Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-19
I'm SEARCH or THE CLERK OF THE
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.

VAIN lIOul W hHniuklbu
TO the Chicago Republican
81 was standing, all by myself, in the
committee room, reading a vast law book,
and wandering what il was about, and
whether the plaintiff had done so and so,
or whether it was the defendant; and which
of them they found guilty and how the
mischief they ever knew he was guilty when
the words were tangled up So and noting,
with qualification, the reference 20 Perkins
u.s. Bangs, No. Rep. iii, ETC., Ehereby ii
was apparent that if one did not get mixed
mp enough in that book there were others
that could finish him; and wondering also
at the bewildering tautology Of TIE said
aforesaid book aforesaid, when a youth to
fortune and to fame unknown fourished in
in the most frisky way, and came to halt
before me. This young man had NOUS
tache thst dimmed The lightness of his
countenance about as your breath dims the
brightness of a razor; and he bored down
into it with his fingers and gave il twist
which was singnlarly gratifying to him,
consideringthai no effect was produced upon
the monstache by the operation. Then he
tilted his little sonp dish to the port side
of his head with his gloyed hand, and said
'Hellop
81 said 'HelloP
" de looked surprised. Then he said
Do you belong here?
81 was just furnishing a sentence abont
Perkins v. Bangs. / finished it and OBJ
served The weather is very fine
He whisked nervously up and down
the room couple Of tnrns, and then stop
ped before me and said: Are You the clerk
Of the Judiciary CommitteeT
said, in the urbanest manner =
In view of the circumstance that on
80 short an acquaintance you betray 20
much solicitude concerning my business,
will venture to inquire what You NAV hap
pen TO want with the clerk of the Judici-
airy Committed ?"
81 That is not answering my question.
Are you the clerk Of the Judiciary Com
mfttee?"
In view of the circumstance that on
80 short an acquaintance you betray so
much solicitude concerning my business, |
will venture TO inquire again what you
may happen to want with the clerk of the
Judiciary Committee?
"'That don't concern anybody hut me.
What want TO know is, are You. or are
you not the clerk Of the Judiciary Com
mitteeP
90 Tn view, as | said before of the cir
cumstanCe that on so short an acquaintance
| you betray so much solicitude concerning
my business, | will venture to inquire once
again, what you may happen to tcaai with
the clerk of the Judiciary Committee?'
He scratched has head in apparent
perplexity for a matter Of five seconds, and
then said with deliberatlan and impressive
eaTnestness:
We'll, Pll'be damned
presume so. ! hope 80. Still, he
ing a stranger, yon cannot expect me to
take more than a passing interest in your
future plans
Gle looked puzzled aud little chaied.
He said Look here, who are Won
In view ofthe circumstance -
+" oh, curse the circumstanca
Amen
He did not reply. He seemed worried
and annoyed. Presently he started out,
and said by George he would 90 after the
Michigan Senators and inquire into this
thing. | said they were esteemed &C
| quaintances of mine, and asked him to say
that was we'll. But he refused to do this,
Notwithstanding all my politeness, and was
profane again. | never saw snch q fire
brand as he was.
Now, what can that yonng fellow mean
by going around asking respectable people
if they are clerks Of Senate committee?
IL my feelings are 10 be outraged in this
way, / cannot stay in Washington. don't
like to be called Hello by strangers with
imaginary moustaches, either. This young
party turned out to be an importation from
Kalamazoo, and he wished to ship as a
sub-clerk to the Judiciary Committee. He
is little fresh. Itmight have been better
if he had stsid iE the Archaeological
Gardens until he got his growth, perhaps.
Still, if his friends would like TO have the
opinion of stranger concerning him, l
think he will make a success here, in one
way or another. He has spirit and per-
sistence. The only trouble is, that he has
most too much hello about him."