Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-04-25
LETTER FROM BLUCHER.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN April %.

back over nearly half century of time, to
some balmy summer mornings when | used
to see an attenuated form, slightly bent with
age, pacing the bright brick pavements, shaded
| by Alanthus and Silver Naples on one of the
main streets of the Quaker city. can recall
the small features and sharp outlines of the
profile; the pure white hair tied with a black
ribbon; the straight brlInmed, low crowned
hat tilted slightly back ward; the broad skrted
| black coat, knee breeches with silver buckles,
black silk stockings and bucllled shoes, and
the long staff with which he steadied his feeble
steps | can recall also funeral procession,
which embraced nearly every private carriage
of the the city, i'll which clergymcn OF all de
nominations; and people of all creeds and
natjona!ities united; the longest and perhaps
| he most earnest the city ever till Lin
cJln's remains passed Through, 1t WAS day
of universal mourning, for a good man had
fallen; the remains of William White, first
| Bishop of Pennsylvania, chaplain of the first
Congress after the renegade Duche; the friend
and pastor of Washington; the christian pat
riot and sage, were being borne to their final
rest, and ''lll Israel mourned for him. -"
! Bishop White Was the second Episcopal
Bishop in the United States, Seabury, of
New Jersey. being, | think, the first, and
both were ordained in England Bishop
White was rector till his death, of Christ
Church, stiN standing on Second Street above
Market, where Washington worsnlpped. The
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served in the -'denorial Building" | have
sat III it many time, and in the old church
too, and called up the form of thu venerable
| Bishop, as | remembered it, and the sober
face of Washington as he Sat III that low
backed pew which stood iii front row on the
moth side near the chancei. That was in days
over which old sexegenariaus ike myself
NOUN as over first born. There We're no
steamers ploughing the ocean thea; no nerves
OF iron uniting all habltable parts Of the
earth, clicking of in tones moce intricate
| than the hyro9!yphics of Egypt or the cimi-
form writing OF Assyria, and every spoken
| language. No belt of iron circcd the peopled
| earth, nor spanned our mighty continent; Cal
lfornIa was a terra iucOgnito, and the silver
veins of Nevada were as yet undisturbed, un-
known and undreaIned of. Doctors were
waging fierce war upon stone coal as fuel,
but the doctors were only theorists. Women
piled the needle instead of the sewing machine,
and husbandmen reaped with sickle and
planted with spade aud hoe. Saves We're
bought and sold as cattle, away and were
hunted to death by blood hounds; on bein
captured on free soil, were returned to tor
lures and slavery. William Duane, who re-
fused to obey President Jackson in removing
the deposits from the United States Bank,
was living in peace in his old mansion Oppo-
site Independence Square, and the plant R.
B. fancy reigned in his stead; won the
ermne of Chief Justice for his obedience and
finally crowned his course by the bred Scott
decision and Nicholas Biddle was airing his
handsome person, and wearing with inlmit- |
able grace, his Spanish cloak; handsome, !
fair faced man yet in the prime of life;
splendid fnancier, a willy politician, bold |
speculator; a scholar, gentleman and an ep |
icure The first ruined him in fortune ana |
the last killed him. George W. Dallas was
then a young lawyer and man of splendid
promise, but was not Of the stuff from which
politicians are made, and though he became
Vice President and was foreign minister, he
never fulfilled the promises Of his youth, and
died very poor, and his daughter Julia, is to-
day teaching school for living; as only
few years ago two grand daughters OF Jeifer
son were keeping Il boarding house within
three blocks of the spot where their immortal
ancestor penned the Declaration Who shall
say that Republics are ungratefuR Now here
lie truths What wonders have occurred
since the days speak of! Governments have
been overthrow and others built upon tnell
ruins, and they in turn destroyed to make
room for still others, till the eastern hemis-
phere has become great pallmpsest, and not
only Kingdoms and dynasties have faded into
oblivion, but generations unborn when Bishop
White was buried have strutted their weary
hours upon the stage and passed into oblivion.
| suppose there is scarcely man on this coast
save myself, who has seen the venerable pre-
late, and begin to believe that am getting
old Who will recall us fifty years hencel
Some Munster has said Life is shawdow
Or DREAM" Mine has been full of shadows,
and sunshine too, and the most substanti4!
dream from which man ever wakened. 1t has
come down TO very substantial reality now