The record-union., 1891-04-26
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
An Incident of the Legislature of the
Year 1861.
A Jealous Husbands Experience with
Private Detectiye-SFort
Sumter.'s Fall.

of being governed by the almighty dollar,
they used to say in earlier days that a
few suits of clothes would go great way
in securing the passage of bill. One of
the press correspondents here during the
session of 1861 wrote to his paper little
sketch concerning a prominent Sacra-
mento clothier, who was also a heavy
buyer of scrip.
He had a claim before the Legislature
for upwards of So 900 which had been as
signed to him by attaches of the preced-
ing session for extra services. The bill
had passed the Assembly and was ON the
Senate file, and the merchant was in the
lobby waiting anxiously and nervously
for it to be taken up.
A wag, who understood the situation,
went to the Sacramentan and gravely as
sured him that he knew of two Senators
who would vote against the bill unless
they each received a new suit of clothes.
The merchants glass eye actually shed
| tears at this terrible announcement
"Oh, Mishter B." he cried, ST
gooden't shtandt te bress, s'help mine Cot,
l gooden't! You dellsh 'em I gifts 'em
| each bair O. bantsp'
No, they won't stand that" replied
We'll, den, gifts 'em each goatp'
No, they won't take anything less than
an elegant suit"
"Vell, musht haf der monish, 20 here
goesh-l gif dem de chloshe, but s'help
me, Moses, I'll nefer again dry to do
pishness init der Lechislather!'
The supposed lobbyist was about to
start off to see the two Senators, when
the clothier stopped him and inquired:
~ tie way, who vas te Sonaters vat
wants te close?'
1t happened that there were two very
large men in the Senate-one was Watt
OF Nevada, nearly seven feet tall, and the
other a Major c., of whom it was said
| at the time that he was as broad as the
Bell and Everett platform. The torturer
OF the clothler mentioned their names,
whereat the latter threw up his hands in
horror and exclaimed:
"Oh, mine Cot, tere isn't a suit in
mine sthore as will fit dose men! 1
goodent got dem short of New Yorrick.
only little Sharley De Long unit AIRY
Dornton, l good tit 'em ouid NIT ease,
for have large unit elegant sthoclk ofe
poys' cloting. 1 good fit Barks or CurneI
| Tickeson, or Shon Eakan, or Roats. or
Heecock, or Shon Watson, or Tick Irwin,
or Toe Fance, or Toe Vranklin, or Toe
Harvey, or Sol Sharp, or Henry Etcher-
| Watt vas so high as ter 'Rabian chant,
and CLARK is so pig te otter way No,
mein vrent, let ter pill go to ter waste
basket goodent sthand ter bressr
They put the bill through, however,
and the Sacramento merchant got his
money, but the fright he had suffered let
him out on buying up warrants after
that time.
.........A very good story had got into
| the local papers concerning a gentleman
then well known in society and business
circles here and in San Francisco. He
had young and very pretty wife, of
| whom he was decidedly jealous; and, if
the gossips of the two cities could be be-
lleved, his jealousy was not without
| cause AS they were persons Of means,
the wife spent considerable of her time
! in San Francisco, and in making the
| journeys to and from that city she was
the center of attraction on the steam
| boats. A certain river Captain, who was
considerable of gallant, was especially
attentive to her. Rumors of his wife's
gayety having reached his ears, the hus-
band resolved to have her watched by a
private detective.
There was then in the city quiet little
Frenchman who followed that profession,
and it was said he did a very good busi-
ness OF the kind already referred to. The
merchant went to him and stated his case
and the Frenchman promised to do his
| best. He was, for some weeks after that.
| noticed more frequently on the river
than formerly, but only few knew him
as detective.
One day he presented himself at the
merchants office and handed him bill
| for $500, at the same time informing him
that, while his wife was exceedingly gay
in the company of her gentleman friends
| still he had not been able to detect her in
any serious breach of propriety. The
| merchant then asked him how his de-
mand for few weeks services became
so large.
"Ah, monsieur" replied the detective
u conclude, also, re beel for what I dc
for Ze madame"
''oh, I see" said the merchant, re-
fiectively. 81 guess, after all, I've been
doing Clara wrong. Here's she's been
| so jealous of me all this time that she's
actually had this fellow following me up
Now, woman is never jealous of a man
she doesn't love; SO L guess I'll pay the
bill, but it's pretty good joke on me.''
AS he counted out the money to the de-
tective, he asked:
when was it my wife employed you
to watch me?"
"You, ~ responded the astonished
frenchman, as he pocketed the coin
w, ze madame nevare employ me to
watch you W
''Then who the mischief did she employ
you to watch ?'' cried the husband, grow
ing excited.
Wy, Capitaine -, re chef officaire o.
| re steamboat!'
The merchant dropped into the nearest
chair, and called to the office boy to bring
himl some brandy and water A divorce
suit in high life was the outcome Of the
affair.
| INIT may be of interest to some per-
sons to know the ages of the more promi-
nent actors and actresses thirty years
| ago, as some of them are "still in it.
| Edwin Forrest was "a, Edwin F. Booth
| 27, John Wilkes Booth %, f. S, Chanfrau
80. Couldock 45, Charlotte Cushman 48,
| L. l.. Davenport Al, Susan Denim %, John
Drew 81, Hackett 60, Julia Dean Hayne
80, Joe Jefferson 81, J. E. Murdock As,
Neafe As, Maggie Mitchell %, Peter
| Williams 81, Sol Smith SO, J. w. Wal
lack 66, Henry Wallack 20, Miss j. NJ.
I Davenport 30, John w. Florence %,
Mile Piccolomini "a, Adelaide Phillips
IL.
ION the 25th of April the pony ex-
press brought the news of the attack
upon and the fall of Fort Sumter in
| Charleston harbor, and President Lin
coin had issued his proclamation calling
out an army of $4,000 men in the hope OF
its being sufficient to put down the up
rising. Like others, even Lincoln did
not dream of the deep-seated treachery
that prevaded the Southern States.
.........0n the day following receipt OF
the news that Fort Sumter had been fired
upon, "Old Mose,' the octogenarian
| bootblack, secured an old uniform of the
Sutter Rifles, and marched through the
streets talking war. The old fellows
heart was stirred to its very depths by
the news and liberal supply of whisky,
and he would have fought regiment of