Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-12-14
Defunct Jupiter

Defunct Jupiter.
Frazer's (London) Magazine, for
September, in a g0ssipy article on the
city of Washington and its celebrities,
gives the following concerning Daniel
Webster. The statements here made
should be taken with some grain Of
allowance, as they are given more for
amusement than positive truth
notwithstanding the fact that from
first to last the rich men of Boston
gave him several fortunes, he was al
ways poor, and never thought Of pay
ing a debt La New England. it is
said, he sometimes wanted the dinners
to which he was invited daily, as much
as his visitors wanted his company,
and he was often materially assisted
by the immunities extended to him by
railroad companies His efforts to
obtain similar advantages IN other
parts Of the country. by reason of his
greatness, were sometimes attended
with amusing results. On one Occas-
ion, when tFaveiing on the great rail-
way between New Y Ork and Washing
ton, the conductor came through the
car, Ia which nearly hundred passen-
gers were seated collecting the tickets.
When he came to Mr. Webster's seat
the great Senator looked pOnderously
at the conductor and said solemnly
L am Mr.. Webster.
Il asked you for your ticket, said
the conductor.
Webster who had 10 ticket, and lit
tie money, said more Weightily:
Il am Daniel Webster.
II don't care, cried the conductor,
getting vexed, if your Daniel from
the lions den. you We got to show your
ticket
Webster gravely presented his card
to the man and said, I viii see the
president of this company on the sub
ject at some future time.
The poor conductor looked around
helplessly to the surrounding passen-
gers. among whom the scene had ex-
cited much merrmeBt, uttered a tre-
mendous oath, and abandoned as hope
less the task of getting either ticket VI
money
At the political dinners, of which
Webster was rather fond, he almost
invariably became tipsy before his
speech time arrived and some OF his
most admired after dinner speeches
we're the composition of friendly re-
be prompted by a friend, who sat just
behind him, and gave him successive
ly5phrases= and topics. The speeches
were somewhat after this fashion
PrOmpter- Tariff Webster-'T The
tariff, gentlemen, is a subject requiring
profound attention of the statesman.
American industry, gentlemen, must
be mods a little) PrOmpter-" Ma
tionaI debt" Webster-'And, gem
tlemen, there's the national debit
should be paid loud cheers, which
rouse the speaker; yes. gentlemen, 1t
should be paid, [eheersl and id if it
shan't be (taking out his pocket book
I'll pay it myself How much is it p
This last question was asked of a gen
tlemen near him with drunken serl-
business, and coupled with reccOllec-
ton Of the we'll known impecUuiosity
of Webster's 3 pocket book, excited
roars of laughter, amidst which the
orator sunk into his seat and was soon
asleep.
Ata great dinner given in Rochester
New York Webster's speech, deliver
ed before a large auditory, was very
brief. and ran thus:
''Men of Rochester, I am glad to see
you, and | am glad to see your noble
city. Gentlemen, I saw your falls,
which I am told are $50 feet high.
This is a very interesting fact. Cen
tlemen. Rome had her Caesar, her Sci
pio, her Brutus but Rome in her
proudest day had never a waterfall
$50 feet high Gentlemen, Greece had
her Pericles, her Demosthenes and
Socrates but Greece in her palmiest
days never had a waterfall 100 fee
high Men of Rochester, go on No
/ people ever lost their liberties who
/ had waterfall $50 feet high
The following, from the same article
! is too good to be lost:
'On one occasion, during a speech
/ By Baldwin, of Connecticut, Senator
! Foote, Of Mississippi, fell asleep, and
I when he woke up, a Senator from
| Florida took him into the lobby and
/ repeated to him an imaginary inveC-
| tive, which he declared Baldwin had
/ pronounced against him. FOote re
/ turned to the Senate In rage, aud be-
gan a violent personal attack upon
| Baldwin. i will teach the Senator a
| lesson" he cried when he calls me
/ the arch -repudiatoT and rObber chief.
/ The astonished Baldwin protested
/ that he had made no allusion to Foote
whatever. What 2" cried Foote,
docs the Senator dare deny the fact,
! when I heard him with these ears p
/ amid rOars Of laughter she Nlississip-
plan perceived that he had been the
subject of practical joke. That Is
said to have been the last nap taken
in Congress