The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-04-02

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"Kaasaroo," washingtoa eorresp opdsn,
sftAs New Orisans Cf1ar6st, gives n the
fsiicwing p.niaicsuea is
{ Z, Ops sfuy chpna hAs reGaed in WAahins-
ton Just Ely yeArs, and seen hfty seasons q
METROPOLITAN society. BE has wAtcAed With
interest all the various changes aimee the last
! term Of NJ. zMadsoss when= be- settled IN
town, down to this present year OF grace
He has "reminiscences of the 'lmmortsa
George He knows I'll the scandal OF the
salons. where Madame Genet seconded the
intaisues Of her husband HecAn rsmem ber
the time when the site of the White House
was covered With charred ruina-remnanss OF
the deeds Of that famous raiding hotlla that
sailed up the Potomac, under the famous Sir
Edward cockhurn, Rear Admiral OF the Blue.
Then the Capitol vas not built, and the
Treasury existed only in the hsain OF its
architect, and the American people had not
commenced that work of ages-thA Washing
ton monument. There was no gaslighs ia
the street the stately avenues thai now bear
prinoeiT chsuots and slelshs, we're poor emA
bankments Of mud and roads almost fmpesss-
bic. The colonial lords on the other hank
Of the river, still wound their horses for miles
OF chaos over the broad Virginia mssors
Every morning at the break or day John Ran
do,ph, Of Roanoke, rode up the Georgetown
turnpike, with . pack Of hounds At his horse 8
heels. Those were the days Of the proafest,
s,asehest gentlemen. Then we wore the
bruadest kind of rutEles, and the finest kind
of silver laced velvet coats. Meme Of your
whipper-snapper, willovy canes, but re used
heavy, substantial, gold headed sticks. Then
what snuf-real Turkish sanf. X seems to
me snuff hasn't tasted the same for forty
years, quosh my venerable friend.
...eepuons we're receptions then, not
what they are now. Mr.. Madison lived right
Get Oh this street." said be, pointing oat of
the window They were Just rebuilding
then. after the British war, and the Presiden.
lived in large old private manson, further
down The road.'' Why, what do you mean,
my dear friend ?" iuterposed, There is .
row of new hrick buildings there, and re,
tail grocery for that corner store. No,
me boy" snapped oct my testy antiquary,
those places are not new. They are nothing
bat the old buildings renovated | think 4
ought TO know when the old house, green
with ivy, was pulled down and that block put
up IN ITS place. | ought to know, too, where
President James Madison lived, because it
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ception; | II tell you how II happened.
There was 9 PARTY of us-shrse or four
young bloods-just come By long stage ride
from Philadelphia. We we're in good spirits
st coming C our journey emu aad Thought
we would pay oar RESPECTS to The Chief Mag
fstrnte. SO oat we went to the old hoase,
and found several private carriages in front
OF the door and say lights aud heard music
inside. One of US stepped up and rang the
bell A lacquey in livery came 10 the door,
and after surveying Us, said We couldni tcome
in Why so isn't this the reception even
ing? Yes, yes, reioiued the porter, but |
have strict orders TO admit no one who is not
in evening costume. We we're rsther aston
ished. We had on good rutfied and futed
shirts, and fine -alkiag boots rlrnei over a.
the sides and curving aewA behind, IN the
shape Of heart, as the fashion was those
days; but there was no remedy. The door
keeper said that the Com issiouer Of
Pebble Raisd.ass told h,m "a admit no one
without knee hIeeehes, ak stockings and
pumps SO we had - tnrn away, not very
much pleased, assure you, and il was a lopg
time before We went TO another reception.
s'Soon after eontinnAS ny soauaekus
menoloquist, II forgot all aboAi that and
wen. to Mr. Mouroets ievees. The Presl-
dent was small. not five feet four inches high,
q straight, puted, pot oellied man, gracious
enough lie TAs, perhaps, TIE last one OF
the real old fashioned. His evenings ct
home we're genuine Official receptions, not
so social as Mrs. Madisons graces had made
the v bite House, a few years before-out
with all the pictorial adnixteres Of the grand
seigneur aud the good fellow pertaining to
fine gentlemen then.
Mr. Adams kaow personally very veil
| used to see him about five clock every
morning. going down on tbs opposite Rank
IF the riser, ii lront Of the pastsres whsFa
the monument stands. There he would
battle. sad thinking nothing Of pluugaz
into the Potomac in the coolest Of weather
lie came back afterwards to tie Executive
mansion. a. red as Gecrgia peach, and
this system Of exertou may have helped to
pro.ong his life. II it could not keep him in
the Presidential ehsir more than single
term.
DO you rember Jackson" 'Yes, | re
member Jackson Here he commenced TO
drop The ml-tsr. He was sert OF straight
forward. good hearted old fellow not much
ceremony about him: he didn believe IN it,
he vas FOR doing thinss without any fuss.
He Used 20 promenads throash the rooms
with Mrs. Eaton on his arm; he didn't care;
| knew her vel; she Sss 8 beautiful womap,
sna good hearted lady, too