The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-05-26

law, who, it is commonly reported,
takes his meals in the kitchen. having
been sent away from the family table.
he spends nearly the whole day in
rolling from bar-room to bar-room.
Half block Is long stretch for Pat
terson TO make without taking fresh
| ener. How this man came to the Sem
ate is a marvel inexplicable, except by
the greater marvel of Johnson. His
wife is a good woman; indeed, the la
dies of this administration have never
committed any foolish thing.
Jerry Black. who used TO smoke his
cigars, in the Presidents presence, goes
| around the streets with his griZzled
curls, and grimly says that johnson is
an Adamatey fool.
Think that Black would have been
oliver In this trial; but the cleverer he
might have been the worse would it
be for his client, as Black is greatly
disliked in the Senate.
Gideon Welles goes out on horseback
every afternoon, looking like gray
dervish. He likes the lazy enjoyment
of office, and would not desert john
son though he should turn Mormon,
provided WelleS could keep position.
Randall, the postmaster, Is genuine
politician, and he is on the street most
| OF the time, betting up Johnson stock.
| Mr.. McCulloch attends to his BUSH
ness, and shares with Stanbery about
ali the respectability OF the admins.
Eration;
AS to Mr.. Seward, he stays at home
of nights drinking sherry kindly fur
nished by Marshal Murray, his APP
pointee in New York. and projecting
new chapters in his history OF the State
Department. Fred. Seward, his son,
has long been getting together mate
rails for life of his father. The old
gentleman has been downcast these six
weeks, but he still entertains the no.
ton that he will be able to piece up
new party out of malcontent Republic
| cans, with the general platform OF more
empire, much future, and every body
happy, Seward, of course, being the
center and sun of happiness. He has
begun to re-believe in his star, whose
transit across the disc of the White
House will follow Grants administra-
ton. at least he thinks so. Mr.. Sew
| ard is more comprehensive man than
johnson, but much quainter and odder.
Self-enjoyment is the key of his char
acter; disqualification his chief de-
light. He loves to eat and drink and
talk genteelly, and on a full stomach
| to indite huge briefs about the State.
His highest conceptions of political
action are occasional surprises, exer-
jected out of his lazy. life, which OF
themselves excite the State, and
then Seward, leaving other people
to meet these new issues, relapses into
good dinners and soft authorship. His
tricks OF State are all imposing ones
not mere sleights OF hand, but feats of
astrology. Wheeling out OF repOse, he
puzzles the country with a new feat,
and every time he drops to his Epicure-
an level he himself grows insensibly
less of a believer in the great truths of
freedom he has played with. 1t is
most natural that this Prince Hal of
materiRlists should be, at the end,
buyer of lands and builder of game
preserves. 1t is not impossible that
Alaska attracted him because it was a
nursery of canvRs-b back ducks. Rea-
soning from the pleasures of the table
to the pleasures of the State, he con-
ceived the idea OF catching the whole
race of wild ducks in the egg. Being
old and thin of blood, the dream of
warm furs gave him aspirations to-
ward the land of the sen-otter and the
silver fox. And SO, out of this volup-
! tuary worship, he sent, like one of the
old gods, treaty-maker to the Gear,
end fetched seven millions worth OF
the marketing home. Mr.. Seward is
the State purveyor; look back into the
origin OF his name, and you will probR-
bly, find IL TO be SteiUdrd.