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UK.Mt.nBKU, r.OYS MARK ME..
V'hfii ycrn sec n rrised n'reliiti
Sttunling Wistful hi the street,
"With worn li;it ami kiiecless trouseri,
Dirty far ami liaro retl frtt,
1'jiss not by the i liihl itnlii-t'tlinp
ISlnile ttiHui him mark mi; when
lie's fjrowti Jie'll not iiirgef it,
For, rniif lulx-r, 1 oy.s make iiu-n.
NVlieti tin: liiioy;ti)t, Vfiuthful sniriis
Ovei tlow in Imyisli freak,
Cliitle yottrlioy in entlf nrretits
li tit in ymir aiiir speak ;
Yon must sow in youthful 1hsoi;is
Seeils of temU-r merey ; then
l'lauts will grow ami Im-.-jt yixwl frnitaj;j
Wlien the erring hoys are tneii.
Have yon never seen a ti'lsire,
With liis eyes ajjlow with joy,
lifinji to miml soiue aet of kinilness
Soniethinj; saitl to him a lmy?
Or relate some sliirht or eolilness,
With a lirow all ehnitletl, when
lie Sili.i they were ton thouhtles.-,
To rtiiieiiiber hoys make, men-.'
1a t us try tn iuM suitie pleamirc
To the life of every Iwj.v,
For eat h ehihl needs tender interest
In it Kormw ami its, joy ;
Cail ottr hoys Iionie by its brightness
They avoid a jxlootny den,
And seek for eoinfort elsewhere ;
And remember, Ikivs make liielt.
rm: si:cj:i:t cja$i:t.
In the yf-ar f IS , John Smith (T use
fie! ititnis names i was ii tK. tcil for the wil
ful mm der of Henry Thoiupsen. The ease
was one of the most exlraoidinary nature,
and tl.e inter, st excited by it was tfunot-t
unpaiailekd. The acetiycd v:;s :. gentle-
man of coiisiuciablcpK-'i city lesidingupoii
1. is own estate. A person, suppi-oscd to be I
tin entire stranger to hint'
h.-.tl, late in a '
summer's day, rcjiii stetl and obtained
slu iter ar.d hospitality for 1 he night. lie
had, it was suopostd, after taking some
light refreshment, retired tobyd in perfect
healtli, I'Hi'.iesting to be awaken;. d at an
early hour the following morning
Ihe sei'.ar.t n nin'.id to call bin
A'vhcn j
entered
l;;s r-.oir. fjrtl.at jrir::e. he was found in
Is r.. 111 p i fu lly i.i;u! ; r.nd from tlso ajv
pe.
he
tit hie. oi tin- .joiiy it wv.s obvious titat
hi.tl hi en so for many hours. There
w as nut the lightest mark of violence upon
... , .1,1 A l.
-umc:.aiice retai.ied j
1" "1
e
the. same cxpi'o.--.'.i.m .
Days and s-nks
t had borne during life.
passed .n, and little
fuitlicr was di.-ci vend. Tn the meantime
luai'-r had ii"t I t-en Idle. "Siu plcions v.eie
vaguv-. iatltnl, and ui.de. i:u-d, it: id were at
:it.-t v, hisj.e'.i :i. a;al aficrv. aid boldly ex-pres-
id. T he precise obji t-t of these
pioious was not clcaily iialieated ; some
iuij'-lieated one pcr.-.!i, some aitotber ; but
they all pointed to Smith, the master of
the house, as concerned in the death of the
tiirangei' ; and, in line, the mt'gi-tuites
wi'-e it.it.icid t- coii.iiill Mr. Smith to jail
to take his trial for the wilful murder ot
ITenry Thotnpsan. As it was deemed es
sential to the attainment of justice to keep
secret the examination of the witnesses
w ho wviv produced before the magistrates,
all the information of whieh the public
were in possession bcfi.-ie the trial took place
was that which I have, here narrated.
Such was the stateof things upon the moru
t.f the trial.
The t oumcl for the piuserulion opened
his ease to the jury in a manner that indi
cated very little expectation of a conviction,
lie began by implui ing them to divest their
minds of all that they had heard before
they came into the. box ; he entreated them
to attend to tl.e evidence, and judge from
that alone.
It would be proved beyond the possibili
ty of a doubt that the deceased died by poi
Kon poison of a most subtle nature, most
active in its operation, and possessing the
wonderful and dreadful quality of leaving
no external mark or token by which its
presence cou Id be detected. The ingredi
ents of which it was composed were of so
sedative a nature that, instead of the body
011 which it had been used exhibiting any
contortions, or marks of suffering, it left
upon the features nothing but the calm and
placid quiet of lepose.
The pi isoner' s family consisted only of
himself, a housekeeper, and one man ser
vant. The man servant slept in an out
house adjoining the stable, and did so 011
the night of Thompson s death. i be pris
oner slept at one end of the house and the
housekeeper at the other, and the deceased
had been put into a room adjoining the
housekeeper's.
It would be proved, by a person who
happened to be passing by the house on
the night in quest iou, about three hours
after midnight, that he had been induced
to remain ar.d watch, from having his at
tention excited by the 'circumstance, then
very unusual, of a light moving about the
house, at that late hour. That t-crson
would state most positively that he could
distinctly see a figure holding a light, go
from the room in which the prisoner slept
to the housekeeper's room, that two per
sons then canto out of the housekeeper's
room, and the light disappeareil for a min
ute. Whether the two persons went into
Thompson's room he could not see, as the
window of that room looked another way ;
but in about a minute they returned, pass
ing quite along t lie luuse to Smith's room
again ; and in about five minutes the light
was extinguished and he saw it no more.
Such was the evidence upon which the
magistrate had committed Smith ; and,
isingu'aily enough, since his committal the
' housekeeper had been missing, nor cov,ld
any tiaec of her lie discovered.
"Within the last week, the witness who '
saw the light had been more particularly
.EUEXSBURG,
oxamiiied,- and m order to refioli his mem
ory, he had been placed at dark, in the very
spot where he had stood on that night, and j its simplicity and aitlessness gave it an a!- bottle of the same manufacture ' as the A JSkt'SCSlS U
another person was placed with him. The j peanince of truth. The housekeeper was ' sUpiev, and having no cork in it ; some ha.:- d his name and h.' laid 'his hist
whole iseqfie, as he had described it was ! then put into the lox and examined bv the other articles there were in it not m iteri d down,
acted over a-ain ; but it was utterly impos- j counsel for the prisoner. According to the to my Ktty. The tray was placed noon 1 WhuW ! llWW lw hAtvd an lrihnia"-
sible from the cause above mentioned t, , custom, at that time almost universal, of the table in night of the pilsoner a.ul the . o hTt .NaMve m,,,.ui'h,lt(,,ninn
assert, when the light disappeared, wheth- j excluding witnesses from court until their witness, and from that moment not a doubt ' The bis i.(,ho of th!- kII n'V, "g K "m, ;
er the pat1.es had gone, into Thompson's I testimony was reouired, she had been kent remained in the mind nf a,,v ,..1.. -.f ' T.h !-l-'i-e-i.ratin;, Irish-U-ratiiii;,
room. As if. however, to throw still deeiw
er mystery over this extraordinary transac- j
' . - .. x
, w..o, inu nuuuM. peisisu-i in auumg a
; new feature to his former statement ; that I
j after tire persons had returned with the j
"S'H "" a 100111, .iiiu ueiore was :
extinguisiicn, lie ltttd twice perceived some
dark object to intervene between the light
and the window, almost as large as the sur
face of the window itself, and which he de
scribed by saying it appeared as if a door
had licen placed before the light.
Now, in Smith's room, there was nothing
which coum account lor this appearance; ;
Ins bed was in a diflet ent part, and there
was neither cupboai d nor press in the room,
which, but for the bed, was entirely empty,
the room in which he dressed beinr at a
! .1: 1. i. i
tLiiMiiuee. iei.'i:u.
He would state only one fact more, (said
the learned counsel.) and having done his
duty, it would be for the jury to do theirs.
Vv ithin a few dnvs there had been found in
i the prisoner's house, the stopper of a small ,
j bottle of a very singular appearance; it was '
: apparently not of Lngiish manufacture i
i and was described by the medic;.! men as i
beincr used bv chemists to nreserve those !
litp.tids which are inot likely to lose their '
j virtue by exposure to the air. To whom it j
j belonged, or to what use it had been ap- j
j plied, there was no evidence to show. j
j Such was the address of the counsel for
: the j :o; eeution ; and during its delivery I .
had earnestly watched the countenance of;
the 1 1 'is-,incr,who bad listened to it with deep .
altc-.Ui.iii. Twice only did I perceive that 1
it niodiaeJ 111 bun the siiirhtest emotion,
1
Vi hen the disajiy earance f the housekeep-
er was mentioned, a smile, rs of scorn, j
,;-sed over his lip ; and the notice of the :
dis-uovcry of the stopper obviously excited :
an interest, and, I thought, an apprehen
sion ; but it quickly subsideel. I need not
detail the evidence that was given for the '
I prosecution ; it amounted in substance to ,
that which the counsel slated, nor was it '
varied in any paiticular. The stopper was j
produced, and piovcel to be foil ml in the j
house ; but no attempt was made to trace '
it to the prisoner's pt ssessi.n, or even knowl- !
edge. j
AVhen the case was closed, the learned I
judge addressing the counsel for the pros
ecution, said he thought there was hardly
sitfticiont evideni-e to call upon the prison
er for his defense ; ami if the jury were eif
the opinion they would at once stop the
case. Upon this observation from the jeidge.
the jury tutnetl round for a moment and
then intimated their acquiescence in his
lorelship's view sof the evidence. The coun
sel foldcel up their briefs, atul a verdict of
acquittal was about to be taken, when the
prisoner addressed the court. He urged'
tlie judge to permit him to state his case to j Then it was opened again for the pur
thejury, and to call Ids housekeeper, with j jnise of replacing the bottle, was it? It
so much earnestness, and was secontled so was.
strongly by his counsel, that Loid Mans
field, though very much against his inch
nation, and contrary to his usual habit,
gave way, and yielded to the request.
The prisoner then addressed the jury and
entreated Uieir vationce for a short time.
He repeated to them that he never coulel
feel satishod to be. acquitted merely be
cause the evidence w as not conclusive, and
pledged himself in a very short time, by
the few observations he should make, to
obtain their verdict upon much higher
grounds upon the impossibility of his being
guilty of the dreadful crime.
Of the stopper w hich had been found, he
disowned all knowledge ; declared most
solemnly, that ho had never seen it befcuc
it was proeluceel in cou it panel he asked
could the fact of its being funnel in his
house only a few days ago, when hun
dreds e.f people had been there produced
upon an impartial mind even a momentary
prejiielicv against him ? One fact, and only
one had leen proved, to which it was pos
sible for him to give an answer the fact eif
his having gum- to the be ih x u of hishous.e
kceper 0:1 the night in qucMknu
He had beon subject for many years of
his life to sudden fits of illness ; he hael
bifii seizeel with one 011 that occassiou, and
had gone tti her to procure her assistance '
in lighting a lire. She hael returned with
hir.i to his room for that purpose he having
waited for a minute iu the passage while
she put 011 her clothes, which would ac-
count for the momentary disappearance of
light
; and after sh had remained in bio
.. .
room lor a tew minutes hnding himself bet- i
, . , 1
icr he had dismissed her, and retired again
to bed from which he had not risen when
he was informed of the death of bis ,.nnsl.
IL had been said that, alter his committal '
D
to prison, his housekeeper had disappeared.
He avow ed that, finding his enemies deter
mined, if possible, to accomplish his ruin, I
he had thought it probable they might
tamper with his servant ; he hael therefore I
kept her out of the way ; but for what pur
pose ? Not to prevent her testimony being
given, for she was now under the care oi"
his solicitor, and would instantly appear
for the purpose of confirming, as far as she
was concerned, the statement which he had
just made.
Such w its the prisoner's address which
PA., FRIDAY,- SEPTEMBER 13, 1872.
prudurcd a powerful ettect. It was deliv-
ered in a firm and impressive maimer, and
Lntn 1,r.,,c n 1 i,,i '
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single word of the trial. There was noth-
ing remarkable in her maimer or appear-
ance. She might be about thirty-live or a
little more, with rcgul.tr though not agree- j
aoie leatures and an air iierfectlv free from
embarrassment.
She ix-ieated, almost in the priHrmfev'
own words, the story he had told of his .
having called her up,- and her having ac- '
companied him to hb'-room; adding that, (
after leaving him, she had retired to her
own room and had been awakened bv the
man serv-nt in the morning with an ac- !
count of the trtV;ler'.s death.
She had now to undergo a cross-examina- j
tion ; and I may as well state hcr; that
which, though n.ii; ki'iov.n to me till after- .
ward, will assist the reader in understand-
ing the following scene. The counsel for
the prosecution had, in his own mind, at- j
taehed considerable importance to the eir- j
cumstances mentioned by the witness who
saw the light ; that w hile the prisoner and
the housekeeper were in the room of the
former, something like a door, had inter-
vened between the t:.indl. and tlipiviiiilmv.
which was tot nil v inw.irc ih.b'n witl, i1.
anneaianco of the room when examined
and he half-persuaded himself that there
must be a secret closet which had escaped
the search of the officers of justice, the
opening of whieh would account for the
api-a ranee alluded to, and the existence of
which might discover the proj erty which ;
had so mvstei ionslv d'.samen'-el. !
liis object, thcufotc, was to obtain from
the housckeei-cr ithe onlv verson exfeiit-.
the prisoner who could give any clue to
this) such information as he could get,
without ahmninf
her by any direct in-
quiry on the subject which as she could
not help seeing its importance, would have
led her at once to a positive denial, lie
knew, moreover, that as .she
ind not been
iiow much or
slit: could not know
how little the inquiry had- brought to
light: and by himself treating th". matter
as immaterial, he might h ad her t con
sieler it so, also, and by tiait means unsus
peeteuiy draw forth all she knew. After
some unimportant questions, he asked her
in a tone and manner calculated lather to
awaken confidence than to excite eiishust :
During the time yeu were in Mr. Smith's
room, you stated that the caudle stood on
the table, in the center of the room ? Yes.
"Was the closet, or. cupboard, or what
ever you call it, opened once, or twice,
while it stooel there? A pause; no an
swer. I will call it to your recollection. After
Mr. Smith hael taken the medicine out of
j the closet, did he shut the door, or did it
remain open ? He shut it.
I)o you recollect how long it was open
Hkj last time? Xot above, a minute.
The eloor when open, would be exactly
between the light and the window, would
it not ? It would.
I forgot whether you said the closet was
oil the i-iglit or left bund side jf tbo win
dow ? The left.
"Would the door of the closet make any
noise in opening it? None.
t'au you speak positively to the fact?
Have you ever opened it yourself, er seen
?.Ir. Smith open it ? I never opened it
myself.
Did you never keep the keys'? Never.
"Who did? Mr. Smith always.
At this moment the witness chanccel to
turn her eyes toward the spot where the
prisoner stood, and the effect was almost
electrical. A eolel, damp sweat stood uton
his brow: his face had lost all its color:
he appeareel a living image of death. She
no sooner saw him than she shrieked and
fainted. The consequences ef her answers
Hashed across her mind.
She had been so thoroughly deceived by
the maimer of the advocate and by the
little importance ho hael seemed to attach
to her .staten
-.cut that she had been led on,
ion to another, till she had told
by one question to
him ail that ho wauled to know-
During ihe interval (occasioned by her , seat which had just been vacated. As his
illness) as to the proceeding?, the jsolie i- i e'('s lit n there the train started, and hasten-
for the prosecution left the court. It concluding that the lady in her hurry
1 .111 ., 10 s"et ol at the station hael tin wittingly
was between 4 and a o cleK.k when the l,.,-, .1,,..,, .. c,-0,.t ,.sl,n1 across th..
j judge resumed his seat upon the bench,
' the prisoner his station at the bar, and the
t 1
housekeeper hers iu the witness box ; the
J , , ' ,
court in the interval had remained crowd-
' cd with spectators, scarce ort of whom
I i.n.i t. r lest dni in" Ids nlim r.
1 j ej
it should be seized by some eaie eke.
The cross-examining counsel then ad-
eliessed Ihe wit
itness : I have a very few
s to ask of vou but1eware
. , .! '
er them truly, lor your own
more eiuestions
that you answer
life tlepends upon a thre.nl.
Do you know this stopper? ' ;
I do. ' '
To whom does it belong ? . , -
T. Mr. Smith.
AVhen did you see it last?
On the night of Air. Thompson's dcalh.
At this moment the soliciteir for the
prosecution entered the court, briugvg
with him, uhdh a tray, a w atch, two money
bans, a icwtl c:ih. iiim. Ut.L.i. .i
.,;u f.i
iiiiiii ox iiiu ii isoner.
A few words will bring my tale
to a
close. The house where the inuuler had
been committed was between nine and ten '
miles distant. The solicitor as oou as the
cross-examination had disfovir..,l il,. ..-r '
istence of the closet, and its situation, had
tst; off on horseback, with two sherhTs
officers, and after pulling down part of the
wall of the house, had detected this place
of concealment.
The search tvAs well rewarded :. the
whole of the monertv brloiio-hifr to Mr'
Thompson was found there, amounting in
A V O O
value to several thousand pounds; and to
leave no doubt, a bottle was discovered, '
which the medical men instantly pro- j
nounced to contain the very identical poi- '.
son which had caused the deatii of the j
unfortunate Thompson. The result is too
obvious to need explanation.
The ease presents the pcihaps unpar-
alleled instance of a man accused of mur-
der, producing such evidence as to imbu e '
the judge and jury to concur in a verdit '
ul aeiputtal, but who, persisting in calling
a witness to prove his innocence, was upon
the testimony of that very witness convict
ed and execute d.
A Good Juki; ox a MiTHornst BisHop.
In our exchanges we note a revival of
an old "Joe Miller"' that tells i f a trombone-player
returning late ft night fr.un 1
supper, tintl very drunk; whf mi-tot t the
beil.iwiiiir ot a bull for the notes of a, rivnl
pel former, and, challenging his ambitious
(Tl",:ciii, sounded bis low est note with
! such success that he was suddenly hoisted
over it hedge, where lie sat complaining of
the brutal conduct of that other musician.
The story reminds us of a little? event that
happened to the learned and pious HiMiop
; Mcilvaiue in the comr.u-r.ee men t of the
late war. The bishop visited one after
noon, the headquarters of ieueralSchenck,
: then in command en the Potomac of a
brigade, e'mii posed of the First and Second
Ohio and First New York. Of course th;
bishop was invited to favor the troops with
divine servite, and, consenting, in tho
evening the ol'iieei s and men were gathered
about headquarters, ar.d after player tl.e
eloquent divine gave us a sermon. Now-,
Colonel M. JlcCook had asa war steed a
strange animal that, owing to the weight of
llesh he was forced to entry, was wont to
relieve his feelings through the most pa
thetic moans and groans, and on this oc
casion hael a very severe lit of depression
upon him, and as the Bishop grew tamest
the horse: became loud. 11
be reverend
iutlerer, and
:s of distress
gentleman could not see the
I evidently thought the low tone
; came from some sinner em the anxious seat
To this supposed poor fellow the Bishop ;
directed his appeal, ami it wouhl have been
exceedingly touching but for the fact that
, all headquarters took iu the situation, and
1 the strain upon the countenance was in
tense. Gen. Schenck's eyes disappoarcil
entirely, while his firm set mouth looked
more like cast iron than ever. The other
; officers buried their faces in their hanelker
' chiefs and shook as if suffering from the
: ague. There never was so much feeling at
a like assembly of good people. At last 1
I the thing got too trying, and, a hint being
given an orderly, the distressed beast was
l eU : 11 OI.UV "IV fS r WT
eel aw ay. At lie quiet repast that iohowed,
the good bishop remarkeel that he sup-
posed many of the so chcrs belonged to the
h
i th
! 1
; Methodist church, where such manifest a-
. Hons ef remittance were common. "We
j came near an explosion then, but rest rained
i ourselves ; and to this day the dear ihl
I IJishop is under tho impression that one
j soul at least was in a bad way that night,
i Wash. Capital.
A Rich Joki:. An incident occurred on
the Shore Line road, awhile ago, which is talked within one week, Grant poured out
j worth relating. A young man who has half a pint and thank itd ow n. 1 hat a ppea r
! filled a responsible eitiice in this citv, ami eJ .to revive him, and nothing else was
! who is noted for the promptness and de- noticed until the procession began to move
: cisic'ii with which lie always sicts hi eases lie main street of Buffalo in carriages,
i of emergency, took the eastem-boum! vvlieii Grant's associates noticed that lie
I train, with his wife, for Boston. The two v's m. tljc eonditioii of Jim," in the story
I w ere then "freshly'" married iu fact, were ' '"Miggh-s" that is, drooping ami set
i 011 their bridal tour and both hael about I Mug ito his In Nits. He intimated that he
; them that indescribable air which newly- could not keep up any aptteai-ance of cen-
married people somehow always contrive
to put out in the presence of strangers
W course they were the observed of all
observei-s, and this fact alone adels to the
point of our story. When the train ai riveel
at Guilfoid several passengers alighteeh
In the seat elircctiv opposite our married
folks were a lady and her little bov, ."i er G
years old. As the cars stopiH'd t
Jy
pcercd out of the window, reue hastily,
seized him by the hand, and walke d hur- lived whe n Grant was to resume his tii
licclly with him tothe rear of fhecar. Ihe ' umplial nde, and lie over at the Citv of
! NV(' la"' scarcely passed out of sight before
; unsophisticated young married friend
noticed that the boys hat, a tm whistle,
whip, aiiel other to vs. were lving on the
' aisle, and hastily gathering up the hat and
. toys, slung them out of the window. This
l ;i.i.,.,i 1.1, oil i ti,..
j "V? - V - ,' i
self-sat islieil air with which our prompt
fri0,ui re sumed his soat was womleif. 1
It was as if he hael said: ".See with what
decision A act 111 cases ol emergency. Hut
t for my promptness the bey would have
i lost, his hat, his whip, anel his htt'.o tin
whittle.; He will Ket them now-, for thev
j are out u the platform.'' But a change
- ame ovcr the spirit of his dreams, as the
laelv. a moment or two later, came up the
aisie leading her liovbv the liaml. Shclmd
been well, she tlid not stop at Guilford.
i he laugh that was heard 111 that cur when
the hiely returned matle emr young friend
sick, ife apeilogizeel to the lady, explained
I how he caiiMS to throw them out of the whi
tlow, gave lie r money to buy more, . ami
slumped down into his seat next his wife
in a frame eif mind anything but happy.
Peor fellow ; he meant to eio a kindne-ss,
but he rather overshot the mark that time.
Eiut City 1'rcsj.
now miiNOX wlt kok thk ii;isha..
! oreigner-Iiating Ku-Klux man.
Says Henry, says he, I'm Jerry no more,
I'll go into the chart h and lie quirish man,
I w ant to be rich, ami don't like to 1 poor,
And I'll iuak it all oil the lrishrffai.
Cuoki s Oh! the Native American lantern
man, cc.
And the Pope ami ivhistkt-y, quoth Henry,
too.
"Will make a Christian a swinish man ;
Ami I'll go for them with hallohiilloo,
And pack it all 011 the Irishman.
Ciiokus Oh ! the Native American lantern
man, .Src.
So Henry he went to the. Know-Nothings
then,
Ami took ihe oath of that Ku-Klux Klan;
That horrible, oath of the horrible den.
Against equal rights and the Irishman.
("Honrs oh! the Native American lantern
man, iN:e.
And Henry has prospered and grown quite
tail,
He rides in his eoneh verv stylish, man :
He luis gathered Ins honois amt made them
all
On the Kurojiean ati.l Irishman.
C'iioius
Oh ! the Native Ameriean lantern tonn.
The big Ik.hi.o ot U10 iviiow-Noi binj; Klan;
Tin- Teliiperaiiee-pi-ating, 1 risli-bei al 1 tig,
Foreigner-hating Kit-K tux man. j
Jtet.-iiiiisrcticrs nf V. &. CI.
The (-.vhi'linir r Zarh I linn.iirr Int hloiits ortlte
l'l t i.ttroii vitli 1 rcM.lcni Jolnisun.
Grand Kapids (Midi.) Corn fpomlenec of the
Cliieao l iilnme.J
Char.ellor was whippe'tl by Ulysses S.
(Irani while the latter was' statio.'icil at
Detroit, subs.equent to the Mexican war.
Although a blusterer and of tin arrogant
nature, Chandler is, for his heft and height,
the most noted physieal cowaid in .Michi
gan. He kept a etry gotnls store in the
times referred to, and young (ij ant who
was tabooed in the ai istociatic military
circles of Detroit for habitual drunkem.. ss.
ami who spent his time between associat
ing w ith a ferry boat captain and swinging
round a small social club for t reals fell
into a hole in the brick pavement opposite
Chandler's store. The hole was conspicu
ous ; but the future President was then
deep in meditations over the lot-t house of
iiourboii, and he fell in, and came out
sweating. He had Chandler hauled up
before a Justice for leaving the hole ope:-,
and Cliitndle-r attempted to give him some
iinpiulence in the court-room. ( I rant walk
ed up to him as the Court adjourned, with
the malicious spirit which results from
stopping stimulation ttx suddenly, and
gave him the benefit of a skip across the
chops and a twist of the ear.
And it's the o-eneral opinion."' said a
leading merchant of whom 1 made inquiry,
. "that tyrant never did a decent thing- in
Detroit except just that.''.
Ml'I.KliACK GKANT.
Once, em a wager, he rode through the
main street with liis head to a mule s tail.
He and one other chap in theaimy, con
temporary with him, were the only two
castaways in the aristocratic circle of inili
taiy life in Detroit, where such men as
Longsiirei, Ceneial King, ami Joe: John
ston got their wives. His reappearance in
that place in lsijti was not calculated to
improve the opinion traditionally enter
tancd of him.
tiik i.oso rmt'SK.
Leaving AVashinutou Citv with Andrew
T,jl's" H. Seward, Surgeon General
t r.ames, :iml xhv Ivst tllc c,ener;d of the
Army leturned to his original habits, and
the Hullalo City Committee found him at
.Niagara rails in a nervous ami "rocky"
condition. Next day the parly took the
train for Mutlalo, anil when it" arrived at
Tonawamhv Grant saiel to Joseph AVairen.
one of tho masters of ceremonies :
15y G el ! I must have a drink !"
They obtained from Mavor li.m, .r
Buffalo, some excellent brandy, anelTn the
presence of witnesses with whom I have
; sccutiveuess or apjiositeness, if the show
shoulel be prolonged, and, at the earliest
op-iortumty, they snaked Lira oil to the
house of Mayor l argo, and put him to bed
. under the roof of that refined hospitality.
' Here the doctor was called, and the future
President's whole civil service was purged.
! We came very near losing a ."Safe iTcti-
dent"' at that juncture.
I Kesti'-.g at l argo's house, the time ar-
J Cleveland. He seeme d to U in good shai-c
""V
'-u eel natiu-e was still craving lorstiiuu-
lation, and, amongst the mail base-f th
Lake bhoic lioad, the Macedonian hero
reposed m e.bsetirely as if he were some
liaiikeet wearing apparel ol a member eif
v ougte-ss. At e. leveiand the African nve-
Were-out to see the man w ho "conc:uere d
treed out lur them; the President eif 1 he
C nueel Mates was len;g snubbeel aial
htw-ted by the inhospitable paitiKan.-hip
wiucii waneet to 100K uj.-on the Imeainents
ot a hero who coulel kill ; ail this time a
carriage hael been elriveu up in a stealthy
way 10 me ouck sieie ot me tram ana 1
it was lificel a dull, besotted faV atul h-gs
v. hi eh wouhl not support anything.' This
carria;
Wiia an ven to
j ' 1IM- uetiwiit stf.amhoat.
and there the eonquerer of Ix-e was laid
' away in silence a.iel darkness, while the
President was being hooted N-fore the
Kennaid Hotel. To hide the hero s blushes
i-M he should re-enter Detroit alter his long
absence, Mr. Bice, e.f the stcaniWt and
railway comoanv, telegraphed to his house
hold :
"Distinuuished visitors coming on with
me U bre.tkiast.'
Ami thero entered Detroit, in the early
morning, as morally, physically anel social
ly mean as when he left it nearly eighteen
years before, the Lieutenant who Lad
NUMBER 33
pull.-d the ears of Zach Chandler,
breakfast table was a scon of .,-.,...
anxious hospitality endeavoring to 1, 0."
the blunted intellects of such guests ; !
it is n uus aay the talk of the serial vi
eks of Detroit If this were to be the v.;0
story i,f this celchrateel spree, I might con
tinue to narrate lKiw oe of Grant's tj .m
paivior.sv one of the highest officers of tho
army, saw the he-adless effigies of se'itq bh.i
and terrapin while in C'iiicago, and Um
hotel entertained unaware a mult it tide . ,;"
able iKHlie d 'jimjanis." In the. history of
the United 'State no such caravan of
cial eliunkeniHsshas moved over onrl;r...l ;
and the iSileiius e.f the town was the man
who. with habits little changed only move
watched is fo be again palmed upo:i a
.Christ i n imt h m as a "Safe Presielent."
Had the Grant newspapers shown no anx
iety to open this phase e.f morals in candi
dates, we should not have ae mniodated
them upon the same he h If they want
the sty thrown open ami the pi.' 'fuiti.er
produced, only whistle !
MoTTorx von the Guantiths. AVe
commend the follo-ing statement of polit
ical fact to the attention of the republictu
party f..r use during the present campaign:
It was William Lloytl Garrison who de
claivd the const ituti.'n a "covenant wish
heU.'
It was General Grant who thrratened t i
take his regiment over to the rebels if sla
very was interfered w ith.
It was John A.J. CresswiTl who urged
Marj kind tost eede' fo.mthe l ui.-niu ir .,..
It was John A. Lnj;an whorerridfeillifi-.--ite
men in Illinois lor Beauregard's ami . .
Il w;is Julge Settle, president of the.
Grant ("invention, who was kicked nut if
the rebel army for robbing sick .soldier f
hospital stores.
It was the President's father who got a
peimit fiom his son to fTtcal cotton duriii"
the war. '
It was Senator Mot ton who sjioke of
Germans as "the. Dutchmen who are only
fit t.. eat cabbage ami drink beer."
It was Henry Wilson who took a solemn
oath never to vote for a Catholic or a f .1
eignc r.
It was Gt.vern-ir Noyes. of Old,,, wp
satd "that the republican party .01 g. t
along w ithout th-.-whiskey drinking Irish."
It was .Mrs. General Grant w ho receive d
a .'.,;;!,) check for "the government's"
share in Ki.tek Friday.
It was O-Icsby. of'llliijois. who declared
iio-t, ne ii..pi ,.r a law !
' swee
the
Dutch and I ri
1 ami lrisii o;: of .mc.i.- , "
It
as Ki iti v Ward Pet . b.r !.. si .1
that "elrattt knew more about horses than
st ate-sniaiiship."
It was Wendell Thillips who wrote frot 1
Galena th.it '-Ci-ant is owing several e-!J
whiske'v bills here."
It was l; ;. Putierwho siiitla jear a- o
"Grant iiasn't the soul of a dog."
It wa- Zack ( 'handler who sfao tl tot ;.
A. D:ma that '-ac never Jiud sucli an i-iio"-ramus
in the White House."
It was Robeson wh. paid a claim of To.
0O over a law made 011 purpose' to pi event
It w;ts I.tl.l.wk. a Grant 'rovcn
rnor, who
st'ite millions of dollars.
Synopsis of Nati kai.itation Lw.
The follow ing synopsis or the Nat ur.vli.a
tion Laws w ill be found of interest bilbos
who are about to take eut naturalization
paiK-rs 111 view f t!ie coming elections:
Aliens who arrived in the Unit' tl States
ltore they were eighteen years of ac'. and
who have continued to reside here, are not
repaired to take .nt any first pajrs,'" or
eertiacate of dechirat ion, but niav reeeivn
their "lull p.-.p.-i-s" after having resided
bve yr.-rs in the United. Status and leotud
twenty-one years of ;i"e,
Soldiers who have enh'stod in tin; regrlir
or volunteer unity of the Unitt-d States and
It-en honorably .1 ist harged, do not require;
any certiti. nte of h ch-ration ; all other per
sons imift priH ure a eertifiate. of declaratioii
at least two years prior to getting their full
papers or e; rtirit ate of naturalization, and
no length of time eir residence will obviate
the necessity of procuring the lirst papers.
First p;ipers may In; obtained at any timet
by an alien of the ag of twenty-one vear
or t'i.w.ml, autl no testimony ollu-r thaii that
of the applicant is required."
Toob a u full papers the applicant imivt
have resithd at least two years iu the Uni
ted States after recej viiii;".. tirst jt.ip. rs,
and the whoU term of his residiic- in thn
United States must have ben not less tha 1
live years, atul one in the State where th.
liual application is made.
Upon making application for full p:ijers.
the applicant must briny into -.nrt his rirst
p.icis ami have v ith him a witness w ho has
been acquainted With him furtive years, w h i
can testify to his good chara t.-r, ami' that
he is attached to the principles of the Con
stitution of the United States, ami well eli.--jM.seel
to the good order and happiness ol" tl.e
same-.
if first papers have goon lost, copies may
Ix- ..hi;-, inc.! by writing lot lit Clerk of Iii,
Court from whieh they were issued.
AVhen a fat le-r reeei es his full paper--, h'
1hil.l1.11 who are untter the age of twenty
one years, and whose refitb.-n.-e is then iu
the C idled Siates, are Consideretl citiz. ns.
Timsiimv.n, Rrah! The Dublin Tril
tffttii, om; of the leading newspapers of Ire
land, hails the- nomination of Horace Gree
ley in the following words :
"The selection does great credit ti tho
party which has piefincd him to Grant
and will he found generally acceptable, wo
hop', by the whole class of our country
men who have left the Lirciald Isle m-d
sought refuge in the fice United Stales,
Horace Orceley tlcse-rves wcil of Iivlanu.
He stood by her cvai.-c, the caitse of just ;cc,
in the darkest hour, when an artificial fam
ine ravaged the land am! fi-eedoni was driv
en from our shore s. From "that chivalrous
fidelity we have never found him to swerve.
-"Conscious -f the wrongs of our coun
try he desired their redress, knowing the
iu'ihiitc good of freedom, its spirit f lien"
fieencp influenced his own ; v. ith sympa
thies not liinilt tl by boundaries of states
he e arliest!; sought t o extend to othei laneis
at-d ofe;- people tho ndvanfn'.co or that
lileify in which his own rejoiced. We
icgaid him as the type of a true Amerie an.
As a liber.il republican he is modeled after
the old stjlc; of Washington's council ho
wouhl hae lncn had ho licd in thoso
glorious and sing'e hearted tines. By In?
upright ami manly conduct be revives 111
the present the best memories tf the past.
OpjKisition he will undoubtedly have bi en
counter, but we trust never from an Iri--ii
source."
The cud of all arguments you re another.
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