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the peasant hero.
J I. is a pleasant place in summer, the village
I- Eocorodskoe—to those, at least, who are not
tMTMilaia living, for neither hotel nor refresh*
PL r oom has ever been heard of there. The
L'oie place is simply one of those quaint little
Kin of rough-hewn log-huts, clinging like
-'pets to either side of the high road, whioh
t nowhere seen to snob perfection as in Swed-
r or Russia. Some few of t :e houses are of
i Ttnder sort—actually two storieB high, with
Inehtlv-paiated roofs and whitewashed balco-
Ls in front, that make them look as if they
ta white ties on. These are the “swell” man-
Las of the place, and look down upon the poor
He shanties aroond them as a footman looks
i»beggar; but, for the most part, our village
saade np of little cabins of the regular Ras
ta, ivpe, built with no tool but a short axe—
W-storied, thatched with straw, containing two
11 at most three rooms, and topped by the
Vjel-hat-shaped “Tckerdah” or garret, in
[rjjci lie fiussian peasant stows his hay, piles
a wad, stores his provisions, dries his clean
.leaf(rhen he has any), and, in a word, be-
everything that he cannot cram into the
He kennel below stairs, where he, his wife,
hs children, and very often likewise his ox and
p iss, his pig, and his poultry, and everything
Ei! is his, eat. drink. Eleep, and vegetate. The
Eiias of Air. Ivan’s hon6e fit into each other
I: the ends like the corners of a slate-frame, his
f ;ar is fastened by strong wooden pegs, beside
. big stove hangs the rudely-daubed pictnre of
ae ltas^an saint, with a candle burning in
|mt of it, and in the corner of the room stands
Ibge "coondook” or wooden chest, painted
El ind damped with iron bands. This chest
pie peasant’s greatest pride; he keeps his
Inky clothes in it—he and bis friends sit upon
K He a sofa, and whenever he changes from
pe (j p!«e, ho always drags this great heavy
pstnbar of a thing along with him.
Sat 1 danbt whether any of yon woald like to
;t; in s hessian cottage. The roof is jnst a
liltsie of saplings and spiders; the walls'a
biib-msh of wood, earth, and earwig*; the
Lra paste of straw and clay, dotted with black
ptia, like the plains in a Christmas pudding,
la. Lnt I lived in had only jnst been bnilt, so
l:: I had nothing to disturb me worse than a
kgiBent of black ants marching every now and
l:-.c on: of the cracks in my window sill, or a
puia of muiqnitoes coming “ping-pinging”
Erongh my open window. And, what's more I
Ltd a little ronnd table fixed in the ground in
l.-jct of my cottage, and a low bench pnt beside
V and there I used to have my breakfast and
la in the open air; and I can tell yon that when
I •■tit sitting (here about seven o’clock on a glo-
r.onj summer morning, fresh from my early
kls. with my cosy little tea um steaming in
frost of me, a fresh roll on one side, a couple
If new laid eggs on the other, and the soft,
puny, sunny uplands stretching before me for
p.s, edged here and there with dark patches
if forest, like far trimmings upon a velvet robe
-1 w»s 03 happy as could be. One may be com-
palle in Russia as well as anywhere else; and
Vhnyoa come to travel there, yon soon find
R that it's not the cold dark prison, fall of
fits, wolves and frost-bites, that we nsed to
Tagineit; that there are other things to eat
ww beside soap and candles, and other things
Mo beside sitting all day clo3e to a stave with
tvoolen comforter ronnd your neck.
I While the heat of the day lasts you don’t see
>tck of onr villagers. Hero and there yon may
[' ia with a stray one creeping the highway,
F straggling about the fields; but, as a rule, the
f'k.of the population don’t show np till towards
M—6- Then, as if by magic, the whole place
F-iitnly becomes alive with all kinds of queer
fr-rcs: bearded laborers in greasy red shirts,
f* boggy trousers stuffed into their high boots;
Footiag children, shaggy as bears and brown
pcuel-nnts, with nothing on bnt a pancake*
F ired night gown well lined with dirt; short-
fhttid women, with scarlet handkerchiefs ronnd
Mir beads, and round, flat, wide-mouthed faces,
looked like a penny with a hole through it;
-'teats with straggling black hair, and an
p-bfi aawashed look about them, ogling tho
J ■■on-cheeked, barefooted lasses who come trip-
ly with their pails of spring water; and
P** village policemen with brass buttons,
l-hag on with an air of fatherly superiority.
R it is beside the rickety pump in front of the
prS# “shop of all sorts” that the great assem
ble held. There fathers disease things in gen-
H their months fall of black bread and
,-vlcucumber; there mothers compare notes
^family matters, or drive bud bargains among
pxstlves; and there children of every ago
ft/* themselves with tho national sports of
f ^in the gutter and throwing dirt in each
eyes, varied by an occasional boot at
■ple-bones, by way of variety.
o:t ia winter a sad change comos over merry
Ppodskoe. Instead of the charming little
pjje, full of life and enjoyment, yon see
, ~:gbnt a cluster of silent huts, half-buried
Jttav, peering above the great white desert
extends on every side. All around, the
pc, desolate fields stretch their ghostly wastes
r the horizon, while here and there a solitary
r Vfn , distnrbed by yonr approach, flaps heavi-
[■ a *ay with a dismal scream, like seme belated
ptetre ^turning to its grave. Tho few peas-
r-ts who still linger about, muffled in their thick
lii.li' a Crocks, survey you with an air of dis-
astonishment, as if wondering what bus-
EJ® fon have here at all; the leafless trees
I "’’P gaunt and grim against tho cold, grey
‘“v trn army of skeletons; and over au
f;Ws a dead, dreary, ghostly silence, broken
y> v l, y the distant barking of a dog, or the
I.l a of the wind through the distant forest
F~ *®«e still, if you happen to stroll beyond
after ^Mk, y°n w iU see Polo spots of
>;Guethe flame of a half-quenched coal,
t-rt ? amon B the trees—and hear a long, mel-
r^ty howl, like the wail of the wind on a
K * !? nter ni 8ht, going drearily up through
•' Jll. frosty air—and suddenly find yourself
Beside the tea-urn stood a small lamp (gur-
gling and sputtering as if it had a bad cold),
which threw a pale circle of light upon the
heavy crossbeams of the roof, and the dark sal-
law, bearded faces of the company. They made
a very striking group under tho dim lamplight,
these six men, and all the more so from the
strange manner in which they were behaving.
In an ordinary party of Russian peasants you
would have heard ceaseless talking and laugh
ing, boisterous jokes, stories of Neighbors This
and Neighbors That, snatches of old songs sung
in this very place by the same kind of men in
the days of Peter tho Great, and possibly, if
the story-teller of the village happened to be of
on the breast of its pursuer. Down go man and
wolf amid a whirl of flying snow, while a shrill
yell rings out on the silent air, for even in the
sudden shock of that death-grapple, Vladimir’s
knife has fonud time to come home, and tho hot
blood pours over his face and breast from the
wounded side of his adversary. And so, far ont
°? lonely plain, with the cold moon looking
pitilessly down upon it, begins the tng for life
and death. Over and over they roll in the bloody
snow, the wolf clutching at the throat of the
man, and the man burying his knife in the side
of the wolf. Crushed to the earth beneath a sti
fling weight—spent with his long watch andhead-
longrun—with certain death glaring at him from
the party, an old legend or two handed down the yellow, murderous eyes of the savage brato,
from generation to generation since Russia first! the stubborn Russian still fights doggedly on. In
- Dia , Mnr ° m ^ tz f TJSht j the hot fury of that mortal struggle, the fierce
with the Nightingale Brigand, and how Alexy hnnter-nature awakes, sweeping away all mem-
Popovitch slow the Plying Tartar. Bnt these - “ - *- -
men were silent and thoughtful, no joke, no
stories, no laughter, every face clouded with
anxiety, every eye fixed moodily on the ground.
And what was it, then, which made them so
gloomy ? Let ns listen to their talk, and per
haps wo may find out.
“It Is a sore judgment on us!” said one who
seemed to bo the host—a big, burly man, with
a tangled yellow beard. “The like has not been
seen since the year ’Cl, when the wolves came
right into the villago, and killed nine of our
dogs m one night. Bnt then there were many
wolves, while now it is only one that does all
the mischief; and yet we, as many as wo are,
can do nothing against him I”
“And how tho mischief can we do anything,”
cried a second, “against a brnto that scurries
about as if he had wings ? Pounce he comes
into the village, gobbles np the first thing that
comes to hand, and off again! and yon may try
to recollect his name!” (This the popular
phrase for ntter disappearance,)
“Well, we must do something to stop it,” said
the third, a grim old fellow, who had had his
nose taken off by a frost-bite. “Mother Avdo-
tia’s only cow killed last week, poor Ivan Mas-
Ioff tom to bits on Friday, Feodora Nikeetm’s
dog snapped up last night, and onr watchman’s
shoulder bitten through—brothers, we are wrong
before God if wo let this go on!”
“Ah, it is all very well to say we must do
something—bnt who’s to do it ?” returned the
second speaker emphatically. “When we turn
out, three or four together, the cunning rascal
marks it, and keeps off; and there’s not a man
in the village, I take it, that would venture upon
him single-handed. >Vho’l! try it, think ye ?”
“/will!”
It was a very low, qniet voice that spoke the
last words; bnt there was a firmness in it which
no one coaid mistake. The speakers started,
and looked up. The sixth of the party, seated
in the farther comer near the door, had hitherto
been so qniet that they had almost forgotten
his presence; but now every eye was turned
upon him. He was a young man, but little over
twenty, though his heavy moustache and square,
thickset, muscular frame made him appear con
siderably older. His face was coarse and com
mon-place enough—the sallow, low-browed,
weather-beaten countenance of the genuine
Russian peasant; bnt there was a nameless
something about the broad square jaw and small,
deep-set grey eye, that would have made you
pick out that man among all the six for any
work requiring courage and perseverance. And,
in troth, Vladimir Kovroff, young as he was,
had already performed more than one feat which
the village gossips still remembered with admi
ration in their winter-evening chat round the
tea-urn.
“Ab, Vladimir Mikhailovitch!” (Walter the
son of Michael) cried the host, “what’s this
you’re thinking of? Ton that have only been
married two months, to go making wolfs-meat
of yourself ? Nonsense, lad! stay at home, and
take care of yonr wife, and leave wolf-hunting
to them that’s got nothing better to do!”
Kovroff answered never a word; but his feat
ures hardened like a mask of iron, as he slowly
rose to his feet. All present knew well that
when bi3 face wore the look that was npon it
now they might as well try to move a mountain
as to persuade him; and they sat silent, waiting
to hear what he would say.
“You say that Nikeetinthe butcher lost a dog
last night; did the wolf eat the whole carcass ?”
asked Vladimir of the noseless man, in the quick
commanding tone of one who knows that he
must be obeyed.
“No; he hardly got a bite of it, the rascal—
that’s one comfort!” answered the old fellow
with a grim chuckle. “Feodore Stepanovitch
heard the dog yelp, and out rushed ho and his
men with lights and hatchets and scared the
brute away. As for the dog, it’s lying in the
yard now.”
“ Go, one of yon, and bring it; and if any
one has a sharp wood-knife, let him give it me.”
It was curious to see how absolutely this man,
the yonngest and least important of the whole
party, issued his orders; and how unhesitatingly
the rest obeyed him. Here, as everywhere, the
stronger mind took the lead, and the weaker in
stinctively followed.
The host produced a huge, broad-bladed
knife, which Kovroff swung around his neck
without a word; and in a few minutes the car
cass of Nikeetin’s dog was lying beside the door.
Vladimir drained his glass and said: “ You tell
me this brute generally comes about midnight;
so between eleven and twelve I shall take this
carcass to tho cross-roads and throw it there os
a bait for him, hiding myself behind the fence
hard by. When he comes up, I shall attack him,
and then let it be as God wills. But you, broth
ers, mind and don’t say a word of this to any
one, lest my Masha (Mary) should hear of it. If
I get off, there’s no need for her to know about
the matter at all; and if I’m killed, she'll hear
of it soon enough—God help her! And now,
Alexey Nikoleiavitcb, if you can spare me your
bed for awhile, I’ll take a nap, to freshen me
for my work.”
And a few moments later, this nameless hero
(himself all unconscious of doing anything he
roic) was sleeping os calmly os if a deadly con
flict, from which he had little or no chance of
escaping, were not awaiting him fonr hours later
r.
Midnight—cold, dreary, ghostly. A dead,
grim silence over the lifeless village and lonely
high road. A faint glimmer of moonshine, giv
ing a weird, spectral look to the half-seen out
lines of tho dark, silent log huts, and making
the gloomy depths of tho encircling forest seem
all the blacker. A shapeless mass lying ont npon
the hard snow of the cross-roads, and a dark
figure crouchod behind a fence hard-by, with
something in its hand which glitters as tbe moon
falls npon it.
Weary, weary work, crouching there in the
cold and darkness, with the stiffening fingers
clutching tho heavy hatchet, and the strained
ears watchful to catch the slightest sound. Hark!
was not that a low howl from the far distance ?
No, it was bnt tho wind moaning through the \
skeleton branches of the forest. Patience yet! '
ory of his comrades, his wife, his devotion, he
feels only the longing to tear and kill tingling to
his very finger-ends, only the grim enjoyment
of plunging his knife again and again into
that gannt muscular aide where the life seems
to lie so deep. See! those merciless stabs are
at length beginning to tell; the fierce yellow
eyes are growing dim, the huge jaws quiver
convulsively, and from their edges the froth and
blood drip in hot flakes upon Vladimir’s face.
But now, with amighty effort, the wolf wrenches
his head from the iron grasp of Vladimir’s left
arm, and with one fierce crunch of his strong
teeth, breaks the bone below the elbow. The
limb drops powerless at his side. One mare
desperate stab into the quivering flesh of his
enemy, and then he feels the savage teeth fast
ening upon his throat; every thing swims around
him, there is a rushing as of water in his ears,
a thousand sparks dance before his eyes, and
then all is blank.
“God be praised, brother, that you are still
alive!" said a gruff voice in Vladimir’s ear, as
he recovered consciousness; while, at the same
moment, a soft arm was thrown ronnd his neck,
and a fervent “Thank God!” murmnred by a
sweet voice that he knew well.
“Where ami?” asked Kovroff, looking va
cantly ronnd, and recognizing first his wife, and
then his host of the evening before.
“Where are yon?” repeated Alexey; “why,
in my hut, to be sure, where you’ve been ever
eince we brought yon in last night. Yon know
when you went ont we followed at a distance;
and as soon as wo saw you start in chase of the
wolf, wo set off after you; but it’s not every
body that can ran like you, so we didn’t catch
np till ‘Uncle Greycoat’ was beginning to get
the best of it. Well, when we’d settled hi "with
onr hatchets, we carried you back here; and
Sergei Antonovitch ran all the way to Sako’niki
for the German* doctor, and he’s been and tied
np your arm, and says yon’re sure to recover if
you only keep qniet/'
And recover he did, sure enough; at least,
when I met him at Bogorodskoelastsummer he
was well enough to run a mile shoulder to shoul
der with me, and break a thick sapling like a
stick of sealing wax. And after the race I went
home to tea with him, and saw the wolf’s head
(its skin he had sold to a Russian officer) nailed
up above the door of his hut And the old man
who had lent him the knife told me the whole
story, jnst as I’ve given it yon; and he told me
too, that from that day forward the whole vil
lage called Vladimir nothing but “Mujeek Bog-
atler,” or the Peasant Hero. D. Kebb.
*In peasant parlance, every foreigner is a “Ger
man.”
Tbe Georgia State Fair—The Hall
Park.
From the Albany News.]
On Monday last we had the pleasure of visit
ing, in company with Mayor Huff, the new
Fair Grounds at Macon, and, as on former visits,
discovered new beauties and now attractions.
As the bnildings approach completion tho pic
ture increases in splendor and magnificence,
and the visitor is at once impressed with the
pleasant conviction that the grounds, bnildings
and arrangements are not only faultless, bnt
perfectly and grandly adapted to the purposes
contemplated.
The track is, perhaps, superior to any on this
continent, being a springy soil, perfectly level,
sixty feet wide and jnst a mile on the line three
feet from inside railing. In the circle there is
not a tree or bnsh or mound—it is a beantifnl
plain covered with grass.
The stables are ten by twelve feet, well con
structed, neatly ornamented and painted white.
On the river-side along the last half-mile stretch
and opposite tbe Judge’s stand, there is being
erected an aiaphi theatrical stand for spectators,
three hundred feet long and deep enough to
accommodate from five to eight thousand per
sons. At the top of the track and jnst at the
edge of the grove, an ornate circular music
stand was abont being completed. On the lett
of this, on emerging from the grove and enter
ing the track plain, there is a large, superb and
tastily ornamented building, styled “Floral
Hall,” and on the right another magnificent
structure designated as the “Main Hall.” Just
in rear of the former, and embowered in the
grand old oaks, the President’s Office was re
ceiving its finishing touches, and on a line with
it, in rear of the Main Hall, a large eating and
dancing hall was going np, and close by a neat
little establishment for the editorial fraternity.
Still farther to the right a large saloon, ca
pable of accommodating two hundred, had been
turned over by the carpenters, and the painters
were about ready to ply the brash and coat of
white. In rear of this, at some distance, a
building three hundred feet long and sixty
wide, intended for machinery, was nearly com
pleted.
All the buildings, except tho first fonr named,
are situated in the grove and so located as to
present a most charming and pleasing pictnre,
either from the front or from the track.
In the center of the grove there is a half mile
track forty feet wide, with an inside railing;
and the circle, as well as the entire surface of
tho grove, is relieved by a rich growth of Ber
muda grass.
There are many walks and drives through tbe
grove—all spaded by line and bearing the ap
pearance of the handiwork of an accomplished
gardener.
The entrance gate is an imperial archway,
with a tower and small offioe on each side. This
is a most attractive feature, and assures the ap
proaching visitor that genius and taste have
been employed in the preparation and adorn
ment of Huff Park—the New Fair Grounds for
the State Agricultural Society of Georgia.
The pen is impotent to describe the beauty,
arrangement and adaptation of these grounds.
Snffioe it to say that Hon. W. A. Huff has de
voted bis time, his energy, his taste and his
very heart and soul to the business of prepar
ing a place for the State Fair, that Bhall be
equal to the occasion and secure the plaudits of
the thousands who will be there.
All the bnildings will be completed in ample
Speecli of Hon. Wm. S. Groesbeek.
l‘"- to f a ,
Hark again' and this time there is no mistak- I lima tor the reception of articles for exhibition,
ine tho sound; not the long melancholy howl: and exhibitors may rest assured that so far as
wherewith a supperless wolf may be heard be- ! Mayor Huff and the City of Macon are concern-
moaning himself, on the outskirts of Moscow, ! ed, or are connected with mangement, there
-ce with a huge, gaunt," gray "wolf, as almost any night in the week, bnt a quick ; will be perfect system and complete accommo,
" -o® W( 1 blood-thirsty as hunger can make snarling cry, as of one who sees his food near j dation. We doubtnot the President, Secretary
at hand, and wishes to hasten its arrival. And and committee will see that the same prevails
there, gliding ghost-like over the great waste of tn their departments, and that smooth success
snow, comes a long gannt shadow, straight, ■ shall be the verdict of all who attend,
swift, unswerving, towards yonder shapeless !
A Wasp Riding a Green Wobii.—On the au-
was on a bitter January evening, the
l: n- , ore last > that six men were assembled
V <** °* the huts which I have described. It
L t .,R 0om the common sort, a big bed, with
0,!£ coverlet , filling up one side, the
Sat* c ^ e ®t in one comer, a picture of the
,j7 tor on one wall, a picture of the bombard-
jj. J 1 Sevastopol on the other,t and thepor-
fcaJ asai nt as usual beside the stove, several
wooden chairs and a low table, on which
' ^tnovar,” or Russian tea urn, with a
on the top of it, while around it
b i> a dozen tumblers, fall or empty; for
Pit of« J° u know, it’s the way to drink tea
M l , ta mblers instead of caps—a fashion
L— bna “s one’s fingers shockingly, if it does
B else.
, 'S^? n8feUul word for an earwig ia “Prus&k,” or
L ** —a curious instance of national animosity.
[ f poa ? &ntr y are chUdishly fond
K £sd n/uJfi 5“ fJ? 0 amallest and poorest huts
fkieg BnttJ 0 ** 4 daiflie of Russian victories, or
K fittily* 110 ** 0 * ° r tbe members of tbe Impe-
swift, unswerving, towards yonder shapeless
lamp of carrion on the highway, upon which he
pounces with a fierce worrying snarl that makes thority of two persons of veracity, a correspon-
even tho bravo heart of the listener stand still dent of the Albany Jonmal tells this: “They
for a moment with involuntary horror. Now is saw a wasp riding on a green worm one and a
Yladimir’s time! To rush ont at once might J half inches long. How far he had ridden they
scare the beast away; he must first try to crip-1 did not know; bnt after they saw him they
pie it. The axe flies at the monster’s head with \ watched him until he had ridden all of twenty-
the force of a catapult; bnt the dim light de- five feet. Occasionally the worm would stop,
ceive3 his aim, and it hits the foreshonlder in- 1 lie motionless as thongh he were dead, when
stead, tearing it open with a frightful gash, ; the wasp, after a little, would spur him np, and
from which the blood gushes freely over the I then the worm would go on. The wasp would
snow. With a sharp howl of pain, the wolf
turns and flies; but the swiftest foot in Bogo-
rodskoe is hard at his heels. After his long,
weary vigil, this breakneck obase is like tbe
breath of life to Vladimir, and over this hard,
smooth snow, his speed Is a match for any wolf
keep the worm in aa direct a course as he could.
After awhile the worm stopped, and the wasp
dismounted and ran quickly and removed s
little stone or piece of ground abont two inches
from where the worm lay, and then seizing the
worm by the head drew it into the hole. Pres-
wonnded like this one. Already he haB almost entiy the wasp came ont, pnt on the gravel top
comenp with the game, and is raising his knife over the hole, covered the stone over, andseem-
for a snro stroke, when the flying grey shadow ed to be getting ready to fly, when they killed
in front of him suddenly wheels ronnd, shoots him, and then dug down abont twojnches and
np from the earth like a rocket, and falls right took out the worm, which was dead.”
We copy so much of Hon. Wm. S. Groesbeck’a
great speech, at Steubenville, Ohio, on tho 13th
instant, as relates to the Constitutional Amend
ments and the attitude of parties under them.
The rest of the speech was a powerful exposi
tion of the progress of despotism under Grant’s
administration:
Mr. Groesbeck, after a few preliminary re
marks, local to the occasion, proceeded as fol
lows:
Important changes have been made in onr po
litical condition daring the last ten years, and
not a few of onr very best citizens believe we
have gone downward. I don’t wonder at this.
Tho condition of onr people, prior to 1861, was
one of extraordinary contentmentr^nd quiet
ness. The peace of the nation had never been
broken, and the Constitution had always com
manded respect. None of onr earned rights, as
we call them, snch as liberty of the person, free
dom of speeob, and the like, had been violated.
I believe the writ of habeas corpus had not been
suspended prior to 18GI. We sought to admin
ister the Federal Government for general pur
poses, and the State Government for special and
home pnrposes, and neither had seriously in
vaded the jurisdiction of the other. As oui
fathers started, so we had gone on, peacefully,
steadily, and without any noticeable depart
ure. The Governments over us did not em
barrass ns. They were in no sense a burden,
and taxation fell a? lightly upon onr homes as a
gentle snow. It was a most happy condition
for all of us who eDjoyed tho privileges and
immunities of citizenship. But all did not en
joy these privileges and immunities. There
was slavery in the land, abont one in eveiynine
of its inhabitants was a slavo. That was our
danger, troubling our fathers in the beginning,
and troubling us always, and more and more.
This brings me to notice the resolutions of
our recent State Convention and the changes
that have taken place in onr political condition
during tho last ten years.
They are of two kinds:
First.—Changes in the Constitution of the
United States.
Second.—Changes in the manner of adminis
tering the government.
What are the changes that have been made in
the Constitution ? They are three in camber.
Tbe first is this:
No slavery shall exist in the United States.
SLAVEBY CLEABED AWAY.
When the Constitution was adopted slavery
was everywhere, in the North as well as in the
Sonth, and therefore the Constitution did not
forbid it. Very soon, however, and from time
to time, the States themselves, acting sepa
rately, abolished it within their respective juris
dictions, till it was to be found nowhere bnt in
the Sonth, and at last it was disturbed and
threatened there. The Sonth rebelled at this.
War came, a long, bloody, costly civil war, and
tho rebellion was overwhelmed and slavery de
stroyed.
This result is now declared in the Constitu
tion. Such a declaration was to be expected
The results of successful war are always declar
ed in some binding form. If it be a war be
tween nations, the results appear in the final
treaty; if it be a civil war, they usually appear
in some modification of the fundamental law
conforming it to tho new condition of the gov
ernment. Such is our case. Tbe recent Con
stitutional Amendments stand for the final
treaty of onr civil war.
Look at the question in another aspect. How
do tho States now regard slavery? Ohio has
declared there shall bo no slavery within her
jurisdiction. New York has declared it in her
Constitution. Pennsylvania has declared it.
Every State in the East and in tkvWest nnd in
the North has declared it. Not only this. Every
State in thS Sonth has declared it, and remem-
berine our past, it is wise and proper that our
Federal Constitution should also declare it. Let
this trouble be put away from us so that it may
never come again.
THE OTHEE AMENDMENTS,
What is the second change ? In substance,
this
All persons bom or naturalized in th8 United
States are citizens of tbe same, and of the State
in which they reside. No State shall abridge
the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States, or deny to any person the equal
protection of its laws.
There is also in this amendment a clause dis
qualifying certain citizens for holding any office
under the United States, or onder any State;
and another danse affirming the validity of our
public debt, and the invalidity of all rebel
debts. What is the third?
The right of citizens of the United States to
vote shall not be denied or abridged on account
of race, color, or previous condition of servi
tude.
These are the changes made in onr Constitu
tion daring tho last ten years—the famous
amendments of which we have heard so much,
and which are so often referred to, even now.
The Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing
slavery throughout the United States, is accept
ed by all, and in the Sonth as unanimously as in
the North. The donbt and hesitation have been
abont the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments, because of the means used to procure
their adoption, and because of tho change they
make in the relations whioh had always existed
between the Federal Government and the State
governments.
In the language of our recent State Conven
tion, the means used to procure the adoption of
these two amendments were extraordinary, vio
lent and unsatisfactory. There is no thinking,
right-minded man who desires that a single
other amendment may be made to the Constitu
tion as these were made; for it is impossible to
preserve its sacredness under snch treatment.
THE SUTBEME COTJBT CANNOT SET THEM ASIDE.
The Constitution should never be lightly
dealt with; nor should it be altered for mere
party advantage, and any amendments pro
posed shonld be fairly submitted to a free and
unthreatened judgment. Snch was the case in
reference to all amendments previously made;
snch is not the case in reference to these two.
But I do not care to dwell npon the history of
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, for
I see nothing in their history that will destroy
their validity. You cannot invalidate legisla
tion" by showing it is tainted with fraud. It
may be admitted that an act of Congress was
was passed by undue means; that coercion,
bribery, and all kinds of corruption were applied
to effect its passage, and yet the Court cannot
set it aside. The validity of a statute cannot
be impeached on Buch grounds, nor can the
validity of a constitutional amendment. No
court has jurisdiction to inquire into the cir
cumstances under whioh either was passed.
The only question is, were they in fact passed.
If they were, all Courts must recognize them.
Could I go into onr Supreme Court and impair
the vitality of an act of Congress by showing
that enough Congressmen to change the result
had been coerced to vote for it, or bribed to
vote for it 1 Clearly, I could not, nor could I
successfully attack a constitutional amendment
on these gronnds. The Supreme Court has no
supervision over the action of Congress in pass
ing a statute, or over the action of State Legis
latures or State Conventions in adopting a con
stitutional amendment
It would be unwise to confer upon the Su
preme Court such extraordinary jurisdiction.
The fanlt is not in the machinery of the govern
ment. If is as complete as it shonld be; bnt it
is not complete enongh, and hnman invention
cannot make it perfect enongh to prevent or
correct every possible abuse, and we must de
pend, at last, for the right management of many
important political ooncems npon the good con
duct of the people themselves. This Is far bet
ter and safer than to trust unlimited power to
any department of the government.
We may not look to the Supreme Court to de
clare these amendments Eunoonstitutional; it
has no jurisdiction over them. We may not
look to the States to annul them by a farther
amendment; it requires three-fourths of them
to concur in such a movement; that number
will not concur in such a movement. And we
throw them in some other way; the people have
already aocepted them. The destruction of
slavery is acknowledged and approved by all,
and our colored population has voted in every
State of the Union, at onr local and general
eleotions, again and again, and without chal
lenge or molestation. These amendments will
stand. Suffrage, once granted, cannot be re
called ; suffrage that has been practised will not
be surrendered. I approve the action of onr
recent convention on this subject. I regret the
unfairness and spirit of domination in whioh
some of these amendments were carried, and
this unfairness and force shonld always be con
demned, lest they become a precedent for the
fnture. I regret also the tendency to encroach
ment upon State sovereignty manifested in these
amendments. Bat the State is not destroyed,
and we may yet preserve it, if we have the good
sense no longer to waste onr strength npon ques
tions that have passed to final judgment.
THE AMENDMENTS ABE GOOD IN THEMSELVES.
Letters to Sonth Georgia Farmers—
IV’o. S.
The changes, stated in the fewest words, are
these: No person shall be a slave, and all bora
or naturalized here shall be citizens, with equal
civil and political rights.
When bnt a mere handfnl of onr colored pop
ulation was free, and the great mass of them in
slavery, the question of their civil and politioal
rights wa3 not before us. Such a question could
not properly arise till slavery was removed.
Now all of this population are free. They are
a great multitude—abont one-eighth of onr peo
ple. I do not think it good statesmanship in
such governments as onrs to make so large a
mass of freemens subject class, or to hold them
permanently in an inferior or degraded condi
tion. Slavery was always a danger. This other
condition of the colored people would be a dan
ger also, ever troubling na and threatening onr
peace. Many of yon will remember when the
party now in power endeavored to dislranohise
onr foreign-bom population. It succeeded for
a time, but Democracy at lost triumphed and
saved the politioal rights of onr foreign-bom.
One of the reasons that justified ns applies to
the case of onr colored population. They are
more numerous than our foreign-bom population
was in tho days of Know-Nothingism; they are
just as free; the Constitution no longer restrains
or embarrasses U3 - , and onr very Democracy
requires that we shonld act now as we did then.
And why should we not ? Have this people ever
wionged ns? How or when? It is they who
have been wronged. Shall Democracy point its
gnns npon the lowly and unfortunate ? It would
be an unmanly warfare. Point your gnns yon
der, npon the national Capitol—at the high
places, against imperialism and. absolutism.
There is yonr danger, and there is to be yonr
straggle.
NEGE0 SUTTBAGB WAS TOO MUCH HASTENED,
I must believe that the extension of the right
of suffrage to that part of our colored popula
tion just emancipated was too much hastened.
According to the theory of our Government,
all shonld make some preparation for the re
sponsible duties of a fall citizenship. To this
end, wo delay tho foreigner by our naturaliza
tion laws; to this end we open schools for all.
But the work is done, and we should make tho
best of it. Depending upon the school and tho
chore" ,nd summoning them to their utmost
exertU-i, let us go forward, hopefully and brave
ly. After all, it is not the most learned that do
the best voting. The farmer votes as wisely as
tho professor, and the humble are quite as true
to free government as the exalted and assuming.
THE CONSTITUTION STILL EXCELLENT.
These are the changes made in onr Federal
Constitution during the last ten years. I have
been requested to notice them. I should have
noticed them without request; for there seems
to be an apprehension with many that the old
Constitution has been spoiled or put aside. Far
from it. That same Constitution which our
fathers had, and to which the Democracy has
been so falthfnl through all onr history, is onr
Constitution to-day. These amendments have
been added to it, and that is all. The Consti
tution remains still an excellent Constitution,
and the State remains with ample sovereignty
to do its proper work. We have no right to des
pond as if all were lost, nor shonld we spend
onr strength in a vain straggle to get back to a
condition which can never be restored. Ad
minister the Constitution as amended, accord
ing to the torm3 and directions contained within
it, and all will be well. The mischief is not in
the Constitution.
THE SXATE3 AND THE FEDEBAL GOYEBNMENT.
Now, as heretofore, onr Union Is a limited
government, with only such powers as are del
egated to it; now, as heretofore, all powers not
delegated to it are reserved to the States or the
people; now, as heretofore, and • under the
Constitution as it is, the States hold ample
sovereignty for the management of all their
home interests. This doctrine cannot be aban
doned. Alas for ns if the State as onr fathers
made it Bhall ever disappear from our system
of government. The peril so xeoently encoun
tered enables ns to realize what a calamity it
would have been if the war had destroyed our
Union. Not less disastrous would be the ca
lamity if the States, as such, shonld be destroy
ed or changed into something else and less.
Onr Federal Government and our State Gov-
erhments, nnder the Constitution, make to
gether one complex system. Each is limited,*
and neither complete enough to do all we need
to have done. The Federal Government is to
have the charge of interests that are common to
all; the State Governments of interests that are
special, each State taking charge of its own in
terests. The State shall not do .the work of the
Federal Government; the Federal Government
shall not do the work of the State. Each is su
preme within the limits of its powers, and the
people are supreme over both. We worship
neither, for they are the work of onr own hands,
and made to servo ns. We hear, on the
hand, that the States owe their life to
eral Government, and, on the otb« r
the Federal Government owes its_ life tome
States. This is tak»ug on high airs. In the
presence of tho pebple, they are both clay in tho
hands of the potter, and ia the truest sense,
neither made the other. The people made both.
What did the people mean when they made
the State; or, rather, what is meant by the
sovereignity of the State? It is meant that
the State has exdosive authority and power to
manage its own internal affairs. Nothing more
than this, but nothing less. In homely phrase,
the doctrine is this: Each of these organiza
tions shall mind its own business, and neither
meddle with that of the other. This is as sound
a doctrine for our government as for our indi
vidual daily life. This'is the doctrine whioh
makes free men and free communities, and
which underlies all onr politioal institutions,
even to the most insignificant. The Constitu
tion of the United States acknowledges it, every
State Constitution is full of it, and every coun
ty, township and city throughout onr wide land
is daily practising npon it. It started far back
with onr colonial ancestors; they grew and
strengthened with it; they cherished it; they
fought for it—fought seven years for it; they
triumphed with it, and laid the foundations of
these governments upon it. We, too, will
oherish it; we will fight for it; we will triumph
with it, and the party that violates it shall be
ground into dust.
Political Pointing.—The New York Printing
Company, the capital of which is $25,ow.
owned by five politicians, must be a prettr£f9 od
thing in a pecuniary sense. The New York oun
says that in 18G8 it received from the oounty of
New York $580,000 for prinU°g> 1
$1,080,000, and in four montbaf^ 7 ^? 3 .*.^
making in round numbers $1,700,000 in two
yearefrom the county a 1000 * How much the
company received at the same time from the
city for similar services is not known; bnt the
Sun says that must also have been a handsome
The tobacco crop in Connecticut, now about
gathered, is enormous. Few if any preceding
years have produced crops to surpass it in weight
of leaf, and all appearances indicate that the
quality will also be superior.
Geobge F. Beede, of Fremount, N, H., has
onions enough on less than an aore of ground
may not look to the people to combine to over- to buy a thousand bushels of corn.
BY HERBERT STELDEB.
We should not underrate the wisdom of past
ages or despise the lessons of experience. But
this is an age of development, and the suprem
acy of mind over matter, and the tendencies
are to still higher achievements in that direc
tion. I need not remind yon that in order to
keep pace with advancing civilization, your
sons and daughters must be educated. But I
wish to impress upon you my views of the im
portance of practical education, to prepare each
for the sphere in which he or she is to move.
I do not object to, bnt would encourage the
higher degrees of mental culture when they are
attainable. Bnt they are not within the reach
of thousands of onr best and moBt useful peo
ple. If you have a son whose taste and talents
fit him for a mechanic, direct his education in
that channel best calculated to develop those
talents. If he is to be a manufacturer, why try
to educate him for the pulpit or the bar? If he
is to be a lawyer why train him for a doctor or
civil engineer? If he is to be a farmer, why
not make him one worthy his noble calling?
The world ia made np of classes forming one
harmonious system, and between whom there is
no real oonflict. Yon all have to take your part
in the administration of civil jurisprudence. But
when it comes to tbe conduct of cases and the
exposition of law, you regard these as the pre
rogatives of lawyers and Judges. When our
fellow creatnreB are afflicted we are ever ready
to lend a helping hand to relieve suffering hu
manity. Bnt in matters of pathology and treat
ment, we stand aside in favor of those learned
In the science of physio. We all feel a deep in
terest in publio morals, the prosperity of the
church and progress of Christianity, bnt in
administration of holy ordinances and the ex
position of sacred scripture, none of ns feel hu
miliated in deferring to the learned clergy.
Railroad men, merchants and traders, capital
ists and brokers, all powerful and useful in
their spheres, can continue among themselves
and shape a policy for the good of all, and it is
unmanly in one class to despise or underrate
the others. t"
You, as a class, have made some mistakes.
One has been in standing aside and invoking
speculators, upon visionary theories, to lead in
your agricultural literature, and to do the think
ing which your own calling imperatively de
manded at yonr own hands. The great aim is
to make farming a praotical success to the
masses, and to bring ‘to them prosperity and
happiness through this channel. You have
among yon, men highly endowed by nature, and
whoso prerogative and duty it is to.lead in yonr
own calling, and to bring it to the highest state
of perfection. For, without underrating others,
it is tha noblest and best on earth; and the one
on which, in great part, all others depend.
Without you the mariner’s ship would rot at the
wharf, the manufacturer’s wheels cease to turn,
banker and broker would close, the trades and
professions dwarf, and civilization itself decline.
Improvement and progress are rife in every de
partment of enterprise. Why isitthat agricul
ture does not keep pace ? Is it for want of na
tural talents; or is it because men do not em
bark in it with the same pride and ambition to
excel which they have in entering other indus
trial pursuits? I would not discourage our
youth from seeking wealth and distinction by
thevarioos trades, by becoming skilled me
chanics and manufacturers. I hope to live to
seo tho day when those titles, really as honora
ble, will be everywhere regarded with as much
favor and as eagerly sought after as the learned
professions, and when young men trill consult
their natural talents in selecting their avoca
tions. If this practice should generally prevail
we should see every department more properly
filled and ably sustained.
Every man who is a fanner, no matter how
small the scale of his enterprise, ought to feel
without arrogance, that he is a Prince upon his
own acres. He ought to be a free thinker and
a bold actor upon his own stage—not in devis
ing means to abdicate his power and shake of
his dominions, bnt to enlarge, enricb, beautify,
and make them profitable and attractive. This
is among the highest attributes of onr civiliza
tion. It is the mainspring of onr aggregate
happiness. It is one of the main pillars npon
whioh publio virtue reposes—and he who
strengthens it, is a benefactor of his race.
Take charge of yonr own department and
make it self-sustaining in mind as well as matter
—do its thinking, planning and executing. As
sociated action must be combined with individ
ual efforts. Make the wisdom of experience by
the best minds the light to guide the million—
organize neighborhood clnb3 and societies—
meet and interchange yonr accnmnlated intelli
gence nntil the material ideas of the best lead
ers become the common property of all—hold
yonr county, district and State fairs. They
have had their useless money-spending and im
moral features and appendages. It is your pre
rogative to vote these out and reform them.
But if you cannot or will not do that, yon can
at least tnm over horse racing, and gambling,
and other objectionable practices to those who
have a taste for them, and money and time to
spend in them. You can in this way make your
fairs what they shonld be for practicable ends.
Bring together yonr horticultural and agricultu
ral produots, yonr domestio manufactures and
ornaments, your improved machinery and im
plements for saving labor and superior culture,
yonr improved seeds and methods of planting,
your improved breeds of animals, and every
thing by which useful knowledge may be « tven
or received. Instead of makiiw J 0 ^ 1 5 alra a
grand frolic for spending r»«uey, make them a
commentary upon th* advancing civilization of
the State • and *> c every one who attends them
return wb va mind stored with intelligence that
will profit him or her in the great battle of life,
uet the emulation be who can produce the most
with the least expense and labor—who can be
the most independent at home—who can make
and have the most and the best domestio manu
factures, and the moat home conveniences and
oomforts—who can have the best ornamented
and most pleasure-giving homestead—tho most
and best provision snpplieB of his own prodne-
tion—the fattest hogs and cattle—the moBt milk
and butter, and poultry—the best horse-power,
rolling stock and implements—the richest fields
and gardens, and the happiest and best con
tented wives and children.
If such a spirit can once move all onr people,
and pervade the land generally, we shonld hear
of ten willing to come where one wished to
leavens. Lands and everything would gonp
in price to intrinsic value, and general peace
and contentment spread over all. There would
rise from it a clond of incense before the great
Throne of mercies above, through which the
richest blessings of heaven would distil upon aS
and we should live to see the old land w» love
rise like the phoenix from her ashes an^fP 81 * 10
like a diamond upon the fkce of tN nations of
the earth.
Tlie Flying Trapeze m the Air—The Feats
of a Tlght-Rope Performer and Hagldan
nt a Height or Three Hundred Fee* In
the air.
Correspondence of the New York World.
Reading, Berks Co., Pa., Sept. 7.
One of the most extraordinary and almost
incredible exhibitions of hnman intrepidityand
daring was laBt Monday, the 4th insb, witness*
ed by the citizens of this plaoe. It seemed to
me to eqnal if not surpass in thrilling and nsin
ful interest anything ever attempted by‘Sam
Patch or Blondin in their wildest effort. An in
dividual named Donaldson—a tight-rope walker
and “magician,” as he styles himself—who had
on the previous Wednesday made a balloon
ascension in the ordinary way (the first balloon
ascent of any kind he bad ever madeinhislife),
repeated hie performance on Monday last, bnt
this time with no basket attached to his balloon
—nothing whatever, in fact, but a common
trapeze. Upon this he seated himself with the
greatest coolness and composure, and went float
ing away into spaoe, to the astonishment of the
large crowd which had gathered to see him, bat
few cheers greetinghim, as the spectators seem
ed spell bound with fear and apprehension. Af
ter ascending to a considerable distance ha
commenced throwing out .a number of circu
lars which he had attached to a little hoop
below the balloon, and which in the dear
atmosphere appeared like twinkling stars
surrounding the balloon, prodacing a most novel
and pleasing effect. But this was nothing to
what followed. At the height of some three
hundred feet he commenced balancing Limawlf
on his back on the bar of the trapeze, and going
through other fearfal evolutions. He then de
liberately slid from the bar head downwards,
and catching himself by the feet, remained sus
pended for several seconds in that awful posi
tion ! The appalling sight was one never to be
forgotten by those who witnessed it. A thrill
and a low mnrmur of horror passed through the
immense multitude, who were looking on with
intensest interest, and many hurried away from
the sight giddy and faint. The daring aeronaut,
however went through his evolutions snooeea-
fully, and regaining his seat, went scaring rap
idly and steadily upwards. When at the height
of three-quarters of a mile he had the astound
ing nerve to repeat his performance, which at
so great a distance, could only be clearly visible
by the aid of glasses. What made this ascent
all the more hazardous is that the balloon is a
very small one, carrying bnt little ballast, and
with nothing bnt a light anohor attached to the
hoop. i
I am glad to say that the rerenant completed
his voyage safely, although he once or twice
seemed to bo in considerable danger. The tra
peze struck the roof of Henry Connard’s resi
dence, on 5th street, when Mr. Donaldsonmade
a skillful leap from tlie trapeze, and prevented
a collision. The balloon then ascended and
came down again on the other side of the' road
in a field, and was abont striking tho top of a
tree, when Mr. Donaldson turned a somersault
on the trapeze rope and prevented the bar from
catching in the tree. There is some talk of our
having a repetition of thi3 painful exhibition
during onr fair next week, if the authorities do
not interfere to prevent it.' It really seems to
me that they shon’d, and that it is also the duty
of the leading press of the country to denounce
such reckless and unnecessary risk of human
life for the mere gratification of morbid excite- 24
ment. « ' eli
Old Times.
From the Petersburg Progress.]
There is an elderly colored gentleman, a gen
tleman in every sense of tho word, who holds
forth as a tonsorial professor ia tho Exchange
Hotel, Richmond. Lomax Smith is a relic of
tho palmy times of Virginia; he regularly
shaved Mr. Madison, John Randolph, and Wat
kins Leigh; he was the enp-bearer, head-musi
cian, punch-concoctor, and, in fact, the presid
ing genius of the “Old Richmond Blues” in the
days when George Munford led that rare com
mand and had under his leadership the bluest
blood of the Ancient Dominion!
Submitting onr face the other morning to the
still skillful manipulation of the venerable
Smith, the writer enjoyed heartily the monolo
gue with which the Professor interlarded his
“lather and shave.”
“A nice collection of gentlemen, sir,” said
Lomax, “this convention at Assembly Hall;
many very genteel and able persons there, sir.
It does me good to see again in Virginia the
best people coming forward to take part in pol
itics. 'And, yes, sir, there are some great men /
here, too—scattered abont among the hundreds
I don’t know; but—excuse me, sir, tnm your
face a little to the left—yon can’t remember the
convention of ’29, can you? Too young! Yes,
yes! Well, there was Mr. Jeems Madison, and
that other gentleman, very smart bnt mighty
flighty, Mr. Randolph, of Roanoke, and more
than I can call now. Yon haze got big men
here to-day, bnt God bless my son], air; they
was all giants then; there wasn’t an humble in
dividual here. Giants, sir, giants, every one.”
And Lomax restrapped his razor, turned our
head gently, and began again:
“And how did they come here, Bir ? Omni
busses, hacks? Not they? Private carriages,
private servants; and every one had a square
mahogany box, with silver mountings; in this
were fonr square bottles trimmed with vines
and leaves in gold; one held old pineapple rum,
one brandy, and honey, peaoh and honey, sir,
one sherry, and one Madeira. No whisky—and
no drinking at bars. The case was in every
delegate’s room, with the key put away, but”—
and here Lomax thonghtfolly and suggestively
drew his razor through the palm of an honest
hand—^“their constituents knew where the key
was, Sir. Yes, sir! And shaving then waa
fifty cents. No change! Those were days.
Why nothing now is as good as it was, and I can
tell the reason. Ever since 1850, Sir, when they
got up this universal suffrage, things have bees
going down, down, down. I never used to shave
anybody then, that was nobody; and now I
hardly ever shave anybody that is anybody.
Yes, Sir, that 1850 suffrage commenced the
whole thing, and now nothing is like it nsed to
be. Why sausage, sir, sausage 1 The old Yir*
ginia luxury! What is it now? It used to be
made out of the choicest parts of the hog; and
now yon’re lucky if it’s hog at aft and when it
is, there’s nothing bnt gristle «nd lean.”
Then Lomax drew a loug sigh and reached
our fore-hair; “Coffee f I haven’t seen any oof-
fee for ten years. It looks Eke coffee and it
smells like coff«o, bnt it isn’t coffee, sir, depend
upon it!" ...
New Jersey has publish^ 0® following pa
thetic epitaph:
She was not smart ehexeaa not fair,
But hearts wj•M n SL£ r £ e t r 0X0 BveUm ;
All empty j>Mnds her little chair—
ghe Jilt of eatm’ walermelin.
2 tfABATOGA belle is described by John G.
p*xe, in a letter to the Albany Jonmal, a3 a
poetical selection:
“ Hark to the music of her borrowed tone;
Observe the blush that purchase makes her own;
See the sweet smile that sheds its beaming
rays;
False as the bloom where her diamonds blaze.”
Tee following is the conclusion of an epitaph
on a tombstone: “She lived a fife of virtue,
and died of the cholera morbus, caused by
eating green finit in the full hope of a bless
ed immortality, at the early age of twenty-one
years, seven months and sixteen days. Read
er, go thou and do likewise.”
A youth named John Kelly, aged seventeen,
employed in Golden's flint-works, Trenton,
New Jersey, fell through a hole in the floor,
last Saturday, when he was ran into the wheels,
and his body passed out into the water below,
literally ground up.
Xji<? Open Sesame at tbe Branch.
Under this head the New York Sun (Rep.) Of
Saturday tells the following story:
On Monday two prominent gentlemen of
city visited the Administrative Cottage at Long
Branch on business. They sent in their cards,
which were promptly returned with the message
that the “President was too busily engaged
with pnblio affairs to grant them an audienoe.”
They turned away dispirited, and were descend
ing the stoop when a barouche drove up con
taining a gorgeously attired colored citizen, who
sent in his card, as the othera had done before.
The two gentlemen stopped to watch the result.
The same answer was returned, but the darkey
exclaimed: “Tell marse Grant I got something
for him.” In a few moments he was admitted.
He had taken to the President five pounds of
cheese.
A Tribute to Mb, Stephen.—The Philadel
phia Press, Forney’s paper, in a late issue,
pays the following compliment to our distin
guished fellow-citizen, the Hon. A. H. Stephens r
Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, late
United States Senator, Confederate States Vice-
President, etc., keeps the Southern Democracy
in a continual excitement through the columns
of his newspaper, and on the whole, in an er
ratic sort of way, seems to be doing a good
deal for the cause of “the best government tbe
world ever saw.” i/
We had a call from Mr. MoMiohael, of the
Thomaston Herald yesterday, and were pleased
to learn from him that Thomaston is in a pros-
deroos and improving condition.
