Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-08-06
NUMBER 45.
End of the Chappaqua Wood Chopping-
Mr.. Greeley's Farewell, &c.


The last wood -chopping matinee" took place
Saturday week, at Mr.. Greeley farm, at Chap
paqua, on which occasion he gave final recep-
tion to his friends At the conclusion of the
lunch Mr.. Greeley said
Ladies and Gentlemen 1t was once remark
ed by one Irish orator of another, that he new
er opened his mouth but he put his foot into it.
One of the ideas In regard to presidential can
dldate Is that he also cannot open his mouth
without accomplishing some such feat They
are always warned by their friends not to talk
although they might talk if they did not say
anything. / would only say word about these
meetings, as this is probably the last meeting
We shall hold in this grove. My delight, friends
and nelghbors, was to spend one day in the
week among you. For twenty years it has been
my delight to spend the Saturdays among you
working around the farm or in the woods, be-
cause L needed physical exercise / have en-
joyed myself in your society, and / have had
the recreation which my physical nature re-
quired in working on my farm. This spring
new series of circumstances arranged themselves
about me quite unexpectedly. l then found that
the friends visiting me here-originally two,
four, six-were growing to forty, fifty, and
sometimes found in consequence OF this that
1t was necessary should dispense with my ex-
ercises.
These reunions thought were very agreea-
BILE to me, but the critical state of my wife's
health, and the ill-natured and, must say, i'm
pertinent remarks and criticisms of certain Jour-
mails have rendered them sources of uneasiness
and discomfort to those who united with US. l
never doubted that persons who assented, as |
do. to become candidates for public offices are
fair subjects of criticism; but cannot see why
ladies should have their names criticised in
newspapers, and drifted across the continent by
electricity. | do not think such comm sntaries,
such impertinent revelations are consistent with
reputable journalism, nor with that courtesy
and good feeling which seems to me to be pre-
sumed whenever one man meets with another.
1t is therefore deemed expedient by our friends
to ask all who could to come here to-day, and
to say that after this our meetings will be in
termitted. | trust they have been to most of
us pleasant occasions to be remembered. What
ever the future may have, the past is faithful.
Friendships of the warmest kind have been
made in these gatherings, and If we could have
been secured against these insolent intrusions,
which were deliberately intended to be unkind
and depreciating, we should have continued our
reunions But since we cannot be secured a.
gainst gossips and tale-bearers, we will discon-
tinue them here and meet elsewhere. [Cheers.
Yes at the White House.
After while it will be nobody's particular
interest and profit to misrepresent what is done
here. The objection made to the speeches of
candidates for the presidency is not what they
shall say as improper or indiscreet, but what
they shall say that liable to Misrepresentation
l was plunged the other evening into gather
ing-a social dinner of college graduates. 1t
would have been easy to make excuses against
going there. | was entreated to speak, and
did so, for three minutes, on the subject of ed
ucation. 1t was at once reported around the
country that | proposed to give the government
the entire control of the education of the
American people. The impression was sent
abroad that | favored the putting within the
sphere of the federal government all matters of
this kind. You will therefore cease your visits
for the next few months then, in November,
the elections will be over and trust that we
shall after that have occasion to meet in this
grove and renew our aspirations OF friendly re-
gard for each other, and hope and pray for
each others long life and prosperity
After the speeches the company separated,
and most of the visitors went down to the de-
pot A Greeley and Brown club was address
ed by the prominent visitors to Chappaqua.
MR.. GREELEY's DAUGHTER.
Miss Ida Greeley, under gipsy hat trimmed
with pale blue ribbon and pink roses, and ar
rayed in white pique gown neatly wrought
with black, to which was added handsomely
embroidered tunc Of black cashmere, extended
pleasant greetings to all the guests. She is a
brunette Of the pale, clear-complexioned type,
has bright dark eyes, full red lips, features very
like her fathers, and an abundance of black
hair. She is quite petite, looks very young,
has all the simplicity of manners that charac-
terizes Horace Greeley, combined with GER
tain elegance and dignity that are as charming
as indescribable. She betrays excellent taste
in her toilet, discarding all such monstrosities
as humps and bunchings and earrings She
was educated at the Convent of the Sacred
Heart, is said to be Catholic, and in company
antly. A gentleman present predicted that she
would be the most popular lady in the White
House since the reign of the accomplished and
elegant Mrs. Polk.