The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-11-25

And then | resumed with the President
Eyes, sir, I've been at receptions before
plenty of them-old Nyes Injun recep
tons. But they warnt as starchy as thi
by considerable. No great long string O
highfyers like those galoots here, yol
know, but old highfavored Washoes ant
Pi Utes, each one of them as powerful as
rag-factory on fire. Phew Those wer
halcyon days. Yes, indeed, General ane
madam, many and many's the time
out in the wilds of Nevada, I've been-'
"Perhaps you had better discontinue
your remarks till another time, sir, as tn,
crowd behind you are growing somewha
impatient" the President said.
'Do you hear that 2" said to the fel
low behind me. suppose you will tax,
that hint, anyhow. 1 tell you he is milde
than would be. If was President,
would waltz you people at the back dool
if you came crowding a gentleman this
way that I was holding a conversation
with"
And then l resumed with the President
81 think that hint of yours will star
them. l never act so. 1t is about all
can do to keep my ground with that moi
showing up behind me. But don't worry
on my account, General-don't give your
self any uneasiness about mel can stanc
it as long they can. I've been through
this kind of mill before. Why, as I was
just saying to you, many and many time
out in Nevada, have been at Governor
Nye's Injun receptions, and between you
and me, that old man was good deal OF
u Governor take him all around. I DOM
Lp hot lo
| think you'll admit that Bill Stewart and
Tom Fitch take a bigger average of brain
into that Capitol up yonder, by hundred
and fifty fold, than any other State in
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 trifine
ward in the city of New York casts two
votes to Nevada's one-and yet those three
men haven't superiors in Congress fol
straight tout, simon-pure brains and abili-
ty. And if you could have been at one OF
old Nye's Injun receptions and seen those
sayages not high flyers like these, you
know, but frowsy old bummers with moth
ing in the world on in the summer time
but an old battered plug hat and pair OF
spectacles-I tell you it was swell affair
was one of Governor Nye's early-day re-
ceptions. Many and many's the time ]
have been to them, and seen him stand up
and beam and smile on his children, as he
called them in his motherly way-beam
upon them by the hour out of his splendid
eyes, and fascinate them with his handsome
face, and comfort them with his persuasive
tongue-seen him stand up there and tell
them anecdotes and lies, and quote Watts
hymns to them, until he just took the wal
spirit all out of them-and grim chiefs
that came two hundred 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 Devil
dered with his inspired mendacity, and
perfectly satisfied and enriched with an
old hoop-skirt or two, lot of Patent Office
reports, and few sides of condemned
army bacon that they would have to chain
up to tree when they camped, or the
shippers would walk off with them. | tell
you he is a rafting talker. Talk! It's nc
name for it. He-well, he is bound tc
launch straight into close quarters and a
heap of trouble hereafter of course-well
we all know that-but you can rest salts
fed that he will take off his hat and put
out his hand and introduce himself to the
King of Darkness perfectly easy and com.
Portable, and let on that he has seen him
somwhere before; and he will remind him
of the parties he used TO know, and things
that's slipped out ofhis memory-and he'll
tell him thousand things that he can't
help taking an interest in, and every now
and then he will just gently mix in an an
ecdote that will fetch him if there's any
laugh in him-he will, indeed-and Jim Nye
will clip in and help cross question the
candidates, and he will just hang around
getting more and more sociable all the time
and doing this, that and the other thing in
the hardest sort of way, till he has made
himself perfectly indispensable-an then
the very first thing you know
wheeled and said:
"My friend, your conduct grieves me to
the heart. A dozen times, at least, youl
unseemly crowding has seriously intertered
with the convention | am holding with
the President, and if the thing occurs again
shall take my hat and leave the premises.
81 wish to the mischief you would
Where did you come from anyway, that
you've gothic unutterable cheek to spread
yourself here and keep fifteen hundred
people standing waiting half an hour tc
shake hands with the President ~
An officer touched me on the shoulder
and said:
"Move along, please; you're annoying
theP President beyond all patience. You have
blocked the procession, and the people be.
hind you are getting furious. Come, move
along, please"
Rather than have trouble, moved along
So had time to do no more than look back
over my shoulder and say: eyes, sir, and
the fret thing they would know, Jim Nye
would have that place and salary doubled
I do reckon he is the handiest creature
about making the most of his chances that
ever found an all-sufficient substitute fol
mothers milk in politics and sin. Now
that is the kind of man old Nye is-and
in less two months he would talk every
But can't make you hear the rest, General
without hollering too loud"
COVERING UP THE SCAR.-A distin
guished preacher of London, in speaking
of the proneness Of Christian denomination:
to observe each others defects rather thar
excc!lencies, says:
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