From the Boston Epening Transcript.
THE WIDOW OF GEN. HAMILTON

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We have been permitted 10 copy the an
ncxed extract from private letter received
from New York BY gentleman of this CITY:
New YORK, DEC. 10th, 1918.
lyon ask me ii ever see here the wife of
Gen. Alexander Hamilton the friend and
companion OF Washington. | met her to-
day Ill store in John street. have frequent
~ seen her at church and in the street
have often seen her, too, public, at lectures.
and III large audiences when tue OCCASION has
been one OF interest. ] met her frequently at
the course OF lectures on Mexican Antiquities.
delivered at Niblo's, by DIR. Hawkes., two
winters ago, This morning had very inter
esung interview with her. She had wa liked
from Fourth street 10 John street, a distance
oil over mile and half, and with no more
fatigue Than maiden of seventeen would
iccl brushing the dew from the grass on a
boston Common OF a summers morning "as
she ,rlppcth it lightly across the lawn" Mrs.
Hamilton told lne she was now i'm her SSH
year, and she had come ont to get a PRAYER
Book that morning with large print, to take
with her the next Monday TO Washington to
IS at church there; for The does not like To de-
nlye others oil their own. Her fine ewes are
still Toll oil the yivacity OF youth, and her step
scarcely bcarlnga mark of age. She saws she
wishes Congress To undertake the publication
OF her husbands papers and this is the main
object OF h1r present visit TO Washington
She is doubtless treated with great attention
and respect while there, by the heads of de-
partments and members of both houses Of Con-
gress. Her conversation is full of interest
and animation, and she as truly one If the
most remarkable women OF her age now liv-
ing. How lew OF her contemporaries are now
on the stage, who like her have seen the thir-
teen colonies under the MonarChia and Fed
eral Government. She says her health is per
iectiy good, and she anticipates no inconve-
nlcnce from the journey, as she is able to walk
over almost all New York i'm day. She goes
oIl IN all wcathcrs and is ono Of the best
| specimens OF lady of the old school. She
still has constitution unimpaired by sick
N IS or old age. She said we are living now
IN generation of almost mfidcls. The Ten
Commandments are not taught to children as
they used To he III the times of the Revolution
and the goodly PrdciicS of teaching the churtl
cdtechi.in Is too much neglected; on this point
/ am told this venerable lady is incxorable a,
the board OF the Orphan Asylum, were she
cxcrts d controlling influence. The Presby.
terrain ladies' allow the church catechism j.
well enough, but they do not see the need OF
I insisting 80 strenuously on that in particular
I There must still be in h'T possession paper,
OF her husbands Cl much value. The doc
| trincs Of Alexander Hamilton on questions o
deep interest, at the present day, are still th,
prevailing principles among enlightened
statesmen His life aud times now bclons
! Ia history, and the opportunity OF bcine i,
his widows society makes one feel as II n,
stood on the verge of two centuries.