National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-06

the artists VINO play and sing, the painters and
poets, the money kings and the politicians are all
discussed. Dear George Arnold. may his memcry
ever be green was one Of the best Of these, and
was while around such a table as We have de
scrihed that be wrote the following:
With my beer,
while golden moments fit;
Alas!
They pass
Unheeded by:
And. as they fly,
Being dry,
SIT, idly slipping here
Ny beer.
Than fame or riches are
The graceful smoke Wreaths Of this free cigar
Why
Should
Weep, vail or sigh?
What if luck has passed me byP
What if my hopes are dead
My pleasures fed?
Have not still
nf right good cheer
Cigars and beer?
Go, whining youth,
Go weep and wall,
Sigh and grow pale,
Weave melancholy rhymes
On the old times,
Whose Joys, like shadowy ghosts. appear.
Gold is dross-
Love is loss
So, il gulp my SORROWS down,
Or see them drown,
In foamy draughts of old nut brown,
Then do i wear the crown,
Without the cross!
Actors and Spiritualism.
When Mr.. Charles Pope was in Washington
this season, paying US a most welcome profess
sionsl visit, we had q conversation with him on
matters german to the drama, which was printed
IN Tn N nd vii M
Joseph Jefferson, Mr.. Pope said 4 good deal we
did not print This omission was an about Mr.
Jeferson's deep-seated convictions TO the truth
Of SpirituAliSm. Mr. jefferson not only entertains
belief in the doctrine OF Immortality but he has
profound belief in the power Of spirits and of
living men to communicate with each other
When questioned as to his belief, Mr.. Pope said
he was almost an extremist on the other side.
He gravcly doubted future existence. and If he
had anything like even vague belief in Il 1t was
wholly underlined. Mr.. Pope lett Washington,
and when he reached New York he visited Foster,
the celebrated medium, in company with Mrs.
Durham, of the St. Louis Republican, and one
or two other friends. The following is from Mrs.
BuTnha ms letter giving account of the result:
Conversation was very merry for a few minutes,
turned pale and dropped his cigar, saying: THAT
man has called mp the spirit Of drowned man
who has come directly in here to us, and is hover
Mr.. Pope smiled and said he couldn't call to
mind any drowned friend of his. The man in the
front room continued to write, when Foster
/ will" He went hurriedly into the front parlOr;
sat down: held out his hands 10 the thoroughly
startled gentlemen, and continued:
1 am GeOTge-George ". Hudsol-who wants
TO say 20 you, Henry-yOur name is Henry Gage,
is It nOt?" The man bowed. "He wants to say
TO you that Freddy will get we'll, but the homeo-
a homeopathic physician now, Mr.. eager" Mr..
Gage bowed again. George is a tall spirit,
with flowing beard-he is quite lame"
MIR. Gage was mystifed; he asked: "WuI
George tell me how he became lame and when he
died." Poster turned as if 70 listen to the in;
write through me r. Thea spgtchl1g up his pen
Gil he wrote;
"Iwas wounded in the knee by the bursting Of
q: toy cannon whom Henry and 1 were boys, and
ago, which vas the truth. Mr.. Foster then pro-
duced the initials Of several parties called for on
ms arm in writing letters very distinct and blood
red.
To witness the last phenomena we all closed in
around the table, when Foster took up the papers
hitherto untouched, that were folded on the
CHASTITY pallor oVerspread the extremely hOrid
lace Of the medium. "Why, Pope" he says,
though this gentleman has called this spirit
here, he comes as much to you as to him; his
name is Asa, he's a slim gentleman with high,
prominent nose; he was drowned in Biddiford
pool" Good God, !" 1 CIRCULATED, "Mr. Pope, its
Asa Smith, Marks brother" Then finding the
assembled shades were friends OF the whole
party. we made family affair Of 1t and sat
down. The whole interview was entirely salts
and said. People 1t was impossible for Foster to
have ever seen or heard Of were described as they
appeared, wearing the earth forms through their
long sojOurn in splrit-lRnd. female relative or
Mr.. Pope, long dead, told him of her constant
watch over his affairs; told him how she and an
aunt OF his, died while he was yet boy, had
tried to make themselves manifest to him in a
11. .''tu which he had taken long time ago.
Mr.. Pope has the picture, photograph with
two female figures mistily seen i'd the pack-
ground, whose Identity he had never made out.
They also called to his mind the occasion Of an.
other visit they paid him. when up in the mines Of
California be was stricken with the fever. Mr..
Pope asked this aunt If she would tell him thu
name Of the party TO whose faithful attention he
owed his llGe-as a last resort-and Foster imme-
diately wrote: Her daughter is entering your
theatre at this moment, out in st. Louis, and the
lady herselGi is in New YORK tonight with her
Every word being correct, for 1t
was Mrs. Agnes Booths mother who took care Of
Pope when sick, and is now with Mrs. Booths
children in this city.
AS the gentlemen started off for Booths thea
tire to see the first Of Henry V" he said: "You
can write me down beside Joe Jefferson (Who Is q
dsvout belever), for l never had such strange
and unaccOuntable demonstrations Of this me-
diumistic business brought to me before, and
am utterly confounded by it."