The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-10-24
More of Ihe Lincoln scandal.

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The Lincoln scandal increases. The
papers are filled with it. The following
is retailed by the New York correspond
ent of the Boston Post
When Lyons represented England at
the court of the Republic, his wife had a
waiting maid who took the fancy of a
certain lady in the White House. By
promise of preferment and increased wages
this waiting maid was induced to trans
fer her services from Lady Lyons to an
other lady whose name had the same ini-
tlal. She thought. poor thing, that she
would have nothing to do but to exhibit
herself about the White House; but this
delusion was very speedily dispelled, for
it was only few when she was set
to making drawers out of the linen sheets
of the establishment. This wounded her
feelings so much that she soon 'fgavc no
tce" to her employer, and when she SUBJ
sequently spoke of her SORROWS to her
friends, she said that the extraordinary
length of the drawers she was employed
on left no doubt on her mind as to the
person who was to have the comfort of
wearing them.
''Mrs. Clark" made several trips to
New York in the war times, and made
some extensive purchases each time she
came. On one occasion, the proprietor
of leading jewelry and furnishing estab-
lishment on Broadway received $50 the
story goes) an order for beautiful chan
delier for the White House. The price
of the chandelier was $500; but some
body Gas was not present at the time l
will not be positive about names) suggest
ed that bill should be made out for ST.
900, and that the difference should be
made up in jewelry. But the gentleaaan
to whom the proposition was made re-
spcctfully declined to entertain it, and l
think his chandelier was not sent to Wash
lngton.
On another occasion, a Broadway deal
er, we'll known throughout the country,
was favored with an order for some su-
perfine sets of porcelain and China ware
for the national establishment. The value
of the set was $500, but other purchases
made at the same time brought the bill
up to 81, 200. The storekeeper was re-
quested to make the porcelain and China
ware cover the whole amount of the bill,
and, to oblige his customer, he did SO.
The bill went to the Secretary of the Iu-
terror, who said to himself, ''S2 200 is a
very high price for those sets; l must
look into it." He did look into it by
sending an agent to large furnishing
house in Philadelphia, where the same
kind of goods were sold, and the agent
went back to Washington with the infor-
nation that the Philadelphia price of the
article was $500. The Secretary of the
Interior then wrote to the Broadway deal
er TO know how he came to charge ST.
200 for goods that were sold for $500 in
Philadelphia, and the merchant wrote
back that he charged only $500 for them,
and that the extra 81 400 covered the
purchases which had not been specified.
You see how closely these stories re-
semble Lord Thurlow's, but they are not
so well told. l can never hope to become
equal to Thurlow at story telling.
Another incident, Illustrative of charac-
ter, has just occurred TO me. One day
Mrs. Ia. drove up, or was driven up, In
front of Genin's store, under the ST. Mich
olas, and leaning out of the carriage she
beckoned to one of the clerks, who was
speaking to friend at the door, to 90 to
her. He knew her very well, but took
no notice of her motions. She beck koned
again and again, but he did not go near
her. Finally another lady, who was in
the carriage, stepped out, and walking up
to him, asked him if he knew who that
lady (Mrs. L, was. He replied some
what indifferently, that he did not care.
"Why,' said she, bridling up, ''that is
Mrs. Lincoln, and she wants you 10 wait
on her." 81 don't know any difference
between Mrs. Lincoln and the wife of a
mechanic" said the clerk. ''If she will.
come into the store l will attend to her,
but l am not employed to wait on people
in the street." A complaint to MIR. Ge-
min followed, as a matter of course, but
the clerk did not lose his place.
To return to the relics. 1t is singular,
to say the least, that these beautiful and
expensive articles are allowed to go a-beg-
ging, as it were. But so it is Very
few of them have been sold, as yet, and
the prospect of all being disposed of by
private sale is by no means cheering. If
they remain unsold by next Monday, they
are to be put up at auction, and Mrs.
Toodles, with her whole family, will be
on the spot looking for bargains. 1t is a
pity there are no doorplates in the collec-