Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-06-07
The Work of m American senator.

The Work of IN American senator.
To have to read hundred newspapers
every morning before breakfast; to be
compelled to wade through reports, PAM
phlets and returns innumerable; to glance
through score of leading articles, con-
tanning, perhaps, as many columns of
personal abuse of the most virulent kind,
directed against ones self; to mediate
over the Grafton of the coming morning,
afternoon or evening session, and to cor
rect the proofs of ones last speech for re-
publication in separate form--these are
among the Eghtest labors of an American
Senator. Admit that he contrives to
swallow a hasty breakfast. Then-happy
is he if they do not rush upon him while
he is chipping his first egg. and fight over
his tea and toast-sets in the tide OF suit
ors. They all want something. hloli-
cre's Facheux were nothing to them. If
there are no places to give, they clamor
for promises of the reversions OF appoint
ments that may not be vacant for two
years and half. Widowed mothers of
soldiers, long since slain in battle or
stricken down in the hospital Of disease,
come to him with vain entreaties for the
dead to be restored to life. He is Sem
ator he is powerful; he has the ear of
Ministry; cannot he give them word of
comfort :-cannot he shed upon them
ray of hope that Jake or Ike still lives: :
Alas! Jake lies stiff and stark in bloody
trench at Chattanooga, and secesh gucr-
rillas are careering about IN his boots and
pantaloons; and the Sanitary Commission
have done all that was possible to make
Ike's last hours in the hospital comforta-
Bile. Widows come to the Senator to
importune for news about lost husbands
to know if they have done correctly in
marrying again. Captains who want
coloners commissions, coloncls who are
anxious to be turned into brigadier-gener-
ais, poster the Senator with acquisitions
for promotion. Will he spur Mr.. STAN
ton on: will he move the President:
Drunken or dishonest subalterns, who
have been mustered out wiz: eX-
PEELED the army for misconduct-are sure
that if the Senator will only whisper a
word in his behalf at the War Depart
ment, their cases will be reconsidered, and
the sentences pronounced upon them re-
versed. Then arrive the multitude who
hunger and thirst after contracts. Shod-
DIV comes down like an armed man, or a
hundred of bricks upon the Senator.
Government must have more beef, blank
cts, buiskets, saddles, brides, ambulances,
gunpowder and chloroform for medical
stores. There is contractor mad upon
commissary whisky. There is one wish
full to supply five hundred balloons, gas
and all, under cost price. Listen to the
speculator who has ten thousand pairs Of
boots all ready for Government consump-
ton. Incline your ear to him whose talk
is of myriads of greatcoats. And the pro-
jectors the people who will undertake
to finish the war and crush the rebellion
in fortnight; the patentees of rihed can
non warranted to kill 5000 souls at every
discharge, Of catamarans and internal ma
chimes and torpedoes that shall blow up
Charleston before you can say Jack Rob
inson, of stinkpots that shall eclipse Gil
more's Greek rice, and smother whole
corps d G,1aee at one puff! And the po-
cts who insist on reading lengthy scrolls
full of Alexandrines, bearing on liberty,
the Constitution, Bunker Hill, the Sena-
tor, and themselves! And the photo
graphers the portrait painters, who urge
the Senator to sit ! And the book-mak-
ers, stenly demanding particulars OF the
Senator'S early life, with view to forth
coming biographies! And the newspaper
correspondents, both native and foreign!
but 1 had best be silent on that score.
And finally, after the poor idlers, loung-
ers, bores, private friends and brother
Senators-the women. The dear, good
hearted, impulsive, interchangeable, irration-
al women, bless their hearts shrilly po-
litical, passionately patriotic, dramati-
cally dictatorial, not to be wearied, not to
be daunted, not to be put down. The
Senator must needs defer to them, for they
are indomitable and would beard even
the President in his private bureau.-From
&. 4. Saia'S An,7rican Correspondence.