The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-19
HAM. CAMP.
A Hard Shell Romance Of Washing
ton Society.

ton Society.
From the Washington Correspondence of the
Cincinnati Commercial
at is not uncommon for
Cabinet officers, having daughters on
their hands, to appoint certain young
fellows of finished extremities to Office,
that they may dance attendance on the
girls, and be useful. know of quite O
little romance of the latter class
Young Hamilton Camp, known as Ham,
Camp, came up to the Capital from the
backwoods, about as awkward and green
o youth as you ever run away from. He
was poor, of poor family, and had edu'
Gated himself by working during the
summer to have means for schooling IN
the winter. He was one of those knotty-
headed, shrewd fellows, always looking
out for self. He found himself here,
bent on office, with few hundred dol
lars in pocket, and no end of confidence
In himself. He took the measure OF
the women, and planned his campaign
accordingly. 1t was original. Sleeping
in an attic, and regulating his diet on
the most economic scale, he expended
his means on a tailor and dancing
master.
"And should say that Ham. Camp
was donkey"
"Wait bit. He appeared at all the
receptions, balls, land parties to which he
could gain access, and as he soon came
to be recognized as an ornament, balls
and parties opened before him. And
at all OF them he was very attentive to
the lovely and accomplished daughter
r. Sc fha NJ h.nnt ~
81 see, the old story of love lifting the
lowly."
"Wait bit. He had the adroit flat
terry of the ears. He listened with the
intensest interest to all the little
troubles of Miss -, and came III
time to be necessary to her happiness
in the ballroom. He never breathed a
word of love, or what was more import
ant to him, of office. The season drew
to close, and Ham. Camp found him.
self out of money. He suddenly disap-
peared from society. One day Miss
met him on the avenue, and held
out her two little hands. Where have
you been, you naughty maHH she cried
He made no response, but as they walk
ed along he quietly gave her what she
had long before given him, aiconhdence,
and told of his ambition, poverty, and
limited at his love. A few days after he
was appointed to the best office in the
Department over which the Hon. father
presided"
"And they lived in peace and died
inadipose-as the children say"
"NOt to any extent. Ham. was very
ut tentive to the daughter, but never
told his love. Less than a year after
his appointment a change in the Admin
istration drove the Hon. papa from his
place. Ham. saw the trouble comm g
and was prepared. He did not court
the successor, but he did court most as
siduously the rich widow Japonica
then on the crest of fashionable society
In Washington. She did not encourage
his love, but better still, became hiE
warm supporter. So that when Ham
was bowed out of his nice place, it was
to 90 into another and better"
"And he sold himself TO the widow y
"Not much. She married first
class mission, with title, and went
abroad"
"Good lord, is this man going to court
everybody, and marry no one"
he maTIlcu az ldSt' Iuo Wal Cdule
on and o shrewd money.getting little
creature by the name of Cranks died
one day, leaving fat widow and some
fatter contracts. Ham. married the
widow and the contracts, and now he is
amillionaire. Next winter he proposes
to buy his way to the Senate aud help
rule this troubled land"
"What a cold bloOded rascal; and
suppose little Miss --, his first love,
died of broken heart"
at may have been broken. Every
woman's heart, sooner or latter, is
broken. Be that as it may, it did not
prevent her marrying one of the richest
men in all these United States-apd
she is the gayest creature you ever
saw"
"And 80 ends this eventful history"
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