The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-03-19
"reminiscences Of the Vice President
Elect-His House, Family and Re
ceptions.
Correspondents New York Nail.
WAsHIEGToN. Feb. 25.

Correspondents New York Nail.
o WAsHIEGToE, Feb. 25.
: Every Friday evening until this week
J one was sure Of finding most of th
notable men and women who have con
\ gregated in Washington this Sinter a
= one hour or another, at the house o
: the Vice President elect in Lafayett,
place.
The fact of this being and having
been for so long a time the Speaker o
the House of Representatives, and fur
cher, the fact of his being one of the
! most popular men in the country, al
, helped to make these reunions the
most remarkable of the kind held in
Washington this winter. Mr.. Colfax
has always been one of the most
amiable and gentle hearted of men.
No one looking into his face can doubt
that For that face, naturally plain, is
made beautiful by the look of goodness
and unselish cdeerfulness which in
forms it. If you we're to put that ex-
preston into words it would surely be (:
"Peace on earth and good will toward
men," l don't remember any other
face which has always 50 closely brought
this passage into my mind.
But Mr.. Colfax, though an amiable
man, has not always been a happy one.
For years a cloud hung around his
home-life, caused by the long and pain
full illness of his first wife. She was a
constant sufferer for years. His mind
was in 8 continual state of anxiety aud
depression about her, and the social
impulses of genial nature were held
in check, and life was but a work-day
for him. He would have loved to
gather his friends about him, but while
there was a dsrkened room in his
house, and pale patient woman vast
ing away in it. that could not be. At
last the cloud gathered to the darkest
and she died, and for some time it did
seem as if that shadow on the hearth
would darken his life forever. But the
sun was behind the cloud and it shone
out by and by. God had reserved an
other woman to bring back the lost
brightness of early days to his life. No
person who sees how gentle her bright
brown eyes are, and how womauly are
all her ways, can have any doubt but
that she is the right person in the right |
place. Certainly not, if they look into |
the face Of her husband as he stands /
beside her. You get the conviction at
once that he is happy 81 am happy"
he said, some time ago, at a public |
meeting. People did not know to what
he alluded, and supposed it was salts
faction at the result of the election.
But out of the fulness of the heart the
mouth speaketh. If Schuyler CoIfax's
election had come to him two years ago,
he would have been just the same
kind, amisble man he has ever been
both to the public and his private
friends, but he would not have said,
With that cherry voice, and that bright
look in his eyes, and that gentle flush
upon his face, 81 am happy"
The house in Lafayette place has
nothing remarkable about it In New
York, where everybody of a certain
rank in society is doomed TO live in
brown stone front with "high stoop,"
IS the GOthsmites call it and on the
ACE of it precisely ike thousands of
'ther houses, this plain two-story brick
house, with it's steps going up the side,
would be considered very plebian. In
ide, it is comfortably furBished-but
lot spacious. There is a good.sizsd
'estibule from which you pass up to
he bed rooms, two of which are used
or cloak rooms when there are recep-
ions. When you come down you pass
nto the first drawing room, and there
lear the door, stand Mr.. and Mrs Col
AK. She, very often dressed in white. j
oming up high about the throat, with
rose in her corsage and no ornaments s
4 her dark hair, but looking so pleasant a
nd good that you could not help
linking she was better without them. B
certainly must be something of an il
rdesl to stand on one figure in the a
arPet from eight to twelve o'clock. and g
mile at every new conner as if you had Z
special interest in them, aud give n
lem your hand in as fresh manner n
if you hadn't already had all feel T,
lgs, except pain, shaken out of it; but r,
IL and Mrs. COlfax go through this L
ial better than any one 1 have seen
Washington this winter. Mutual u
appiness is, of course, a wonderful "
mic. People used to pass from Mr.. b
I'd Mrs, Colfax to Mrs. and Miss Math- Il
, who stood little further on; and "
hen you had seen Mr.. Colfax's mother. T
"a would know where he got his good, CT
niable expression of face-in him b,
bered down BY the strength and gravi- N
that comes with years. There is a d.
cond drawing-room into which the th
omenaders pass, and this is the whole fl
it of rooms Back Of them runs a ia
lg gallery, extemporized into a con- II
rVatory, and into which the rooms ca
en-. Such is the residence of the Vice en-
'esident elect. A motley stream of tn
'itors pours in every Friday evening. bo
IhtarY men, members of Congress, ST.
Wspaper men, the lady advocates Of at
'man's' rights and woman suffrage,
thors and authoresses, and that class be
people who think it is the end and tic
n of life to be nothing, and do moth ON
! except to dress and go into society tir
small class here, thank
aVen.
Plenty Of handsome women in hand
ne dFesses-but the most of them a ms
le overdressed-for this is the failing res
American women generally. You bu
'w it was the fashion this winter for wit
les to go about very deeoRete. Well, gu'
). Colfax adopted the style which is fail
the reverse Of that, and many ladies mes
o had no scruples were shamed by tvs
example into putting on decently eau
b dress in which to attend Mr.. Col emu
S evening receptions-for you know bus
? are really kis-and Mrs. CoIfax ma
her own special receptions during foul
day on Wednesday. it il
ONT CoRN-We were shown yes cley
ay, says an exchange, three stalks maj
bis new kind of corn the product of ly G
bill, upon which there were twenty mis-
t ears, well filed and each one per adv
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