I 



VISITED St Louis lately, and on my 

 way west, after changing cars at Terre 

 Haute,. Indiana, a mild, benevolent- 

 looking gentleman of about forty-five, or 

 may be fifty, came in at one of the way- 

 stations and sat down beside me. We 

 talked together pleasantly on various sub- 

 jects for an hour, perhaps, and I found 

 him exceedingly intelligent and entertain- 

 ing. When he learned that I was from 

 Washington, he immediately began to ask 

 questions about various public men, and 

 about Congressional affairs; and I saw 

 very shortly that I was conversing with a man who was perfectly familiar 

 with the ins and outs of political life at the Capital, even to the ways and 



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