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Mrs. Lincoln-U its nut oi' quite so much importance to the Country who the President's wiib is, as it is who is President. In ordinary times the Country might not be greatly concerned to learn that there was a lady in the White ilouse whose head had become giddy by her elevation, and '.Vfteee. dejortment, instead of being marked by ■the quiet, serious, lady-like demeanor that ought now in these solemn days of National trial and peril to grace the Mansion of the Head• of the Nation, was made painfully conspicuous by an absence of refinement, ol delicate sensibility, of womanly sympathy, of matronly dig--nity, and by the presence, in their place, of a girlish vanity, an unbecoming coquetry, a passion lor display quite out ol place in the depressed state of the National finances, and an• unfeeling heedlessness of the momentous and solemn events being enacted in the new war for independence. Many unpleasant facts have ree ntly come to light respecting the tastes, the manners, and the associations of the lady of the White House. Sometime sinec we copied from •j, New York paper the statement that Mrs. Lincoln was in frequent, almost daily, correspondence with the wife of the editor of the New York 1Lraid. James Gordon Bennett, the editor oi the Herald,did what lie could to defeat Mr. Lincoln, and after his election did what lie could to help uu the Southern rebellion. When waited •upon by some indignant gentlemen and asked to -Jispluy the American flag, after the fall of ‘Sumter, and when the National ensign was blossoming from almost every house in the city, hu was compelled to usk indulgence till lie could fbercow one. lie is an outcast, a pariah in so-• ciety. Hut lie has great wealth, and Mrs. Ben-•aett is enabled to appear in very dashing and brilliant style. She spends very much of her time abroad, preferring the corrupt and heartless society of a French capital where her husband’s reputation, to say nothing of her own, •does not shut the doors against her. Hut since .she has found a confidential and intimate friend Jii the White llousc, she can forego lor a winter .the llasliing society of Paris, and devote her accomplishments to her new affinity at Washington. Mr. Henri Wikoff, a political and social intriguer, an unprincipled and shameless ad-'venturer, a man who is kicked out of all respectable soeioty wherever he is known, und who •bat beeu made acquainted with the inside of• oreign prisons, for his impudent cffruntry, and •his persistent social intriguing, has been made ill many instances the vehicle for transmitting between Mrs. Lincoln aud Mrs. Bennett scented bidets, elegant bouquets of tiowors, and the si lly trifles that lackadaisical school-misses so much .affect, before they have outgrown their girlish .fancies and never-dying friendship, and arrived at the dignity und grace of womanhood, 'l'lii* •same Wikoff’—an attarktc of the Herald — is also a frequneter of the White House. When lie was ordered uudur arrest the other day by the .1/viUSo for refusing to disclose the means th. Ji ••vtiioh lie was enabled 10 furnish tli ■ !lt; nil '.lie substance ol the President’s message . . uii-vuiico of its delivery, the President him.-, li appeared before tbe Committee to help clear up the ina ter, and it will bo remembered that it wan dually explained that Mr. Watt, the President s gardener, and Mr. Wikoff managed through tlieir free run of the Mansion to ge. a sight at Mr. Lincoln’s manuscript ,In addition to harboring such an unprincipled scamp as Wikoff and such an unblushing traitor us Watt about tlio household, it is also now said that the notorious Ban. J2. Sickles,—who is not much bettor than when he was thrust out from the company of honest people awhile since aixcept that he is now a Brig. General,— is a
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Montpelier Daily Green Mountain Freeman
Montpelier, Vermont, US
Thu, Feb 20, 1862
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