The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-17

Potomac river told me that he was quar-
tered in a part of one of the audience
chambers. At that house died John
C. Calhoun, the original mugwump.
| Brown, the sergeant-at arms, VINO
was a protege of Lyman Trumbull,
Judge Field and Mr.. Evarts, the lawyer,
inhabited the transformed capitol and jail.
Simon Cameron lived about Capitol Hill,
ard so did Judge Spaulding of Cleveland,
| O., man who would never attend to pub
lie business on Sunday unless it came in the
form of lady, who could always command
! his attention. Three or four newspaper cor
respondents inhabited the vicinity. Garfield
at one time occupied tall brick house, with
high steps, in the immediate vicinity, and
| there first called upon him one Saturday,
| when he was dreary enough, working upon
some eulogy or report which was to be
stone in his monument. After all. the men
who are always working are those who are
always receiving the surprises. Other peo-
| pie think that they do not work, and mar
vel that they are so well considered; but
every stroke in this life tells. In that re-
| gion | sometimes saw old Admiral Wilkes,
who was l think, descended from a brother
| OF John Wilkes, democratic agitator. lie
was the man who took Mason and SGdell off
| the steamer Trent, a bold and reSolute act,
which the government had to crawhsh
upon. Close by there still stands the two
houses long called the Widow Washing
toms, because Gen Washington started
them, and after his death his widow was
their owner These, | think, Wilkes trans
formed into a'hotel, and called it the Wilkes
house Next door to that was large brick
building, probably boarding house at pres
ent, on the roof of which was said to have
been made the observation to locate the
meridian of Washington. Little Winnie
Rean, the sculptures was one of the most
important perSOngeS on Capitol Hill, and
had great admirers among Voorhees,
Trumbull Ross and Boudinot, the
Cherokee. She was smart little
thing and some of these old Senators would
grow jealous of her and threaten to come to
blows on her account, but she kept right
ahead cutting things out of chalk and MAX
ing statues more or less reprehensble in art
but getting full pay for the same, AID finally
she turned her back on all these
old dodgers and married a smart
Young officer in the service and
took up her residence opposite one Of her
own statues, which ought to be punishment
enough. Ross was the senator who voted
against JObnson's conviction, and who was
accused OF having been bought. He was
fought, like everybody else, by johnson
having given him proportion of patronage
which some other senator wanted, and to
save his friends in Office Ross voted not
guilty. Both Ro and Pomeroy are alive,
who were poor senators from Kansas at that
time Ross has since been governor of New
Mexico under Cleveland. He was q plain,
manly little fellow, about whom l heard
but one silly thing, and that was in 1872,
when the first Republican party broke into
two wings, he remarked to a friend in
Kansas that he knew no one in the country
as liable to become the candidate for Presi-
dent as himself. Yet there are plenty of
men who have not been President who
might have made the same remark, and it
would have seemed equally preposterous