The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-05-26
Interesting Gossip About His Pam.
fly and Cabinet.

Interesting Gossip About HIS Fam
fly and Cabinet.
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Mr.. johnson, during the interval
between his impeachment and his fate,
lives at the White House, like the
quaint being that heis, perfectly conf
dent of acquittal, perfectly sure of his
| righteousness, and only disposed to
quarrel with his counsel every day,
because it has not occurred to them to
tell how many positions he has filled,
from Alderman up.
The daily life OF the President, dur
ing his trial, as it is related to me by
one intimate with him, is much like the
following:
He arises as early as seven o'clock.
takes n drop of corn whisky and lemon
peel, and has subordinate to present
him with the papers of Baltimore and
Washington, where all matter referring
| to himself is marked. When his hair
and beard are dressed, such portions
are read to him as he has indicated,
and also selects part of the Globe con-
tanning admired passages of his couu-
sells remarks of the day before, or the
moro personal parts of speeches for the
| prosecution. Afterward u friend drops
| in, and one or more members of his
counsel, and breakfast is a grand
council, where they sum the actions OF
the day before they do them. After
breakfast the counsel go to their hotels,
where the state carriage is sent for
them ut eleven O'Clock. Mr.. Johnson
then begins to receive people, most OF
whom condole with him and get his
blessing. He takes to scrap book col
lections of his own speeches between
times, till the mail comes at one o'clock
with the Western newspapers, when
the Secretary picks ont the editorial
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johnson and reads it. Meantime, hall
hourly messengers arrive from the
Senate with news as to how the pro-
ceedings stand. The President ques-
lions them less upon the situation Than
upon the argument, for he is one OF
those sublime self.abneRattons that
would rather get a syllogisnl in his favor
than a new friend. As TO the newspa-
pers, he Is an extraordinary interpre-
| Ter OF them. He will calmly listen TO q
whole column of seattle, and, observ-
| ing one fraction of consideration owed
here in the column, will pick it out and
appropriate it TO feed his indom.table
conceit.
"There," he says, that writer compre-
bends me; the rest of his article Is i'm
material"
People come in at intervals up TO the
time of the arrival of the New York
papers, at halt-past i've or six O'Clock
which ia the era of the day in Washing
ton. Mr.. Johnson dislikes the WOTtO
more than any daily paper in New
| York. ae has a queer hankering for
the good opinion OF the IFibLne-prob'
ably surprising that a concern which
could be merciful to Mr.. Davis might
consistently relent to him. Dinner al
six O'Clock generally has one or more
| OF the counsel at 1t, but Mr.. johnson
| has not the power to retain even the
1 ~ hfa nnnnunl Mr. Nnlann is
with him more than any other one
Stanbery seems to have most faith II
the President. The more "shines," IN
| gratitudes and surprises Johnson cuts
the more Stanbery looks upon him as
an errant son, to be forgiven and fon
died. -,
| johnson somewhat as Las Casas OIL
| or Montholon regarded Napoleon, Of
rather as David Copperfield regarded
| in his early youth, the distinguished
/ Mr.. Peggotty. To Mr.. Nelson, johnson
Ia all history, all art, all example anC
| all department. It is well for our hu
man nature that a Nelson exists fol
every man, who, when the signal fol
retreat is hoisted, will shut every eye
but his blind one, and say, II dom
see it." Nelson sees nothing bu
johnson, the Tennessee archetype
4 johnson picking his teeth is to him 8
| consecrates bad English and makes il
fnimitable. Delightful old mushroom
Johnson's whole heart and history are
not worth one tear like thine,
The evening at the White House i;
generally free of gentle company, fol
the Presidents nature requires gooC
deal of the "hale fellow we'll met" sori
OF company. With Kershaw and SONS
OF the Washington boys he sits up till
late, exchanging inteIjectons upon the
| shames OF his enemies, and three
drinks count the three watches between
half of the night the Globe is often
brought in in proofs, and the speeches
of the day read and remarked upon.
Andrew johnson is wonderfully like
1 General John Charles Fremont in this
he believes that all his ul-success Is
attributable to other causes than him
self: that all his success came out Of
his own resources. OBJECTIONS and
failures come to him philosophically,
therefore. He sits down while after
each of them, INDUCING in blind hate
of some body, and then, with his treach-
erous pertinactty, makes another Pusn
in the same direction. BE 1s man
without method, and yet with some de-
sultoriness of will, SO that nobody
knows when to trust him or when 70
respect him. He has lived in the city
of Washington for twenty years, more
or less, Dut mis- personal Itlenu5 nete
are of sort that, leaving the President
their next friend in point of rank is a
/ bar-keeper or gambler. It Is this med
Iley of man that is said to turn to the
Constitution like n pilot to his compass.
Full of smatterings of charters, he has
bungled his way TO eminence sincerity
by the power OF words over Ignorance
and he believes now thai he Is the
closest constitutional lawyer, the great
est stump speaker, the author of the
best policy, and the most popular pub
lie man In the United States, BE Ii
displeased with Mr.. Groesbeck for say
ing that he don't know much, and ht
; called Mr.. Evarts a "littIe squirt" be
|. hind his back for expressing the same
opinion. johnson, IL Is said, requestec
! Nelson to meet all the points madi
against his policy by the managers o
: the House, whether The other counse
agreed or not. 1t was all the latte
could do to keep Nelson on the floor.
: JoHNsoS's FAMILY AND CABINET.
: The Presidents mansion has proba
bly, as queer set of people now in II a
ever constituted the court of Old Fritz
father, or any crowned Brunswicker
First, there Is Patterson, the son.tn