| Show tim THE WORK or OF AN AnE AMERICAN RICAN SENATOR to have to lead a hundred newspapers every morning before breakfast to be compelled to wade through 0 reports pamphlets and returns innumerable to glance through a score of headid leading articles containing perhaps perli aps as many columns of personal abuse of the most virulent kind directed against ones olics self eto to meditate over the oration of the coming morning afternoon or evening session and to correct the proofs of ones last speech for re pub li cation in a separate form aliese are among the lightest labors of an american senator admit that he contrives to swallow a hasty breakfast then happy is he if they do not rush upon him while lie he is chipping 0 his first egg and fight over his tea and toast sets in the tide of suitors therall they all want something Molier Moli cres els Fac faucheux lieux were nothing to them bliem if there are no places to give they clamor for promises aises of the reversions of appointments that may not be vacant for two years and a half widowed mothers of soldiers long since since slain in battle or stricken down in the hospital of disease come to him with vain entreaties for the dead to be restored to life he is a senator lie he is powerful lie has tile the car of the ministry cannot lie he give them a word of comfort cannot lie he shod shed upon them a ray of hope that jake or ike still lives alas I 1 jake lies stiff and in a bloody at chattanooga and guerrillas arem are careering aboltin his boots and panta pantaloons loops and the sanitary commission have lave done all that was possible to make ikes last horns bouts in the hospital comfortable widows come to tile the senator to importune for news about lost lius bands to know if they leavo lave acted quite ill hi marrying again C captains who want colonels commissions commissions colonels who are anxious to be turned into briga dior dier generals pester the senator with requisitions for promotion will lie he spur mr stanton on will lie he I 1 move 0 the president dl di unken or dishonest subalterns subal terns who have been mustered out 11 viz expelled the army for mis misconduct I 1 are sure that if the senator will only whisper a word in their behalf at the war department their cases will be reconsidered I 1 and the sentences pronounced upon them reversed then arrive the multitude who bud hunger buder 25 er and thirst after contracts shoddy comes down like an armed man or a hundred of bricks upon the senator govern government hiepe hiept must lave have more beef blankets biscuit saddles bridles ambulances gunpowder and chloroform for medical stores there is is a contractor mad upon commissary whisky there is one wishful to supply five hundred balloons gas and all under cost price listen to the speed speculator who has ten thousand shousan d of boots all ready for government consumption incline your car to him whose talk is of myriads of greatcoats and the projectors 1 the people who will undertake to finish tile the war and crush the rebellion in a fortnight tile patentees of rifled cannon warranted to kill souls at ever every y discharge of catamarans cata marans and infernal machines and torpedoes that shall blow up charleston you can say jack robinson of stinkpots stink pots that shall eclipse Gil Gilmo mores aleck fire and smother a whole corps dl armeo at one puff I 1 and the poets vilo insist on reading lengthy scrolls full of alex and andrones rines bearing on liberty the constitution ution bunker hill the senator and themselves I 1 and the photographers the portrait painters who urge the senator to sit I 1 and the book makers sternly demanding particulars of the senators early life with a view to forthcoming biographies I 1 and the newspaper correspondents both native and foreign 1 but I 1 had best be silent on that score and finally after the pure idlers loungers bores private friends and brother senators the women the dear goodli carted impulsive indefatigable irrational women bless their hearts I 1 shrilly political li passionately patriotic dramatically dictatorial not to be wearied not to be daunted not to be put down the senator must needs defer to them for they abc indomitable and would braid even tile the president in his private bureau T from rom OA GA salas salads anter american correspondence |
