Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-28
Washington as he was

The Centennial year islikely to be intro
duced to the true George Washington.
Through combined transformation and
deliberate art and artifice the moon
faced old granny painted By Staurt has
come to be accepted by the whole civil.
lied world. America included, rs the
only faithful likeness of the Father Of
His County Everybody is familiar
with that venerable counterfeit, and 1t
will be hard for many to turn its face TO
the wall and put another although trueI
portrait, above it. But the truth must
prevail, and to this end Colonel Sherwin
McRae will. at an early day, publish a
a paper to show that the Houdon statue,
now in the capital of Virginia. is the
only true representation of Washington
as he lived. Much stress has been laid
on a brief paragraph in one of Gouver-
neur Morris letters from Paris, which
has been construed that Morris stood to
Houdon as his model for the statue; but
Colonel NcRae will show that Houdou
not only had taken moulds or casts of
Washington's face, If not of his whole
person, but had actually completed the
statue before Morris arrived in Paris.
The paper will not only be interesting,
but important. and it will be anxiously
awaited by all who desire to know the
great American as he appeared to his
contemporaries.
THE GREELEY HOMESTEAD BURN
ED. - New York, April 18th. The
house i'll the woods at Chappaqua, for
merly occupied by Mr.. Greeley, was
totally destroyed by fire last evening.
The building had been unOccupied and
unfinished some years, and was be-
ing placed i'll repair for Colonel and
Mrs. Smith, who intended to reside
there during the summer. The cot
tage was for nearly twenty years the
country home of Horace Greeley. In
his Recollections of Busy Life " he
wrote OF it as follows: "In the little
dell or glen through which my brook
emerges from the wood wherein it has
brawled down the hill to dance across
a gentle slope to the swamp below, is
the spring-pure as crystal, never-fail-
ing, cold as you could wish it for drink
in the hottest day, and so thoroughly
shaded and sheltered that am conf
dent it was never warm and never
frozen over. Many springs on my
farm are excellent, but this is peerless.
1t determined the location of my house
which stands on a little plateau or
bench of level ground half way down
the hill, some twenty rods north of
and forty feet higher than itself. /
never saw sweeter spot than was the |
little plat of grass which my house |
has supplanted, with tall woods all !
around, and a thrifty growth of young
hemlock starting thickly just west and |
south of it. do not regard this as |
.judicious location; it is too much |
shaded and shut in; it is too damp for |
health IN wet time; it tempts the |
chimney to smoke, especially when
the atmosphere is so heavy that the |
wind beats down over the wooded hill |
that rises directly on the north and
east; but the hottest day is cool here. |
Dust is unknown, and no rumble from |
any highway disturbs meditation or
piques curiosity. My house is not |
erected, small, slight |
and wooden, it has at length been al
most deserted for one recently pur-
chased and refitted on the edge of the |
village, just where my private road
cmerges from the farm, on its way tc |
the station; but the cottage in the
woods is still my house, where my |
books remain, where 1 mean to gar
ner my treasures, and wherein pro-
pose to be at home to my friends at |
stated seasons, and mot at home to
any one when / address myself to |
work, and especially to the consum- |
nation of yet unaired literary pro-
iect.H There is reason to apprehend |
that several rare books and documents |
were in the house and destroyed by |
he flames.