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daughter, Mrs. Enoch Totten, of this city
will preside over his establishment. The

General Brewster, through falling into an
open fire in his infancy, has a
face fearfully marred and SCARED,
the lower eyelids being unnaturaliy drawn
down and the nose stunted and misshapen.
But he is every inch 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 a 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
emJonpoint. 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
tereating 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 Lincoln's
grandchildren. They are Mary, Jack"
and Jessie. love to see them tumbling
Al b. ;,o1r of 4ha Ia
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 have seen in this
town !" He is a 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 y
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
and are attended with great fidelity and
pride. Senator Rollins rooms are a
suite OF elegant saloon parlors at the
Hamilton House, good private
hotel, sometimes called the "Brevoort
of Washington. At the left of the host
and hostess, to receive the guests, stood
Governor Bell, man of suave and digni-
fed presence I; also the wives of Represent
atives Ray and West, of New Hampshire,
and Miss Helen West, a niece of Senator
Rollins There were present, OF special
note, Vice President David Davis, the new
Cabinet Secretaries Teller and Chandler,
who held quite 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 1886, and graduated at yarmouth
in 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.
NUMBER OF GUESTS
Went from there to Secretary Freling
huysen's, square and stately red brick
mansion on | street, where from half. past
9 till u brilliant company were gathered
it being the closing reception of long and
delightful series. There was a collation.
but no dancing. Minister Aaron a. Sar'
gent was present, and received many con
gratulations on his appointment tC
| Berlin, and on the bauquets in his
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of which was republished here from the
RECORD UNION. Mr.. Sargent expressed
to me his satisfaction at a copy of the
RECORD UNION received by him through
the State Department this morning. The
venerable G gorge Bancroft was present :ht
retiring Secretary of the Navy and wife
who are soon to go to Russia dlplo
matically; the new Russian Minister
Mr.. de Struve, a man of distinguished
bearing and intelligence; Senator
Jones, of Nevada, Chief Justice Waite
Justice Cox. who tried and sentenced the
assassin of Garfield, with his elegant wife
Private Secretary Phillips, of the Execu
tive Mansion, Judge Adds, President o
the Spanish. American Claims Commission
ex-Austrian Minister Kasson, now In Con
gress again, and scores of other notable
men in diplomatic and other high circles
with fair women in jewels and costly
attire. The ever-shifting tableaux in the
triple suite of psrlors were memorable t.
observe. The Secretary of State is 1
strikingly handsome gray-haired man
and his wife a lady Of strongly
individualized family traits in face anC
character, showing the blue blood of gen
erations. Her two youngest daughters
both grown to maturity, resemble he
strongly. The eldest, toward whom th'
President is sometimes said to have " Sc
rious intentions" has an ideal face
with the placid beauty of her father
and great elegance of form and carriage
She has masses of lovely, fair brown hair
and nearly always wears white. The fam
lily are much more elegant than were tn
Evarts family, and are immensely popula
with the diplomatic corps.
The wife and daughter Of Senator Miller
of California, were formally at home t
callers to-day, for the first time sine
February. KMMA JANIS.