The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-19

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Vas feared ne would have to stop reading alto.
gether. but his VIII overcame all.
DOCTOR NARiGOLD.
There were troubles with speculators, OF which
much Is said that need scarcely DC repeated now.
On one occasion there was . strike among the
ushers because Dolby had taken one of them "t0
task IN the British manner" But, adds Dickens.
'there Is really little to be done ut night Amer
can people are so accustomed to take care OF
themselves that one OF these immense audiences
viii tall into their places with an ease amazing to
a frequenter OF St James Hail." The cold still
annoyed him. "My landlord" he says, referring
20 the Westminster. "invented for me a drink OF
brandy rum ana snow, and called it ROCKY
Mountain sneezer; and 'diG tell you that the
fayorite drink before you get up Is an eye
openerYn The nature OF this latter drink Is not
described, and We fear that his generous hosts.
with their sneezers and eye-openers, were play
ing pranks with the novelist He notes That
Doctor Marieold was tremendous hit' In New
York; that "st the end they made great shout
and gave q rush towards the platform as II they
were going to carry me or 1t puts strong ad-
dltional arrow into my quivcr." The last house
In New York to about $4,000, and the manager,
Dickens adds 'rs always going about with an im-
meuse bundle that looks like sofa cush on but Is
IN reality paper money" "fhe WORK is hard, the
climate Is hard, the life is hard but, so far, the
gain Is eEormous."
IMPRESSIONS OF BROOKLYN.
"Brooklyn, you must understand" writes
Dickens. as kind OF sleeping place for New YORK.
and Is supposed TO be a great place IN money
way" His readings he called ecclesiastical en-
tertainmentsn because they took place IN the
church OF Mr. Bcecher. He found the church "a
wonderful place to speak in" ave had 1t enor-
Trtnn Int
scarcely required an effort. Mr.. Ward Beecher
beng present IN his pew. sent to invite MIN 10
come around before he left. ! found him an unos-
tentatious evidently able, straightforward ana
agreeable man 4; extremely well informed and Win
a good knowledge OF art" After Brooklyn the
tour extended to Washington, and we ind that the
visit to the national capital was subject OF appre-
| hension. "Horace Greeley dned with me last
Saturday" he says, land did not like my going to
| Washington, now inii OF the greatest rowdies ana
worst KIND OF people In the states" so Mr..
Dolby was sent to examine into the moral at
mosphere OF Washington and in few days de-
cided that Mr.. Greeley and "the croakers" were
wrong. "you may ike to have line to let you
know that 1t is all right here" he writes from
| washington, sand that the croakers were simply
ridiculous" Mr.. Forster gives the following inter-
esting details OF this Journey
Asfcporr or LIscoLs ,,,,n ,.,,.,o
detail II the very INTERESTING close Of shi letter is
given its anecdote OF President Lincoln was rs
Ps naer no necessity 10 Withhold from aathory
Sa NJ wno nss sent A To
Ean. my s,,a aS
ohsq guest sSs
r9 sn very WIN 5a
With
he brea,hed his last we fell into very n.e siSg cG
separately the usual dscrepaneies about
me curious little story which WI, form The remainder
o. sy @ wfn
which he presided MI stanton being at me tns
were eoacensrated about here arrived rather Ste In
d: s s F n on sn as n he
and to gn
hat Presdent with air dignity in hs char
S " amd
sGe M he s.V AND
ing the council with the Attorney General said to hm
attended, Or many man, long WHAT
change ia M Lincoln The Attorns' general %r re-
s aai @ HsS hi:
a0; $oa.. Know dens Know but viii hsspeSa;
sna hSa s Attorney ooR hm
vs 70 M & sns the
put have had dream and have now had the same me
battle Of Bun Run once the night bleeding such
aopth lis en sunk on his breast and he
,ns 9s ask hs Of rspa s
PRESIDENT. without hitting his head changing MS att
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rsg s aa ps psoceed n1 bne
@ as11H snss ss
M So, ,ss On s and they agreed to
no''ce ne as sho ts Ias w'. Johnson
hi: n an3sR Dickens as
''This scrambng scribblement is resumed :, this
% as% Who '''asis sen, nas @ @
me s es % a
ness and certainly strength Of purpose Il face Of
@ unas the dae eapea IN
MIN sapp!s::sa guarded anxious; Each Of
own sn cabinet that him AsI came away thornton
dewe Rs n There
g Te was On very , wa M
onlyone Of his own portrait and one Of Lincoln
s9s
a he oa s me-
and twenty years ago ,,,, Ihe papers having re-
With mos: EXQUISITE bowers They pouring from
Al sorts Of peSp a. 10 a or aa sns
both freely that you would suppose them to be Man
reigns"
BALTIMORE--THE NEGROES.
Thus all was sunshine and eheerfuness in Wash.
ington-the novelist writing in his merrest mood,
| Notwithstanding his illness. About this time the
terrible step was taken Of avoiding Chicago-a
circumstance that led to some angry comment at
the time, stories floating into print that he had a
sister or some such relative living in the Western
metropolis in Indulgence, and that he was ashamed
to visit the city in consequence; but We learn now
that wretched health was the only reason. "The
worst OF it ISL he writes "that everybody one ad-
vises with has monomania about Chicago. Good
heavens SIR, the great Philadelphia authority
said to me this morning, III you don't read in
Chicago the people will 20 into fits 'Well,'
answered, Il would rather they went into fits than
did;' but be did not seem to see 1t at aln Balti.
more, although las far south as valentia IN Spanr