The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-04-07

board, have squeezed him numerically
And finally they got him down, and every
body is glad of it. In his day, when he
had power, he showed no mercy. He never
asked or gave it, and now that his enemies
have him, they mete out to him his own
medicine. Drew's career was a strange
one. He commenced life as drever, and
having accumulated some little money,
went into Wall street. As he was totally
unscrupulous, very bold and daring in his
operations, and very shrewd as well, he
amassed an immense fortune. At one
time he was worth not less than fifteen
millions, and he was never quoted at less
than ten. He was probably the most ig-
norant man that ever did business. His
ignorance of the English language was one
of the standing jokes on the street, and
Drew's last " was as common as lying.
He approached broker one morning with
the remark, ssDon't you b'leeve that the
skrimmage on Nor'western hez about cal
qsmnSateds'' "Calumniated was as good
a word for him as :" eliminated. . He is d
loud professor Of religion, and after par
ticularly villainous operation IN stocks
would endow a religious school, or church,
with as much unction as though he had
been in dead earnest. He built and en-
dowed seminary in New Jersey, and his
benefactions were widespread. It is said
Of him that he was applied to to give
enough to endow a school at time when
he felt rather poor. ST wanted to do it,"
said Drew, "but didn't see my way clear,
SO prayed over it, and wrastled long, and
got a answer right away. I riz from my
knees. and went down on the street, and
skinned the boys out Nv it, jest es easyw
In the schedule of his effects he takes great
pains to include "Bibles and hymn-books,
$3.50" The loss of those books must prey
ON the old mans mind AS it is said that
he has something in the neighborhood of
five millions safely put away in the name
Of his family, it is not probable that he win
suffer in his old age. He was great ad-
mirer of Jim Fisk, and did great deal of
business with him when Fisk was on the
street.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.
You can't imagine the wild delight with
which the news Of the glorious triumph in
New Hampshire was received by the Re-
publicans of New York. If there is any
one thing that the New York Republican
breads, as business man, and aside from
any political feeling, it is the return of the
Democracy to power, for it means to him
the old Tweed rule, which is another name
for ruin. The sentiment of the Republi-
cans of the city was well expressed by a
prominent business man at the Union
League Club. "The election and the vic
tory" said he, is not an endorsement of
Belknap and the thieves--it is verdict
that the Republican party is not response
Bile for the acts of few corrupt men,"
And speaking of this election, it is singular
how it tears into the Independents. The
Tribune has awakened to the fact that the
party is the only one that ever
did any Investigating ii its own ranks, and
The only one that ever punished its own
thieves. Itfeall seemed to feel good eyer
the Republican triumph-sin the GEaiite i
State, and read more as it used to before
Horace Greeley went insane than it has for
years. It would not be singular if the 1rS-
bssae should get back into the Republican
fold, and be a power in the party once
more. PIETRoM
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