, 1873-02-02

| Can1cron7s Pupil Who Hivcx In On
Sta:e and Represents Another.
Harrisou7g van 2e Correspondence .n Of TIC ttt'1tsT9
Sitting: in tho parIor Of the LochieI House
yesterday, watching the struggling currents o
lobbying and caucusing humanity that howca
and eddied through every room and corridor ant
up aud down every staircaso Of the house,
political friend suddenly pointed to the door AMI
said
"Do you SEQ that man who just came in?"
(Which one?''
.:va3y "Why, that man with the red wlisAers.''
swell, take q good look at him he is Senator
John J. Patterson, OF South Carolina.
I did take good look at him, for regarded
him Us something Of a phenomenon worth see
ing and Studying. Rather tall and slender, with
full, reddish beard, which some forty winters
had converted into q grizzled roam, be- looked
hke simmer Boss Tweed or younger Russell
Errett-not a bad looking man, either, with a
certain air Of IN honest, genial farmer about
him, that was quite engaging.
What is he doing up here :" inquired.
.".0h, he lives out hero ut litliin, only forty
miles away
Lives here! Why, thought he was from
South Carolina pr
"Oh, well, yes; so he does. Ho goes down
there every now and then-always when the
ship there But he really HCes here, where aQ
his folks are.'
"How is he liked at home ~
"Oh! they think he is a splendid fellow in
Mifflin. He knows how to manage them. When
he was elected Senator, and ugly rumors about
his buying the South Carolina Legislature be-
gan to spread around home, he sent on 81, 900 to
his friends in Mift1in to get up reception for
him there. They got up q grand one. Every
body IN the country around WIS inTited-elegaut
entertainments champagne. and al that sort Of
thing reception speech for iif1liu's favorite
son, whom sovereign Stnte had 6tly honored.'
Then the favorite aon' responded in speech
full Of the most sounding sentiments Of Justice
and humanity, ard assembled Aff1iin dispersed
in g state OF virtuous exultation."
g. And was there no one to tell the truth about
him to his friends and ncighbors }"
"Oh, he knows how to manage that. He gave
an editor two-hundred dollar diamond pin. and
the graceful fellow, who had been abusing him,
ceased reviling from that instant, and has
thought we'll Of him in his paper ever since. I
don't blame him much, either. John is aa good
hearted, generous fellow as ever you saw,
asRure you"
We thought so, too, and almost wished re
were Miff1in editor, but said nothing.
"The most curious thing about Patterson"
resumed our friend, sis, that he don't seen to
think he has done anything wrong in buying the
South Carolina darkeys. He defends his con-
det . Wh W. ss, ays he They we5s 9ps,n1ly tor
he, the other day.. referring to the Kansas
Senator who has got into such trouble, tCa1d-
we'll is fool he didn't lay his wireB deep
enough; everybody eau see them. could have
at all. He should have fixed it go tho 1egsla-
ture would never have complained, and then tho
Senate would never Lave Investigated"
'That, I suppose, is what he calculates on in
his own case." .#
ss Yes and I think with good reason. If the
Legislature Of South Carolina certitcs that Pat
teraon il duly elected, aud neither Legislature
nor Court of South Carolina makes complaint,
don't see what the United States Senate can do.
1t has no right to so behind the record OF 8 sov-
a Penitentinsy convict was her choice for SEN
ator, the United States Senate would have no /
choice but to take linn"
g Is Patterson Cameron man -
aYes, he Is now. He was educated in tho
Cameron school, and his political morality is
thoroughly Of the Cameron typo but he went to
South Carolina pretty much on his own hook
He went with Alex. Mcclure and two or three
other Pennsylvania politicians. who enigratea
there five or six years ago, all on the make:
bonds authorized. Patterson was confdentially
leputed by the crowd to place these bonds ad-
Ho 'placed' them in his own
pocket, and let Mcclure and the other fellows |
whistle for their money"
"What did Mcclure do7''
s'Ho could do nothing but come home dis |
;usted, and became o resormer in Pennsylvania. |
met Patterson once and asked him about this !
transaction Well, said he, wasn't it all right.
Mcclure would have done just exactly Whist I /
lone It he'd had tho chanco'''
$50 he defends bis course even in this case?''
"YeB, that is tho most astonishing course !
bout him. He Seems to think he ia a pretty
onest sort Of fellow. Look at him there, how
ant he is talking morality to him."
81 And after all, to tell the honest truth, said
~ political friend, looking admiringly at the
ontleman from Mifain and South Carolina, who