Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-05-07

dent lie was brought up Bapust
GOING TO THE TRIAL.
Five o'clock pm. / have seen all th,
great patriots OF our country. Mr.. Sum
ner is the greatest Of them all, his hair
is so exquisite. Mr.. Brooks, OF New
York, who gave him such a beating, was
on the floor Of the Senate, wearing
spectscles. He is a newspaper editor
and drives pair OF cream colored
horses. He must be a dreadful man,
but is right good looking, Mr.. Sumner
forgives him because he prints his
speeches.
/ am going too fast, but really, ] have
so much to do to-day that / don't know
where to begin. We took the horse cars
to the capitol, and went along Pennsyl-
vania avenue. The National Hotel looks
sick ever since the celebrated disease
there. was surprised to see so many
negroes in the car. Congress compels
them TO ride, in order to carry out the
Civil Rights bill The poor souls look
dreadfully as if they wanted to walk some.
Dear me l love to walk since ] am mar
ried | can take my husbands arm then
| and pinch him. 1t seems to me that we
amt happy, unless we pinch those we
love
The capitol is the grandest, most won
derful building in the whole world. 1t is
all marble, with splendid dome above
il, and perfect hidc-and-seek of aisles,
passages, and gorgeous stairwoys. 1t
looks like a marble quarry in blossom.
They wash it every night and the gov.
ernment officers spit it yellow every day.
Alouzo says tobacco is bought by the
ream, and charged to stationery" He
says that this is quite right, because
when the members have chew in their
mouths they speak less and save time. l
hope my husband will never chew
| tobacco. Government ought to pass
| law against it. On the top of
the capitol is statue of Pocahon-
tas, flying a kite; | should think
it ought to be Benjamin Franklin, but
they have got him inside in marble 1t
will take million5 and millions to furnish
the capitol. / suppose they will have
nothing but Administer carpets and
oiled walnut. In the dome of the capi-
tol there are beautiful pictures. | liked
the marriage of Pocahontas the best.
She wears her hair plain, and her dress
looks like o bolster case. The Indian
women have beautiful figures, but their
clothes are dowdy. Some of them in
this picture wear goose feathers for full
dress, and look to have caught cold. But
that's what's expected Of bridesmaid.
She dresses for a consumption
THE LADIES GALLERY.
We got goodseats next to the Diplo-
matte Gallery. Alonzo pointed out the
Russian Minister and his wife to me; we
admired them very much till we heard
that it was the Ministers coachman and
cook. The foreign Ministers send their
servants here when they want their gal
lery to look genteel. Theodore Tilton
was distinguished by his long hair. He
has Withdrawn the nomination of Chase
and ruined the Chief Justice. He looks
sad aboutit Congressman Starch showed
us the Chief Justice, man like Wash
ington in holy orders. Mr.. Starch said
he would be impeached soon, with all the
Judges. The bench, he says, is rotton.
(Why not give them chairs y He said
if it had not been for the bench the Con-
stitution, which is the cause of all this
trouble, would have been done away
with long ago. Dear me an old rotten
bench ought not to keep our country in
such peril The Senate Chamber is all
buff and gilt, like an envelope on Valen-
tines day. There is a silver ice
pitcher on the table of the Presi-
dents counsel, which, | believe, is
plated. l wish could just go
down and feel of it. They say that the
Government is swinded in everything.
Perhaps the coolest,swindle is ice pitch
ers. This is mean. Washington, Web
ster, and Mr.. Starch must be incapable
of it. Ifmy husband ever comes to Con-
gress l mean to work him pair of slip
pers in red, white and blue. Then he
can't 90 across the street, like Mr..
Alwusberry, to drink between votes, in
his stocking feet.
/ saw Mrs. Southworth, the great
author of the Deserted step
Mother" She lives at Georgetown in a
haunted boarding house. Her health is
good, considering what must be her dis
tress of mind, say two hundred pounds
without jewelry. Her dress was black |
silk, tabs on the mantilla, and angel |
sleeves, so as to leave space to swing |
her beautiful pen. If could write like |
Mrs Southworth, would keep Alonzo,
my darling husband, sitting at my feet
in tears all the time.
Mrs Swizzlem, the colored authoress |
of Mrs. Keckley's book, was in the diplo'
matte gallery with one of Mrs. Lincoln's |
dresses on, counting through an opera
glass the pimples on the face of one of
the Senators. She hates his wife, Alonzo |
says, and means to worry her.
Mr.. Thornton, the British Minister,
looks very much worried. Congressman
Starch says that Senator Chandler is a
Fenian, and means to make dreadful
speech at poor Mr.. Thornton. Alonze
is afraid it will miss fire, and kill some
innocent person. Senator Wade, the
next President, looks like Martha Wash
ington. He is very pious man, be-
loved by everybody, and would have be-
come a preacher if they had not wanted
him so bad for President
END OF THE BRIDEGROOM.
Twelve am. Oh, dear that ever |
was married Be still, my poor soul l
have heard Of the wickedness of men
now | know i'll Last night heard some
thing like a wheelbarrow coming up
stairs. 1t seemed to fall around the
elbows and upset at all the platforms
It tumbled right up to my room. The
burst right through the door;
frst came the wheel and then pitched the
barrow on top of it, The barrow was
Starch, the wheel was
Alonz5. They joined themselves to-
,ether again and wheeled forward, right
ID onto the bed. There were so many
egs and so much motion and hallooing
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