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The Dead Soldier.
The most precious tears are those with Which
llcaven bedews the uuburied hood of a soldjer.
Olive* Goldsmith,
Upon a distant war-warn field,
In death a soldier sleeps.
Unnumbered, overlooked—Do pago
His noble record keeps.
And Generals, with cross and wreath,
Ride ny him, up and down,
Nor think that he who bavvely fell
Is worthy of a crown.
For many a hero falls tho tear,
Or an anxious quest is heard ;
But for that fallen soldier
Is neither tear nor word.
There sits at fall of evening,
In his home far o’er the plain,
A father full of anxious dread,
And snys: “I fear he is slain l”
There sits a weeping mother,
And sobs aloud : "Help Heaven!
To us he has announced himself,
The clock stopped at eleven !’’
A maiden pale, with steadfast gaze,
Looks through the twilight dim ;
"And is he far away and dead ?
My heart near turns from him I”
Three souls with deepest ffifigttish filled.
Their tears to heaven commend.
For him who far away lies stain.
The soldier and the frieifet.
And heaven those heartfelt fefirS doth take
Upon a cloudlet’s breast,-
And bear them to the distant field
Where the soldier lies at rest, —'
And pour them from the clouds (is dew,
Upon (fie hero Slain ;
That he no more unwept may lie
Upon the distant plain.
National intftfbcmlcnt Political
Union.
GRANTIS.M THE J'A'fifEß OP BEI.KNAPIBM,
SCIIKNCKISM AND BABCOCK ISM.
To the Colored People of ihe Country:
We have before us a circular from the
headquarters National Independent Po
litical Union with the above heading.
IVe would like, did space admit, to pub
lish it entire. It says: -The undersign
ed,- in behalf of the National Independent
Political Union, and all persons who
favor the success of good government,
the r- turn to an honest administration of
all its departments and local self govern
mot for all the States, take this method
ot Cofff*un?CHting with the colored vo
ters of the country on political issues of
the day.
Fellow-citizcuF, industrious efforts
have been 1 made by the corrupt friends
of the present administration to convey
the impression that the colored voters ot
the country are all in favor of the re
election of President Grant. Such is
not the fact. Avery large portion ot us
take different views of our political duty,-
but we are all tired of our political serf
do in. The most intelligent) of us are
opposed to the loathesome corruptions
and tyrannical usurpations of the Re
publican party. We are opposed to
President Grant; for, as a statesman, he
deserves the censure of his countrymen
for having prostituted hiw high office by
the appointment of censual, Vicious,
abandoned and profligate men of mean
origin, unknown to the cotfn'ry, and cor
rupt personal friends and relatives to
places of trust and 1 emolument.
We are opppsed to the present leaders
of the party, * prominent ataong whom
are Senators Morton, of Indiana, and (
Cameron, of Pennsylvania: The former*
but a tew years ago, argued hr his State
against giving the Suffrage to colored
men, while the latter has proved himself
the most corrupt politician in the coun
try. Since Mr. Lincoln was forced to
expel him from his cabinet, he has not
reformed ? but,- on the contrary, has
grown worse, and the Administration,
instead of crying out t *0 wretched man
that I am,- who shall deliver me from-the
body of this death,’ has placed Mill in
control of the party, and therefore .we
are opposed to'it,-and wHI nse our best"
efforts to defeat it in the coming election.
We will do this beeause we have not
had one cheering or inspiring word from
it, as at present constituted, because it
Las tyranized and struck at the inde
pendence of the men with whom we
must live, if we expect to inhabit the
South ; because its penicious influence
has manifested itself in our treatment
everywhere, using us to further party
ends, and then dropping us after success
had been achieved arraying us against
the interests, peace and prosperity of a
whole section, and then abandoning ns
to infuriated mobs, which their perfkhty
* tiaed, only to excite the sympathy of
the North, by making the people believe
that Democratic leaders, and not Re
publican office-seekers are responsible)
because of its failure to pass any meas
ure for the benefit of the whole people,
Which would of course benefit us; be
cause a Republican Congress,- recreant
to its possessions, misrepresenting its
constituencies, and- insensible to right
aid justice, failed to pass any measure
having in view the liquidation of o U r
cm ■■ - 11 . m i ■■ihjm—
lioiUitfc Register.
VTol. 2*
claims against the Freedman's Hank,
and we will do this because we desire
‘the nnitjr of the ltepnblic, with equal
rights to all and reconciliation !’
The Republican party is not now tho
party of SSurtfdetj Seward, Wilson, Lin
coln and Hale—it has dwindled into
Grantism, and produced nothing btfl
Bolknftpism, Habcockism, SohenckisM,
and all the other degrading isms* of
which the present administration is the
father. If you are told by those who
would postpone the unity of the Repub
l'C( and influence youi minds against
those among whom you live< and whose
good‘wishes and enlightened policy and
self-interest command yon to cultivate/
that by not supporting corrifpt/on, fraud,
usurpation and military despotism, yon
have become Democrats,“ask them, is it
crimihal to do this ? Have we not the
same right to become honest Democrats
as white Republicans have to become
Kufflui? When Butler, Logan, Bout
well, Morton, and others, thought that
by becoming Republicans they could oh
tain office, did they not do it?
Is the Republican' party immaculate
after the disclosures so recently made to
the country ? Can honorable men still
adhere to it with the Emma Mine scan
dal ringing in their cars ? the sale of port
traderbhip polluting the atmosphere?
the sale of naval contracts, culminating
in the possession of worthless fi'ndf un
seaworthy ships of war ? judicial bribe
ry casting a pall over the courts of the
country ? defalcations in all the depart
ments of the government, paralyzing the
energy and damaging the moral vitality
of the people; the sitbiweision of local
self government, which has driven a
whole section to the verge of antffcfry
and ruin ? In view of all these, and
when, from the executive mansion itself
the noxious and inoculating miasma of
.corruption ,-md turpitude is impregnating
the very air we breathe, is it not injuri
ofits to be a lief iridican ?
Let no man, white or black, instill
fresh venom into your hitherto too eun
ffditu; breasts. Relieve not that those
who prefer lunesty to corrup'bn, are
actuated by rtitercertA r y*mbtives, or that
because men are called Democrats they
are unjust, evil disposed, and wicked.
The fesuoff which divided' Republicans
and Democrats are settled, and it ill be
comes any man to appeal to the passions
of ignotance tor party ascendency.
Norte but narrow minded partisans will
resort 1 to this. The true lovers of their
Vice and country will endeavor to soften,
. instead' of to intensity, the asperities and
flnimosi'ties of the dead past. Fix your
eyes on the future, and with Spartan-like
fidelity, cling to principles instead of to
party. The eomirtg conflict, fellow
citizens, is an all importSWf one; it is
important to us, important to liumariUy!
Let ufc all, colored inen, di band the hos
tile camps formed by the Republican
party endeavor to generate the flames
that tliat party lighted against an
impoverished section of our great Re
public! Let us be guided by the light
we now possess, and which no second
night of ignorance 6ab darken, no new
invention of political vandalism cart
overthrow.
The D’emoCralic parly, by the adop
ts,)A of tfre Cincinnati platform, has ac
cepted the principles which Charles
Sumner declared, the Republican party
failed to carry out, and therefore we
should prefer livrng.princlplesto faithless
men 1 In order to secure our supphlt,
who doubts that this party will not only
keep inviolate its seldom 1 pledges, but
reconcile both sections and both races.
In proof ot this, wte point you to the
adoption by them of the Baltimore platv
form in 1872 - , whicn recognized negro
emancipation—megro enfranchisement —
negro equafify before the law 1 Thede
are as secure as the granite foundation
of the world/ imbedded in the fundamen
tal law of the land, and 1 will ever be ir
reversible.
But the object of this address is not
to make you Democrats, it is to make
you citizens indeed, voting according to
the dictates of four own conscience) it
is to make you stand by the men who
stand by you, whose interest is yours,
whose success will not be sectional but
national, and enure to the prosperity of
all the people. By abandoning Grant
ism, this infamously and tyrannically ad
mniwteftd Republican party, and voting
tor principles, you are not necessary be*
coming Democrats, but will gam every
thing for which our friends hare conten
ted, and, with the support of *ll good
men, shall we sulk and express only
doubts of the sincerity of thjse desiring
our friendship ? It is not thus t* at we
are to win the respect of those to whom
CONYERS, G-A.. JUNE 1, 1870.
we have always been antagonized by
sMfish partisans preferring power to our
welfare, and what is more substantial,
our privileges and that cotisiderfttiofi of
which we have so lurtg been deprived.
Colored men, Not fit, South, East ap’d
West, disband your hostile camps. Di
tide your votes I Let us “not arrest the
longlhg for ooncord,’ but let tts, in the
language of Charles Sumner, “freedom
accent the hand that is offered and fetich
forth our friendly grasp/ Let us be
'against the policy of hate, against fan
ning ahoient flames into continued life.’
Let us cease to rake “in the ashes of the
past for coals of fire yet burning.’ Let
us pile up the ashes, extiflgfllsh the
flames and Abolish the hate 1’
Fellow-citizens, let As not doubt the
good faith of those whose patriotism
have brought them over to the tight
side, until there be proof to the contrary.
As yet, we who cherish ill that you are
contending for, and hold most sacred,
assure you there is not one particle of
doubt, that under economic-and just ad
ministration of the government, you will
enjoy all the rights And privileges and
immunities of American citizenship!
Fellow citizens, we cannot afford to lon
ger ignore our interests, the peace.and
prosperity of our country, by giving our
undivided 1 support to the corftfption
which litis been developing itself since
the close of the war.
With this plain and unvarnished state
ment, we leave the question to the can
did, enlightened judgmeuf< and careful
consideration of the colored people ti
the whole countiy, knowing that their
sense of justice will impel them to cast
their ballots for the representatives of
honesty, “the unit ot the republic; equal
rights to all and feconcilirttiatf!’ Let
neither the mrfledicfion, vituperation or
intimidation ot office holders of ottr OtWff
race deter you from voting tor honest
men regardless of party.- .
Oil,- tlnrt the Spirit of Charles Stt/ffnef,
pftrtadiog the illimitable universe in si
lence, may bring you info harmonious
relationship! Oh, that from the bound
less ether, sepai ating him from us, his
words, poleut as those of Him who rules
the heavens, night even now be heard,
proclaiming that . universal honesty,
which in these days, when the very at
mosphere is polluted, the country so
much need. Colored men ! the powers
of iniquity aVe at war with the hosts of
heaven; constitutional government is
menaced, and it is with you to “render
unto Caesar the things that ate Cmsat's,
aud unto God the things that are God's.
Rev. Caiiai.ni> 11. White,
President.
DATfrnr. Lewis, Secretary.
In behalf of the Independent Poliribaf
Union.
All persons in flivCri of tIU rtioVement
desiring information,- will pleadfe address
/teV. Gar limd If. White, No! M3 18th'
street,- Washington, D. tf.
GRAND CONVENTION!
Waßhin6son, D. C., May 16, 1876.
There will be a grand National Con
vention of colored men to meet in the
city of Atlanta, Ga 1 ., on the 26 th day of
June. We, like white men, can no lon
ger support the Corrupt Republican party
Which, for more than ten years, has used*
us as political slaves to fttrflher party
ends f tfre result of which has' ruined
the country. We propose.to' organize
to the end' that at the approaching Pres
idential election We will cast a united
vote for better men and a batter party.
All personS favoring this carefully con
sidered movement will at once go to
work nhd 1 take Stfch steps as will Secure
a large delegation frohi all the States
and Territories of the United Stases.
Tl is prayerfully hoped that the friends
of Atlanta Will make ample provision
fof the holding of said 1 Convention, and
report the sdme to these head-qnarterS
at an early day.
Rev. Garland 1 fl. White,
President.
No 1013’ Eighteenth street, Washington,
0. C.
An Riahrtfah being tried for assault
and 1 battery in Virginia City, Nevada,
when asked by Judge Knox if he had
anything to say by Way of defence, re
plied 8 : *Well, your Honor, I saw but
little of the fight, as I was underneath
most of the time.’
% ;
A Chicago trite asked for a divorce
because her husband was habitually
tfruAfb. He admitted being habitually
drunk, and pleaded that as an excuse for
not bringing the suit himself.
■ .
A melting Sermon being preached in
a country church, all wept except one
man, who, being asked why he didn’t
weep with the rest, said, ’Ob !. I belong
to auother eburob. ’
THE GREAT SEA-SERPENT-
o
the eabled MONSTER REAPPEARS.
'THat Was sC.C.n rkoM a steamer—a Ma k-
VF.t.iips mouKm ixtus
CAPTAIN—WHY Tffß skiri-Eft IffcCl.lNKl)
TO JOIN THE Sl-KCTA’foKS.
We extract the following from the
BoHfhay Gazette of the 7th ult. :
Steamship hypasPes, March 22, 18?&
I must tell you at otne that I write on
one of the most worn and commonplace
subjects—the voyage ot a A’onins tlar
find Orieutal steamer ffotart Bombay to
Aden. But I must ask you before
throwing this letter into' tho a aste-pa
per basket, to read it through carefully.
If if be not published, one of the most
extraordinary facts inf the world’s history
may be absolutely lost; and, inf the in
terest of truth, in tho interest 1 nfa'y say
truly of science; I ask you to make
known what I now state. Asa mission
ary, I have traveled over a great pttr't of
the world, hut I can safely aver that
what I saw on Saturday, the 18th da'y off
March, was incomparatively tlm nust
marvelous phenomenon that lias ever
met my eyes. .
We steamed out ol Bombay hat'bof oft
the eveiug of monday, the. 13th of
March, in the steamship Hydaspes, Cap
tain Reynold. On Tuesday at twelve
we had made 162 miles, on Wednesday
at midday 429, on Thursday 707. and on
Friday nearly 1,000. so that on •Saturday
morning we were ’about 1,550, miles
from Bombay. Nothing of fern ark had
occured up to Saturday. There were a
monkey and a Persian cat among the
passengers, which had caused some little
amusement, and thirty.two children, who
had caused extreme anuoyance to th’e
male passengers from the constant,
ffcreaius that they give forth rriorning
ftoon; aOd night. The weather was cool
and tteffrly eVery one slept below; except
OttH passenger, a Capt. Davidson, and
myself remained on dfck for the night.
I was aroused IroUl iny sleep noxl morn,
ing AT G by tfie men washing And scour
ing the decks, and on Saturday was
roused as usual. 1 took my plate ot bro
ken biscuits to the stern and sat there
munching them ami looking at the sun ris
ing. I was quite alone, Captain Da.
vidson still sleeping in peace on the port
side. There way a thick bank of clouds
on the norison, and as the sun rose from
the sea, behind fifths' dark bank, great
masses of color—red and blue and' yel
low—lit up the whole expanse of the sea.
I was looking at a strarigo ruddy blot of
red on the water right aljtern, rtHen I
saW,-apparently near tlm horison, but in
the red blot, a dark moving shadow. 11
did not seem 1 to move with the other
shadows on the sea, and this fixed my at.
tention to it. Soott I saw that it was
steadily approaching the vessel. I could
distinguish' no' form’, oidy a dark slWloV
advancing toward' us’and at a great rate.
Fifteen minutes must have passed when
I last bfecame ahla Cos" distinguish tin
form of the advancing object. (I spoke
to the Captain afterward as to the dis
tance the object could have bfeen from as
when I first distinguished it, and he told
me I must have been deceived by the
moving lights in supposing- it near tire
hCrison ; and he guessed from what f
said, that it was then only three or four
miles distant. Mistakes of a like nature
he said are commonly made by th'e inex
perienced.)' I can not accurately de
scribe my feelings oh beholding that
hidfeotW sight. At first 1 turned to call
out, to bring others to look on with mo ;
but before a cry coul<f pass my lips, a
SeCortd feeling of selfish pleasure that I
alone saw the fearful thing seized me,
and I turned my eyes again to the sea’
and kept them fixed there. Within a
hundred feet of the stern 1 of ottr vessel,
, not now approaching us, but simply fol
lowing steadily in our wake was this
hideorth thing. A great mass of what
looked like tangled seaweed, on which a
futile axtempt at combing had been made
rose out of the water. This mass must
have been twenty or thirty fefet itr length
and’ ten' feet in width', an'cf as it c.irrte on
jt caused a wide ripple in the water that
showed there must be a still greater pari
below the surface, From the centre ot
this mass, raised just clear above it and
facing the vessel, was a great black head.
The top was quite fiat, in shape not like
that ot a monstrous toad. A thick fringe
of coarse feddish hair hung over the
mouth, quite concealing it. Hut the eyes
were the most fearful part of this thing.
They were placed tar apart at either,
extremity erf the flat head, distant from
each other at least thiee feet, I must
here state that all the passengers and all
the crew except the Captain himself
saw the thing afterward, but that there
were scat ce y two who could agree as to
the color and nature of the eyes, I can
orly therefore, write ns they appeared
to ‘me. Tho eyeballs were enormous;
they must nave been four or tivo' inches
in diameter. They scintillated constant
ly. Every one knows tho extraordinary
appearance of rf smtaco Coveted with
small alternate squares of brigl/t rod and
bright blue the quivering; ifuoorttfln, un
fixed look such a si/rfaco has, the diffi
culty, the impossibility experienced by
the looker-on to fix the color of any
parti ciflar square.
The eyeballs of this thing had shell a
quivering, uncertain lookj- biit (hey
were not rod. not blue, not reu and blue,
they were of a bright burningly bright,
copper hue ; they pained our eyes—and
iu this we were all agreed—as we looked
at them In the centre ot each eyeball,
a nfere speck, hut visible from its extreme
brightness, was a point of light, of white
light. It was impossible to t"ll whether
pohits were or were not material points
of the eye, or merely caused ly the re
flection’ hut they were clearly defined,
and seenYed to remain in the same place.
The motion, however, of the thing was sO
that no deduction could fairly be drawn
from their not changing position. The
itpperance of this extiaordiuary creature
was so new to me, so entirely outsulo of
all my pievious ox|>erience, that I had no
preconceived ideas with which to com
pare the thoughts it raised in my •mirtd.
So the impression it caused was vague
and indefinite, and I can only say that
it laised in me extreme horror and
dislike.
1 had been 40 absorbed in the pleasing
pain of looking aft the th'iug, that I had
quite forgotten Ate other people bn board
and was first roused by heating Captain
Davidson step on the stern by me, give
One look below at tho water'; and then
hurriedly go hack. Iu a few minutes
every passenger was crowding 611 tho
stefn even the ladies appearing Chough
in uiiti.Vised costume. Exclamations of
the extremefit astonishment broke from
them all, and then silenco fell, as the
crowd stated at the hideous creatuVel
The children at the first sight, ran hack
helv/w sCi'eataing, and some refused to
come again on deck, though their nur
ses and ayahs—desirous of looking on
themse’ves—used all possible means to
make them. Some did however, curiosity
over coming tear, but even these look
ed on in perpetual terror, and held them
selves ready at the first movement of the
thing to rush away. I noticed at this
limb that the Captain was not present,
and turned to aD old European sailor by
me and asked him'to go and tell hint.
“Caplani won’t come, no fear of that
Sir said the sailor but ho would not come
for all that; however ho would go and
tell him’. Put ftibiigh he wont the Cap
tain did not oomo. We all Remained
absorbed in the strange sight till the
breakfast-bell had rang at 8:30, when we
had perforce to hurry away and take our
chance of batMhs rft that late hour.
Up to this time the thing had kept stead
ily in our wake, its movement .continu-
ing absolutely smobth and constant, and
the specks'of light in the glaring eyes
never chiming a' hairs breadth from' thair
ooSitioU. At breakfast t sat one removed
from the Captain. We began, ot course
talking of the tiling we had seen, but
the Captain for some reason’ We cohld
not th'en understand, seemed to dislike
the subject, and soon abandoned it, fall -
mg then into absolute' silence, for we
could talk of. nothing, else. When' we
went on dcok again—wo were ohly a
few minutes at breakfast—we fond the
thing still followiirg- steadily in our
wake. The children' hUvfnrg in’ great trteas
ure got over their fear, made a lOtig line
Dy joining hands, and the whole lot of
'them 1 would now crouch tfo Wn' a it'd then
sudenly rise up, optm their mouths at the
thing ,and cry out at it. No notice ap
parently being taken of this they grew
bolder, and at last their cries increased
until they shrieked- shrilly 1 . Suddenly
the hideous creature seemed roused by
these cries, it raised its head in the air,
uttered- a strange bellow,and came for
' Ward at a great pace toward the ship.
None of u could at first move from fear
the thhrg seemed to have grown in size,
i,its eyeballs were more burningly bright;
the children fell down crying, and some
of the women fainted. But we who re
irfained Sanding, suffering though we
were under intense terror, still could not
when we at last we-e able to move, re
treat, or even take our eyes off the thing.
It came swiftly up to the ship, always
uttering the saine peculiar cry or bellow.
When but a few feet from the stern, it
suddenly turned and came up close tc
port side. Here the side awnings had
been put up to keep the sun off,but three
of us rushed to the a-w ning and quickly
got it down that we might the better
watch the thing. For my.se'f I must I
tilS 1M stilt
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say while doing this I was still suffering
from fiitreff/o fear, Imt Hiy etniosrty was
so intense, so irresistible, that I could
act only as I (lid. Mo soot-or was the
tiling level with tis than if raised itself
with sudden movement high out of tho
water, till its head was thirty of forty
feel aboe us. ft still uttered the sttne
peotliar cry or bellow. Under our in
tfehse curiosity we stood out o H iAf6’bul
warks to follow its movements. It o.
pened a great month, cried more Icudly
than befoiV, nhd made three frfovM at
die mainmast. The last of these touch,
ed it, find caused the whole ship fo sway
violently, so tffirt vfff wefe nearly cast off
iiito the water. ■ When we again' JGokod
lor tho thing it had gone.’ There was
no ripple, no distmbauce of nfty ffibd in
tho watch to show where it had beert.
It was gone We looked
constantly for it during the remainder of
that day, but not the slightest trace dfrl
we ag-Vilr discover.
And now let me state shortly why I,
not overly facile in writing, or fitted for
the subject py knowledge, write this. At
tffiin, of th df same day, just air rte were
rising to return on deck, the Captain
rose and asked us to’ remain rt fr w min
utes. Then he shortly referred to the
st; agne sight we had seen that day, lay
ing stress on the fact, however, that ho
himself had not soon it, and went on :
“Now none of yoh cair doubt what you
saw-; but I advise yon not fo talk about
it. That was the serpent you saw. But
I wouldn’t talk nhout il if I saw it. ti
only lead* to making people laugh, and
the papers take it up and cut jokes oh it;
and it won’t do you any good, and it
would not do 1110 any good. But then
lemember, I did Hot see it, so I’Ve noth*
ing to do with this one. But, it you
takft my advice,-you wcfli’t talk aljbht it.
Punch took up one sea serpent, and that
Captain never got over it—never. Re*
member, though, I didn’t She this one.”
You will see new, Mr. Editor, thafrif
you don’t publish this, a most extraordi
nary I act may bo lost to tho world. This
account, I may state, has been read over
by tome of the passengers - and their dis
agi'oen'feDt from what I have written is
only what would neccessarily, under tho
oiroumstaiicep mentioned, be expected.
To show that I have no'fear of rkllctife,
I give my name.
idurifFw Strono.
I mqy Stßte that when the thing rais
ed itself up and struck the mast, it was
apparent that the sea weed-like mass was
■ long coarse hair, covering a dark thick
neck. But the thing could' possibly
have been a serpent: for, to raise so
prodigioiis a length of neck above the
the surface of a huge body below the
the surface was’ of course, Required:
A Practical Objection? Telegraph
Poles:
A merchant going homo elevated,
staggered against a telegraph pole!
‘Beg your pardon,’ said he. ‘I hope
no offense. ft's rat liter dark, and the
street is very narrow, you see,’
In a few minutes'he'came in contact
with another pole.
‘Couldn't help it sir,’ Said be> lifting^
his hat. ‘I never saw such crooked lanes
as we have here in this city,’
Again he ratt afoul of a pole, this time
with a force tHiatJseut him back to the
ground.
‘Look here, neighbor,- yott needn't
push a fellow down because ho happens
to touch ypu ; the road is atrittUteh 1 . mine
as yours, and I have as much right here
as you have,-old stick-in-the-mud.’
Picked hiros-lf up and made another
effort to reaich- home, hut he soon came
plump against another pole.
‘Shan't make any more apologies,’ said
ire ; ‘if you got into the middle of the'
street and stand in my Wify/ tiiWt*s your
look 601 not mine.’'
Proceeding on his journey again, he’
becoming angry and dizzy, lie seemed to
be entangled m an inextricable labyrinth
of telegraph poles, which led him to
make a general speech.
‘Gentlemen, you are not dhiffg the fair'
thing. You do not giver a uiun a lair
chance. You run iron Tone side of *'^ le
street to the other, right in my way.’
Just then he met a friend, and taking
him by the Hand, he said :
‘There*# a procession going alopg this
street, aud every man is drunk j they
have been running against me all the
way from the club, I knocked one of
the fellows down, and one of the fellows
knocked me dow, and then a lot of
them got around roe, and I believe they
would have licked me within an inch of
my life if you* had not ©owe to the res—
cue. Let us go out of this stroet before
the procession comes back for they are
all drunk.’—[California Spirit of the
Times,-