The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-30
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How BoB STEVENS LOST HIS ErEcrIog.
: How the deuce came Bob Stevens to lose his
eection?" said a friend of the unlucky candidate
to another frerd the day after tho close OF III
exciting political canvass in the State Of New
York
But first you must know who . Bob Stevens
IS. Bob is smart enterprising, thoroughbred
Yankee lawyer, who does ilouris1iny profess
sional business in the thriving town Of L., in
the western part ofthe State of New York. Atall,
good looking, affable man is Bob, aud especially
famous for his ready wit, amusing drolercs, and
passionate fondness Of resrtee His love OF a
joke is proverbial, and his power II sarcasn i 5
well understood in the region where he resides.
No man has more friends than Bob, aud few who
know him would care to be openly on the other
SIDE. A few years ago he was put in nonina-
ton BY the democrats Of ~ county as can
didate for member Of assembly Pic Whic
and Democratic parties were very nearly equal
in point of strength and the battle was hotly
contested. The Democratic ticket prevailed in
part by slight majorities, but Bob, to the sur
prise of his friends, came out f,co rotes behind
his competitor, and was defeated
F" How the deuce came Bob Stevens to lose
his election q said Democrat to a friend the
next day. How did he lose his election p
8 can tell you" said the person Intercepted.
"Do" said the other" how was it %
swell, sir, it was owing wholly to his I'M
popular mode of electioneering he lost his cleo
ton by Joke sir-merey Joke !"
1t ought to have been good one, consider
ing what it cost him!'
"Well, it loas. The case was this Bob was
standing day before yesterday in front of the
Eagle Hotel, talking with me and dozen others
Wings and Democrats--when up came well
dressed loafer fellow who pretends to be a
mechanic and has some influence, but well known
as regular blackleg--one of those chaps who
votes tor the man who pays best uphe came to
Bob, and, intending no doubt to fish for bribc,
began to ask questions. ~
81 say, Bob" said the g gentleman "n case
you are elected what do you intend to do for
our class"
"Ah!" said Bob, "youve come 10 the right
man. III tell you what intend to do for yolr.
class; | intend to have a law passed making
murder thirty days in the county jail, and theft
book account If you are detected stealing let
The man chargeit to you." The fellow sloped"
an id the loud laughter of the bystanders, and
that's the way " Bob Stevens lost his election p
JEEnIs.
GIRDLlHG THE GLoBE.-A writer in the Lon
don Mechanics MagaSine, talks Of a magnetic
telegraph around the world as among the pro-
liabilities. His remarks are approp0 Of the at
tempt to thread the channel between Dover and
Calais, by a submerged rope of WIRE He says
that electric telegraph to Calais, is not thing
which will stop there. 1t is n telegraph to Vi
enna, to Moscow, TO Constnntinople, to Ispahan,
to Delhi, to Calcutta-to the rcmotest bounds,
in short of Europe and Asia A few years ago
people laughed when Lord Pamerston predicted
at the Southampton meeting Of the British AS
ISOLATION, that time might come when the min
lister of the day being asked in Parliament,
whether it was true that wsr had broken out
in India would reply, swat an instant till Itele-
graph the Governor-General and will tell you"
What was thought but a good Joke in lS43 is
now, in 1850, in thecou-se Of being actually ae-
complisbed, and ere few years more, is likely
10 take its place amongst the sober realities Of
the age Nor to the old world alone need our
views of the ultimate progress of eectro-telc-
graphy be confined for, since the English chan
mel has been crossed, the crossing of the Irish
must follow, rs but matter of course ; and
Ireland once reached, there lies but Il couple of
thousand miles Of water or SO between the I'D
world and the new.
The old and new world being thus upitedJwe
shonld then see the dream of the poet eyenmore
than realized; the earth girdled round about
mot in 'forty minutes in a thonsapdth
part of the time---a single beat of the clock.
What would all other triumphs Of human genius
be to this Time and distance utterly annihi-
lated TIN oughout the bounds Of the planet which
we inhabit! A triumph only to be transcribed
when the planets shall themselves begin to tcle-
graph one another-which is one of the very
few things which, in this age of art Miracles one
would venture without hesitation to say will
never happen.