Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-20

| AN1Ih3 Sk&s MI long past is equal to
| AHEI4zzA II the boards of scraps
| M E/ZN IN and old newspapers
| YlII/ ~ wv which today in their
| VA" ~ time-stained columns
give us daily history of period few of your
readers can remember. Here are columns
devoted to the dissolution of Gen. Jackson's
cabinet, caused by the Eaton episode. From
this record Of that interesting period it seems
Gen. Eaton challenged Mr.. Ingham. the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, for the reflections cast
| upon his wife in the refusal of the Secretary
and his family to visit or receive Mrs.
| Eaton. The United States telegram. which
was published by Duff Green contained
| an article on Mrs. Eaton which Gen: Eaton
| considered as emanating from Mr.. Ingham, as
| the Telegram justified Mr.. Ingham's refusal
| Mr. 1ugham declined to be held responsible for
| the articles published in the daily press. and
| charged in letter to Gen. Jackson that Gen.
Eaton, Col John Campbell! United States treas
urer; Maj Thomas L. Smith, register OF the
treasury; DIR. Randolph, assistant secretary OF
| war; Maj. VIM. b. Lewis, second auditor OF the
treasury; DR.. VIM. Jones and Amos Kendall had
met at the Treasury Department for the pur-
| pose OF assaulting him on his way to bis Office.
The old general addressed a letter to these gen.
tlemen, in which he said: Il wish you to state to
me if you or either of you have had any hand and
to what extent in the illegal misconduct imputed
| in his CIngham's) letter herewith inclosed.
| / surely have been deceived in your character
| if you are capable Of SO far forgetting the re-
sponsibiiities of your station as to participate
in the reprehensibe conduct charged. In
| the serious charge contained in Mr.. Ingham's
letter, which gave me the first intimatlon that
have had upon the subject OF his difficulties,
l wish you to give me prompt and explicit
| answer" 10 this letter each OF the gentlemen
replied on the same day, denying any knowl-
edge of such meeting and Maj. Smith in his
letter says: II regret, sir, that Mr.. Ingham, in
| making charges of such grave import, had not
| thought to refer to the authority upon which
| he based his allegations and awaited the issue
| before he left the city" Gen. Eaton addressed
| personal letter to Mr.. Blair, asking the publ
cation of letter of denial in the GLOBE.
THE REORGANIZATION OF THE CABINET.
John Macpherson Berrien, who was Attorney
General under Gen. jackson, was one of those
whose resignation was requested, with Mr..
Branch, Secretary Of the Navy. The letter OF
Mr.. Berrlen is a very lengthy one. He says
"Uninfuenced by those considerations which
have been avowed by that portion of my col
| leagues who have voluntarily separated them
| selves from. you, totally ignorant Of any want
of harmony in your cabinet, which either has
or ought TO have impeded the operation of your
administration, l perform this act simply in
obedience to your will" The reorganization
| of the cabinet, which took place in 1881,
brought into the Treasury Department, Louis
Woodbury.; into the War Department, Lewis
Cass, and into the Attorney Generals office,
Roger T. fancy. Mr.. Samuel d. Ingham was
a member of Congress from Pennsylvania and
Mr.. Clay and his friends attributed the action
of George kremmer. the member from Penn
| sylvania, in charging on Mr.. Clay bribery and
corruption in accepting Office under Mr.. Adams,
| to Mr.. Ingham and Mr.. Buchanan. Mr.. Clay
ignored kremmer as merely q tool
Gen. Eaton, on leaving the War Department
&voa any1to min isfar ~ Sral vUha hA
manned several years.
CAMPAIGN CHARGES OF ExrRAvAaANoE.
The political history of the country of the
period furnishes, it would seem, the usual CAM
paign charges Of extravaganza against the ex-
! listing administrations on the eve OF every
presidential election. The speech of Jack
| Ogle, as everybody called HIM, on the extrava-
gance of MIR. Van Buren, when President and
! his description of the ''gold spoons" and the
| sums paid for flowers and wines, DC, was not
| without influence in defeating Mr.. Van Buren,.
| In one Of the political papers of the day dated
May, 1928, the New York Enquirer, specifies in
| the expenditures of the Department Of state
the items Of 500 paid for gold medal of John
| Quincy Adams, and after expanding consider
| able space on such extravaganza, says: eff you
] give away 500 for q gold medal for the
| President what is to prevent the pay
| ment OF pension to him and an allowance
| to his eldest SOM NJ. NJ. Cruickshank, for
i
with gold tassels, .'sl00." "Monstrous! 500
for a velvet portfolio!'' "Cash paid Richard
Rush for sundry books and papers procured by
him in London, s799 ~" Nearly $500 for for
eign newspapers DO, do. to Robert Ellis for
Lives anu Portraits OF Eminent Englishmen,
| $40" Has not President Adams given suff-
| cient proof OF his attachment to eminent En-
| glishmen without making the freemen of this
| country pay the expense! Is this proper ex-
penditure of public money! ''Cash paid W.
| nav Euplish laid 20
gilt at 80 per ream, sl44 Well done, Ameri-
can system. Mr.. Clay, the father Of the sys-
tenn. expanding s144 Of the peoples money for
| English writing paper" Cash Greenbury
yer pens, 'vanitus vanitatumP Why a dozen
silver pens, if plain continental goose quilts
| would not answer! One silver pen might do. :"
ONCE FAMILIAR WASHINGTON NAME.
Greenbury Gather was the old silversmith
| who kept shop on the south side Of the ave-
nue., next door nearly TO Harvey's, corner of
18th street. l have not heard his name in
thirty years wonder if my young friend
Hamilton Clements remembers the tall, serious
old man by that name, the contemporary of
the father Of the Messrs. Calf, and another
contemporaneous silversmith on the south side
of the avenue near 18th street, Charley Pryse
The old house remeins just the same, next to
| Crowleys oyster house. His mother, one of
the best OF women, Mrs Booth, was one of the
nrst vlctllns OF tine cnOlera, which she Caught
in attending o servant Of my mother, who re-
covered. martyr to her charity.
TO resume the charges: Cash paid Davis
& Force for printing fifty copies directions
for ministers dress $3.50. Shades of BENJAMIN
/ Franklin Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman.
Patrick Henry and other venerable patriots
what would you say could you be familiar with
such expenditures in the fiftieth year Of Ameri-
can Independence? To make people nav
for directions for such trash or indeed to med
die with minister's coat and breeches ia con-
temptible and beneath the character of a free
and enlightened people," In the same paper
is a speech Of Mr.. Barbour Of Virginia, the
predecessor of the Senator Of Virginia who
claimed "that the expenditures Of the admins.
tratior would be- FOR the year 1928, over eleven
millions and would bankrupt the treasury, "
and he asks, lis this to be borne with tempe,
Of patent forbearance?"
THE Loss OF The HORNET.
The United States ship Hornet was lost, with
all on board, on the 10th Of September, 1899
She foundered in . gale off the coast Of Tam
pico. The first intelligence Of her loss wa,
from Commodore Joseph D. Elliott who vritel
from the United States ship Falmouth, from
Vera Cruz, December s, 1929, and says he OBJ
tanned the information from letter from Capt
Mccall Of the Peacock, which ship was captured
by the Hornet from the British in 1913, while
| N command Of Cant fawrence whose eypirinr