Ott DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
Thursday Morning, June 28, 1860.
SWtrtti Utr|.
MORNING.
Mom again with golden pencil
Tints the curtains of the East,
And again in robes of tinsel
Standeth at her holy chancel.
Making ready for the feast!
Gently blushing^
Gently Hashing
Like a bride before the priest
Oh. what holy thoughts come o'er us.
As we drink the morning's balm !
As we view the fields before us.
As we join the pleasant chorus
Of the the morning's holy psa'.ui ?
As we wander,
As we ponder
'hi the morning's blessed catin,
VhoughG of other, haipier hours.
Gome to u with memories rife ;
And again we seek the bowers
Where we used to gather flowers,
In the morning march of life,
Memories greet us,
Measures meet u s .
Yet unstained by care or strife.
Ob. how much of life is wasted.
In this so called world of bliss ;
How much pleasure-grain is blasted
il mm h happiness untasted—
H w much pleasure do we mi is
Just by keeping
Hull eyes sleeping •
3ucli a Tioly morn as this !
Happy ! happy 1 blessed morning
Majr my soul return the Ticw ;
Kre the evening lamps are burning,
May the holy picture waning.
Teach me to liegin anew .'
Guide ma cheerful.
Make Trie prayerful.
Till life's pilgrim day is through.
(ftaalional Department.
At a meeting of the Bradford county T< ;ic!i
rr's Association, held :it Canton, June Bth \
IMb, the following resolution was ad apted :
lusclcJ, That we approve of the plan of
starting an educational department in one of
.mr local piipers, and we hereby a'.tthorire C.
K L\ IH'KN to make the necessary arrangement
t > carry out this resolution, with the editor of
one of our comity papers, provided it can be
done without incurring any pet fluiirr r^sG-t;-
E >*•
It lie seen by the above resolution, why
the urAor-igned, who were apointed to con
duct the department, thus established, appear
iefore tbr public in their present capacity.—
us then, on the start, to state precisely
hoir we slaud. The individuals name diti the
resolution, uiade with K. O GOODRICH,
Mi tor and proprietor of the Jirodt<,r,i ll*p<.r
--v, the following arrangement : Mr. GOODRU H
is to allow the uncontrolled use of one column
"f the S&ejiorlrr, each weik, for educational
purposes. The undersigned arc !o furnish p!!
the matter for said column, snd be responsible
lor whatever shall appear therein. Neither
party is to pay to the other any eoropecation
It will be seeu that this ariingenient has trot
been cutercd iuto fr the purpose of making
money, as none is received. Now fellow-teach
trs wc wish yon to consider this your depart
ment of the Jlrperlrr, and that you are under
obligations to support it by your contributions.
We have our other duties to perform ; duties
'.hat will occupy most or all of our time, — we
nnnot therefore, be expected to prepare ail
the articles to fill our department, we look to
von for assislaace—let us not be disappointed.
We make no promises what we w ill do, thai is
tktermiued by our acts.
Let e;i* h teacher in the county take the
p*per and read at least the educational column
in no way connected with, or respon
- tie for whatever may appear iu other per
ux- J the paper. We do not ak you to
'-•? toa any other grounds than that it is,
' • at lea-t the educational department of it—
•".evoted to your improvement and the business
which you are engaged. Whatever our po
• '.cal views and opiuious are, they shall never
1* made known or urged ujon the considera
' -a of others, through the columns of an ed
ucational publication. Our design is simply
to devote ourselves to the communication of
re.ative to the state of educational mat
4 -er throughout the country, and to the dis
cussions of such questions connected, with the
cause of education, as may be of general in
terest and profit. Persons throughout the
• eunty, interested j n educational questions are
xquested to contribute to this department
i. - mmUideations relative to this departmeut
E j y be addressed to cither of its editors.
CHARLES R COBCRN,
O. S DEAN.
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1 e e 10 return this number with the name
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ueflni column.
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potting it on paper.
t i J our *rticles be short and right to
past.
o- it you are not positive that yon know
fIiCl meaning, and the correct spelling of
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TzT^-T iO3 ' bat wilf 30t " ** p° bl^
THE BRADFORD REPORTER.
CHILDREN'S CONFIDENCE. —Do you want to
learn how to make the-fchildren love you ? Do
yon want the key that will unlock the inner
most recesses of their natures ? Then sympa
thiie with tbera always. Never alldw ydiir
self to ridicule "any of iheir little secrets.—
Never say, " Oh, pshaw !" when they come to
show a new kite or a marvelous top, and " I
can't be troubled," when the hard knet won't
be untied, and two and two obstinately refuse
to make four ou their small slates. Kites and
knots are only the precursors of older thoughts
! nnd deeper trials which the parents may one
; day plead in vain to share i Don't laugh at
any of a child's ideas, however odd or absurd
: they may seem to you—let them find your
sympathy ready in all their wonderments "and
aspirations. Is there any man so wise in his
own conceit us to have forgotten that there was
a time once when he, also, was a child ? The
i little folks are too much crowded out iu this
I world—people generally seem to think that
| they can be put anywhere, or made to eat any
thing, or be crammed into any out-of the-wav
corner, to amuse themselves anyhow. We
don't agree with the-e cross grained wiseacres.
Children have just as much right to the car
window and the easy scat as anvbodv. It
don't take much to make a child love you and
trust in you, and the benefits to him are abso
lutely incalculable. Oh, how much better it
is for children to bring all their cures, and
troubles, and temptations under the gentle eve
of a wise parent ! What a safeguard it is for
them to feel that there is always a kind ear to
listen to their doubts and griefs, and a gentle
shoulder for their little heads to nestlv against !
; Respect their rights—never think you can say
bitter things in their presence, or do unjust
actions, i hey are the finest discriminators cf
fair and unfair iu the world. Somebodv says,
\\ hen you are inclined to be cross with chil
dren for being slow to learn, just try a minute
to write with your left hand. !>ee how awk
ward it proves, nnd then remember that with
children it is a'! !> ft kaitrf r Preserve us from
thop precocious infants who spring up ready
tnii ie philosophers and casuists—cherrv-cheek
od little Mocktiodda aro iulinitclt preferable.—
Above all, do not be ashamed to let them
f'.n ■ that you ! >ve them Remember, they
will be iu u and women some day, and the
sligiitest word which may influence tucir future
lives should become a thing of moment iu your
eyes.
}\\ ist fll ;uu ou s.
The Sanl Bar Mel it Natch? %
Iu order to correct a false account of the j
duel on the suvd bar, at Natchez, in IS2S, the
Richmond gives a Statement which
as we have Desrd the story from more than one
Mississippian, we lit Sieve to be quite correct :
Iu the pari-h of Rapides, and more partic
ularly in iis principal town, Alexandria, >du
at 1 on the Red River, there ha ! < x!>ted,
from tl.e time of the purchase of Loui>iana.
two >ti "ng and hostile parties,the one compos
cd of the Creole population, with many Amer
ican auxiliaries, and the other composed, in a
great measure, of American settlers, with,
probably the addition of a few Creoles. The
ill-will of the parties was stimulated to an in
teu.-c degree, by numerous disputes with re
gard to land t'tfes, arising out of urhat were
known at the time as the Washita claims
Frequent acts of violence signalized the exist
inee of these parties, who, as is always the
case with factions of every description, a few
years previously to 1*33, drew to a head un
der the actual, though unacknowledged lead- •
ership of two master spirits—men who secon d
formed, by nature, Tor stormy times. The
first of these, Cel. Ovane, (we do rot recollect
his name.) wu? a native of Fanquier rr Lou
doun county, V.rginia. He was a tall, thin
man, quite lame, oT no gf*. at physical strength,
we presume, from his size "Ld figure, but of
strong mind, powerful will, and undaunted
courage. He removed to Louisiana about the ,
year HIS, and was. at the time wc write of,
a planter in the parish of llapides. He was !
regarded a-' the leader of the American fac
tion. The other was Col. James Bowie, who
was a native of Maryland, where the name is
quite common, but had removed iu early youth
to Louisiana. lie resembled Col. Crane in
many particulars. He had a powerful, but
not very cultivated understanding ; was a !
shrewd judge, and a most efficient manager of
men ; possessed, like Crane, great physical
courage, but differed from him iu that his
frame aud strength were on the gigantic scale.
We have heard persons, w ho have served with
him in Texas, say that, in addition to his oth
er qualifications as a border chief, he had a
degree of military talents which would, under
other circumstances and in a different service,
have made him a consumate commander. He
was cool, persevering, and prudent, aud he'd
it as a max.rn never to strike a blow without
some important object in view. He was ly
ing ill in the town of Sau Antonio when the
Mexicans advanced upon it, and was carried
on a bed into the Alamo. Had he been iu
health, we have heard Texans say, the massa
cree at the Alamo woull not have taken place,
for he would have iusisted on retreating from
that dangerous advauced position and falling
back on the settlements, at least a week be
fore Santa Anna came on. Daring to the ex
treme of rashness, where daring was required, '
he was too much of & soldier to expose bis
men iu a position so far in advance of all suc
cor, where, if they were defeated, they must
be inevitably destroyed. To return, however,
to the thread of our narrative.
There was, of course, deadly animosity be
tween Crane and Bowie, but they Jid not im
mediately come into the conflict. Their par
tisans, however, were continaally fighting
On one occasion, General Cuney, of Bowie's
party, fired at Col. Crane, and struck some
body else. On another occasion, Dr. Wright,
of Crane's party, shot Col.',Bowie, in Culbert
son's tavern, with a pocket-pistol, the ball
striking the pit of bis stomach, it only pen
etrated bis clothing, however, and produced
no other ill effect than a dead l * •wi..**.*. wb,ek
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caused him to throw up his breakfast. At
last the quarrel seemed about to resolve itself
into a duel between two Aoung men attached
t<y the rnrtiei. Bowie's partisan was named
Wells, the name of the other tve not recollect.
As there might be some danger of interrup
tion if they attempted to tight in the State,
they resolved to trausfer the decision of the
matter to Mississippi, and selected the famous
Sand Bar near Hatched as the locality; Of
course the fighting men of both parties felt a
deep iuterest in the decision, and to the num
ber of about tweuty on each side, they deter
mined tb go down and see it. It docs'not ap
pear that they had any intentiiu Of engaging
in a general set-to, when they weftt j indeed,
We have heard that tlife reverse was the
fact, and that before starting they agreed that
neither Col. Bowie nor Col. Crane were to be ,
of the party. We have heard, moreover, that
Col. Crane cot across the country in a single '
chair and arrived at Natche* before the dtlel-1
ists, while Col. Bowie took the next boat after j
that which had carried them, and falling in j
with another boat going up the Mississippi,got
on board of it. The weapons with which the !
latter was armed, were a Hint-locked pocket 1
pistol and a knife eleven inches long! in the !
blade and three quarters of an iuch wide. It
had one edge, a sharp point, and a wooden
handle handle, and was, altogether, a very
primitime sort of weapon, not in the least re
sembling those formidable instruments which
cutlers have since manufactured in such large
quantities for the Southern market It be
longed to his brother, Col. Rezin Bowie, who
had it made by a blacksmith living in the Rar
i<h of Jlapides, for the purpose of cutting
cane.
The two duelists had exchanged a couple of
shots without injury to either party —a recon
ciliation had been effected by the seconds—
they were sitting nuder a tree, d;inking a !
julep—when up from the river came one par
ty, headed by Col. Crane, and down from the
woods came the other party, headed by James
Bowie. They met cu the spot Where the duel
had just been fvirLt <••> t'-o •.■:<] ia
Col. Crane, or Col. Ciane said to Col. Bowie,
(there are different versions of the story,)
" Tiiis is as good a time to settle all our diffi
culties as any other." The reply, we presume,
signified assent ; for Cel. Crane immediately
drew two pistols, and holding one in each hand, j
tired with the right upon James Bowie, wound
ng him severely, and with the left upon Gen.
Cut'.ey—who wa< standing by Rowi?—striking
him in the thigh, nnd cutting the femoral ar
tery, so that he bled to death before the sur
gevn could get the tourniquet on him. Bowie,
though wounded, immediately made at Crane.
Crane, being greatly inferior in Strength, and
having no other weapon, retreated. Bowie
pursued, snapping his pistol at Crane, until
the latter suddenly wheeled about and threw
one of his discharged weapons at Bowie, strik
ing him in the forehead with such violence
that that he fell. Attempting to rise, the
sand being very deep, he sank into it, and
gave time to one of the other party to come
up and :-hoot him t'urdugh both thighs before
be could get to IFS feet. The fight having,
by this time, become gcueral, he was shot a
third time, but had risen to a sitting posture,
when lie saw Dr. Wright approaching him
with a sword-cane. As Wright was his mortal
enemy, and had attempted to kill him once
before, he very well understood his object now.
He lay down, therefore, on his back, and
Wriirht standing over him. endeavored to ruu
the SWord through him. Iu this he uid not
succeed, Bowie drawing himself up so that the
weapon pissed through his clothes, and sunk
deep into the sand, without doing Lim any
farther injury than inflicting a mere scratch on
his side. A- Wright was stooping iu the act
of driving the sword through Bowie, (as he
hoped,) the iat'.cr seized him by the collar,
drew the knife we have described, and, with
the speed of lightning, plunged it into his
heart, turned it entirely around in the wound,
and drew il cut. Tradition, iu Alexandria,
ttteuty years ago, said that the blow was so
violent as to cut several of the ribs entirely
in two. The fight around Bowie—whom it
was the principal object of the other party to
kill—coutiuued for some time, and several oth
er persons were severely wounded ; but Cuuey
end Wright were the only persous killed dead
on the spot.
Two gentlemen were pointed out to ;i, in
Alexandria, twelve years after the occurrence,
as having been wounded iu the great fight on
the Sand Bar.
When we were in New Orleans, in the year
IS4O, there appeared in some New York pa
per whet purported to be a narrative of a
bloody duel fought by Col. Bowie in Texas
with three Mexicans. Cel. Rezin Bowie hap
pened to be in New Orleans at the time, re
sented it violently. He evidently thought
that his name bad acquired an infamous noto
rietv, by its association with the murderoas io
strumeut to which it gives title. lie there
fore published a card in the New Orleans Pic
a in which he made the statement with
regard to the knife u*ed by his brother, which
he made the statement with regard to the
kr.ife used by his brother, which we publish
above. He said cutlers had exerted their in
genuity to invent a murderou/ weapon, and
had given his brother's name to it. He pro
nounced the tales about his brother infamous
lies, and said that the fight at the Sand Bar
was the only private combat in which be bed
ever been engaged. His brother had never,
he said, invented any sort of knife for the pur
pose of takmg human life. He ended by de
claring his intention to cal! to account any
editor or publisher who should give publica
tion to any more glaoders of the kind, no mat
ter in what part of the country he might re
side.
To make an em! of otir story, Col. Bowie
shot through in several places and wonDded IB
others with dirks and sword-canes, was carried
to >"atchez, where he lay for some time at the
point of death, and when he was recovering
was taken with a violent spell of bilious fever.
He survived, however, aDd removed lo Texas,
where be was killed at the taking of the Ala
mo, in April, 1536.
t | [From " Household Words."l
f A Slocking full of Bank Noteh.
1
1 Some years ago—in the days of the thirty
shilling notes —a ccrtaia Irishman Saved up
. the sum of eighty-seven pounds ten, iu notes
of the Bank of Ireland. As a sure means of
securing this valuable property, he put it in
; the foot of an old stocking, and buried it in
• his garden, where bank note paper couldn't
fail to keep dry, and to come out when want
ed, in the best preservation.
After leaving his treasure in this excellent
place of deposit for some mouths, it occurred
to the depositor to look at it, and see bow it
was getting on. He found the s'.ocking-foot
apparently full cf the fragments or mildew and
broken mushrooms. Xo other shadow of a
shade of eigiity-seveu pounds ten.
In the midst of his despair, the man had the
sense net to disturb the ashes cf his property,
lie took the stocking-foot in his hand, posted
I off to the Bank of Dublin, entered it one moru
; ing as soou as it was opened, and staring at
! the clerk with a most extraordinary absence
| of all expression in his face, said :
" Ah look at that, sir ! Cau ye do anything
j for me ?"
" What do yoti call this ?'* said the clerk.
" Eighty-seven pound tin, praise the Lord,
as I'm a sinner ! Ohone ! There was atwinty
as was paid to me by Mr. Bhalim O'Dowd,
sir, and a Liu as in changed by Rat Reilly,
and a live as was own by Tim ; and Ted Con
ner, ses he to ould Dhillips—
" Well ! Never mind old Phillips. You
have done it mv friend !"
" Oh Lord, sir, and it's done it I have.most
complate I Ob, good luck to you, sir, can you
do nothing for me ?"
" I don't know what's to be done with such
a mess as this. Tell me, first Of all, what you
put in the stocking, vou unfortunate blunder
er ."' " i
" Oh yes, sir, and tell eo nue ti it was the
last word I had to spake entirely, and the
Lord be good to you, and Ted Couner ses he
to on Id Rhillips, regarden the five as was own
by Tim, and not included of the tin which was
changed by Rat Reilly ''
" You didu't put Rat Reilly or ould Rhillips
into the stocking, did you 7"
" Is il Rat or ould Phillips as was ever the
valy of eighty sivin pound tin, lost and gone,
and including the five as was ow:i by Tim, and
| Ted Conner "
j " Then tell me T.'iat you did put iu the
j stocking and let me take it down. And then
hold your tongue, if you can, and jo your wav
ahri come back to-morrow/'
The particulars of the notes were taken,
without any reference to ould Rhillips ; who
could not, however, by any means be kept out
of the story ; and the man departed. When
he was gone, the stocking-foot was shown to
the Chief Engraver of the notes, who said that
if anybody could settle the business, his son |
could. And he proposed that the particulars
of the notes should not bo communicated to'
his son, who was theu employed in his deiiart
! ment of the Bank, but should he put awav
nuder lock and key ; and that if his son's iu
! genuity should enable him to discover from
these ashes what notes had really pat in the
1 "tocking, and the two lists should tally, the
man should be paid the lost amount. To this j
prudent proposal the Bank of Ireland readily
assented ; being extxemly anxious that the
inau should not be a loser but, of course,
deeming it essential to be protected from im
position.
The son readily undertook the delicate com
mission proposed to him. He detauhed the j
fragments from the stocking with the utmost
care, on the fine point cf a penknife ; laid the
whole gently in a basin of warm water : and
presently saw them, to his delight, began to
unfold and expand like flowers. Ry-and-by,
he began to 'tease them' with very light
touches of a camel s hair pencil, and so, by
Lttic aud little, and by the moat delicate use
of the warm water, the camel's hair pencil,and
the penknife, got the various morsels separate
before him, and begao to piece them together
The first piece kid down was faintly recogni
sable by a practised eye as a bit of the left
baud bottom corner of a twenty-pound note:
then came a bit of a five, then of a ten ; theu
more bits of twenty • then more bits of five
and ten i then another left hand bottom cor- i
ner of a twenty—so there were two t wen tie* ! ,
and so on until, to the admiration aud astonish- j
meat of the whole Bank, he noted down the i
exact amount deposited in the stocking, aud
the exact notes of which it had been compos ]
ed. t pon this, as he wished to see and divert i
himself with the man ou his return—he pro- i
vided himself with a bundle of corresponding ]
new, clean,rustling notes.A awaited his arrival j
He came exactly as before, with same blank
staring face, and the same inquiry, "Can yoa
do auything for me, sir ?" j i
" Well," said our friend, " I don't know— 1
Maybe I can do something. But I have taken j
a great deal of pains, and lost a great deal of i
time, and I want to know what you mean to \
give me * i
" It is giveD, sir ? Thin is there anything I ; '
wouldn't give for my eighty-sivin pound tin, <
sir ; aDd its murdered lam by ould Phillips.'' i
"Never mind him ; there were two twenties i
were there not V '
"Oh holy mother, sir, there was ! Two most
illigant twenties ! aDd Ted Conner—and Fba
liin—which Keily "
He faltered and stopped, as oar friend with
much ostentations rustling of the crisp paper,
produced a new twenty, and then the other
twentj, and then a ten, and then a fire and
so forth. Meanwhile, the man, occasionally
murmuring an exclamation of sarprise, or a
protestation of gratitude, bnt gradually becom
ing vagce and remote in the latter, as the
notes reappeared, looked on staring, evidently
inelioed to believe that they were the real
lost notes, reproduced in that state by some
chemical process. At last they were all told
out, and in his pocket, and be still stood star
ing and mattering, " Oh, holy mother, only to
think of it! Sir, it's bound to joa forever that
I am !"*■—but.more vaguely and remotely now
thas befor*
" Well," said our friend " What do you pro
pose to give mc for this ?"
Aftct staring aud rubbing his chin for some
time longer, he replied with the unexpected
question :
" Do you like bacon ?"
" Very much," said our friend.
" Tkiu it's-a side as I'll bring your honor to
morrow morning, audsa bucket of new milk--
aud ould Bhillips "
" Come," said our friend, glancing at a nota
ble shillelagh the man had nuder his arm, " let
me undeceive you. I donT want anything of
you, and I am very glad yon have got your
money back. But I suppose you'd stand by
me now, if I wanted a boy to help me iu auv
little skirmish ?*'
They were standing by a Windcw on the
top story of the Bank, commanding a court
yard, where a sentry was on duty. To our
| friend's amazement, the man dashed out of
the room without speaking cne word, suddenly
j appeared in the court-yard, performed a war
, dance round this astonished soldier-who was a
I modest young recruit—made the shillelagh
flutter, like a wooden butterfly, round his mus
ket, round his bayonet, round his head, round
his body, round arins, inside and outside his
| legs, advanced and retired, rattled it all around
. him like a firework, looked up at the window,
cried out with a high leap in the air,
j " Whooroo ! Thry me !" vanished— and never
| was beheld at the Bank again from that time
j forth.
' SPEECH OF CARL SCHURZ.
M the Milwaukie Ratification Meeting, Wed
nesday Evening. May SO.
Below we give the principal portion (we
wish we had space for more) of the sjjcccti ot
this eloquent German Republican, on his re
turn home from the Chicago C'or.vention.
| • I need tiaroly say, sir, that when the mo
tion was made to make Mr. Lincoln's nomina
tion unanimous, we seconded it without auv
"acrifice of feeling, and when it was carried we
heartily joined in the general enthusiasm.—
[Cheers.] We had not gone there to have our
candidate nominated or none, but with the
royal intention to subordinate our individual
i judgment to the judgment of the majoritv,
provided the Convention asked of us nothing
inconsistent with our consciences as anti-.slaverv
men and the dignity cf the Republican eanse.
[Cheers.] And I do not hesitate to sav, that
if Governor Seward had not been in the field
Mr. Lincoln would, tlnless I mistake the tenu er
, of our people, in all probability have been i
; the first choice cf Wisconsin. Although
Governor Seward failed, Mr. Lincoln's nom
ination nailed the good oid Republican banner
to the mast boldly and defiantly as ever.—
[Prolonged applause ]
| " Mr. President I had the honor to be a
member of that committee who were to carry
to Mr. Lincoln the official announcement of his
nomination The enthusiasm with which we
were received at Springfield was boundlts*—
There we saw Mr. Lincoln's neighbors, and it
beccme at once apparent that those who knew
him best, loved and esteemed him most.—
Cheer-. And then I saw Mr Lincoln again,
for 1 had met him before in that memorable
senatorial eampaigu in Illinois, when he, as a
man of true and profound convictions,although
discountenanced and discouraged by many lead
ing Republicans, who thought it good "policy
to let Mr. Douglas return to the Senate with
out opposition, throw himself forward tor the
imperilled purity of our principles. g-aspeJ
with a bold baud the Republican banner,which
was in danger of sinking into the mire at com-
S promise and unnatural combinations, and hold
; it up proudly aloft in one of the fiercest strug
gles the country over witnessed. Great ap
plause. 1 met him then, when he bearded
the lion of demagoguism in his den, when the
brilliant sallies of his wit and sarcasm drew
shouts of delight from the multitude, when the
thunderbolts of bis invective rattled triumph
antly against the brazen front of Stephen A
Douglas— applause —when the Incid unan
swerable logic of his arguments iuspired every
patriotic bcart with new confidence in the
justice of our cause, and when under his pow
erful blows the large democratic majority of
Illinois dwindled down to nothing. There 1
saw him do what perhaps no other man in the
country would hare done. There I learned to
confide iu the patriot and the defender cf ro
found convictions, to esteem the statesman,an !
to love the man. [Great applause.^
"And now, I saw him again, snrrounded
by the Committee of the National Convention
who had come to lay into hi; hands the highest
trust that a political party has to bestow- an
honor which be had not thought of in his hard
fought battles, which he had not cravid and
had hardly been sanguine enough to expect.—
There he stood, silently listening to the ad
dress of cur chairman ; his eye? downca-t ; in
his soul, perhaps, a feeling of just pride strug
gling with the overawing consciousness of re
sponsibility. Then he answered, thanking them
for the honors bestowed upon him, end accept
ing the leadership is the great struggle, not
with the exulting tone of one who has achiev
ed a personal triumph : cot with the pompou3
airs and artificial dignity of one who is consci
ous of standing upon the great stage of the
world, but with that unaffected modest sim
plicity of a man who is strong in the consci
ousness of his ability and his honest intention
to do right. [Applause ]
" Many of those who now surrounded him
had voted for other candidate? is the Conven
tion, and some, still laboring under a feeling of
personal disappointment, had come there, cot
without some prejudice unfavorable to Mr.
Lincoln. But whey they saw a man who had
worked his way from the humblest station in
life to bis present eminence, not by fast specu
lation or adventurous efforts, not on the wing
of good luck, but by quiet, stAdv labor, un
swerving fidelity to principle and his private<
and public duties, dy the vigor of his genius and
the energy of his character—the man who had
woo the confidence of the people and was now
lifted npoo the shield of <grea: national party
uot by fageniocscenbinat-.oos and adrOot can- j
•gemeat. bat by the the pefeiir intact— aa •
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fettered by promises, unpledged to anybody,
anything btlt the people and the welfare of our
country, his hands free to carry out the honest
dictates of his pure conscience, a life behind
him, not only above reproach, but above sus
picion a problem before him, for the solution
of which he was eminently fitted by the native
virtues of bis character, the high abilities of
his mind, and a strong honest purpose, they
all felt,that with this pure and patriotic states
man, all those great qualities would return to
the White House, which makes Republican
government what it ought to be —a govern
ment founded upou virtue. [Euthusiastic
cheers.] And an eastern delegate, who had
voted agniu-t him in the Convention, whiper
ed to me in a tone of the highest satifaction ;
' Sir, we might have doue a more daring thing
but we certainly could not have done a belter
thing.'— [Prolonged applause.
" I cannot find words strong enough to de
sijrnate the stilliness of those who sneefingly
affected to see in Mr. Lincoln but a second or
third rate man, who. like Po'k and Pierce,had
been taken up merely for the purpose of ex
pediency. Let them ask Mr. Douglas, from
Whose hands he wrested the popular majority
in Illinois ; let them ask those, who once felt
the magic tonch of his lucid mind and honest
heart : let his detractors a.-k their own secret
misgivings, and in their own fears they will
read the cause of the joy and assurances of his
friends. Applause.] They whistle in order
to keep tip their courage : but methiuks, it is
a doleful sound. [Laughter and cheers.] So
then, we stand, before the people, with the
platform of free labor, and upon it a true re
presentative of free labor as a candidate in
the Presidency. On this altitude we challenge
our enemies to the battle."
GFXFPAI. JACKSOX'S WlFE. —Many of our
public men have been blessed with wives au ]
mothers who were the ornament l : of their sex
and their quiet and ennobling influence con
tributed largely to the subsequent greatness of
their children and husbands. .Mr I'arton tells
the following story of (leneral Jackson's wife ;
\\ hen 'leneral Jackson was a candidate for
the Presidency,in 1 Silts,not only did the party
opposed to him abuse hiui for h.s public acts,
wh'cli, if unconstitutional or vioient, were a
legitimate subject of reprobation but tbev ue
famed the character of his wife. 0:i one ac-
casion a newspaper published in Nashville was
la ul upon ;he General's table, lie glanced.
, over !t, and Lis eye fell np-n nr. article in which
the character of Mrs. Jackson was violent!v
assaded Sj soon as he read it h. sent fri i>
trusty old servant ituiiwocdie.
" .Saddle mv hor-e," said he to him in a
whisper, "and put my holsters on him."' Mr--
Jackson watched hitn. and, though she heard
not a word, she thought she saw atisckiej in't:•
ever. The General went out after a few min
utes, when she took up the paper and under
stood everything. She ran oat to the south
i gate of the yard of the Hermitage, by which
the General would have to pass She had not
I been there mere than a few seconds before the
General rode npon with the countenance of a
maumen. She placed herself before his horse
and cried cut :
"O, Genera! 1 don't go to Nashville. Let
that poor editor live let that poor editor
live !" He rep >d : " How came you to know
what lam euing for?"' She answered : " I
saw it ail in Lis paper after you went out :
put up your horse and go back." He replied
furion-ly ; " Hut I will go—get out of mv
way 1 Instead of doing this, she grasped his
j bridle with both hands. He cried to her, "1
say,let go my hor-e : I'll have his heart's blood:
the villain that reviles my wife shall m l live "
She gra-ped the rains but the tighter, cud
! began to expostulate with him, saying that
j she was the one who ought to l>e angrv, but
that she forgave her persecutors from the b >:-
i tern of her heart, o: d prayed for them—that
he should forgive, if he had hoped to be fo:-
gives. At ia-l. by her reasoning, her eutrca
ties and tears, she so worked upon her hus
band that he seemed mollified to a certain ex
tent. Si.e wound np by saying, " No, General
you shall not take the life of even mv reviier :
you dare net do it, for it !? written Vengeance
is thine, 1 will repay, saith the Lord."'
The iron-nerved hero gave way before the
earnest pleading of hi' beloved wife, 3r,d re
plied : " I yield to you : but had it not been
for yon, and the words of the Almightv, the
wretch should not hate lived an hour."
Talking of absence of mind, -aid the
Rev. Fidney ?mith,' (he oddest instance hap
pened (o me once in forgetting my c\rn name.
I knocked at a door in London, and asked if
Mrs. IJ. was a! hone. " Yes, sir, what name
shaM I ay?" I looked in the man's face as
tonished—what name ? Aye, that is the ques
tion—what is my name? I believe the man
thought me mad, but it is literally true, that
during the space of two or three "minutes, I
had no more idea of who I was than if I had
never existed. I did not know whether I was
a dissenter or a layman : I felt as dull a-
Sternhold or Hopkins. At last, to my great
relief, it flashed across me that I was Sidney
Smith. 1 heard, also, of a e'ergvman who
went jogging along '.he road until Lo < ame to
a turnpike. " What is to pay " I'av. sir !
for what !" asked the turnpike man. " Why,
for my horse, to be sure."' " Your honor, sir !
what horse ? Here is no horse, sir " ".No
horse !—God bless me !" said he, suddenly
looking down between bis legs, "I thought I
was on horseback."
tSF 'My son, said an affectionate mother,
to her son, who resided at a distance, and ex
pected in a short time to be married, " my SOD,
you are getting very thin." "Yes mother,'
he replied, " when I come next time I think
you may see my rib."
t&~lf the bdls before Congress are uot
counterfeit, why should there be such d:t£cuity
in passing them ?
is said that a watch dog is cot n
Icfga :o tha morasag a? at eight, btc3ti~* he is
let our a: rgbt and taken in the morciag