Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-11-30
LETTER FROM AUSTIN.
Austin, New. Nov. % 1878.

4 Director Llnderman. Did you ever meet the
= Director of all the MINIS! Did you ever NEE
his brother A. B., who ran the contracts IL
9 San Francisco originally ''barker" for &
| dry goods house, and when the war broke out
a curbstone gold broker till the sharps cleaned
: him out; then missionary in the commission
, line, and at last under the patronage of his
brother, contractor for various supplies in
, San Francisco; working all day for good nat
private rooms at the Lick House; for which
overhaul Chadwick of the international =
and when found "make note ont"
III. R. Lindermaa was originally an M. d.
without patient a yellow-haired, fat-footed
Pennsylvania Dutchman, who knew nothing
and never will. How he became Director of
the Mint at Philadel phia is something beyond
the comprehension of any sane man; for a
more untitled cuss never wore fiat shanked
No. II, and how he mounted to be Director
General beats my time and that of Goldsmith
! Maid. But Director he became, and still
continues to vent his theories, born from the
brains of poor, impecunious men like you and
me, who have somehow missed our footing in
the world and fallen into the bruhia of some
prowling devilfsh ready to gather to its hun.
CRY NAV all the hel pless fish that come within
its reach. Director Linderman has one re-
deeming quality-brass I'll venture the
assertion that he never wrote one of his re-
ports, and had even to practice from a copy
to sign his name. Mem No. 2 A candidate
for Director of the Mint at Philadelphia is
Col. A. Lowden Snowden, a bigger ignoramus
than even Linderman. James Ross Snow
den, once Speaker of the House of Represen-
tatives of Penn, married the oldest daughter
of Gen. Patterson, who didn't save Bull Run,
and who furnished maggoty crackers and
musty pork to the boys in Mexico, and made |
fortune after three failures. Col Snowden |
became Director of the Mint under the egis |
of the General, and a nephew of Mrs P.
1. Engle Segus,w was appointed to post where
his duties were to weigh gold dust, then conl-
ing in large quantities from California. J. E.
allowed his nails to grow too long, and fell
low named Cochran detected him III the trick
of going home without washing his hands,
and so j. E. found the climate of Germany
more healthy than that of Pennsylvania, and
" left his country for his country's good. I
recall these little circumstances, with malice
toward none and with charity to all, only to
show how we, the public, are imposed upon, .
because executive officers cannot possibly in :
vestigate individual cases. H. r. Under s
man, James Ross Snowden, and his nephew, t
now an aspirapt for the Dictatorship of the q
Mint are all men of less than S
but with more cheek than will t
belong to the French statue of g Liberty" in I
New York harbor; while you and [, who 4
should be sent through the world labeled a
3 fragile" are compelled to stand aleof and f
ask, "Can such things be and overcome US a
ike summer cloud ?" d
I" Would you len me the loan of your AP- Il
ZEAL ?" said Hibernian friend yesterday. | a
lad already loaned it to ten, and " the last
nan was worse than the first" for he never T
eturHed it. l expressed my regrets, and il
sked what he wanted to see, as probably | E
ould inform him. ooh, damn the hair | n
are, Sdlu uo, lOl tuo UNITY Sncet pul Of
ONE cur, bad luck to him, is thrying to make r
IN of our society, and be COB, L want to a,
now who he is" I'm sorry to have offended lie
ny member of that Literary Society, and re
specially Stub, who says he wiz appear pl
fertilization" to any one who calls him b,
tripod The society is doing well, and T
God luck to it, say We. The RepsiAe says
nat it is the purpose of the members to give
songs, and perhaps personifca- N
ons' of dramatic characters, in which, it is "
oped, the great Booth himself will appear. re
We're as dull as dish-water here there d
MT a ripple on the surface of things. The
ioneers had their annual reunion last week, IT
nd the cold boys y engaged in hop, and so
ad grand supper to close with Loustalot, =
he great caterer, gave them a set-out of pork
i'd beans, which reminded one of the "chris
ming of Ballyporeen," where they had
pertaties dressed both ways, both roasted
I'd boiled" And the old boys, who had n
lmped here in '63, lived over the old times
they sat around the festive board, or cut
pigeon wings 80 long out of date that the R Ps
,ung folks gazed in such admiration as did or
am O'Shanter when in his ecstacies he clap
d HIS hands and cried out, " Well done, '"'
tty sark," as Mamie tlapan' fang" in
Allowy's auld haunted kirk" The old boys
me in from the surrounding valies, dressed