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{ESTABLISHED IX TUI7 YE.' R IS ','. !. , . . . C. THIEAIEIID,) PROPRIETOR. j VOL. XIX. .MISCELLANEOUS,. BOOMS OF OTHER DATS. How Daniel Webster Misled iiis Goal of Hi3 Ambition. There is nothing new under the sun. “The presidential boom” is on ly anew name ; the thing existed ev en as far back as Monroe’s adminis tration, when the “era of good feel ing,” outwardly serene, was honey combed with personal intrigue, jeal ousy and backbiting among possible candidates for the succession. In deed, while nearly the whole cabinet family of the President, whose name is popularly a synonym for peace and good will, were continually deal ing one another intimate blows un der the fifth rib —as when Clay an tagonized J. Q. Adams’ policy at critical moments —a most perfect specimen of a modern “boom” was developed by the stolid but crafty Crawford, of Georgia, whose whole talent, like that of our contemporary statesman, ran to the organizing of his personal following and the pick ing up of delegates. Again, the same thing appears in the passages in the memoir of Thurlow Weed, where it is related bow near Daniel Webster came to the Presi dency on two occasions. In the spring of 1839, Mi'. Weed went to Washington and called Mr. Web ster into the cloak-room at the Capi tol. “I think 1 shall be the Whig candidate,” Mr. Webster said. Mr. Weed expressed a doubt. “Who, then will be ?” asked the Senator. “It looks to me like Harrison/’ said Mr. Weed. Mr. Webster declared that Harrison stood no chance. “You are misinformed,” he said. “The party will choose a man with longer civic, appearance, who is bet ter adapted to the place.” The ques tion is,” said Mr. Weed, “who will poll the most votes?” “Well” said Mr. Webster, “very well; but what does this mean ? You are going to choose a Scott delegation in New York.” That, Mr. Weed explained was to keep New York away from Mr Clay. Then he went on : “You do not see me here to argue about that. What I came for and what I want is for _mito be willing to ac cept the support of New York for the Vice Presidency, in case my prediction about Gen. Harrison is verified.” Mr. Webster would not listen to this, and “Captain” Tyler ivas ultimately nominated. The me moir says that “two years later, when Gen. Harrison was dead and Mr. Ty ler President, Mr. Webster, Secreta ry of State under the late Vice-Pres ident, had abundant leisure to reflect upon the conversation in the cloak room at the Capitol.” In 1848, Mr. Webster was visited by Mr. Weed at Marshfield and urg ed to accept the support of New York on a ticket headed by Gen. Taylor. “Well,” said Mr. Webster, when Mr. Weed appeared at Marsh field, “how do things look now ? I suppose the question still is “Who will poll the most votes?’” “Yes,” said Mr. Weed, “and that man is Gen. Taylor, who will be the next President.” “Why,” said Mr. Web ster, “ Taylor is an illiterate frontier colonel, who hasn’t voted for forty years !” Mr. Weed unfolded the ob ject of his visit, insisting that Gen. Taylor must bo nominated by the Whigs, or he would be taken up and elected by the Democrats. Mr. Webster sent for George Ashman, of Massachusetts, and Senator Wilson, of New Hampshire, with whom po litical prospects were thoroughly can vassed. They listened to Mr. Weed’s arguments, and were disposed to yield to his suggestion. Finally his point was gained, and, pleased with his success, he was about to take his departure, when Fletcher Webster reached the Marshfield house, “The cause is making tremendous progress,” he said. Informed of Mr. Weed’s mission he ridiculed it unsparingly. “Enough,” said his father, “I shall remain in the field a candidate for President, lam not a candidate for any other place.” The National con vention met in June. Gen. Taylor was nominated. The Vice-Presiden cy went begging, until finally a ven turesome delegate nominated Mr. Filmore, and he became the candi date. Gen. Taylor was elected. He died the 9th of July, 1850. Mr. Filmore became President, and Mr. Webster accepted the position of Sec retary of State in Filmore’s cabinet. Had Mr. Webster allowed the use of his name for the Vice-Presidency, in either of the above cases, he would have reached the goal of his ambi tion —the Presidency. After occu pying the office a part of a term, it j would probably have been very easy j to make him his own cuccessor. Mr. | Weed’s idea of the importance of the Vice-Presidency, as twice exhib ited in endeavoring to obtain Mr. ; Webster’s consent to become a can-: didate for the second place, has found j abundant illustration in the history j of the country. — Bolt on Tran*eript.\ ANECDOTES JIFJENJAMiN. The Great Barrister’s Early Industry and Matrimonial Infelicity. A lawyer of this city, whose prac tice has thrown him into intimate re lations with a companion of the late Judah P. Benjamin, in his earlier struggles at the bar of New Orleans, states that he studied persistently till late at night, and at that time denied himself persistently those luxuries of which afterwards he delighted to in dulge. During the war, Mr. Ben jamin is said to have spared no ex pense to load his table with imported articles, which could only be obtain ed from blockade runners. As to bis marriage, a brief period of happiness was succeeded by a mu tual enlightenment, which convinced Mr. Benjamin and his wife that they were unfitted to live in the relation of husband and wife. They pro ceeded in a cool, business like way, devoid of passion upon both sides, to treat for terms of separation. The concessions of the husband were most generous, and to the wife per fectly satisfactory. She established herself in I’sris, and when Mr. Ben jamin found himself in that city he never failed to honor Mrs. Benjamin with a call, as he would have done any other lady for whom he enter tained a sincere admiration and re gard. Mrs. Benjamin, upon her part, was wont to receive her husband with all the courtesy and respect that it would have been possible for her to extend to any other gentleman. They agreed that they were charmed with each other’s society, and had made but the single mistake of mar rying each other. There is a fact or two about Ju dah P. Benjamin’s early life that is worth knowing. His father was a small, dark-skinned Jew, who kept a little fruit shop on Market street, in Charleston. Benjamin’s early life was spent in that shop. He was ed ucated by the Hebrew Orphan Socie ty of Charleston, graduating under their care at the Charleston College. He was a grass orphan by that time. By this time his mother, disagreeing with his father, bad left her home and gone to Beaufort, where she op ened a general country store. Forty years ago she was conducting it suc cessfully. Both Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin were devoted adherents to the grand old religion of their fathers, and Judah P. Benjamin was educated in it. He has always retained his respect for his race, although he married a Gen tile, and has never been identified with the Jewish Church. His fine reply in the Senate, when be was taunted in a hot debate with being a Jew, is well remembered : “The Sen ator,” he said, rising gracefully, and speaking in bis usual silvery way, “will please remember that when his half—civilized ancestors were hunting the wild boar in the forests of Silesia, mine were the princes of the earth.” The Senate was electrified, and the carping Senator was silenced. — Phil adelphia Press. Tmugh*-miTed family. Carious State of Affairs Causes! by Eccen tricities of Wedlock. A class of marriages that may cer tainly be regarded among the eccen tricities of wedlock are those un ions bringing parties into complex family relations. Mr. Howe tells us of a marriage, in Cornwall in 1823, by which the father became brother-in law to his son ; the mother, mother in- law to her sister ; the mother in-law of the son his sister-in-law ; the sister of the mother-in-law, her daughter-in-law; the sister of the daughter-in-law, her mother-in-law; the son of the father, brother-in law to his mother-in-law, and uncle to his brothers and sisters ; the wife of the son, sister-in-law to her fa ther-in-law, and aunt-in-law to her husband, and the offspring of the son and his wife would be grand children to their uncle, and aunt and cousins of their father. Says Jeffer son ; “When Lord Dundreary has mastered all the difficulties of this perplexing piece of family history, he may throw daylight into the dark ness resulting from the Intermarriage of the Hawoods and Cashicks of Kent.” This family complication was caused thus: One member of the Ha wood family had two daugh ters, one of them was married to John Cashick the father and the other to John Cashick the son. The elder had a daughter of his first wife, whom Mr. Hawood subsequently married, and this lady could now claim her father as her sou, her sister as her daughter, and her brother as her grandchild. This occurred in the seventeenth century, and, with the help of several intermarriages since to further complicate matters, there is not one of the descendants of these families to-day who can clearly de fine his own position with regard to his relatives of the present genera tion, much less those of one or two generations preceding him. —London ] t’■irr .j ><>}:. Jr Cleveland He void, Devoted to tlio Cause of Truth and Jusllce, and the Interests of the People* GREENESBOIIO’, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1884. THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM. A Variable Sun likely again soon to brigh ten into a Gem of the Circum Polar Sky. A correspondent asks, says the Providence Journal , “where to look for the theory that the so-called ‘Star of Bethlehem’ is now a member of the starry family, and at stated peri ods returns to the sight of mortals ?” 'file theory concerning the “Star of Bethlehem” is based on a poetical foundation, having little to support it. In the year 1572, Tycho Brahe, a Dutch astronomer, discovered a new st ar near Caph in the constella- Cassiopca. It increased in brilliancy until it was as bright as Venus and could be easily seen at noonday. It continued to shine brightly for a month, then gradually grew dim and in sixteen months disappeared from view. It was looked upon as anew creation, or a sun on fire, and the general opinion was that it would never again shine in the star depths. Forty years after the telescope was invented. When it was turned to the position in the heavens occupied by the blazing star, a minute star was found near the identical spot. — This telescopic star is still there, and is doubtless the same one that blazed forth in 1572. The discovery that it existed, led astronomer- to searoh n- J tronomical records, and it was found that similar bright stars had appear ed in the same region of the sky in 945 and 1264. Counting back three periods from 945, we are brought to the near vicinity of the birth of Christ. About twenty-four of these tem porary stars have appeared in the last two thousand years, subject, like the star in Cassiopea, to sudden out bursts, followed by a return to their normal insignificance. They are now classed as variable stars, subject to sudden outbursts due to eruptions of blazing hydrogen, and which are followed by long periods of quies cence. The star was due in 1880 ; if it appears at all it will surely blaze forth by 1885. There is*a possibili ty, therefore, that the loug lost star of Bethlehem, the Pilgrim Star, the Star of 1572, or Tycho Brahe’s Star —for it is known by all these names —will once more become a shining wonder in the skv. HOW THF,Y*TREATED IT, In his memorial address in Atlan ta, on the 26th of April, Judge liill yer said: “ITe remembered when the United States government offered a reward of one hundred thousand dollars in gold for the capture of Presiden t Da vis and liis cabinet officers, one of whom was Hon. Clement C. Clay.— Placards offering this reward were posted at all the towns along the rail roads, and Mr. Clay traveled over these railroads in broad open day light, but was not arrested. He re membered attending preaching at the Second Baptist Church in this city oue Sunday morning. As he passed along to church, these placards were posted up along the street, but when the church services were over, lie re membered that they had all been torn down and trambled under foot. Mr. Clay passed through At lanta en route for LaGrange where he went to join his family. He saw the advertisements offering the re ward, but no one molested him, and when be had finished his business in LaGrange, ho traveled all the way to Macon on the cars ; hundreds saw him and k lew him, and any one of the number could have obtained the reward by accomplishing his arrest., but our people, though poor, did not want to obtain money by such means. Jlr. Clay went to the army head quarters in Vinevillc and surrender ed himself. It was suspected that President Davis and party would try to cross over into Alabama. A Fed eral lieutenant went to a certain fer ry kept by a man named Moore, and tacked up the reward notice on a tree. Moore was sitting on a log whittling a stick. He glanced at the adver tisement, The lieutenant told him that if he would arrest President Da vis he could obtain the reward ; that the whole nation was pledged for it and he would got it in bard cash. — The ferryman replied: “Although I am a Union man, if Jeff Davis calls from the other shore, I’ll put him across and I’ll not tell you, nor your government, nor anybody else about it.” The lieutenant, said the ferry man, appeared to be a small man while sitting on the log, but as he spoke these words, he arose, and when he straightened himself up he looked as tall as a tree. This was the way the reward was treated in the South.” uTrEN^BOYsI A man named Stacy, owner of a splendid drinking saloon in New York, signed the pledge recently and closed his house. Hearing that a party of lads had formed themselves into a temperance society, he gave bis experience as a rum seller'. “I have sold liquor,” he said, “for eleven years —loug enough for me to see the beginning and the end of its effect. 1 have seen a man take his first glass of liquor fli my place, and afterwards fill the grave of a suicide. I have seen man after man wealthy and educated, ccmc into ray saloon, who can not new buy their dinner. 1 can recall twenty custom ers worth from 8100,000 to 8500,000 who are now without money, place or friends.” • He warned boys against entering saloons on any pretext. He stated that he had seen many a young fel low, a member of some temperance society, come in with a friend, and wait while he drank. “No, no,” he would say. “I never touch it. — Thanks all the same.” Presently, rather than seem churlish, he would take a glass of cider or harmless lemonade. “The lemonade was nothing,” said the rumsejler, “but I knew how it would end. The only safety, boys for any man no matter how strong his resolutiou, is outside of the door of a saloon.” While we wrangle here in the dark we are dying and passing to the world that will decide all our contro versies ; and the safest passage thith er is by peaceable holiness. f|g§ POWDER Absolutely Pure. This Powder never varies. A mar vel of purity, strength and wliole someness. —More economical than the ordinary kinds, and can not be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phos phate powders. .Sold only in cans. — Royal Baking Bowmen Cos., 106 Wall-st., N. Y. april 1, ’B4 1884 1884 HARPER’S Young People. An Illustrated Heekiy—l6 Pages. Suited to Boys and Girls of from Six to Sixteen years of at/e. Volume V. Commences November 0, 1883 Harper’s Young People ij IV.o best week ly for children in A incrica.— [South west ern Christian Advocate. /11l that, the ar'ist’s skill can accomplish in the way of illustration has been done, and the best talent of the country lias con tributed to its text—[New England Jour nal of Education, Boston. In its special field there is nothin" that can bu compared with it.—[Hartford Eve ning Post. TEitVIS. Harper’s Young People, Year, post age prepaid, $1 60. Single Numbers, five Cents) ach. Specimen dopy sent on receipt of3 cents. The Volumos of Harper’s Young People for JBBI, 1882, and 1883, handsomely hound in Illuminated Cloth, will be sent by mail, pos age prepaid, on receipt of $3 00 each Cloth Ca'o3 for eaeli volume, suita ble for binding, will be sent by mail, post paid, on receipt of 50 cents each. 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