26 



NOTES OF THE HUNT. 



I i 



Hi 



eral Manager of the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph 

 Company, and heard from the lips of that lamented 

 patriot these quaint and queer, but often pathetic tales- 

 with-a-moral. 



One night, in 1864, the President, after his habit| 

 entered the telegraphers' room and was told of his 

 nomination for a second term. What he then replied 

 as to the interest likely to be felt in the news by ** the 

 little woman over at the White House," is matter of 

 histoiy. But what follows will probably be new, at 

 least it was so to us : Mr. Lincoln in those days wore a 

 shawl, and was accustomed to hang it upon the corner 

 of a certain door of the Washington telegraph office, 

 which always stood ajar. . ' 



" Some one of us," said Chandler, " had handed him 

 the telegram announcing — after his own nomination — 

 that of Andrew Johnson as Vice-President. He took 

 the message, and having read and pondered it, walked 

 prravely away, glasses on his nose, soliloquising as he 

 '/ent : — '.'I supposed he'd be the man — Perhaps he is the 

 best man " — By this time he had reached the door on 

 which hung his shawl. Putting this on his shoulders and 

 turning to leave the room, he repeated, '• Perhaps he is 

 the best man — But ; — and with this unfinished sentence 

 on his lips, as if forecasting the trouble such an ill-starred 

 choice would create, he went slowly down the stair. 



Relations, by the inimitable Louis, of more or less 

 veritable Adventures in Wonderland, extending over 

 three continents. Contes merveilleux they were, of which 

 it will be sufficient to name that of the Lovers' Syndi- 

 cate : les Experiences de la Grand Duchesse ; the 

 Legend of the Irish Castle and the Chicago Coterie, to 

 tickle the risibles of any member of the company which 



