The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-12-08

Wore We quite sure

| To find the peerless friend VINO .e.. w. m,''
| Or there by some celestial stream ~ p,ii''
| To Gaze IN eyes u! It here were lovelit only
| This weary mortal coil, were VIZ quite SUM-
Who would endure!
|
| 1,,c,,-pr NJ SCENE ~ THE IIorSE.-Thc
| washington corrrc> pondcnt of the Brooklyn
| Argus writes: CO
nbens. General =. NJ. Is. Young and Gene
raj Waddcll. Of North Carolina, supported
the brilliant, intense, magnificent tactlcIan q
! other DAYS TO his feet. He took their arms
and dispenscd with the significant cfutchts
,hot had been stacked in front OF his desk.
He stood tight at the beginning OF the middle
,islc of the House. BY fclicitou>ly dramatic
accident or happy design, all the rest OF the
many ext onfedcratcs ranged ina scmi-circle
on either side of their former Nicc-Presl-
| dent. Then the modified oath was taken
nv them with uplitted hands, and as
scented to with an unanimous and qulctly-ele-
| cant bow. There were many magnln-
| ccnt-lookinr men in the company; |
| doubt that any one observed them; the pile.
suffering, distinguished little man III the
middle WAS the cynoSurc of all eyes. ne
was dressed in exquisite black, As IL III
mourning for his country. lnslttinS' ne Liia
wore his hat TO protect him from me drauSnt.
In Standing, he dispensed with It, ana dis
closed an abnornalIy large head, pierced
with intensely black and deep eyes ana cof-
| erred with short, disordcrcd growth OF IRON
gray h.r. When he responded to his name
! the strong soul in him was manifest, for his
clear, sharp. pcnetratin" voice, the echo OF
that soul, wa, heard distinctly all over the
house. The ETHEREAL part OF the .nian Is
rs strong Ia ever. The phi! steal Is Il wreck.
I, was 4 historical scene. lie who Tor
fifteen years before the war had been the
| leader pdy crccNcncc Of the House re-
| turned to subscribe TO the oath administered |
| BY 4 Speaker who WAS never heard OF Wnch |
Stephens left Congress. or three years there |
after, In all the House were but two men !
who had been his congressional contempo- |
rarics-'S,inSet' Cox, then of Ohio, and
John 3. Clarke, then and now Of Missouri. |
who had Il three months Of noorcty hftecn |
wears ago by tlinein: John Slcrnlans en-
dorscment OF Hinton Rowan Helpers In
pcndin. Crisis ut John Sherman'S head,
and thereby defeating him for Speaker.
though Henry Winter Davi>'s single vote
elected William Il. Pennington. jersey |
Republican, to that Office. Well could |
Stephens say he stood dying the solitary |
survivor of many great dead. Gone was
Thad. Stevens. the incarnation of bate
gone was J. K. GiddingS. The Abolition
Isl, whom stephens himself loved: gone |
was the courtly Ex-Governor Briggs, ci New |
York. and the uncouth Mike Walsh +; gone |
WIS the fiery Keith, and gone the fearful ana |
wonderful John CoyOde: zone the eloquent |
Loycjoy and the mellow Mallory: gone Her
schcl V. Johnson; gone BGc0ck, aud 1ulce, |
and EdmondStou, and tlingman, and the !
impctuous Brooks, and Potter, and Rector, |
and Phelps, and Rollins, and Winter Davis, |
and thousand, once statesmen OF either |
rartv, and there was the man on whom |
twenty years ago Death had apparently set |
his seal, survivor of them nj, aud reprcSen- |
t,tivc Of the greatest district Of the Empire !
State Of the south. Background this con- |
tr,~t with the fearful four ycaiS Of intcr>cc- |
lonal throat cutting, and the dramatic facts
OF the occasion stand out, grim with graves |
and lighted by intense cerebral fire
DICKENS NOT AT HIS BEsT.-A writer in |
HurprrS Magazine says: IN the spring OF
the year 1S43 was returning North, after |
spending the winter in Cuba and New Or |
leans. | stopped day or two at Cincinnati |
for the purpose Of visiting IN old college |
friend. Upon my arriving there my friend |
informed me that Mr. Charles Dickens was |
in town, aud was to hold Il leyee or rccer- |
ton at his hotel that morning. He was go
Ing TO it, and asked me to accompany him. |
At that time had the admiration, almost |
hero-wor>hip, for Dickens, which was COM
mon to all young men in this country i'm
mediatcly after the publication Of his earlier |
works. I therefore readily accepted the |
invitation, ana we were soon in the presence |
of the distinguished novelist. There were |
not many persons in the room when we en-
tered, Immediately behind Us followed Il
small English gentleman OF su5dued and
timid manners. MIR. Dickens was standing
in front Of the fireplace, with his coat-tails
under his arms, gorgeously gotten up, and
covered with velvet and jewelry. Mrs. Dick
ems was lounging upon Il sofa ut the further
end of tue room. We were duly presented
bv IN usher, or master Of ceremonies, and
after exchanging few words with the aC-
thor of "Pckwick retired TO give place
to the little Englishman who was behind
US. Upon being introduced this gentleman |
dcfcrentially remarked ~ had the pleasure |
to meet you, Mr.. Dickens, at Mr.. Lovers, !
in -shire, two years ago." Mr.. Dickens |
looked him steadily in the face for Il minute, |
and then answered in loud voice, d" never |
was there in my life" 81 beg your par |
DOM replied his intcrlocutor, overcome |
with confusion, " it was AT such and such |
| season Of the year. and So-and->o was there |
| at the same time" Dir. Dickens again gave |
| him withcriLg look, and, after Il pause,
repeated in Il still more elevated tone,
II tell you, sir, 1 never was there in |
my life HIRE Mrs. Dickens inter.
posed, and, addressing her husband, said, |
"Wby, Charles, you certainly were there, |
and | was there with you. Don't you re-
| member such and such an occurrence Z"
Mr.. Dickens glanced ut her almost tlercely, |
and. advancing step or two, with his right
hand raised, fairly shouted, Il tell you l
never was there in my life" had never
been 50 discnchanted in all my days. The
unfortunate Euglishman withdrew without
another word, aud and my friend retired
disguised. | then, for the first time, reluc-
family unprecedented the fact that man may
be a great author without being II gentle
man.
Perhaps one Of the oldest elections on
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