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From Vanity Fair.
SKEDADDLE.
The shades of night were fulling fu9t
As through a southern village passed
A youth, who bore, not over nice)
A "banner with the gay device,"
Skedaddle 1
His hair was red ; his toee beneath,
Peeped, like an aeorn from its sheath,
While with a frightened voice he sung
A burden strange to Yankee tongue,
Skedaddle!
lie raw no household fire, where he
Might warm his tod or hominy;
Beyond the Cordilleras Rhone,
And trout his lips escaped a groan,
Skedaddle!
<•0, stay," a culled pusson said,
"An' on dis bosom res' your head!"
The Octoroon she winked her eye,
But still he answered with a sigh,
Skedaddle!
"Beware of MeClellan, Buell and Banks,
Beware, of 1 hillock's deadly ranks!"
This was the planter's last good night;
The chap replied, far out of sight,
Skedaddle!
At break of day, as several boys
From Maine, New York and Illinois,
Were moving southward, in the air
They heard these accents of despair,
Skedaddle!
A chap was found, and at his side
A bottle, showing how he died;
Still grasping in his hand of ice
That banner with the strange device,
Skedaddle!
There in the twilight thick and gray,
Considerably played out, he lay;
And through the vapor, gray and thick,
A voice fell, like a rocket stick,
Skedaddle!
Union Village Shakers.
The Dayton Gazette has a very interesting ar
ticle giving the history, manners, sentiments. &.C..
of the singular sect called Shakers. The follow
ing sketch of one of their flourishing settle
ments will bo read with much interest:
The society at Union Village, W arrcn county,
Ohio, is worthy of particular note. It is one
of the largest Shaker Societies in the world. It
was founded in the year 1805. It now numbers
near 600 persons, and owns upwards of four
thousand acres of land in one body, lhc soil
is remarkably fertile, and the surface and scen
ery beautifully diversified, and the locality rc
miirkably healthy. The Society here is divided
into four different "families," located in differ
ent parts of their domain. The largest lamily
numbers near 200 persons, and is called the Cen
tre, it being the residence of their Elder and
Eldresscs, and where their church is located.
The "dwelling," as it is called, where this fam
ily eats*and sleeps, is an immense brick struc
ture, four stories high', it fronts 88 feet, and is
108 feet deep; it is divided into dining, sleep
ing and kitchen rooms. In the large cellar un
derneath is kept the milk, and the butter and
cheese apparatus. Their butter is churned and
cheese made by horse power; their bread is al
so kneaded in tho same way. 'iheir bread is
certainly the best we ever tasted. In fact, the
dinner they generously prepared fur our party,
was one of the most palatable we ever enjoyed.
Tho fine fruit and other seasonable delicacies
with which our table was loadid, were such as
princes might feed upon and be glad. '1 hey
live upon plenty of the very best of everything
that is good and healthy. They cultivate none
but the best of fruits, of which they sell large
quantities.
They have the finest stock wc ever saw. Their
cattle arc altogether incomparable. Some of
dieir cows give daily, from six to eight gallons
of the richest milk. Such cows they readily
sell at froin $l5O to S2OO. Calves, from two
to four months old, they sell nt from S9O to $ 100.
They have an animal that weighs nearly 3,000
pounds. Thoyhave a botanical garden of about
twelve acres, in which they cultivate all the me
dicinal plants and herbs of this climate, which
they gather and remove to the chemical and
medical laboratory, where they arc dried and
prepared in the form of extracts, powders, &c.,
ready for market. These tnedijinoe arc the best
and purest of the kind that can be had. The
celebrated "Shaker SorsapariUa" is manufactur
ed here, and affords tho principal source of their
revenue. Their mechanical shops are kept in
the neatest order, and their work is done in the
most systematic style.
They excel in the manufacture of carpets,
wood-ware, leather, blankets, and various kinds
of trinkets and fancy articles. We were shown
some silk handkerchiefs which were made by
tbem from silk of their own production, which
were quite equal to the European silk.
Their seed-garden is also quite note-worthy.
They annually put up and sell about 1,400 box
es of garden seed, each box containing 200
packages of seeds.
They have now in their domain about 3,000
head of sheep, 500 cattle, 100 horses, countless
numbers of poultry, but no hogs or dogs, the
former being to them unclean, and the latter
useless yelpers. All their buildings, shops, sta
bles, Ac., are built of the beet materials; and
in fact, everything about tbem is done just as it
should be done. A visit to their village will
sepay a long ride. They aro exceedingly hos
pitable and affable, and those who visit them
will never regret the time or trouble.
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ESSAY:
Head before the Bedford County Teachers'
Association, June 27, 18G2,
BY MISS MARY A. WHaLIAMS.
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The demand for a more Elevated Culture among
I,'te Teachers of our Common Schools.
The United States have many institutions
of which we arc justly proud, hut, among
them all, there are none of greater impor
tance to us, as a nation, than our Common
Schools. They constitute one of the best
assurances of the permanency of our sys
tem of government, as in them the masses
of the people are to be educated, and both
ancient and modern history teach us that
in countries where many are ignorant, and
but few intelligent, good government cannot
exist. \\'e have many noble institutions of
learning in our land—Colleges and Semi
naries that yearly send forth numbers of
their inmates prepared to perform their du
ties iu the various vocations of life—yet
we contend that our Common Schools, when
profcrly conducted , exert a greater influ
ence on society than these. The schools of
Pennsylvania have improved greatly within
the last few years, and are still improving,
yet it is humiliating to us to know that,
while our State ranks second in wealth'and
population, it has been superseded in this
respect, by more than one of the States of
the Union. This is not a pleasant reflec
tion, and wc hope the time will speedily
come when we will have the satisfaction of
knowing that wc arc not excelled by .any.'
There must be a reason for the inefficiency
of the schools in this, and some neighbor
ing counties, which it becomes our duty to
endeavor to discover. The fault is not in
the system, and we fear a close examination
will reveal the fact, that fart of the blame
rests with the teachers themselves. They
frequently forget the magnitude of the trust
rojmscd in t ftcv.ii. Ami ottr ilifs wlii noi
prosper if they prove unfaithful. • j
Some teachers suppose their whole duty
is done when they have asked a given num
ber of questions, assigned the lessons for
the next day, and dismissed their pupils
from the school rooms; and until the hour
arrives for re-assembling them, they do not
give them another thought. Wc have, had
many such teachers, and have a goodly nuni
! bcr yet; but the demand for better ones is
yearly increasing, and it is to be hoped that
but few more years will pass before their
places will be supplied by energetic work
ers, those who will ever strive to keep in
view the best interests of their pupils.
Thd teacher's vocation is not a degrading
one, as some people suppose, hut if the call
ing is to be considered respectable, there
must l>o. more culture and refinement among
the teachers; This is the age of progress;
therefore they must not remain stationary
whilst all other classes arc moving onward
in the march of improvement, but must keep
pace with, or, rather in advance ot the rest.
In order to do this there must be more at
tention paid to selfW-ulture than there is at
present. If there is no refinement in the
teacher, there will be but little in the schol
ars entrusted to his care. The. country
needs, and the people demand, a reform in
this respect; and we believe the day is dawn
ing when a mere knowledge of school books
will not be considered a sufficient qualifica-
(ion for a good teacher, but it must also in
clude a knowledge of something higher, an
understanding ol human nature as portray
ed in the characters of children, and a dis
criminating judgment in selecting the means
to he used in instructing them, morally and
intellectually, are necessary to enable the
teacher to do justice to all. A due appre
ciation of the true worth of a moral ami re
ligious character is one ot the first requisites
for a good teacher. The teacher should en
deavor to instruct by example as well as
precept. Many persons have good theories
and give excellent advice, yet because ot
their bad example fail to benefit others.
The trust reposed in teachers is so great,
that he who undertakes to guide others with
out duly considering his responsibilities, will
surely he held accountable at thelast day,
when, those lie has caused to err, by bis
carelessness, will come up as bis accusers.
When parents learn to give the teacher
more of their sympathy, and teach their
children that it is their 'duty to obey the
rules of school, his work will be lessened,
and at time the fruit of his labor
jvill be more apparent than it is at present,
while so many children are daily taught to
rebel against his authority* in school, by
hearing reproaches cast upon him at home,
by those whom they regard as infallible
judges. If they could only realize a part
of the trials and annoyances incident to a
school room, they would lie more sparing of
their criticisms, and more willing to aid
those engaged in the work ol instructing
the youthful mind.
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1862.
A Walk over the Battle Field at Fair Oaks.
A correspondent of the New York Express,
in a letter dated at Fair Oaks station, June 0,
gives the following description of that bloody
battle-field after the great fight of the Ist and
2d of June.
After a long fourteen mile ride, and a night
in, or rather on, the mud, 1 arrived at General
Kearney's Division Headquarters, last evening.
The First Now York volunteers, Col. Dyckman,
left Newport News on Tuesday, and for the time
being your correspondent placed himself under
their protection. They are now located just a"
few rods ahead of the last great battle-field,
with the 87th New York. Kearney's headquar
ters being in the same field. The command pre
sented an admirable appearance, and was, by
some, taken to be a brigade, as one or two bri
gades here are no fuller than this regiment. This
tells a sad tale of the destruction of war.
From early yesterday morning to noon,- there
was heavy cannonading to the right, (Kearney
is on the extreme left,) and the men were all un
der arms. At first we supposed there was mere
ly gun practice, but shortly it was evident that
a whole battery was at work, and lively, too.
The earth trembled for miles away. About
noon the tiring ceased, and then a shout, as if
from many thousand throats, was heard away
up at this station. We understood that a divi
sion was crossing the Chickaliominy in another
advantageous place, and that their advance was
assisted by the artillery. Later news tells us of
their success, though we have no particulars.
I paid a visit to the battle-field of Saturday
and Sunday, called by some the "Battle of the
Seven Fines," this morning. The cuuip ot Cu- a
sey's division presented a sight which an artist
might envy, and yet one of desolation. All a
round lay charred ruins, clothing, guns, car
tridge boxes, &c., the property mainly of our
own troops! The whole pavement was just as
level as the Huss Pavement on Broadway. Here
was where the enemy first made their appear
ance on Saturday, and where they so badly
drove buck our men. A little further on is a
piece of woods,-and by walking through water
and ntud knee deep, one is enabled to investigate
its contents. The bark of nearly every tree is
peeled oil' towards the roots, the lifio balls and
canister fired into the forest by our men having
taken down the trees about as lively as they did
Confederates.
letters, guns by the dozen, both Sucesh and
Union, clothing enough to start half the Chat
ham street dealers'in business, new made graves,
Yet unburied bodies, and all the minor indioa-i
fronß oi nAnrc nnctTicimT, Yuim uihk'
dest scenes ever witnessed on the Virginia Pen
insula. In a swamp wc found eight bodies of
the Alnbainians close together, and in such a
horrible state of decomposition that hardly a
man saw them without turning away his head.
Their clothes were on, but the bodies were swol
len, that they fitted as tight us the skin itself.
In several cases the tiesli had already been eaten
off by vermin, and the head and tlie skull lay
bare. It was a delisting scene, which some
people might have seen with profit. But it
ought to bo added, that our people arc burying
the dead, just as fast as they can reach the re
mains.
1 saw one body, which was evidently that of
n Confederate olficor. His clothing was rather
.better than that of the hirgo majority we saw,
other indications of rank were numerous,
lie lay concealed behind sonic brush, and had
ovidently been wounded, sought its shelter, and
there died. The linifis were contracted, but up
on the face there seemed to rest a pallid smile.
One hrthd held en to a fence rail near by, while
the other was extended upon the earth. Like
all the rest the bodf was swollen to twice its
natural size, and millions of vennin were fast
devouring it. Calling some scouts, ngrave was
dug, and the decaying liesb was consigned to its
last resting place.
Another body was found sitting on the ground,
the back braced against a fence. '1 he skin was
peeling off the hands, and bung down from the
tingers in shreds. One hand rested on the mus
ket, whose contents hud been discharged. The
head drooped to one side, and the features were
fearfully contracted, evidencing a dying struggle
of a most painful nature, fn his vest pocket
there was a piece of paper, tuid curiosity prompt
ed me to read it. There was some scribbliug
upon it, the distinguishable words being, 'Eighth
Ala. will never yield." "No, sir, never." Then
some poetical hues, of which, amid the blood
and dirt, I succeeded in deciphering the follow-
mg:—
"Suppose we die upon the field?
'Twill prove that never will we yield;
'Twill show the foe that, like a flood,
"We'll pour for Southern rights our blood."
verse were the following words:
"'BMpvoruan w ' lo wrote t'uit a Southern
man ought to marry; ft Northern one she would
spurn."
A curiosity seeker might have collected a
bushel of letters, in these words so full of hor
rors, but 1 had not the heart for the task.
To show how desperate wus the struggle in
the heavy woods between Casey's and Ward's
camp, I have spoken of the bullet marks upon
the trees, of the dead and of their effects, ever
ywhere seen. Another indication was the clo
thing yet hanging upon low tree branches, fen
ces, and lying upon the ground. An officer en
gaged in the battle tells me, that when we pur
sued, on Sunday, the retreating Confederates to
the woods through which, on Saturday, they
drove us, a desperate encounter ensued. Hun
dreds of men, on both sides, threw oft all their
superfluous clothing and went in, as we are told
the 69th did at Bull ltun, stripped almost to the
waist. Those who had the opportunity, placed
their coats where they would be preservod; oth
ers with no time for that threw them on the
ground, and lost them with their lives. Within
a space of two acres there are ungatbeied arms
enough to supply a New York militia regiment.
In that small space nearly six hundred men werf
sent to their long account.
At Casey's old camp there were no human
bodies, as there it was an easy matter to dispose
of them immediately after the fight. But hun
dreds of horses, torn by shot and shell, lay all
around, the carcasses emitting a pestilential
stench. On Sunday, when we were again in
possession of this field, men and animals lay
close together.
"Rider and steed in one red burial blent."
The animals are now being burned as that is
the only way in which they can be disposed of,
and the horrid effluvia removed from its too close
contact with our cainp. Upon approaching this
spot, it requires considerable effort to lead a man
to it, the reeking odor being so otfensive. To
morrow its condition will be favorable enough
for re-occupation. In a direct rail road line
from this camp to Richmond it is just seven miles.
"Fair Oaks" is the name of the station.
EXTRAORDINARY SCHEME OF A
CONVICTED FORGER#
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A. CRIMINAL OBTAINS A PARDON BY POROEHY.
The reader will no doubt, recollect that Col.
J. Buchanan Cross, one of themost accomplish
ed forgers in the country, was convicted of for
gery a short time since in Philadelphia, and was
sent to the Eastern Penitentiary for five years.
'The Philadelphia Ledger of Saturday has the
following particulars bf another extraordinary
forgery perpetrated by hint in prison, by which
he succeeded in obtaining a pardon and making a
trip to Washington:
On Monday last U. S- Marshal Millward, |
of this district, received a letter, purporting to
come from Mr. P. H. Watson, Assistant Secre
tary of War, enclosing a petition for the pardon
of J. liuchunau Cross, the forger, who was ser
ving a term of five years in the Eastern Peni- '■
tentinry. The letter set forth that Cross was i
wanted to be used on special business by the
War Department; that he was to bo sent South;
and that his speedy pardon was very desirable.
The Marshal was directed to obtain the signa
tures of District Attorney Coffey, Postmaster
Walburn, and Collector Thomas to the petition,
and to take it to Harrisbtirg for the considera
tion of Governor Curtin. lie was specially
enjoined in the letter not to communicate on the
subjf ct with any of the local authorities, nor to
trust the business to a subordinate, but to bring
Cross to Washington himself.
He had a knowledge of the handwriting of
the Assistant Secretary of War, wh.ch the let
ter Avpoarcd to bo in, and then the. envelope and
"paper upon which it was written irer® tWu rae
as is used in the War Department, and the let
ter itself had coinc from Washington under the
frank, as supposed, of Watson. Marshal lost
110 time in obtaining the signatures of wb Dis
trict Attorney and Collector to the petition as
directed, and he would have applied for that of
Postmaster, but Mr.Wulburn was not in the
eitv. The same day lie set out for Ilarrisburg
with the letter and the petition, which he laid
before the Governor upon liis arrival. lie found
that the Governor had received a letter similar
to the one he had with him, purporting to be
from the Assistant Secretary of War, and re
questing by order of Secretary Stanton, the
pardon of Cross, the forger.—The handwriting
of both letters was identical, and the petition
was in the same. Like the Marshal, the Gov-j
crnof did not entertain a doubt of the genuine
ness of the letters and petition, and he directed
the pardon of Cross to be mndeout.
The Marshal then telegraphed to Deputy
Marshal Jenkins to meet him at the railroad
depot on his return to the city, and to have a
carriage for him, which he did. On his arrival
the Marshal and the Deputy rode to the Eas.
torn Pcnitcntiuiy, and the pardon of Cross was
presented to the warden, much to his surprise.
Cross was soon brought from his cell to the war
den's room, where the hag was taken off his
head, and he was confronted with the 11. States
officials. On the way up the Marshal had tald
the Deputy where he was going, and what
but had abstained from saying anything further.
Ho had remarked, too, that ho did not wish to
be asked any questions on the Cross
knew officer and spoke familiarly to
him. The Marshal then drove the prisoner to
his house, where ho provided liiin with neces
sary clothing, to make a decent appearance in,
and then started for the llallimore depot, the
Deputy accompanying them. —On t ne way down
the Marshal left them a moment to go to the
postoflice, when Cross inquired with much con
cern if the. Deputy was going, saving there was
no necessity for it. He was particular to ask
also, if lie had been pardoned. When the train
was near (mester, Cross was anxious to get
something to eat, but the Marshal refused.
At Baltimore they partook of refreshment,
but did not remain long. They arrived in
Washington in the afternoon, and Cross was
taken directly, to the office of the Secretary of
War. The Assistant Secretary was not there,
and Mr. Stanton was summoned. The Mar
shal had telegraphed to the Secretary that he
would have Cross at his offioe in the afternoon,
and Mr. Stanton had not retired. Upon en
tering the Marshal introduced the Deputy, and
then informed the Secretary that he had brought
Cross. Mr. Stanton manifested some surprise
when the Marshal spoke of Cross, and asked
an explanation. The Marshal replied: "I was
directed by a letter from Mr. Watson, to bring
him here, and I understood it by your or
der." "Not by my order, I Jfcure you,%eaid
Mr. Stanton.
The Marshal then handed him the letter of
the Assistant, which the Secretary ran over
with evident astonishment. "I know nothing
about it," he said, "and what is more, it does
not meet my approbation. Ido not want to
use such a man as Cross for any purpose." A
messenger was then despatched for Mr. Watson,
who, upon coming in and examining the letter,
pronounced it a During all this time
[Cross seemed to be the least concerned person
lin the room. After a short consultation be-
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tween the Secretary of War and the Marshal,
the Military Governor of Washington was sent
for, and he had Cross taken to the guard-house
for safe keeping by a file of soldiers.
The next day Marshal Mil ward and Pcputy
Jenkins brought Cross to this city, and returned
him to his old quarters, in the Penitentiary.
On the way up, in conversation with the Dep
uty, be admitted that two of his friends were
on"the train in which they went to Baltimore,
and intimated that but for his presence an es
cape would have been attempted. When re
turned to the Penitentiary, he denied the right
of the warden to detain him, and demanded in
the most bold and confident manner his release,
as he had done to Secretary Stanton, in the War
Office.
Cross was convicted in July, 1860, of the
forgery of a check on the Consolidation Hank,
and sentenced to five years' imprisonment, lie
is represented to be one of the most expert for
gers living, and to have committed more forgeries
than uny other man. An attempt to effect his
release from a New York prison, similar to that
above described, was made several years ago.
A letter purporting to be from the warden of
the prison, and one by the physician of the in
stitution, were sent to the Governor, and a par
don obtained.—The forgery was discovered be
fore Cross got oft'. It will be remembered that
lie made his escape in this city from one of the
court officers, who took him to a public house
near Second and Washington streets, and was
locked in a room up stairs by him, whilo he
ran out, got into a cartiage and was driven a
way. Ile was afterwards captured in the up
per part of the city.
As the letter and the petition received by the
Marshal, are believe! to have been written
by Cross, it is difficult to conceive how the pa
per was conveyed to liira, and from out of the
Penitentinrv, to be sent to Washington for mail
ing to this city. As the paper and envelope
were both from the War Office, they must have
been stolen. The difficulty of anything being
conveyed to and from prisoners in the Peniten
tiary, grows out of the regulation which re
quires the presence of a keeper when a stranger
is in the cell.
A BRIEF AND POINTED SPEECH.
Vindication of Judge Douglas from Affili
ation with the Abolitionists.
In the I louse of Representatives, on the 24th
of May, several s|)enkers of the Abolition faith
nmde speeches misquoting Mr. Douglas to sup
port tllCtr peeuttm -icT.o on omaiiripfttinn and
confiscation. Colonel Richardson replied to
them briefly and to the point. lie said:
Mr. Speaker—l purpose to reply to a sin
gle point which lias arisen during the progress of
this debate.
Republican have frequently quoted
Judge Douglas within the last few days, and
quoted hiiu, too, for their own party purposes.
And now I desire to remind them and the coun
try that in all his speeches in reference to this
war, Judge Douglas took the broad and states
man-like position that this war should be com
ducted for the preservation of the Constitution
and the enforcement of the laws—for nothing
more, nothing loss. His position is so clearly
defined that a few brief extracts from his last
speeches will at once vindicate the truth of his
tory, and place liiin in the proper light before
his countryman At Springfield, 111., in a speech
made before the legislature during the month of
May, 1861, he said?
"The first duty of an American citizen, or of
n citizen of any constitutional government is,
obedience to the constitution and laws of his
country. I have no apprehension that any man
in Illinois, or beyond the limits of our own be
loved State, will misconstrue or misunderstand
my motive. So far as any of the partisan ques
tions are concerned, I stand in equal, eternal and
undying opposition to the Republicans and the
Secessionists."
And again, in the same speech lie remarks:
"Hence I repeat that lam not prepared to
take up arms or to sanction a policy of our
Government to take up arms to make any war
upon the rights of the Southern States, upon
their institutions, upon their rights oi person
or property ; hut on the contrary, would rush
to their defence and protect them from assault;
but while that is the case, 1 will never cease, to
urge my countrymen to take up nrnis "to fight
to the. death in defence of their indefeasible
rights. [Long continued applause.] Hence,
if n war does come, it is a war of self-defence
on our part. It is a war in defence of our own
just rights; in defence of the Government which
we have inherited as n priceless legucy from
our patriotic fathers, in defence of those great
rights of freedom of trade, commerce, transit
and intercourse from the centre to the circum
ference of our great continent. These are
rights we must struggle for and never surrender."
And in the last great effort of his life, his
speech nt Chicago, made but a few days prior
to his death, ho said: *
"We must not invude constitutional rights.—
Tlse innocent must not suffer, nor women und
children be the victims. Savages must not be
let loose."
Neither Republican members nor Republican
officials any where can find any thing in the a
bove extracts, nor in any speech or letter of
;e Douglas, which will justify them in the
test violation of the Constitution. On the
contrary, every act of his public life, and evon
his dying injunction to his chiUpm, condemns
unequivocally all the unconstitutional legislation
which you propose, and all the unconstitutional
acts of whi<3i your party officials have been
guilty.
The Republican party, through its President,
through tills House, and through the Senate, lind
given a construction to the Constitution show
ing the nbsence of power to pass just such bills
as you are now advocating and intending to pass.
In his inaugural address, after having taken his
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VOL. 5. NO. 49
solemn onth to support the Constitution, Mr.
Lincoln said:
"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to
interfere with the institution of slavery in the
States where it exists. I bHieve I have no'
lawful right to do so and I have no inclination
to do so."
Hie House of Representatives of the Thirty
sixth Congreqp, a majority of whose members
were Republican, passed the following resolu
tions unanimously:
"That neither the Congress of the United
States nor the people or government of the
non-slaveholding States have the constitution
al right to legislate upon, or interfere with
slavery in any of the shareholding States of the
Union."
By the organic acts of the territories of Nc.
vada, Colorado and Dakotnh, the Republican
party, by its own legislation, had
and approved the doctrine of popular mvemm
eignty, which Judge Douglas regarded as essen
tial to the removal from these halls of the most
disturbing question of our country.
Ido not presume that when J udgo Douglas
thus strongly asserted the necessity of main
taining inviolate the Constitution pf his coun
try he for a moment suspected that you would
ever attempt the violation of the pledges which
your Republican Congress had given the peo
ple, and which your Republican President has
reiterated. But the bills now under consider
ation propose to violate not only your pledgee,
hut at the same time, the Constitution. You
forget your promises; you advocate those bills,
and urge their passage through Congress.
Puzzling a Yankee.
Americans are an inquisitive people, yet from
the very necessity which this engenders, there is
no person better understands the art of parry
ing and baffling inquisiti veness in another than a
Yankee. Wo were quite amused recently by
an account given by a city friend of a colloquy
which came off in a country village through
which he was traveling, between himself and
one of the "natives," who manifested an itching
curiosity to pry into his affairs.
"How do you do ?" exclaimed the latter, bus
tling up to him as he alighted for a few moments
at a hotel. "Keekon I've seen you 'forenowt"
"Oh, yes," was the answer of the Yankee,
"no doubt; I have been here often in my life."
"'Spose you're going to , (expecting the
name uud place to be supplied. )
"Just so—l go there regularly once a year."
"And you've come from "
"Exactly, sir; you are exactly right; that is
tUY plcec- oi" thMuliUUlg, ff
"Really, now, dew toll; I 'spoee you're a law
yer, or may lm a trader, or perhaps some other
perfeshun or calling."
"Yes, I have always pursded sotne one of
these professions."
"(lot business in the country, eh?"
"Yes, I am at this time engaged in traveling."
"I see by your trunk that you're from Boston
Anything stirring in Boston?"
"Yes; men, women, horses and carriages,
and a famous northeaster."
"You don't say to? Well, I declare, now,
you are tarnal cute. What do you think they
will do with Sims?"
"Why, it is my opinion that they will either
deliver him up to the claimant, or let him go
free."
"You've had a monstrous sight of ruin in Bos- .
ton—did an awful sight of damage, I 'spose?"
"Yes, it wet all the buildings and made the
street* damp—very damp, indeed!"
"Didn't old Faneuil Hull get a soak in?"
"No. They hauled it on to the Common,
under the Liberty tree."
"You're a circus chap, 1 guess; you're kinder
foolin. 1 'ray, Mister, if it's a civil question,
what might, your nnnte bo?"
"It might be Smith or Brown, but it is not
by a long chalk. The fact is, sir, I never had
a name. When I was born, my mother was so
busy that she forgot to name me, and soon after
I was swapped away by mistake for impther boy,
and am now just applying to tho .L(|Puturefor
a name. When I get it, I will send you my
curd. Good morning, sir."
And so saying the speaker jumped into the
carriage and drove off, leaving the l'adl Pry of
the place scratching his head in bewilderment,
and apparently in more perplexity than ere ho
hud commenced his catechisings.
ty"l)ad," said a hopeful sprig, "how many
fowirt are on the table t"
"Why," said the old gentloman, as he looked
complacently on a pair of finely roasted chick
ens that were smoking on the dinner-table;
"why, my son, there are two."
"Two!" replied young smartness, "there are
three, sir, and I'll prove it."
"Three T" replied the old gentleman who was
a plain matter-of-fact man, and understood
things us he saw them. "I'd like to have you
prove that."
i dono, sir, easily done! Ain't that
one," laying his knifo upon the first ?
"Yes, that's certain," said his dad.
"And ain't that two?" pointing to the second,
"and don't one and two added together make
three?"
"Henlly," said the father, turning to the old
lady who was listening in asronishment at the
immense learning of her son, "really, wife this
boy is a genius and deserves to be encouraged
for it. Here old lady, do you take one fowl,
nnd I'll take the second, and John may have the
third for his learning." .
"You can't do too much work for your em
ployers, man," said somebody to u big-fisted,
strong back man of all-work, on the wharf one
day. "Arrah, bejabers," replied Put, with em
phasis, will //"
Durirfg the fJlst year the Catholics of the
United State* have fkHionted 95 churches, igp
ny of them very costly and magnificent