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A. 3. GERRITSON, P?oprietor.}
POll THE 3102fTR01311 DEZOCIIAT
ZIC X 'Z` CS TEL
or the Great Struggle between Liberty
and Despotism fOr Um last.
Hundred Years.
CROMWELL AND ROBESPIERRE
IN CONGRESS.
Americans 1 You who yet love and re
vere the naive of Washington, are you
watching the progress of the revolution
which threatens to extinguish every spark
of liberty which Washington won by his
sword in the dark night of despotism ?
Are you perusing the pages of history
which recounts the events of three great
tragedies, which are now being repeated
io your own beloved country ? Have not
some of the military generals who con
quered the Smith informed UP, that the
policy of the Republican party is a revo
lutionary policy, as radical as that which
dethroned the Bourbons, .and more radi
cal than that which brought the head of
Charles I. to the block ? Said one of these
generals:
" My fellow citizens, the policy of the
Republican party is beyond the research
es of statesmanship; it cannot be carried
forward alone by the civil power ; it de
mands the presence of that military pow
er which achieved the victory. That great
revolution does tu.t cease with the recon
struction of these States. It goes farther.
It assails the Constitution ot. the Unite,i
States; what in it was dark it illumin
ates—what was imperfect. it reforms and
harmonizes in to power."
Americans! Have you no fears of this
revolutionary party, who do not hesitate
to proclaim their policy to be that of a
military despotism ? When they boldly
proclaim that, they are greater revolution
ists than the fanatics who cut off the heads
of Charles I. and Louis XVI? Are you
wiliing to bend your necks to a more cru
el yoke than Cromwell fastened on the
necks of the people of England, with only
50,000 military satraps and soldiers at his
command ? Then are you unworthy the
name of Americans.
So tearful were your patriot ancestors
of military rule; so much were they in
tread of the Very name of Cromwell, when
oppressed by . George 111, that the Con
gress of the United States, says Hinton,
" was afraid to trust a standing army ne
cessary to conduct the war, lest, at its sue
cessful termination, this army would be
come the master of the country for whose
liberties it, fought."
But what does the Republican party
say about the army becoming the master
of our country, after pretending to fight
for liberty and union ? Gov. Curtin in a
speech to the army, said :
" Of all men in Oil great Republic, the
soldiery who maintained the stability of
the government are the proper men to
meet in counc:l, and deliberate on what
aro the lessons of the war. When ,on
have concluded what are the lessons of
the war, you have the power to compel the
government to obey you. Do the lovers
and friends of civil liberty teach such
principles as these ? Schrceder, in his
life of Washington, says :
" We have already bad occasion to re
mark that Congress and the American
people were extremely jealous of military
power; and this was the reason for refus
ing to make long enlistments. They were
afraid of a standing army. The example
of Cromwell was comparatively recent,
and the members of Congress were well
read in British history.",
Now, how does this Congress of 1776,
which carried on a war for American lib
erty, compare wi'h the Congress of to
day, which voted - to take away from the
President, who stands by the Congress of
1776, all power over,the army, and make
one of the generals military dictator ?
Do you not see how anxious they are for
a Cromwell ? And do you not see that
they have an army ready for him, who are
willing to follow at his heels ? John W.
Forney, in speaking of the contest be
tween Congress and the Preaident, says,
March, 1868:
" Without including the officers of the
regular,army, beginning with the general
in chief, the surviving forces that crushed
the rebellion, now at their homes, have
become a national brotherhood of 400,000
men, each with his own arms, and ab mar
shalled by such chiefs as Logan of Illinois,
Geary of Pennsylvania, Kilpatrick of New
Jersey, Barlow of New York, Chamber
lain of Maine, and Hays of Ohio."
And /his great army, according to the
Repulgicaps, are willing to fight for Crom
well instead of Washington.
Americans It Waito save yottr noun
try from a military despotism, after OS
war was over, that Washington took up
on himsle arduous task of conquering
the armie f Great Britain. Jonathan
Boucher, an episcopal divine, who wrote
s: history of that revolution, and dedica
ted the work to Gen. Washington, writes
as follows :
" Tt) pains ,
which the leading men n
the Northern .coloniee took to eng i agn
those of Virginia in particular, in .their
lou,„. meditated project of indepenkoon
mild be aoknowp to nix mei? , on the 0p.0t..
Virginia held a proud prc 7 emineaca r Tba
people maintained no !null "portios ofthe
splendid hospitality of the old English
gentry. Their character among their sis
ter colonies was 104. The gaining over
of Virginia to the confederacy was of
great moment. Ido not know that any
thing short of their accession could or
woald have quieted the fears of the other
Southern colonists respecting their fellow
sulj-cta of the North. All the middle
and Southern colonies were afraid lest,
when happily by tbeir united efforts they
should have succeeded in throwing off the
yoke of Great Britain, a Northern army,
as was the case under Cromwell, might
give law to the continent. There is rea
son to believe that. it was this particular
apprehension, which, more than anything
else, induced General Washington to ac
cept the command of the army."
Americans I Can you be so ungrateful
as to forget the Father of your country,
who not. only delivered you from the yoke
of Great Britain, but fought to save you
from the " curse of Cromwell 2"
This circumstance of history written by
Mr. Boucher is confirmed by Mr. Wells
in his life of Samuel Adams. He says :
"This apprehension that the New Eng
landers wou d eventually overrun and
subjugate the South, was common among
the Southern statesmen. It extended far
into the war of the revolution, and there
are indications of it during Washington's
administrations, and to the close of the
century.
" Samuel Adams, in ono of his essays,
written at Philadelphia in 1776, endeav
ors to allay the fears of the Quakers that
the Northern Presbyterians would over
run them after a separation from Eng
land."
Wby were all these people so much
afraid of New England ? Because of the
intolerance of New England puritanism.
The Quakers were afraid that their ears
might be cut off, or their tongues bored
with a red hot iron, and the whole South
stood in the fear of the " curse of Crom
well."
Their fears are now realized. " This
war," said the Hon. B. H. Brewster, a
Republican ora; or, " is the old fight of the
Puritan and Cavalier."
Said the Rev. Newman Hall, a Puritan
minister from England, who made speech
es
to the Republicans last, year, "f he peo
ple of England who stood side by side
with Cromwell, were true to the North."
Now, if you want. ail further proof
that this war was made by New England
ou the South for the express purpose of
overturning the free institutions estab
lished by Washington and the other
Southern statesmen, and erecting a despo
tism on its ruins, we will give it.
The Life of Rev. Lyman Beecher, by
his son, Charles Beecher, says :
"The first number of the Liberator, ed
ited by Wm. Lloyd Garrison, was issued
January, 1831. The interval between the
challenge of the editor to the slaveholil
ers of the South and the year 1837, while
gradually destroying Mr. Garrison's orig
inal sympathy with the theology of reviv
als, added constantly to the power of his
appeals. Yet the fact of this divergence
of the Liberator from the theology of the
Puritans, does not, nullify the fact that it,
was itse , f the child of tbis theology, albeit
a wayward child. Instinctively the guil
ty region, now expiating its crimes, be
trays the consciousness of the source of
its punishment, by desperate reaction
against New England Puritanism."
Garrison and all the New England infi
dels, who are followers and disciples of
Rossean and Robespierre, are Puritans.
Cromwell and Robespierre have formed a
union ' • the English and French fanatics
united. The French revolution merged
in the English revolution demands the
decapitation of the chief magistrate of the
United States that their revolui ion may
roll on. Christianity cut off the head of
Charles I. Infidelity cut. off the head of
Louis XVI. Christianity and Infidelity
united forms the worst kind of Popery on
earth. The " curse of Cromwell, and the
curse of Robespierre, now rest on eleven
States of this Union; and when the de•
signs of this wicked power are achieved,
the curses of Cromwell and Robespierre
will have blighted and blasted the liber
ties of All America.
Stesens , makes a daily parade
of himself by being carried to and from
the Rump House by two " stalwart ser
vants." If his feebleness is so great as to
require such assistance,_ be had better
make his peace with God, and not like a
blind Sampson attempt to pull the tem
p'e of the people's liberties upon his own
grave. If, however, those displays are
merely: for effect with the people, the
cheat will soon be discovered, and the
wgrand moral exhibitions" of the
great Thaddeus will take their places
with the wax figures, woolly horses, Fee
jee mermaids, Joice Heths, and other im
positions of P. T. Barnum.
—Chides Dickens, a good authority,
says:
" I have known a vast deal , of nonsense
talked 469 bad men not l ooking-you - in
the fane. Dishonesty' Will fitare;, you out
of countenance, whilst a bashful ,fsei is the
otito•lx , tritststt: rilei l oo7 lll isi
ble."
MONTILOSE, PA., TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1868.
Africangbig America.
Amid the int‘tise excitement caused
by the bold attempt of the radical party
to depose the Pre*lent and change our
whole form of goverment, we must not
forget that the scheme of the same dan
gerous fiction for Africanizing a portion
of the country is bei l tig , pushed forward
with untiring industry. In 'ln all the South
ern States, Loyal Leag‘tes - are busily at
work collecting the negtoes into socie
ties administering to the such oaths as
will m
influence their action, inflaming their
passions againtat the white race, and thus
fitting theta for action at file polls and
elsewhere. Large sums of money have
been collected and appropriated by the
Congressional committee at Washington
fur expenses incurred in Manipulating the
negrves of the South, and promises"-made
to them of the distribution of the lands in
their favor when the proper moment, ar
rives. Artful agents of the " Rump' afe
now in the South proclaiming to the
groes that one effect of deposing Andrew
Johnson, and pacing Mr. Wade in his
place, will be to hasten the period when
they can take possession of what property
still retnains in the hands of white men io
that section, and rule supreme, as they do
is ilayti and other places where they are
in the ascendency.
The effect of such a course of action as
that pursued by the party in power with
reference to the negroes of the Southern
states, can be seen in the condition of that
section. in all the conventions negro del
egates have been admitted, and their ac
tion has brought disgrace and ridicule up
on the nation. Proposii ions of the most
indefensible and monstrous character have
been submitted and argued by these men,
while all the material interests of the
States are suffering, trade, commerce and
agriculture languishing for want of prop-
tr attention. Two ideas seem to control
the Degrees. One is hatred to the white
people amung whom they rebide, the oth-
er obtaining a living without labor. These
they are preparing to make the foundation
of the negro policy of the South. At the
ballot box they act upon this plan, in the
coosti•utiona formed by them, it is the
vital element, and in every day life they
carry out this platform. Outrages upon
white men, women and children are com
mon in all the Sou hero states. Scarce a
paper comes from that section that does
not contain accounts of the commission of
offenses by uegroes, at which the heart
sickens and the blood runs cold. Lesser
crimes, such as petty larceny and assault
and batttry, are multiplied tenfold since
the inauguration of the negro equality
policy. Bands of idle, worthless negroes
pass through all the south, plundering, de
stroying and burning. They cannot be
controlled or .punished. If resistance is
offered, they add insult, violence and mur
der to the catalouge of their crimes. Be
hind these desperadoes stand the Loyal
Leagues, and then comes Congress and
the radical party', Clothing and food are
supplied them by the Freedmen's Bureau,
and t hus equipped, they are prepared to
' act as the rea.ty and wiling tools of the
conspirators at Washington.
In the meantime, no business can be
done in the South. Laborers cannot be
procured, and capitalists are afraid to in
vest, their funds where the civil law affords
no security for life or property. The few
negroes that would labor are deterred
from doing so by the threats of those who
are in the pot against the white people of
that section. If a negro votes the Con
servative ticket, he is mobbed, perhaps
murdered; if he labors fur his old master,
the dissolute of his own race appropriate
the proceeds of his industry. As the in
evitable result of this state of affairs, the
crops of the South are falling off—cotton,
rice, and tobacco, are diminishing in
quantity and increasing in price, the
North is losing the vast trade of that sec
tion, and many of the farmers, planters,
and merchants, are preparing to seek
homes in some otberloca'ity. Etch year
the area of land put under cultivation is
becoming less, while mills for grinding
grain or cuting timber are unproductive,
on account of the difficulty of procuring
hands, and the falling off in the demand
for what they produce. From the Poto
mac to the Rio Grande the ruinous effects
of this Africanizing scheme can be plainly
and painfully seen, and yet the radicals
are determined to push on the negro col
umn over all obstacles and in defiance of
all facts.
Why ? Because they need the negro
vote to sustain their plan for destroying
, this form of goverment. The North is
preparing to cast off the chains of folly and
fanaticism. All the elections taking place
show this fact. In Maine, New Hamp
shire, Connecticut, New York, and in
many of the western States, the altered
tone of public opinion is of the most con
vincing character. But white men are to
'be trodden down by negroes. The votes
of the Africanized Southern States are to
be counted for Wade or Grant, or some
other candidate of the radical party, for
President, and thus the voice offmillions of
intelligent white freemen in Pennsylvania,
New York, and Ohio, made of no effect.
Tide is the radical scheme. It is a t win
brother of iniquity with the impeachment
r.se to make. the conspiracy perfect.
V u ent,. They need Wade in the white
This part of the, plan is now being deeelr.
(Ted, but while gazing on the nelp horn
of the beast the white men of the nation
must not forget that negro equality is one
of the issues in the present contest.—Age.
Brazil—As seen by Mr. Agassiz.
In spite of a laudable desire to find some
thing to praise in people who have treat
ed them with so much kindness, neither
the Professor nor Mrs. Agassiz succeed
iu giving us a very favorable idea of their
hospitable entertainers. The Brazilian
Government, they tell us, is enlightened,
and endeavors 1,9 do what it can for sci
ence. Still this intelligent Government
has a plasant way of recruiting its armies;
it sends out a pressgang which catches
unlucky Indians, totally ignorant of Portu
guese, and not having a notion of the
cause of their arrest; it, chains them to
gether two and two like criminals, and
marches them to the towns, or has their
legs passed through heavy blocks of wood
and sends theta ou board its steamboats.
They are sent off to the war, and the pro
vince from which they are taken boasts of
its large contribution to the national for
ces.. Again, the emancipation question is
treated in a far more moderate spirit than
has been the case in the United States;
slavery is gradually dying down under a
reasonable ,system; emancipation is fre
quent, and slave labor is by degrees being
limited to agricultural purposes. On the
other band, the mixture of races seems to
be producing the worst effects. Accor
ding to Professor Agassiz, the amalgama
tion of the white, negro, and Indian races,
is producing a "mongrel nondesc7ipt
type, deficient in mental and physical en
ergy," and without the good qualities of
any of its progenitors. It, is remarkable
that in these cross breeds the tendency
seems to be to revert to the Indian type,
with a gradual obliteration both of white
and negro characteristit s. The absence
of any strong prejudices against race is
marked by the election of a negro as pro
fessor of Latin, in preference to candidates
of other races, hut, if M. Agassiz is cor-
reef, the absence of social distinction pro
duces anything but a healthy effect upon
the physical character of the race. The
whites themselves come in for some se
vere criticism. The women, we are told,
are scarcely educated at all; the priests
have the merit of patriotism, but seem to
be ignorant, immoral, and indolent; and
the towns along the river are for the most
part in a state of decay. It is only fair to
add that M. Agassiz discovers many morti
promising symptoms in various directions
and expresses a " deep rooted belief in
the future progress and protiperity of Bra
zil, and sincere personal gratitude tow
ards her." But we cannot say that a pe
rusal of the journal tends to confirm this
itnpressien in his readers. We are struck
by the hospitality and kindness of the
people, and even by the sympathy felt by
many of them in the author's scientific
pursuits; but, on the whole, we receive an
impression of general indolence and apa
thy on the part of the majority of theciv
ilized inhabitants. Mrs. Agassiz tells us
that the flowers of the Amazonian forests
al ways remind her of hot house plants—
that there comes " a warm breath from
the depths of the wood laden with mois
ture and perfume, like the air from the
open door of a conservatory;" and we
seem to perceive that the Brazilians them
selves have suffered not a little from the
hot house atmosphere in which they live.
The children, we are told, have a general
, ly unhealthy appearance; and the popula
tion as well as the products of the coun
try seem to be rendered languid by the
everlasting vapor bath in which they pass
their days.
A TE3IPERANCE ANECDOTE.... 4 Once
upon a time," a young theological stu
dent was delivering a temperance lecture
in Boston, and proving by the Bible,
which he bad open before him, that strong,
drink was injurious to man and a sin
against God. Now, in that city lives a
man known as Cooper K. it former Con
gressman, who is very fond of his bitters.
Just as the young man got fairly warmed
up in his subject. old Cooper K. came in,
pretty well poisoned and took a seat. Af
ter sitting a few minutes he arose in his
seat, and steadying himself, he pointed
his finger at the speaker and said. "Young
man, (hic) young man, (hic) don't you
know that that book (hic) only mentions
one man (hic) who asked for water, (hic)
and he was in h—ll (hic) where he ought
to be !" The converts to the cold water
cause were not numerous that night.
—The reckless appropriat ion of the pub
lic money by the present radical Legisla
sure is exciting considerable indignant
comment from the people in all parts of
the State. It is evident that the total of
the appropriation bill will far exceed that
of any previous year. It will probably
reach four and.a half if not five millions
dollars. As usual, a very large sum is
swallowed up in increased salaries and ex
tra pay to officers and supernumeraries.
—The Now Hampshire Statesman (rad
ical) figures up the vote of that State as
follows : Harriman 39,778; Sinclair 87,-
290—majority 2,488. This ja, a gain in
votes on the vote of 1867, foNie rads
3,969; for the democrate, 4.461, and a rad
ical loss on majority of 522. The demo
crats gain 20 members ofthe house of rep-,
resentstireo.
Trees by the Wayside. Cultivate Gracefulness. ,
As we were travelling recently through The chief distinction in societybetween
the town of Waldoboro,' (says the Maine the " attentions of the tl.oroughly grace-
Farmer,) we noticed that long rows of int gentleman, and one who simply knot/
trees were growing by the roadside in the the rules, is that the former pays tbettl
pastures, and forming a good fence. We without attracting notice. A lady hardly
have sometimes wondered that men own- realizes that anything is done for ber—
ing wet and clayey pasture land where the she only knows that the • gentleman is
fir and the spruce grew spontaneously, and . agreeable.
where fencing stuff was scarce and dear, Do u es the young man ask how be shall
did not set out these trees on the lines of cultivate this unconscious gracefulness
fences, especially by the road side. A Some men, thei%•ader says, have the gift
man with his boys could set out several by nature True—hut withlrare exceri
rods in a day, which in a few years would tions, nature declines to make her gifts
be a perfect protection, and in the course available without culture and care. There
of twenty years may be cut for wood. is but one way to cultivate the ease of`
Men will frequently go six miles after i which we speak. Never willingly allow
wood without thinking of some provision an opportunity to pay a graceful attention
for the future. It is a hard way to live. i pass without taking advantage of it. Nev-
Persons living on the line of a railroad er, we say—not even with the sister, or
m
could set out a row of maples or elms, or mother, or most intimate cousinly friend.
other trees next to the fence, where they It, is a mistake to regard these things as
would grow, doing no injury to anybody. too formal"—they are formal only when
Some of the
,best farms we know of in they are awkward. There is not a single
the state have their long rows of apple polite attention called for in society, ;Alai
trees by the road side, grafted and pro• i 8 not appropriate at home. If a sister
drop a handkerchief do not give her . ata
ductive. Good farming does not look
opportunity to pick it, up herself—unless
wholly to the present. It. lays plans to be
sure for a present crop, but also fur the you wish to be constrained and slightly
awkward when you are called upon to
future. Plans for the future when well
laid are equivalent to money at interest. pick up a handkerchief in the drawing
Both principal and interest will be sure t o room. If a mother is gettin ,, into a car
returnriage offer her a hand, even ir it be purely
in due time. The great fault with
the most of us is, that we lay these plans a matter of form.
too late in life, and then feel less courage Nor are these attentions from young
m
to take hold of a new euterprize. Attend men to their near relatives valuable and
to it now! called for only asmati era of practice. Gen
uine politeness demands them at home as
truly as it demands them in society.—Evs
.
ning h ail. _ _ _
A Mixed Family.
A gentleman well known relates the
following curious family experience :
I got acquainted with a young widow
who lived" with her step daughter in the
same house; I married the widow; my fa
ther married the step daughter ofmy wifr;
my wife became the mother in law and al
so the daughter in law of my own father;
my wife's step daughter is my step moth
er; and I am the step father of my mother
in law; my step mother, who is the step
daughter of my wife, has a boy; he is nat
urally my step brother, but because he is
the son of my wife's step daughter, so is
my wife the grandmother of the little boy
and lam the grandfather of my step
brother; my wife has also a boy; my step
mother is, consequently, the step sister of
my boy, and is also his grandmother, be
cause he is the child of her step son, and
my father is the brother in law of my son,
because he has got his step sister for a
i wife; lam the brother of my own son,
who is the son of my step mother; I am
the brother in law of my mother; my wife
is the aunt of her own son; my son is the
grandson of my father, and I am my own
grandtather.
" Spooks."
In Tennessee there is a secret assocta
tion of young men known as the " Ku
Klux Klan," whose main object appears
to be to furnish amusement, at the expense
of the " ruling race." With theatrically
constructed ghosts, mysteriously worded
announcements, and other tricks which
none but superstitious negroes would pay
any attention to, they have created such a
panic among the mass of blacks that the
night meetings of the " loyal 'league" are
almost unattended. The white trash lea
ders of the darkies are terribly augrp at
the success of these tricks, and are ac
tively bestirring themsehres to make it ap
pear that the socity has murderous and
rebellious designs, in order thereby to se
cure its suppression by the military au.
borities. In this laudable effort to pro
tect the darkies from ghosts and hogob
line the radical press of the North are ren
dering efficient aid by their, usual falsifi
cations. We expect that in a few days
the Great Commoner will introduce and
pass a bill through the rump providing fur
the summary arrest and condign punish
ment of any and all ghosts caught in the
act of frightening " colored citizens"
whilst engaged in exercising their politi
cal rights.—Pa trio t.
Tua CONVENTION AND TICKET.—OD our
first page will be found the proceedings of
the Democratic Convention. We atten
ded the Convention and were so pleased
with the spirit that prevaded the repre
sentatives of the patty that we came home
impressed, more than ever, with the im
port muse of going to work in good earnest.
We trust that, in two important par
ticulars, the Democracy throughout the
State will follow the example of the State
Convention; and,
Ist. Be harmonious. Let no divisions
disturb us in our good work.
Let us harmonize.
We have a unity of purpose let us halligt
a unity of action.
2d. Let none but good and reliable,
honest and competent men be selected for
the county tickets.
The State Convention gave 'us a truly
noble ticket.
The citizen and the soldier are repre
sented upon it—as are the east and west
of our state.—Netvcasile Gaz.
Not content with abusing Judge Chase,
the mongrel organs have opened their
dirty squirts upon the Judge's daughter
—Mrs. Senator Sprague. This is not
strange, because the public is already fa
miliar with their blaokguardism of Mrs.
Lincoln.
IVOLUME XXV, NUMBER 15.
White Girl Outraged by a Negro.
A tel rible and peculiarly aggravated
outrage was perpetrated on Thursday af
ternoon at Derry Station, on the Perinsyl
vimia railroad. The victim of the outrage
is a little white girl, twelve years ()lege,
named Gerrie L tyton, whose father is a
farmer, resideng Dear Derry Station—a
man, as we learn, in good circumstance's
and having a most respectable family: Oci
Thursday afternoon the daughter left her
home to visit tie house of a ncighbor - ' situ
ated at some distance from her fa her'*
farm. Between the two houses lies a con.
siderable piece of woods through which
the girl had 'to pa , o9 A negro boy 'of
about nineteen Years; whoSeltame we have
not learned, was working for-111.rAanou
on his farm. The negro overheard'Alii%
little girl talking about going on her visit,
and before she starter he slipped into the
woods and secreted himself. As she came
up he ran ow, knocked her down, and de
spite her struggles and cries, satisfied his
• beastly lust. Leaving his victim insensi
ble, he fled into the woods and hid. Short
ly afterwards the insensible girl, was dis
covered and removed to her home, as soon
as she was restored to consciousness she
told what had occured. Immediate and
I though search was made for the perpetra
tor; and had the search been successful.
he would, undoubtedly, have been uncere
moniously hung. He was not found, how
i ever. It appears that he made his way t o
Blairsville the same night, but, instead of
fleeing further, he returned to the neigh
' borhood of his crime. During the night
. he stole a passage on a frOght train and
came back to Derry. He was descovered
- yesterday morning, hidd4n in the barn of
Mr. Layton, the fat her of the out raged girl.
He was immediately secured, and one re
port says that he was hanged without cer 7
etnony. Another roport places:hit - 1i in
jail at Greensburg.
...
The girl is, we understand, the •consin
of Mr. Edward Layton, engineer on the
Pennsylvania railroad. At. last accounts
she was in a most precarious condition,
and it is feared cannot survive.—Pittsburg
Chronicle, Republican.
—The Oshko;l1 (Wisconsin) Times
gives the following "Black Crook7story
"My dear," said the wife, " the !Black
Crook' it here; shall we witness it, to
night ?" " Well," said the husband; "I
had better go alone to night, and see if it
is a proper place for ladies." . 0 Irea
Well," says the wife; "1 .rather guess rd,
better go and see if it is a proper plevie
for gentlemen i"- Both went.
—DuChaillu is lecturing on the gorilla.
in New York. He is said to, be a man of
much humor, and very entertaining. At .
a public dinner in a northern city he was
importuned for a gorilla story, and in
compliance, told one of his best. A dis
tinguished city official, notorious for his
negrophilism, who had on several occa
sions manifested in a good humored way
his incredulity with regard to M. Du C. 'e
stories, aportniched. him when through his
narrative and addressed him: "M. Du
dlrtilln, Ihave heard your marvellous sto
rx,- of your encounter with the gorrillu. `I
desire to know what you suppose a triad
like me, raised in a city, knowing nothing
about hunting, and never in the African
forest, would be likely to do upon sod
denly meeting the gorilla face to face ?"
The African traveller promptly replied:
With some knowledge of your antece
dent,, Mr. , T should supposethatif
)ou were so to meet- the 'gorilla,,yon
would, assuming the attitnde of courtesy.
and friendship, impressively and appeal
ingly say to him : I not a man and a
brother ?' It was the best thing of the
banquet, and long kept. up the uncontroll
able mirth of the guests.