The Washington critic., 1885-08-31

timely monetary aid. On that dismal
day Henry Clews saw his fortune slip.
ping through his fingers ut the rate Of
thousands of dollars u minute He was
in the swirl of the financial whirlpool
which was carrying its victims round
with dizzy and cvcr-incrcaging rapidity
toward the fatal centre wherein was
monetary ruin. IL was trying cXpc-
ricncc even for man Of 80.
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Ono would Judge from the following
story, told by the correspondent Of the
Minneapolis TTibNHc, thnt the life Of
Government clerk was getting to be
anything but happy one. Says the
writer: This morning one Of the oldest
and most faithful clerks in m aulitor's
Office, Treasury, was met on the way to
his daily grind. His air was one Of OK
trcmc detection, his step slow all un-
certain and his countcnanc1 was
cast down. Replying to an inquiry, he
stated that he felt almost as though he
belonged to chain gang, aud was ON
his way TO the stOnc-ple. Being asked
what was the trouble, he said: we are
treated ~ If we were criminals; watched
on every hand; spies all around us,
ready to report, and anxious. too. every
little dcreliction. We are timed down
to u minute. II we stop 10 dcciphcr an
obscure word or unite knotty point,
we are scowled at rs If we were com
hitting penal oilchsc. 1t is hard; IL
is humiliating. Time was when men
could serve the Government and retain
their sclf.respcct Time was when
men were put on their honor and
treated like gentlemen, and they
did more work than they do under
this spying and grinding system. Men
took some pleasure in their work, and
they were all anxious to turn Off US much
of It rs possible, and under that system
the new people found the service so per-
feet that they have not dared TO make
many radical changes, but are content
with scolding, spying and scowlng.
The consequence is the service is de.
moralized everywhere, and fear, hatred
and contempt characteristics IL ut every
point" "But why don't you resign aud
get out of such h disagreeablc serviccY'
| cmphatically inquire. eve II family
here, and have been in the service so
long | don't know anything else to do;
am unfit for other business, I've chill
dren to educate, and have only home
for my resources; so must grin and
bear it, if | can"
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Says writer in the New York
T35bHne: "Mr. Eads has been engaged
under heavy contract by the Brazil.
ian Government to survey the entrance
of the port of the Rio Grandc du South.
That is the name they give to it in the
abbreviated correspondence between
Mr.. Eads and the Brazilian Minister,
Signor j. G.. Dc Amaral Valcnte, who
is residing at Long Branch for the
summer, and whom advise such of
the profession as desire to interview
him to get the proper spelling and pro
nunciation of his name and the river
whose terminus is to be deepcned. The
latter appears on the map rs Rio Grandc
dc S. Pedro du Sou. The contract was
closed last week, and Mr.. Eads will
sail for Rio Janciro on the 9th of next
month. lie was urged to 20 on the LIST,
but refused on account of other and
more pressing business. said to him:
i presume this means the abandonment
of the Tchuantcpcc railway scheme 2
He looked at me Indignantly and ] felt
ut first that | had insultcd the engineer,
but moment later | recognized that
| he only regarded me as sort of mild
| lunatic He said L have no intention
| of abandoning the ship railway scheme
or any other great enterprise | conceive
while live. ! shall die with harness
on my back. The Tehuantcpec ship
railway win be built. am going away
| to look at this South American work
| and that will not interfere in the slight
est degree with my Tehuantcpcc ship
railway. And | don't know why you
should always speak of it as the Tchu-
antcpec railway. 1t is slip railway,
and he emphasized the word ship. "
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A gentleman long and largely inter
ested in the cattle and mining industries
of New Mexico and Arizona, having
Just returned to St. Louis from pro.
tractcd absence in the West, was of
course subjected to the newspaper inter
viewers particularly with regard to
General Crook and the soldiers under
| Ms COlhlluHu' vi luc NtutIUl nc Sull
to Republican reporter: GIVE known
him well since way back in the iilties,
when he was lieutenant at Fort Jones
in California. ! met him last in the
Owyhcc country in 1867. | know all
| about him, and better officer never
wore uniform. He may be getting a
tritlc old now as he has been in harness
nearly forty years, and don t recall Il
soft billet that he has had in all that
time His work up in Oregon and
Idaho in lS6G-1-S was magnificent, and
he ended the Indian troubles there, al.
though he was howlcd at by the same
class of contractors, Indian ringsters
and land -grabbcrs that are barking mt
him now. Do believe that Crook was
captured in the Sierra Modre? No, |
don't. In the first place, don't think
that there is an Indian living that
could capture him alive; in the second
place, no Indians have ever yet cap
turCd American troops without killing
them, and in the third place, Crook is
manly enough to report it If he had
been. He took, rs you may remember,
only forty men down into those
mountains with him--that is, white
men, and two hundred Apachcs.
If he had failed under such
| circumstances there would have