The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-06
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Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazstte.

The King Fish ia the ShoRl that bnI-
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Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazstte.
WASHINGTON, juno %.
The following paragraph from n re-
cent letter by George Alfred Town
send to the Chicago Tribune, is floating
around the newspapers
Sam Wand who is prominent III the
Butler report, is good deal OF bird
by all accounts, and type OF the
generic Washington speculator. He
has been all over the world, speaks
German, Spanish, Italian and French
has visited Mexico and the Spanish
Coast, studied and become perfect In
several Idian dialects, published a vol
ume of poems, shipped before the mast,
and knows every considerable public
man in the country. He drinks only
champagne, buys gold at the rate of
fifty thousand at stroke. wears g '9Soa
clothes, Is never moody, takes life like
Dutch canal in Easter week, and
looks upon Congress as sort of third
house to himself. Such genius has
no dislike of General Butler. He rec
ognizes in the General thorough man
OF the world, and attributes all his tdi-
osVncracles to the slight accident OF his
New England birthplace. The more
points General Butler can make on
Sam Ward, the more Sam Ward adj
mires General Butler. They match
like an educated mule and Dan Rice's
learned stallion. The admiration that
ia lost between them Is unfathomabie.
or course there are slight inaccnra-
cies in the above. MIR. Ward has been
known to drink other beverages be-
sides champagne; when he does buy
cold, fifty thousand at a stroke, IL Is
sure to be on a very small margin he
doesn't remember having shipped be-
fore the mnst, and has never been sns'
pected by his acquaintance OF any.
Thing SO energetic; and there are sever
al considerable public men with whom
he is not on terms of confidential inti-
macy. But he is nevertheless, as des-
cribed above, remarkable person :
and as an unique member, of the better
class of Washington lobbyists, and
one of the most prominent in the eyes
ofthe Impeachment investigators, he
! ia interesting enough to have some fur
Their mention. By his side Woolley be-
comes sort ofcommonplsce character.
To begin with, he is own brother to
| the best female poet this country has
ever produced, Julia Ward Howe, and
| by consequence, brother-in-law to DR..
| Howe, the noted friend of the Greeks,
whom Mr.. Sumner declares we shall
\ vet have as Minister to Greece, in place
OF Mr.. Tuckerman, ii he is to have any
Influence with the next administration.
He married a granddaughter OF John
Jacob Aston, is the son-in-law of
William B. Astor, and father-in-law to
John W. Chanler, of New York, who
for the last three Congresses has repre-
| scented the Five Points District in the
House. His wife lived but few years
after his marriage, leaving only one
child, u daughter. he was soon flung
off by the Astors on account of his
splendid vices, his daughter was taken
by them to be educated, and from that
day to this has sustained few relations
with her father, save in the matter OF
law suit about some property.
Bankrupt and abandoned by the
wealthy connections, from whom he
had derived consideration among mon
eyed men, he left New York and began
a wandering career, visiting, as is said
above, pretty nearly every part Of
the civilized world worth know
ing. In California, where he seemed
disposed to establish himself, he got
started as a banker, Rodman F. Price,
formerly of New Jersey, furnishing
the money and responsibility Of the
concern, and Ward furnishing the
brains. With his habits, of course ne
failed. Then he took a ranch. Finally
he came down to faro, as means oil
earning an honest livelihood. Natur-
ally his sympathies were with the
Southern element in California. He
was mana III RIOFS Will Lue CoH5PAo
i tors that arranged the murder OF Brod-
erick, and was accused by his enemies
OF having had share in the plot.
Meanwhile he married again, and, OF
course, married well. He was, per-
hAps, an adventurer, but always a
blooded one. This time he became the
son.in-law of a United States Senator
from Louisiana. But before many
years his wife left him, took her chill
dFa0 and went to Paris.
During the war he was a rebel sym
pathizer. Since its close he very appro-
priately Gas things go In the lobby pc
terry companies wanted legal recognt.
ton, and so The came on as their agent
to secure 1t, with q wonderfully liberal
offer from them 10 pay as much taxa
, ton as the Government desired. SONS
s. champagne dealers had misunder'
3 standings with the Revenue officers