The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-04-23
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| Iga-A stMERK TWAIN, ND
'Eor James ". Nye, o. s. Senator
HThat is an atrocIous, q ruinous
epistlel Distractionp
swell, sir, I am really sorry If there
| Is anything wrong about it-but-but
1t appears TO me to dodge the water
dodge the mischief ohl-but new
er mind. AS long as destruction must
come now, let It be complete. Lett be
complete-let this last OF your perform
ances, which am about to read, make
a fnality of it. am a ruined man. I
had my misgiyings when I gave you
the letter from Humboldt, asking that
and Shakespeare Gap and intermediate
points, be changed partly to the old
Mormon trail. Butt told You II was n
delicate question, and warned you to
deal with 1t deftly-to answer 1t du-
biously, and leave them little in the
dark. And your fatal imbecility Inn
PEELED you to make this disastrous re-
ply. should think You would stop
your ears, If you are not dead to all
WASHINGTON, Nov. 80, 1867.
H f4Eessrs. Perkins, Wagner, ct al.
as GENrLRMEN: 1t Is delicate ques-
ton about this Indian trail, but, ham
died with proper dizziness and dubious
ness, doubt not we shall succeed in
some measure or otherwise, because
the place where the route leaves the
Lasseu Meadows, over beyond where
those two Shawnee chief. Dllapidated-
Vengeance and observation-disclosures,
were scalped last winter this being
the favoFfte direction to somes but
others preferring something else In
consequences OF things, the Mormon
y1a - thrAn - fha
morning, and passing through Jaw.
bone Flat 10 Butcher, and then down
by jug-handie. the road passing TO the
right fit, and naturally leaving 1t on
the right, too, and Dawson's on the len
off the trail where It passes TO the left of
said Dawson's, and onward thence 10
TomahRwk, thus making the route
cheaper, easier of access TO all who can
get at 1t. and comprising all the desi-
rable objects so considered by others,
and, therefore, comforting the most
good upon the greatest number, and,
we shall. However, 1 shall be ready
and happy, TO afford you still further
Information upon the subject from
time to time, as you may desire 1t and
the Post Office Department be enabled
TO furnish 1t to me
Very truly, ETC.,
7st "fAIARK TWAIN,
" -S1HtGH bs&NSGn $3.50 h3c'sSsSSfs
"There-now, iOhat do you think OF
thatf"
"Well, don't know, sir. It-well,
It appears to me-to be dubious enough"
"Do-leave the housed am ruined
man. Those Humboldt savages
never will forgive me for tangIing
their brains up with this inhuman let
ter. 1 have lost the respect of the
Methodist Church. the Board of Alder
/ mem" F
"welI, I havn't anything to say
| about that, because may have missed
1t little in their cases, but iOaS too
many for the Baldwin's Ranch people,
General % $3.50 Of -s.e
"Leave the housed Leave 1t forever
and forever, tooW
regarded that as a sort of covert in
Iimation that my services could be dis
pensed with, and SO 1 resigned. /
never will be a private secretary to a
Senator again. You can't please that
kind OF people. They don't know any
thing. They can't appreciate party's
efforts. MARK TWAIN.
A LOT of Lord Byron's correspon-
dence has been discovered in q curious
way. A pet ape OF the monks of the
Armenian convent, on San LAgro Is
land, in the lagoons of Venice, so
pleasantly sketched by Mr.. Howell in
his "Venetian Life," was the agent OF