The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-03-14
xs-,sp;urten Socicsy-An Evening Rc'
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Men anu
Fashionable women.
ALc:tcr from George Alfred Townsend.
SENATOR ANTHONY.

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ALc.,cr from George Alfred Townsend.
SENATOR ANTHONY.
"Whv. Senator, are YOU here? How II
your campaign getting on in Rhode Island
Is IT probable that you will come back
despite Spraguc and the Dcmocracy,
The senator is cheerful, am'ahlc man
large, Int little too handsome in stature ''
be called corpulent. He has blue eyes,
red complexion, and fine, luxur'ant, grlz
zcd. soft hair. ,
- don, know whether shall return or
moi, he saws. IL have been here two
.crms, and it is pretty hard to make
,ird fight successfully. Still, We can't ten
mach abont il. Spragnc will do all h'
can. lie has given up the attempt 10 eiec'
nnc of his own creatures, and Is ready &c
cnalescc with anybody to beat me-.
"Havc you had any hard scratches TO-
:. Well. vcs. My paper has made good
deal of fun of him He has recently sold
,n,t lis interest in the newspapers he held.
ONO Of the last passes VIC had was over
.krtch. which Sprasuc's editor had the
roor taste to publish i'll his own paper,
allied "A Night Ride with Senator
Suraunc.'' !ull of praise of himself and ex-
Qualifications of his funny financial theo-
rics. Some of our writer's burlcsqued II
in an article entitled "a Night Ride with
Daniel Pratt" Here is slip from it:
"What will be the result of the present
system, Mr.. Pratt ~ -,
II have pointed it out many times SAID
the traveller. 1t is this Those that
know how will succeed; those who do not
will fail 1t is Just rs certain rs that fha-
ruah's fat cattle were to swallow up the
lean kline of his DREAM
Il thought, Mr.. Pratt, it was the lean
kline who ate up the fat ones"
at may be SO. My knowledge Of the
HOLY Scripture is not derived from read
irr il. But YOU will see at once that il 1t
contains any such statement as that 1t Is
wrong because it is contrary to my idea
have had doubts about the wisdom OF
Moses for some time. He belonged TO a
rreat family, and was selfish and corrupt"
,sArc there many people, Mr.. Pratt, who
try 20 do business when they don't know
how
TO he sure said the traveller, ''espe-
ciallv the kind of business which alone
understand"
Well, Senator. VAS in Rhode Island
nearly Ill laot summer. and there seemed
10 be no doubt Of Your return to the Senate
Tor the third term. Is Sprague so very
rich as they say?
tIIc il worth about two millions, !
aIr told: but his wealth has been
exaggerated. After he made those cele-
bratcd speeches in the Senate people
thought he must nc going crazy. and his
yaper actually deprecated. 1t is curious
quarrel, but nobody could have helped IT..
HENRY WILSON.
Large. roundish, benevolent, CLEVER,
and honest Henry Wilson comes up q
pretty wise politician, with an admirable
faculty for avoiding personal quarrels, and
with all the female and Christian virtues.
':Scnator. how is the free trade question
down lvnn-way :"
ooh, you boys arc crazy on that SIDE.
Both sides arc crazy. The tariff people
have rot all the protection they want now,
and more too. The free trade people know
We must have high duties to get II reve-
nue.
Is there to be any competition for your
seat in the Senate :"
"Wcll, they say that Butter is looking
after il. hut | don't know. I feel tolcrah!,
easy on tic subject. If Massachusetts
wants me to stay here she'll send me hack.
I.e. ne introduce You 10
ATTORNEY GENERAL HnAR."
''Gooa evening, Mr.. Attorney General.
You look happy, considering the way the
Senate. cut of i 5 leticulc of small motives,
behaved upon Your nomination..
'sOh il would be equally small III ne
to feel presumably "ssgricyci about it. Jam
satisfied"
THE people Of Just appreciation think
It WIS q little and Il spitcful matter Tor
senate Of our own party TO behave so
coarscly and with such specific contumcly
over al unob jcctionablc nomination"
Say no more about it. There is another
l,haeu Of the question more serious: 1t Is the
dangerous fashion the new senators and
representatives from the South have Of hold
ng sectional caucuSscs; meeting AZ south
en- 'ncn in a southern caucus TO pass upon
nominations. This is the worst form OF
SC%tc sovereignty and sectional rights, So
called. revived after the downfall of sec
t;unal prctcnsons. advised the President
to nominate Il supreme judge from the
southern district, but he WAS unable to set
tie upon suitable man. You observe that
&c has to-day nominated gentleman from
New Jersey.
The Attoncy-Gencra is fine type OF
thcorthodox Massachusetts gen,leman--tall.
with fresh, red lips, Il cheerful eye. and
good teeth, lighting up II rather angular,
"blon. face, strong-harrcd dalkish gray
hair. aud courteous, manly manners. He
would have made good justice, and he Ii
:. lawyer of force and decision.
poN rIATr.
Here is 4 large, hcavy-shouldercd long
bearded man n ,proachlng, with Il quzzical
western expression sci in lIu@uenot face.
The French extraction showing clearly yet
after many generations of western anceS
tors. This is Don pjatt, a man about forty
years Of age, decidedly good looking, with
fine, not to say strong, features, brown eyes,
and beard in which fcw gray strands
uingle with the rich brown. Altogether,
kindly and courteous in his look; and
upon his arm is tall and handsome lady,
with black eyes, and rich summer color
IN her cheeks.
piatt is Of mixed Ohio and Virginia stock,
and belongs to Il family of genius-lterary
and otllerwiSc-almost all the men Of
which went to the war and became officers.
His Ohio ancestor was Revolutionary Off
Ger, who settled in the Mackucheck Valley,
III Logan county, near the town of West
liberty, and left Il large estate, which J.
suspect Don to have had too much good ma
ture to have increased in acres.
Don Piatt would have made an equally
good novelist or playwright if he had not
SPEAKER, and so popular with people gene
~ lo OF CT,