New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-21
JOHNNY BOUQUETS WALKS.
rrps ATT WASHINGTON AND HARRIsBURG.


TIL, family mansion called "Duddington" IN
Washington City is being pressed on the Govern
ment for n hospital visited it few days ago anu
fon, Il Mr. Brent one of the family, quite willing TO
show the portraits Duddington IS probably the
largest manor house in Maryland. III Is Dulit OF
brick. with immensely thick walls ana huge emu
chimneys and has hall through us Wiutn WHICH 10
r-obobIv thirty feet wide and In which the cOmmo-
dious stairway TO the upper story is mere crcum-
stance The house was built in 179S, whlie tue en-
Oineers were laying out the CITY, IL then
stood on plateau about on lever
of the Capitol, which Is only a
quarter of mile distant and was surrounded with
a hign brick wall fully twelve feet high which en-
closes twelve acres of ground. Streets nave since
been cut all round Duddington and have apparently
rased II into the air and ruined it in respects
as n residence. But as q relic and as most COM
modious and useful great house, it ought to be saved
hv the Government II has entertained for ninety
gears the most distinguished people who ever came
10 this country, among them General Washington,
Louis PhilIipe General Ross-whO took the capital
and LAFAYETTE. Young ladies born In this house
lave married prominent men IN the diplomatic ana
military service one of the Misses carroll nrst
married General Griffin who replaced Warren on the
field of Five Forks and she then married one OF the
Austrian family of Esterhazy.
There are a dozen pictures by COpley. Harding and
Others of the bellies OF the Carroll family IN the
past century-among them the emiGrant Carroll IN
satin rufies and collar Mrs. Diggs, also Carroll.
is here represented. She lived at haywood. fifteen
miles from Washington, on the road up which the
British Army came, and the officers filed the house.
She gave them an elegant supper and when they
asked her to sit at the table she said: Everything
has been done for you which hospitality could de-
maud hope YOU will not ask me to sit ut the
Same board and partake OF food with the enemies
of my country She went to her room and the
British were so respectable about it. that they
took off their boots when they clipped up to bed, ana
went away 80 quietly in the morning that she never
knew they were out of the house. Mr. Brent says
they behaved just as well at Duddington. The
table was supplied with abundance OF wel-cooked
food and good wine. aud the officers came and ate
and spent the day and night, and when they de-
parted they did not disturb one thing on the prem
ises. Mr. Brent says that some vagrant firing on
General Ross after the city had surrendered was one
of the causes of the burning Of the public edces,
but this Is not historically true. The order to the
British commander covered this silly purpose
PEEP At HARRISBURG.
often get on the Pennsylvania Railroad trains,
with an assortment Of bouquets, and run as far as
Philadelphia or Harrisburg taking change of air
and decorating the conductors. 80 TOOK peep hb
the Senatorial contest at Harrisburg, and will give
you q glimpse Of il.
Harrisburg ought to have been the site Of the Cap
ital of the United States, which was designed to be
put about twenty miles below il. at Wughtsyille.
but Congress changed its mind The Susqnehanna
Is there full mile WIDE with ises up and down its
svery breast, and across tho river the Cumberland
Valley, twenty miles wide, opens like q gate
between the mountains. TO make the great
highway into Virginia and Tennessee. Down that
valley went Calhoun and the Buffers of South Caro-
lina and all the Scotch-Irish hunters and herders
who settled Upper Carolina. and stamped their pow
erful leadership the mild-eyed people of the sea-
coast Within sight of Harrisburg. the river splits
these mountains wide apart though they march
upon it like embatted regiments, in perfect line Be
low for fifty miles spreads out the lap OF Pennsy
vania in clover and limestone. with ten thousand
farms the like OF which the world does not show In
thrift and abundance. Harrisburg stands on
bluff Of the Susquehanna River. with hill at hand
ON which rises the neat brick Capitol bnldIng htv
years old with its Ionic porticos and with side build
lngs for the executive Offices. pretty triangular
park incoses the Capitol pl anied with shade trees
aud from its SUBMITS can be seen the old wooden
bridge cambering like backs OF animals from arch
TO arch In the Capitol two elaborate chambers
for the Legislature opposite each otLor, and over
/
The Governors room in an adjacent building con- |
taius the line Of Chief Magistrates. whose names |
and histories are synopsis OF Pennsylvania deyel-
opment and character. They begin with tie Penns |
and their deputies of various races-the Irish Logans
and Gordons the Scotch Keiths and HaDiltons and |
then we strike the Reeds, the Diclnsons and Frank
Inns, plain English gentlemen Of the tidewater |
country. and then the Revolutionary spirits, like |
MfHn and Mexican. and following that, alternate
German and Irish rulers, down to Harry Hoyt, the
present Governor who was one Of the first distinct
ly0 Yankees who ever held the Office
The Connecticut men went into Pennsylvania 10.
fore the Revolution and resisted there as car
pet baggers and many OF them killed like In
dams. but tho strong. clean, stock sur
vived-the only spiritual stock in Pennsylvania ex-
cept the remnant of the Quakers--and Hoyt, whose
is that of Hartford instead of Harris
burg IS the Governor of the State while Grow. the
pupil of David Wilmot and the political twin of
Joshua Giddings-who also born in North Penn
3ylvania--is the Blaine candidate for Senator. Hoyt
could have been elected probably IL he had been
put into the caucus at the outset. but his hopes
rested the Camerons and therefore he had to take
,ides with Oliver, which has made him objection
lble.
THE GHOST OF BLAINE.
Even IN an unspritual commonwealth, where tho
pursuit OF things SUBSTANTIAL and comfortable Ia the
ue and intellectual life has but few exponents the
labtua ignoring of talent will become q subject of
concern at last. American life unfortunately af-
ords but two openngs-the pursuit of wealth or of
public hOnors. The young lawyers Of tho State
Yearly all aspire to some rank or use in the public
ervice, and during the civil war they went to tho
ield and many of them laid down their lives with
ut murmur. glad of that Democratic opportunity
o compete some equal PLAIN Of battle But when
eace returned they found the political organization
f their party growing closer and more Jealous and