New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-09

sent such puppy to represent thou In the Legislature
! should feel It. and so forth.
"Whcn the storm over the offenders learned
that the old had had his quarters changed
temporarily and by fatality had been given tho
room next 10 Logan's. lie had listened for hour
in agonized silence 10 the sport that made OF
himself, and then the torrent had burst forth The
serious side OF IT, however was To come. During all
tho session the member from Jackson-I believe that
vas the county represented by Logan-was able
fo gain recognition from tho Chair No despOt ever
exerc scd arbitrary power moro mercessy than did
the Speaker whose vanity had been sorey wounded
Exposmlatlon was useless. Speaker Reynolds wOull
not know that there existed member named Logan.
and he came succeeding in his rescntfl purpose
and forcing the young member into private l.fe.
! logan managed to weather tho storm. but tho stretch
ing of authority by a presiding officer was pretty
sure TO call up from him the eccentric Governors
character zatlon OF Colonel Morrisons ancestors AMI
the way in which his own experience with the testy
historian came about"
Senator Vest says that tho Presidents Message
minds him Of Thomas Jenersons WILL When Jefrer-
son died he was found TO have made requests aggIe
eating S2Oo00o careful examination of his estate
showed that he about 100000 in debt at the time
OK his death
I understand that Representative David WILDER, Of
| The XXIVth Congressional District Of NcwYork, IS
naturally somewhat gratncd by the fact that hts
Congress by increased majority. among which
he counts some OF the Democratic minority formerly
arraycd against him; and this In spite of the fact
that his district was one OF the many in New-Yofk
state which by the jealous rufllers--ln
the shape OF Pension OGcc Special Examiners-sent
ont In droves by The Physical Wreck in the interest
Of Cleveland and Reform 1t may possibly interest
Representative WILDER to know that It is alleged that
Charles f. EsensteIn Of the Special Examiners
In question, Is only accredited with the disposal OF
one solitary pension claim by the Special Examination
Division during the whole month Of October. while
I'm New York State and this in spite Of the fact that
during tho campaign, Black published labered
dissertation TO prove that the duties Of MS Special
Examiners that time wholly nonpolitical
and that they had adjusted far larger proportion Of
claims than the force formerly employed by Colonel
Dudley I'm field operat Ons had settled In any case
Representative WILDER Will probably find exhaustive
discussion Of this matter with Senator Hale and his
select Committee the Civil Service to be extremely
profitable
The Presidents Message being discussed
in group OF public the other day. Senator Plat
remarked, tersey 1t is special plea In answer to
an indictment by tho people"
you mean" broke in Judge Taylor, OF Ohio, It IS
special plea after the sentence of the court has
been passed"
Or plea perhaps chimed in Senator spooncr,
1" in arrest Of writ OF execution"
You wouldn't expect to look within the dusty
archives Of the Interior Department for anything laugh
ter provoking would your And yet such things are
not infrequently found there friend Of mine, ia
examining some old reports. came across that Of GER
tain Government Agent-unfortunaely he could not
recoect the name-who had been ordered to invest-
gate charge made against OF the Indian Agents
I'm Southwestern Minnesota, of having neglected his
instructions to build new saw-mil and griStmill
for an Indian tribe settled In Redwood County. The
Agent upon reaching the Indian settlement found
that the dam only had been completed but there
Of either mill be So he sat down and
reported to the Department in tho following language
81 examined things at the Agency, and found dam
by mill site, but didn't see any mill by dam ste.'
A group Of Naval officers were INDUCING the other
day in "reminiscences Of the war; when of them told
the following yarn:
Early the morning of December 81, 1861 he
said, Admiral Porter sgnaled to tine feet before
Fort Fisher Get under way and follow me- The
ship to which belonged was assigned in
the programme TO position between two
ronclads close under the fort We an
tcipated hot and terrible work The flag
ship led tho way and approaching within range,
when Lieuicnant-C commander b, OF my SHIP
ordered all hands called TO muster The brawny taIS
gathered aft the quarterback, with the officers In
their usual places, and commander began to read
from the prayer-book the Prayer before Battle 1t
was a solemn moment, none knew VINO OF No" many
among us might suddenly be ushercd into the
presence Of the God of Battles. Our commander read
as though he felt II the whole ships company were
awed and hushed, and the throbbng Of the engines
and wash OF water along the side seemed preterna-
nraly loud When about half through signal was
reported from the fsg-ship
Come TO anchor I'm your positions.
"When It was read 10 commander sudden
revulsion of feeling came him. Throwing down the
prayer book upon the hatch, he exclaimed
well I'll be-if Pm going to pray II we amt
a-gong to fight! Pipe downP'
United states Treasurer Hyatt IS a Yankee and like
all Yankees he has constantly got his eye open for
laborsavng devices. Everybody who enters his
office in the Treasury Department notices a lot OF
stubby pcnhoders. about two inches long, his desk
and wonders how any man can write with them. Mr..
Hyatt is generally called upon for explanation, and
he explains by saying that he holds his pen between
his first and second finger, and consequently has
use for long piece Of wood sticking up in the air
That wood, he says, weighs something. and the ad-
dltonal and unnecessary weight imposes more labor
in writing To who has to sign his name
several hundred times day everything that will tend
10 lessen labor IS worth while taking into coDsldcra-
ton. Perhaps this may be hint to people who
do not write according to the Spencerian system
The members Of the Chinese Legation are great
favortes with the girls IN society," because OF their
generosity. 1t Is common custom with them TO
make rich presents of quaint pieces Of brio a-brac
made by native workngmen Iewey. handsome fans
and other articles for which the Cclcsals
Justly famous, and they amusing and decidedly
original in their conversation. they find the best
houses open to them. One Of their queer customs
IS leave their photographs well their visiting
cards, when they call new acqueIntances, and
doubtless the photographs are more useful than the
cards In VT
so far the Coreans have not cut much OF a social
swa,h, and while rumors heard OF IIOdi IosScin
Ghooly Khan, tho Persian Minister, having inten-
tions to give grand ball this winter, society up to
the present time does not know much Of him.
A Board OF Foreign Missions" was in session hero
the other day While IL lasted the town seemed
InIt