The Republican journal., 1883-05-10
Washington Sketches.
lS69-lS79.
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| NOV. 1863. Pen PORTRAIT OF THE PRESIDENT.
OFFICE-SEEkERS. REV. j. p. NEWMAN. THE
NEW SECRETARY OF WAR. AN INTEREST
ING SUPREME COURT CASE. SOCIAL EQUAL
ITY. PROPOSED STATUE TO GRANT. THE
DOCKING SYSTEM" IN THE DEPARTMENTS.
SETTLING AN ACCOUNT WITH THE TREASU-
KI, JUDICIAL JEU D'ESPRIT. PREsI-
DENT GRANTS RELATIVES. TIE NEW HAY
TEN MINISTER. WOMAN'S RIGHTS. THE
| RICHARDSON-MCFARLAN CASE. SALE OF
! THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
Nov. 1. 1.-The President has hardly received
justice at the hands of maj ority of the penny
| a-liners who have essayed his portrait. True
they may have limned him when unshayen and
travel-stained. Indeed. | have seen him when
the commonly accepted sketch of his peysoanel
would be literally correct-when he was dusty,
red-faced, and very communicating mortal.
But the other day | accompanied delegation
| which visited the Executive Mansion and was
ushercd by Door-keeper Dent into the Pre>i-
dents office. The President was on this occa-
/ sion without his usual cigar. He was neatly
dressed in plain, black suit, and had quite an
air Of dignity. The lower portion of his face
! was covered with light brown and neatly
| trimmed beard, and the remainder was not red
and bulbous but fair and smooth. He listened
attentively to what the spokesman of the occa-
sion had to say, and responded in plain. but de-
clded language, without the stammering, un-
| easiness and disjointedness with which he is 50
| generally credited. | saw. too, or fancied
did, trace of frmness not to say obstinacy,
in his face, which may yet give some trouble to
| those who seek to control the President for
] their own purposes The coming sessions of
! Congress will show whether this be mere fancy
or not"
| Il was not mere fancy.']
| 1t is announced that there are still forty con-
suIates to be filled by the Government. This
may appear strange after the army of office
seekers which took possession of the capital last
summer; but rest assured these consular ap-
! pontments We're not overlooked. The truth is,
they are located in places where almost certain
death awaits the rash and importunate office
seekers who may venture to accept them: the
| pecuniary inducements held forth by the Gov
! ernment are hardly sufficient to tempt them to
regions of malaria, yellow fever and earth
| quakes. As Mark Twain saws of the consul at
Tangiers, in Morocco, if a man has been guilty
of the most heinous crime for which no nnnish-
ment at home can be considered adequate, let
him be sent abroad to represent the United
States in malariouS region.
| The Rev. j. p. Newman was pastor of the
| Metropolitan NJ. +. Church, corner of Four
and-a-half and c. streets, and President Grant
and family We're members of the congregations
| A Washington Sunday paper published a por-
trait of DR.. Newman. accompanied by an euo-
gstic sketch of his career How he became a
preacher of the gospel is thus told in his own
words
Soma oroni,,, ,,.ho,, .t.,,,,,r,,
the streets of my native city. a stranger met me
ana without a sanitation sad, abruptly, God
nassnd .,wav III, fara was, ,nIo his "vel Iarro
dark and lustrous, and about his neck he wore
white cloth. His words startled me, but ere
eoi' thornnftnr , ;}tht w
while was passing through another street this
same stranger met me. ana without utterlng
writen God wants - 1op prp1 hart o 'Il Inoed M"1
after him. but he was not visible had seen
c'''i. iii' P'i' h''NN '''iNt wv 49, DUt
l',' .'o' ;Il;n' ' eo''ro nun
| and within a month thereafter | was rec eived
INTO the Methodist Episcopal Church."
He was sent 10 New Orleans nv Risbon A,,oe
| in 1864 where he not only established the New
! Orleans Advocate (bctter known As thr DaiIv
| Adyocatel \ but. saws thr sunday Gazette bp
..a)so founded am or,han asv,,n, in Nav Or
|
care more than - hundred ornbans and which
| controls nronorty vaInod ot ,hont e. ono uo
foundad an ,aodom.or INSTITUTION ,vboroi,
vonnu man ,r. e,luc,taa for tbo ,oi,,i.+,r ua
| ,Iso established a norp,,I oohooI ,rbosa ,,,o,,o
f. i estimated At about s15 600 In ,dIitiol, -
| these lobors Dr Newman was IN. leaIinu ond
atfactiva or;oi,.tc. huilaar of nina cl,,rcho.
for the colored nnonl4 of New Orleans and NJ
sides he reared hv hi. ENERGY ana alonnnnnn J.,
snIendid church costino $40 900 for fine ,,sr of
| all classes of citizons
Con Rall,no,, tool, tbo oatl, of offco os sanro-
tr ~ WOW No ~ .,,, ,,,. ;,,od;o+ol,
visited Nv d.leo,tions ,,ho .o,aht 70 sa.,,rn hi
i,to,fa,anno IN III N;,,i,;,,; ~, o,,,,., .I.,
tions il hob,If of ,ho p.ai.ai ti.l.o+.
| Tho doni.ion of mar ! S,,,,ro,,o C,,,.t l.
| fine c.s. of Enrn,.,, c,n 4 ro !. %i.bnl an-
fo,la,,t i, ,,.r,,. .;t,,.. +.,,,,,,.
of ov.,ts ,,,o,,h, ,f rooorl p,+ha 1.,,s of ,,,,,
State of Tennessee the issnos of tbo State Rank
,yaro ro.oir.bIa of ,,or i, ,,,.,,o,t of yt,+o,,I
coun+,toxo, ,rho h,rl, u,. +o,ndo,4 ,,,,,,, .,,o
! school f,nd of tbo Stoto ub;ob ,.. H. l.o,,,i.,.
deposit When the statc sacedpd tbiS fund
| amountino to over II 600 600 vac tal,an so,,tb
by the officers Of tbe bank and contro,lpd hv
| Them. After the war was over tbps, offrers
surrendered to Governor Rrowplow fine ro-
moindar of 1be assets ar school funa !, ooir
and This was converted into seven-thirties
amo,mtino to s61s 600 and denosited with the
state Treasurer DR. Stanford The rannos.oa
National Rank ., NemnbiS snccnndad in ohtoir-
ino tho,o ho,as INF .uhsoo,,ortl .o1,.,,o,, ,,,,,
tbo St.ta roeoi,ed ,,lr eaoo ooo NJ S..nfo,
oon,n,;ttod su;c;do ona p,+to,. tho pro.i,o,,+ Z
tho hanl, was ;ndicte,. for an,,,ozxlon,o,, III,
der an ,orerment that rntter sbou1a disclosa ali
he knew of the means hv vhi., tbn honas yera