The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-05-08
WASHINGTON, May s, 1916.

WASHINGTON, May 8, 1916.
Local Afdirs-An Interesting Dish of !Salan,agxmdi
Exercises by the Juvenile class of the Columbia
College at Rev. o. b. Burns church tonight
Called in. Specimens in elocution by the boys
highly creditable; and we like the taste Of the black
gowns in which they spoke. These ample sleeves
and spacious robes made the youngsters look like
doctors of dvinity-D. D.'s-and i'iath we wish
all the D. DIS could speak as well, or the M. C.'s
either. Didn't call in to hear DIR. Reilly on
the Turks, to-night-he completely satisfied
last night that they were loafng set Of bar
barians. Col. Benton has been rather intractabe
in court "Swcar the witness, sir, swear the
Witness" The Court had to call him to order.
The Colonel sits there in all the pride of Tanner
lane with Bajazet in cage before him. God
grant that nobody may be killed in this unnatural
prosecution. II looks ominous-it has an awfully
portentous suppressed mutually Of vengeance
about it. We go for a compromse; or we fear
that war is inevitable. Governor Thomas bears
himself, sane or insane, very like man OF sense.
He is one of the finest looking Of n house full.
He stands near six feet, fine figure, intelligent
face, clean head of hair, slightly silvcred, cut
His conntenance is pleasant and really tascina.
ting. We don't wonder that Miss MDowell
loved him; the only wonder IS that two such plea
SAINT LOCKING * should s M Ss 6y the
He looks as fresh a wafer-lily. Shouldn't Won
der if he were to be sent off on mission some
where, after little-perhaps to the TYpee Islands
He wants something much Judge oakley Of IL
linois is here. Within day slight increase Of
travellers but the arrivals nearly reduced TO
the summer level. We expect the great fair will
bring all down East down South. We have room
Tor them, and plenty to eat; and If we may believe
the temperance paper, there is no lack Of cakes
and ale. They have got a young man in the capi-
tol doing up portraits in brick dust He has paint
likeness, that it would have made a speech
when called on, had not the artist given him
the lockjaw. Our youthful Raphael win do
well to pound his brick dust little finer, and
throw in little more charcoal Yin the back
ground. Hcaly has a rare lot OF Con&rcs-
sional portraits in the Rotunda. Gen. Jackson
and Henry Clay are there, and Daniel Webster
sealed ; and Mr.. Calhoun is there, and General
Cass, and Mr.. Archer, and Mr. Yulee, and num-
Der OF others but not one OF these beautiful works
can touch Cocper's portrait and landscape OF the
and the figure, naturalness in the landscape
and, altogether, the painting is a poem that tells
of summers sun-sct--of green fields, and dark
mountains, and pleasant recollectons in the lights
and shadows of the sun himself.
Mr. Cooper has gone to Tennessee, and we ex-
pect he win bring back in the fall a painting of the
Hermitage, and andther Of the late residence Of
10 him painting of the scene on Duck Creek,
where those forty-five negroes were branded on
the back with the initials Of j. X. r., putting hoor-
back in the foreground, applying the hot iron to
the shoulders of an old negro smoking pipe du-
ring the operation.
The news of this evening concerning Mexico is,
that there hns been no fight at all, and that the
Mcxicans can neither be kicked into fight, nor
persuaded to pay their debts, because they can't
fight and can't pay. The next step, therefore,
will be to annex 'cni-gold and silver mines and
all. We shall have to annex 'em. As an act OF
Christian charity we ought to annex 'em Mexico
would come i'm Just now as a most valuable adj
unct TO the sub-trcasury.
Mr.. Henry M. Paine, the great shot at, rs they
call him, was here a few evenings ago, unscathed,
save by the small pox, of which he has had re-
cent attack. II seems that neither bullets nor the
smallpox can cxting,ish him. He is a keen, IN
telIigent fellow, that same Paine, and we rather
suspect there is something yet to be known con-
corning Santa Anna and those papers.