The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1849-05-11

| a" 'bO uVmCbllC arrangements OF the
Presidential mansion. the private dinner
was served at three o'clock, The public
one at four The drawing. room com.
menced at seven, and ended at lille past
ten. The levee began at three and end.
ed at four On public occasions the
company came within very short time
OF each other, and departed 10 she same
manner. The President is punctual.
said every body, and every body became
punctual.
On the great national days Of the 4th
July and 22d ofFebruary. the salute from
the then head of Market street 18th street,
announced the opening of the Ieyee.
Then was seen the venerable corps of the
Cincinnati marching 10 pay their respects
To their President General who received
Them at head quarters. and in the uniform
ofthe commauder.in,chief. Thisveteran
band of The Revolution had learned pune.
tuality from their General in the ''tmes
that tried mems souls" for no sooner had
the thunder peals of Col. Proctor's brass
Twelve Founders caused the windows to
rattle in Market street; than this venera-
ble body of the Cincinnati were in full
march for The head -quorters.
A fine volunteer corps, called the Light
Infantry, from the famed light infantry Of
The Revolutionary army, commended by
Lafayette. mounted guard of honor at
headquarters, during the levee Oh these
national days. When it was about to
close, The soldiers, headed by their SER
geanls, marched with noiseless slep
through the hall 10 a spot where huge
bowls OF punch had been prepared for
their refreshment. when after quaffing a
deep carouse, with three hearty cheers To
the health Of The President, they counter.
marched to the street, the bands struck up
the favOrite air, forward was the word,
and the levee was ended.
"Old times are changed old man
ners gone" True, we have become a
mighty empire in the extent, wealth and
population;-but where, Amer cans, is
the spirit of '76, the glorious and immor-
tai spirit that dighifed and adorned
the early days Of the Republic, and the
age of Washington Shall it decline aud
die among US? Swear on the altar Of
your liberty. that it shall live forever!
Long years have elapsed since the
recolleclions have been offered to the
public. In answer to numerous inquiries
why they have not been published in
book form, the author begs leave to ob.
selve that having no views as to profit, he
was desirous that the private memoirs
should 60 10 the masses of the people il
the cheapest aud most diffusabe manner
practicable. Most liberal offers have
been made TO Publish the Recollection,
in two volumes, with fine engravingsfrou
the four originals at Arlington House
viz. the Provincial Colonel in lT72, by
the elder Pealej the retired General AM
illustrious Farmer of Mount Vernon. ba
relief of Houdon, 1885; the splendid .
questrian Portrait by Trumbull, Q79O,
and the President of the United States
(ihe best possible likeness by Sharpless
1876. In this form the work will b.
here lfter published. .....
The work will also contain the privat
letters of the commander.in- chef to hi
stepson and aid-de camp, John ParI
Custis. (the father Of the author,) during
the whole of the war of the Revolution
also the pa;ernal letters of Washington
to the author, his adopted son, when
student at college in 1896, '9S. Neithe
the Revolutionary nor Paternal letter
have ever been published. . :.
lfit has appeared to any that the Re
collections have embraced particulars to
minute, the authors apology is in variou
letters, received both from at home an
abroad, urging him to omit no detaii'
hOweoer minute, or deem any thing triOiG
that related in the smallest degree to III
Iste aid character Of Washington.
Ii is somewhat remarkable, yet such
history, that, when all of the public lif
and actions of great man have bee
published to the world, the world inva
riably demands the private memoirs
Mankind wish to learn something of tn
private life, habits and manners of the in
dividual whose great public actions hav
commanded their admiration, whose i
lustrious public services have won thei
gratitude and love. Voltaire. in speak
ing of Sir Isaac Newton, said docs tn
great Newton eat like other men?"
The Iabors of Americas distinguishe
historians have given to his country all
the world the life and actions of Wash
ington,u ,uS connected with the age in whic
he flourished, and the mighty event
thereof in which he bore SO prominer
and illustrioNs part. 1t has become tn
honored duty oflhe author of The reco
lections to Iift the veil that always cor
ceals the private life ofa great man fror
the public gaze, and to show the Pa te
Patrie amid the shades of domestic re
tiremeni, where in the bosom of his fam
ly, on his farm, and at his fireside, irient
ship, kindness, and hospitality shed thei
beniSnant lustre upon his latter days.
NOBLE BEoUEsT.-We learn from tn
Boston Advertiser that the late Henr
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