Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1859-03-18
Webster's Residence at Washington

from letter by n. 2. WILLIS in the
Home journal, we take the following,
suggested by recent visit of the writer
to Washington
"With rainy day aad TO inhabitants,
Washington, OF course, looked as II Its
potatoes had been dug" but we walked
about little, under an umbrella, and
saw the engagements of the Capitol, and
stopped, for a moment, before the shut
doors of one or two Of the houses made
famous by having been once the dwellings
Of men who were Of tie Sacred Legion OF
the Somebodies '-Bcntou's and Webs
ter's, among others. The latter, small
brick tenement of two stories, near tue
Capitol, is particularly interesting to those
who knew the charms Of the great Daniel
in familiar life-for his thought were not
altcays shoes for giants in the world of
pigmies." In the small dining room in
the basemen. of that house, aud with the
simplest of dinners upon the table, there
were feasts Of wit and humor, at which he
shone, Say those who were intimate with
him) even more than in the Senate Cham
Der near by. Here rose the godlike
man." an hour before sunrise, every
morning of the winter season, and first
made all the fires in the house, kitchen,
bedroom and parlor-(for it was ga thing
he had Gpack at, and he loved thus to
air his druid .e-ablities before getting
upon bis pedestal for the day. Then he
took his basket and walked down to the
market, t. have a chat with the butcher,
and himself to choose the jni"t anl the
vegetables for the days larIer-home
again before his great eyes were looked
for by the curious. And it is of this
carthlicr Webster, let me say-this no.
bIest of plain merry fellows, in whose NOR
tai body the great inhabiting intellect was
a guest he was often weary ot-that We
want a picture drawn by some friend who
thus remembers him. Onc Of tic bes'
models + humorous pract'c1li'y, in all
literature, fancy, is letter Of Webster's
dated in this vsrg house at Washington,
and written 10 the laboring nan who W s
bis farm tcuant at MarsAG.ld. Judge
Warren of Boston, has possession Of it,
with other specimens Of the great states
mans vein Of grave droliery aud down
rightness- "a vein Of which al mention IS
strangely omitted in the biographies Of
HIM and the Judge, by the way, whom
Webster loved SO well as the nucleus of
the wit and good fellowship of Boston,
would be the very man to give US the 9th,
er picture of his fricrd-thc Marshield
farmer, with the 'gOdlike' shut up in the
unseen brain chamber where he lodged"
Nm. Il. SEWARD SchO9! Teacher In Georgia, In 1919.
/ The rector, VIM. II. Seward, is late
from Union College, New York, from
which institution he comes highly recon-
mendcd as young gentleman of g,od NOR
ol lchay0cter and distinguished industry and
. literary requirements"
This was the present United States
Senator'S recommendation from the Geor-
gia Journa', March -, 1919, when he, a
young man, took avillagc school in Putnam
county. We copy it, that every young
student, "sceing it may take heart again,
and show that yood moral character and
Distinguished Industry must sooner Or later
NEE. their just rewards.
MACON, (Ga.) March li-A letter has
been received from Albany, in this State,
announcing the murder Of Col. Joseph
Bond, citizen Of Macon. He was Kill.
ed on Saturday, near Albany, by Luciu:
Brown. The difficulty is believed to have
originated in Brown whipping one of Col.
Bonds negroes. Col Bond was one Of
the largest cotton planters Of the South
and was one Of our most popular and pub
lie spirited citizens.
The editor of the London Times, receive:
the same salary as the President Of tht