Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-10
seemed to look on the mixed and moving
throng In a disdainfnl sort of way.


As a splendid spectacular display of dia-
monds and bullion, of fashion and frivolity,
OF titles and gold lace, and high life and
''hotsam," it was, of course, a bewildering
success, which the chroniclers of the day
have not failed to itemize ad nauseam
errors and omissions" as the bookkeepers
say, excepted" There was certain to be
''ali sorts in gathering where $5-ticket
entitled the holder to all privileges except
lunch, There was a swaying sea of painted
and powdered faces-of pinchback and OF
nlckle-plate people inseparable perhaps from
such a throng, budding maidens in gorgeous
array, big. fat old "dowagers, =" stoop-should-
cred with diamonds, who seemed to say with
all the emphasis of a certified check: I'VE
have the stuff
These features might be found in less
degree even at "Lanigan's Ball" But it is
to yet other and blush-raising features
OF this gorgeous gathering of beauty and
iashlon at an Inauguration ball on the
threshold of the second Centennial of a Re,
public founded by such staid, old-fashioned
sticklers for the proprieties, social and other
wise, that l might more particularly re-
fer, if the details Of the topic were such as
cannot proftably be discussed in circum-
speet paper.
A NOTABLE SENATOR.
One of the most notable "inaugurations''
during the Inauguration period was that of
Senator Barbour, of Virginia. In ability and
experience he stands in marked contrast
with his unfortunate predecessor, Riddle
berger, and during the Confederate days
he was glowing light in the coterie that
stood by JEFF Davis in the darkest of the
dark and bloody days of the Rebellion. He
is now thoroughly Reconstructed, and will
II nd L IL 30
His colleague, Senator Daniels, who is
wit as well as a great orator, tells an
amusing story of Barbour's campaigning in
the ante-bellum days. 1t appears that after
enjoying the highest honors in his State
and deciding to retire to private life,
he was prevailed upon to, be can
didate for petty local office. The opposi-
tion trotted out against him an illiterate,
rough-and-tumble politician named Billy
Naples. In accordance with the rules of
conducting a political campaign in those
days, Barbour had to take the stump with
Naples, but Naples could always vanquish
him in abusive harangue. The final speech
of the campaign by Naples was abusive be-
yond all precedent. Barbour was not little
nettled, and determined to squelch his oppo-
nent, which he did in these words:
sCoRCHER.
FELLOW CITIzENs:-When 1 was young
man, now nearly 40 years ago, your grandfath-
ers sent me as their representative for four
terms to the House of Delegates and 1 was
chosen Speaker of that body. At subsequent
period was elected twice Governor of Vir-
ginia. Afterward l represented this renowned
Commonwealth in the United States Senate,
where was the confidant and perhaps 1 may
say the peer of King, Guillaid, Pinkney and
Van Buren,. John Quincy Adams conferred
on me a place in his Cabinet, and
for three years l shared his counsels
with Clay West and Mclean. 1 was
then appointed Envoy Extraordinary to the
Court of st. James, when it became my duty to
conduct negotiations with the conqueror of
Napoleon. Judge, then. fellow citizens, of the
inetfable disgust l feel after such a career and
in my declining years at finding myself to-
day engaged in low, pitiful, county contest
with such d. disagreeable little cuss as
Billy Naples.
It is hardly necessary to say that Naples
got left. Barbour is to-day 1.-THE as an In
dian. gray and grizzled after the combats of
half century, not mourning for the "Lost
Cause" but he still speaks of Virginia as
"mY State" as emphatIcally as he did when
the Confederate cannon doomed on Sum-
ter.
TOO MUCH CHIN.
On Sunday night before the Inauguration
I sat in the House and Senate galleries for