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have been equal attractions and embarrass-
ments to q prospective son-in-law. -

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TrnIE FATHER bF THE DuELLIsTs SECOND.
- Henry May, another brother OH Dr., May,
died in Baltimore in 1866, and had beenthe
recipient Of fair publicity and practice ,at
Washington, where, he was q peer g! t9e
played d-out pro-slavery practitioners Mer-
ricIs, Phil. ,Keys Joseph BRADLEY, ssesi :Ha
was so saucy to q judge on one occasion that
he was disbarred, and went over fatBaits.
more to settle, where he speedily re&ppeared
as the Union Conservative, or what Was
called the -Dough-face, candidate for Cons
gress against Henry Winter Davis, after the
riots of 1851 Davis, ,wass bora, II thiak,;in
Alexandria, where Henry Mays mother came
from. and thence came Thomas Swami
three Of the prominent Whig politicians in
Baltimore, while John P. Kennedy, also a
native OF Virginia, was ,Maryland's Union
senator. Davis made magnificent though
hopeless campaign against May, as Davis
advocated war rights for the Union at that
premature period, and thus stigmatized his
adversary as Of 8Ea ..t,.I1i.sfI3At
g THAT wretched class OF middlemen, men
who are ,scessionists with Union proeliRls
ties. or Unionists with secession procliyi-
ties: men who are for the Union and against
coercion; who are opposed to the Union
and equally opposed to having it. main-
tanned: who think the Government ought
to assert its authority. il men will submit to
1t, but il not, that it ought to submit to
them." -, -
May received 1856 votes to Davis's 6, 6,2s7.
But Davis had mounted the wave OF ;reyO-
luton and was unscrupnlous as Bonaparte.
Henry May was arrested, with Marshal Kane
and many others, and put in custodya a
new constitution was made for Maryland,
and Henry May only lived to witness the
complete defeat OF the southern govern
ernment. Amongst Mays, defeated asplra-
tions was an individual attempt to conclude
peace at Richmond between the Union and
the Davis government. 1t is Henry Nays
son who is said to be Fred. Mays second.
A sister Of the above May brothers is mar
ried to commander in our navy.
DRAMATIC AND ROMANTIC.
The block where Miss Mays childhood
and girlhood were passed is the same where
Thomas Fl. Benton lived and wrote, and
where Jessie Benton. ran away with young
Fremont, q compeer OF Julian and Charles
May in the army. Two or three doors from
the MAY house is the brick dwelling OF the
Key family, where Francis Scott Key, all-
thor Of "The Star-Spangled Banner" "liyed.
His son, Daniel, fought duel with o, man
named Sherburne across the Eastern branch,
aud was killed and brought to this
house-No. 321 formerly, as Mays dwell
ing was No. 312. From the same house
Philip Barton Key was buried, amidst i'm
mense excitement, after General Sickles
killed him. AS this happened eighteen years
ago the present young generation Of Mays
must remember it amongst their childish
recollections Of C street. Mrs. George Fl.
Pendleton's residence here before marriage
will suggest Mr.. Pendleton's relation to the
unfortunate s-Marsh-Belknap case.
In the same house as lodging Sam Colt,
the firearms maker, used all sorts Of social
and lobby influences, male and female, to
have his patents extended.
In the same block, at No. 455, long re-
sided the beautiful Florida White, sister OF
Mrs. Peasants, whose connection, q Rich
mond editor, was killed i'll duel by the
Younger Ritchie. In The same block OF c
street DR.. Bailey resided when he published
"Uncle Toms Cabin Tin his National Era
and was mobbed by the Maryland rabble.
Edward Bouligny, a celebrated duellist,
married his beautiful wife, Miss Parker, in
the same block just before the war. Time
passes on, and Mrs. BoulignY is just now
about to wed an official gentleman from
Australia. In short, beauty in official cir
cles is very dramatically surrounded.