It seemed twenty hours.
"Come!" said Washington.

"I can't wait for the telegraph boy to come all the way up here.

Let's go down to Newspaper Row--meet him on the way." While they were passing along the Avenue, they saw someone putting up a great display-sheet on the bulletin board of a newspaper office, and an eager crowd of men was collecting abort the place.

Washington and the Colonel ran to the spot and read this: "Tremendous Sensation! Startling news from Saint's Rest! On first ballot for U.S.Senator, when voting was about to begin, Mr.Noble rose in his place and drew forth a package, walked forward and laid it on the Speaker's desk, saying, 'This contains $7,000 in bank bills and was given me by Senator Dilworthy in his bed-chamber at midnight last night to buy -- my vote for him--I wish the Speaker to count the money and retain it to pay the expense of prosecuting this infamous traitor for bribery.

The whole legislature was stricken speechless with dismay and astonishment.
Noble further said that there were fifty members present with money in their pockets, placed there by Dilworthy to buy their votes.