New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-02
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Special Correspondence of the New Orleans Crescent
WASHINGTON, June oath, 1866.
I THE PRESIDENT AT HOME.
\ The siege at the White House still continues
with undated yigor While the members Of Con.
/ gress are reveling in all the luxuries which the
public money can procure, the Presidents man,
sien is left in the most disgraeetul condition, The
complaints of visitors to The White House have
| finally produced some effect, and a bill has been
introduced into the Senate proposing the construe.
ton of a new residence for the chief magistrate
of the country. The appropriation for temporary
repairs to the present building may give it more
respectable exterior appearance but its total IN
fitness for the purposes to which it is applied must
be evident to every one who has occasion to fire.
quent its disagreeable apartments. The proposed
location of the new building in the vicinity of the
capitol, gives the scheme sinister look, and
will not be acceptable to the residents of
Washington. If it has any influence ON the
occupants of the capitol We are perfectly
willing to see it in immediate proximity
with that notorious edifce. The only recompense
for pacing the confined and torturing corridors Of
the White House is to see and converse with its
occupant. The numerous calls on the Presidents
attention have induced him to reliuqnish the per
ters. Except in irregular cases, the pardoning
dispensation is left entirely in the hands of the
secretaries. Twenty thousand dollar cases, as
the applications coming under the most promi.
nent exception are called, can be procured with
out difficulty. Notwithstanding the demands on
Mr.. Johusons time, he is pleased to converse
freely with his friends on the state Of the country
and the events of the day. DR.. Craven's book on
the prison life Of Mr.. Davis has strongly attracted
his attention. He dwelt with peculiar emphasis
on the prisoners opinion Of Grant and said that
" when the history of this war is written properly
the credit will be awarded with fairness" 1t is
known that the President has a very high opinion
Of General Thomas, and thinks that he accom-
plished more with his means than any officer
in the federal army.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN. .......
Everybody knows the great street.car railway
protector, public speaker, and Anglophobist,
whose name decorates the title of this paragraph.
George is gifted with two great faculties which we
Americans appreciate very highly-the power of
tongue and the power of locomotion, George is
somewhat cratic but with an understratum of
good sound sense and bold way of speaking it,
as his address to the persons present at the Ladies
Fair in this city, will abundantly show. After be-
ing introduced to the audience, he told them with
considerable nalvete, that he there, but after
all he did not know whatto say-he did not even
knew the objects of the fair He had been told
that it was for the benefit of the soldiers orphans
Now, +" said George with some feryor, ." if it is |
really for the soldiers orphans-for the little rebel
orphSns-as well as ours, am with you. But if /
it is restricted in its operation, and confined to one
class Of benefcaries, cannot gveitmy whole heart
and soul. Think we will all agree that this involved
a wholesome moral TRUTH and was one Of the I
prettiest things George has ever said. After this
we had some oaustc comments on political life /
n Washington in the course of which George de.
ailed some Of his experiences in that line. His /
grandmother had loaded him with bundle of .
good preeepts, on starting out in life. The Ten
formed an important element in
his scheme Of moral philosophy. George came
% Washington He came there in the palmiest
lays of our history, when Webster Clay, Cal
noun and Randolph were illustrating the American
character. He had been told not to lie he found
our great men lying. He had been directed not to
cheat, drink to excess or gamble and he found
I'll these accomplishments quite in vogue at the
capitol. Finally, his grandmother had admonished
hin not to steal but he soon discovered this to be
George now declares that his grandmother swindled
lin into being good, but he intends to repent Of
lis past virtue. George Francis is a native of our
'lty, where he resided four years, and staunch
riend of the project for the liberation of Ireland
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