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Show An Ex-Senator's Disgrace The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Times tells the sad story of a graduate of Harvard, a brilliant man, who became an eminent educator, and served the Government in a public office several years in a Southern State. When the State was reconstructed he was elected to the United States Senate, and served with distinction for six years. He was a chairman on the committee on education and labor and a member of the appropriations and other important committees. He was a very strong and pleasing speaker and stood high among his colleagues. After his term expired he was appointed assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and was at times acting Secretary. It was here that he fell. He was courted? and flattered and used. [lines unreadable]. And women did their part to [line unreadable] his fall, and the Assistant Secretary ??? his office and landed in jail. He was speedily got out, however, but he became wretchedly poor and got to borrowing fifty cent pieces of his old friends. It was a pitiful sight to see him about and know what he had been. Finally somebody had him appointed to a twelve-hundred-dollar clerkship (he wrote a beautiful hand) and it was thought that he might pick up and recover, but he didn't. He had got a passion for gambling, and whenever he could obtain any money he sought the tiger, and, of course, lost it, and soon he lost his little clerkship. I understand he now borrows a dollar or two wherever he can, and goes into the lowest places and plays until it is gone. If he has no money, which is nearly always the case, he will sit where the game is going on and keep the score for the low wretches that infest the dives he visits. He once had a charming family of boys and girls, but he knows not where they are now. IF there is anything stranger or more revolting than this in fiction, I have never come across it. |
