The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-10-07

nfty told, than any other state Ii
America, according to population.
Now that is so. Those three men
represent only twenty or twenty-five
thousand people-bless you, the
least little bit Of a trifing ward in
the city Of New York casts two votes
to Nevada's one-and yet those three
men haYn't their superiors In Con
gress for straightout, simon pure
brains and ability. And if you could
Just have been at one Of old Nye's
1nJun receptions and seen those saw
ages-not high-fiers like these, you
Know, but frowsy old kummers with
nothlng In the world On, in the sum-
mer time, but an old battered plug
hat and a pair Of spectacles-f tell
you 1t was q swell affair, was one of
Governor Nye's early da7 reoeptions.
Many and many's the time I have
been TO them, and seen him stand m
and beam smile upon his children.
as he called them in his motherlv
way-beam on them by the hour
with his splendid eyes, and faseinate
them with his handsome face, and
comfort them with his persuasive
tongue-seen him stand up there
and tell anecdotes and lies, and quote
Watts hymns to them, until he Just
took the war spirit all out ofthem-
and grim chiefs that came to hun
dred miles to tax the whites for
whole Wagon-loads Of blankets and
things or make eternal war if they
didn't get them, he has sent
away bewildered with his inspired
mendacity and perfectly satisfied
and enriched with an old hoopskirt
or two, lot Of Patent Office reports
and few sides of condemned army
bacon that they would have to chain
up to a tree when they camped, or
the shippers would walk off with
them. 1 tell you he is q rattling
talker. Talk It's no name for it.
He-well, he is bound to launch
straight into the close quarters and
q heap of trouble hereafter, of course
we all know that-but you can't
rest satisfied that he viii take of his
hat and put out his hand and intro
duce himself to the King Of Dark
ness perfectly easy and comfortable,
and let on that he has seen him
somewhere before; and he will re-
mind him of parties he used to know,
and things that's slipped his memo
ry-and he'll tell him a thousand
things that he can't help taking an
interest in, and every now and then
he will just gently mix in and anee-
dOte that will fetch him if there's
any laugh in him-he win, indeed
and Jim Nye viii ship In and help
cross-question the candidates, and
he will Just hang around and hang
around, getting more and more soci-
able all the time, and doing this,
that, and the other thing in the
handiest sort of a way, till he has
made himself perfectly Indispensable
and then, the very first thing you
know"
1 wheeled and said:
"My friend, your conduct grieTes
me to the heart. A dozen times at
least your unseemly croWding has
seriously interfered with the conver-
sation / an holding with the Presi-
dent, and if the thing occurs again
I shall take my hat and leave the
premises"
81 wish to the mischief that you
would! Where did you come from
anyway, that you've got the unutter-
able cheek to spread yourself here
and keep fifteen hundred people stan
ding waiting half an hour to shake
hards with the PresidentY'
| An officer touched me on the
shoulder and said:
"Move along, please; you're an
noying the President beyond all pa
thence. You have blocked the pro-
cession, and the people behind you
are getting furious. Come, move
along please"
Rather than have trouble, I NOV
ed along. So l had no time to do
more than look back over my shoul-
der and say: Eyes sir, and the first
thing they would know, Jim Nye
would have that place and the salary
doubled !! I do reckon he is the
handiest creature about making the
most of his chances that ever found
an allsuficient substitute for
mothers milk in politics and sin.
Now that is the kind of man old
Nye is-and in less than two months
he would talk every-But l can't
make you hear the rest, General
without hollering too loud"
Some time ago two ladies happen
ed to occupy the same seat in a car
from Baltimore. One, however,
was modest and unassuming; the
other, fussy and over-dressed.
There was a violent storm prevail
ing, and the first LADY remarked
that it was a trying time for sailors
along the coast
"Yes, 1 know it is" affectedly re-
sponded the other lady. 81 know
all about these'ere east-northeas-
ters."
"Ah! you've had some experience
personally, 1 suppose| inquired
the first lady.
"You may well say that ma'am.
Why, bless yer! my husband, Cap
tain John Freenail, is Csptin Of
Chespeck Bay. He used to be Cap
tin of Choptank, Christiania, Brandy
wine, and sich like creeks; but he's
| got a canawl-barge commission, and
carries hay to Petersburg now. I
| guess, likely, may be, your husband
is a sailor too, amt heY"
"Yes, my husband is a sailor"
81 thought that; you look just
like a sailors wife. Is your huE-
band a captinY'
mo, not at present"
"Mate?"
"No, ma'am."
| "Sailor fore the mastp
"No."
"Wa'al, now, that's singlsrl Not
a captin, nor mate, nor fore the
mast. Why, marin, what does your
husband do2'
'.He commands q fleet at present,
l believe"
sEYOu don't saw Whv- who NAV