Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-04-29
daughter, Mrs. Enoch Totten, of this city
will preside over his establishment. The

daughter, Mrs. Enoch Totten, of this city
will preside over his establishment. The
new Secretary of the Interior, Mr.. Teller,
has an affable and intelligent wife, who
will fill her part acceptably. Mrs. Chan
dler, wife of the new Secretary of the
Navy, is daughter of ex, Senator John p.
Hale, of New Hampshire, now deceased,
who was an early Free-soil candidate for
President. She is an interesting lady, but
her health is delicate, and she has rarely
appeared in society here. Attorney
General Brewster, through falling into an
open fire in his infancy, has a
face fearfully marred and Scared,
the lower eyelids being unnaturally drawn
down and the nose stunted and misshapen.
But he is every inch a gentleman, and you
soon forget i'll his patrician bearing the
marred countenance that must be life
long trial to such a passionate lover Of
beauty as ne. Twice in his early life he
was taken to Paris for transplantatioD of
skin upon his face, with partially good
effect. He is one of those rare men who
can make even ugliness distinguished, by
their high, calm, sedate bearing. His wife
was a daughter of Robert j. Walker, Sec
retary of the Treasury under President
Polk. In her widowhood by former mar
riage she was clerk in the Treasury De-
partment, supporting herself and little
daughter She is one of the handsomest
of the
CABINET LADIES,
Fair in complexion, brown-haired, tall and
embonpoiat. By her marriage with Mr..
Brewster she has lovely boy, the fathers
pride and idol, and bearing his full name,
Benjamin Harris Brewster. The most in
teresting Cabinet family to me is that of
Secretary Lincoln, whose sweet wife was
Mary Harlan, daughter of the Iowa Sena-
tor and ex.Secretary of the Interior. She
is lovely lady to approach, and she ap-
preciates the sentiment of those who love
her three children as Abraham Llncoln's
grandchildren. They are Mary, {" Jack"
and Jessie. | love to see them tumbling
about the house, and to think of the pride
with which the dead Lincoln would have
regarded them. Just now they are all i'll
with chicken-pox. When Secretary Lin
coin was told in the depot that President
Garfield was shot, he removed his hat
in a bewildered way, pressed his
hand on the top of his head and said, "My
God what misery l have seen in this
town ." He is kindly, boyish-looking
man, "more Todd than Lincoln, the wise
old ladies say, for he is short and stout
like his mother, and with her fair skin and
brown hair, and with full brown beard.
He is an incorruptible man, and as strong
Secretary of War as it is possible to have
before the retirement of General Sherman,
who is arbitrary in his methods over the
War Department, and "bends or breaks "
every Secretary who comes in.
| have kept this letter open to detail to
you the brilliant reception during the even
ing of this date; the first by Senator and
Mrs. Rollins, of New Hampshire, to Gov
erner Bell, of that State, and large body
of visiting members of the "New Hamp-
shire Club, an organization of evident
social prestige. The occasion called out
New Hampshire and other New England
sojourners at Washington in full force
These state reunions are a distinctive
feature of life at the Capital OF the nation,
and are attended with great fidelity and
pride. Senator Rollins rooms are
suite of elegant saloon parlors at the
Hamilton House, good private
of Washington. At the left of the host
and hostess, to receive the guests, stood
Governor Bell, man of suave and digni-
fed presence also the wives of Represent
atives Ray and West, of New Hampshire,
and Miss Helen West, niece of Senator
Rollins. There were present, OF special
note, Vice. President David Davis, the new
Cabinet Secretaries Teller and Chandler,
who held quite a court during the
evening, Mr.. Blaine, Senators Blair,
Platt, Frye, Sherman, Macmillan and In.
gals, and many Representatives also
Hon. Elisha Allen, Hawaiian Minister and
present Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, who
was once Congressman from Maine; the
Peruvian Minister the Commissioners of
Agricultural and of Education; MIR. George
Kent, venerable Treasury Clerk. who was
born in 1896, and graduated at yarmouth
in lSl4-several years prior to Daniel Web
ster's graduation at that college, and ex-
Mayor Emory, of Washington, whose
grandfather, Joseph Emory, was Captain
of New Hampshire troops in the Revolu-
tion. Many ladies were present, and there
was choice collation., music by the Marine
Band, and dancing.
A NUMBER OF GUESTS