Republican Herald

George Washington Parke Custis, we perceive by the Morning News, of New York, is about to visit that city. He is the only living male representative of the domestic family of George Washington; is of retired habits and eccentric character, and lives in a beautiful seat opposite Washington city on the banks of the Potomac, which he seldom crosses to mingle with society or the affairs of the metropolis. The News says:

"To those enjoying the pleasure of his acquaintance, the overflowing richness of his conversation in reminiscences and anecdotes of Washington and his times, and the men about Washington in camp and council, has been an inexhaustible fund of gratification. He was the grandson of Mrs. Washington, and was educated in Washington's family from childhood, as a son. He was a schoolmate of Hamilton in this city, as we are informed. He visits the North now for the first time since 1789—fifty six years ago. He writes to a friend, 'I am about on Monday next to start for New York, and there to perform a pilgrimage that I have intended to make for the whole of a long life, to the Revolutionary associations around Boston. After an interval of upwards of half a century, what a spectacle to me will be New York! When I saw it, six years after the peace of '83, it was as the Revolution left it, as a city that had grown out of colonial dependence. What is it now, since the genial influences of Liberty have promoted its growth?—The London of the New World—the second London of the whole world.'"