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' Lis: !. the piece is about to begin,
Now observ Miss Introduction come in ;
, . A goddess in flounces and pinched at the
' waist,
? And a lock like a statue, embellished with
paste. .
AH the keys that can be got at
By the fiogers straight are shot at ;
Then a soil and gentle tinkle,
entle as the rain drops sprioKlc,
ihet two, three, lour,
Five, six win ashore.
Then a stop.
Fingers drop!
Now h rush Iro.n top to bottom,
Catch the notes now, while we dot 'em ;
Backward, forwarJ, up and down,
Lke monke, s or a clown ;
Jw the cToe a gentle strike, ' .
Who did ever hear the like :
Peace comrri'jnces :
Now begins a merry trill,
Like a cricket in a mill ;
Now a short nt:eay motion,
Like a house cat ai devotion ;
Or a ripple on the ocean. v
ee the fingers skip abont ;
; Hear ihe. notes as tiiey mme oaf,
Now ihey mingle in the tingle
)l the everlasting j'rigla ;
Like the hailstone' on a shingle,
Or the li 'g Uong, dangle dinsle :
Or a sheep bell double, sinale ;
Nyw they couie in wilder gnshe-;
Up and down the player rushes ;
As quick as squirrels or the thrushes,
Daring round among, the tuh-s ;
Making tattle, l:ke the tushes
Ot a swine a drinking slushes.
Now the keys bvgin to clatter
Like a chorus o i a platter,
Or a house-maidstirriug batter ;
Hear the music that they scatter ;
Though 'tiir flat and growing flitter ;
All i clatter, naught's the matter.
IJurk ! the strains, for now we're at her ;
O'er the music comes a change,
.Now we takanoiiier range ;
Every rone is wifd and strange.
Now there comes the lofty lumblin?, ,
Comes the mumbling, fumbling, jumbling,
And the rumbling anil the grumbling
Of the thunder, from its slumbering
J ist awaking. Now its taking
To Ihe quaking, l;ke a fevr and ague
shbking ;
Now its making such a taking,
Ifeads are aching, sometimes breaking,
Goodness! gracious! ain't it wondrous !
Uolling round, above and nndr us,
Like Old Vnlcnn's stroke so thunderous.
Now the rattle of the bait re
J)eepe"ns deeper, and the cattle
Ilellow louder, and the powder
' Will be alt exploded soon.
Such a clanging, whansing, banging,
ri!am ! bang ! whang !
Heavens! how the onnsic rang.
Afif the harmony so splendid
1 expended, all is ended,
Thongh I'm frightened, I'm delighted
With this finery an this foppery,
Ol this modern model opera.
A yovho lady of California recently broke
Jier neck while resisting the attempt of a
young man to kiss her. This famishes a
feartnl warning to young ladies. U'e know
fiom perional experience (iu days gone by,
alas?) it is lh Saratoga R jpablijan .that
speaks box prone young girls ara to peril
their precious necks by twisting away from
a fellow at a time when, by a judicious ex
ercise, or tit and.hold-your head-eleady-at-iveness,
perfect happiness would have been
shed bbroid, and the ambinent air made
laxBrient with glory. D-ar girls, bold your
heads steady, and doa't break your darling
neck 9 !
The following is written as a notice on a
car running on a railroad in the northern
part of New York :-
"Passengers are requested not to get off
ihe car to enow-ball while the train js co
der (all headway."
A tunc fillet! with women was observed
in Brockline, one day last week, and or. the
cntside of the vehicle, in legible letters, was
painted "Westboro' Milk Co." :
General Sberman was. before the War
committee yesterday, testifying in relation
to his conference with Johnson. His offi
cial report of tie conference wilf shortly' be
published. '- '.' . '
It is an extraordinary fact, that when peo
ple come to what is commonly called high
words ihey generally oe low language.
ino w j was t;erc? "
said the
From the North, Branch. Democrat
Tne Trcofs. :
: Editor' Nil: Democrat:
A communication appeared in a recent
J issue of your paper on the subject of flecon
unction, in the course of whicli the writer
prnnlni e l fnt.rittir. irifrncfio vi7 "
, m "I - J .....
"When the leading secessionists of the
,;South we e preparing to take their fatal
"leap they knew that the leading orgn of
"the rany then in power, the New York
"Tribune, wajs then advocating with earnest
' zeal and dangerous sophistry the right of
secession. They knew that the then newly
"elected P:esident had himself.rears before,
,!upon the floor of Congress, given emphatic
'expression to a substantially similar doc
"trine. They knew that Senators Hale
' Seward and Chase, leading and controlling
spirits in the same party, had presented
and seconded a petition to Congress pray
"ing for a dissolution of the Union.-"'
A nameless and somewhat rambling wri
ter in the laM LcpnbUc in who kindly comas
to the relief of the editor of that amiable '
journal because "he doe not exchange vith
you" pronounces the statements above
quoted "lies'," alleging that there is ''not
one word of truih in the whole of them,"
and dene their author to prove thm.
It aff mls me pleasure to comply wi:h the
writer's polite rpqne-t by favori ig hira with
uch proofs its 1 happen to l ave at hand)
which 1 trust will prove highlyatisfactory
to him.
In referrn:e to heaT, ilu.-.c's advocacy of;
secession, I beg-to quote from the N. Y.
Tribune of Nov. 9, 18H0. "If the cattcn
States shall tecoma satisfied that they can
do belter out of the Union than in it, we
insist or. letting them go in peace The right ; and Mr. Seward found themselves in pre
to scccJe nit-y Ic a ievuhdioninj one, but it tr , cisely the same difficulty that Mr. Buchan-
isisf fCi'crthcUis.
From the sawe piper we q-iote aain
"We must ever resist the riht of any Sta'e views he had expressed T When politic!
to remain in the Union, and nullify the laws ; 'rickMer wax so eloqnent in the r patriotic
thereof To vVk-Jruto frwithe Z'.ion ?" q ii!e denunciaions of that message, they uni
anoihcr mat.tr. Whenever a considerable . formly ignore the fact that k was sent to
section of our'Union shall tl ? I i b f r itely re- ' Congress some two months before the at
solve to go nut we hu!l reit all coercive ( jack on Fort Snrnpter, which relieved the
measures to keep it in. Wc hope never to country of all embarrassment upon thi qnes
live in a reptt lic whereof cne section is tin by throwing the government upon ihe
pinned to anctiicr by bayonets." defensive.
We quote z.iiai'1 from the lribn.c of N'V. ) (l criticising the conduct of public men
2H, i860. "If the cotton isates utittcdly and ii i? at Ieat fair to keep i:i view the stale
earnestly wisli to withdraw peacefully trom ! of facts exi-tin'g at the time of the acts
the Union, v.u s Is ink.tiiey should be a!'oed complained of and in this connection it is
to do so. Airy irtte'rrpt to compel tkr.n !yf'ircc but just to say, that at the tin:e cf Mr. Lin
to rem 'in tcou Ut Ic ennliary to the piinc'p'cs coin's s;eech, he had no reason to believe
enunciate t in lu imnntdl Dcc'ara'im nf l t Ii a t the f ecp!c ol any section of the Union
Jcpe n (knee centra ry lo the famlimp'j! ( were then destroa? of ' shaking otT the ex
iileas on which human liberiy is based.'-' j isting government and setting up another to
It will be observed that my'.poUte ar.taz- t! fcrn better." it had been better, how-
onist takes very strong ,'excep'ion to the ever if that doctrine had r.evcr formed a
message of eX'Pie.-idont Bachanan 'n which nart of his official record : for we have no
the Utter adverted to the fact that the Con
stitution is silent on the snl j -ct of seco
sin ; neither giving the right, nor by ex
press terms eranting the power to prevent ;
bnt the Tribune broadly a-seris the ripkt of
secession, ar.d just as broadly dciic the
poiccr to prcve.it secession. Auain.
the New York Tiibvnc of Dec. 17
From
lf,0,
(while South Carolina was in lb act f se
ceding) I quote as folio: 'II the Dec'a-
ration of Independence jnsufied the spccs- i.,fer that whatever of power the then neIy
sion from the Uriti-h empire ol three milN elected President, sustained by the Tii'itnc
ions.'of colonists in 1776, we !o not see and all the other influence to whic h I have
why it would no: justify the secession of adverted, could exert npon this question
five millions of Southerners from the Union would be exer:ed in accordance with that
in 1861. j record, and with those influences? Had
Again. From New York TiVnme of Feb. they not a ri-ht to infer that all those men
23', 1SGI. ! in the North who believed in the Gospel
"Whenever it shall be clear thai the sreat according to Greeley which, if I under
body of the Southern people hare become ' atand it, dethrones Divinity and the Law,
conclusively alienated from the Urion and .and places in thoir stead "great moral
anxious to escape from ir, vcill do our lest iJas" would S3y with their master, "if
to forward thtir view:1 j the cotton States 6hall become satisfied that
At this tatter date seven of the Southern they can do better cnlof the Union than in
States had already seced-od. It is not nee- it we insist on letting them go in peace."
essary, therefore, for my present pnrpose, to "The right lo secede may be a revolution
follow the Trilwic throuuh its succeeding , ary one, but it exists nevertheless." Of
issues These samples, covering a period what avail to preach to them that "Mr.
of time when their effect was necessarily-j Lincoln had been constitutionally elected,"
more mischievous that they could have j when Mr. Lincoln had already furnished
proved ai any other period of the - nation' j ;hem with the reply that "any people, any
history, will suffice to shor very clearly where, being inclined and having the pow-
the truth of my assertion in reference to
the Tribune's advocacy of secession. How
rery easy it is for my polite accuser to di3
covef the mo:e in Buchanan's eye; but
how difficult to see the beam in the Tr;7
unc's. or perhaps, his own. This, however,
wonld 6eem to be characteristic of the
party of great moral idjas;" and qnite
naturally ' so, because their own saintship
being assumed, all who differ with them
most necessarily be devils, or worse.
Again. We quote from Mr Lincoln's
speech in Congress on the 12ih of January
1813.
"Any people, anywhere, being inclined
and having the power, have a RiGiir to risk
OP AVE SHAKE OFF THE ItflSTINO GOVERN
MENT. AND FORM A NEW ONE THAT SITUS TH KM
BETTER.'"
Mr Lincoln continneJ "This is a most
valuable, a most sacred right, a right which
we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
Nor is this right confined to cases in which
the whole of an existing , government may
choose to eiercne itany portion of such
people that can may revolutionized and
make their own of so much of the territory
as they inhabit. More than this ; a major
ity of .any portion of such people may rev
olutionize potting down a minority inter
mingled with, or near about them, who
may oppose their movement'."
We have here, and in the oregqing ex
tracts from the Tifttuie, distinct, emphatic,
and reiterated sfTirtnations
of "the whole
to divide the Union. I might add Columns
of corohoration of this, most mischievous
doctrine by other leading member of the
fame party ; bat my btatemeat in reference
to then no: having, been denied by my amia
ble enemy, it is quite unnecessary for me
to do so. Probably he is satisfied by this
time that there is "one word of truth in the
whole statement" that he pronounces ' lies."
Now, let us eu ppose for one momdnt, that
that message of Mr. Buchanan's that excit
ed such holy horror in the loyal writer's
patriotic bosom, instead of a simpje state
ment of how the Constitution regards ihe
alleged right of secession (denying the
righ', but at the same time noticing the
absence of any provision authorizing the
use of force to prevent, except in defense
of the public property and of the f auctions
of the officers engaged in the collection of
the revenue) had contained the same lan
guage that I have quoted from Mr. Lincoln's
spepch in Congress, and from the Tii'oane.
In thit event, doubtless, the patriotic Stan
ton's rnob courts would have had tha ven
erable ex-President's head upon a pole
more than three years ago. Dut what es
pecial sanctity does advocacy of secession
and revolution derive fiom the pen of Gree
ley, or from the lips of men who created
;he party of great moral ideas ?'' Ah!
Tiiere is a mighty difference "tvvixt twecd'e.
duni and twedtedee." Does not the writer
know that no statesmaa whoe opinions are
reardd even in his own party as authority
uron questions q! constilciioial law has
cv et yti ur.dertal.cn, by an ar..-1'ypis of that
message, to show that Mr. Kuchanan's staie
irents therein, . or his conclm-ions were
wrong 1 Does he tW know that, until the
bom'bardn'.ent of Fort Sampler, Mr. Lincoln
an had encountered, and tacitly, if not ex
pressly, recognized tha soundness of the
right to ignore the lact tnat tnat record, in
connection with the plausible but fatal ad
vocacy of similar doctrines by leading or
cans and leading men of the parly whose
advent to power was cotemporaneous with
secession, I jrnied a very important jtlernent
in So-j-.hern estimate of the chances of suc
cess in that movement.
In c'lmmcn honesty. let me ask whether
the Southern secessionists had riot a right to
er, have a right to rise up and 6hake oil the
existing government and set up another to
suit them better
Unfortunately for them and for the coun
try, they accepted this bad logic, and acted
upon .it, doubtless in the hops that i s au
thors wonld, in the langnaje of the TriU'.r.c
"do their beet to lorward their views."
For the proof in reference to the action
of Senators Seward, Chase and Hale upon
the celebrated New England petition !o
Congress "to Revise sorre plan by which
the Union may be divided," 1 would re
specially refer the writer to the Congress
ior.al Globe of that time. I should be hap
py to furnish him with the date, bat I have
it not at hand, lie can readily satisfy his
enquiring mind by looking it op, or by en
quiriiig as to the fact of any gentleman of
ordinary intelligence whose -memory has
not an unfortunate habit of losinj track of
certain rather . objectionable points in the
records of certain pablic men.
1 shall not follow the learned writer thro'
the remainder of his rambling performance
further than lo express my modest regrets
that the communication to which lie takes,
quite naturally, such violent exception, did
not come op to the level of hU comprehen
sion. Ha says "when a man has commit
ted a crime he should pay the penalty the
law exacts," and argues qsite elaborately
thit the leading secessionists "shaald not
be permitted to escape the penalty cf their I
crimes." !
over the communication to which he ob
jects so strenuously.be will find not the
slightest obpetion to any course that may
be taken vi:h reference to leading seces
sionists whether in the South or in Ihe North
in jt'trsitanct end wider the sancti-ms .cf Law.
Such a course I would by no means regard
as a "vindictive and bloody policy," what
ever objection it might be open to, upon
other grounds. .What 1 do regard as a "vin
dictive and bloody policy'' is that adopted
and t'ireatenod by the impudent Siar.ton
and his mob courts, in open defiance of law,
and in plain violation of constitutional guar
antees that cannot be thus stricken dawn
without convrting the government at once
into an absolute and barbarous despoiism.
I venture to horvo that it lies within the
scope of my accuser's intellect to duly es
timate the importance of these guarantees,
and the necessity for guarding with a jeal
ous watchfulness, against the slightest in
fraction q them. I am glad to know that
since the date of my former communication
a number of the leading Republican Editors
hare exhibited strong evidence that their
eyes ara becoming fully opened to the dan
ger wi h which the country is threatened
from this source. - If I erred in attributing
to a rr.aj ir'ity of the party in power senti
ments ol approval of the lawless and high
handed policy of the bad man who controls
the wr ofilc'S and aspires to the control of
the adminis'ratioa ol j;stk-?, 1 w ould, most
cer'ainly, be very glad to 'know it. Y3 this
as it may, -it is very certain tf.at until qnite
recently t!3 only honest, luar;y conccm
tiatinn ar.d disapproval of such outrages
that met the public e came from Demo
cratic souree3. The t-ooner, however, the
public Fhall to brought to a just sense-of
the public dangers involved in the .usurpa
tion by Secretary Stanton a:i 1 his subservi
ent tools, of the control of the adrriinistra
t on of justice in this land, the be.ter for all
concerned.
And now, having, I trust, fully performed
my duty to my excellent tut nameles foe,-1
beg to take leave of hira wiih my best bow.
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The ilicdieine Tester.
Jons Hew was ready for fun, and never
wi'fal.'y missed an opportunity fjr a lauph.
IJo was once ernpic)eJ rn a drug s'.cre on ;
Market Street, and one day a youth, fresh
from the country, entered and aske.l for a
j-b.
"What kind of a job?'7 akeJ John.
"Oh, clrr.o?t anythit g. 1 want lo get a
kind o' genteel job. I'm lired of cuttin'
wood, and can turn my hattd to most any
thing." We.'l, we want a nun, n good n'.nnj
fellow, a S3mp'a clerk. Wagfs nre good;
we pay a man i that situation a thousand
dollars."
What has a felier cot Jo ivV
"Oh, merely lo test medicines, that is all.
It requires a s.tout man, one of good con
stitution, and after he gets nsed to it be
don't rr.ind it. Bifore.we dare sell our
medicines wo always try them. Yos eiii
be required lo tak-i six or eight ounces cf
caster-oil some days, with a few drops o!
rneubarb, aloes, cro on-o:l, q lininJ, strych
nia and similar preparations try the
strength cf cowage by spreading it between
the rhect in warm weather, aud try the qual
ity of sandiap;ir by rubbing yourself down
vith it. Yoa can count on from twelve to
fifteen do-es psr day. As to the work, that
dont amount to much; the testing ddpart
ment would be the principal labor required
of you. And as I said before, it takes a
strong, healthy man to endure it. We
should like to have you take right hold; if
you say so, we'll bein to day."
"Wellj" replied our child of nature, "I
don't care much."
John stepped back into the store, follow
ed by his brother clerks and the victim.
He reached from a shelf a toy ofPediitz
powders, and ta!-Jng therefrom "a blue and
a white paper, mixed them separately in
two glasses. i
"Now drink this, end that immediately
afterward, an J inform me as to their respec- 4
tive tastes.-' '
Unsuspecting innocence complied with
John's request, "vher. horror, of -horrors,
.what a eight was there! Nothing could
eq-:al the rrotcsq-ie fijaro cut ty t!u vic
tim. He swe'ied up liks a foid until one
would have thought he vis aboat to burst. I
From his wildly op?ned mouth ran river of
foam. Ha guped for breath, threw his
arms into the air, twirled round on his heels,
fl-fw in behind the counter among the glass
jars, etc., and amidst the crash of broken
ware, and the uproarieus laughter of the
lookers-on, he fell to the floor and roared
like a lion. John then gave him a mixture
which brought instant relief, and the poor
feilawor.ce more stood among tho clerks
with such a woebegone expression that ii
caused another outburst from John and his
friends. The man-, becoming indignant,
was about to leave the store, when John
accosted him with,
'Here's a banel-of castor oil -HI jist
draw an ounce, and,
"No, no; I guese not to-day, anjhow. I
go down to the tavern and sea my Aunt
Tabiiha; and if I conclude to come, I'll
come to-morrow and let yon know."
As he did not return, it is supposed he
considered the work loo hard. - - .
Cried Sylva to a reierend Dean
"What reason cai begivenf
. Since marriage is a holy thing,
That there is nons in Heaven ?"
"There are do women," he replied
From the Evening liullctia.y'
the JjuMfrosOllCompaay.
Mr. EriTOR : Are yon interested in ibe
stock of the Bulfrog OJ Company ? If you
are, I have nothing mere to say of course,
I cannot expect yon to print anything re
flecting in the slightest way 6n that excel
lent and prosperous enterprise. But if you
are not the unfortonate ownerof shares, and
can look at matters n a disinterested and
purely editorial light, perhaps you would
like to have the report of their annual meet
ing. I know ynu Want information on all
points for your hundred thousand readers,
and I take it for granted some of that en
lightened body oro stockholders in the "Bul
frog." The meeting was duly advertised a prop
er custom and lucrative lor the newspapers
and 1 expected to see a very lara assem
bly. Ia fact, I wondered that Concert Hall
had not been engaged instead of holding it
in a li'l'e back cfiic-. Thcra wor3 howtever
but few present, 1 think I counted eleven
Probably business engascmants of a weighty
character kept them away. 1 cannot sup
pose that indifference, . or doubt as to the
immersily of the interests at stake, had
anything lo do wiih it. They represented
different classes and age. There wa the
young man, who bad heard his te!!o-.v clerk
say that he had made hi even thousand ihe
day before 'on oil," and thought he would
like to draw a little from the golden reser
voir. Br his sid3 there 'was a middle aged man
1 cf bnsiness, who had a few hundreds over
one day and did not know exactly how to
invest in merchandize, bot hea'd somebody
say that Bulfrog was good, and therefore
dipped in. Then there was the retired cap
italist, who had secured his competence ar.d
wa liking eround for investments.
B llfrog bad a first rale list of officers,
highly respectabla. The capital smtll and
stock com p aril i vely low territory well lo
cated. 1 lring commenced, with good pros
pect of til, fee , &c. Sure to pay the per
centage on the cost. So hs was not specu
lating, but only investing whn he gave
his order for a thousand shares. Then there
was mself. I booht becanse I was a fos!
1 suppose ; at least, I think so now.
I noticed one thing however. There were
none olthe lof.g-headej, knowing ones lher.-,
whose names had become Fynonyxncjs with
luck in oil investments. Not one. It look
ed ominous. Trot n.-rhnn
But perhaps they had such
fud conf.clenca in tbo management that
they knew it was unnecessary for them to
be there. Everything would go ou right
wi'hoot them.
The Epp?"3TTice of th.3 meeting was sol
emn somewhat as a prayer meeting onght
to look in my jodgemnt. 1 thought that a
bad sign ; appearances hve groat weight
with me. If I see a company in fine spirits
and apparently on good terms with them
selves and everybody else.l urn apt lo think
they have some reason for it ; but if I see
them gloomy and serious, I very much fear
that their digestion is out cf orer, cr they
have some bad news.
However, Ihe meeting was organized by
appointing a chairman whom, i did not
uiideritand, as several appeared to act in
that capacity es circumstances required. I
saw one gentleman, w ith a fine beard ar.d,
moustache aod rather a keen eye, putting
qnestiens, and then an old gentleman with
a Roman nose varied the proceedings by
putting his questions also. A ra'her youth
ful gentleman, w ith everal large shots of
paper before him, acted as scr.be.
It is customary, 1 believe, on such ocea
sions to be favored with the presence cf the
officers of the company, but I saw no signs
of the President cr Secretary. We were in
farmed, however, that the Treiidsnt was
absent in Kamskatchka on church business,
and the Secretary was in tho oil region
probably looking after the interests of the
company. A letter was read from him
slating that ho was unavoidably detained
there, and intimating great activity and
pressing business, but I could not gather
that it was conducing much to the pros
perity cf the Bullrog. It souuded rather as
if he was engaded in manufacturing another
company. After a little preliminary skir
mishing a document was produced, which
vras anuonr.ced to be the annual report.
The devo'ed eleven pricked cp their ears
Xjw we Wcre 10 know wl,y lL'3 Company,
possessing such valuable territory aud with
such briliiant prospects, had allowed ihe
year to roll by without giving us any return
on onr investment, or getting the stock tp
so that we could sell out at a moderate
profit and saddle somebody else with our
certificates. 1 may menlion'herg incideota! -ly
that the Bulfrog has passed all its divi
dends and that the stock sells at present at
rather less than half its first cost.
The report commenced with a mild admis
sion that the year on the wholj, had not
been prosperous. Everythir-g had been
done to develops ths property that could be
expected. Engines hae been sent cp in
fact, I rather inferred that quite a long train
ol engines bad gone up. Boring had been
vigorously proceeded with, but for some
reason of other the returns of oil were not
equal to expectation.
There were four wells down, or in process
of beritig :
No. 1 had been a 25 to 30 barrel well flow
ing steadily, but jnst as the property was
purchased and ihe stock, distributed, it ceas
ed lo flow. It was a curious and unaccount
able coincidence, bot not unusual ia the
in a-remarkable way; but as soon as they
commenced again, it subsided. They hop
ed, however, at 6tme future time to get oil
from it. .
No. 1 had been bored as low as any rea-1
sonably disposed well ought to expect, but (
so far it remained obstinately dry. They
did not expect much from it. i
No. 3 was more encouraging and was
steadily pumping a", the rale of two barrels
per day.
At this announcement ths faces of the
meeting brightened. Here, at least, w'as
something tangible.
No. 4 had been bored lo the depth of
some hundred feet. There was a copious
flow of salt water and am, and great hopes
were entertained that ii would equal the
"Columbia" or the "Coquette " I under
stand that a large amount of gas is a gaod
sign.
Tha labors of tha Directors had ceased
here, as far as developing was co.icemed)
but they would cheerfully lease the right to
bore to any parties willing to undertake it
at their own expense The stockholders
mighl recommend it to their friends, or do
it on their own account. It was all good
boring territory, and probably would pay
them in time.
An annoying accident had occurred which
had curtailed the receipts of the company
from the sale of oil. In anticipation of a
lar? production they ha.l i 'erected a tank
capable of holding several hundred barrels.
This had been filled with the producl ol
the wells, composed mostly of salt water,
but with some oil floating in it, estimated in
the proportion of about one barrel in twenty,
and iha directors had looked to the sale of
this for the funds to cirry on the works.
Unfortunately the engineer, who was one of
the best in the region, and a highly capable
J and reliable man, had alio wed the cock of
'; the tat.k to remain open one night, and all
i the co.nieirs ha-i run ont. So blame was
attached to him as he was probably asleep
The roport closed with a deprecatory hint
aai:;st holding the directors responsible for
the state of affairs, and a suggestion that
the company did not etatid elone in this
respect.
The ttvncrer's report was then presented
It was aritarnc'icaHy correct, but somewhat
, nra'.i'factory. The working capital of the
concern and the receipts from sa!a of pro-
dect cf No. 3 well had ben absorbed by
! the expanses, end there was a little debt of
it thousand or two due the officers. Per
i haps ihe meeting wnald acihorizj an as
sessment on the capital stock to reimburse
thesa gentlemen, tlthoajh it was not in-
j Fisted cpnn. It was well that it was not,
for the meeting by this time was tso much
subdued to resist anything; and, for my
j ewn p irt I confers to a feeling of uaquali
j fi-.d and absolute .submission to the Etrong
minded officers, which would have led me
i to do anyll.-ing thit they tecommended, even
to signing uvry my birthright in their favor .
I I noticed, at this j inciuro that one or two
i r.earesl the door glided easily and ;n3toral'y
oat, possibly foaring that if they waited
looaer some r.f the others mijht get into
Third street tefore thorn and buy up all the
stock on iha market.
The rest rf r., however, who did not
wish to take a mean advantage of an igno
rant community, remained to see il
through. We voted "ayo" whenever we
were asked to do so and when the question
was put whether we would now adjiurn to
no into an election for officers and managers
for the ensui: : year, unanimously assented.
The directors with becoming modesty pro
posed that sorre one not belonging to their
body should be appointed as teller to con
duct tho election, bnt at this the stockhold
ers made for the door as if a maniac was
after them. I ran too, 83 I always da when
I soe others run 1 think it better to trust in
their, judgment than in my own; besides
they may know more than I.
But the annual meeting of the Bulfrog
Company ha3 teen held. I hal looked
forward lo it with interest and expectation
After the lucid statements and reports, I
feel that I havo made a secure investment
one that 1 shall pnbaby hand doxn lo
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The Hangmen.
The jailers and the hangmen will nofpre
vail this time. The formidable chief and
ruler of a great nation in arms, will no', we
apprehend, be publicly choked on the gib- .
Let. Neither will General Lee, that model
and mirror of moderin soldiers, tfiat peer-
less Bayard of his time, be forced to stoop
his stately head to iha Rhears of ibe peni
tentiary hairdresser. There are some things
which cannot be accomplished, by any na
tion howsoever rich "and willfal; and one of
these things is, to turn honor and patriotism'
into a police court crime, and lo get man
kind to absent to the transformation. Our
country has vast wealth, many tuns of
green paper, and also much ingennity and
persistence in the pursuit of its object; bot
il positively has not money enough to turn
Mr. Davis into an assassin, nor to boy ihe
assent of the world to the ' proposition lhat
Lee is a common bnrglar and fire-raiser
There is still truth and manhood enough in
our own people to make such an infamy
impossible; aiu it mere were not, wa are
likely soon lo heat such a chorus of indig
nation ringing and swelling from all ihe
ends of the earth, that althoagh of course
we, being the greatest people in creation,,
care for nobody's opinion, pnd Bre a taw
unto ourselves, yel we will be nnable io
stand up against 6uch a tempest of execra
tion. The Corner des Etlts Uois is quite
right when it says in yesterday's publica
tion, "Let nobody allege that ihe Unied
States are and ought lo be insensible to pub-
lie opinion in Europe. We live in a time '
when peoples, no more than sovereigns can- '
not do without the moral strength given by
the opinion of the civilized world. Besides,
the Americans ore not so indifferent as they
wish to be thought, to ibe app!ane or cen
sure of the Old World. What do their jour
nalists, who have always insult on their
tongues in speaking of Europe, what do they
on the arrival of a steamer? . They search
anxiously first of all what are the opinion of
their brethren beyond the 6ea, aud keep a ,
keen look out upon the movement of
European opinion.If they are infiaitely
flattered by praises, they are as much irri
tated by blame. Now it is certain lhat ihe
foreign conntries men will be painfully af
fected on learning that the Southern gener-
als and their officers are not entirely covered
by the terms cf their capitulations. The
eubtiitie? and subterfuges by which it is
designed to paliste this iegrettab!e Vigor,',"
will not weigh in the ballance." Again, ia
Ihe same article The Courrier says jnstly
"It is of deep'impor: lo us that we do not
give the enemies of the Union a pretext to
substitute hereafter, or the Punici fihi, the
files Americana." In fact with all the inso
lent pride with which oar countrymen are
sometimes in the habit ol pouring contempt
upon the decrepit monarchies of Europe
and their judgments about our affairs, there
is at bottom qui'e a loo anxious or fearful
locking for, of j idment. Oar final opin
ions and resolves, even about our own con
cerns, are generally imported by sea Our
first estimates and appreciations, whether
about rnen, books, or events, are but pro
visional and inchoate, until ihere is a round
trip of the steamerst then we know what
to think and what to do Now this being
the case, we have really little fear lhat the
nation will be permitted to disgrace itself
by violating the capitulation of General Lee
and his army, or by arraitiging Mr. Davis
before a petty court in the District ol
Columbia. The whole world will cry shame,
w ith a cry so laud and scornful that it will
be apparent to Americans lhat hereafter,
when ihey travel in foreign lands, instead
of being regarded jvith request as the cham
pions of human freedom and human right,
they will be pointed oat ai the people
whom no honorable engagement could
bind.
But besides the shame, there is also ih
impolicy. If General Lee, or any officer or
private of that army, be arrested or tried for.
treason, it is an end of the obligations of the
snrrandar npon their side; they are no longer
lotmd net to take cp arms against the
United State-; and the next bloody revolt
will be a question cf time and of opportuni
ty only. The Commerical strongly presents
this view of the subject, and cites the case
of Marshal Ney, who bad been "a traitor"
to the bourbons, but who was entitled to
consider himself sheltered by the capitula- .
tion ot Paris. Ney was executed; tut his
name was immediately the name martyr,
and his death is a stain upou the race of
Bourbon for ever.
In short all law, all precedent, all public
opinion, will be found opposed to the mean
outrage of prosecuting General Lee. And
if Lee is tn be exempt from such prosecu
tion, as a regular general, commanding an
army in regular war, the prosecution o! Mr.
Davis who as the bead of the belligearnt na
tion regularly commisioned him, would be
glaringly absurd. We have no doubt lhat
the legal adviser of the jai'er and human
interests f!t ihis incongruity, .when at ihe
eleventh nonr they advised that Lee should
be arrested and all engagements with him
violated. They felt lhat it was necessary to
the prosecution of Davis as a traitor thai his
General-in-Chtef should not be recognized
as a soldier. But the very baseness and
enormity of this felonious programme, of
this turnkey's hope and hangman's delight,
will make it fail.
This conntry does not ish to goad the
Southern people info a new war; does not
desire to release Irom their engagements of
loyahy thoe who laid down their arms on
the faith of being treated at defeated bot
honorable enemies: least of all does it'
wish to incur the eternal and ir.erTacabla
sharpe of having lei men of honor into a
t'Vw yon
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