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ing. We dined on Friday last with the President Washington told me that, when he was a boy, and i sat between Mrs. Adams and the lady of a regularly every morning at seven o'clock, member of Congress whom I found quite agree when he was on his way to school, he met able as well as handsome. Mrs. Adams was as the Chief Justice returning from along walk. cheerful as if she was to continue in the great He walked rapidly always. Hon. Horace house for the ensuing four years. The President Binney says: "After doing my best one also is in good health and spirits. I perceive no difference in consequence of the turn the late morning to overtake Chief-Justice Marshall, election has taken. General Jackson is expected in his quick march to the Capitol, when he in the city within a fortnight and is to put up in was nearer to eighty than seventy, I asked this house. I shall, of course, wait on him. It him to what cause in particular he

attributed that strong and quick is said he feels the loss of Mrs. Jackson very step, and he replied seriously. It would be that he thought it strange if he did not. A was most due to his man who at his age commission in the loses a good wife, loses army of the Revolu a friend whose place tion, in which he had cannot be supplied. I been a regular foot dine to-morrow with practitioner for six the British Minister and years." the next day again with In 183 1 he was at the President. I have tacked by stone in the never before dined with bladder. A surgical the President twice dur ing the same session of operation was per the Court. That on formed, and his physi Friday was an official cians said his recov dinner. The invitation ery from the opera for Tuesday is not for tion was due " to his all the other judges and extraordinary selfI consider it a personal possession, and to the civility. Tell Mr. Call calm and philosophi all the Secretaries are cal views which he sick, and Mr. Clay took of his case." among them. He took MARY WILLIS Marshall (nee Ambler) Miss Harriet Marcold by attending the Wife of Chief,Justice Marshall. Colonization Society tineau gives this de and has been indisposed ever since. The town, it scription of a scene in the Supreme Court is said, was never so full as at present. The expec room during the trial of the case between tation is that it will overflow on the 3d of March. the State of Georgia and the Cherokee In The whole world, it is said, will be here. This dians, in 1831: "I have watched the as however will present no temptation to you to semblage when the Chief Justice was deliv come. I wish I could leave it all and come to ering a judgment. The three judges on you. How much more delightful would it be to either hand, gazing at him more like learn sit by you than to witness all the pomp and pa ers than associates; Webster standing firmly rade of the inauguration." as a rock, his large, deep-set eyes wide He was always devoted to walking, but awake, his lips compressed, and his whole more especially before breakfast in the early countenance in that intent stillness which morning. A venerable professor I met in easily fixes the eye of the stranger. Clay