VOLUME 2. Funeral Address Delirere.l by Bish op Simpson at Springfield. Fellow-citizeim of Illinois, antl of our entire Union: Near the capital of this large and growing Stateof Illinois, in the midst of this beautiful grove, and at the open mouth of the vault which has just received the remains of our fallen Chief tain, we gather to pay a tribute of respect and drop the tears of sorrow around the ashes of the mighty dead. A little more | than four years ago, from his plain and .quiet home in yonder city, he started, re ceiving the parting words of the concourse of friends who gathered around him, and in the midst of the dropping of the gen tle shower he told of the pains of parting from the place where his children had been born and his home had been made so pleasant by early recollections. And as he left he made an earnest request in the hearing of some who are present that, as he was about to enter upon responsibili ties which lie believed to oe greater than any which had fallen upon any man since the days of Washington, the people would offer up their prayers that God would aid and sustain him in the work they had gi ~ en him to do. His company left youi quiet city ; but, as it went, snares were in waiting for the Chief Magistrate. Scarce ly did he escape the dangers of the way, or the hands of the assassin, as he near od Washington, and I believe he escaped only through the vigilance of the officers and prayers of the people; so that the blow was suspeneod for more than four years which was at last permitted through the providence of God to tall. How dif ferent the occasion which witnessed his return! Doubtless, you expected to take liim by the hands, to feel the warm grasp which you felt in other days, and to see the tall form walking among you, which you had delighted to honor in years past. Rut he was never permitted to return un til he came with lips mute and silent, his frame encoffined, and a weeping nation following as his mourners. Such a scene as bis return to you was witnessed among the events of history There have been great processions of mourncts. There was one for the patriarch .Jacob, which cauie up from Egypt, and the Egyp tians wondered at, the evidences of rev erence aud filial affection which came from the hearts of the Israelites. There was mourning when Moses fell upon the hights of Pisgah and was hid from hu man view. There have been mournings in the kingdoms of the earth when kings and warriors have fallen ; but never was there, in the history of man, such mourn ing as that which has accompanied the funeral procession and has gathered around the mortal remains of him who was our loved one and who now sleeps among us. If we glance at tne procession which fol lowed him we see how the nation stood n"hast. Tears filled the eyes of many suuburnt faces. Strong men, as they clasped the hands of their friends were unable to find vent for their grief in words. Women and little children caught up the tidings as they ran through the land, and were melted into tears. The nation stood still. Men left their plows in the fields and asked what the end would be. The hum of manufactories ceased, and the sound of the Trammer was not heard.— Busy merchants closed their doors, and in the Exchange gold passed uo more from hand. Three weeks have passed. The nation has scarcely breathed easily yet. A mournful silence is abroad upon tho land. Nor is this mourning confined to any class or to any district of the coun try. Men of all political parties and of all religious creeds seem united in paying this mournful tribute. The Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church in New York and a Protestant minister walked side by side in the said procession, and a Jewish Rabbi performed a par* of the sol emn service. There are gathered around his tomb, representatives of the Aruiy and Navy, Senators, Judges, Go'-ernors, and officers of all the braucnes of the Government and members of all the civic associations, with men and women, from the humblest as well as the highest occu Rations. Here and there, too, are tears as sincere and warm as any that drop which come from the eyes of those whose kin dred and whose race have been freed from their chains by him whom they mourn as their deliverer Far more have gazed on the face of the departed than ever looked upon the face of any other departed man. More eyes have looked ujion the proces sion for 1,600 miles, or more by night and by day, by sunlight, dawn, twilight and by torchlight, than ever before wutch ed the progress of a processiou. We ask why thisjyftpdcrful mouruing; this great procession. I answer: First, a part of the interest has arisen# from the times in which wc live, and in which he had fal len was a principal actor. It is a princi ple of our nature that feelings once cx AMERICAN CITIZEN. eluded from the object by which they are excited, turn readily to some other object winch may, for the time being, take pos session of the mitld. Another princi ple is that the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the loving thoughts and ideas of the passing age. If we look then at the times, we see an age of ex citement. For four years the popular heart has been stirred to its utmost depths. War had come upon us, dividing fami lies ; separating nearestand dearesl friends —a war the extent and magnitude of which no one could estimate—a war in which the blood of brethren was shed by a brother's hand. A call for soldiers was made by this voice, now hushed, and all over this land, from hill to mountain, from plain to valley, they sprang up, hundreds of thousands of bold hearts, ready togo forth and save our National Union. This feeling of excitement was transformed next into a feeling of deep grief because of the dangers in which onr country was placed. Many said : Is it possible to save our nation ? Koine in our country, and nearly all the leading men in other countries, declared it to be impossible to maintain the Union; and many au hon est heart was deeply pained with appre hensions of common ruin, and many in grief and almost in despair anxiously in quired : What shall the end of these things be? In addition, the wives had given their husbands, mothers their sons. In the pride and joy of their hearts they saw them put on the uniform, they saw them tike their martial step, and they tried to hide their deep feelings I>f sad ness. Many dear ones slept on the bat tle field, never, never to return again, and there was mourning in every mansion and in every cnbin in our broad land. Then came a feeling to deepen sadness as the story came of prisoners tortured to death or starved through the mandates of those who arc ealled the representatives of the chivalry, or who claim toe the honora ble ones of the earth ; and as we read the stories of frames attenuated, our grief turned partly into horror and partly into a cry for vengeance. m Then the feeling was changed to one of joy. There came signs of the end of this Rebellion. We followed the career of our glorious, gen erals. We saw our army under the com mand of the brave officer who is guiding this procession, climbed up the hights of Lookout Mountain and drove the ltebcls from their strongholds. Another b.-ave General swept through Georgia, South and North Carolina and drove the com bined armies of the Rebels before him, while the honored Lieutenant General held Lee and his hosts in a death grasp. Then the tidings came that Richmond was evacuated and that Lee had surren dered. The bells rang merily all over the land. The booming of cannon was heard. Illuminations and torch-light pro cessions manifested the general joy, and families were looking for the speedy re turn of their loved ones from the field of battle. Just in the midst of the wildest joy, in one hour—nay, in one moment— the tidings rang throughout the land that Abraham Lincoln, the best of l'resid nts, had perished by the hands of an assassin. And then all that feeliifg which had been gathering for our years in forms of ex citement, grief, honor and joy, turned in to one wail of woe—a sadness inexpressi ble, anguish unutterable. Rut it is not the time, merely, which caused this mourn ing ; the mode of his death must be ta ken into account. Ilad he died on a bed of illness with kind friends around him ; had the sweat of death been wiped from his brow by gentle hands while he was yet conscious; could ht have had the pow er to speak words of affection to his strick en, widow, words of counsel to us like those which we heard in his pal ting 'or Washington in his Inaugural which shall now be immortal; how it would havesuft ened or assuaged something of the grief! There might at least have been prepara tion for the event. But no moment of warning was given to him or us. lie was stricken dowi when his hopes for thceud of the Rebellion were bright and the prospects of a joyous life were before him. There was a Cabinet meeting that day, said to have been the most cheerful aud happy of any held since the beginning of the Rebellion. After this me«ting he talked with his friends, and spoke of the four years of tempest, of the storm being over, aud of the four years of pleasure and joy awaitiug him ; a» the weight of care and anguish would be taken from his mind, and he could have happy days with his family again. In the luulet of these anticipations, he left his house never to return alive. The evening was Good Friday, the saddest day in the wljole cal eudar for the Christian Church —hence- forth in this country to be made sadder, | if possible, by the memory of our nation's I loss. Aud so filled with grief was every " Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end,dare to do our .My as we understand it"--*- LINCOLN BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1865. Christian's heart that even all the joyous thought of Easter Sunday failed to re move the crushing sorrow under which the truo worshipper bowed in the House of God. Rut the great cause of this mourning is to be fouud in the man him self. Mr. Lincoln was no ordinary man and I believe the conviction has growing on the nation's mind, as it cer tainly has been on my own, especially in the last years of his administration. Ry the hand of God, he was especially sin gled out to guide ourGovermnen in these troublous times, and it seems to me that the hand of God may be traced in many of the events connected with his history. First, then, 1 recognize this in the phys ical education which he received, and which prepared him for enduring hercu lean labors in the trials of his boyhood and the labors of his manhood. God was giving him an iron form. Next to this was his identification with the heart of the great people—understanding their feelings because be was one of them and connected with them in their movements and life, liis education was simple; a few months spent in the school-house gave him the elements of education. He read few books, but mastered all he read.— " Runyan's Progress" aud th) " Life of Washington" were his favorites. Iu these we recognize the works which gave the bias to his character, and which part ly molded his style. His early life, with its varied struggles, joined him indissolu bly to tho weeping masses, and no eleva tion in society diminished his respect for the sons of toil. He knew what it was to fell the tall trees of the forest, and to stem the current of the hard Mississippi. His home was in the growing West, the heart of the Republic, and, invigorated by the wind which swept over its groves he learned the lesson of self-reliance which sustained him in seasons of adver sity. His genius was soon recognized as true genius always will be. He was pla cid in the legislature of a State. Already acquainted with the principles of law, he devoted bis thought to mat ters of public interest, and began to be looked on as the coming statesman. As early as 184!) ho presented resolutions in the Legislature asking for emancipation in the District of Columbia, although, with rare exceptions, the whole popular mind of bis State was opposed to the measure. From that hour he was a steady and uniform friend of humanity, and was pre paring for the conflict of latter years. If you ask on what mental characteristic his greatness rested, I answer on a quick aud ready perception of facts, and a memory unusually tenacious and retentive, and on a logical turn of mind which followed sterlingly and unwavcrlingly every link in the chain of thought on any subject which he was called onto investigate. I think there have been minds more decided in their character, more compre hensive in their scope, but I doubt if there has been a man which could follow, step by step, with logical power, the points which he desired to illustrate, lie gain ed the power by a close study of geome try and by a determination to persevere iu the truth. It is said of him that in childhood, when he had any difficulty in listening to a conversation to ascertain what people meant, if he retired to rest he could not slee, till he tried to under stand the precise points intended, and when understood to convey it in a clear n ann r to those who had listeued with him. Who that has read his message fails to perceive the directness and the simplicity of his style, and this very trait which was scoffed at and derided by his opposers is now recognized as one of the strong points of that mighty mind which has so power fully influenced the destiny of this nation, and which shall for ages to come influ ence the destiny of humanity. It is not, however, chiefly by his mental faculties that he gained such control over mankind. His moral power gave him prominence. The convictions of men that • Abraham Lincoln was an honest man led them to yield to his guidance. As has been said of Cobden, whom he greatly respected, he made all men feel and own the scuse of himself, and recog nise in him individuality, a self-relying power. They saw in him a man whom they believed would do that which was right, regardless of all consequences. It was this moral feeling which gave him the greatest hold on the people, aud made bis utterances almost oracular. When the nation was angered by the perfidy of foreigu powers, iu allowing privateers to be fitted out, he uttered the significant expression, " One war at a time," and it stilled the natioual heart. When his own friends were divided as to what ttcj« should be takeu as to slavery, that simple utterance, " 1 will save the Union if I c#u with Sl»vei<y; but if uot, Slavery must perish, for the Union must be pre served," became the rallying word. Men felt that the struggle was for the Union, ond all other questions must be subsidary. But after all the acts of a man shall his fall be perpetuated ? What are his acts ? Much praise is due to the men who aided him. fie called able counselors around him and brave generals into the field—men who hjive borue the sword as bravely as ever any human arm has boVne it. He had the aid of prayer ful and thoughtful men everywhere. But under bis own guiding hands the movements of our armies lave been con ducted. Turn toward thedifferent departments. We bad au unorganized militia—a mere skeleton army; yet uuder his care that army has been enlarged into a force which for skill, intelligence, efficiency and bra very, surpasses any which the ,worl has ever seen. Before its veterans the re nowned veterans of Napoleon shall pale [applause], and the mothers and sister on these hillsides and all over the laud shall take to their arms again braver men than ever fought iu European wars. The reason is obvious : money on a de sire for fame collected theiV armies, or they were rallied to sustain favorite theo ries or dynasties; but the armies he call ed into being fought for Liberty, for the Union, and for the right of self-govern ment; and many of them felt that the battles they won were for humanity every where, and for all time,for I believe that (iod has not suffered this terrible rebel lion to come upou our land merely for a chastisement to us or a lesson to our age. There are moments which involve in themselves eternities. There are instants which seem to contain germs which shall develop and bloom forever. Such amo ment comes in the tide of time to our land when a question must be settled. The powers of affliction, all the earth, the contest, was for human freedom—not for the Republic merely, not for the Union simply, but to decide whether the people, as a people, in their entire majesty were destined to be the Government, or whether they were to be subject to tyrants or au tocrats, or to class-rule of any kind. This is the great question for which wc have been fighting, and its decision is at hand, and the result of the contest will affect the ages to come. If successful, Republics will spread, in spite of monareh ism, all over this earth. [Exclamations of" Amen ! " "Thank God !" ] I turn from tlie Army to the Navy What was it when the war commenced ? Now we have our ships of war at home and abroad, to guard privateers in foreign sympathi sing ports as well as to take care of every part of our own coast. They have taken forts that military men said could not be taken, and a brave Admiral, tor the first time in the world's history, lashes himself to the mast, there to remain as long as he had a pfrticleof skill or streugth to watch over his ship while it engaged in the perilous contest of taking the strong forts of the enemy I turn to the Treasury Department. Where should the money come from ? Wise men predicted ruin, but our national credit has been maintained, and our cur eney is safer to-day than it ever was be fore. Nor, only is this so, but through our national bonds, if properly used, we shall have a permanent basis for our cur ency, and they are also an investment so desirable for capitalists of other nations, that under the laws of trade, I believe, the center of exchange will be transferred from England to the United States. Rut the great act of the mighty chief tan eti which his fame shall rest long after his frame shall moulder away, is that of giving freedom to a race. We have all been taught to revere the soerrd char acter of Moses, of his power and tho prom inence he gave to the moral law, how it lasts, and how his name towers among the names in Heaven, and how he delivered three millions of his kindred out of bond adge, and yet we may assert that Abra ham Lincoln, liberated more enslaved people than ever Moses set free, aud those not of his kindred or of his race. Such a power or such an opportunity, God has seldom given toman. When other events shall have been forgotten, when this world shall have be come a not-work of Republics, when every throne shall be swept from the face of the earth, when literature shall enlighten all uiiuds, when the claims of humanity shall be recognized everywhere, this act shall still be conspicuous on the puges of history; and we are thaukful that God gave to Abraham Liuoolu the decision, wisdom aud grace to issue that proclama tion, which stands high above all other papers which have beeu penned t y uuin i spired mcu. [Applause.] Abraham Lin cold was a good mail. He was known as 1 an honest, temperate, fnrgijring man, a jus. uii»u, a Lpau of uoble heart iu uvoty. way : as to his religious experience I cannot speak definitely, because I wasuot privilcdgcd to know much of bis private sentiments. My acquaintance with him did not give me the opportunity to hear him speak on this topic. I know, however, he read the Bible frequently ; loved it for its great truths aud for its profound teach ings ; and he tried to be guided by its precepts. He believed in Christ, the Saviour of Sinners, and I think he was sincerely trying to bring his life into the principles of pure religiou. Certainly, if there ever was a man whe illustrated some of the principles of pure religion, that man was our departed President.— Look over all his speeches. Listen jto his utterances. He never spoke unkitid ' y of any man ; even the Rebels receiv ed no words of anger from him, and the last day illustrated, in a remarkable man ner, his forgiving dispositionn. A dis patch was leceived that afternoon that Thompsou and Tucker were trying to make their escape through Main, and it was proposed to arrest them. Mr. Lin coln, however' preferred rather to let them quietly escape than have the very men who had been plotting liis destruction arrested ; and this morning we real the proclamation offering 520,0U0 for the ar rest of tfiese men as aiders and abettors of his assassination. So, that in his ex piring acts he was saying : "Father, for give them ; they know not what they do." As a rule I doubt if any president has ever shown such trust in God or in pub lic documents so frequently referred to Divine aid. Often did ho remark to friends and to delegations, that his hope for our success rested in his conviction that God would bless our efforts because we were trying to do right. To the ad dress of a large religions body he replied. "Thanks be unto God, who, in our na tional trials, giveth us the churches."— To a minister who said he hoped the Lord was on our side, he replied that it gave him no concern whether the Lord was on our side or not, for, bo added, "I know the Lord is always on the side of the right," and, with deep feeling, added: "Rut God is my witness that it is my constant anxiety and prayer that both myself and this nation should be on the Lord's side." In his domestic life he was exceedingly kind and affectionate.— Me was a devoted husband and father.— During his Presidential term he lost his second son, Willie. To an officer of the army he said, not long since : "Do you ever find yourself talking with the dead ?" and added, "Since Willie's death ! catch myself ever)' day involuntarily talking with him, as if ho were with me." On his widow, who is unable to be hero, I need only invoke the blessing of Almigh ty God that she may bo comforted and sustained. For his son, who has witnes ed the exercises of this hour, all that I can desire is that the mantle of his fath er may fall upou him. [Exclamations of "Amen."] Let us pause a moment in the lesson of the hour before we part. This man, tho' he fell by the hand of an assassin, still he fell under the permissive hand of God. He had some wise purpose in allowing him so to fall. Whatmorecould he have desired of life for himself? Were not his honors full ? There was no office to which he could aspire. The popular heart clung araund him as around uo oth er man. The nation* of the world have learned to honor him. If rumors of a desired alliance with England bo true, Napoleon trembled when he had heard of the fall of Richmond, and asked what na tion would join him to protect him against our Government. Besides the goodues# of such a man, his fame was full, bis work was done, and he sealed his glory by becoming the natiou's great martyr for liberty. He appears to have had a strange presentiment early iu political life, that some day he would be President. You see it, indeed, in 1839. Of the slave power ho said, "Broken by it ? I too may be asked Jto Eow to it. I never will. The probability that wc may fail in the struggle, ought not to deter us from the support of a cause which I deem to be just. It shall not deteijme, if I ev er feel the soul within me elevate aud expand to these dimensions, not wholly uuworthy of its Almighty architect. It is when 1 contemplate the cause of my country deserted by all the world beside, n ud I standing up boldly and alone, and hurling defiance at her victorious oppres sars. Here without contemplating con sequences, before high Ileaveu and the face of the world, I swear eternal fidelity to the just cause, as I deem it, of the land of my life, my liberty, aud my love." Hut yet, seerct'y, he said to more than >.ue: "I never shall-live out the four year.- of my teriu. When the I'ebelliou is c u bed my work is done ' So a was ! • AJo URYA to MOO THE last buttle fought UNU to dictate ft dispatch from the homo of Jefferson Davis—.lived till the power of the Rebellion was broken, and then, hav ing done the work for which God had sent him, angels, I trust, were sent to shield him from one moment of pain or suffering, and to bear him from this world to that high and glorious realm where the patriot and the good shall live forever. llis example teaches young men that every position ef emineuce is open before the diligent and the worthy, to the active men of the couutry. His example urges the country to tni<t in God and to do right. Standing as we do to-day by his coffin and his sopulehsr, let us resolve to carry forward the policy which so nobly and wholly began. Let us do right to all meu. Let us vow, in (he sight of Ileaven, to eradicate every vestige of human slavery, to givo every human being his true position before (Jod and man, to crush every form of ie bellion, and to stand by the flag which God has given us. How joyful we ought to ba that it floated ovor parts of every state before .Mr. Liucoln's career was en ded ! How singular is the fact that the assassin's foot was caught in the folds of the flag, and that for this we are indebt-. Ed for bis capturo ! The flag and the traitor must ever be enemies. The trai tors will probably suffer by the change of ruler?, for one of stern mold, who himself has deeply suffered from the Rebellion, now yields the award of justice. Our country, too, is stronger for the trial thro' which it has passed. A repubtic was de clared by monarchies too weak to endure a civil war; yet wo have crushed the most gigantic rebellion iu history, and have grown in strength and population every year of the struggle. Wo have passed through the ordeal of a popular election, while swords and bayonets were in the field, and have come out unchan ged ; now, iu an hour of excitement, with a large minority having preferred anoth er man for President, the bullet of the assassin has laid our President prostrate ; has there been a mutiny ? has any rival proposed his claims ? Out of an army of nearly a million of men, no officer or sol diers has uttered ouo word of dissent,and in an hour or two after Mr. Lincoln's death, another leader, with constitutional powers, occupied his chair, and the Gov ernment moved forward without one sin gle jar. The world will learn that repub lics are the strongest governments on earth And now, my friends, iu the words oftbe departed, "with malice towards notio," free from all feeling of personal v ngeance, yet believing the sword must not be drawn in vain, let us go forward in our paimul duty. Let every man who was a Sena tor or Representee iu Congress, arid who aided in beginning this Rebellion, and thus led to the slaughter of.our sons and daughters, be brought to speedy and cer tain punishment. Lot every officer edu cuted at public expense and who, having been advanced4o position, has perjured himself and turned his sword against the vitals of his country, be doomed to this. I believe in the will of tho American people. Men may attempt to compromise and to restore these traitors and murder ers to society again, but the American people will arise in their majesty and sweep all such compromises and compro uiisors away, and will declare that there shall bo no peace to Rebels; but to the deluded masses we shall extend arms of forgiveness. We will take them to our hearts and walk with them side by side as we go forward to work out a glorious destiny. The time will couic when, in the beautiful words of him whose lips arc now forever closed : "The mystic cords of memory, which stretch from every battle-field and frotu every patriot's grave, shall yield a sweeter music when touched by the angels of our better nature." To the ambitious there is a fearful lessen of the four candidates for Presidential hon ors cf 1800. Two of them Douglass and Liucoln, once competitors, but now sleep ing patriots, rest from their labor*. Roll perished in poverty and misery as a trait or might perish. And Breckeuridgo U a frightened fugitive with the brand of traitor on his brow. That will be vouch ed by the angels of our hotter uature. — [Cries of "good, good."] Men of wealth and influence in Richmond raanif'eKt considerable willing, ness to renew their allugiaucc by taking the prescribed oath, and it is said there is much apparcut sincerity in doiDg it. Among those who have renewed their citi zenship, are many well known names of professional and business men. It is somewhat remarkable that the clergy tin.re, u» well tin elsewhere, arc among those most backward in giving \ip the cause of l'avu, the traitor, thief, and im •assin. —Oen Hfierinan's hradrjuai tera arc to ut Alu?updria, Va'. t NUMBER 23. COMMUNICATIONS. For the American Citiren. Chatechism on the Demooratio Party. BT "W. R.. THOMPSON, JR. Who rejoices in the death of Abraham Lincoln 112 Tho Rebels in the South and Demo crats of the North. Who oleeted Jeff. D'lvis to tho U. 8. Senate ? The Democratic party. Who took the rebel John C. Rreckiq, ridge up for Vice President in 1860 ? The Democratic party. Vi here are all tho friends of the rebel lion, the peace men, the copperheads, tho spies, the conspirators of the rebels to bo found in the North ? In the Democratic party, Mho denounced Andrew G. Curtin as a drunkard, a liar, a scoundrel and a thief? Democratic editors. ho was the first traitor In our land 112 John C. Calhoun, a loader of the Dem ocratic party. \\ ho are all the advocates of a degrad ing- and ignoble peace at any cost of na tional honor, and at any sacrifice of our dear liberties ? The Democratic party. Who first, seecMed from the Union itj the Southern States '! The Deuiocratis party. Where is the Northern Ex-President who signed and approved the Kansas Ne braska bill ? IJ the Democrat ic party. Who would first rejoice in the dowq< fall of our Government ? The Democratic party. Where are all the persons to be found who, in all party contests, have been ra ted a? Northern men with Southern prin ciples? In the Democratic party. Who have they kicked out of their shanties for being loyal men ? Lien. Grant, Uen- Meade, Joe Hooker and Andrew Johnson. Who mourns the death ot little Mao, Rccause the plattorm broke his back ? 'J he men that gave the Union o'er The copperheads of sixty-four. Gladk Mills, April 28,1861. Legal Intelligence. A countryman walked into tho of fice of Lawyer Barnes one day an 4 began his application : "Barnes I have coti)o to get your advioa in a case that ia giving mo some trouble." "Well, what is the matter ?" "Suppose now, ' s iid the client, "that amm had a spring of water on his land, arid his neighbor living below should build a dam across the creek through both the'r farms, anil it was to back the water up into tha other man' spring, what ought to bo done ?" '/Sue him sir, sue him r>y all means." He always became excited in propor tion to tl r aggravations ofhisclients. "You can recover heavy damages, sir, and the law will make him pay well f'ir it, Just give me the case, and I'll bring the money from him ; and if he hasn't a great deal of prop erty, it will break him up, sir." "Bet stop, Barnes," cried the ter- * rifled applicant for legal advice, "it's, neighbor Jones that owns the spring and he '.hreatens to sue me," The keen lawyer hesitated a mo ment before ho tacked his ship and kept on. "Ah ! well, you say that you built a dam across that creek. What sort of a datn was that sir ?" "It was a mill dam." "A mill datr. for grinding grain, was it ?" "Yes, it was just that." "And it is a good neighborhood mil', is it ?" "So it i3 sir, and you may well say so." "And all the neighbors bring theip grain to be ground, do they?" "Yes sir, all but Jones," "Then it js a great public convex nrnce, is it not." "T be sure it is. I would not have built it but fgr that. It is fop superior to any other mill, sir-" "4nd now," said tho lawyer, you tell me that that man Jones is cora plainingjust because the water from the darti happens to put back Into his litt'e spring, and he is threaten ing to sue you. Well, all I have to say is to fet him sue, and hd'll rue the day, as sure as my name is Barnes." —The Tennessee Legislature has elect ed Hon. H. J. Patterson and Hon. S. J. Fowler, U. S. Senators, tho former fo? four years am! the latter for six It now only remains for Tennessee to elect Con gressmen to eniitle her to fall recognition as a b'tate in the UnWn.
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