Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-01-09

REcoLLEcTIoNs OF CnIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL
In Bishop Meade's Notices of the Old Churches
in Virginia, published in the SOutherR Church
man, are the following recollections of the late
Chief Justice Marshall:
"I have mentioned before that Judge Marshall
had no hope of the riviva of the Church in Vir-
GINA, though contributing literally to the efforts
made for it He lived to see himself mistaken,
and to unite with his children and grand chill
dren in the services of our rcsuSCitated church,
in the very place of his nativity, and the scenes
of his early life. In my frequent visits to Cool
Spring and Oak Hill, often met with him, as
had done at my fathers house, and other places
in Frederick, in my more boyiSh days Though
not communicate he was the sincere friend to
religion and the Episcopal Church. can new
er forget how he would PROSTATE his tall form
before the rude low benches without backs at
Cool Spring Westinghouse, in the midst of his
children and grand children and his old neigh.
bOrs. In Richmond he always set an example
10 the gentlemen of the same conformity, though
many Of them did not follow it.
AT the building of the Monumental Church,
he was much incOmmOded by the narrowness of
the pewS, which partook too much of the mod
ern fashion. Not finding room enough for his
whole body within the pew, he used to take his
seat nearest the door of the pew, and throwing
it open let his legs stretch little into the aisle
He was most conscientious man in regard to
some things, which others might regard as too
I
than once to travel with him between Fauquier
and Fredericksburg when we were both going
to the lower country On one occasion, the roads
being in their worst condition, when we came
to that most mirY part called the "BlacS Jack"
we found the travellers through it had taken a
nearer and better road through plantation
The fence being down, or very low, was pro-
ceeding to pass over, but he said we had better
! go round, although each step was plunge, add
! ing that 1t was his duty as one in Office to be
very particular as to such things. As to some
other matters, however, he was not so particular.
although was never much given to dress
or equipage, yet was not at all ashamed to
compare with him during these travels, whether
as to clothing, horse, saddle, and bridle servant
he had none Federalist as he was in politics,
in his manners and habits he was truly Repub-
| lican. Would that all Republicans were like
him in that respect He was fond of agricul-
ture, and to crafty himself for the sake of cx-
ercise, he purchased small farm n few miles
from Richmond, to which he often went. On
one of my visits to Richmond, being in street
near his house. between daybreak and sunrise
one morning met him on horseback with bag
of clover seed lying before him, which he was
carrying to his farm, it being the time for SOW
ing such seed
But the most interesting and striking features
in the domestic character of this truly great and
| good man was the tender and asSiduolIs atten-
tions pnid to his afflicted companion. Mrs Mar
shall was nervous in the extreme, the least
noise was sometimes agony to her whole frame,
and his perpetual endeaVor was to Keep the
house and yard and out houses as free as posi-.
bic trom the slightest cause of distress to her,
walking himself at times about the house and
yard in his stockings without shoes. On one
occasion, when she was in her most distressing
state, the town authorities of Richmond mani
| tested their respect for him and sympathy for
her by having the town bell muffled.