Helena weekly herald., 1877-10-18
SENATORIAL WEDDINGS.
The Marriages of Various American Politi-
cians---Carpet-bagger Spencer.
[FrOm the New York Herald, ]

generally spoken of as carpet-baggers, hav
frequently been as romantic as the wedding
of our Generals in the South.
General Ames, after laying down hig
position and brilliant prospects in the army
married Blanche Butler, the beautiful daugh
ter of one of the principal authors and sup
porters of the reconstruction system.
General Powell Clayton, the gamest of tn
game, raised in the region of Wilmington
Delaware, and an engineer in Kansas at tn,
breaking out of the war, married nativ
planters daughter at Helena, Arkansas,
town which he had several times gallant,
defended against Marmaduke, Shelby an(
Price.
Governor Yarmouth, after an extraOrdi
nary career, married a we'll educated ane
accomplished lady at Newark, N. j.
| Governor Chamberlain, of South Carolina
saw the photograph of beautiful girl, tht
daughter of Judge Ingersoll, of Maine She
was at the time clerk in the Treasury. HI
sent word to the lady that if she was as beau
tiful as the photograph, and was disengaged,
he would like to pay his addresses. Three
| children attest the result.
Senator Ben. Rice, of Arkansas, married
an elegant lady of Kentucky; his successor,
Dorsey, married beautiful woman from his
native Western Reserve, of Ohio.
Senator Fowler, of Tennessee, was at one
time alleged to be enamored of a daughter of
President johnson, and enviOus people say
that her influence secured his vote against her
fathers conviction under impeachment.
Senator Robertson, of North Carolina,
married daughter of his patron and bust
ness partner, Mr.. Caldwell.
Senator Schurz, as is we'll known, married
in England the daughter of wealthy trades.
man in the free city of Hamburg; she died
soon after he passed out of the Senate, and
one of their daughters is soon to be married.
Senator Henderson, of Missouri, married a
daughter of Judge Foote, of Vermont-a
niece of Senator Foote, deceased. She is not
only beautiful, but is one of the ablest cooks
in this country, and has written the best
American cookbook.
Senator DR.. Conover, of Florida, married q
stately looking Philadelphia.
The business of roconstructing Southern
States in person most of these gentlemen have
found trying to their finances as we'll as their
reputation. Yarmouth and Robertson, the
latter native Unionist, are the only men
who have kept any fortune.
Senator Spencer is just recommending life
in the most exposed and distant part of the
country. He has the advantage, however, of
leaving the Senate, after twelve years ser.
vice in it, at the age when most men are
years of age when he took his seat, and he is
the only so-called carpet-bagger who had
twice been elected from Southern State,
and the only Southern Unionist twice elected,
if we except Senator Henry G. Davis, of
West Virginia. 1t is believed also that Mr..
Spencer is the only Roman Catholic by edu-
cation among the carpet-baggers, and, ex-
cepting Senators Bogy and Herman, the only
Catholic in the Senate. He was born at
Watertown, N. Y, which partly accounts
for the warm interest Roscoe Conkling has
taken in him. His father was an army sur
geon at the battle of Lundy's Lane, and as
sisted to dress the wounds of General Scott.
By pleasant coincidence, Miss Nunez was
niece of General Lorlng, who stOrmed the
Belen Gate OF Mexico, under General SCOTS
orders. Spencer's father was cousin of
Ambrose Spencer, of New York, and of Sec
retary of the Navy Spencer, and his aunt
married Garrick Mallory, of the Philadelphia
bar, who was three times married, one of his |
wives having been sister of Judge Strong. |
George E. Spencer went to school in Mon |
real. At the age of % he had made for
une in Iowa, and was Secretary of the Iowa |
Senate. One of the county seats in Iowa is
aamed Spencer, in his honor. BE afterwards
acquired the nucleus of another fortune in
and was Secretary of Territorial
Governor Sanders of Nebraska, now Senator
rom that State. While he was living at
omaha the war broke out, and Gen. Granville
Dodge, who resided at Council Bluffs, invited
lim to be bis chief of staff. He accompanied
Dodge in this capacity through the war in
be advance corps of McPherson's army. An
Union regiment was raised by Spen-
er, and the command given to the Lieut.
>olonel, Ozro Dodd, of Cincinnati, afterward
Democratic member of Congress. Being
;olonel of this regiment, Spencer was ord
red to it at the close of the war, and when
was disbanded at Huntsville he was ap-
ointed Register in Bankruptcy by President
ohnson. This put him in the way of recon-
tructing the State, and sent him to the Senate.
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