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VOL. XLIM 22—Nli\V SERIES VOL. 5. NO. 5
g •iteur'i*
Miscellaneous;
FlTCSidC Jifiscellctjiy. I plash into a quantity of foul liquid | sort of yellow halo around, revealing
o mud, and turned to look np at me. I only ourselves, the slimy brick walls,
the circular roof, and the black rush
ing water, ou which the light shimmer
ed and danced. I must confess to a
id staud Mur dejudge
mudus crime nli do
SUWMEV A NKWTOS.
HarTPSt Home.
All safely gather’d in
Is Autumn’s golden grain;
How sweet to hear the ringing cheer
That greets the last full warn.
We may not even call
~ iii ear*bf wheat orir own,
But where’s the heart that takes no part
In hailing Harvest Home !
Then let thanksgiving songs
Be o’er the country spread.
To Him to whom the praise belongs
For sending daily bread.
All safely gathered in!
No tear that famine now
Will with grimace upon its face
Triumphant ride th* p*r»w.
Fori He whose gracious eye ....
His slumbered not, nor slept;
Again has sent a rich supply,
And well His promise kept.
So let thanksgiving songs
Both fur and wide be spread,
To Him to whom the praise belongs,
IRON,
PLOW STEEL,
STEEL, HOES,
NAIL*, PLOWS,
MILL SAWS, COTTON GINS,
And General Hardware and Cutlery, at
Wholesale and Retail.
L : ■ • svxMtr* uxwtqn
HTHtni evans;
18 A‘SfOS8,)
announces to
ind vlelDltv (hut he
: Sloie of Dr. We.
kind* of re pel re on
WITH
Hiisinoss ©iroetdry.
V» too citliens of Athens
located st tha Now Dm
Under London Streets.
It f ir the V>
itsis* ® n *
H ■ ’leTOj 1 \ I If >
f f sirti.m t fkiokiIi.
I f T Olf? K Y S 'AT LAW,
i. llrnwrll, llart Owmly. licorga.
I PITTMAN H HINTON,
I ttouneys ATI. A Mr,
El Jrfftraoe, JncVion cubit, (it. ’ ' *
I SAMl’EL P. THI/KIIOND,' * M
I TTO It N K \ A T L A Wi„
V. .t then. <it. OlScron Droid atrnet, .over
77A Sen■, Store. Will tire special attention
lie, in luiilriiptc-j-. Alw, to Ikecuiloctlon of
claim' enlru.lcl to Ml car*.
4- liutie Co., Ale., which I
change (or real estate la thU
tfrat clfore.l, 33»fit the best
creelt, producing 50 to 75 bus!
..( IM ISUKD WSKKI.Y,
lilY s. X ATKINSON,)
ruREE dollars per annum,
STMCTL) - V ADVANCE.
,, li-'ui J W., oty Jyll Huggins.
1,-eiwtneiit* will he inserted at One Dollar and
ivhi« i»»r Square of IS line*, for the lint, and
ssagasay
iIIBJT-
D. G. CANW.FR,
. rTORNKY at law,
V. Ilonirr, Rinks County. «a. Will pnwUce
he o^.iiiiir* «*f lUnks, Jackson,
m %n\ ( ) ( ) a ) t 1
*\*T1X H. BIDKX,
T T O R N E Y A T L A W,
K*ve
UdonVthe . lection ofdalm., and will act at
kationto 'h" „ nilKlleof real esl. e .nd
,11,1 lands. JnnlStt
J. J. * J. V. ALEXANDER,
DEALERS IX HARDWARE,
M.VAN ESTES,
TTOItXEY AT
l lUiucr, itiaks County, Ga.
L A W,
hUOYKIl.VBAKEU
feWIXt): MACHINES!
U ca.ilH, a. 8- KAWUT. nowmm conn- kt ^*” r
i;«UB, ERWl^ af^Y’ijcr'
L^Athens, «)e»rgla. OIBce in the Dcuprec ¥M. WOOD,
DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF
p V KNIT WHS .
IT'URNITURE REPAIRED.1UP-
1. bolstered and varnished, also a large variety
of wood coffins and Fisk’a Patent Mctalic Burial
Cases always on hand.
Wntorooms on Clayton 8t„ next to EMtcopal
aurcb. Scp9 6m. WILLIAM WOOD.
For Sale or Exchange.
cres of land in
will salle!
eity.j T!
best bottqtn lana cm Cape,
bushels of corn per acre,
and cotton in proportion. The remainder is in
the woods. The farm is 20 miles from the Selma,
ltome and Dalton Railroad, oneandaquarter miles
from the county site, Ed war,Grille, 6 miles Aram
the located depot of the Columbus and Chat
tanooga Railroad, and one mils from tha route
of the Griffin and Sorth Alabama Railroad
There la an excellent store house (not be
longing to the place), which can be bought or
Tented chpa,p and la a
Splendid Stand for a Country Store.
,Titles indisputable. For further information ap
ply to, or address
Dr. J.
March 31*3m
w.
MURRELL,
Athens, Ga..
which we are offering at very low pricea.
stoves sold by us . V
WARRANTED IN
every particular.
SUMMEY & NEWTON.
* *-l. — U aL-L. lit, ‘
*tHi To Housekeepers.
JUST RECEIVED, a large assort-
WB2
All
J. II. MTLKSkKV: “ v '
\ ttouney aY law,
Y IVnesrllle, Franklin countr, Ga. Office
>1; scrupled by J. F. Langston, Esq. tall
A. ilVAiirviiar, "Ti . f
iraf Panasylvsnia Agricultural Works,
inr of Iroprond [YORK, Pxsw’A.
rv^v h «vt'vpq SOLID STEEL SWEEP8,
CkaON SWEEPS, and SCRAPERS,
STEEL PLOWS, SHOVEL
1U)W cc B L^RS,
Bom-Powers, Thrxsh-
ri I iiG. I . , !IS^:5!L. Selected with care by one of the firm, in New
• DClMi for lUlStrdtee latHlO^nCv York, to which they invite the attention of their
customers and the public. They liave a good assort
ment of
STAPLE&FANCmYGOGDS
sathutuun,
raariaaoim,
(I.4KD11 A RF.
E. S. ENGLAND & CO.,
^IlE NOW RECEIVING THEIR
NEW FALL STOCK!
rtliltdlAt til THE BEST IN I’SK
>Y ALL WHO HAVE TRIED
* ihrni. Tliev* machine!., with all the
Il’HOVEMKNTS
AND
ATTACHMENTS,
* liad, at maniiihcturer'a prices, freight
ltd, at the
RANKER OFFICE.
TICK OF ( HAME OF SCHEDULE
< i F.<) kgTTi^aTlroAD. 7
hr ir«]a ami .Mnmn A Aueustn lUilrnado /
, s AxtrtwasB&y.
CKOCKRHV,
IIA IN. CAPS,
ROOTS,
Mil OKs.
And tn short, everything In the way of
npHE undersigned has just returned
JL from Now York city, with
i. Large and varied Stock
FALL & XVSjffc TER
^tmw$!
•V CONSISTING OF JD
Dry Good?, : :-rr i{ ■:
Crockery,
Shoes,
Hats,
Caps,
BAGGING AND TIES
HEMLOCK LEATHER,
Salt, tire., tire.
which he oflere to the country at large at as
j REASONABLE PRICES
as the tame goods can be bought
IX AXY MARKFA IN THE
SOUTHERN STATES,
IFreight added. As I am determined to
Sell as Low ns Anybody,
Id this or any other market, I Invite my old custo
mers and the public generally, to
$!V1 MS A DALI l
^ AD EX A MINK FOR THEMSELVES.
I shall continue to
Buy Cottonand Country Produce,
At the Highest Market Prlee.
S. C. DOBBS.
seyt 15-tf
7 19 AV 0. - 6AILEV;i"
J NVITES ATTENTION TO HIS
mW: FALL STOCK
viiluiitJiiy^*~QFTr7.!ii;j„ J iLij ,
<moo3Ei»gr
» . : —i—AN D — ) ■' ) |
m. 'Vl'ma •»
CHIMNEYS AND
PORE KEROSENE OIL!
Cal! ami examine liU stock belore purchasing,
sept 15-tf.
NORTH EAST 5EOROIA
Family and Plantation Supplies,
They will pay the HIGHEST PRICE FOR
CQIT07i[urqtherprudUu«,»nd • f ,,
iVill Kfofe ','dlton ,rs III t’rnl, n Bair
We’Sre t«d»aU4*ta. teUlmr/aadW £
me attention tn business hope tu please old eutto-
' January -."Jd. ItSTI, the Passenger Trains will
yv from. Daily, Sunday
Errcptcd.
l«i, i'i-!!-i , 00a.m.
low Aibnliai 7 10 a.m.
Inn,.at Ailsuual — t> 30p.m.
•torn H Aiwuriaal-, _3 40 p. m.
Nnjht Patscuyer Train.
*
I'n't St AlUata at 6 40 a. m.
'rrinf.t Ali*u«laal.'.U43lAe.i...™. 7 SO a. m.
Btndia Passenger Train.
Aseustsat ...,4 lap. m.
Dst. Kmrlbst 7 SO a. m.
Arriwsi Augu>ia .9 ?5tun.
Uriiit ai lb r/dia „.6 «Op. m.
k.th Par ami Ni?ht 1‘awnger Trains will mske
>v <»nn<vtions at Augusta and Atlanta with
“ruins of (Minuccting road*.
‘lington,
ing \ht
Iconned-
Train,
7n the same day at 7 40 p. tu
**■**^wpinnGamonall Night Trains.
f Wnbon Macon \ Augusta Ballroad.
wijrr Train Daily, Sunday Excepted.
7^” 11 Miron st ........7 40 p. tn.
T "" r *' A»S'»U at 1 45 p. nt.
’‘^'wprrTr.ln arriving’ at Macon at
««&'^uTsiZT enoDl w “ b Tr “"‘ of
.!’>’> n «M*cou at G a. in., will make
list, I’.ii'road. and w . eta At*
Faunte, Mm. & Nisi,
a rAln* of connecting road*.
Povissr* from Allsntov Athens, We
^ -otij Unilmnd, by t
■wiili*tin* Mncab l*oSsiinc
Will
T.
close
mer^afid msktutan^ new ones. .-opU^tf
NE\V FALL GOODS.
p ENTER & REAVES have now i
V-f store and to nrrlvc,
150 lings t'ofl. c,
!i lOO Barrels Sugnr,
400 Hacks Mall,
to T.at Iran Tira,
11,000 \ nrd. Itnggiug.
Als.i a Isigt ana.wrif-seleolod stpcdl of ,,. .,
STAFLi© GOODS.
which tre offer low to the public for cash or pro
duce. We arc al4o agents for the celebrated
I'lltYt'R COTTON GIN.
aug S.VSm "
GRAND EXHIBITION 1!
•#or rat
Farmers, Mechanic in^-Ilouseicivcs of
KsfttkGVfiVwT 0 -
Open''Kvery Day!
T HE SE ASfS Jj'for Fairs is st hand and being nn-
wnnn| that Athena should be behind other
placet of ^less importance,I have determined to have
A Comineccial Exposition,
Al My Old Stand, No. 7, Broad Sl
To make the display attractive, I have visited
the Northern markets, and brought out many
Embracing a very handsome display In seasonable
DRY GOODS!
( °m mlY3f onMerchants
UG '^.I U.LVTsI w, OA., 1 ■
mJaitimore, md.
! ' 1°” ~ n,l ^“* n ret2^" U
^ifour Old Funiitureto
v wood's ,r
''EP.YJ R shop,
Buggy & Wagon
t ^ATKIUAL.
& NEWTON.
Jwi Blacking Brushes,
* r >' 1 I’i.it DOZEN
vr THE
DRUG STORE-
SHARP & FLOYD,
Successors | to George Sliarp, Jr., /
Jewell*?*
AND
$ilve?»mii&%
\ tlanta, Ga.
^E OFFER a large variety of
FINE WATCHES, ,
CLOCKS,
JEWELRY,
SILVER WARE,
SPECTACLES,
FANCV GOODS, 1 *' '
• FINE BRONZES,
AND STATUARY.
WE IIAYE A FULL CORPS OF
- - . A. C>C>vT' i T
' fatoliaake^, jrt eUns&^sgfkTm
Manufacture many Fine Goods
in our own shop, and are prepared to FILL ANY
ORDERS for goods or work promptly.
M. All goods engraved bee of chargo.
We make aapecialty or
PREMIUMS FOR , PAIRS!
and are prepared'to give ant' Information on ap
plication. We guarantee the
LARGEST ASSORTEMNT,
THE FINEST GOODS,
THE LOWEST PRICKS,
ANDTHEBEST WORK.
Call and aae na.
SHARP & FLOYD,
lVhiichall Street, Atlanta.
May 35-1 j ..
■Eff
For Men, Women and Children; and an unequalled
rarictv of usefhl articles for
A For Home and Farm!
In foct, the Establishment, heretofore known as the
“ Planter’* Store,”
it 80. 1 • . -. ! (■} I
An attractiva feature of this Grand Exhibition,
will be its display of
AND
GLASSWARE,
Lamps and Lamp Fixtures,
Far ahead of anything heretofore offered, and
atitutlng a leading
well worth the attention of Housekeepers.
There will alwayp be ^complete assortment of
FAMILY GB0CHB1ES1
°£S£2S?SS&IK$SSVtSir?!£“ x
PROVISIONS GENERALLY.
For the accommodation of builder, a large supply o
may alwaya be found.
An all th*ee attractive and naafut goods arc to be
my old customers and the public are invited to call
and exMolnotham. If they have anything to sell,
will always be paid tor ‘
the Highest Market Prlee
“ J. H.
GGINS,
•r *>1*1
m » d
march 31 CHILD8, N'ICKERSON * CO.
( I ILL & I1UYDYE, at tlic old es-
i—L tabilshcd
B A.R BER’BHOP,
on Broad stroot, over tho otoro of Messrs. J. IL A
hf!. Mattbewa, have the best and most attentivo
ism
dies and
•r norths. - '
Lkineou*)’' ^{fdliug
001
SUAV>
rtc. La-
will reed re
July IS.
when desired.
I'ncro, at
RGE and
■ ml.
*rf.f
•«mn’SS
FOR YOUNG LADIES,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
A CLASS FOR PAINTING IN
rv WATER COLORS has been orguixed. It
la designed to afford full instruction in this beauti
ful art and wUl be cou.iuctod by a thorough
master. Young ladles not in daily attendance at
the Home School, are In riled to Joihahd to make
application »the PrincipaL jTJ* hours of practice
Akaphg* oathenftoraovpof Moodsyssmi Thors-
, ^^^Prind^a Se^hool
»TiHTsUBSCRIBER HAS
safe, eomfortabte and commodious Wsgon
on .River street, naar the Upper Bnfge,
A Wagon
Os-^Saa
trr*
A CO. 1 M
-j -ShoreCorniFodder, 7 and:nU other nepcrsarj'ap-
TWO* «aife.:.mia>W4R6. !S5»3arS«iSSSSS}i«S
wn.mr hoo:
in e
DD.
There it is again, George, worse
than ever!
I’m sure, if you studied that dear
child’s health, you would see to it at
once. A man, too, with your power
on the press—it’s disgraceful.”
“ What is ? My power on the press?”
There was a rustle of Gros dc Naples
and a whirlwind that nearly swept up
a hassock; a tragic look that would
have made Miss Glyn envious of its
withering scoru, a loud closing of the
breakfast-room door, and mamma—on
my wife’s side—left me alone.
My power on the press consists in
the right—when it suits the editor—
to appear iu the poet’s corner of the
Northwest London Journal, a journal
that appears weekly; and the it that
Was “ there again” is an unpleasant
effluvium. Mamma, who is not al
ways particular in her language, called
it by a far less polished term; but then,
.when angry, she is strong in Saxon.—
This unpleasant scent had a knack of
ooming up stairs and diffusing itself
through the house, and though we had
set traps innumerable to catch it, we
had never succeeded. Again and again
had the workmen been called in,. the
sole result being a bill. At all events,
;he charming villa residence upon a
gravelly soil, with all the modern im
provements, and draining right into
the main sewer—see house-agent’s ad
vertisement—was decidedly ineligible
respecting sundry odors; and to get it
hahitable necessitated the construction
a drain, during which I had an op
portunity of gazing down into the black
watery way running along beneath our
road, and became so interested in its
appearance, and moved by so strong a
desire to explore its mysteries, that I
presented myself one day at the coor
of the palatial building in Spring Gar
dens devoted to the Metropolitan Board
of Works.
Nothing could have been more cour
teous than my reception; and after a
few minutes’ conJ&rsation, I was fur
nished with a couple of cards—pass
ports to the lower regions; and the
same day I presented myself before a
man who looked at my cards, looked
at me, and then smiled.
I don’t think os you’ll like to go
down, sir,” he said. “ Why, you’ll
have to wade through swage up to your
middle; but we can dress you up,
you like.”
I did like—or at least I said so; the
'same spirit that has urged me on to do
several similar things was thrusting me
on now, at the same time keeping me
in a most horrible stew, by presenting
to my excited imagination rising waters,
strangling men, and corpses swept away
into the river.
In twenty minutes I was fitted with
a suit of extremely unpleasant clothes
of an india-rubbeiy texture; and fol
lowing my guide, who was provided
with a lantern, we stopped at last at
an iron door in the pavement, over
which, key in hand, my leader stooped
what time I was seized with on exceed
ingly strong inclination to say, “Thank
you; that will doand to go back, .
However, I said nothing, but watch
ed my friend while he raised the door,
revealing a grating, up which stole
villainous mist, pale, blue, ghostly-look-
ing, and seeming like the vehicle that
would bear disease through the streets
and courts of the great city. I knew
tbatmut in a moment ; it was the par
ent of that nasty smell that pervaded
onr house. It was vile, mephitic,
drainy, gassy, and repugnant to the
nostrils, and I involuntarily shrank
back.
My companion, however, was not
deterred; he quietly performed an act
which raised a new sense of discomfort
in my breast—he lowered the lantern
by the string, and stood watching
see if it burned brightly.
“ If that there wouldn’t burn, we
shouldn’t breathe,” he said. “ Many
poor chap’s heeu stuffocated by that
the^ bad gas, sir.”
The lamp horned tolerably - well
prid he. then began to descend a square,
well-like place, provider! with iron foot
holds, till he stepped with a hollow
done enough. The next minute the
hugebootsT wore had taken me sud
denly into the mud, for one slipped
from the damp iron upon which it rest*
ed, and I was beside my guide, look
ing through an opening whereinto glid
ed along a - black, whispering river,
through which my guide waded, and I
followed, the water' being about two
feetdeejL *Vi*’-'-'-”' •
If you will iiniginc what your coal-
cellarwould-bel^^tivere continued for
miles, its walls wet and slimy, and a
filthy stream ever running through it,
you have the exact appearance of one
of the main sewers of one of those sub
terranean channels tliat, varying in di
ameter from three feet to nine, form a
vast network beneath London’s streets
for the measured distance of two thou
sand miles. The figures sound large,
but they are correct; and ever through
these slimy veins flows on a current of
impurity towards the outfalls at Bark
ing on the north, and Crossness on the
south side of the river Thames.
Ail this I learned as we slowly wad
ed along, our voices sounding hollow,
as did the whispering hurrying waters.
“ What’s that?” said my companion.
“ Well, that’s a small drain coming
from a side-road, and into that, you
know, there are small drain-pipes run
from the houses. Well go up it, if you
like, only you’ll have most to creep.”
I did not like, so we did not go ; but
I waded on, keeping inconveniently
dose to my companion, for did he not
know the mysteries of the place ? and
did he uot bear the only light we had
through those dank shades?
“Accidents? Well, gas collects
sometimes, and we have a bit of an ex
plosion ; but the men are very careful.
The water, too, comes down with a
rush sometimes, after a heavy rain—
six, eight, or nine feet—and then, of
course, it sweeps all before it; hut our
men are very careful when they do
come down, which isn’t often: they
keep pretty close to the openings."
But suppose a heavy shower came
now ?”
Well, we should have to get up as
soon as we could.”
I looked to see if the water was ris
ing, and it seemed certainly two inches
higher up my boots. Ten minutes af
ter, I was sure of it “ Here’s the
water getting into my boots l’’- I ex
claimed. -* •<
Ah, ah! it often does,” was the re-’
ply. “It’s a bit deeper here, for an
other big sewer joins just below.” '
But don’t you tbiuk it is raining ?”
Well, perhaps it is,” was the cool
reply; “ hut, os I told you afore, if it
came much, we should have to scud.”
To scud! Fancy scudding in hip-
boots dowu iu a hideous drain, with
the prospect of being swept away and
drowned, like a rat in a sinkhole !—
The idea took away my breath, and I
must have gasped, for my companion
exclaimed : “ Ah, the air isa bit bad
down in this part, but it’il get better
d’reckly. IFAafs that opening /—Ah,
that’s the way up into another street.
Hadn’t ice better get up t Can t get up
there, and, besides, them’s the places
where the bad gas collects. Come
along, sir; I wont to show you the way
we get rid of the storm-water, and how
the sewers were altered. There’s mil
lions of rats down here, but they scud
off before the lights, and we dou’t see
'em. They keep mostly in the little
drains and pipes, and feed on the
grease that comes down the sink-holes,
and the filth and stuff that’s put down
here. People throw every thing they
can into the sewers. There’s tons of
entrails put down by some one ; and
more than onoe,” he added in a whis
per, that seemed to.die away in. the
gloomy hack vista ahead, “ we’ve found
here. Poor little things! I
wonder what sorter stuff their mother’s
arts were made on.”. „
We went on and on, past openings
large and small, my companion talking
away all the time, heedless of the quan
tity of mephitic air he was swallowing.
The walking was not of the best, the
curved brick bottom of the sewer being
rather awkwtud, and Wading mid-deep
in water is not fnvorable to progression.-
Suddenly a thought occurred to me
—“ Suppose we should be lost!” and I
asked my friend whether any one ever
did lose his way:
“ Well, as to that,” was the reply,
“ there’s so many ways up, and If there
was no gas in them, a man might knock
till some one heard him ; and there’s
always plenty ef people walking over
the iron doors in the pavement.”
. ’ ‘f If there was no gas,” I repeated to
myself, and theri I tried veiy hard to
take it coolly; but in spite of the dark
ness of the place, arid the fact of ray
wading iu water, I was bathed in per
spiration, and could not avoid an occa
sional shiver as I looked forward or
!backward, the dim light [ shedding
tremulous desire to see a swann of rats
swimming away from us in haste, but
none were visible. I learned, though,
that os-many as a hundred a day are,
in spite of their swimming powers,
swept away drowned, and afterwards
caught in the screens used for strain
ing the water at the pumping stations,
where it is raised from the low to the
high level sewers, that it may find its
way by gravitation to the Thames, at
th<? owt&U reservoirs;
“This is what I wanted to. show
you,” said ray companion, stopping be
fore some brick-work; aud theu he ex
plained to me that the old sewers used
to run down at ouce into the Thames,
the new system of drainage being ar
ranged so as to intersect all the old
sewers, the lower parts of which were
stopped to nearly the height of the roof,
but left open there, so that iu time of
extra pressure from storms, when the
main sewers get too full, they overflow
iuto the old, which channels carry off
the nearly pure rain-water by the old
way into the river.
At last I declare that I will liave no
more of it, for I find that cvey fifty
yards is but a p.ecise repetition of the
fifty yards before—nothing but elon
gated cellar, black and slimy with the
rushing water, aud here and there some
sluggish tributary stealthily pouring in
its adjunct of filthly water. Two thou
sand miles meandering beneath Lon
don, from Highgate, Paddington, Ac
ton, and Chiswick on the north and
west, to form junctions at Old Ford
and Abbey Milk, and then flow on to
Barking; and on the south side of the
Thames, from Putney, Balham, and
Morwood, to join at Greeuwich, and
flow on to Crossness beyond Plunstcad
Marsh. There k traveling enough for
the enterprking who like to try it, hut
when, in answer to my solicitations,
and after feeling positively certain that
we had lost our way, and taken a
wrong turning, my guide brought me
to where I could once more breathe the
pure air of heaven—that k to say, the
air as pure os we get it in London
streets—it was with a feeling of ineffa
ble satisfaction that I saw let down,
first the iron grate, then the diamond-
pattern iroa trapdoor.
Clay and Bachanau-lnterestfog Re-
1 mlniseenees. -ii
reproached Clay for his .harshness, be
shrugged hk shoulders arid said : “Ob,
hang him, he deserved it! He writes
letters:" On another occasion Buch
anan defended himself' against •' the
charge of hostility to the [second war
with England by showing’that he had
formed a troop of Lancaster Krirse, and
rode to Bidttowe to resist the invader.
“ Yes, Mr., President,” was Clay’s
prompt rejoinder, “ I remember also
that by the time the Senator got into
Maryland the. enemy had firid. Doubt-
lcess they had heard of the approch of
the distinguished ^gentleman and retir
ed before the prestige of hk> cour
age.” ;
But time, if it does not: make all
things even, mollifies the passions of
men. Mr. Buchanan was too much
a man of the world—too accomplished
a courtier—uot to soften the asperity
of so proud a spirit as Clay. They
frequently met in society in after years,
especially at the dinner table. If they
did not become friends, they at least
ceased to be enemies. And in 185G,
when Buchanan became the Demo
cratic candidate for president he had
no more hearty supporter thau the son
of the great Kentuckian, Janies B.
Clay, who, after having served in the
confederate army, died at Montreal on
the 29th of January, 1864.
Benton, who had always opposed
Buchanan’s aspirations, because he re
garded him as weak and timid, power
fully championed him in that year,
eveu against hk own son-in-law, Fre
mont. Rufus Choate, Webster’s near
est friend, was on the same side; so
were John Van Buren and bk father,
notwithstanding both held Buchanan’s
friends accountable for the nomination
of Polk in 1844.
Cromwell’s Skull.
Henry Clay never fully forgave
James Buchanan for the part he play
ed in 1824-*25 in foe celebrated bar
gain and sale by which it was charged
that Clay gave the vote of Kentucky to
John Quincy Adams for President in
stead of Gen. Jackson, in considera
tion of his subsequent appointment by
Adams to the department of State.—
Buchanan was then a representive in
Congress from the old Lancaster, Ches
ter, and Delaware district in Pennl
sylvania. Chosen originally ns n
Federalist, he became a Democrat un
der the influence of Jackson’s popular
ity, while Clay, originally a Demo
crat, became a violent Whig antago
nist of Jackson and hk party. Ih
1824-’5 “Buchanan \\‘ns in hk thirty-
fifth year, and Clay* in his forty-eighth.
The accusation that Clay Had sup
ported Adams for a place in his cabi
net, long insisted upon by his adversa
ries, aroused the bitterest passions, and
was haughtily arid indignantly repell
ed by himself. He was made to be^
lieve that the story was started by the
young member from Lancaster; but
this whs always denied by the latter,
and he wrote several letters effectually
disproving it, hut they were not satis
factory to the imperious Kentuckian.
It win he recollected that John Ran
dolph ofVirgtriia was One of Clay’s
fiercest assailants, and he carried hk
enmity so far that it led to a duel be
tween them, which terminated without
bloedshed. Some teu years later, Clay 1
and Buchanan were in the United
States Senate togother, and the latter
was one of the leaders of the Democr
acy.
Clay did not conceal hk dislike of
the Pennsylvanian, and sought every
occasion to show it. One memorable
day he rose and made a studied attack
upon the Democrats, and especially
upon Gen. Jackson. Mr. Buchanan
was put forward to answer him, which
he did with hk best ability. When be
took his seat, Mr. Clay rose with well
feigned surprise, and sarcastically re:
marked that “ he had made no allu
sion to the Senator from Pennsylvania.
He was referring to the leaders, net
to the subordinates, of the Democracy.”
Upon which Buchanan took the floor
and said that tho Senator from Ken
tucky was certaiuly in error, because
he had pointedly and repeatedly look-,
ed at him while he was speaking.
Clay quickly and sneeringly retort
ed by alluding to Buchanan’s slight
obliquity or vision. “Ibeg to say,
Mr. President,” he remarked. “ that
the mistake was the Senator’s and not
The skull of Cromwell k still above
ground, and it k in the possession of a
citizen of London. Several years since
it was exhibited publicly. The hkto-
ry ot the head k os follows: Cromwell
was buried in great strite at Westmins
ter Abbey. At the Restoration, how 1
ever, hk body arid those of some of hk
associates were dug up, suspended on
Tyburn gallows for a whole day, and
then buried under it. The head of
Cromwell, however, was taken off; car
ried to Westminster Hall aud fixed
there; where it remained some time;
hut the great tempest at the commence
ment of this centuary blew it down
where it was picked up. by the great
grandfather of its present possessor.
Thk is a significant commentary on
earthly greatness. The popular idol
of one generation may become the
scorn and loathing of another. The
body of Cromwell, carried to hk burial
in royal, state, only a few years after
his interment k rudely torn from its
last resting-place, and the half-decayed
carcass, dragged by the heels through
tlie mud and mire of London, k hang
ed upon Tyburn, tree, the head after
wards torn off and placed so that in
grinning horror it ever looks towards
the spot where King Charles was exe-
cu ed.
l ...a,
The Sugar Gane Orator.
The monotony of Justices’ Counts
Courts is occasionally relieved by tlie
appearance of characters whose eccen
tricities are so marked os to excite par
ticular attention, or by tlie entrance of
persons who, not being satisfied with
the efforts of Attorneys, attempt to pre-
Pruin de expungement oh de Law(!)
and de row-dacity. ob de witness you
can see he sm gulty oh de: trust after
de delegation, and he *tund up befiwr .
de presents ob de . honorable judge and
tell a big lie—-^aws he gone in de cane
patch and fairly tief de juce out oh dc
pugar-catie. ahd ’den-left de diy-up
stalk standing jiit ftte de purpus* dr
deceibing dfa Court I! d) >■ -ih
De Gal (a witness in dis caso) cum
up to testify agin hum, hut caws ho
used to go to see de Gal two time a
week, de Gal stand up uh befor God
and tell'a falsifier! •
Now Mass’r Judge de extificatiou of
dc satisfy am laid down in de Consti
tution oh de Nighted State which gib
ehbry body de exemplify—liberty, fur
protection of lie rights! 8o under^
dese case, tiwl I ax is to bab dis nigger
turn ober to dc jail so dot dc zemplify
ob de law is carry out and de men I-
ment to de Constitution fulfi lsl iu 4*
spirit oh do truth aud de jestice—enws
he can tief aliuose is had is sum ob bo
Yankee sojer what Mnss’r Sherman
bring down uh! Data my remark
Mass’r Judge!
Men of Humble Origin. :
Apropos to a letter in which tlie
writer seems disposed to controvert tlie
poetic maxim asserting that “honor
and feme from nil conditions rise,” wc
may say that almost any collection of
dktinguished names may set him to
further reflection on the subject. The
history of our own country is full of il-
lustratiois, fifatu John Adam , wl o
was the son of an humble fanner, and
Franklin, who was the son of a tallow
chandler, down to the .nien of our own
time. It finds hrilliririt examples even
under aristocratic institutions. Popo,
one of the greatest of English poets,
was the soii of a linen-draper. *BIoqm-
field wrote his best poem, “ The Far- '
mcr’s Boy,” while working in ri garret,^
ns a shoemaker. Gifford, the first edi
tor of the Quarterly Review, began life
as a sailor boy, and afterwards served
an apprenticeship to a shoemaker.—
Ben Johnsoti, the dramatic poet, work
ed for sometime os a bricklayer.—
Shakspeare was the son of a poor man,
who could not write hk name. Bums
was the son of a small farmer; Allen
Cunningham of a gardener ; Hogg was
a shepherd; Ebenezer Elliot worked
in an iron foundry; Falconer was n
bailor boy; Thomas Moore was the .spu:
of a grocer, who, however, contrived
to give him a classical education; Ger
ald Massey k the son of a cannl hont-
man, and: began life as on errand hoy, t
rind was next an operative in a silk
mill. Daniel Defoe, the author of
“ Robinson Crusoe,” began life as a
hosier, and was almost, wholly self-
taught, Cpbbett was- iu early life a
frirmer’s boy, and afterward a private
soldier. Isaac Walton, the “CqiuplctO; (
Angler,” was n linen drajier. I)r..
Issac Miller, Dean of Carlisle, and hi*
brother Joseph, another of a History
of a Church, began life as wearers.-—
Dr. John Prideaux, Bishop of Wor
cester, got hk education at Oxford, hy
entering the University- a* a kitchen
boy. John Buifyan; author of the
“ Pilgrim’s Progress,” was a tinker,
and entirely self-taught. Joseph Ames,
the antiquary, was an ironmonger.—
Hugh Miller, the geologist and jour- .
nalist, was a qttarrvmnn. Camden,
the great historian was the sou of a
h(*ti-*e painter. Caxton, who w tl.e
sent tlie facte in a stronger light, so first ffil **. "P 11 printing press in Eng-
food, was apprenticed to a weaver.—■
The dramatist, Holcroft, was a groom.
Tom Paine was the son of a slaymaker.
Sam Pepvs was the son of a tailor.—
Richardson, the novelist, was the son
of a joiner. Among scientific men,
Simpson, the mathematician, was a
weaver. Captain Cook was the son of
peasant, who. at seventy years of
age, learned to read that he might pe
ruse tho narrative of his son’s voyage*.
Sir Richard Arkwright, the inventor
of the cotton spinning machine, com
menced life as a Imrlwr. Brindley, the
engineer, began life as a mechanic.-
Sir William Herscjiei; the illustriou*
astronomer, was a musician in the
band of a regiment. Farmday, the
chemist and natural.philosophcr, was
the son qfa blacksmith. Ferguson,
the astronomer, was a shepherd. John
Hunter, the celebrated surgeon, and
his brother William, the eminent phy
sician, were sons of a former. Chan-
trey, the sculptor, was a. milk-boy; and
Flaxman, another great sculptor, was
the son of a plaster-cast maker. Sir
[Thomas Lawrence, the painter, was
heek of his boots were each run the son of an inkeeper. Opio, the
i on the outeide, Ctesar. maintain-^ painter, worked in r saw-pit, and
cd his footing even , when his bodyHogarth, the satirist, begun life as a
writhed into exclamation points at the j working engraver of coate of arms.—
erd of each sentence. The . Justice iCohden, the statesman, was tho sou of
and the lawyers were all attention! a former,
whikt Caesar spoke as follows i,
that the Justices inay be certain to give
decisions such as shall accord with the
notions of the world-be pleaders. Am
ong the latest efforts,of this kindiu the
following speech of a would-be prosecu
tor, delivered a day of two since. The
wise was one of larceny after ttuqt delei-
gated. The Attorneys had spoken,
and the Justice was about to give a
decision, when Noah Csssar,, colored,
asked permission “ to remark on de
subjection before de Court.” Noah
Cseasr k a(tall.plantation hand. His
complexion k as dark as a black ket
tle, and hk large eyes sparkled and
rolled in poetic frenzy. On the occa
sion of his last speech he wore a pair
of black pants, each kg of which was
tucked into the top of a dozzar boot—
Closely fitting hk body was an old blue
and swallowtailed coat, with large brass
buttons gleaming in single line from
neck to the waist The coat-sleeves
were too short, aud Cscsar’s long and
tapering fingers wildly described many
curves and tangents in the air when
hq was making the closing , appeal in
behalf of the prosecution. Though
the
down
Sir Johtr Hawkins, the fa-
Mass’r Judge—Frum de delegation
ob de foe in dis ease de accusatiou-man,
who I prostitute in di*3 case, come be-
mous general; l>cgan life as a hotu-e-
buildcr. These names may serve to
set our correspondent thinking.— Phil
adelphia J.edyer,
it