The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-04-10

study all these latter characters from, as l
was In his Administration that the fata
llne was drawn between freedom and slav
cry, and on that line fell In body or IL
principles more men OF real mark than al
tue graves In Hollywood cemetery.
THE THEATRE.
Before leaving Richmond went TO the
Ineatre-once called, l think, the Marshal
Iheatre-which is one Of the last-remain
ing theatres in the United States OF the
former Interior architecture, with three
tiers OF galleries and tall columns framing
IN the private boxes. Over the centre OF
the stage, in regilded prominence, are the
arms OF Vfrginia-a man in Phygian cap,
with his loot upon another's body, and the
motto "Stc Semper Trdnnis." Under
that shield young John Booth won his ear
Hest applause, and while he was at this
Theatre the Brown raid happened, and he
went of with one OF the Richmond compa.
nies, and remained about CharIestown till
after the executions, and when he came
back was greeted as something OF hero by
the Richmond theatre-goers, and their In
fiuence seemed TO follow the remainder OF
his days until he leaped from theatre-box
upon the stage In the instant of murder,
shouting the motto which still stands above
where he drew the breath OF young Thes-
plan ambition.
NETWORKS NEWS.
As / left Richmond by the new Chesa.
peake and Ohio railroad, which now car
ries passengers IN little more than two
hours over the seventy-five miles to New
ports News, where the Merrimac sank the
Cumberland, and returning to complete
her work found the infant Monitor across
her path, reelected upon the influence
steam will have in any future war to re-
inforce our seacoast deiences. In five
hours or less, under good steam, military
force can be thrown from Washington city
into Fortress Monroe. Twenty-Five years
ago / was among the followers OF the Army
OF the Potomac. taking months to make the
journey from the enyirons OF Hampton to
within sight OF the spires OF Richmond.
You can just see. and no more, the lines OF
Notifications as we shot through, and in an
hour and a half were at Williamsburg
that venerable capital where General
Washington sat for years in the Legisla-
ture, and Jefferson, Monroe, and Tyler OBJ
tanned their education.
jamestown, Williamsburg. and Rich
mond, the three successive capitals Of the
Old Dominion, span from the childhood OF
Oliver Cromwell TO the administration OF a
New York man. whose wife was Virgin
ian. l observed on Lieutenant Maury's
grave, John Herndon Maury, killed at
Vicksburg. He was the son OF the savant,
and named for Mr.. Arthur's father-in-law.
OLD POINT.
A few years ago Mr.. Phebus, who is q
native Of the Eastern Shore Of Maryland,
was Adams Express agent at Fortress Mon
roe. TPking offence at not being promoted
in the line OF civil service, he went to Mr..
Shoemaker, Of Baltimore, one OF the eX-
press princes, and suggested that good
hotel at the fort might beproitable. Hence
there has slowly arisen remarkable palace,
not much to look at exteriorly, for arcni-
lecture, but rivallng in extent the largest
Saratoga hotels. 1t is actually quarter OF
a mile long. The power OF wall paper is
instanced here, as / never saw 1t anywhere,
in acres Of paper adorning the corridors
and turning the interior OF the house
into something like glass conser-
yatory with vines. Somewhat shell
tered by Fortress Monroe, between which
and the water 1t lies, this hotel contains
everything that can please an idler or an
inyalid-Turkish and Russian baths, Il
huge play-roorn and ballroom, carpeted
smoking-rooms. dining-roems extending
in glass galleries along the water, card
rooms, and innumerable private parlors,
and there are now more than six hundred
rooms in this house, and not a bed is to be
had. Mr.. Kimberly, the merchant at the
Point, whom | knew twenty-five years
ago, says that PhGbus is worth 100000
clear, and is making $1,000 day. Last
year he spent 100000 in extending the
hotel. Soon after the winter season closes
southern and western people come in and
start the summer season, and the bath
houses are now all built within the hotel
proper. or in the court enclosed by il.