Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 13, Number 31, Plymouth, Marshall County, 2 April 1868 — Page 1

LYMOUTH "WEEKLY DEMOCRAT.

VOLUME 13. PLYMOUTH. INDIANA, THURSDAY, A PHIL 2, L8GS. NU MBER 31

Trom the AVny Arjjns. WAS IT A DREAM? I w a nation, anl free, Lead on adarkeuc I world to Liberty. First in the van ; impetuous to strike The festering cliaius from Ihn' and soul alike; Far o'er the rearward legi ns shining gleam Her star-sremmed 'artnera. Was it but a drcora? ITer life was young : her poets, fresh and bohl, Fang hyr.i ns ;rophetie, which an age foretold Of peace and p'cnty ; el p:ent and wise, And pure and just, jurists and statesmen rise To shape her destiny ; a godlike Scherns Of Right triumphant ! Vas it but df cam ? No long, da k records of r. barLarous age,

Of Ihv d and rAriinc, dimmed her history's J0 feudal chiefs had hcU her virgin soil ; lNe conv.cring despot nade her wealth his , spoil ; A n ejual pnanle bei Um power sui)renic, TVL 1 law :i ud order. Was it but a dre.v.a? The tecmirff West, a cost! lent her domain. Where she sat peerless in her gentle rcigaf Wie saw uprising from Atlantic bed, On her broad brow his roseate honors shed, And smiled before her when his latest beam Warmed the Pacific. Was it but a dream? .The latest birth of time by seers foretold-, The blessed harbinger of the age of gold, When peoples' friend, wilh peoples should restore. Heaven's fir st design, and war should rage no mere, Destined the w Ting nations t i redeem, And band them brothers. Was it but a d ' cam? Strong w.-.s ;'ic in her youth; exubc.ant hcaUh, Ships, mines, fields, workshops, deluged her with wealth ; 2few states (young empires) from prolific stock. In vast accretions lot k and interlock By bonds of kin, faith, Interest, 'twould seem, Wei Jed forever. Was it but a dream? Il pa sso ! I aW her ghastly, stained with blood, Pule, in the sombre weeds of widowhood : Ker Mfüd fields, heaped with hillocks, wave on v.uvc, 'Vlre human holocausts fornd a rty giave; I saw her dungeons foul with victims teem, i And Hate, Wrong Greed held sway. Was it i I but a dream ? lift sacre'I law?. her cheri-hed memories, Hr r.ro;..! traditions si the sood and wise Of her best days could lliTC. teach, control no ; Ibrer cnre blotted erat with floi-ds of gore: iter prii sts between the porch and altar sen ram, Frar.tiL t r I d. Oh, God I is it a dreta ? Flots agaicst Lot-, who lately hand with Mod Grasped kindly, now in ranks embattled stand ; And shriek and groan, their (ale of hr-rror tell. Me k Saviour ! Hear not frantic cries blasr I erne. Tl.-'t r.'iv: invoke Thee. Is it bat a dream ? DeaÜ in the cum;1; field d-:tth in the crowded Death In the march: death in the l iv a TVVL i: the Cell: 1:1 gaunt famine's srnse to cfaap; Peifi:' victims roll too I ist for O'er all Ihc Moated I:tn3 death reign su prtme. And hell r-joiccs is it but a drc.im ? So horror v.pnn horror c':ast!y grew. Who t.i Iced mt pttjr to Im infnrb.tc crew, VM curse Bftd yefl was silenced; at last The vengeful flow must wax its blight and Waat Cease from the Bail the hot fed Mood to stream; ;;iek wirli rvenc wc rest. Is it a dream? Peare, vet no peace ! blind passion still holds . sway; Malice r.r.d Rate, insatiate, hog their prey; Greedy of plunder, drunk with lawke s power, Fierce anarchs Idle the wo be gotten hour; And all that's just, nnd merch jl we deem Trampled autl .'.-ofling spurned. I it adream ! ' V is the cry, with frenzy fraught. The c'iiims nf mtrcy scorned and set at nought, Fale as coeJ diec the shameful ballots cheat, Proscription, ruin, rr.akc the wreck complete Ere on our bea-'s Gud's Venreful thunders br-;ik, And blast. WAKh I and blight, ar.d nrn, let t. I AH WAirilVCi V J'IfE K1VER. I am waning by the river, And my my heart 1 as wa:ted long ; Now I think 1 hear the chorus Of the the angels1 welcome song, 'Oh, I see the Oawn ;s breaking On the hill-tops of the blest, "Where the w ick ! ceaac from troubling, Aud the wt uy be at rest." Far away b( yond the sliadows Of thh lowly vale of tears. There the tide of Miss i sweeping Thro' the bright end changeless year.-; O ! 1 long to be with Jesus In the mnnsion4 of the blet, Xi Where the wicked cease from troubling, And the weary be at tfft" They are launching on the river, From the calm and quiet shore, And they soon will bear my spirit Where the weary sish no more ; For the tide h swiftly flowing, And I loner to greet the blest. Where the wicked cease from troubling. And the weary be at rest. C orruption in Congrcxs. Mr. Washburne, f Illinois, should be rouszled: lie i in his dotage, and tells no pleasant truths. A few days ago he charged that there wer "ringu" in cono W ft reftH, and compared them to "rings" formed in th radical legislature of Illinois to piandr the people by burdening the treasury by millions of outgoes. He also charged that the "smuggling interest" amounted to over one hundred millions of Uata, controlling courts and juries, and that ita influence in congress was ;,irreistibl." This is a charge from a radical, not from a democrat, and it implicates the character of the radical congress. Between smuggling and whisky frauds, which the radical will not check, the treasury is cheated out of more than one hundred millions of dollars annually. This deficit the people are compelled to make up of their own earnings. The radial party is responsible for it. They have the power in congress to correct existing evils, to arrest fraud, t secure a full col lection of the revenue, They tail to do it, and, acoordicg to the charge of their a-nomates, there is reason to Doneve mat radical members of congress are concerned m the pr jfits of fraud, and do not intend to dry up the source of their own emoluments. Jf tales continue ncavy and burdensome, let it be remembered that the radical party in congresa ie responsible for it Zorti'i RfMblicaH.

THE THREE TRAVLIG BAGS TLere were three of them, all of shining

black leather, one on the top of the pile of trunks, one on the ground, and one in the owner's hand all going to Philadelphia, all waiting to be checked. The last bell rang. Tho bajrease man bustled, fuming from one pile of baggage to another, dispensing chalk to trunks, checks to passengers, curses to porters, in approved railway style. 4 Mine Philadelphia ! " cried a stout militarv-looking man, with enormous whiskers and red face, crowding forward, as the baggage man laid his hand on the first traveling bag. ! Won't you please to give me a check for this now ? " eutreated a pale, slender, carefully dressed young man, for the ninth time, holding out baggage No. 2; " I have a lady to look after." u Say ! be you agoin' to give me a check for this 'ere or not? " growled the proprietor of bag No. 3, a short pock-marked fellow, in shabby overcoat: u All right, gentlemen. Ilere you arc," Says the functionary, rapidly distributing the checks. " Philadelphia, this ?" m yes, sir." 2092 1740 1020. " All right." M All aboard ! " shouted the conductor. Whoo-whew. " responded the locomotive, and the train moved slowly out of the I station house. The baggage man meditatively watched it as it sped away in the distance, and then, as if a thought had suddenly struck him. slapped his thigh and exclaimed : " West, if I don't belicfe " 11 What ? " inquired the switchman. " 1 hat I've gone and gave them three last fellers the wrong cheeks. The cussed little black things were all alike, aud they bothered me." "Telegraph," said the switchman. u Never you mind," replied the baggage Usui M They were all going to Philadelphia. there. They will fiud it out when they get 'hev did. The scene shifts to the Continental ho tel, Philadelphia. Front parlor, up stairs. Occupants, the young gentleman alluded to as No. 2, and the young lady. In according with the fast usuage of the times, the twain bad bceu made one iii holy matrfmoni at 7:20 a. m., duly kissed and coni elated until 8:45, put aboard the express at 8:45, aud deposited bag and baggage at the Continental hotel, at 1L:5S. They were seated on the sofa, the black broadcloth coat sleeve encircling the slender waist cf the fray traveling dress, and the jetty mustache in equally affectionate I : xinkitjf to the glossy curls. Are yon tired, dearest 1 " "No, lore, not yet. But you arc, are you not ? " No. darling." A ki-s. then a pause. 4; Don't it seem funny ' " said the lady. "What, love )" u That we should be married." " Won't they be glad to see us at i eorgc : " ( H course they will." ; I am sure I shall enjoy it sd much. Shall we get there to-night ? " Hap, rap, rap, at the door. A hnsty separation took place between the nnn and wife, to opposite ends of the sofa ; aud then, " Con e iu." M An' you plase, sur, it's an M. P is waiting to Bee yex. M To see rue a poliecraan ? " " Yes, sir." " There must be some mistake." u No, sir, it's yourself; and he's waiting in the hall beyonV 4 Weil, I'll go tc no, tell him to come here." u Sorry to disturb you sir," said the II. P., with a large brass star on his breast, appearing with great alacrity at the wait.1 I, .i T 1 ! .1 I 1 1 er s elbow. " l oeueve um is you oiacn valise ? " Yes, that is ci?rs, certa'ily. It is Julia's the lady' thinjrs arc in it. M Suspicious circumstances about that valise, sir. Telegraph came this morning that a burglar started on the 8:45 Philadelphia train with a lot of silver spoons in a blaek valise. Spoons marked T. B. Watched at the fetry. Followed it up here. Took a peep inside. Sure enough there were the spoons ; marked T. BL too. Said it was yours. Shall have to take you in charge.' u Take me in charge ? " echoed the bridegroom. m ISnt 1 assure you, my dear sir, there is some mistake it's all a mistake." "S'posc you'll be able to account for the spoons being in the valise, then. "WThy I it isn't mine; it must be somebody eines ; ßomebody has put the m there : it is some villainous conspiracy. 11 Hope you'll be able to tell a straighter story before the magistrate, youog man; because if vou don t. vcu stand a smart chance of being sent up for six months." M 0, Charles ! this is horrid. Do send him away. 44 Ob, dear . I wish 1 was at home," sobbed the little bride. 44 1 tell you, sir," said the bridegroom, bristling up with indignation, 44 this is vile plot. What would 1 be doing with your paltry spoons ? I was married this morning, in Fifth avenue, and I am on my wedding tour. I have high relations iu New York. You'll repent if you dare to arrest me." 44 Oh, omc, now," said the incredulous official, 44 1 have heard stories like that before. This ain't the first time swindlers have traveled in couples. Do you s'pose you've just got to com? along to the station house. Vo5 might as well go peaceably, 1 don t know nothintr : Jaint no use 'cause you've got to go." 44 Charles, this is perfectly dreadful ! Our wedding night in the station house. Do send for somebody! Send for the landlord to explain it." The landlord was sent for and earno ! tn5 waiter8 an(j chambermaids and bar room loungers camo withont being sent for, and filled the room and adjoining hall some to laugh, and some to eay they wouldn't have believed it, but nearly all to exult that the unhappy pair had been found out. No explanation could be given, and the upshot was, in spite of tears, threats, entreaties, rage and expostulations,

the unfortunate newly married pair were crowd 'n all the dialogue, which they aptaken in charge by the relentless police, reared to regard .as a delightful enter-

and luarched down stairs en route to the police affice. And here let the curtain S rop on the melancholy scene, while we follow ihe fortunes of the black valise No. 2. When the train stopped at 0amdeti,four gentlemen got off and walked arm in arm, rapidly and silently up one of the by-streets and struck off into a foot-path leading to a secluded grove outside of town. Of the first two one was our military friend ia a blue coat, apparantly the leader of the a r party. Of the second two. one was carryiog a black valese. The respective companions walked with hasty irregular steps, were abstracted, and apparantly ill at ease. The party stopped. 44 Is this is the place," said Captain Jooes. 44 Yes," said Dr. Smith. The Captain and the Doctor conferred together. The other too kept studiously apart. 44 v ery well. 1 11 measure the ground and do you place your men." It was done. 44 Now tor tho p'utols, " whispered the Captain to his fellow second. They are all ready in the valise, re plied the Doctor. The principals were placed ten paces apart, and wore that decidedly uncomfortable air of men who are in momentary expectation of being Shot dead. 44 You will fire, gentlemen, simultaneously, when I give the word," said the Captain. Then in an undertone to the doctor 44 Quick, the pistols." The Doctor, stooping and fumb!inz at the valise, appeared to discover something which surprised him. 14 Why, what the devil " 44 What's the matter," asked the Captain, striding up. Can't yon find the caps ' " 44 Duce of a pistol or cap but this." He held up a lady's night cap. 44 Look here and here and here ! " holding up successively, a hair brush, a long, white night gown, a cologne bottle ai d comb. They were greeted by a long whistle by the Captain, aud a blank stare by the principals. 4 Confound the luck," ejaculated the captain, 44 if wc haven't made a mistake and brought the wrong valise." The principals look at the seconds. The seconds looked at tho principals. Nobody volunteered a suggestion. At last the Doctor inquired, 41 Well, what's to be done F " 44 D n unlucky again ! " ejaculated the Captain 44 The duel can't go on." 44 PiVidently not," responded the doctor, 44 unless they brain each other with tho hair brush, or pop at each other with the cologne bottle. ' 44 You are quite sure there are no pistols in the valise ? M said one of the principals, with suppressed eagerness, and drawing a long breath of evident relief. " Wc munt go over to the city and get tne pistols, proposed the Cap tain. 44 And by that time it will be dark," siid the Doctor. 44 D n unlucky!" 44 We shall be the laughing stock of the town, consolingly remarked tne doctor, if this gets wind. 44 One word with yom Doctor," here in terposed the principal They conferred. At the end nf the conference Willi his principal, the Doctor advanced to the Captain and conferred with him! Then the Captain conlerrcd with his principal. Sen the seconds held a conference with each other. Finally, it was formally agreed between the contending parties that a statement would be drawn up in writing, whereby principal No. 1 tendered the assurance that the offensive Words, 44 You are a liar," were not used by him in any personal scu.se, but solely as an abstract proposition in a general way, in regard to the mattor of fact unde- dispute. To which principal No. 2 appended his statement of gratification at this candid and honorable explanation, and unqualifiedly withdrew the offensive words, You are a scoundrel' they having been used by him under a misapprehension of the intent and purpose of the remark which had proceeded them. There being no longer any cau.se for a quarrel, the duel was, of course ended. The principals shook hands, first With each other, next with the seconds, and were evidently very glad to get out of it. 44 And now, that this is so happily settled," said the doctor, chuckling and rubbing his hands. 44 It proves to have been a lucky mistake after all, that wc brought the wrong valise. Wonder what the lady who owos it will say when she opens ours aud finds the pistols." 44 Very well lor you to laugh about," growled the Captain,4 but it's no joke for me to lose my pistols. Hair triggers bw English make, and gold mounted. Ihcre ain't a finer pair of shooters in America." 44 O, we will find them. We will goon a pilgrimage from house to house asking if any lady there has lost a night cap and found a pair of duelling pistols." In very good spirits tho party crossed the river and inquired at the baggage room in reference to each and all the black leather traveling bags that arrived there that day took notes of where they were sent, and set out to follow them up. In due time they reached the Conti nental, and as luck would have it, met the b.ndal Pa" Jst coiLing down stairs in 44 What's the meaning of all this ? " in quired the captain. 44 O, a couple of burglars, caught with a valise of stolen proocrty." 44 A valise ! wh; t kind of a valise ? " 44 A black leather valise. That is it there." 44 Here I stop ! hilloo ! policeman ! i ii .i ? tJ. -ii : A f v ii jauuioru i xv m n tkmi. i You are all wrong That in my valise. It's all a mistake. They got changed at the depot. That lady and gentleman are innocent. Here is their vahso, with a night cap In it!" Great was the laughter, multifarious the comments, and deep tho interest of the

,ot ap expressly for their amuse44 Then vou sav I -"Vs 'ere thini: said the policeman, relaxing his hold upon to VU11. tne oriucgroom, auu couirjuting tho Lar tain. 44 Yes, it is i.inc." Aid how d:J you OOme by these spoons " i H ir. i c v .it jackanapes ! said the Captain, 4,duell'ng pistols." ;4 Do you call these pistols ? " said the pliceman , holding up to view one of the silver spoons, marked V. iJ. rL ne Captain tatoatahed, gasped, 44 It's the wron? valise again. :;fter ail." " Stop, not so fast ! " said the polite functionary, now invested with great dignity 1y the importance of his office and the affair ho found himself engaged in. 44 If so, how have you tho lady's vaiise ; she J all right and can gn or. But iu that case tola ia yours, and it comes on you to account for ttlem as etolc spoons. Have to take you iu charge, all four of ye." 44 Why, you itO 7ent scoundrel ! " roared the Captain, 4 11 see you in ; I wish I had my pistols here; 1 teach you how to insult a gentleman I " .Shaking his fist in rage. The dispute waxed fast and furious. The outsiders bean to take part in it, and there is no telling how it Would have cuded, had nol an explosion, followed by a heavy fall ähd a scream of pain, been heard in an adjoining room. The crowd rushed to the scone of the new attraction. The door was fastened. It was soon burst open and the mystery explained. The thief who h id carried oft the Captain's falise by mistake for his own, had taken it up to his room and opened it to gloat over the supposed contents, thrusting his hand in alter t Tie tpoona. In doing so the pistol had gone off, the bullet making a round hole ia the si le of the valise and a corresponding hole in thecaifof his leg. The woundjd rascal was taken in chnrc first by the policeman, and then by the doctor ; and the duelists and the wedded pair stiuek up a f'rien I ship on the score of their mutual mishap, which culminated in a supper, where the fun was abundant, and it be hard to say which was in the best spirits, the Captain for recovering his pistols, the bride for getting her night cap, the bridegroom for escaping the station house, or the duelists for escaping each other. All revolted to u mark that day with a white stone," and hencef'or'h to mark their names oil their blaek traveling hairs in white letters. Liberty in Ev J: rum U. Pra&lriiO naime. Who that has watched the proceedings of the Jacobins in congress, and taken careful note ot the revolutionary spirit which prompts and directs thetü call doubt that the liberties of the American people are in greater danger of overthrow ami destruction to-day than they have ever been before ? or that, it saved at all, it will he by brave, deicuded blows, such as our fathers struck ir deliverance from British tyranny in 177b5 ? If American bbcrty was worth the sacrifices made to achieve it, is it not worth an effort to save it? As things now look, with radicalism bohi, resolute aud determined, while the dctlocraey is led by timid, weak-kneed time-servers and cowards, we see little in the future to inspire conlldetibe liope nothing, indeed, if the democratic masses do not east off their half-hearted leaders, and resointelv determine to ave their liberties, or die in their defence. The appeals to the north of that staid old whig organ, the National Intelligenccr. contameu in tne ionowing stirring words, is as the first souuds of the great revolution so rapidly approaching, when a traitorous congress will attempt to throttle the liberties of the American people, and establish a reign of terror, such as deluged France with blood and Crushed liberty under the irou heel of despotism. : ''Freemen of the north! Know that the clutch of usurpation is at the throat of your ministers of justice; that your treacherous servant", determined to destroy your constitution, defended by your chief mnfiristrate. have dcsneratclv re.snived upon abneeatiug the legislative branch 0f vour trcKerninent, entrusted to their perhuious n.imls, ana in oruer to demolish all restraint of treason, are about to destroy all the departments of governmeut, even their own, and lifting your liberties from your sovereign shoulders, to lay all at the feet of a military despot. Kuow, people, ol the great free north, that your chains arc forged ; that the bayonets, as it were, are sharpeued, the muskets charged, the orders written, that are to mete out to each one of you what liberty, what property, what life shall retain. Behold, at your firesides the apparation of the guard lor a midnight arrest ; in your places of worship, the armed censor of your prayers ; in your fields, at vour Work tables, on the hitrh road, the snaky and skulking detective. Listen ! You may hear the drum, as it drops in at your startled car, the palsy that thickens your yet free tonguo. Wc tell you that the supremo court is to bo stru :k down . that the equal balance of the three great departments is swaying from its equilibrium ; that the great tripod of the republic is to be broken up ; that from your i olitical temples your betrayers are banishing your god, aud from the genius of your freedom are wrenching her inviolable scoptrc. That a few wretches, drunk upon irresistible powrr, loathsome with Kuilt, hideous with blood, nnd mad with lust, may riot iu your halls of power, through the degradation! of tho south, your liberties are to bo destroyed, your constitution subverted, your republic dis solved, and your name dishonored among! nations forever." This is not the oatravagant language of delirium, startling as it may bo to craven hearted democratic leaders, in whse ears brave words always sound frightful, but is jüst what the dangers of tho hour call for and justify. Well for the people of tV. 4l. ;u : tv If Is :. U 1. .1 UM UUi Ml Will t 1 10 ii'-i;'!' 1,

taiomcnt, mcnt.

MWWt In T ic Souf'i. A man who leals the loatheia correspondence of lei'ubic Jacobin newspapers all Jj'Cjtin newspapers are reliable must be anwaea and grieved at the eondi-

tion of affaiii in the fen territories Ivmsri 8 soufh of N acn a. id Dtxea'l ,Jne. " U ie of the featthlagJ wi "eh will strike the atten!e reader of tins sort nf name poudence is the astounding innoanee of the native whites, and the amazing shre wdness and intel'igcnce of the colored people. The white man is a low, besotted individual, who ueithcr reads uor writes. The negro is a temperate, iutcigent christian, who alternates in his leisure hours, between perusiug lue i-ontitutic;i and Baxter's Samt I liest, aud attending assemblages for prayer, 'lue wife of the white man is a p or, sickly ca.' who chews snuffy sticks, and occupies herself with a? ranging her fctyctfleriff, which consists of shiu-boncs and sLu l pieces taken from the bodies of Yankee invaders. ror is this all the difference between these two classes. The white is aa idle, disloyal vagabond. The Atnc t is an industrious and eminently loyal institution. While the latter cultivates his pietv and his strip of ground, and reflects upon the beauty of a constitutional goverumont, the latter, in an immense slouch hat, h always to be fouud at the corner grocery, drinkiug poor whisky, cutting plug-tobacco with a formidable bowie knife, and. when opportunity offers, shooting at, or down, some piotts 44 nigger who may happen to venture within range of his pistol. Politically, the white mau has only the most intei se hatred for the benign government, and for the protecting fold of the star-spangled banner. The good negio loves that government and that flag; and he is ready, at any moment to vote for the one and die for the other. No white man whom the southern correspondent ever meets is resigned to the fatherly domination established by philanthropic JacobiaUHB. When he is not shooting or hanging a nigger," he is cursing the government or organizing a new insurrection. Daft the vigilant African, founded irrcniovably in his loyalty, is ever heaping ben isous upon the government, and giving his shrewdest abilities to discovering and frustrating the machinations of the disloyal whits. And thus the Fouthern correspondent of the reliable Jacobin press goes from place to place; and wherever he goes, he sees only what we have summarized. If there he any difference iu what he sees, it is that, usually, the negroes are more virtuous and loyal, and whites more wicked aud disloyal, in oue place than they were in the place before. Kach succeeding mile ot travel only increases the degradatijn of the whites and superiority of the A fricans. One wonders, when he reads these rc-ii.-ihle accounts, what has become of the intelligent white people who once lived iu the south. There was a time when, amoug the foremost statesmen, orators, pocte, thinkers, scholars, philanthropists, and gentlemen of the country and ac, the south was largely represented. Are the:e representatives dead, that they are ufevcr met by these reliable peripatetic correspondents of Jacobin newspapers ? Or do these Jacobiu newspaper correspondents, being debarred by their errand from decent soeiety, wander only amoug the poor whites, the renegade Yankees, and from whom they draw their inspiration and their facts ? Or arc these Jacobin newspaper correipondcuts slanderous and lying scoundrel?, who deserve only to be pilloried in the execration's of the public for their infamous detractions and their abominable invention ' It is, however, not worth while for nay one to get greatly excited over the representations of these scribbling and conscienceless vagabonds. They arc hired to do this very work. The amount of their bread aud butter depends upon the number aud enormity of their lies. They are simple iustrui.ients, tools of men in the north ; and their employors are, in turn, the creatures of a party whose very existence depends upon a lie. Wlion a party, professedly one of law and order, and of decency and piety pushes its partisan schemes undfer the pretence of philanthropy violates laws aud constitution at every step ; and numbers among its adherents the bittest drunkards, atheists, and ras!ca,,io;iS of the there l Uljthng sin-:-u,ar li aL 11 s"oum mnpwj very uisrepuia blc agencies in order to strengthen itselt by detraction Times. of the south. Chicago E4RLir i Art: of ii. OK. IV LeCOXBT IIIS UNCLE. Those who read the 4,Early Life of General Grant," by his father, published in a New York paper, will not fail to flee, by reading the following sketch, No. 2, that the general has a formidable rival if not for the presidency, at least for the honors of a distinguished babyhood iu the person of one Hans Patrick LcConnor, whose life, by his uncle, is being published in the Missouri Republican simultaneously with that of Grant taken from the New York paper : Notk Some Hurprlne ha ben expressed that these nketchee have not emanated from the father of Mans l'atrick ,. ,.'iihir a tie munt have baen mrtre familiar with tb. early life m hut n than any due else. In th flrnt place, it in not positively known that Han Patrick ever hal a father, or that he ever had any use for one. iret men are eldom troubled with tuch annoyances. Who ever heard of Napoleon Bonaparte' f-uher, or Juliua CesarV, or Oliver Cromwell'i" ! It Boruparte's father had attempted the early life of his son he would have ben thrown into the Ha.til ouicker than he could have snid Jack BaMMtA) - particularly :w that name i somewhat diftlcult to pronounce in the French Uniruace. The subject ot thin hietory has therefore choHen to ignore the exlntence of a paternal prtvenitor. and cntrustH hit) life in the hands of bis revered uncle. Svntm UinoE, Ky., Jan. 20, 1868. KditorUlI'Ublican : 1 thiuk my nephew's early passion for mules diverted his attention from the common pastimea of boyj at his age. He Was upwards of fo ur a a 1 a years old before he could play chess, domi ! noes, seven-up, &c. 1 uever knew him to I dance in his early life, except when he was Aoaaad by the schoolmaster. The following anecdote is told of him : TT m.i.is. ..f tf tttv tnfirblR fallev-tors. or allcy-ga-tors, I have forgotten which,) I with a small boy whom lie anew rre couiu I.... u.u frnm if hfl lost tha. he Hi unuj nmj .

could jnmp thirty-Ire feet at one jump, be to sc lent the groaad. He ascended a u'aff ncor by and leaped from the top of it into the mnd at its base, sinking into

)o so. i earth up to i his cars, time this lie has Tor a Ions eircum-! j nance eaueed him to be known by the apJ PM" ' f ' tick-in-the-mud,'' a term has now become quite common. Jlc nev :Uek: seemed anxious to put Mas S favorite Method in an cnierwas eh ore out ridewaya. He never dis rusted I 'niselfnor anybody ele, aud eerer had nny inisj.'v'ngs as to Irs ability or inaldty to do anvthiw' Ilia talents lor indifference and repose Were abort equal. 11 ;s self-possession wns also remarkable, lie not only nosse-sed hirnself, but w;s iVeqaeatlf ambitious to no9sess ether people. ":.. do of it oc: .ed when he was :' jut 1- years of age. He was sent t convey two 301mg ladies iu a bugpy a distance nf several miles to their father s house. Uu the way, iu passing thvough a broad, deep slough, the horses became stalled, and eoald not proceed n inch farther, lite ladies begged Hans Patrick to ade out of the sloagh and go for assistance. Sitting quietly between the vo, he replied : "Not if I know myself. I've got as good a thing as I waut, und I mean to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.'' And there he sat until the father of the young ladies came and rescued the party. He still retains in his possession the sole of oue of the eld man's boots, which he captured on that interesting occasion. The first phrenologist that ever came to oar part of the country examined Hans Patrick's head through a mieroscopc. There were many persons present, all eager to hear what the man would way, and the boy, for fear he would crush the two dozen bird-eggs concealed iu his trowsers' pockets remained psrfeetiy quiet while the examination was going on. The phrenologist muttered to himself, us he proceeded : 'This is no common head; it is a huge head, a treinetidous head, a sap head." I asked him if he thought Hans Patrick would over conic tj anything, lie replied : 4From the development of a particular organ here (digestive,) I think he will come to his meals three times a day as long as he lives, or as long as he has the meals to come to." Thn gratified me verymuch, for there is no surer sign of future reatuess than a good appetite. In the afternoon, the pbreaolog st and I were walking near a pond where Hans Patrick had been skating, lie had fallen upon the ice, and the Professor had discovered the indentation made by his head. 44 Marvelous head," he said to me, "it is as hard as cupper." Hence the term copperhead, sometimes applied to men whose heads are too hani to be affected by the slippery surface of fanatical opinion. All the phrenologists who came to our place for ten years predicted that Haas Patrick would become president. They predicted the same thing of all the other boys in the neighborhood. None of these prophecies have become true as yet, but you may look for a perfect whiflwtifd of presidents from Nubbin ltidge one of these days. In respect to looks Hans Patrick was the loveliest little creature I ever saw. His complexion was white as alabaster and his eyes glowed with a prismatic glory that astouirhbd the natives. We used to let him out by contract to families when they had a child to christen. They would take him to be christened and leave their own at home, thus showing to their friends what a beautiful babe they had. Ladies I used to come miles and miles to kiss him. Frequently there were so array of them on n rilflöiare of this kind at a time that , half of them had to sleep in the Darn auu do their owo cooking. I do not think he w grew up to be as handsome a man as the rest of the children.' Ladies Would not go far to kiss him now ; they would probably go farther to avoid it. My nephew's passion for hard labor was never sufficieutlv strong to damage his health. Most of the work he had to do was chopping wood, and he was always very awkward at it. 1 have known him to break half a dozen axes iu a single day. It costs so much to buy axes that i used to let him go a fishing iu preference to chopping wood. Oue day, however, wo were short of hands, before short-hand men came in fashion. I told him he m ust go into the woods and chop. He said he was willing to assist me uutil he could get money enough to ruu away with, and theu he intended to leave. I told him I didn't want him to chop agaiust his will, and ask ed him what trade he would choose whether he would be a rope-maker, a soap boiler or a printer. Subsequently he chose the latter. He made a capital printer, but while an apprentice, he was always averse to distributing u pi." When I12 chanced to kuook down a hue of type he would slip it in his pocket, and at night, on his way home, he world throw it iu somebody's well. He broke up two or three printiuj; offices before he learned his trade. Many persons regard the name df Hans Patrick Lc Cotinor as a very curious and significant one. It is not the name he was christened by, but was tacked on to him by an accident. Oue day he was at a log rolling, where the men consisted of Germans, Irish and trench. They were divided up in clans, and each clan had a great deal of cider to drink, of which bevcrairc niv nctdiew was always very fond He first went amonr the car sj Germans : and. seeing a fine lad in their midst, one ot them asked his name. He replied Haris." They gave him all tho cider he wanted, thinking he was a German. When he went amont: the Irish clan, he told them his name was l'atrick, and they also gave him cider. Hy and by he came to a party con sisting about eunally of Kreuch and Irish. hen thoy inquired his name, he replied " Lie (Joiiuor. licrc lie was agaiu treate 1 to cider. In tho evening they all gathered -.11 . 1

togothcr tor a joiuncation, wnen .-oiue or ; tne other side, aud give him her warm them addressed the boy as Hans, some ats I piaCc. Patrick, and some as Le Connor. Contra- hdy possessing the forepolug quslidictious followed, and there was about to fixations, positive and negative cm hear be a riot, when he stepped forward and 0f something to her advantage l y addresssaid : " Gentlemen, you are all right and 1 ;uff tne nndetsiuned. inclosintr ard stamp.

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Great Man.

mc author ol axanne thus sj 1 m .-vi : peaks 01 J resident Jackson: lie was a man. Well 1 remember the day I waited upon him. He sat there in his arm chair I can sec him now. Wc told him of the public distress, the manufactories ruined the shrouded eagles irt rapc, which were carried at the head of 20,000 men in Indcj cndcfiec Sq larc. 11 heard us all. Wc begged him to leave the depo its where they were, to uphold the gn at bank at Philadelphia. Still he did not say a word. At last one of our members, more fiery than the rest, intimated that if the bank was crushed a rebellion might follow. The oid man arose I can see hi in yet. 4Vome," he shouted in a voice of thunder, as his clenched hands were raised high above his white hair. 4,Come with your bayonetj in your hands instead of petitions surround the White House with your legions, I am ready for you ! With the people at my back, whom your gold can neither awe uor buy, I will swing you up arou.id the capital each of you on I gibbet as high as llaman's." When I think of that one man standiner there at Washington, battling against all the powers of bank aud panic combined, betrayed by those whom he trusted, assailed by all that malice could hiss or the fiend of falsehood howl when 1 think of that one man placing his hack against the rock, folding his arms for the blow while he utttred his vow, 4,I will not swerve one inch from the course I hsvc taken," I must confess the records of llomc nay the proudest days of Cromwell, or Napoleon, cannot furnish an instance of a will like that of Andrew Jatkson, when he placed his life and SOw and fame on the hazard 0 f a die for the people's welfare. Wwiniai iaif ale at i.at, but not leteiM Congress seems to have awakeneo to the necessity cf retrenchment. Let them begin an once: There is an amazing amount of stealing in the revenne department. Fortunes arc made in a via- by men ou a salary of a touple of thoUaod dollar.How do they do it ? Echo answers, " they do it." There is stealing wherever public money is handled. Sumo of the veriest scoundrels of society arc in the iuterüai revenue department, accepting from distillers and brewers ou bribes the on hand aud getting pay from the govc 1 Dnaeat on the other. If the heads of the department at Washington do not kaaw what kind of material they are 1 e ng over the country to collect the revenue, tbej arc toj big fools to hold their place at the capital ; if they -o know, they are certainly too big scoundrels to be retained there a day. Bat retrenchment is n vm the eiy j let us hear the cry of reform fa iu that woithless nartv narty. just for on OS. The committee of ways aim means -re going to start on the new fiscal ye:.r. apOfl the following, a.-the basis for the government, and bopi to keep expense- w tVin receipts: Income tax, 830,000. Stamps, 825 ,000,000. Ueeaaea, 115,000,000. .Spirits, 015,000,000. Total, $120,000,000. This rani is supposed to leave only 15000,000, p.ftcr total outgoes let the various departments of the government, e timated at 1116,000.000. Duties 00 imports, it is held, can be made to meet the interest ou the public debt, and also one per eeut. ou the principal. These Iteatl amount to S150.UO0.OO0. How much of the above can be accomplished remains to be seen; but we respecttully urge, in behalf of the over-burdened tax-payers, that the infamous thieves, swindlers, and rut fiatis, now holding cthctal connection WUH the revenue bureau, be kicked out. If the secretary ol the treasury wants name, aud proofs, he can have both at any DMMBCat. Day Bo'tk. AlvcrtlltiK lor Sciilod f'H'potaU. A chap issued a leap year hvitatioD, aud sent the following uotiee tu coutraetora for publication : TO CONTRACTORS The undersigned, feeling the need of souie one to find fault with, and grumble at when business goes goes Along, and being lonely with no one to hate him ; and, haviug arrived at the proper age, he in therefore determined to ; come out." Sealed proposals will be received until 12 o'clock p. at. of the b'lst of Peccuiber, 1 80S; Applicants must possess beauty or its equivalent in currency. She must possess a sweet and forgiving disposition, anl when one cheek ii kisfed turn the other thtt is if the right man is kissing. She must not chew gum. Nor wear long dressis iu the street. Nor frequent sew:ng eircl N Nor go around beggiflg for charitable purples. JNor read the paper fiit in the morniog. Nor talk when 1 IIB sleepy. Nor sleep when I am talking. Nor trade oil my clothes to wandering Italians for flower Vasts. Nor borrow mouey from tny vest pocket? while I sleep. Nor hold a looking-glass over my face at such times, to stake me t -1 1 all I kuow. She must believe in sudden attacks of chil s, and make allowances for thoir effect OB the nervous system Wheu her old bear" comes home from " a few friends" rather attccthmate, she must not take advantage of his state and wheedle him into trips to watering places. And above all, she must not ou such occasions put epieae into the coffee she prepures for his " poor head." She must not sit up for hiui,when he hap pens to be detained to a late hour on BM , curnmitteo. Hut when he docs return, tired and chillv. he wilt be expected to roll over to Alf proposals nm: be accompanied wan .... . satisfactory evidence ot mc aoiuty 01 tne appuc mi to support a nusnauu in me.iy:r to which he La. bceu avu. t.m i