The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-02-24

bic 70 the Northl bis chin sunk OF
his braast again. and he sat rejecting
Might one ask the nature of thu
dream, sir aid the Attorney General
We'll repiied the President without
lifting hin head or changing his attitude
I IN On . crest. broad, rolling river;
and / I'm ina boei-snd ! drit and
drift-blt thn il not business, sudden
ly raising bis tace snd looking around
the table "a Mr. Stanton entered. Let
M proceed to business, gentlemen Mr..
Stanton and the Attorney General said,
a. they walked On together, it would be
curious to notice whether anything En-
sued ON this, and they agreed to notice.
BE Was shot that night.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
On his birthday. the 7th Of February,
Dickens had an interview With Presl-
dent Andrew johnson. "Thisscram-
bling scribblement is resumed this
morning, because / have just seen the
President, who had sent 10 me very
courteously asking me TO make my
own appointment. He is Q man with
. remarkable tsce, indicating courage,
wstcbfulness, asd. certainly, strength
of purpose 1t is q face Of the Web
ster type, but without the bounce" OF
Webster's lace. would have picked
him out anywhere as character Of
mark. Figure rather s,outish tor an
American; q triae under the middle
size; hands clasped in front OF him ;
manner suppressed. guarded, anxious
Each OF rs looked at the other very
hard II was in bis
own cabinet that ! saw him. As /
came away Thornton drove up In q
sleigh, turned out for state occasion
to deliver his credentials. There was
to be q Cabinet council st twelve The
room was very much like q London
clubs withdrawing room. On the
walls tao engravsrgs osly-one OF his
own portrait and one OF LincoIns. =
In the outer room was Sit
ting q certain sunburp ed General Blair,
with many evidences OF the war upon
him. He got up to shake hands with
me, and then ! found that he had been
out on the prairie With me FIVE and
twenty years ago.
The papers having referred to nv
birthday falling upon to-day. my room
is filed with most exquisite flowers
They came pouring in from all sorts OF
prople, at breakfast time. The audi
ences here are very fine. So ready to
laugh or cry, and doing both so freely
that you would suppose Them to be
Manchester sbillings. rather than
Washington half sovereigrs."
RALTIMoEE-THE NEGROES.
Thus all was sunshine and cheerful
meas in Washington-tbe novelist writ
ing in his merrlest mood, notwi,hstsnd-
ing his illness. About this time the
terrible step wss taken OF avoiding Chi
csgo, a circumstance that led to some
sugry comment 81 the time; stories
floating into PRINT that be had sister
or some such relative living N the
western metropolis in indulgence, and that
he was ashamed 10 visit the city IN
consequence; but we learn now tbs,
wretched health was the only reason.
THE worst OF it is" be writes, that
everybody one advises with has mon
Omaha about Chicago. Good hesv-
eus, sir,' the great Philadelphia author-
ity said 10 me this morning, ii you
don't read in Chicago the people will
20 into fts.' Well ] answered, i
would rather they went into fits than |
did : but be did not seem to see 1t at
all" Baltimore, although as isr south
as Vslentis in Spain, aud generally Of
q sunny nature even in wintry
times welcomes the novelist with snow
storm. "Thes are very handsome wo-
men," be Gays Of the Baltimore ladies
with Sd Eastern touch in them, and
dress brilliantly. ! have rarely seen
30 fine sn audience. They are bright
responsive people" And again, be
fiuds il very sppreheusive, Impuls've
audience" Here We have q little
touch OF political Observation, not with
out interest, concerning the ntg-o and
The South. 1T is remarkable, writes
Mr.. Dickens from Baltimore, now the
ghost OF slavery haunts the town, and
how the shsmbling, untidy, evssive
and postponing irrepresslbie proceed.
about his rree work. gong round and
round il instead OF At II. The melsn.
choly absurdity of giving these people
votee-st any rate, 81 present-wouIc
glare at one out OF every roll o. the eye
chuckle in their mouths and bump N
their eads, if one did not zee. as one
cannot help seeing in this copn'
try, that their entranchlsemsnt ls Q
mere party trick to catch votes u
strongly believe" be adds elsewhere
"thst they (the negroes) will die ont Of
this ceuntryifast 1t seems, 10 look 81
them, 90 maDiiestly absurd TO suppose
il possible that they can even hold thel'
own against restless, shlfty, striving
stronger race.
PHILADELPHIA.
There are few notes about the visitito
Philsdelphls, except that he WAS wei
coined with cold, Irosty weather, and
was pleased with his hotel. Every
thing is very good, every waiter Is
German" &c. The town ,s very clean
AID the CAV as light and b,ue a. 8 fne
Italian day" Mr.. Forster again Inc
forms rs that while the tone OF party
politics still impressed Dickens un-
isvsrabIy, he had noticed great changes
and Improvements socsiiy so lar
have hsd no more Intrusion or boredom
than l have wh.n ! lead the same lite
il England.
PUBLIC RECOGNITION.
On one occasion he writes: i have
now read in New York to 10000 peo-
Il. ,.A am ouite as we'll known in tht