The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-08-26

with him 10 call on some ladies'. Old
joe spmccd himself up rs best M
could, but when he came down to ta'<a
The carriage hc was dressed in his
buckskin brccchcs aud his frontier
g0rb. Dallas broke out with, For
heavens sake, you don't mean t. sly
that you are going 70 call upon hlieS
in that drcssY i am, said Orcgon's
first Representative, FOR three r1a3)n'.
First, it's good enough; second, |
haven't any other; third, ] have no
money to get any other Dallas mn t.
the best Of the situation, an after.
ward said that the old frontcrimlu
bore himself well AMI that he lil lit
10 his people and to his party. Mce'i
returned TO Oregon and dropped blck
into his old habit, Of life His two
years experience in Washington gave
him abundant material, however, for
stories which greatly delighted hi3 old
associates, and for years were told and
rctold by him and by frontiersmen
generally.
w.
General John Il. Gordon, speaking
of his feelings at AppomattoX, says
they were "rcrriblc; beyond the tongue
of man to express. ] shall never be
the same man ! was during the years Of
the war. The presence of danger, the
excitement of battle, the sense of duty
to discharge, the consciousness of duty
performed, cXalts manhood above the
ordinary mortals. was lifted to the
skies; ! walked on the clouds; | was q
being entirely different from what am
now. The gloom that fell on me after
the surrender the day of AppomattoX
was unutterablc. The sun seemed
bottcd out of the skies. There was
no future, no hope, no opening in the
great bank of darkness before me; but
this feeling began to give way with the
charge and responsibility of my look
ing after my men and cheering them.
| never saw Il finer line of battle or a
more magnificent charge than when
my men swept forward to charge
Shcridan's soldiers, taking the last gun
captured in the war. When the word
came that our General had surrendered
men seemed paralyZcd. Some stood as
if dazcd They could not realize that
all was lost. | passed along the line
and saw old bronzed veterans weeping
like children. Some tore the flags from
their standards and hid them in their
bosoms. Many cOnvcrscd in sorrowful
groups, but most were silent and speech
less and seemed to be specializing on
the uncertainties of the future. The
light began TO dawn when the officers
Of both armies, myself among the num-
lcr, met to arrange the terms of the
surrender. General Grants order that
we might retain our sidc-arms aud
drive our horses home renewed hope"
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When in Kansas City the other day
Mr.. Nimmo, late chief of the Bureau
of Statistics, was interviewed by II
journal reporter at some length AM
talked very freely of his past expo.
riencc in the public Service and of his
future intentions in private life. In
answer to n question by the reporter
he said II went into Office twenty
years ago, when was appointed special
Government agent for the introduction
of the new method for measuring the
tonnage of vessels. Then | became
connected with the marine service, and
was finally appointed agent to investi-
gate and devise the best means for pay
mcnt of the postal railway service.
Afterward, when the internal commerce
branch of the National Bureau of sta
tistics was created, | was put in charge
of that branch, and it has Il history.
Senators Window of Minnesota and
Sherman of Ohio were mt the head of n
movement to establish national bu-
reau of internal commerce. They,
with some other Republican Senators,
believed that such bureau would be
of vast importance and was much
needed. The wisdom of their conclu.
sion has since been established thou
sand times, though the bureau they
proposed was never established. Every
thing was arranged for it, and it
seemed certain that the measure
would be successful but when the
time came the Democrats, as usual,
kicked on the grounds that it
was creating new and useless office,
and several weak knced Republicans
backed water Then, in order to save
the thing from defeat, the friends of
the measure changed their proposition
and made 1t the internal commerce
branch of the National Bureau of Sta.
listicS. Though ii was wrongly named
for the reason that the Bureau of sta
tistics dealt solely with foreign com
mcrce, il saved the bill, and the pro
posed Bureau of Commerce went
through as the tail to the Bureau of
Statistics ! was placed in charge Of
the internal commerce branch, and re
NAMED there until Mr.. Sherman was
appointed Secretary of the Treasury
AS he was one of the authors of the
original bill to establish the Bureau of
Internal Commerce, and was consc-
quCntly friendly to its friends, | was
appointed Chief of the Bureau Of Statis-
tics. Mr.. Window, another friend of
the same measure, followed as Secretary
of the Treasury, and | was again APP
pointed chief, remaining rs such until
last June" He was then succeeded by
Mr., SwitZlcr Mr.. NimmO is now
writing n series of articles for Harper $
NdgoziHe and the North american
Rerielr upon the cattle industry, and
purposes tour of the entire Northwest
and West in quest of information ON
that subject, lie further informed the
reporter that he is now building him
self new house ON Long Island, which
he will probably make his home, and
he may 90 into business in New York.
love Letters Then ana Now.
Angelica" said the father, AN
gclica, | never thought daughter of
mincwould be so undutiful so lacking in
respect for her parents, as to have any
thing to do with young man who
could write such letter rs this Listen
to this, wife," and he opened the letter
and read;
'My own darling" it ran, Pm all
broken up. | knew the old man was
cantankcrous, but | did not think he
could be so all-tiredly brutal. He's
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