Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-04-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom Our Regular Correspondent. J

ThN'h iOoVs
The saying that the cemetery IA the live.
liest place in Georgetown--th at old suburb
Of Washington, which Is part Virginia
aud part Maryland-has been literally
true since the remains OF John Howard
Payne were deposited there. For severa'
days after the arrival Of the remains crowds
OF people poured into the graveyard where
lie the bones of the author Of "Homc
Sweet Home" The SPOT selected by Mr.
Corcoran for Payne's final resting-place
Is on the lawn Immediately In front OF the
chapel, a platform surrounded by huge
white.oak trees, and where there are no
other monuments or graves. The chapel
itself Is a little serio comic affair, with a
few benches ranged along the sides and
two suggestively ghastly treaties IN cor
ner. Not far from the spot is the grave OF
Chief Justice Chase. He 10 buried in the
lot Of ex. Governor Henry d. Cooke, and
has over him simple block OF Ohio gran
ite, contributed by the State Of Ohio. For
several years there was not stone or
line to mark the place where the great ju-
rist lay !. poor even in death, the charity Of
friends gave him the plot of earth for a
grave. The people in Ohio heard Of hs
neglected grave and sent the block Of stone
to put over him. The stone got lost on
the way and for three or four years was
slowed in warehouse. AT last, wishing
TO get rid OF IL, the people in charge Of the
warehouse broke the box open aud the
stone was discovered to lie Intended fnr the
grave OF Chief Justic, Chase. So, after an
interval Of years il was put in position.
The Cooke family had meanwhile kent the
grave in good condition. Not far from
the Chief Justice lies Edwin NJ. Stanton.
A plain monument with his name and
dntcs Of his birth aud de, ih, aud those OF
his wife covers the Secretary OF War and
his wife. Mr.. Corcoran's own family
monument is Greek temple of white
marble with eight Doric pillars. The
floor is Of marble slabs, and under IL lie
buried Mrs. Corcoran and her only child.
Mrs. Euslis, two of Mr.. Corcornn's grand.
children and his son in-law. Mr.. Corcor-
an visits the cemetery often in good wealth.
er. 1t was reported that both Whittier
and Holmes had declined writing a poem,
Corcoran SAYS neither one Of them WAS in.
viled to do so.
The star route trial has evoked unusual
|
and since the testimony of Price befor,
the Grand Jury and the Indictment %
. Kellogg. The court room il crowded Il
snffocaiion every day, and many who &,
there are unable TO get in. Dorsey ha
shown his metal during the severe cross-
. ex animation TO which lie has been subject
ed, and Judge Wylie says he ia a smarter
man than his lawyers. But the genera
impression is that unless there ia some
thing wrong with the Jury conviction
, must follow this time. Looking at th
, spectacle Of two ex.U. S. Senators and nj
ex-assistant Postmaster. General on tria
? for criminal offense committed in thei
official covers, one is impressed with tn,
thought that perhaps our Republican
principle of seeking legislative and officia
worth ard honor in the lower beds OF societ'
has its drawbacks. 1t also suggests tin
absolute necessity of stripping members o
Congress of the influence which they ex-
, ercise IN the various executive depart
ments oi the Government. II Dorsey ant
Kellogg Ind not possessed, as Senators o
the United States. an all powerful inhu
ence in the Postoffice Department, or j
they had been TOO honest and honorable Il
exercise 1t for selfish purposes, they wonlt
not have got into their present disgrace
| iui pIeuiChment, anu the OHtteu Clhtes
| would not now present the moriifyine
, spectacle Of the prosecutions familiarly
known as the star route trials.
D Apropos Of the subject OF official integ
rity is the story of the secret .archives o
the Senate executive sessions. When hon
est John Patterson. the whilom carpet
a bagger from South Carolina, arrived in tn
Senate he WAS very observant Of iis rule
i and regulations. During the taking of
3 record vote, In close contest In a confr
nation case, in an executive session, hon
: est John noticed that number of Senator
scanned the tally list before the vote wa
3 announced. He said to Senator Edmund.
OF Vermont, It's that not careless way c
doing business, to permit s .nators to har
die the record before the vote is announc
ed? Would it not be possible for Sena
tors TO change the record ?" "Clearl
possible," said the grim Vermont Senator
hut am glad to say that this ingenior
thought has never occurred TO any oll,e
Senator before. DON PEDRO.