The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-09-11

Clucu impetus by the interest IN Ncl
ut Newport this summer. M'sT,
W. V. r. Berry and Henry w.
Slocum, ir. of this city, were con'id.
cred among the most expert players
during the tourney just ended at this
fashionable resort. McSsrs. Shclla-
bargcr and Davidson, who are expert
m0nipulators of the RACKET, have given
up tennis playing for n season AMI are
now roughing it on Cobb's Island.
With the return of Wa5hinglon's soci-
ETY. people they will be niTordc nm OPP
portunity to witness II trial of skill be.
tween the four gentlemen named at
Kendall Green Court. At the Argcn.
tine Minister'S the grounds have been
newly arranged.
A*~
General John VI. Thaycr, ex-senator
from Nebraska, in one of his letters in
the Omaha Bee, tells how President
Grant put aside his strong dislike of
William NJ. Evarts and appointed him
counsel of the Geneva Council of
Arbitration, and says: "From the time
when Andrew johnson abandoned the
Republican party and joined hands
with those against whom he had been
uttering his maledictions, and declaring
he would hang them and that those
who were permitted to live must take
back seats in the work of reconstruc.
ton, he was supported and advised by
VIM. NJ. Evarts. During all that
acrimonious and protracted controversy
between the President and Congress,
when the unmistakable purpose of the
latter was TO destroy the Republican
party, which had made him Vice Prcsi.
| dent, and when the pcrmancnce of that
! party was in peril, he Evarts) was an
abettor of johnson in its attempted
overthrow. During the impeachment
trial of the President Evarts was one
of the lawyers who conducted his de-
Tense, and in reward for which he
was made Attorney General. Henry
Stansberry of Ohio was Attorney
General under Johnson, but re-
signed that Office in order to
take part in the defense of his chief,
which he could not with propriety do
while holding that office. 1t was sup.
| posed he would, in case of the Prcsi-
dents acQuittal, be rcapponted to the
same Office, but he had to stand aside
in order that Evarts might be rewarded
twas thought advisable to make the
reward of Evarts rs conspicuous rs pos
siblc, because he had left the Republi-
can party TO support Johnson in his be-
trayal of IT, And now he poses as II
stalwart of stalwarts; yes, last Novem-
Der when Blaine reviewed that great
procession Of the Republican hosts in
New York, which passed before him,
though ina drenching rain storm, he
| (Evarts) toddled along with the rest of
the boys, up Fifth avenue in the mud
and rain, shouting hosannahs to the
party he had once labored to destroy.
Possibly the United States Scnatorship
from New York, which was then loom
ing up to view, may have had some
thing to do with imparting to him the
zeal and JUNCTION of new convert. He
now poses rs stalwart candidate for
the Republican nomination for the
Presidency in 1888. For one, the writer,
as an humble member of the party,
prefers to support candidate who has
never been engaged in an effort to de-
molish that party to which the country
is indebted for its preservation,
~
The New York correspondent of the
PiOReer-P Press, writes of the recent dis
astrous failure of Henry N. Smith, as
follows: The history of Wall street is
studded thick with milestones of "kings
of the street''-men who welded mil.
lions-losing their fortune and pres.
tigc. Smith came here from some
town in the northern part of this State,
where he had been banker, and first
came into prominence through his as.
ISOLATION with Jay Gould in the firm of
Smith, Gould & Martin when the gold
conspiracy which precipitatcd Black
Friday was made by Fisk & Gould in
1869. Smith had become very wealthy,
and when the firm was dissolved he
continued to trade in stocks. In 1872
he built the steam yacht America, heI
lines being taken from those of tho
famous sailing yacht which won thu
Queens cup so many years ago, and
which is now owned by Benjamin f.
Butler of Massachusetts. Mr.. Smith
America was fitted up absolutely re,
gardless of expense. She was prob
ably the most luxurious craft atloat
But she was scarcely completed when
the panic of 1878 swept away the bulk
of her owners fortune, and he was
obliged to sell the America. She wa,
bought by the Government, and under
the name of the Despatch she now
flies to and fro between the various
navy-yards. Smith subsequently made 1
great deal of money again, and recently
was thought to be worth a million
Until few months ago he was very
plAsn n n ~ Wnnrig IAi thn
bear operator, and it is said that il he
had taken the latlcr's advice he would
not have been "twistcd' in the july
rise. WOerishoiTcr covered all his i'm
portant outstanding lines of shorts ant
when the bull squall struck him hC
was, so TO speak, under closc-rcefed
sails, 1t is about two years since Smith
was nearly ruined by being long of GER
tain stocks during the continued de
cline, This is page of Wall street
history that has never seen the light OF
print Smith had cottage near that
of Woerishoifcr at Long Branch, anC
one evening he called ON the latter ant
told him how he stood. Woerishoife
used the influence of the "bear' clique
of which he was the leader, to saw
Smith. A fictitious boom was organ
ized, and the stocks of which Smitl
was long were marked up until he hal
sold out. In other words, Smith wa
assisted to saddle his mistakes on tn
public.
Poor Woman.
Weak back; trcmulous nerves; rhcumati
muscles; dyspcptic stomach; torpid liver
Bad combination, isn't it? Well, vitaliz
| .Htt IY..,, .
Tone your nerves; Danish rheumatism; driy
out dyspepsia. Then you are new woman
Mrs. w. A, Crawford, Tullahowa, Tenn
had nervousness and neuralgia. She dc