The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-03-09


brilliant and classical effort, but we hav e
space emily for the description o the exit
of the party by the name Of johnson.
We quote 7ele-~ssssr.-. zgss-r ~s
SCENES AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
The White House, although generally
nextsto the Capitol the main point of in
terest on inauguration day, had notrtiiat
/ prominence in the ceremonies of this 4th
/ of March that many expected. The
changing of occupants created compare
tive;y, no more commotion of feeling
than is observable in sny first class res
idcrce in your city on the lst Of May.
This was mainly due to the want of sym
| pathy that has existed between the out
| the attempted displacement OF Mr.
Stanton the Ill feeling experienced by
the attempts of President johnson to
convict Gener al Grant of falsehood has
out their peculiar feelings to the end.
Mr.. Johnson's friends have asserted
around Washington that the President
endeavored to conciliate by proposing
that he and the newly elected President
should ride, us is customary, to the Cap
itol together; but there is n otl,ing more
trustworthy in the q. after than these ru-
mors; and it is certain that it would not
only have been out of place, but lower
ing of that dignity General Grant has so
we'll maintained since Mr.. Johnson's in
famous attempts on his character, for
the latter to have made a like PROPOSE
originality which always distinguished
him when he was on the wrong side, and
that obstinacy which did 4 great deal to
ext;nguish him, determined to stay al
home, and stay he did, even fer some
time after ne ceased to la . d .legal ex-
istence as President 9it.s sta e-5a-
Mr.. johnson and his Cabinas le,'4 tie
xecutiye Mansion al to sl.eulss...ses up
to about twelve o'clock. Orders had
/ been issued the evening before that no
one except the Cabinet shc uld be sd
miAei to the grounds AID man sion, ard
they were explicitly enforced by a fore e
of police and a squad of soldiers. under
! the command Of Captain Mckeever.
| The ladies of the Mansion, Mis-. John
son, Mrs. Slower, and Mrs. Patterson,
had all their packing done the day be-
fore, SC that ali their duties were confin-
ed to look after their wearing apparel
and exchanging farewells with their SER
wants A short time before II o'clock
their carriage conveyed them to the
residence of Secretary Wells, on II
street, where they will be guests for a
short time
| The members Of the Cabinet began TO
arrive a little before 10 O'Clock, and
shortly afterward the last Cabinet meet
| ing Of that admin stration convened. 1t
has always been the custom for the out
going President to repair to the Capitol
on the last day of his term and there
sign the bills which Congress in its last
hours SO bountifully sends them. The
custom was disregarded TO day as the
President would not bulge out of his
honse. Consequently the officers of both
| the Houses were kept busy running to
the Executive Mansion, and his Excel
lency's private Secretaries returned the
calls quite often. The Cabinet was not
long in session, and although the exact
nature or extent of the business transac
ted is not known, still it was very evi-
hxyf no Of no 1,or
that the meeting was more for the pur
pose of weeping over the falling Of that
| last refuge, in Mr.. Johnson's estimation
of the Constitution and the flag, than to
| devise means to distribute that sacred
instrument and emblazoned emblem
once more to the people.
| Mr.. Wells was especially noticeah ole.
| He remarked that ae felt dizzy, like an
old tar, who hadn't set Tot on dry land
| for eight years. He didn't think the
| new order O things would be as agree
| able as tue old He aetested Radicalism
in all forms. aud especially when it re
| suited in kicking him out of office. Mr..
Randall. however, tried to comfort him
with the assurance that his case was not
| half as bad as his own. He, Gideon,
was old and well off in the world, AMI
could not expect to live iong in tins vale
of tears; but Randall, hin self, was young
and poor, and scarcely knew what to d.
! to get his bread and butter. Wisconsin
would't tolerate him any longer, and he
| lid not like TO follow in the footsteps OF
Doolitue. and go to New York and join
/ the Tammary list, lest that organization
/ might come to the conclusion that he
would be as big Jonah to them as
he was to the party organized i'll Phiia
| deiphia in 1866. Fred Seward, who