The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-03
'.JIM NYE."
"REMINISCENCES OF THE CAREER OF SENATOR
NYE, OF NEVADA.

"REMINISCENCES OF THE CAREER OF Senate
SYE, OF NEVADA.
Is it really true that ex-senator Nye is yer
il in New York: \ paragraph to that etfet
went through the papers short time age
but to those of US who remember Nye-" Jir
Nye"-as he was here only two year
ago the feebleness and languor Of illness ar
the very last things we can as3oci ate with him
All, jim take you all in all, your brothe
Senators wish they could look upon Your lk
| again, as they sigh through the tedious hour
OF lon:sxinded speech, that would be wortl
coming to hear for the sake OF your soto zoe
comments aud inimitable remarks.
Hye was peculiar fellow. He wasn't par,
scularly witty ia debate. Proctor Knott
ca. oe McCrecTy has :. score If tunnie
speeches than le ever mad. He seldom sale
anything droll al open Senate. but after re
plying demurelT enough to any as -ailaut. h
would turn g Ii, 4eighbor, dgop llis head IN
a peculiar way be had, AMI make some re
mark that would c3nyulse every body within
hearing. He sat nesr SUmnes some Yeas.
and even tie d;gni,s Of the mighty 'Chaw -
was vulnerable to his arrows. Simmer. who
had probably the slightest seEse Of humor OF
any man IN the Senate, never was quite sure
, ~
think that stately embarrassment. waver no
between otter S. and laughter. pleased Nye
more than Tie halrtiest appreciation.
Nye was . Ha'lse of New Aorls STATE, and
lived there tliA .roWS man. His parents
we've godly. ,ioGI people who ins:iIed the
letter. il not the law, OF religion faithfully into
tlItir sons heart. One OrIgh: Sunday morn
ing he was told to 90 to the barn and harness
the horses fo. cln.c5. lie sent them around
to the hous. y :oungeS brother and came
himself by elreultoIs route through the
field. jumping fences and hedges. to work st1
his supeliinous energy. But when lie came
IN sight g. tie front Door. there stood his
father. birci. in hand ana wrath on lis brow.
Sim sobereG down directly and asked with
great anxiety "has Ga. matt r was. MAT.
tex xoarad his father. "Matter, sir Iuis
IS what's the matter. Next time YOU walk
nom. IN Christian way and not 20 jumping
eh"es IN that shs and frivolous spirit. Sab
oath morning"
Probably .he path of such etrai,-Yacea viz
ne vas too narrow .or Nyos way ward feet, SO
le Ggifted OF: 20 Nevada, where people are
lot SO particular about TRIES. Il was here
Mark Twain met him. and tie acquaintance
vas mutually bencticial: the statcsn n found
historian; ahe author an inspiration. Nor
S his name known to his own countrvmen
My, for the "Piccadlly Annual " for II Il |
hinkt has toot-note to An Sins story. OK. |
flaming to the British public that the gentle.
nam VII" event for that heather Chince"
as intended 70 personify a certain United /
tatts Senator Of the same name, whose fond
ess ior cards was powerful. Such is fame. |
Aye was fascinating fellow nay is now
oubtless. for i man like him lasts funny tor
long time Only We have way in Washing
~ OF bounding q mans natural by his poiit.-
Il life. He-could suit himself to any audience
e could tel. stories whose profanity and IN.
ecsncy would make even a bar-room aldi-
rec recoil from a man whose tongue was
aimed 70 such foulness. lilo could address
Sunday school, and recite verse after verse
the Blble vita solemnity and patLos. aud
ach those innocent children the lessons his
other taught him TIL there were tears, hot
one IN the eyes upturned to him, but in his
N, genuine tears, 100; his veneration Of that
others memory was ever abiding, and it
as Just such 4,limpsts of "a better lture
ming through the worldly wisdom and
ans and easy going morality Of his life
At chicareG him him to his friends :
His love affairs here if collected and re- ,
rded would set up circulating library. H ,
- WIdoWer, You see, handsome. eloqnent,
luvaeti. and Just at that mature age which
lac hold, 70 ba!rresisti5la / believe Jim ,
I. the mitten once. but then you can't tell +
Ythlng about such stories. t3r they never !
me out twice alike. Maybe il wasn't Nye =
All some other tellOw thit looked like y
III. Any how, there Was "a lady here, an in
Hgent, attractive woman, who had noble
cord OF selt-sacrifce and service done for ;,
# ring humanity. She got acquainted with !
e or this other man, and though the sutton q
d double her years, the acquaintance RI
ned into betrothal. just about this time :,
Wealthy young Greek, who desired Ameri-
L education. was sent over here, and Nye n
no. It couldn't be Eye was appointed his n
ardian. :"
~ see how preposterous it is to fasten this q
ry on Nye the idea OF his being guardian ~
anybody. Shades of Them toces , And "
: Greeks are not contiding people either. 81
seems hardly worth while to go on with y,
$ story III connection with jim, and, "
cut it short le. me say that be-
e SIX months Telemachus had outwi!ted ~,
Mentor: the lady was his, or at least
missed she would be- Alas for the philos- J.,
~ Of Blzac. Byron, who suggests two u
bands Of twenty-five to one of fifty, was II
Fer right. Teemachus' patrmony dis "
'eared abou. TIL, time, and there was -
re unpleasantness on that score between
rdlan aud ward though it seems to me u,
easonable to expect the first to show great III
Germ about it, Considering how grievously -
foreigner had defrauded him. Then, fred
or to retrieve his broken for
es, our Greek whispered "Zoe mou sas
pc to his love, 1t to fight for France
the Emperor. and. like the lad fairy in +;
story -books. "nevrr came back any oh
e." 81
hat odds docs il make now whether it % %
Nye or not. The grass is growing green i''
edan over the young soldiers grave; the
= lar away from here, the proud matron Di
happy home. Nye is growing DID, and
afford to smile at his tricks and yagaries. Ba
Ne~ Ton World
Science of Ship Construction. inI
he discussion as to the proper form OF the ru
r lines of cbipc 10 CtilI ;ol ~, =, I 81