Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-03-17

roar of ocean to carry the voice Of one
world 70 another.
But other things than those of this
/ sort of enchantment are 10 be found IN
this hall. There are number OF his
torical relies Of value. There are some
articles once belonging to Lafayette,
clothes worn by General jackson, the
| gloves of President Lincoln, the saddle
of Baron de Kalb, and other saddles
with housings. embroidered with Jew.
els, the gift OF the Imaum of Muscat.
/ Sabers, line as the blade of Saladln.
given by Ali Pacha to some of our
/ officers; 3 gun sent to jefferson by the
| Emperor of Morocco; carpets OF extra
ordinary thickness and beauty. also
presented to members of our Govern
ment by other Eastern potentates. who
have seemed to vie with each other in
offering the kindness OF the Orient to
/ the Occident, but which, with other
articles-as officials in the National
employ are not allowed TO receive gifts
from foreign princes have been depos-
| tied here. Here, too. in another case,
is the original copy of the Declaration
of Independence, very much faded,
though. by long exposure TO the light,
and with the sacred autographs upon
| it, with all they tell of the writers, and
of their intrepidity in taking their lives
/ in their hands rs they took up the
pen. 1t is so fast disappearing that
one wonders it should not be preserved
in the darkest archives OF the State
Department. In the same case. and in
a neighboring one, are numberless rel
les OF George and Martha Wash
ington. There are his commission
of Commander-in-C Chief, his sword.
his cane, and more than one
suit of his clothes, which you wonder
how he ever got into. There are odd
pieces of furniture used by the General
in the course of his life; a secretary, a
small mirror. tea board, tables, chairs,
andirons. bed curtains worked in tam
bour by his wife, some candelabra. the
remainder of a set of china presented
him by the Society of the Cincinnati.
There is his coat-ot-arms with biazons
and quarterings that tell of the Wash
ington connection with such lives as
those of Malcolm, King of the Scots, the
Duke of Clarence. and the Earls of
Huntingdon, March. Monmouth and
Salisbury. There, too, is his camp
eguipage. his sleeping tent, and anoth-
er tent and tent poles. under which he
has lain on what nights of storm and
trouble, There are his compass and
little treasure chest and his camp chest
very different from the camp chest of
any modern general--with its half
a ,.l..sn. and ,.lattavc
rude gridiron and salt and pepper
boxes. its primitive knives and two
pronged forks, that, as some one has
said, may more than once have wound
ed the august tongue and lips when
used at some hastv meal under forest
boughs, while the stars retreated before
the blaze of the camp fire. Among all
these interesting and wonderful, and
often almost holy things, the young
traveller, but not the Old one. will be
amazed to see the presence of picket
guard of spittoons, with a printed re-
quest over them that they shall be used
instead of the marble floors.
IL would take too long to enumerate
the multitude of historical relies here
shut away from the touch, but left
open to the eve. To examine them
with any thoroughness would require
days rather than mere ramble round
the hail. A lifetime itself would hardly
be long enough to explore the cases in
the galleries of models, each of which
represents many times the labors and
hopes of a life. Some of these models
resemble toys; and we have seen Young
children express enthusiastic admira-
ton of the perfect little cooking-stove
and set of furniture, or of the steam
engine and cannon which they could
have carried home with ease. but which
are the miniature counterparts of the
engine that hurls the great ship tri-
umphantly against-the ocean tempests,
and of that which whirls red-ho mes
sengers of desolation from one scorched
horizon To anothar ITnon hers such