The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-15
toddy. l bowl gin toddy, l quart wine,

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etc.
Another interesting travelling account
charged to His Excellency, Gen. Wash
ington & Co, 1871, Sept. 81 reads: IS
dinners, servants dinners, punch, grog
wine to servants wine punch toddy l."
With an additional charge for '16 horses,
30 gallons of oats, lodgings" Receipted
by Dan Grant.
In hiring a gardener it was agreed as
part of the compensation that he should
have -four dollars on Christmas, with
which he may be drunk for four days
and four nights; two dollars at Easter, 10
effect the same purpose; two dollars at
Whitsuntide, to be drunk for two days;
a dram in the morning and a drink of
grog at dinner at noon"
There is in these old papers the "Ac-
counts of moneys drawn from Paymaster
General, etc, on account of the Comman-
der-in-Chief, in which appear the moneys
drawn at Harlem Heights, Hackensack,
Morristown Germantown, Wilmington,
Valley Forge, White Plains. Fredericks-
burg, Middlebrook, Philadelphia West
Point and Orangetown by Col Meade,
Majs. Gibbs. Pickering, Bayler and Cary
names that bring back most wildly the
hard struggles of the revolutionary SOL
diers. Another that brings visions of these
stirring times is from
Headquarters. Orangetown,
30th September, 1880.
Received of Lieut.. Col. Richard K.
Meade $416, it being the balance of sSO0J
| which l drew for the use of the COM
mander, when he went to meet the French
General and Admiral at Hartford, which
| balance 1 am to account for
Maj Gibbs.
This brings back Gen. Washingtons tri-
umphal tour to Hartford with Gems. La
| fayette and Knox TO meet Count de Ro-
| ohambeau and Admiral de Ternay where,
| it is said, with stately cordialty he greet
| ed them
Mrs. WashinGtOn's Expenses.
1t was this memorable September, four
days after the date of this account, that
Washington breakfasted with Mrs Bene-
dict Arnold at her husbands headquar-
| tiers. Washington asked Mrs Arnold of
The whereabouts Of her husband, to which
| she replied that he had been called
away" On receiving a letter from Ar
mold the General sent the following let
ter to Col Wade:
Gen. Arnold has gone to the enemy. l
have just received a line from him, in
| closing one to Mrs. Arnold, dated on
board the Vulture."
| His kindness to Mrs Arnold and her
child is shown in several mysterious ac-
counts of monies given to Mrs. -" or
| ito a widow etc.
Another paper bears the amount of his
| accounts for Mrs. Washington's expens-
IS, travelling en- visits TO him at sundry
! times between December, 1915, and De-
cember, 1872, f1,0641O, lawful motley" Al
one time accompanied by her son, John
! Parke Custis, ESQ, and his wife, he took
up Headquarters at Cambridge, Dec. II,
| 1775." On this trip young GUSTS Drought
| fifty-three pounds that had been contri-
! buted to the suffering brethren in Bos-
tom by the County of Fairfax, Virgin
ia. On the 14th day of the same month
Washington asked pitifully for blankets
for his shivering men, appealing to the
| citizens to divide their private stores of
blankets with them.
| The same month of the same year Gen.
| Greene wrote from Morristown that they
were so poor they could not forward the
4 public dispatc yet dancing assem-
! bly, was supported by thirty-five officers
! subscribing 800 EACH in paper money
! equal to $11 in gold); Gen. Washington
| heading the list by subscribing and pay
| ing the same.
But the General grew more economical
as time passed, for there is fragile bit
of time-stained paper, bearing date OF
| August. 1856, in which w. Colfax ac-
knowledges the receipt of the Generals
letter, reDrimanding him for extrava-
gance not keeping accounts, etc, and
promising to economic in beef but the
servants insisting on very large allow.
ance, which, if he did not give, they too,
he could not promise to more than try
While one might sometimes Judge the
| great General extravaganza in some ways
| his hospitality could never be doubted
| judging from the files of the aged bills
| in the little box in the treasury depart
ment.