Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-05-21

" Arlington correspondent o. lAC y lew 1CIk liheA'
Last evening e number Of GENTLE
men sat together in a leading hotel
here and talked about MOrrisscy un-
til bedtime. All except one of them
had been his personal friends, and
that one was no less a person than
the venerable but still hale and hear
ty Simon Cameron One after anOth-
er they told their little story of the
dead mans life, and "the old Sena-
tori listened in silence and With
much attention. At last, when the
rest had apparently finished, he broke
the silence he had kept so long by
exclaiming suddenly and in his w
quick, nervous way: Il never bad
much personal knowledge Of Nr,
MorrisSey, but | heard One story of
him which always impressed me very
deeply" what was 1t? What was
it?' asked the others 10 a breath,
and in reply Mr.. Cameron related the
following incident. | give his own
words as nearly as possible, only
omiting names at his request. He
said: "When Morrisey first came
TO Washington | must confess that |
was not very favorably impressed with
him, lie had a bad record, of course.
and some how or other most people
in this world have a mean habit of
remembering all the bad things a
nan does and forgetting all the good
ones. At all events, | had never
heard anything good of Morrissey.-
For this reason | was very much sur
prised one day t hear my friend
Senator Cameron named one Of the
best known Republican leaders Of
New York-speak in terms of great
kindness Of him. | gave expression
to this surprise, when my friend told
me | was very much mistaken in
MorrisSey's character, and TO prove
what he said related the story to
which l alluded. 1t was. 30 the effect
that a young man Of great promise, a
resident of New York City. and a
clerk of a large business house, had
found his way into Morrissey's gam
bling saloon, and while there had
lost in play $4,000, which was for
the moment in his possession, but
which belonged to the firm in whose
employ he was. The next morning
the young man, fully realized his
pOsition, went TO his mother and told
her the whole story. She, almost
wild with grief, went to her husband
and repeated it to him. The old
MAI was so stunned by the Informal
ten Of his boys dishonOr that he
could suggest no plan by which he
might escape public disgrace and
punishment In fact, continued Mr..
cameron, ''they were all in I migty
bad way, but. as usual, the old wo-
man was the first to get her wis
about her, and she suggested to the
boys father to 90 to his friend,
(the republican leader already alIud-
ei to, and to get Kim to 90 to Nor
rissey and see if he would not help
them oar of their troubled The
friend consented, much against his
will. lie went to the gambler, told
him the whole story, and assured him
that disgrace and ruin would be
brought upon an estimable family if
the money lost by the young man
was not returned. Morrissey listen
ed quietly to all that was told him,
and then said: Well, that's all
very welP, but the young fellow lost
the money fair; and as for him bein' a
poor innocent young dove that didn't
know nothing of the world, that's
all stuff; he's been in our place often,
and won many a pile, but for the old
woman's sake I'll see what | can do.
Come TO my house tomorrow morn
ING and like as not | can make the
thing all right The next morning
the gentleman came as he was di-
rected. ard with the simple words,
Tell the old Oma to keep her boy
away from sportin' houses Morrissey
handed him the exact sum that the
young clerk had lost. If such an
action, said Mr.. Cameron, in conc!u
sion, docs not cover a multitude of
sins, my 70 years of life have taught
me no lessons and brought me 10
Knowledge As he said this there
was a suspicious moisture III the old
campaigner's eye, and at least one of
his auditors was ready to cry with