Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-25
MAS B Y.
from tho Toledo Blads.l

MIR. Nasty Desires Confrmatiou-Is Ad.
vised How to Proceed By the President,
but Rejects the Proposition with Scern.
WASHINGTON, D. C.,'March Is, 1857
Washinton agini Wat changes hev bin
made in the last too yeersl Not in
Washinton, for this deliteful abode Nv
oHiishl purity hez'nt changed a particle,
nor never will. From the summit Nv
| Willard's Hotel I kin see now, ez l did
a yeer ago, the same signs Nv "steamed
oysters" in front tho Capitle, towrin
over the trees at the tother end Nv the
avenoo, and, behind the patent offs and
post ofic buildins, tho first the Mecca Nv
every Dimocrat and the tother Nv every
Yankee who comes here. Mol Washin-
ton amt changed but I hev. Formerly
when | visited Washintou it wuz lite
times with me. Wizards wuz my ho-
tel then ez now. Chadwick, him Nv the
toweriu bite. rotund abdomen, side
whiskers and round hat, wuz then, ez
now, my landlord. In them days, be-
fore the happy return Nv A. johnson to
reason put sum thousands NV Dimokrats
who he'd more stumick than money, and
more appetite than small change into
offs, and, per conscience, into condi-
ton to pay their bills, l wuz n guess at
this hotel; which is to say J slept on the
steps Nv the Capitol, and took or tried
to take, my meals At Chadwick's boun-
tiful board. Eff he'd no currency I he'd
taste, and ez I wuz foragin for subsist-
ence, l alluz made it a pint to forage
on the richest paster fields. It's ez
easy to cheek a first class dinner ez it is
q second class, and besides, I felt that
SIGH = hotel ez Willsrd's wuz better able
to stand SIGH bosrders ez wuz than
them Nv less patronage. kept away
from tother hotels out Nv sympathy for
the proprietors. Never shell | forget my
last visit here. l he'd run the dinin-
room guardian angel for a week, and
wuz congratulstin myself on another
week at least, when Chadwick stopped
me hisself, and thefollerin conversashen
eusood:
"My frend," said he in winin tones.
Davis, Carrot, is my name!" SEE
promptly.
we hear %euuff," SEE he. "Listen
I've let you run . week, COZ it's my reg
Ter prsctis. 700 he'd a hungry look, but
by this time 700 ought to be filled up
and able to 60 at least a week without
estin. Ez 700 amt Nv no earthly yoose
to anybody, and make no pretensions to
bein oruamental-git p and three we'll
| directed kicks landid mt onto the side
walk.
But I hev forgiven him. He treats me
we'll. He hez confidence in me now, ez
l hev paid my board in advance. It's a
rool he hez, he jocosely remarked, with
men Nv my pecoolier cast of c%ountenance
to hev EN- pay in advance. He says it's
much the best way. After payin, SIGH
men ez me feel more comfortable about
the house and 30 do the proprietors. It's
me that is changed-I her money to pay
my bills. Bless the Lord for Seward,
johnson, Randall and other Injuries.
But pleasant ez it is to contrast my
former posishon with my present proud
one, I hev not time to dwell upon remin-
iscencies. Life is short | am q practi-
cal man, and tho it may be pleasant to
linger for a moment onto memry's pleas
ant fields, l cannot. Ny biznis in Wash
ington is precisely what every Dem
| ocrat's biznis there is, to git confirmed.
II amt no trouble for a Kentucky Dim
ocrat to git sppintid, for the President
hez SO far relaxed his rules in this par
tikeler ez to sppiut them ez wuznt never
in confederit army, but to git confirmed
is the pinch. There's the gauntlet Nv a
Ablishn SENT to run, the good Lord wat
8 knowledge they hev Nv the out-goins
and iu-comins of the appinteesl
Tho President and Postmaster-Gen-
! eral Randall wuZ extremely anxious for
| my confrmashen, 80 much so, that they
| advised me to resort to the strategy now
| so common in the North.
$50 back on me for the time bein,"
sed that trooly great and good man who
adorns the sofos in the P~residenshel
Manshen. "Wilcox EN-. That's yoor
| only holt, Wilcox en-. | advised him
| to do il, and see how it worked"
"My dear sir" sed I, carried away by
this new and unexpected development Nv
greatness, Kin 700 bear to hev me who
bears yoor banner in Kentucky bend the
knee to a Ablishen SENT, and repoodi-
| ate 700, even for q hour? 1t is safe in
my case, for my material afinities are
| with 700 but don't beg Nv 700, advise
all NV EN- to so do. My deer sir, two
thirds Nv EN- will 60 out for confirms
shen, and, eff successful, will forgit to
return"
But the great and good Johnson wood
take no denials. "Draw up" sed he,
ga letter to a conservative member Nv
Congress, explainin yoor connection
with me, and"
And overkum with emoshen, he burst
into tears.
Sadly l undertook tho task, and after
four hours Nv intense labor, the follow
ing wuz completed:
"Hon. -, House Nv Reps.
"MY DEAR SIR: Ny c~onirmashen by
the SENT Nv the Yoonited States to the
posishen Nv Postmaster at the Confedrit
X Roads, witch is in the State Nv Ken
lucky, being somewhat jeopardized by
my operashens in the politikle field door
in the past two years, / hev the honor
to explane that, notwithstandin the fact
that l wuz a originel Demokrat, early
in the war / took up arms for tho pres
eryashen Nv our beloved Yoonion. Tho
precise date l cannot give. OWN to the
demorali.ed condishen ~ my mind at
the time, but that 700 kin assertane for
yourselves. 1t wuz about two weeks
after the fust draft. That l laid down
arms sgin ez soon ez the regiment struck
Southern sile will not, when tho motives
wich a~etooated me are known, be allow
ed to weigh agin me. 1t hez bin sed l
desertid to the euemy-so it wuz sed Nv
John Champe, but history ~subsekently
yindicated him-he went to ketch Ar
mold. I will not stop to reply to my
defamers, but eff it comes out inallythat
Invent for the purpose Nv satisfyin rebels
by okular demonstration that they he'd
nothin to hope for from the Northern
Democrats, NV whom l wuz q average
specimen, what kin my enemies say
then?
do not deny that I wuz a ardent
supporter Nv President Johnson from
tho beginnin Nv his career. l wuz filled
with q drafted mans magnanimity to-
ward a conkored foe, and up to the very
day I reserved my commission I favored