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lie l<Mt hi* appetite, at ln«t
ile luat hiHtuiiell mid henring.
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Grant and the President.
Removal of District; Commanders
t.i'iint KtirnCNtly I'rgps iluit ii
lie nui liiHinictl Upon.
The President Reminded that the Will
ot the Peopleisthe Lawoi'the Land.
Grant Says there are Military Pecu
niary and Patriots Reasons
Why the Order Should
not be Insisted on.
Nt;w YORK, August 26, 1867.
The following is the correspondence be
tween General (Jrant and the President:
UiAnpi'AitTEfcs ARMIES OF T,IB U. S.,\
Washington, August 17, lSfo /
//is /:><■ tUr.nry Amlrew Johnson, l'rcai—
t/ntt United Slutcg :
Sin—l am iu receipt of your order of
this date, directing me to appoint Gen
eral G. 11. Thomas to the command ol
the Fifth Military District. General Slier
i lan to the Department of Missouri, Ge
neral Hancock to the Department of the
Cumberland, and also, your note ol this
date enclosing the instructions to curr/
into effect the enclosed order saying il I
would be pleased to hear uny suggestion
you may deem necessary respecting the
assignments, to which the order refers"
I am pleased to avail myself of this in
vitatiou to urge, earnestly urge, 111 the
name of a natiiotic people who have sac
rificed hundreds of thousands of lives,
ahd thousands of millions of treasure, to
preserve the integrity and union of this
country, that the order be not insisted
upon. It is unmistakably the expressed
wish ol the couutry that General Sheri
dan should not lie removed from his pres
ent command. This i> a ltepublic where
the will of the people is the law of the
land. I beg that theii voice may be heard.
Geuerul Sheridan has performed his civil
duties faithfu ly and intelligently His
removal will only be legarded as an effort
to dele it the law ot Congre>». It wtil
be intepreted by the unconstitutional el
cmeut in the South, tbora who did all
they could to break up thisgovcrnmcnl b\
arms aud now wish to bo the only element
consulted as to the method of restoring
order, as a triumph It will embolden to
renewed opposition to the will ol the l iy*
al heliovit •; that they have the
Kxoetutive wuh them.
Ihe services ot G n Thomas in hat
tliii;j for the Union entitle him to sunn
consideration. II ■ has repeatedly enter
ed Ins protest against being assigned to
either of The fi>e Military Districts, cs
pe> tally to iie'ug assigneii t.i relive Gen.
Sheridan. Gen. Hancock ought not to
be removed from where he is. His Do
partuient is a complicated one. which will
take a new comma der suuie time to be
come acquainted with.
Theie ate military reasons, pecuniary
reasons, and above all patriotic reasons,
why this older should not t.e insisted Oil
I bei; to reler to a letter marked ''pri
vate,' which 1 wrote t? the I'resiueiit
when first consulted on the subject . t
changes in'the War Departmtut. It bears
upon the subject of this removal, aud 1
ha l hoped would haio prevented it. I
have the honor to be, with great respect
jour obedient servant,
U. S. GRANT,
Gen. U. S. A., and Soc'y of War, ad interim,
THE PRESIDENT'S REPLY.
ISitcctiTi Missio.v, Wuni*r.Toa,r> C.,t
USUAL ID, 188 T. ;
General—l have received your com
munication ot the 17th inst., and thauk
you for the promptness with which you
have submitted your views respecting the
assignments directed in my order of that
date. When I stated in my official note
of the 17th, that I would be pleased to
hear any suggestions you might deem
necessary upon the subject, it was not my
intention to ask from you a formal re
port, but rathe* - invite a verbal statement
of any reasons affecting the public inter
estg which, in your opinion, would ren
der the order inexpedient. Inasmuch,
however, as it is a written communica
tion, it is proper that I should make some
reply. You earnestly urge t|iat the or
der be not insisted on, remarking that it
is unmistakably the expressed wish ot
the country, that General Sheridan should
not be removed from his present com
mand. While lam cognizant of the ef
forts thot have been mole to relieve Gen.
Sheridan in command of the Fifth Mili
tary District, I am aot awartj that Le
"Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end,dare to do our duty as we understand LINCOLN
BUTLER, BUTLEK (JUUJNTY, rENN A, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1867.
question has ever boen submitted to the
people themselves for detei initiation. It
would certainly be unjust to file army to
assume tbßt in the opinion of the nation
he alone is capable of commanding the
States ot Louisiana and Texas, and that
were he for any cause removed, no orticr
<ieueral in the military service of tht?
United States would be competent to fill
his place. General Thomas, whom I have
drs as his successor,is well known
to the country,having w. n high and hon
orable distinction : n the field. He has
since in the execution of the responsible
duties of a I'epartment Commander ex
hibited great ability, s mud discretion and
sterling patriotism. He has not failed
under the most tiring circumstances to
preserve peace and. order, to encourage
the restoration of civil authoiity, and to
promote as far as possible a spirt of rec
onciliation The administration of the
Department ol the Cumberland will cer
tainly i-oni pa re most favoia'ily with that
ol Gcnietal Sheridan in bis Military Dis
trict 'J here affairs appear to be IU a dis
turbed condition, and a bitter spirit of
antagonism seems o have I trum
Gen Sheridan's manag ineiit lie has
rendered himself exc ■ ilinjly o)»n xiou*
by the tit*alter in wli rh he b is ex. r o e
oven the powers conferred by C i mi' •-->
and still more by a result M mli rii.y
not grantod by I .w, no nece"s ny to In
titih tit I ail effl ent execuiim 11 is rule
has HI fact heen one of tths'diite tyranny,
without relei' uce to the p iu iples ot i ur
Govcrniiieiit m nature rf our free insti
uti- us The -t i uf iflair*' ih it ha
ii suite 1 tr..m thee nr s ; lie has pursued
hag seriously interfered with a hlirmox
nious an I sutistaatory and speedV exeeu
tion of the acts of Congiess, and is alone
sufficient to justify a change. Ilis re
moval, therefore, cannot be regarded us
an effort to defeat the lawi of Congress,
for the object is to facilitate their exeeu
tion through an iffieer who has never
failed to obey the law. and to exnet with
out his jurisdiction a like obedienee from
others. It cannot be interpreted by the
unreconstructed element of the South,
those who did all they could to break up
this government by arms, and who wish
to be the only element consulted us to
the method of restoring order, as a tri»
uuiph, for as intelligent men they must
know that the mere change of military
commanders cannot alter the law, and
that General Thomas will bo as much
bouud by its requirements as General
Sheridan. It cannot embolden them t
renewed opposition to the will of the
loyal masses, believing that they have the
Executive with them, for they are per
fectly familiar with the antecedents of
the ('resident, and know that ho has not
obstructed the faithful execution of any
act of Congress. No one ( as you are
aware, has a higher appreciation than
myself of the services of General Thom
as, and no one wouM be less inclined to
ass gti him to a command not entirely to
his wishes. Knowing him as Ido 1 eat.s
not think he will hesitate for a moment
to obey my order, having in view a com*
plete and speedy restoration of the Union
in the preservation of which he has nil.
dered such important and valuable sor
vice. General Hancock, is known to the
whole country as a gull uit, able aud pa>
triotie soldier, will, 1 have no doubt, sus
tain his high reputation in any position
to which he may be assirned If, as you
observe, the department which ho
leave is u complicated one, 1 feel coufi
dent that under the guidance aud instruc
tions of Gen. Sherman, Gen. Sheridan
will soon become lainiliar w til its neces
sities, and will«nvail himself ol' the op
portunity afforded by the Indian troubles
for the display of the energy, enterprise
ind daring which gave linn MO enviable
a reputation duimg the ii cunt Civil
struggle.
In assuming that it is the expressed
wish ol the peo lo that Gen. Sheridan
-liould not iie rem >v,..i troni I is picseu'
command, you remark that is re, iih~
lie based, liowev r. upon a writi-n ioo
stiti(tion. Thai C'lisiitiit o't is the com
bined and exp essid will of the pe | o
aud their Wine i» law when r< Heeled i
the ill illO CI' wlvch thai netiu ncu pre
scribes. \\ bile one > 112 it> provisions
make* the I'reHeieui ton ui moer in.
C'liu-I of the A• inv no i Na.'y, another
requue-, he si,a t.k ca e that tfle iaw
be ia tlilu.lj ex. ute . Believing th it a
(laUll.e 11 C m 111 lll.be filth Miht*
ry Distt ct is at s .u c y in>ee-s«ry for a
faithful . X' CUtion ,if the law, I have is
sued the order, which is the subject of
this correal on deuce. Iu thus exercising
a power that inheres in the Executive
under the Constitution, as Commander
iti Chief of the army aud navy, I am
discharging a duty required ol me by the
will of the nation, as formally declared
in the supreme law of the land. By his
oath the Kexecutivc issolcmuly bound to
the best ol his ability, to preserve, pro
tect and defetid the Constitution, al
though in times of great excitement it
be lost to public view.it is his duty with
out regard to consequences to himself, to
hold sacred and enforce any and all pro
visions. An J other course would lead to
the distruction of ihe Republic, for the
Constitution once abolished there would
le no Congress for the exercise of legis
lative powers, no executive to see that
the laws are faithfully executed, no judi
c ary to afford to the citizens protection
for life, limb and property. m Usurpation
would inevitably follow, and a despotism
be fixed on the people in violation of
their combined and expressed will.
In conclusion, I fail to perceive any
military, pecuniary and patriotic reasons
why this order should uot be carried into
effect. You will remember that in the
first instance I did not consider Genoral
Sheridan the moat suitable "man for the
Fifth Military District. Timo has
strengthened my convictions up-sa this
point, and led to the conclusion that pat-,
riottc considerations demand that he
should be superceded by an officer who
while he will faithfully execute the law,
will at the same time give more general
satisfaction to the whole people, white
aud olai k. North and South.
I am, General,
Very respectfully, yours,
Andrew Jouxson,
To Gen. Grant, Sec'y ml interim.
The Presidency Again
In spauking lart week of the Presiden
cy wo said that the important eousiier
aticu was the eontiuuance of the Re
publican party in power. The Deiuo'
oratio party has beeu treacherous to the
fundamental principles of the Govern
ment. its teachings furnished the pre
text and its ranks the leaders of the re 1
hellion. In Kentucky the success of
those who, il not ex rebels, were sincere
sympathizers with rebellion, is hailed as
a great Democratic victory. lu Ohio
>ir. I'einiletou and \ allaudigham slien
u support the DeinoerHtiu numiuu
n his an I uppose t e Kepubliean policy
l tqu.il suitiuge. In iNew York facts
0 ilio »auie siguitio uce ire familiar to
••viiy io.-iJiih w.i.i is interested in pol
u us. Ouuug Hie w.i wl atever opposi
tion auii enibn rassiuent were offered to
me measures of the Government came
1 1.mi he Democratic party, and its cau
uiuaie lor Governor pie.-idcd at the Chi
cago Con vouiidrt at which that party
proclaimed (lie war a flulure.
til uce the event belied the words and
thu wishes ol tlio party, as a party, its
policy has been the immediate readuiis'
siou to Congress of representatives elect
ed by the rebels in tlio .Southern States
and the regulation of all tha rights of
the frtedtnen by their lato master.-, fcfb
long a-i the President was supposed to bo
uutavorable to this policy he was the
kuipcror's horso made consul, he was
the lalsest, meatiest, most couteinpiible
of men. 'i'he moment thero is a hope
that he may be use.l as a p rty tool for
the DemoCialio policy he is nominated
for the Presidency by Mr. John Van
15uren to a Democratic meeting which
v. cilcrously applauds, and he is praised
and nicouiaged by all the Deinoorutie
papers and orators in the land.
A party with such antecedents, which
furnished thu doctrines aud the chiefs of
the rebellion, which extenuated and en-»
couraged it, which thwarted the Govern*
uieut iu its war measures, which stead
ily and vilely niaijgued tho President
during tho war, which announced its
failure, aud whose attempt to elect Gen
eral MoClellan was sustained by the
hopes and prayers of rebels aud opposed
by those the vast inultidudo in arms
for tho Government and those who hiy
tortured and perishiug in rebel prisons
pens —a party which denies tho right of
tho victorious Government to prescribe
the conditions upon which tho rebel
States may resume the places in the Un
iou, mid which would leave the emanci
pated slaves wh illy, to tho mercies of
their defeated masters—is nut a party to
which the interests of free society and of
a Government fouudod upon equal
lights can be intrusted. It is of the ut
most importance that the Kepijhlicari
[ arty therefore remain in power.
We said also last week that'this party
would undoubtedly succeed at the elee
tion, and must therefore select a candi
date who would not undertake a no-par
ty administration, which could end only
in tho demoralization of tho organization
which elected him. Then we said thai
i! General Grant should ho nominated it
Ought to be not because o!' his great mil
itary service and popularity, but because
of his known, open, unquestioned, and
unquestionable'fidelity to tlio principles
and purpose* of the party. The friends
of Chief Jo-tee (Jim c claim that lor the
veiy reasons stated in that article, and
because ot tli jact 'hit General Gram's
political opinions are nowhere plainly
-iat. d, nor nil)where sii.ely known, the
n' initiation nh nld fall upon a statesman
01 i lie Ingle-land most a|.pr«*»«d ability;
iiji -n oi,e ol t e pioneers of the political
fi ill which uow dominates tho country;
oiion one of the earliest, most unwaver
ing, and most radical of jßepublicans,
whose .opinions have always been known,
wh so acts have uiver been equivocal,
win so public services as Senator aad
Secretary of the Treasury have been un
surpassed, and whose position upon the
Supreme Bench shows the public cstim
tion iu which he is held.
For twenty years .Mr. Chase lias been
one of the most conspicuous an-tislavery
statesman in the countjy Tq iJj c Sen
ate he divided tho leader-hip of the par
ty with Mr Seward, and while .Mr. Sew
ard has chilled and broken the hearts
that beat for h 111 aud clung to hiui as
a statesman of real insight and of
earnest conviction, Mr. Chase has mov
ed steadiiy forward with tho advancing
scntiuieut of the country and is as fully
iu sympathy the nust liberal
party today as he was with the same
party twenty years ago.
To this political characterc onsistency,
perception, and progress—ho ajlds an
unspotted private fame, and the training
and habits of a statesman. Perfectly fa
miliar with the history and practice of
our politics, it is urged that he would
bring to his great task an ability and ex
periencc which would heal our civic
wounds and secure the ascendency ot the
party which elected him.
These are very powerful arguments,
and we do not quarrel with them. But
great and persuasive as they are, is it
not still true, as we said la.it week, that
such is the confidence in General Grant's
fidelity to the radical cause, if his name
were presented in a Convention it would
bfe irresistible ? It is for that vory reason
that we speak. It is essential that the
nomination should spring not from Jen
thusiasm but from conviction. And from
this time forward there should be a
diligent concentration of tho public at.
tention upon the important point which
is the permanent power of the party.
Men who have diligently meditated that
necessity add aro resolved to effect it will
not be the victims of enthusiasm, but
will act from profound couvictiou. They
have beeu too bitterly deceived hereto
fore to run any risk again. The Demo
crats could not nominate Genoral Grant
without destroying their party organiza
tion. AW could he be the eamfitatc of
the party tuat opposed the war. The
Republicans, if they feel perfectly sure
ol sueocss in auy ease will not nominate
him unless they are confident beyond
question of his entire sympathy. A thirl
party, or a n<>-party nomination, would
bo hope csi, for the necessity of party or
ganization was never plainer, and alle
glance to it was never more decided.—
Harpers Weekly.
Gjn Grant and ki3 Assailants.
I/nr/ier's Week!;/ sharply tebuk s the
Tribune for the want of trankuess, aud
for seeking to accomplish by inuueudo
and indirection what it dare not under
take iu ah open and straight-forward
manner. This tne Weekly explains as
follows :
The reason is, that the Tribune wishes
to damage the chances of Grant's nom
ination by insinuation, by suggesting
doubts and suspicions, by shrilling its
shoulders and lifting its eyebrows.
Why should it coudescond to do this?
1 ho very first covert assault of this kind
upon the geueral re\ealcd to the whole
country that it did not approve his can
didacy. Would it not then have been a
t lrjusjnd-lold better to s«y betimes aud
distiuetly that, jreat as Grant's services
in the held had been, it did not feel too
sure of his political convictions and his
policy it elected, to support him for the
Presidency 1
The Baltimore American, wliieh, for a
single day, suffered itself to be betrayed
into the expression of a doubt Concern
ing Geu. Grant, lias an able and manly
article, the material portion of which wo
quote, as follows :
Wo aro informed from very high au
thority, as wo shold have kuown without
being so told, that this is a mere move
inent in the tactics of the office hunting
baud, a part of tho Presidential game,
and implies uo disturbance in the ad
ministration of the army or the War
Department. W r e shall not, so far as
we are individually concerned, fear any
such disturbance so long as Gen. Grant
remains in immediate personal control ot
our military officers and is one of the ad
visers chosen by tho President. Wo are
not among those who are made anxious
or impatient at his supposed " reticence."
Wo risk our expectations not so much
upon what ho shall say or has said, us
upon what he lias done and shall do, aud
we are willing to accept liis past as a
strong assurance of our faith in his fu
ture. The fact is, we liavo neen of lato
very much misled and disappointed, and
deceived by whut men ha\o said, and
have couio to the conclusion that the
men who aro very eager to say a great
deal, when there is it purpose tq be
auswered by it, are extremely apt "not to
Ido anything which they may have said
when that purpose shall have been an
swered. And, uuder the lessons of this
suit which we l.avo received from vari
ous directions, we are making the effort
in good faith to stilia our impatience at
General Grunt's future to tell all that
he is going to do under our contentment
with what ho has already done. We
aio at a oss to understand wtiv any Rail
ical should wish Geueral Giant tu have
refused to act as Secretary of War '• ail
inUrim," or what he Could have said
uiure than he did say in accepting that
appointment. When General Grant's
future shall have disappointed the ex
pectations authorized by the past, it will
be quite time enough for us to lament
and denouuee another illustration of hu
man folly and baseness. Until such
eveuts we shall not indulge unauthorized
and imagiuary fears. Tnat Mr- Stan
ton's removal is part of a political effort
to recover power and public con
fidence by certain men who have lost
both by wretched infidelity to the people
and miserable mistakes of popular sen
timent, there can be no doubt. t lt is
equally certain that ihcy are endeavoring
to us.- his grand presence and power to
mask their manccuvies. We must think
it a mistake to attack him because sumc
for whom we can feel no respect are ma
king the attempt to retrieve their lost
positions und cover their follies with ob
hy.'P by a just recognition of his vir
tues. The ra.'usul of General Grant to
udujininister the affairs of tho War UtEec
if he had ttiu right so to ruluse, as we
suppo>o ho had, would have certainly
involved the placing those matters in
the hands of some one leas entitled to the
confidence of the country than ho is,
aud to this extent would have damaged
Mr. Johnson aud the other parties to the
intrigue of which it is a part. But it
would also, and to tho same extent, have
endangered the public interest*, and we
confess it would have lowered our esti
matioa of the high intelligence, as well
as the patriotism of General Grant, if we
had found him imperilling great ques
tions of public poliey iu order to sweep
from his path a low, and, as think,
insignlicant intrigue. Thero are man
concerned in this movement against Mr.
Stantyu whose ambition Geueral Grant
cannot' stifle, and-whoso tffjrt3 to gratify
it lie caunot suppress, lie can preVen*
theii assailing opeuly and violcutly tin;
firent iutervsts of the country by taking
0 positiou which makes it necessary for
thcin, in order to do this, to assail' him
openly. This they win not dare to do.
Ilis hold upon the confidence of the peo
plo of this couutry is such at this time
that uo one can do so without dunger
We think, therefore, that he has on this
occasion exercised his usual wisdom in
neutralizing and evil which he could not
throw off. lie nnist le considered du
ring the recesses of Congress the only
defence of the reconstruction policy of
the people. lie can best act as such
wheu in control of tho War Ollice, and a
member of the Cabinet of the President,
as well as commander of the army. It
is not usual for the Secretaries of the
President to prououtico inaugurals to the
people upon their to office,
and we have uot been able to reason our
selves into tho idea that General
Grant could with propriety have just
now instituted tho practice. We ap
prove of his liaviug exercised his usual
reserve and consulted the modesty of his
nature, especially when to have done
otherwise would have been %u official
propriety.
COME.—There was u wed<
ding in a church in a village near Chi
cago, recently, which was attended by a
crowd of people, the bride being a fa
mous bollo in tho*section, and tho b"ide
groom a late officer. Tliero is a story
about him that was revived with groat
effect at the wedding. Mo was in the
western frontier service, and one day (so
tlie stof-y goes') ho went out to hunt a
boar, lie had been away from cauip a
few hours, when his voice was heard
faintly in tho distjjnoo, exclaiming—
" U e r e wr. cone t"
In a little time the same cry was heard
again, but nearer; then it was repeated
at intervals, nearer and louder ; then
finally the bold captain emerged from a
bit of woods near Ihe camp, running at
the top of his speed, without a coat, Hat
or gun. In he cmiio to tho camp, shout
ing, ''Hero we conn !"
"Here who comes ?" inquired n broth
cr officer.
"Why, me and tho gmie," gasped the
oflit'T, Minting to a hist bear who shoved
hi in sell at the edge of the Woods, took a
look at the camp, and then, with a growl
at missing his expected meal oft' tho cap
tain, disappeared in tho w »ds again.
"IJut why didn't you shoot tiio bear,
and then bring him in 112" inquired one.
"What'tr the nso in shooting your
game?" said the captain, testily, "when
you can bring it in nlivo, as I did ?"
The story got home before the captain
did and was iu everybody's mouth. The
other night, as tho bold captain led
his intended bride into the church with
pride and grace so readily inspired by
the occasion, some wicked wag sang out
from the gallery—
-1111 r. r-c ice mmr !"
hich was followed by such a shout
of laughter as the old church never knew
before.
LONU DBKSNKH.—OIiver Wendell Hol
mes uses tho following language, none
too strong, in reference to one of fashions
foolieh freaks :
IJut confound tho make -believe wo>
men we have turned loose in our streets;
where do they noma from ? Not out of
Boston parlors, I trust. Why, there
isn't a beast or bird that would dray its
tail through the dirt in tho v*iy these
creatures do their dresses Because a
Queen ur Duchess wears long drosses on
great oceasious, a maid of all work or a
factory girl thinks she must make her
self a nui.-ance by trailing through the
streets, picking up and carrying about
with her—-ball ! that « what 1 call getting
vulgarity into your bones and uiairow.
.Show over dirt is the attribnto of vul
gar people. If any man can walk be
hind one of these wemen, aod sco what
she rakes up as she goes, and not bee
squeamish, ho has got a lough stoinach
-1 would not let one of them into my
room without serving thorn as David did
Saul at the cave in the wilderness—out
off her skirts.
Don't tell me that n true lady ever
sacrilices the duty of keeping all about
her sweet and clean, to tho wish of mak
ing a vulgar show. I don't believe it
ofalady. There are some things that
no fashion has any rights to todch, and
cleanliness is one of these things. It is
an insult to a respectable laundress to
carry sueh things into a house for her to
deal with.
THE MODEL MAS.—Josh Billings
says : The Model Man never aistuibs a
hen when she is setting; never speaks
gross tew a lost dorg ; alwez puts a five
cen» shinplaster in his vest pocket lato
Saturday night, tew hev it ready Sunday
morning for the church platter : rizes
wjienover a lady enters the street kars ;
remembers your uncle plainly and a.-ks
after all tho family. It he steps ou a
kat's tail ho iz sure to do it li"ht, and
linmeiidiately aaks her pird .n,"ho k< us
his wife s dre-s aod h->-se- Willi tho
children. .\e er medio* with thocreaui
in the milk jau.-, goes easily errands,
and comas buck iu season : he tends eve
rybody's pboneral ; kan alwuz tell when
the mogn eeauges, think just az you do,
or the other way if yoo want him tew ;
follers every boby's advico but hiz own.
practices most of the virt'ts without
knowing it, leads the life of a shorn
lamb ; gits sick after a while, and dies
az soon az he ken, to sano making envy
further trabble.
1 The model man's vices are not feared,
nor his vfttuts respected. He lives in
the memory of tho world just about az
long az a plezzent day duz.
NUMBER 37
WIT ATTD WISDOM^
BS.'l'hore Is nothing so difficult to hide
as our follies,
B®~Sopiebody says the ladies' pet ani*
umls are West Pointers.
Bsjy A "great brute of a husband" ail v«r-»
tisi's in the morning papers|for astout, able--
bodied man to hold his wife's tongue.
Itejf We may safely affirm the great mass
of human misery ti> have been caused by
ignorance of the means of happiness.
CW the aim of an honent man's lifo is
not the happiness which serves only him
self, hut the virtue which is useful to other*
B»4F*\Vhy are radishes like telegraphia
dirpatchas? The most natural reply is, be
cause the.v are re(a)d. The real answer,
h iwever, is because both must to taken cum
grano satis.
Way Jones and Brown mot nt the post
office, Jones complains of a bad smell about
(he ollice, and asks Brown what it can bo.
Brown doesn't know, unless it may bo tho
large number of dead letUis.
tedf.V dying West India planlor groaned
out to his favorite negro sorvant : "Ah,
Sambo, I am going along, long journey I"
"Never mind, Massa," said tho negro, con
-Bolatorilv, "him nil down hill."
Prefer solid sense to wit; never study
to be diverling without being useful; lot n~>
jest intrude upon ysur good manners, nor
B'iy anything :hnt may offend modesty or
heoJlessly hurt the feelings of another.
BttTT ho Machias Union lolls of an ambi
tious biddy which has laid an egg with ft
waterfall attachnd ! .This attempt to follow
tho fashion is evidonco that biddy is subject
to the provuiling passion of her sex.
fifsyAn afflicted editor, 'win is troubled
with hand organs under his window, longs
for tho "evil days" uieniionod in E.-clesas
ties, when the "grinders shall vsaso because
they are few, and tho "sound of grinding '
shall bo "low."
C'Zf"As tho steamboat Oregon was passing
it low days since, a newly arrived irishman
bolonging to the celebrated O'Uegan family,
was hoard to exclaim —"0 r-e-g-o-n —O' -
Itegnn ; oh, bejabers I only four weeks in
thin country yet, and a steamboat christened
after me!"
It€f\ horrible crime is reported from the
east side of the town. In the oalm nf the
evening with iioihiny to provoko or exten
uate such a crime ballet-girl retired to
her own roum and exooutnl her grand pas I
I ho coroner has not been notified,
SiarUno of tho h iys in a New Orleans
scoool was asked, ulier various definitions
I id be -II given by others, mostly quite eor
r i, what was meant by (lie verb to tantnl'
>ze, II- replied : "It was to ask a great
man qn-i-tions, and then to oritioise tha
answers,"
W*At a council or Generals, early in tho
war, one remarked that .Major was
woundef, and would not bo able lo perform
a duty that was assigned him. "Wounded!"
said Stonewall Ja-'k-on ; "if it is really so,
1 think it must have been by tho accidental
discharge of his duty."
tkS" I believe thatmino will bo tho fain
ol Abel, -aid a wilo lo her husband ono
ilay. ■•Why so ?" inquired the husband.—
"Becnus* Abel was killed by a TVuli, and
your ouib will kill me it you cintinuo logj
it every night."
ftjr(J.'iiee has boon telling Hobinson one
of his splitiing st ,ries.) KOBINJO.V—■• Vu-as
it's very fanny/" JONES—Then, why tho
deuec don't you laugh 1" Hon IN SON —''My
dear fellah, I would with pleasure, but I
daren't disr lay any emotion—theso trouss
era are so tremendous tight 1"
IW"Why don't you wheel that bltrrow
of coals, Ned?' raid a learned minertoouo
of his sons. "It is not a very hard, jib ;
there is an inclined plane to relieve jou."
"Ah, ' replied Ned, who had moro relish for
wit th'vn work, "Tho piano may bo inclined
but hang me if I am."
PiS m V constable in Massachusetts, the
land of education and grand moral ideal,
wrote iho following notice :
"I wyll Xposo fr sail tho 5 dny 1800 of
Jan wnn lyllie rone bors. or so much lliarof
as ma be neces-ary to satisfi scd
He was troubled with a bad smell. t
I wo old friends met, after a separa
tion of thirty-five years. "Well, Tom,"
said one, "how has the world gone wiHi you
obi boy? Married yet?" "Yes, and I've
got n family you can't match—seven* boy®
and one girl." "I can match it exactly,"
was the reply, "for I have seven girls and
one boy."
StaT A countryman going to market with
a load of pork, w is mot by a young girl who
very gentecly made him a low couftosy,
when ho exclaimed:
"What! do you made a courtesy to'dead
hogs ?" '
"No, sir," answered th« girl, "to * liye
one."
Way A hymn sung by an old negro w»
man down South runs thus:
"I hears a rurnblin' in do skie#,
Jews, strews, de fi dum 1
I hears a rumblin' in the skies,
Jews, screws, do fi dum !"
An inquiry elicited the fact that the sec
orfd and fourth lines, which form a sort of
chorus, origwally re.d, "Jaws crucified
him."
A DEUCATE REQREST.— A fellow went in
to the Clerk's office the other day to get a
marriage bcrtiticate. After looking at J tha
instrument a while he beokonod the oUrlc
aside. "Se& here, mister," said he, confi
dentially, "can't you date the thing back
about two months'?" Tb® «lerk assured him
that he could not.
"W ell," said hSi "I don't care anything
nb. ut it myxelf, but her folks rather insist
upon it,"
A TUTOR! .STOUT.—We overheard the fol
lowing a day or two s ncc, which was eon >
-ib re l by the li-tener- to be "touich" es
p c allv when it i- known that the hero
o d not be n-inptel "to lie." Onegentlo
m in wa- telling of a hen's nest that he con
structed with a "trap dmr" in the bottom,
winch tho weigot of an egg would open
This being placed on a barrel, "the biddie,"
af er laying one, looked 112 r it, and, finding
nothing, laid another, and so coatiued to do
for several hours.
'' Oh, that is nothing." sny sour from friend
"d iwn-easr;' - "my father made a nest of
that kind and phi ed ir with tho hen uoon
it, cv3r a hogshead, and she laid it full c"
••gus The next day he set a hen upon th.,
nest and she hutched every egg in two
weeks." * .
MOST PEOPLE SCCUI to think that ad«
vice iiko physic, to do good must be dia«
agreeable. ,