The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-03-23

dressed IN plain black velvet, rare lace at throat
and with diamond pin and rings. She is
studiously careful to talk to each visitor, as far
as human endurance will achieve such a hercu-
lean task. To-day there is yet a great deal of
excitement over the silver bill and the buzz
s. remonetiZation'' and ruin" is heard even
in the parlors of the Secretary Of the Treasury.
Among the guests we meet here are Mrs Sher-
man, wife of the General of the Army, and
daughter of the late Senator Tom Ewing of
Ohio-with the General, who enjoys Washington
perhaps as well as any man in it, though be
did have conscientious scruples about living
here when he supposed the next Presidential
candidate would be from the West, and went
to St. Louis, o.,-rather too far, as the nominee
was from Ohio.
Entering with wife and daughter is Senator
Voorhees,, the successor of Oliver P. Morton of
Indiana. We can conceive of no greater con-
trast than between those two Senators from
Indiana-one a cripple, with p~aralyzed limbs,
but doubtlully supported by crutch and cane,
dark eyes, swarthy complexion and massive
head, Of the Caesar type, his face SCARED with
pain, and the yet deeper lines of party strife
and leadership. Mr.. Voorhees, is tall, broad
and observably handsome. His light, abundant
chestnut hair would make him noticed every
where his pet name among his colleagues is
the "Tall Sycamore of the Wabash He has
not toiled slowly up to Senatorial honors, but
by his great speech on the Silver Bill sprung to
the top-round of the ladder. His wife and
daughter are welcome back to Washington.
They are ladylike, refined, and agreeable.
Just as we are leaving | took pleasure in in
Producing my friends to Mrs. DR.. Linderman-
wife of the Director of the Mint. Mrs. Under
man is allowed to be one of the most beautiful
women in Washington. Her dark eyes are of won
drous ~lustre, but if you would see them sparkle
just praise-as L most cordially can-her hus-
band. He is a conscientious worker in his
official duties, and his new book, Money is
taken as authority upon the intricate questions
it discourses. A square below on K. street we
find the modest old-style house of the Secretary
of War, George w. McCrary. Mr.. McCrary
was a prominent member of the House for
years. His wife is a quiet home body, and
makes an agreeable impression on strangers.
We note with pride that though our cabinet
officers are called often so unexpectedly to their
high positions, it is very seldom we have reason
to blush for their wives. Mrs. McCrary is a
woman if you met out you would not remember,
perhaps not note, but seeing her at home with
her children, her birds, her books and her flowers,
she would at once please; she dresses in ma
tural tinted silks and modest ornament. Among
her visitors are many western people, who seem
to be devoted to the Secretary, and that is
doubtless the reason why the little body seems
so full of good intent to all the world. s. No.
10, Lafayette Square," we say to ~Phillip-(our
coachman)-as we again enter the carriage.
"No 10" is the house of the Secretary of the
NAVY, hlCudTu w 1HODD6OQ, anu Is q mansion
OF many histories. Here lived Gen. Daniel Sick
les, and from a certain window was waved the
death signal of Philip Barton Key. To this
house Schuyler COlfax brought, with smiling
mlen, his envled bride from it he crept away,
minus the respect of men. When we enter,
motherly Mrs. Thompson puts to flight our
memories, and we find many agreeable people, of
but one of whom L will tell you, while we take
together a fragrant cup of tea, from cups that,
in this day of passion for fine china, may excite
a feeling of cOvetousness. 1t is Mrs. Frances
Hodgson Burnett, the author of "Tha Lass o.
Lowrie's," and many other much-read novels.
She is of English birth, but in childhood came
TO America. She is one of the most dramatic and
volubie of conversationalists. In her book of
" Dolly she was the veritable dolly" and
/" Vagabondia" was her home. We do not even
catch a glimpse of Secretary Thomson. I" Finish
ing his new lecture, my dear" "Ah, yes, we
know, we sagaciously reply, for We have seen
that he Is going to give a learned lecture on
IS Moses and the Red Sea- or something of
such nature. Now we must go to the former
mansion of Madame n. Scott Laughton, who
has SO recently lost her young husband, far
from home in Algiers, where she had taken him
in vain search for health. Her beautiful home
is occupied by Carl Schurz, Secretary of the
Interior. MIR. Schurz's family consists of two
young ladies, and a b~aby-boy two years old,
which the mother left two years ago, an infant
charge to her young daughter. These young
ladies accept gracefully the responsible situation
of head OF the Secretary's house. They have been
carefully educated in the best German manner
which includes more than the French or Ameri-
can educational schedule. At the Ebbitt House
we find Mrs. Key, wife of the Postmaster Gen
eral, assisted by Mrs. Tyner, wife of the Assis-
tant General. Mrs. Key has wisely
left a large family in Tennessee-she is quite
genial, and has a heartiness of manner, called
here " Western" Mrs. Tyner is a pretty blonde,
she was one of the beautiful girls of the
Ireasury,-when she captured Mr.. Tyner, then
a representative. Leaving the Ebbitt House we
stopped a moment to wish 6 bon voyage !" to
Mr.. and Mrs. George Collins Levey, who are just
starting for Paris. 1t may be remembered that
Mr.. Leyey made a short visit to Honolulu, en-
route to San Francisco from Melbourne. He was
commissioner from Australia to our Centennial,
and is also sent In the same capacity to the Paris
Exposition of 1873. He is a man of culture, and
that rara aviS, a genial Englishman. His wife
leaves many friends in her old home, who, on bid
ding her adieu, wished her the great happiness
which she deserves. L then give directions for
Speaker Randalls, Capital Hill. You note We
do not pay our respects to the L" department of
Justice" 1t has no representative here socially,
at least, for Attorney General Charles Devens is
not married, therefore not worthy of note lin
this sheet). In a meek, modest house on Capi-
tai Hill lives the Speaker, Hon. Samuel j. Ran
dali, second only in grade to the President of the
United States. We are sorry he lives here, for
he is not poor, and people Will have their say.
His wife is one of the least assuming women in
the land; she is good as she is fne-looking. His
young daughter is a youthful rendering of her
remarkably handsome father, and is said to in
herit his talent, but through her modest shyness
she is seldom seen. Mrs. Randall is assisted by
her sister and niece, Mrs. and Miss Burnett. Mrs.
Randall and Mrs. Burnett are daughters of Aaron
Ward-long time in Congress from New York.
The death of King Victor Emanuel and Pic
Mono have given opportunity for great ceremo-
mails in the Catholic Churches of Washington,
by reason of the many foreigners of rank
the occasion is improved with much adjoining of
gold lace and nodding plumes.
The marriage of the young King of Spain was
the opportunity of the Spanish Minister and
Nine. Mantilla giving a very regal reception.
While l have not time to even touch upon the
royal splendor of this occasion, l will introduce
you to the host and hostess. Senior Mantilla is a
portly man of good presence, he has a genial
manner of shaking hands, and trying (most inef-
to remember ones name. He is about
sixty years of age, and seems to enter with pleas
IRE INTO our ways-though they must seem Won
lrous loose to the high-bred Don. Nine. Man