Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-01-26
Albert Pike.
AENcrL FTkP.
From the Washington Chronicle.

From the Washington Chronicle.
There is no authority given for the rumor
that Albert Pike is 10 bc elected 10 the
United States Senate ia place Of Powell Clay
ton. Pike lives ia this r.sy, II a! Alexandria,
near by, and is the gre"tcst Na>o;i IL the
world
arthur Macarthur, OF Wisconsin, judge Of
the Supreme C0ur of the District OF Eu!uni-
ba gave NE queer account OF Plke last
summer.
Said he II had heard Of Albert Fix" as
being au Indian, OF Texan ranger, or Souie::
thing.
"He came to our court and stood up there
like Moses or some 81 tie abl.-oo4l"d patci-
urchs. His lour, gray hair in rinslcts fell
down his back and shoulders. lie stood be-
tween six and seven feet high, AID stout IN
proportion, weighing, | should think, three
hundred t. four huHdrcd pounds \ lo' k OF
the trouIcrsmau the poc, aud The lawyer
seemed mixrd IL his face, wlth type CT Somc-
ihing heather and antique.
"iIr Aa,i biz hardanu hanlk r.hirf III lis
fit, cicnchrd into little bail. Eve. au4 "eo:,
he drew this across his uos%, and t'rn ertz q
it in his tst agal;i.
"And ;heu this queer oil wonder rolled ctI
lag and learning, sormn and rapid, rlght On III
be, but his illustrations ahd quotations were
rare and uuu .ual. Was a>jcnl>heu
Macarthur, BY the way, Is 3; great t:rvcnrcl
of book, a;lI m"n He is q native Sco'rhman.
His wlic is IL brirh, little body lroi4, Madison,
and 10th are popular Eere.
Albert Pike is Il man history has stepped
over. There is no man III the world # 81 ul#ny
sides to his character, ard - PLAZA vital. III
wa born at Ncwhurypor', Mas, the son Of a
shoemaker 4 wiiiluI. pOr;lcai spirit took hiul
to Mexico, aud he returned ~ pTck-tran, a.
uulc-driycr rom Chlhuahua to Fort S:ni 4.
Settling down in printing oihcaat I.lt:!e Il ok
he became an cjit"r, lawyer, and ca; .: TIC
Wing party, which he led with uDllI chlug cou-
sisteucy through perpetual min r.ty dow: 10
the civil war, fighting mcaatlme IL The McXi-
can war, and doing The toTcfaincnt business
Of the Chcrokccs. lie beam ,Ici and ccic-
bratcd.
Quarreling with J"if r>on Dav. soon alter
| the rebellion began he Withdrew IRON. toe Goa.
test, aud at the close vas poor. liz removed
to Washington city abGuI the y>ar 1867, apd
opened a law office with Robert Jui.nsao, *
Senator, the nrpncw Of Y ICE p:e,:icn; Johnson
| His hcmc is a. Alexandria, char form ny bu- J
seaport where large houSr wtt!i .ar'ici', stable
and cverycouinrtabe appur'cnaacc o: gas, watci
AID police may be had for ahJu, so noDth,
whereas the tyranny OF fashion makes The anne
style of residence ctst in Washington 500 IA
month. There, with an urDsn,.ly v!"scioua
and intelligent daughter, Pike spvuris lis time
IN Il large library, Continuing perhaps D 'Dt
volumes, elegantly rciouad the collections vt
lifetime. Hi. tas'c for books cx;esdS &c
their covering, and he has passion Tor ce,
CANT printing in cumuion and c'ior"d lax, al
his own volumes on Masonry ADD tl'i'doo Pnli'
osophy being produced 10 this W, rs ':Is ANA
teur Disciples Fine swords, duc"g pistol
which ne has used Oh lhc field, c,iIccion Of
elaborate pipes, which be smokes pretty lpucl!
all the time, and strangc thin4s OF "i:tu. are
parts of his surroundings. Iii, poems have
been collected and r4-i.Sued wi:uIn the past
Two years, and he has wrlt'en series 81 book,
on Masonry, which, quccrIy en"u.h, have car
ricd him from his apparently ll!!ai theme
back to medieval Jewish, and finally SanscrIt
Masonry as ne believes. Not being Mason,
| am ouly aware that, either y poet or Il
scholar, Pike has traced the grrms Of Masonry
beyond the vc>,inulc OF history. He is Il San
scrit scholar and has composed some aG>uu>c
treatise. now uudcra DING publication IN Lon
don, which is spoken CT With expectancy by
hiv frinnls