New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-05-14
"Woodman, spare that tree;
Touch not a single bough;
1t long has sheltered me,
And I'll protect IL now,w

Az" = ~ PtotcCt IL nOW!.
The fellow looked up, and, muttering some
thing, menacingly made toward me seeing
which, l rather rapidly retired toward the
upper edge ofthe bank be- inda tree oflarges,
growth. 81 1919
The 6llSwretsrned b his work Of mis-.
CHIEF; 'and.wlth q faw slurdy strokes, crash
went the tree, and fell lifeless across the
murnuring waters of Rock Creek. brushed
tear from my eye, and retired from the
scene. 1t is in this vicinity that the index
TO some OF the finest touches of Improvement
to the greatest lavish of.wealth points.
Near Rock Creek stands Castle Sie,ca,t
or, The Pagoda Of Nerada ; or, as some pipe
stem people would have it, the attractive
residence of Senator Stewart
because it invariably attracts but is almost
asinvariably criticised, because our American
eyes are, as yet, unused to its style of archi-
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When we get erected few more such resi-
denees here, as we surely will, and our styles
OF architecture become, as they should, more
varied. the claims of this mansion to beauty
Will be fully admitted.
1t stands upon the Hottest emnence of our
city, and, for sake Of distinction, 1 denom-
nate it the American Eagle! while, just over
the way, on Connecticut avenue, the British
Lion is building his lair for himself and cubs /:
and not far of the Russian Bear is said to be
digging a hole for his lair also.
And
round in kid gloves, with sword-cane and
eyeglasses, looking out spot in this same
vicinity on which to erect its castle for diplo-
matte aud etiquetical purposes.
This is Vest End, in Washington.
The Waverley Club has had its reception.
Washlngtonians-high authorities here
whose memories go farther back than care
to state, say, that, taking it all in all, this
reception has had no equal except on one
single occasion, and that was strictly pri-
vate.
In the first place the company was the
best to be found here or elsewhere, There
are others who were not there quite as good,
but all who were there were, to the last one,
of the best to be found in colored upperten-
dom. -
Then, again, the hall, (Marini's,) the finest
in Washington, and used only by the highest
classes here-a place where nothing common
or unclean is ever permitted to enter,-this
magnificent temple, dedicated to the Muse
alone-was the place selected for the occa-
sion.
And, then, there was the superb most
superb alfair-wholly satisfying to the most
epicurean tastes.
The music was of an order SO high as to
be little known, and less understood among
ordinary mortals of any color yet the dane
ing, which is a fair index to the style of the
guests, was in perfect accord with the music.
But you desire to know whoswas the "belle"
of the evening. That is question no man,
who was present, can answer. Such was the
richness and elegance of the ladies' attire :;
and so uniform, though varied, was that
elegance; and SO charming looked they all !;
and so generally did they captivate; and so
general were the attentions of the gentle
men, literally forced on them by the sparkle
OF wit and brilliancy of the ladies', every one,
that all'became bellies on the one hand, and
all became beruX on the other.
Had our Grants, Shermans, Blairs, Free
linghuysens, Barns, Stocktons, Stewards,
Conklins, Fishes, with their retinue of fash
ionable retaners, headed by Mrs. Dahlgren,
and Lady Thornton, been substituted for the
evening they could not, for department,
elegance, ease. and charming manners, have
added any lustre to the occasion that the
guest of the Waverley Club did not The
gay side Of Baltimore, pride Of our Maryland,
did itself credit in the part it played on this
occasion. Its beauty and loneliness were
decidedly conspicuous and overwhelming.
More anon.
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