Marshall County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 28, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 May 1856 — Page 1

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IJumess Cards not exceeding three lines, iiHe ted under this head, at $1 per annum. Persons advci ti.-in- in the "Democrat" Iy the year, will be entitled to a Card i.i the Business Directory, without additional charge. ÄitshU (Counts democrat AMD JOB PRINTING OFFICE, We have on hand an extensive assortment of And are prqared to execute JOB Ml) ? ivnr 11 nil l Mm; i min im T 1:11:1 I III! 1 1 Of everv description and quality, such as ClRCl'LAR, HANDBII-IJ, fAMPIILETS, FL'SINKSS CAR03, Bf.AK IKKIS A MORTGAC-KS; CATAl-OfiCES, AihI in sliort, lilanks of every variety and description, on the shortest notice, k on reasonable terms T1LYMOUTII BANNER, BY W. J. BURNS J rivmuutli. Ind. A. BROWNLEE SHIRLEY. DEALERS IN Drv Goods and Groceries, tirst door east of Michigan street, Plymouth, Ind. B ROO Kk' H V A ND E7 IX IIS 1 N DRY Coods and (1 nveries corner Michi-raii and a Forte stru ts - - Flymouth, Ind. VT puAiru. DF.AI.KR IX DRY GOODS & t J Groceries, south corner La Forte and Michican streets, Flymouth, Ind. NU. OGLESBEE & Co., DEALERS IN . Drv Gootls & Groceries, Brick Store Micliiiran street fly mouth, Ind i:an M RS. DUNHAM, MILLINER & MANTUA Maker, Plymouth, lud. B itO W N k B A XT E R, DEALERS IN Stoves, Tinware, kc Ply mouth, Ind. HR. PERSUING k Co., DEALERS IN . Drugs and .Medicines,. .. Plymouth, In 1. A' D X M VIN NEDA E , WHOLESALE and Retail Grocer, Plymouth, Ind. w ÄCÄw LL'YTKR i FRANCIS, HOUSE CARPEXUtik Joiners, Phim.uth, In!. (Tn.SMITir.jrSTICEOl',THE PEACE, I Vi Vet -ide Mich?"au sr., Plvmouth, Ind. ut.t:wc.uit..i , . i'lyniouiii, ni'i. ; A K. Uli It IC ISL.M- ii' P!yi:iou;h,Ind, i V EDWARDS" HOTEL, BY W.C. EPWARDS, PU month, 1"1. -mir n fiinnMPV VfiTMIV FFRLIC. . I .'l.lllkJl. V.WIIU.HIH , - . . Plymouth, Ind. j "nimvv i:fa-fTr7l iTvvnlÖK j9 ' Plymouth, Ind. jr TUIEO. A. LEM )P1I YSICIAX, SCR- j fl CKON Drugget, Uvimmth, mi. j flFFl FFFS BROWN, PHYSICIAN k SCR.B Vf;I-Nr Plymouth, Ind. SIHCCINBOTHAM, PHYSICIAN & st:r.('.HON, Plymouth, Ind. W. BENNET, PHYSICIAN tfe SUUOEON, Plymouth, Ind. LINGER k BRO. DEALERS IN LIT .M BE j Ki .etc, nymou m, m.i. , HENRY PIERCE, DEALER IN CLOthing & FurnUhing (uod.-., Plymouth, Ind. ' ' A I T ST IN FULLER, MANUFACTURER AikI dealer in Flour Plvm nith, Ind. KXIJYM.WMIAXi Co., DEALERS IN I.umher, &e Plymouth, Ind. "IT OS EPH POTTER, SADDLE k HARNES V M.iker, Plymouth, Ind. Ai M ERIC AN HOUSE, CI. P. CHERRY & Sn, Proprietors, Plymouth, hid. B ARRERING AND HAIRDR ESSING, KY Alfred Willow?, Plymouth, Ind. M tTIIPI W . 1-11 TVtV AT VITl.' 1 f "PI 1 rer of Flows, &c., I lymouth, ma WESTERVELT & HEW IT, DEALERS in Pry Good & Groceries, Plymouth, Ind. 3 ' ... : 1. G S. CLEAVELAND, DEALER IN DRY f (JixkI-i, llanhv:ire, etc.,.. Plymouth, Ind. J. C. H. CASE, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Plymouth, Ind. A . H Ü7i (jirA'ITO R N E Y AT LAW Plymouth, Ind. LOON, BY S. EDWARDS, Plymouth, Ind. D R. J. J. VINALL, HOMEOPATH 1ST, Ollicc over Palmer'i store, Plymouth, Ind. J. HUME, HARNESS MAKER, Plymouth, Ind. BLANK DEEDS AND MORTGAGES! We now have a ood ruj'jly of Bl.mk Der ds and .Mortap;es, of an approved form printed in the 'lrt style of the art, on fine white folio i"Ht, and fr ale at one dollar per quire, or five cents single ALSO, BLANK NOTES ON HAND, and printed to order ,n short notice. Justices j jlank.4 printed toonhr, and on re:inali!e term at I This Ori k. j jp-jjl JXJR! fXJHÜ ' r I '.e hiJie-it ca.-h jriee pail for Fr: JL tM,n kin hr m Mink and J . F. V A N V ALK E .N BURGH. At Hm- Fo.-t OiTi e f I'1 highest m.irkrt price piid in i'h for D cj I Minkand Coon skin.-, and Beef hides nt. C. Palmer

ELLIOTT & Co., MANUFACTURER Oi- ; k0 was a .shrewd man, as Yankees gener-!;,,,, , Wallis Caniages A: Ps. Plvn. -at!.. Ii:,!. ,i 1 1 ' i IshdJJs. " v;:;v. - vwMim Mx vr-u-Tl- ially ar' but 'v,,Jll llo,1''',,ll-,i:l- The deuce, you eav so, Mr. Pedagogue? C- o? Why ! vouapplv your birchen Utru",v'VpüT7oVr " nTcKilTH ! !'ut wl,-- accustomed . , , im tuosity to tluit info. .T ..V;,:VXr'KNr". ,.i ' to maintain a grave and even dry counten-! . nnr, ,lfth,:p nl 'm rV.m,.

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VISION OP BÜLSHAZZAR. BY LORD BY RON. The kin was on his throne, The satraps thronged the hall, A thousand bright lamps shone O'er that hi-rh festival. A thousand cups of gold, In Judah deem'd divine Jehovah's vessels hold The godless heathen's wine. In that same hour and hall, The fingers of a hand Came forth against the wall, And wrote as if on sand: The lingers of a man: A solitary hand Along the letters ran, Aiid traced them like a wand. The monarch saw, and shook, And bade no more rejoice; All bloodless waxed his look, And tremulous his voice. Let the men of lore appear, The wisest of the earth. And expound the words of fear, Which mar our royal mirth' Chaldea's sers are good, But here they have no skill; And the unknown letters stood. Untold and awful still. And Babel's men of age Are wise and deep in lore; But now they were not sage, They saw but knew no more. A captive in the land, A stranger and a vouth,

He heard the king's command. 'lie lie saw the writing's truth. The lamps around were bright, The prophecy in view; He read it on that night, The morrow proved it true. "Bcl-hazzar's grave is made, His kingdom pass'd away, He in the balance weigh'd, Is light and worthless clay. The shroud, his robe of state, His canopy, the stone, The Meile h at his gate! The Persian on 1.5s throne!" From the Southern Litcrny Messenger. ITHE YANKEE AND DUELIST. At a certain town on the Ohio, a Yankee jami a Duelist happened in the year 1C30, to 1, , , pn. ! be? boarders at the same tavern. The ani ante, 3 if Iiis fico wore m.nl of vcooA. jus age ungut v; iw eiuy -eigui ne wnxuy ; Tr. ifi.c;i.,n a ;fl,(ol m.'iter. and his name I " ' Was Jedediali L iteman. I know not whence the duelist came. He ' seems to have been lurk in for a number ;a:ul assuming since he had been victorious in no I. ss tnan three duels. Once lie had; . , , . 1111 11 f crippled, twice he had killed his man;makinZ b-v tlu'SQ "V" wWows and five children fatherless. Such was his j as a duelist, that it was thought tobe . Iittlo' less tlian suicide for a man not perfeetly expert with the pistol to meet him in the "field uf hnur'as this sort of mur-! der.TR call the place where they shoot one Ltl(.W ..uio.ner. j In dress and manners he was a f.p and a swaggerer. His red bushy whiskers al - most m, t " I,is cVxn 1,IS sl,irt rufflos vcro j long ana projecting; ins cravai was siuiiea '.1 11' .!?.. it , I im pauu.nguniu n aimosi ouneu nis enm; and his boll-crowned hat was tilted over hs Kit evc-lirow when lie walked, or rather strutted alon' the street, swino-in; and plumping down his cane at every step; and wheresoever he w ent, he overlooked everybody, and expected the way to be cleared fr him by high and low. He considered himself justified in lording it over all who were about him, because he was the most formidable man in town. If any peaceful, worthy man did not cower at his presence, he was sure -to resent the supposed indignity by sneers and insults. Many were the pompous gibes and , , . . . . ., . , , bombastic witticism? that he discharged rged from day to day at the school master, Jedediali Bateman, who did not humble, himself like a dog before the high and mighty Maj. Dashwell Bickertoi, as the duelist styled himself. He said he had borne a ! Major's commission in the army, and boast ed of his exploits in Gen. Waynes expedition against the Indians. Some people doubted whether he had been in that expedition at all, because he gave some erroneous accounts of marches and battles but they doubted only at heart, for who dure insinuate the suspicion of falsehood to the Major's terrible 5elf; the Major's tongue might err, but his pistol was nevertheless true. Who would have thought that our dry-faced school master would, first of all, have the hardihood to retort the sneersaud insult of this hero of the pistol! llelnjre .evorai Ol lUeso aitaCKS Willi UiO Utmost composure. Not a muscle of his face changj s habitual fixedness; not a drop more i .1 ..I -.i.i or A ,,,0 colored ins cucck; neimer word nor Iok indieatetl the shglilest leeling of the bully's satire. He charged the artillery of his wit with still heavier loads of turpid phrases, to expier.s his contempt for the school master. Still the Yankee winced

not, he only began, with the soberest and most unfeeling gravity to utter some repartees, as dry and grating as the sands of Arabia, yet so perfectly free from open insult as to increase the duelist's pride without furnishing him a pretext to take offence. But the natural malignity of his temper was so embittered bv the school master's mor0 tifving indifference and icv wit that ho began to insult him outrageously on ail occasions, with the obvious intention of provoking a deadly quarrel with him. Still the Yankee persevered In his impcrturable coolness and replied only by jokes and sarcasms of more stony and indigestible hardness. The bully's rago became unbounded, and the Yankee's friends saw that the affair would soon come to personal violence. But their kind endeavors were

in vain to persuade Jedediali to soothe the bully's rage. 'If you mortify his pride any further,' said they, 'he will assault you, and you will have to let him beat you with his cane or shoot you with his pistol.' 'I shall let him do neither, I guess,' said the Yankee. 'How will you prevent him?' 'You will see when the time comes was the final reply. In the eveningat supper, the duelist as usual began to utter something designed to provoke the Yankee. At first Jedediali gave no herd. To make the attack more direct, the bully proceeded to, as he had often done, and as fops and addlepates mostly do, to express his contempt for school masters or pedagogues, as he, and other fops used to call them. Seeing that Jedediali still paid no attention, he addressed him superciliously in these words: 'Come Sir Pedagogue, you are silent; bo so condescending as to illustrate your profession by informing us how many ideas you have bastinadoed into the posteriors of your boys, tp-day?' 'Not one,. Sir said Jedediali the' boys do not carry their ideas in their posteriors, however they may have done in your boy ..hUosupliicM reasons, Mr. IV.la0,r0 W 1 ' You shall bo satisfied, sir. I apply the birch to that part because it is the base of the human svstem; all the baser elements settle down into it, such as sloth, anners and ake a man quarrelsomc without reason. Therefore, I apply t.0 modv to tho b.ise. in order to exnel ' such baseness from its seat in the svstem.' The bully was so completely foiled that for SOme moments 1 i,;3 fierce l(K,ks. he showed his rage only Then setting his arms a-mL0 he said: 'You area cowardly! peda-'oue to attack your bovs in that c,w-irdlv manner I never knew a pedai ,r0rrUe who was not a tyrant anion"- his 1.?.. . -e I 1 children, and a infernal coward among . me ne interlarded his speech with one 1 0f the oaths commonlv used by bullies and blackguards; adding these words 'I had a pedagogue in my battalion during the . . campaingn of '95 against the Indians, and the coward ran away in every battle, till I had him drummed out of the army the paltroon 'You said the campaign of '90 ain'tyou mistaken in the date?' asked Bateman with cool gravity. 'Yes, Sir Pedagogue, I said the campaign of '9b under Wayne. I mistake no date, sir, your ped.igogneical pusillanimity disqualifies you for the funeration of historical correction.' 'Wayne's expedition against the Indians was over, and peace was made before '96 said Bateman drily, as lie sat nearly opposite to Bickerton, stirring a copious mixture of butter and z.iolasses and niinh or hasty pudding, which was to be his supper. 'You arc a liar, you pedagogue!' roared out the bully; 'what do you know of Wayne's campaign? Stick to your fertile and spelling-book, and leave military affairs to gentlemen they are exterior to your province.' 'Boys learn history in these days said Bateman, as he rose from the table, and took down a volume from the mantle-piece. After turning over a few leaves he resumed his seat and said: 'Here is an epitome of American history brought down to the yeai Ki'Jl.' He then read a short paragraph which confirmed his assertion, when handing the book towards Bickerton, he said, That's what, boys learn sir. Would you like to sec it it in the book, Major?' No, voti area fool, and an insolent! liar, I lcllvou.' One mark of a fool said Bateman, as drily as ever, 'is to fly into a passion, and call names about a tritle, and one mark of a liar is to persevere in a false assertion in the face of evidence to the contrary.'

The Yankee had no sooner spoken these words, stirring his mush all the while, than the enrajred bully lifted the case knife in his hand and flung it violently at Batcman's head. The Yankee, though seemingly intent upon his mush, which he had now thoroughly imbued with molasses and butter, kept watch, however, with the corner of his eye, and dodged the knife as is flew whizzing past his head. At the same time, dropping his spoon, he slipped Lis palm under his plate, and adroitly dashed it, mush foremost, plump into the duelists face. The center of the reeking mass struck his nose, which, operating as a wedge, caused the clammy supper of the Yankee to spread itself with accommoJirung facility over the whole firey visage of the duelist, and stop up every hollow in said visage eyes and ears not excepted. A considerable quantity became entangled iii his huge bushy whiskers, the superfluity gliding down with the plate made a lodgment in the bosom, and the manifold convolutions of the frill that stuck out prominently in front. Happily for the duelist the operation of mixing and compounding the plaster had so reduced its temperature that it was not quite scalding hot, and the eyelids had instinctively closed themselves on the approach of tli3 slap dashing application, or those glaring eyeballs would never again have directed a pistol ball at the heart of an enemy. He was led by the hand to a back porch where, after a minute's washing, the orifices and cavities of his faee were cleared of the adhesive mixture, he was able again to see, hear, smell and speak. When he j found his organs free, though he still weptj blood from the rude contents of the heavy j pewter platj, he began to roar out torrents of oaths, imprecations, and threats against) the Yankee, who had already began to feed his hunger upon a second plate of hasty pudding, as if nothing had happened. In spite of the entreaties of the company, the raving bully started up stairs for his pistols, swearing in the most violent manner that ho would shoot the offending pedagogue upon the spot. Present!' he was heard on his return, cursing and swearing as violently as ever. Fly, Bateman, fly said the company; 'he will shoot you. 'I guess not .said the Yankee, 'but I may have to soften his manners with something harder than hasty pudding.' So saying, he picked up a heavy fire shovel at the hearth, and posted himself behind the door by which Bickerton had to enter. While some were endeavoring to dissuade the furious bully from his purpose, the Yankee said to those in the room with him: 'tell him to challenge me; I will meet him in the field of honor.' When this message was first delivered to the duelist, he only raved and swore the more fiercely, and demanded an immediate access to the insolent pedagogue, that ho might drive a bullet through his heart. He was first gradually reduced to reason, however, by the argument of a lawyer in the company, who told him if he killed the Yankee now, he would be liable to the punishment of a murderer, but that he might shoot him in the field of honor without getting himself into the fangs of the law. The duelist frit the force of the argument; for in those days an honorable gentleman, in a fine coat and ru filed shirt was in some danger of being hanged for wilful murder. Now, only the friendless and beggaily murderers are liable to the gallows. But then, as now, the murderers in a duel had nothing to fear from the law, but might be raised to the highest honors by the popular favor. Therefore, Bickertcn, believing that he could satiate his malice as certainly in a duel as by instant assassination, returned to his room and penned a challenge in due form, according to the codo of honor. Bateman promptly accepted it, to the dismay of his friends, who now looked upon him as no better than a dead man. He had the right as the challenged party, to prescribe the terms of fight. They were to meet on the next day at the great Indian mound, about half a mile from the town, in a dense forest; they were to have no seconds, but were to s'aud ten yards apart, and either of them might fire at pleasure after calling to the other, $foj), laic care of yourself.' Their friends might stand fifty yards ofY to see that those terms were duly observed; but were not to interfere unless they were violated. Neatly every one wished the Yankee success, but expected only to see him killed at the first fire .So, on the next day, at the appointed hour, the redoubtable Major strutted forth to the field of honor, with a well charged brace of piols wrapped up iu a handkerchief and stuck under his left arm. When iti tight of the mound, he cast his eyes about in search of his adversary; but no Yankee appealed. He moved slowly onward keeping a sharp lookout for his man, and licking his lips in preparation for the expected feast of blood. The forest was always drep husky with shade in that pl.iee,

and the morning fog still lingered in its dark recesses. When he got so near the mound as to see it and the trees about it distinctly, he Avas certain that the school master had not yet arrived, and began, with feelings of disappointed rago to curse him aloud for a cowardly knave, a base paltroon, and a chicken-hearted, white-livered

j pedagogue. He was pouring forth these imprecations and lengthening them with all the choicest terms in the vocabulary of honorable bullies when he was suddenly checked in his mad career by an unexpected phenomenon. On j reaching an open lot near the mound, he struck across the path; and at the same instant a voice of thunder smote his ears with the words, 'Sfop, tale care of yourself He did stop in great surprise, and looked towards the place from whence the voice had come, but he saw only the huge trunk of a tree that stood by the mound, ten yards from the pole at which he stopped. He had no time for deliberation; the voice thundered again, 'Take care of yourself, I'll blow your brains out!' and now he saw distinctly the muzzle of a blunderbuss pointed towards him from behind the tree, and the Yankee's eye at the butt, taking aim, while the tree concealed his body. The duelist was so taken off his guard, that he stood confounded for an instant; but as the expected shot did not come, he began to fumble under his arm for his pistols; but he had no sooner began to unwrap them than the Yankee called out in the most - decided tone, 'Drop your pistols or I'll shoot you! The bully hesitated. 'Drop 'em, I tell you, or I'll blow nine buckshot into you as soon as I count three; mini now, one, two, thr He had cocked his musket and taken what the duelist saw, a sure aim. Before the word three was fully pronounced, the handkerchcif containing the pistols fell to the ground, whether by accident or a paralvsis of the duelist's nerves, or an act of his will, we shall not undertake to say; however, the pistols fell. j Now said the Yankee, stepping out! from behind the tree, with his finger still j on the trigger, but the wide muzzle of the , firelock elevated at an angle of thirty de-1 grees, 'you have but one way to savej your life. Right about face!' The duelist j began to remonstrate. 'Face about, I tell you, or I'll drive a load of buckshot through you;' and he began to level his musket as he advanced upon his adversary. The duelist faced about like a soldier. 'Very well; foward march! march! I tell you straight to home, or tarnation seize me, if I don't riddle you with buckshot, before I can count three one, two' the duelist did not wait for the next word; the angry voice was close i behind him, and the deep-mouthed blunderbuss within two yards of his back, lie begun to march with slow, halting steps, different from his usual strutt. The Yankee followed with all gravity. The line of march was pursued without intermission; for whenever the duelisl attempted to halt or speak, the angry voice of the Yankee drove him on with the threat of buckshot, " Yankee doodle came to town, Tohuv ake" of brandy." Mind your steps there, or I'll blow your brains out "Yankee doodle, doodle, doo, Yankee doodle dandy." Now it happened to be muster day for a I battallion of militia, and the streets were filling up with all sorts of people from the country. When the crowd saw the terrible duelist with thunder and lightning in his face, walking along leforc the dry visaged school master, and the master of a large musket, solemnly chanting 'Yankee Doodle and marching as coolly as if he drove an ox-cart, they gathered themselves about the man with wonder and curiosity, to see what, these things meant. When the bully reached the tavern door, hundreds had assembled. Mounting the platform before the door, he turned to address his indignant remonstrance to the multitude. Before he could utter a word the Yankee cried out, Halt ! Face to the left and tell the people what a Yankee trick I have played you.' Yes roared out Bickerton, glad to vent hi raging indignation 'derogatory, dishonorable, ungentlemanly advantage! Fellow citizens, I appeal to you and the laws of honor. This disreputable pedagogue had the audacious temerity, iutolerablu insolence last night, to disengage into my face yes, my fellow citizens, the foul and slimy ingredients of his supper; I would have punished him instanter, but for the intercession of the company. But to vindicate my outiagcd honor, I condescended to demand of him the satisfaction of a gentleman, and he, with most knavish designs, accepted my cartel. This morning at the appointed hour, I repaired to the field of honor, equipped as gentlemen usually are for honorable combat. When I arrived at the place, the dastardly poltroon was invisibly concealed be hind a giant son of the forest, armed with! a mufkft enormously charged with nine

buckshot, and before we had measured the ground or taken our positions, or the skulk

ing dastard showed his person, he present - cd his musket and threatened to shoot me if I did not drop my pistols, and return to town. In attempting to unwrap my pistols they slipped out of my hands, and thus I was exposed to the deadly attack of this pedagoguical poltroon with his dishonorable musket charged with an enormous quantity of buckshot, I turned indignantly upon this contemptible attempt at assassination, and returned home that I might on a sttbsequent occasion vindicate my outraged honor and in public and ostensible conflict inflict a lasccrating flagellation upon the pedagogueical author of tins outrageous violation of the code of honor, heretofore inviolably observed by all who arc entitled to the honorable appellation of gentleman.' When the duelist had concluded his speech Jedediali soberly replied in these words: 'Fellow citizens: I long bore with patience the unprovoked derision and insults of this professed duelist. Last night he assailed me at the supper table with the most wanton abuse, which I parried with nothing but jests, until he threw a case knife at my head; I then returned the compliment by dashing my plate of hasty pudding and molasses in his face. For this he challenged me to fight a duel. I accepted the challenge upon these conditions and no others, that we were to stand ten yards apart, without seconds, and each of us might fire at pleasure, after calling out, 'Stop, take care of yourself!' Nothing was said about the sort of arms; he chose his favorite pistol I preferred this musket. I stood behind a tree till he came to the mark I had set, just ten yards off; I then called out to him, 'Stop, take care,' I had then a right, by the terms, to fire; but I left it to his choice either to take nine buckshot from my gun or to drop his pistols and march back to town. He wisely chose the latter, and you all bear witness that I brought him from the field of honor safe

and sound, and that is more than he would j j.K.k have done for me if I had b?en in his place r r r t .... . , , , "My Breethering! I suppose tou an and he in mine. And now, to show that I . , , - . . V - - . ..i t .,1 1 have heard of a religious society called the meant to take no unfair advantage,! willk, i v n r , . . .ii.ii. i, Know-Aothings, ah.- ell, my brethenng change situations with him before you all. . ,, , T .- . . T, -.,?.,. . , , i i although I say it who should n t, I ve - I will take his pistols and he shall take my , T . , , ... . ! ways been one of 'em but, my hearers, 1 blunderbuss, and place himself in my sit- t- . . . 1 T , now feel to bebeve that that string won t nation and position. He shall stand ten , P r , rt. . , - Ä. do to t:e to. ah for it is liable to break :n yards oil and lire at pleasure, atier calling , . , ,. , , . - e , f 1 I the middle and let us fall several wars lor out, 'Ston, take care!' It Avas acknowledged i i - i .i .i i . nnd.w, r.h rso, mV breethering, though by all the company present to be a fair 1 t . ' . 1 - , ... i Nam, at the outset, gave promise of lmmorproposition, and the duellist accepted the : . . . . . , A. , 1 1 L- 1 tality and salvation, yet m these latter dats terms of the school master. i .. ' f . this "son of the sires he is seen to strav 1 he ground was measured and the com-: T . , . t . . . . . . . - , I off, ah, far beyond the travels of the prodbatanls took their respective stations. Ihe:. . , . . . . ' , , , , 11,1 ii-i 'gJd son, and if we don t look out the f it1 ankee threw the blunderbuss at the feet - e ... , , , ,. , .... . ted calf will grow to r? a bullock before he of the duelist, who very coolly picked it; . . , . . . . - x ; comes back again, all. lherefore, my bretliup, imagining tha. m a verv few moments j " , x . . i. , " i i . . ' ering, let us take to our human bosoms tho he should retrieve his honor, by driving) . . . . . a , . , , , . , sweet-scented form of Nam bo, that dark the nine buckshot into the bodv of Ins an-i , . . . ff . . , A. i colored emblem of equality, :di and let us tagonist. 1 he word was gtverr, and the i , . , ,. . , , , , i 1, J 'play irpon ahaTprf a single string, spirits duelist instantly raised his blunderbuss and J, . ' , " . , 1 . , , 0 ,! of white men made black, ah. taking sure aim, pulled the trigger. 'Nnap . , , , . i , . . . ? , "My Breethennir! W c shouldii t Iw a-

went tne lock', jtu tne gun misscu nre. m . , , a- i mi i i 'Trv it again, says the i ankee. I he duel - . . i i , i ii-., ist gritted hii teeth as he cocked it the sec ond time Again he pulled the trigger. 'Snap went'the old rusty musket, with a dull?r sound than before. Now a phenomenon occurred. The wooden face of the Yankee was for once brought into a smile, and gome afiirmed that he luighed, though' , . , , . . ., . T: i others thought that to be impossible, mit ! , i i I, , . it ,i . , i the enraged bully began to 'smell the rat. I , i r., i, 1 He examined the capacious pan of the old; , , TT , i , . , A i, , firelock. He found nothing but yellow . . ... . , 1 . . snuff. He hastily turned the muzzle to , , . , . 'i his mouth and blew into it. f he air whistled tli rough the touch hole; the old musket was not chaTgeil; the nine buckshot were imaginary. He threw down tho harmless old iron with a yell of blasphemy, and ran up to his room, while shouts of laughter convulsed the assembled multitude. Half au hour afterward, the chop-fallen duelist, was seen on his horse, tryfng to steal out of town by a back lane. He was pursued b hundreds, with claps :ii;d shouts of derision, till he galloped out of sight. The people of that town never again saw the f.iee of Major Alonzo Bickerton the duelist. "Whither lie went, nnd how h; fared. Nohody knew and n'bo ly cared." liortKxza Dow. On one occasion he took the liberty, while preaching, to denounce a rieh man in the community recently der.ned. The result was an arrest, a trial for slander, and an imprisonment in ihe county jail. After Lorenzo got out of 'limbo he announced that, in spite of hi (in hisopinion) unjust punishment ho should preach at a given time, a sermon about 'another rich man.' The populace w as greatly excited, and a crowded house greeted his appeal ancc. With great solemnity he opened the Bible, and read, 'And theri was another rich man who died and went to ;' then stopped short, nnd seemed to be im-!

pressed; he continued, 'Brethren, I shall , an1 F.ving into the affair of my neighbors, not mention, where this rich man went ' and every now and then jerking ihem up to, for fear he has some relatives in this w ith a round turn for violating the whiskey congregation who will sue me for dof mia- i.iw ah--but, my bitxdhoi ing. 1 have found tton of character.' The effect on the as- .... . , , f ii i i,v j. 4 ii i, that tho business don t pav, ah, and fjr the so mbled multitude was u resistable, and he made the impression permanent by taking the balance of my days Pin going to play another text, and never alluding to the sub- on a harp of a single siring, niggrit m triject agin. . j urn pliant forcier, ah'."

Political Discourse.

1 "My breethering! We arc told sorwe- ; where I needn't be particular where that j the psalmist of old could play on a harp of a o?f-sand strings, all but, my breethering, in these days of gitting down stairs from grace, a Samist ain't expected to do more than spread himself on a sing-fo string,, ah. Therefore, my breethering, ah, let us give ourselves no uneasiness about the nine hundred and ninety-nine that we can't handle, aft, but let us unite m 'playhigtrpon a harp of a single string, spirits of whitemen made black, ah.' "My Breethering! As we came- stringing, along into this Convention, ljke packmules crossing the Isthmus, I thought to myself that each one of us might have string of his own to pull, and that may be many of us might have several strings ia his bows,. ah., I hope-1 hurt no man's feelings by this discourse, ah. My motto always is to tell the truth and shame the devil, ah an institution of sin and wickedness who is always roaming about like h roaring lion seeking where he can kiH somebody, ah. But, my breethering, now tUa. politics and religion have got so mixed up that you can't tell one from the other, I think it would be good for us to-let go- s holds, except one, and go our Billy best 'upon a harp of a single string, spirits of white men made black, ah.' "My Breethering! There is a grsat many kinds of strings iu this world, ah-S First, there is the latch string- hung out, and the latch string pulled in, ah. Then there is the fiddle string, (and a very wicked string it is, my breethering,) and tho bag string, and the pudding string, which some pious souls consider the proof of pudding, ah! And then there is string beans. and that audacious varmint, Stringfellow, j ut, my breethering, to return to the j (liscoursc, let me impress upon you the popularity of 'playing upon a harp of a single-string, spirits of white men mad i - , 1 shamed or afraid to own j. . . ... 1S vorv wicked thing our color, ah. It indeed to turn up the human snout at the works f nattir, ah. Who cares for color in a dog fight? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, ah. What, then, if we do fool the foreigners? What, if we do kiss the isigger ba- ' i tius mIi" Tlir P--nt ei n tniimmia u-lt.-k t . , , have been mummied tnec thousand years, . , - are none the worse or wiser now for any- ,. , ... ... , . . , thing they dfd while in the flesh, ah. It . ., , will be the same with us, my breethering, . in the lapse of a few-centuries, ah. Mien .., ... , Gabriel shall blow his trumpet, ah when y . . , the moon shall turn to blootl, ah w hen th sky shall be rolled back as a scroll, and all natur shall ha done up in a rag, ah, tlven the kissing of a few innocmt l?ttle nigger, and the running away of a few buck ones, will come back as a sweet smelling savor, and give us a lick forward towards Jordan, ah "My Breethering! There is another string which we have all Nvn pulling at for lo! these many years, ah, hut which, in thn language of one of our great guns, we mut now "let slide," ah I mean, my breethering, that pious piece of tow twi-d called Temperance. Liquor, my breethering, ha color as well as twang, ah. We can't run niggers through the ividr-ground railioad. urbss we also say tc liquor, "let it run ah. "Spirits of white men made black Spirits of liquor made free" them must In our sentiments, ah. We can't oppose the law s of our government and aid the insurrection in Kansas, unless we set the example at home of spitting upon our Maine Liquor Law. We must be consistent, ah. I confess that I have been a great temperance man, and that I hae l.cn pulliii" the tenipeaance siring for lo! these manv years, ah, going around like a thief in the night

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