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KINO WITL.tF'S DlllKI0 1IORIV.
BY HEKRV W, LONOt-KLLOW.
Witlafy a kih of the Saxon",
Ere yet his last he breathed,
To the merry monks of Croylnnil
His drinking horn bequeathed
That whenever they sal at their revels
And drank from Ihe goldenjjowl,
They might remember the donor
And breathe a prayer for his soul.
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Like dew-drops in the grass.
They drank to the soul of Witlaf,
They drank to Christ the Lord,
And to each of the Twelve Apostles'
Who had preached his holy Word !
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Of the ditmnl days of yore,
And as soon as the horn was empty,
They remembered one Saint more.
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Like '.he munmir of many bees,
The IrjriMid of good Faint Gulhlac,
And Saint Basil's homilies;
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From their prison in Ihe lower,
Gnthlnc timl B.inholoma'us.
Proclaimed the midnight honr.
And the Yule-low cracked in the chimney,
And the Abbot bowed his head,
And the fla"melrts flapped and flickered;
But the Abbot wus stark and dead!
Yet still in It it pallid fingers
He clinched the golden how),
In which, like a pearl dissolving,
ll.td souk and dissolved his font.
But not for this their revels
Tin' jovial monks foibore.
For they cried '-Fill high the goblet
We must di ink to one Saint more!"
historical.
KENNEDY'S LIFE OF WIRT.
Th Church Mandamus Fase in Baltimore til 1SST.
Tin; life of William Wirl, by the Hon.
John P. Kenned v, is undoubtedly the most
popular work which has been published lor
long time. J he extracts which have
been made from it in the public papers, is
evidence alike of the ability with which
the author has performed his task, and of
the general interest which belongs to Ihe
work. The following e'xlracts, giving an
account of the great mandamus church case
which created siu liijWisatiou in Baltimore
in 1827, will have siecial attractions for
evcrv one :
In May, 1827, Mr. Wirt was engaged
in a trial in Baltimore, which attracted
great attention, and in which he made one
ol his most popular and felicitous speeches.
A breach had occurred between the mem
bers of a Presbyterian congregation in that
city a schism upon doctrinal questions,
which found a considerable body ot adhe
rents and advocates on either side. Mr.
John M. Duncan was the pastor a gentle
man of distinguished eloquence, of a very
high order of talents, a bold and earnest
preacher, and of irreproachable life and
conversation, lie was, therelore, at this
period, as he is still, a greatly esteemed and
admired minister, with many followers and
friend?.
Without troubling the reader by an at
tempt to make him acquainted with the
merits of the controversy, it is sufficient
only to say that the chief point in dispute
seemed to be to whom belonged the
church property, especially who was en
titled to the possession of the pulpit, after
this unhappy division in doctrine? It yas
popularly understood in the community
where the parties lived and I speak upon
no other authority than this common opin
ion that the majority of the congregation,
with their pastor at the head, were, in laci,
the disssenters from the ancient doctrine
which was now maintained by the minori
ty, i he church had been built and the
property purchased by the contributions 01
the congregation, of which contributions
the majority had supplied the greater part.
The dispute was sulliciently irreconcilable
to find its way into the courts and to be
consigned to the guardianship of the laW
yers.
The period of trial had now come round.
The most eminent counsel were emptoyeu.
On the side of the pastor and the majority,
was Mr. Wirt. On the other side, was
Mr. Taney, the present Chief Justice of the
United States. The case was heard upon
an application by the minority, for a man
damus to put them in possession of the pro
perty. The trial was belure the court.
The court room was filled to overflowing
by an eager and excited crowd. composed,
in part, of the membersof the congregation;
in great part, also, by ladies of the highest
fashion and consideration in the city, at
traded thither by the general interest of
the cause and by the fame of the counsel.
Seats were especially provided for them.
It was the first time that the court had ever
been honored by such a fair assembly.--The
interest, therefore, ol the trial was
greatly increased. The weather was ex
ceedingly hot, and the court room much
worse than the weather out of doors.
This was the condition of things on the last
day, when Wirt was to close the case be
fore the court. The previous stages of the
trial had provoked less interest, and were,
therefore, without this extraordinary atten
dance of spectators.
'I had been told the evening before,"
sayi Mr. Wirt, in a letter to hi wife, of the
10th of May, 'lhat the 'adiei had deter
mined to come and hear me : but I had
discouraged it, ' sincerely believing; that
they would find, no interest in the discus
sion to requite them for the pain of such an
attendance ; but they wouldn't take the
point. On opening, I gave them warning
that the discussion would prove very lire
some, and that I should not feel the least
mortified nt their retiring whenever they
should find it so. This, of course was to
the Judge; no mention of ladies; but (lie
intimation was indirectly and very intelli
gibly given, in terms as delicalp, graceful,
and cautious as I could find. I did not ex
pect them to stay half an hour, for having
set up almost all the preceding night, lo
make myself more thoroughly master of the
cause, I bad a headache and was almost
stupified. I had no idea that I should be
able to do more than argue the case drily
like a lawyer. But, somehow or other, my
faculties seemed to recover themselves by
a sudden spring. I never witnessed an au
dience more interested. I spoke three
hours, when the exertion and the oppres
sive heat of the room had so much exhaust
ed me, that I had to beg the Judge for an
intermission of a few minutes. It was now
one o'clock, and I was in hopes the audi
ence would disperse, and leave me to finish
my argument at my ease. But not a man
or woman budged.
"Meredith begged the Judge, on my be
half, for an adjournment till the afternoon.
The court was accordingly adjourned till
half-past four. I made sure that I should
then have a comparatively thin room, and
no ladies, and so make cool work ol the
sequel.
V hen we re-assembled, instead
of a cool, empty room, I was scarcely able
to get to the door ', and instead of no la
dies, the number was double. I was dis
mayed ; fori came fatigued and Worn down,
and felt certain that I should lose all the
laurels of the morning. But a?ain, to my
surprise, my mind recovered a fresh spring.
1 spoke an hour and a-halt, and when I
closed, there was a clapping of hands, as
loutl as vou have heard in the theatre ; la
dies and all, even one of the Indies ioinins
in it."
This is his own account. The speech is
well remembered in Baltimore fur its wit
as well as its eloquence. Never was a dry
legal sulrject lightened and relieved, whilst
it was most fully discussed, by more bril
liant Hashes of the finest wit and humor, or
adorned with a richer eloquence. The
public conversation was full of it for weeks
afterwards. The newspapers attempted to
preserve some of the happiest hits; but, as
in all such experiments, only half pre
served them t necessarily giving them
without the accompaniments of the con-i
text, the manner, the gesture and the recip- ;
rocal sympathies between the orator and
his audience, which could alone render i
them fully intelligible; in the absence of
which Ihey appear Hal. The writer of
this Memoir heard the speech, felt its effect ;
as others felt il, and saw, without surprise,
being himself held in the same thraldom,
what he would not have believed unseen, 1
how marvellously the orator wrapt in tie
lighted attention that large crowd, com j
posed of both sexes, and many to whom the j
courts were altogether unfamiliar, whilst i
he discussed, for the greater part of a day, i
a question abounding in technical law and j
occasions for the review of numerous judi- ;
cial precedents.
He concluded with a passage' that was
singularly happy in its application to his
client, and which, taking the court and au-
ditory unawares, broke Upon them with a
mingled grave and comic efT-rt : grave '
from its connexion with one of the grand- i
est scenes of Macbeth, and comic from its
unexpected and pointed application to the j
gentleman who was there present, and ;
upon whose shy and modest countenance it j
drewall eyes, provoking laughter at his a p- ;
parent discomfiture. Mr. Duncan, as 1 1
have said, was a great favorite, and the !
public interest in Ihe trial was, in large
part, owing to the concern Which was felt '
for him. The advocate, in drawing to a '
close, spoke of the severity and unkind-
ness of this contention to displace a pastor !
so much respected by his flock and ao Use
ful in his vocation ; expatiated upon the :
stake which the cause of religion had in j
this proceeding, upon the necessity of
avoiding the scandal such divisions were j
likely to bring upon this cause; upon the ;
reflections to which it would give rise, and :
the great duty of harmony among Chris
tian brethren : and, whilst all seemed to 1
respond to the truth of What iie said, he !
turned unexpectedly towards his client, '
who was sitting near him, and with most
graceful elocution, said : ,
. ''Beeidca, this Duncan j
llutli birne his faculties s meek, hath been
8o cliMtr in his great office, that his virtue
Wit! plend like angels, trumpet.toiujued, against
The deep duinnati ut of his taking 00-."
This conclusion of i lie speech was greet
ed with the clapping of hands mentioned
in the letter; in which act of applause the
large assemblage seemed to find a sudden
and a pleasant vent for the feelings which
had been chained up in mule attention for
several hours, and which now broke forth
In general congratulation of the orator.
The cause was gained ; and Mr. Duncan
is, to this day, in possession of the church,
illustrating his ministry by a zeal and talent
which have abated nothing of their origi
nal strength.
A few days after this trial, Mr. Wirt
writes again to the some confidential cor
respondent who was the repository ol the
feelings expressed in my last letter:
"I find mysell gazed at wherever I go, as
if I had just entered Baltimore, for the
first time; and hear passages of my speech
constantly repeated. They are getting
parts of it, I find, into the newspapers; and
1 had notice to-day, from one of the prin
ters, that a stenographer had been employed
on the occasion, and was trying to draw
out the whole speech.
I am afraid he will make a poor work of it,
ard had much rather that he should let it
alone altogether. Indeed, It is more than
probable that many things which went off
brilliantly in the delivery, from time, place
and manner, will lose their eflect on paper.
There is another thing that makes me
averse to the publication. The opponents
of Mr. Duncan are mortified at some little
pleasantries which I hit off upon them in
the course of my speech ; and if these tri
fles are made to assume a durable form, I
fear Ihey will never forgive me. These
produced explosions of laughter, and I do
not wish to see the laugh perpetuated by
the press. I really had no serious
intention lo "bite much." On the contrary
meant only to be a little playful, and re
lieve the tedium of a law discussion by an
occasional pleasantry. But Meredith told
me, on a former occasion, that my ploying
in discussion, was pretty much like an ele
phant amusing himself by giving a man a
toss with his probosis to the clouds, in or
der lo see how he would come down.
Now, this never entered my imagination;
and I could not, and cannot conceive how
a thing manifestly said in laughing, good
nature, an give offence.- I shall certainly
try to stop the publication." '
.
Yours, affectionately,
WAI. WIRT.
From the New York Tribune
AN AMERICAN I'ONSI L INSILTED BY A
BRITISH CIIAKOK.
The Consul Cunc'h the Charge Therefor.
Wasiiinoton, Tuesday, Jan. 13.
An account of a most singular character,
involving tho conduct of the British Charge
d'Afiaires at Chili, has been olficially com.
municatied to the Slato Department, and
which was received by last night's mail.
It appears that Mr. Totter, our Consul nt Val
paraiso, has been most grossly insulted in
the person of his fam ly. The facts are
thest! : Upon reaching his place of destina
tion, lit took rooms at a pubjic hotel and
went ashore with his wife, child and nurse.
Itia family wa conducted lo the suite of
rooms by the landlady of the hotel, and after
becoming settled, Mr. Poller left for 'a short
lime to take a stroll through the city, accom
panied by a fellow passenger. While absent
one Stephen Henry Sullivan, nephew of Lord
Palmerston and Charge of Her Brittanuic
Majesty near 'he Court of Chili, abruptly en
tered the rooms occupied by the wife and
family of Mr. Poller, and informed her she
must leave immediately as ho had engaged
them. Unaccustomed lo such ungeutletnan
ly I may adJ, brulal conduct in her own
land, he was overwhelmed with jrief at the
bearing of this Mr. Sullivan toward her. She
informed him her huband was then absent
in ihe cily: and entrented him a a gentle
man not to turn her out of the moms in liis
absence, assuring Mi. Sullivan vfiieti he re
turned that all things could be satisfactory
adjusted; that wiih a young inlanl in her
arms she had nowhere to g0, and that but a
short spare of liino would transpire before the
return of her husband. To all such remons
trances he not only turned a deaf ear. but ad
ded insult to injury by informing her that site
wus entitled to no such courtesy at his bauds,
as she '"tens nothing but acook!'' Mrs. Potter
retreated to Ihe apartments of Gen. Heneia,
begging his protection until the return ol he i
husband. Hi not only remunerated with
Sullivan, but an Englishman gentleman also
who was mortified to death at the conduct of
this contemptible puppy. Nothing, however,
could change his purpose, and Mrs. Potter
with her child in her arms was ejected from
her apartments by this low-bred minion, he
following her to Ihe door using the mosl pro
voking and insulting language toward her.
On the return of our Consul to the Hotel,
his first object was lo secure other lodgings
Tor his abused family. This being accom
plished, he called at the rooms of this Mr.
Sullivan, but he was nut to be seen. Wait
ing a sufficient length of th.' time, he called
a second time, but with no better success;
and it being then a late hour on Saturday
evening he deferred a further interruption of
this distinguished personage until the Monday
morning following. Upon calling on Monday
Mr. Stephen Henry Sullivan concluded to
beat home; and as a suitable introduction io
American manners and a customs where a
man so far forgets what is due lo the ordina
ry decencies of life, us by insulting or treat
ing rudely a lady, our American Consul took
her Britannic Majesty's Charge by the collar
and gave him as severe a dressing with his
Cane as was ever inflicted by a gentleman
upon a black-guard. The course of Sullivan
towards Mm. Potter has been fully couliim
ed by statements of disinterested persons
transmitted by Mr; Potter to the Department
of Slate; and from all accounts, there can
exist no reasonable doubt but that Ihe lesson
taught Mr. Sullivan in manners and good
breeding will be the most instructive and
impressive one he has ever received. If Great
Britain has not materially changed, she will
not allow this puffed up, brainier boy to re
main at Valparaiso a day after the facts are
brought home to her knowledge ; and if Sulli
van had Ihe spirit of a mouse about him, he
would not remuin there an hour, with the
disgrace of a public caning attached to his
diplomatic character. The despatches ofour
Consul bear date Dee. 13, 1849, and he has
made no statement not fully corroborated by
disinterested testimony. Such an outrage ap
pears incredibly, but it is nevertheless lament
lably troe, which will fully appear if the in
formation is culled for by Congress. What
further notice, if any should bo taken of it,
wifl depend upon the action of Her Majesty,
in displacing Sullivan or permitting him lo
remain. ' Such an insult lo American citizens
cannot be suffered to escape unnoticed or
unrebuked. Alpha.
Love Labos ; if yon do not w ant it for food
you may fotphysie.
21 Select vEalc.
CHANGE MAKES CHANCE."
DY MRS. J. C. KKAL.
"How stupidly Dickens writes now-a
days, or else I have grown stupid myself,"
said Charlie Wood his friends always
called him "Charlie" throwing down the
second number of Copperfield, with a
yawn. "1 think I must go and see how
the boys come on this evening! I don't
believe I've been near 'the room' since
we've boarded here."
"And leave me all alone!" pouted his
lovely bride, or wife, rather, for they had
now been married full three months:
"Why, Charlie"
Well, Lucy!"
"I didn't think you Would have been"
tired of your little wife so soon. But it's
what I might have expected."- And by
this time her voice lost itself in sobs.
"There, there, now," sjid her kind
hearted husband, kissing her as huFp jkc.
"Don't get into such a fret, pretty one.
But you know I have not passed an eve
ning" away from you since we returned
from Saratoga ; and the boys think 1 have
cut them. I must go to-night. I met Ned
Ludlow nt the Post Office, and he tells me
they are going to have a rehearsal of some
of the Ernani music and wanted my flute.
One must make sacrifices for one's friend's
sometimes so I must 'tear myself away'
from you for an hour or two."
"Well, go, then. I know it's only an
excuse. I've seen for some days you were
growing tired of nie. You went lo sleep
last night in the rockijig chair, and I sitting
right by you."
"Yes, and what Were you doing ?'
"Why, working a dear, beautiful crotch
et bag for cousin Ellon's bridal present."
"I hate crotchet. You never can speak
a word when you're counting I hose con
founded beads."
"You didn't think so once, when I did
that elegant mazarine blue and silver purse
for yon, when we were first engaged."
"Now, Lucy, please don't cry, darling;
But I must go to-night. So good bye ; I'll
be back as "
"Not before midnight, I'm certain,"
hroke in the lady ; and, as the door closed
with a sound much resembling w hat cross
children call a "slam," she threw herself
upon the sola and sobbed as if her husband
had deserted her forever, int-tead of one
eveningi
Sob! nob! so!)! Oh, how unhappy she
Was ! How she wished she had neve- ben
married that she had never left "p. r.iV"
Sob! sob! How very dreadful to h;;ve
one's husband tired of your society. "Oh,
dear! oh, dear!" and Lucy Wood began
to believe, as she uttered this heart-rending
exclamation, that she belonged to that
numerous and formidable class of society,
"injured women."
Her hysterical outbreak had drowned all
external noises; and it was only after a
repeated double knock, that she became
conscious some one was at the door.
It was Mrs. Tyson, who had a room on
the next floor of the same hotel a nice,
motherly looking lady of fifty or there
abouts, who had become very much inter
ested in her young fellow boarders.
"I saw Mr. Wood go out, my dear,"
said she without seeming lo notice the
swollen eyes ol her hostess, (weeping is
not becoming to most faces, though we
have seen one or two in our lives who
could bear this severe test.) "So I thought,"
continued Mrs. Tyson, "I would just come
in and sit a little while; and I don't like to
intrude when Mr. Wood is in I know
young people consider their best friends
tie trup sometimes."
"I'm sure you're very good ; but you
never need be afraid of that," and here
the sense of hpr wrongs rushed back afresh,
and found vent in a new flood of tears.
Then followed the most natural thing in
the World. The whole of scene first was
recounted to her sympathising listener,
with a codocil accompaniment, that "she
Was sure Charlie was tired of her, and
Wished he had not mat-fled,'' and much
more to the same effect.
"It will not seem very kind in me, after
your generous confidence, dear Mrs. Wood,
to tell yoli that such thoughts ought not to
be told, even to me. Just think what a
risk you ran ! If I had not been a prudent,
elderly person, who has lived long enot'gh
to see the folly and unkindness of gossip
and tattling, think what a 6tory I might
have made from it ! A mutual friend of
ours, for instance, would have reported
every where to-morrow, lhat "he Wood's
lived very unhappily ; and, betw een us, I
guess they are both sick of their bargain.
In fact, Mrs. Wood told me us much her
self!' No, you must lay it down as a first
principle of married life, never to confide
even to youf dearest friend any little dis
agreement or misapprehension that may
arise between yourself and husband. Sym
pathy, In these cases, does mote harm than
good; and, after all, it is on your own
judgment that you must principally rely :
for no one but youfself can understand all
the circumstances. You are not offend
ed ?
'Oh, no," said Lucy, already calrned by
this plain statement of an obvious truth.
"I would not have any body think we
livj unhappily for the world! Why,
Clurlie has always been devotion itself.
He never spoke a cross word to me. Only
how does it happen, since I have told you,
Mrs. Tyson how does it happen ha seems
so indifferent lately, and can even leave
me a whole evening. It was not so before
our marriage."
"I wonder if he has remarked no differ
ence in your "
"In ms! oh, no. Why 1 would not flirt
for the nild,w
"That's not the only sin of married life,
my dear, said Mrs. Tyson, smiling a little
at the naive remark, "Perhaps it is set
down as such because society is outraged
by it. But indifference is a worso evil
than open disagreement, because its attacks
are so subtle and intangible. I do not
wonder you were alarmed if you thought
you perceived any signs of its approach.
But about your conduct. I wonder if you
lake the same pains to render yourself
agreeable as you once did 1 How did you
amuse him in the days of your engage
ment;" "Why, Charlie came to Ihe house every
evening almost and if there was no party,
or concert, or anything, I dressed as neatly
as possible, he always liked to me well
dressed, and he was so particular. Then I
sang for him I used to sing a great deal,
though, as I've hardly opened my piano
since it came home, I don't know that you
have ever heard me."
"Did you crotchet lhat pretty purse in
the evenings."
"Oh no, that Was a surprise so I did it
in the day time ; and besides, we could not
talk much if I did such work."
"Well, and now you do not make a pret
ty evening toilette."
Lucy glanced to the opposite mirror and
saw (here was some truth in the remark. Not
expecting visitors, she had thrown on her
dressing gown, and tucked her hair back
behind her cars, to "be comfortable" as
she called it, and though not exactly untidy,
she could but confess she would not have
surprised her in such a costume a few
months back.
"Oh, but we are married now, it does not
make so much difference, you know."
"A bad argument, my dear, unless ycu
can prove that your husband's tastes have
changed, and that he prefers to see you
look untidy. Then you crotchet In the
evening now, when you have ample time
whi! ' he is at business all day. Moreover,
by your own confession, you rarely sing or
play for him. Was his taste for music
one of those numerous affections of court
ship?"
"Oh, no, no, I assure you. lie has gone
now to a musical club, he asked rt:c only
yesterday why I did not play more. But
it is such a trouble to keep up your prac
tice. Maied ladies are not expected to
play."
My dear child! So this beautiful and
ennobling art is to be degraded to an acces
sory to flirtation merely ! Think of the
wasted hours you have passed at the piano,
if this is all. You remember Miss Carlton,
so celebrated as a vocalist in society somo
years since, she married Mr. Harrison.
Well, I assure you, she told me, only last
week, that the happiest hour of her iky
was directly after tea, when she plays for
her father and her husband, who are both
passionately fond of music. Her little girl
is allowed as a reward to set up that hour
and listen to "Mamma's pretty sonrs."
Oh, I am afraid you are wrong. VVhy I
lately was reading the memoir of a wife of
a London clergyman, Mr. Sherman, ol Sur
rey Chapel, who records as one of his
pure;.!, enjoyments her exquisite musical
taste and ability. She found time to prac
tise in the midst of engagements and labors
that would shame any of us. Now forgive
me if I scold you a little. Don't think the
indifference is displayed enly on one side.
Just see lor yourself! Mr. Wood has no
cause of complaint. Some time I will
bring you a clever letter by a German au
thor; Moser is his name. I must read it to
you, for I am sure it will do you good. It
is on this very point, and is witty as well
as wise. But 1. 1 us talk of something else
now, for we must destroy every trace of
tears and call back all those smiles oeiore
Mr. Wood returns, or I am afraid he will
think me a dull substitute for his society."
It was well for Lucy Wood that Mrs.
Tyson was a just and sensible woman.
How merrily they chatted away, on so
many interesting subjects, and when Char
lie returned, as he did at a most reasonable
hour a little fearful of finding clouds and
showers, we confess he was agreeably sur
prised to see his wife more lively and
cheerful than she had been fur weeks.
More like his lady love Lucy, when she
had first attracted' him by her good tem
pered sprightlinees, thau the little lady he
had left in sobs.
Mrs. Tyson had promised at leaving not
to forget the letter of Moser, which our
readers cannot fail to be as much interested
in as Lucy was sure she should be; Hut.
CaieUa
go It ftAL.
We were net long since much amused by
a couple ol Hoosier girls, who came on board
the steamer , at the little town of.Mt.
Vernon, lud. They had evidently never been
a thousand miles from home, and were mak
ing their first trip on a steamboat. The el
der one Was exceedingly talkative, and per
fectly free and unconcerned, with regard to
the many eyes that were scanning her move
ments. The other was of the opposite turn
of mind, inclining to bashfulness. At dinner
our ladies weie honored with a seat at the
head or the table, and Ihe eldest one, with
her usual independence, cut her bread into
small pieces anil with her fork reached over
and enrolled each mouthful in the nie jre$.
sing on a plate of Deef-steak br;jK ner
passengers preserved tir gravity during the
operatiou by din 0f great effort. Perceiving
that her 'sier was not very forward in help
ig herself, she turned round lo her and ex
claimed loud enough to be heard by half the
lab'e ,lSaJ dip. into the graft Dad pays
as much as tny on 'en i" This was followed
by a general roar, fn wfcich the captain led
off. The girls arrived at their destination
before supper, and when they left the boat,
all hands gave three cheers for the girls of the
Hoosier State. Kcnpartit.
AM ELECTION EERIIO ANECDOTE.
At the New England Supper in New Or
leans, Mr. S. S. Prentiss of Mississippi, who
was complimented by a speech, told the foU
lowing electioneering anecdote :
He said that six or eight, or twelve years
ago, he went to Washington, thinking he was
a member of Congress, but he found out his
mistake, and came home as fast as possible)
lo get right. He made speeches in fifty-four
of the fifty-six counties in the State. He
sent printed bills containing his appointment
twenty-six days ahead of him. Now there
was a caravan just at his time perambulating
the Slate, and the proprietor availed himself
of the gathering collected by Mr. P.'s notices.
This by the war's said Mr. P. was quit in
Ihe ordinary course of things, as an observer
of political excitements must have remarked
'.hat a caravan of some kind or other usually
follows in their wake.
"The first time Mr. P. saw the elephant
was in county in the northern part of
State, near the Alabama line. It is one of
the most beautiful counties in Mississippi,
its population chiefly from South Carolina,
and though they had voted against him on
the previous election. He hope their State
rights notions would bring them into his sup
port at this contest, when he did not run so
much the candidate of a party as the Repre
sentative of the State whoso dignity and so
vereignty had been outraged in his person.
At the appointed hour he found over three
hundred ladies and gentlemen assembled to
hear him. He was in "high feather;" and
began lo speak with more than usual energy;
The audience listened with marked attention
and he fe!t sure of bagging his game. When
he had spoken about an hour, he began to
observe some of the outsiders looking ovef
their shouldets and this movement was gra
dually followed by moie and more of his au
divnee. He began to think he was growing
dull., and endeavored lo rouse himself up to
more animation ; but it was no go. He at
length looked in the popular direction, and
there, to his horror, just coming over the hill,
was the elephant dressed in his scarlet
trappings and oriental splendour, with a hou
dull on his back, occupied by the musicians,
and in the rear came a long line of wagons
and cages. A .foolish feeling of vanity, not
to be outdone by I lie elephant, came over
him, and he continued to talk, appealing lo
the people in the name of the State, their pa
triotism, &c, &cc; but all in vain. A few
well mannered persons remained, but evi
dently they were retained only by their po
liteness.
Ho found it was no use. So he said : '-Well
ladies and gentlemen, 1 am beaten ; but I
have the cousolaation of knowing that it is
not by my competitor. I will not knock un
der to any two legged beast, but I yield to
the elephant." To be sure, he was at first
provoked by the preference shown to Ihe
beast above himself, but on reflection he was
inclined to think the people were right. A
Bengal tiger or au India elephant was an an
imal to be seen once in a lifetime, but politi
cians they could see every day.
He said, however, he had his revenge a
few days after. He found lhat he must come
to some understanding with the caravan. So
he agreed with the proprietor lhat at -Holy
Springs he would address the people under
the great awning for an h ur, and then he
would give way to the monkey and the clown
Ho hoped this would not be charged on him
as '-bargain and corruption." At any rate,
it was honestly carried out by both parlies.
Between himself and the caravan, a large as
semblage was gathered under the immense
awning. One of the cages was converted into
a rostrum.
He heard a low sound which lesembleal a
growl, and learned that the hyena was his
nearest listener. There were large auger
holes in the top of Ihe box, for the admission
of air. Ha commenced speaking. nd when
reached tho blood and thunder portion of his
speech, he ran his cane into the cage and
called forth a mosl horrid yell from the en
raged animal, at the same time he gesticula.
ted violently with tho other hand,
The effect was electric; he called down
the house in a perfect tempest of enthusiasm.
From tiiis time he had it all his own way. He
hurled hisanalhemas at his foes, and enforced
them by the yells of his neighbor. The hy
ena was good for a hundred vales, and ha
thus converted a mischief into a profit.
The first sale of precious stones, in New
York, for five years past, consisting of dia
monds turquoises, topazes, garnetr, rubles,
chrysolites, pearls, sapphires, aqua marines
Oriental garnets, opals, amethysts, emeralds,
Panama, pearls, and rough diamond Opala,
took place on Friday morning. The prQoeeds.
amounted to about $8000.
1 triT has been com.j M g .
field, Maw ; by C. fc. Shaw .g,ingt SMraue,
Shaw, for i reco?ery of the KiJJ hlt9U
'ou" . dear Ware, Mass., almost a year agov
The plaintiff alleges that he was the disco
verer of the letter, and aa it points out the
place where the tressnre of Kidd is buried,
he claims a verdict of S2000.
In Coax, the crier attempted to disperse
the crowd by exclaiming, "All ye blackguard
lhat is'nt lawyers, quit the Court."
"Aax roe wot ai.is.mei at the appacb c'
the king of terrors V said the minister to
sick man. "Oh, no! I have been living six
and thirty years with the queen of lertore
the king cannot be mnch worse!"
re-ply.