Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-10-18
Disgusting.

The widow of President Lincoln.
with the help of her agent, is making
a disgusting exhibit of herself in the
newspapers. 1t seems she has a
large amount of wearing apparel and
jewelry which she wants to convert
into gold bearing bonds. No one oh.
jects to this; but the means she takes
to accomplish the object are most con-
temptible, and stamp the woman what
most have already rated her, as vain.
shallow and silly.
She complains that the $4,000 left
her by Mr.. Lincoln, and which yield
ner an income of $170O, is insufficient
iof hef support, and therefore she has
sent large lot of personal property
to VIM. ii. Brady, a commission mer.
chant of New York, for sale. This
property is appraised at $4,000, and
among other articles contains the
following:
l black centre cames hair shawl, long $500
white centre camel's hair shawl, long 1900
white centre camePs hair shawl, square 400
81
3 superine point black lace shawls,
superfne point black lace shawls, $50, $40
l white point lace shawl, long 1000
l white point lace dress, unmade 1000
l Russian sable cape, 1900
l Russian sable boa, l, 200
The invoice also comprises some
valuable jewelry. In her first letter
to Mr.. Brady, Mrs. Lincoln said the
articles were "gifts of dear friends"
which only urgent necessity compelled
her to part with. "The circumstan-
ces," she remarked, care peculiar and
painfully embarrassing, and | hope
you will endeavor to realize as much
as possible from them"
Although these artic les inventory
at $24, 1000, Mrs. Lincoln writes her
agent that she is "willing to make
reduction of $4,000, and relinquish
them for $4,000 in fve-twenties-
nothing less" In the corr dependence
with Mr.. Brady, Mrs. Lincoln CON-
plains bitterly of the men who be-
sought her influence to secure their
official positions; and the following
letter is rather bold attempt at
black mailing:
CHICAGO, Sept. IA, 1S67-W. H.
Brady, Esq.-My dear sir:-Please
call and see Hon, Abram Wakeman.
He was largely indebted to me for
obtaining the lucrative Office which he
has held for several years, and from
which he has amassed a very large
fortune. He will assist me in my
painful and humiliating situation,
scarcely removed from want. He
would scarcely hesitate to return in a
small manner the many favors my
husband and myself always showered
upon him. Mr.. Wakeman many times
excited my sympathy 10y his ur-
gent appeals for Office, as well for him.
self as others. Therefore he will only
be too happy to relieve me by pur-
/, chasing one or more of the articles
: you place before him.
Very truly,
Mrs. A. LINCOLN.
Mrs. Lincoln has also mentioned
e Mr.. Thurlow Weeds name in connec-
ton with this matter, and he retorts
l. as follows:
: The president gave the Prince Ma
poleon a dinner, for which Mrs. Lin
e coin sent to the secretary of the in
J. terror for payment bill Of some nine
D hundred dollars. This demand, tho
! wholly illegal, coming from the presi-
: dents wife, embarrassed the secretary,
IL who called upon the secretary of state
u for advice, where he learned that Mr..
u Seward had also dined the prince, hav-
ing the same number of guests, and
giving them a duplicate of the dinner
Ii at the White house. In fact, Mr.. Sc
e ward ordered both dinners from the
{ same restaurant, and by his own bill,
u knew the cost of each. For what
e Mr.. Seward paid three hundred dol
lars, Mrs. Lincoln demanded nine
g hundred dollars. But whether three
e or nine hundred, the claim was alike
It illegal, and could not be paid. For
d this, however, Mrs. Lincoln quarreled
); with Secretaries Smith and Seward.
This amount, however, was subse-
D. quently covered up in gardeners &C.
IS count, but occasioned scandal, which
Vi respect for Mr.. Lincoln measurably
D suppressed.
This unfortunate freak of Mrs.
Lincoln has brought out the fact that
Mr.. Lincoln left an estate of SIS 1000,
v, which Congress augmented by voting
le him $4,000 additional. Truly Mrs.
ne Lincoln should be able to keep her.
ne self and one minor child off the town
Y /; on that amount. The Springfield
Republican, in abiding to this affair,
n well saws:
to According TO all accounts, Mr..
$ Lincoln must have left an estate of
Ie, one hundred thousand dollars. There
Il, are certainly $4,000 invested In the
le. name of the estate in government
ii: bonds. 1t is natural enough that Mrs
H. Lincoln would ike to exchange her
dead and decaying capital in feminine
it 6nery for an additional $4,000 Of
IN gold-bearing securities but it is very
unfeminine, very disgusting, in fact
ed. the way she has undertaken to do it
- There is but one feeling about this
ad exhibition of herself,-a feeling of
&c. modification and contempt and indig
IS nation. There are many rich patriot;
who would have gladly hired Mrs
at Lincoln to keep silence had they
his known her purposes; but now 1t may
be doubted if her auction, with all it
in notoriety, will bring as much as
di- quiet, unadvertised sale would have