Curios and relicsFurniture . is pastor. AND THE PRESIDENTS OFFICE LIBRARY. While in a certain sense the President be-longs to the people, and is their servant, he is notalways accessible to every person whose mterest orcuriosity might prompt him to seek an interview withthe chief of the nation. He may or may not deny hun-aelf to visitors; and those who are favored with an the walls are graced with portraits of , , and others; and on the mantel and other places,are various articles and curiosiUes, that, from time totime, have been presented to the President. The Library is a
Curios and relicsFurniture . is pastor. AND THE PRESIDENTS OFFICE LIBRARY. While in a certain sense the President be-longs to the people, and is their servant, he is notalways accessible to every person whose mterest orcuriosity might prompt him to seek an interview withthe chief of the nation. He may or may not deny hun-aelf to visitors; and those who are favored with an the walls are graced with portraits of , , and others; and on the mantel and other places,are various articles and curiosiUes, that, from time totime, have been presented to the President. The Library is a pleasant, cheerful room, overlookiJKthe Potomac and a considerable region beyond, andthose who have never seen it can form a correct idea ofits appearance from the illustration. HON. LEWIS CASS. Another of the prominent men of our coun-try has passed away at a ripe old age, leaving a re-cord of no mean pretensions. Gen. Cass died in Detroit on the 17th ult., at the ahncstpatriarchal age of eighty-four. Ho was bom in Exeter,. THE PKBSIDENTS CS LUJBAnX AT THE WHITS HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D. 0. 244 FRANK LESLIES ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER^ was fifty-four years of age, was born in Fairfield, Con^.,and was the son of the late Heman Humphrey, D. D.,President of Amherst College, where Mr. James Hum-phrey graduated with honor and distinctton. He re-moved to Brooklyn in 1839, and became a promment _^ 1 XT« «T«a #/^T. Bomo fimp , [JcLY 7, 18G0* audience, will find themselves uslierod Into the Prtlldents private offlce—a sketch of which wo proBonl onthis page. There is nothing remarkable about this apartment,so far as its size, furniture, etc., are concerned; but UWB pould illustrate the osDlratlonB. the hoi>e8, the un- 1^
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