Litchfield enquirer., 1861-04-18
RICHARD RUSTY SEEKS AN OFFICE.
BY THE YOUNG 'UN.

RICHARD RUSTY SEEKS AN OFFICE.
 BY THE YOUNG UN.
 Mr. Richard Rusty desired an office under the the new administration, and he went to Wash ington to get it.
 At home, Rusty was known as plain Dick Dick Rusty-high private in the Volunteer Min ute Guard, at Squam.
 Dick Rusty had fled his seven dollar coat se- verely, bearing torch in the Wide Awake pro- cession-he had served as under Secretary at the l town and county conventions, he was the very t,'st man, in his neighborhood, who had thought Of Old Abe for President, and he determined to De counted in sure, after inauguration. And so, carpet bag in hand, one fine morning recent ly, he found himself jogging up Pennsylvania Avenue, in the great city of vultures, hacks, and magnificent distances
 Washington is very nice place! Dick had his papers with into wit, few badly spell- ed and worse written vouchers for his good character and sterling political principles, and knowing himself Gn his own esteem) sound on the goose, upon reaching Washington he sailed in for the ittleagovernment office he coveted in his native town.
 Having carefully enveloped his credentials, he | started them to the Department to which they were addressed, and triumpnantly sat himself No"h III Gho SdilcI TOoul Ol HIS DOarulug mouse, to await an answer from the Hon. Secretary.- And thus he waited.
 One day-two three, fve-a week, expired. But no reply by post, as he expected Now, | thls Was uery singular circumstance, tin Mir. Rustys opinion) and the delay very unusual in his experience. Indeed, after time, it came to look very much like slight towards him. What coutd 1t mean? He wrote to inquire why his little matter had not been attended to. He got no reply to this, either! Again he addressed the Department upon the subject But he received no answer. This was an out rage. Whereupon, having waited another week he determined, valiantly, to know the reason phy?'
 | MT. Rusty had not omitted to stir up the Hon Representative from his District (who assured him he would look into his case,) and then he waited once more. He found the County Edi- tor, too, who chanced to be also an applicant for place, and he promised to attend to MT. Rusty directly. And again he waited. Still, no reply. And thus four weeks run on, and Rusty's money run out
 Astonished and exasperated he started at length for the Department in person. He found at least six hundred persons there, before him, all religiousy bent upon an errand similar to his own! He waited six mortal hours in the great windy Passage-way, where he was squeezed, and |, but still he struggled for his turn He got sight of the inner door just in season to see the Honorable Secretary emerge and pass out to his carriage, for h0me. Business was over for the day, and the mob rushed down the stairs and re- tired.
 But Richard Rusty, of Squam, was a man of business; so he followed up object next day, and the next and the next. At last he succeed ed in getting inside, where the following collo- guy ensued:
 Good morning, Mir. Secretary says Rusty, confidently, and he grasps the Secretarys hand like Son of Malta who has passed his twenty third degree.
 Good morning. responds the Hon. Secretary blandily.
 Mr Rusty-Richard Rusty, sir adds oul
 Yes; very happy, Mir. Rusty. From Mdi- ana? queries the Secretary, silly No, sir-no.''
 'Oh-ah, no. From Illinois, then 2
 Mo- sir. From Squam,' says Rusty, mod estly.
 'sqnam? Yes, yes remember. squam- IMaine 1 think'
 No, sir. Connecticut
 An, yes. Very happy Yes, Connecticut {; Rusty Squam. l know now 1 MT. Rusty tidgets. So does the Secretary
 
 ence as soon as possible. And MT. Rusty is du- Iy referred with his papers to File Clerk, No. 2l, who, he is informed, takes charge of his documents. Rusty retires in high glee. In his own judgement, he has acon. | He waits again. Three days-fve, a week fortnight; but he hears nothing and then he ventures to wait upon MT. File Clerk, No. 2l, where he inquiries about his little affair." No. 2l has five bushels of unopened letters on his table when Rusty enters. What name, sir :? he asks. Rusty, sir. Richard Rusty Our otfice-hunter is not little nettled to learn as he now does for the first time, from the file clerk, that Messrs. Busty, Custy, Dusty, Fusty, Gusty, Husty, Justy, Rusty, Qager beer manu- facture,) Lusty, Musty Nusty and Pusty, are all before him-on the list of applicants for, un- fortunately, our friend from Squam is away down among the R's.
 But Mr. Tile, clerk No. 2l, is patient man, and polite. He has been in office dozen years and will do anything to oblige Mir. Rusty lex cept to give him any lucid information.) And No. 2l refers the applicant to Mir. White, No. IA, next room over head. Up goes Rusty. Mir. White sends him to Mir. Buff, fourth clerk, No. 56, up two flights further. Mir. Buff knows nothing of Mi. Rusty Squam's case, but thinks Mir. Drab can inform him about it. Mr. Drab can't say, certain but directs the tired but pa tient man to Mir. Redd, down stairs, three flights, end of third passage, to the left-north. Rusty has no compass with him, (and really couldn't use it, if he had } but he finds his man. Mir. Redd is very busy, and very short, but has no doubt that Mir. Gray (whose duty is to attend to these things) can inform Mr. Squansty what to do about it. He finds Mr. Gray. MT. Gray sends him to Mir. Green. Mr. Green forwards him to Mir. Bloo (who speaks English very in diherently) Mir. Bloc despatches him to MT. Brown, (there are thirty-seven Browns on the same foor) and Mir. Brown hands him over to Mir. Black, up stairs once more. Mir. Black knows nothing watever of Mir. Rusty or his pa pers, and never heard of him or them-bdt civil ly refers him back to Mir. White where he star ted from.
 By this time Richard Rusty is disgusted, ana thoroughly beaten out with running over the stone stairs, he concluded to go to his lodgings Next day he commences once more, and gets lost in the multifarious windngs and turns of the great Department building. Before he had time to get his bearings again, office hours ex- pired and he returns again to his boarding house attic to ruminate upon the mutability of human affairs generally, and of ofice-seeking especially concluding with the philosophical sentiment, that Jordan is hard road to travel
 Desperate, next day he finds file clerk No. 21,' with whom he originally deposited his pa- pers, and indignantly demands his documents After waiting several hours, and making dilli- gent search, with his papers in his hand he is admitted to the presence of the Secretary, with whom-amid his despair and disappointment