The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-11-20

small talker; but found out that such was his
position relatively to the others.
He introduced us to the great lady of his con-
gregation, an Ir1shwoman by birth, married
TO Colonel Drake, The colonel was thorough
American, and saw great deal OF him with
ness in the style of conversation, so much
playful energy In the expressions of these
friend, whom should be proud to name said
to me in London: 1.-The Americans have
very disagreeable way OF talking through
speaking at my table, L am very sorry If an
Engltshman interrupts him, learn something
think, treasurer for the state, and seemed
TO be a popular man and well spoken of by all.
/ went TO his little Office where his two clerks
were writing-seated, indeed, but with the
left leg of each resting upon the desk beside
the inkstand; the right leg of one of them was
tumbling about stool behind him. The gall
liant colonel was swinging himself upon three
or four chairs at once. smoking and splitting
out of the open window. There must be some
thing very attractive in these attitudes; for L
own that by this time and all my boys were
as fond of balancing ourselves upon two or
three chairs as any American of them all. and
nv girls loved the rocking chairs and fans,
Colonel Drake highly approved OF the plan
of travelling that had been recommended to
me, me. he knew an that county and aaS most 40, OF
dealt largely in horses beyond the Mississippi.
He himself, found, had a pair of horses that
them upon me- he offered to show them. / got
into his rough -and-ready and he drove me 10
his house.
We passed from the main street of the town,
which is OF handsome width, with broad pave
ments on each side, and across two or three
other streets diverging from Ii at right angles,
Use OF being handsome But vacancies soon
appeared between the houses in the lines in
which these are hereafter to be completed,
and more and more garden ground was In
closed around each until 1t should be needed
to be built upon. This seems TO be the method
followed in all these American towns. The
plan having been first laid out and the borud-
aries of the township being defined, bull Il gs
dfverge from the core and here and theIs : OF
the line OF the future streets, until they rose
themselves in the forest, the prairie, or the
cultivated land. AS the vacancies on each
side of the streets are filled up, side pavements
them, the center of the street Is paved and
gas and water pipes are laid down. Thus this
tnno OF street, With stems Of other pn streets
shooting off from 1t: but the plan OF the rising
town was definitely settled, and although the
boundaries oftbe township enclosed cultivated
and waste land, like the walls OF Rome, the
scattered buildings already contained q poPu-
lation of 10000 inhabitants:
The residence of Colonel Drake was beyond
the buildings, and stood of on grassy COM
mon bestrewn with giant trees that had been,
apparently, cut down for no other reason than
that the axeman had few hours of spare time.
1t was q very pretty villa, in gay flower gar
den, overshadowed by handsome oak trees.
The interior was nicely and even elegantly fur
nished. We paid our visit to Mrs. Drake, who
was a handsome, ladylike woman, and were
then shown into aDOtner room where a tray
was nicely spread with refreshments for u.s.
The colonel and i went TO look at the horses
"a pair of remarkably pretty iron Rreys-
well bred, three years old anu about fifteen
hands high. thought them rather too slight
and too young for my work, but we harnesSed
them to the rough and ready and drove them
lame-a SpIain or temporary injury, believe,
of which their owner had not known anything
But was fearful Ga starting on my journey
with a Ian horse, and / drove back to the
villa,
Mrs. Drake had very large family, the cid
est of whom, nicely dressed girl of twelve
years old. was, with her brothers and sisters,
playing about the garden and green. None of
them wore shoes or stockings.
The colonel himself was Protestant.
sit is a great advantage to US in this coun-
try" he said 20 me, "that Mrs. Drake is
Catholic. We have never been left quite
"How do you mean ?" L asked.
"She has never been obliged TO cook her own
dinner" he explained.
"What can You mean? / inquired, as much
in the dark as before.
Almost all the helps here, you call them
servants" he said, "are Irish Catholic emf
grants and they have that feeling towards
Mrs. Drake as fellow Catholic that they have
never all left her at once without notice and
without any one to do for her. / assure you
that she is the only lady in this county who
began to doubt whether it might not be
most comfortable TO be located in slave state!
There We're two other very good hotels In
Indianapolis the arrivals at which were regu-
laTiy IN the nSWSpdpeT w nat more
could be done in the most fashionable water
ing place? One of these, opposite to the one
we occupied, was called the "Capital House."
I expressed surprise at the assumption OF the
NAME which implied that IL was the best house
in the town, but was told that Ii was to have
been called the capitol House." but that the
painter had. by mistake, put an a for an o, and
had not yet had time to alter IL, so Capital
House" Il continued to be called.
The weather was very hot, and large qpanu-
room of our hotel. This, as usual, was slightly
partitioned off from the entrance hall, into
papers from ali parts of America. Opened.
Spirits were never drank; / asked the land
lord for little brandy, and he said he would
he charged for 1T, Notwithstanding, in the
bill. The law forbidding the retail Of intoXi-
eating drink prevailed here. And yet, a few
doors from our hotel, Spectator was putting
up spirit shop, which was TO be opened when
the legislature met. The Spectator had cal
sa oht tt oe dnrdns re Sessnn
but that his profits would still leave hand
some balance in his favor. i was glad to hear
that this absurdly tyrannical law was thus TO
be openly defied.
The capitol of Indianapolis-not the capital
inn, but the state house-is q remarkably
architecture. IL processes TO be modelled some-
what after the Parthenon at Athens. The pill
lars. as well as the rest OF the building, are OF
brick, but succeed and painted SO well that
close examination alone can detect the real
material. The churches in the town are also,
rs nave DeIOTb ODStENtu, IuOTt IMAM
large and well built. Domes, spires and towers
have arisen that would do no discredit to any
European capital, and which nobly diversity
| the large plain in which the city stands. In
truth, the situation of the town is excellent
not perhaps a commercial emporium. since
! 1t has no water carriage, but as a residence
and the central seat of government. 1t stands
on a high tableland of good soil-dry and
healthy, and the streets, as they diverge from
! the center, lead to pleasing walks amid
farms and forests that my children admired
much.
1--WE used to separate" writes Louie, "into
two or three parties and explore the neigbbor-
hood. In one of these walks we passed a large
cherry orchard, where the owner was gather
| ing q beautiful harvest of fruit, which he
\ offered TO Us literally. One walk was par
ticular favorite of mine. l went there first
| with my eldest brother and sister. 1t led
| through a beautiful country, and, after follow
| ing for some time the course OF little stream,
| IL Terminated suddenly at a wood and a neat
1 frame cottage Large logs of timber lay
/ around, and, as Kenelm wished TO explore the
| forest for little way, Catherine and sat
down on one OF the logs to await his return
/ A most beautiful bird. of kind which we had
| never seen before, soon perched on tree close
| to us, but the owner came out OF the cottage
| tod htc fxur Ia hn