Year: 1873

Gen. Granville NJ. Dodge Of Iowa is gem
tleman of varied atainments who has served
his country as a soldier and a Congressman and
civil engineer lie was, we believe, Chief En-
gineer of the Union Pacific Railroad. He is car
rying around with him at this writing as much
general information of an interesting and en-
tertaining character concerning that railroad
as almost any other man. 1t is information
such as the Poland Committee, or the Wilson
Committee, or the Morrill, Committee, or any
of the other committees that have been en-
gagged for the past two months seeing how
little they could find out, would give great
deal not to have. 1t is that kind of infOrma-
ton that makes trouble, and if there is any
thing that these committees mean above all
things to avoid, it is trouble. Gen.
Dodge is reported to have all the
information about the expenditure of money
not to Esake it for the Interest," of members
TO look into the law" but to induce the
Government Commissioners to accept the road
as fast as it was built. Gen. Dodge is at
present engaged in looking gafter railroad some
wheIe in the Southwest, and his headquar-
ters are at Marshall, Texas. A little while ago
one of the Committees that have been going
round this business contemplating 1t from
afar and wondering why so many Congress
men told so many lies i'll such tuent way,
was Informed that Gen. Dodge had this
budget of facts under his hat. The Commit
tee sent the Scrgeant-at- Arms, and the Ser
geant-at-Arms sent another man, to Texas to
find him and invite him to come TO Washing
ton and unbOsOm himself. Gen. Dodge was
as anxious to gIsh as the Committee was TO
hear him. As soon as he heard that
he was wanted he left Marshall, Texas,
and started for Washington. At least
that is what the citizens of Marshall say he
did. Somehow he lodged the officer who was
sent to summon him. In fact they lodged
each other. For, it is believed that the officer
was as anxious to summon him as he was to
be summoned They did not dodge each other
by mutual consent. Perish the thought But
Gen. Dodge started for Washington. Days
have passed. He has not arrived. Some
where in the wds of the Southwest he is
cropping his way toward Washington. His
anxiety to reach there before the 4th of March
cannot be doubted. For if he does not arrive
till then his budget cf information will be
valueless and stale. Poland and Wilson and
Morrill, and both houses of Congress have
waited and waited for him, and the deputy of
the Sergeant-at-Arm has looked everywhere
for him, but he does not appear.


Ii is one of the most mysterious disappear
ances of the season. He was so anxious to get
to Washington and tell his little tale that he
started right off without waiting to finish his
railroad so as to be there i'll time. Possibly
he has wandered off into Mexico. Wherever
he is he has stores of information that the
Congressional Printer is waiting to bind up,
and it is beginning to be feared that he will
not get it in time now to be distributed be-
fore the abolition of the Franking Privilege
goes into effect


There have been a great many Dodges in
Washington of late, but no Gen. Granville NJ
Has anybody seen hint The Sergeant-at-
Arms is looking for him, and several commit
tees are very anxious about him. He is some
where between Marshall, Texas, and Wash
ington. Can he be fOundi