| Show efrom FROM FRIDAYS DAILY POOR COLFAX poor poor colfax the respected vice I 1 president beems booms to have fallen upon anevil evil dassat days dass at the close of his 1118 political lit lea iea life ife I 1 he has been professedly y retiring a long time and he has haa given somewhat osten adious public declaration of his intentions tent teut ions lons if it he be shall be able atlant at last to retire in good order oriler it is ill lil highly 1 llis probable that will be all the there r e Is no I 1 promice just juat now of ot his I 1 going out with he has had considerable reputation for piety but it must have been ve very ry eary piety for the credit Mo bilier biller business appears to have made sad inroads upon tile the article in his more advance ed years sears his smiling propensities have become proverbial proverb 1 a I in ili fact he lip has been term torm termed 1 I the great american Su iller but a profound inter infer P prefer reter roter of the tile human heart has lias said that a man may smile and smile and yet not be exactly late colfax has liaa not been very friendly towards our citizens citizen i although they treated him courteous courteously N and hospitably p i taby ho he has bas said some ta hard r d biln things gs concern concerning ng them has lias favored their enemies and approved the measures de designed 1 1 11 for their destruction less we nrc are not disposed to be revengeful ven veu eaul and vindictive but in this his gour lour hour of affliction and humiliation we trust be will have grace to bear himself as our people have done dono under his unil unkindness towards them patiently and bravely of 0 course it would have been pleasant ier ler er to him aku to retire from lub pub 1 lie life ili in a blazo blaze b lazo of red fire and theatrical glory but this is a world of trial and disappointment and mortals must get through it the best way they call can and be thankful for the privilege of going through it at all in any fashion the colfax ian unhappiness appears to have overshadowed tile the senate also if we judge by the following from the washington eort of the new york herald WASHINTON jan 23 tue the THE tur SENATE UNHAPPY COLFAX virtuously INDIGNANT AN r appearance arrea APrEA RANCE OP THE INJURED INNOCENT the senate was waa not in a happy frame of mind this morning when colfax with a look of grim despair in the place of his old smile rapped to order and then made ills his exit to talk to night on tenn tern temperance J perance at trenton the seat of patterson the other forgetful speculator in credit Mo bilier bliler was vacant while wilson looked anxiously around as if in search of some man who doubts his pleasant little history of if hib bis transaction with ames atnes and alley harlan appeared I 1 ke an itinerant preacher whose senatorial sands bands of life had bad nearly run out trumbull Trum buil hull evidently felt that he also must soon leave the seat which he has hag occupied anco ance 1858 hill of georgia tried to look and BO so did sawyer of south carolina with half a dozen other carpet who mua must march forth in a few weeks it was waa a doleful spectacle and such funeral solemnity pre prevailed that permission was refused nye to have an evening session aslon se when he porously ly illustrate the glories attendant on the grant of an addi to the webb pacific lines iines nye pleaded pathetically pt that it it would be his blis la last latt t appearance as a boavy comedian on the senatorial 0 stage but those who had bad of ten ien n laughed at his jokes refused to div e him a chance to repeat them colfax is rather a pet with the senators although ho he talks too loo much in the chair and lle tle the lie prospect of having tu tv sivo 0 ivo him up for fyr gileau has not been pleasant but to see gee him go forth into the zold bold cold coid world deprived e of his good name will be a melancholy spectacle he professes virtuous indignation at the tile statements of ames and pronounces them infamous 2 but it is known that tomorrow to morrow a respectable cashier cashler in the office of the sergeant at arms moses dillon is his name nanie will swear that thab he paid the check made payable to schuyler colfax had it been beon een a member dillon says he might have forgotten about it but when the speaker came into the washroom cash room to present such a check and pocketed the money for it an impression was maddon made on his memory kcf who wonders and why has schuyler lu ler ier thus saddened the hearts of his is friends ili in the senate by going out like a piece of damp fireworks fire works with a few feeble s ut and a very bad smell who wonders that tile the senate is md ead |
