The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-03-08

who bids ns 10 proceed TO the gallery of the
Senate. where he will speedily Join us. The
lobby outside the gallery OF the Senate is
already dotted with Intending admission seek
ers, prominent among whom I noticed to NE
new class-:he lady correspondent of pIo.
vincial Journals. Nothing Is about them OF
the conventional blue spectacles, scant hair,
prominent teeth aud general hideons appear
ance, 30 dear 10 the comic draughtsman.
Most of Them are young and many
of them are pretty, by no means
disdainiDg capillary attractions and charm
OF dress. But their prevailing char
acterisIlc is the Intense air OF business
mlstaklng u.s." they seem to say, ''for our
frivolous, glddy sisters. Look at our note
books, which we pertlnaciously display. Look
at our pencils. We are the muses. OF history,
and our family name is Clio" Some OF the
muses. aDd good many of the bystanders
seem to be in doubt es to their tickets OF ad-
mission, and, when the sergeant-at.arms ap-
pears, a dead set Is made at him, which be
avoids With consummate skill, giving orders
to the janitor for our admission and vanishing
Immediately. Our Joy at this distinction is,
however, but short lived, for we have little
more than taken our seats in the front row OIL
the gallery than the Senate goes Into execu-
tive session, at which no strangers are al
lowed to be present, and we are incontinent-
ly relegated to the outside lobby again. Dur
leg the short time OF our absence the crowd
here has considerably Increased. Men are
fitling about bearing red and white tickets,
and worrying the doorkeepers with questions.
Before the entrance to the gallery set apart
for persons connected with the diplo matlc
circle little knot of ladies ls gathered, 10 one
of whom. emnently aristocratic and genial
looking, am shown Mrs. Hamilton Fish.
WHO IS THIS THAT CoMETE
not with banner and with priest, as Tennyson
has II, but with composite manner. 10 Wnlcn
The gravity of the business man strives With
the JUNCTION OF the bon vivant and the humor
OF the raconteur-a man OF middle helght,
with his bald head firmly implanted on his
broad shoulders. with but lilIie interval OF
neck-a man of small and Lwinkling eyes I'M
bedded behind high cheek bones, we'll cut
nose, great, sweeping mustache and q curl
ing Imperial, both p!easant-his we'll cut,
closely. fitting suit of clothes is the dress OF an
English country gentleman, but his head is
tho head OF an old French marshal. Put on
him shake and he would pass lor Pelisser
or for old Bugeaud, of whom the Chasseurs
d'Afriqne used TO sing:
As-tu vula casqnette. la casqueite,
As.tu w Ia casquette du Peie BugeaudS
He could sing 1t himself too, and in accents
that would do your ear good. Flr this ls the
famous Sam Ward, one Of The. finest llnguists,
cleverest classical scholars and men ol widest
reading on this Continent, who has seen life
enough to furnish material for g dozen novels.
and who ID not merely
TIE KING OF TIE LOBBY,
but the prince of good fellows. What freak Of
nature threw S. w. into this age and into this
country, He would have been thoroughly
happy under the Roman empire, when Hor-
ace would have been charmed with his wilt
and Apiclus would have enyled him his skiil
in ordering dinner. Somehow one can never
think of Sam Ward and the s.ern simplicity OF
the republic as going together 10 unison.
There, too, hurrying along under the pressure
of business, but finding time for peasan!
chat, Is another Washington celebrity, Mr..
Ben Perley Poore, an ex-mililia officer, gov
ernment official and press man OF many
years standing. Mr.. PUore has had vast oppor-
tuniiies of seeing lie and his experiences
furnish him with a fund of anecdote. He tells
us now that, as chairman oil The press portlon
of The Inauguration ball commiltcp, he has
been beseL by importunitles from 'he
LADY CORRESPONDENTS OF THE PROVINCIAL
PAPERS,
each claiming precedence. l 1ventured to re-
mind him of the admirable tactics pursued oy
Mr.. Lumley, the manager of her Malesly's
Theatre In London. when the famous Par DO
Qudtre, In which danced Tagliopi, Fanny
Els,Ier, Cerito and Lucille GRAIN, WAS abou!
10 he rthearsed. A contest as 10 when shoulo
lead of the dance reigned among these queens
OF the ballet, and finally Mr.. Lumiey was ap'
pealed 10. Ladies'" said the asiute mana
ger, "Lnere Is an easy way OF settling lhls
little dispute. Let The oldest among you star
trst.n and then The difficulty was to see who
should lead off, But The executive session IL
over. IDMUND YATES.