The Nevada journal., 1851-11-29
HUMORS OF ELECTIONEERJNG.

From the Tuscaloosa MONITOR OF oept' 10
WE GIVE IT uP.-We have in oul
time met with some good election
eerers. In this our good old county
of Tuscaloosa we have some that are
hard to beat. We have seen some o.
them walk into large crowd, and in
less than ten minutes shake hands with
every man present, inquire affection
ately into the state of his own health
and that Of each member of his family
and express the deepest sympathy on
account of the "long dry spelP which
was injuring his crop. Nor was this
all; for, while the candidate was thus
sympathizing with one of the sove-
reigns on account of his misfortunes
he would, almost in the same breath
succeed in convincing another "con-
stituent" that upon his election de.
pended whether or not plank road
should be made to pass close by the
said constituents door, and whether
or not the valueless sixteenth section
in that township should be enriched
by an equalization of the school fund.
We have often wondered how on
earth the people are ever able to de-
eide who TO vote for, when all the
candidates are such clever fellows, and
all make such fine promises.
Some years ago, before the State OF
Palmetto had determined to secsde,
we had occasion to pay visit to the
pleasant village of Carollton. The
weather being quite warm, we con>
cluded to stop, during the heat OF the
day, at the house of an old Florida
fellow>soldier whom we had not seen
for many years. He had retired upon
his laurels, and, having got married,
had, we understood, been religiously
fulfilling one of the most important
scriptural injunctions. Three or four
chubby Aaxen. headed little fellows,
almost in a state of nudity, were
playing about the yard, and we had
not been long under the roof of our
hospitable friend before he caught and
dragged up before us the largest, and
apparently the Oldest, of the group
The little fellow came toward very re-
luctantly, and, as he was tightly held
by the collar of his only garment, his
truggles caused it to cover rather less
of his person than strict propriety
required. As soon as the youngster
was brought in, the father exclaimed,
" Look here at this boy, Squire, and
see what's curious about him." The
first thing, Of course, which struck us
was the curtailed state Of his ward
robe, but this evidently was not the
point to which our friend wished to
direct our attention. The next Pc
cularity which we noticed was very
complete and darkly defined circle
quite visible around the circumference
of the little fellows face. This we
presumed had been caused by hasty
effort to wash him, the result of which
was that the dusty particles which had
been accumulating upon his face all
day were removed from the central
part around the nose and eyes, and
had been snugly and symmetrically
arranged into the aforesaid circle.
W e no doubt looked somewhat puzzled,
and were about to remark that we
thought the little fellow had very
comical expression of countenance,
when luckily we were cut short by the
fathers remarking, All, Squire, l
see you don't know anything about
turnclogy. Why, it amt no longer
than last week that Squire P--( now
one of the ornaments of our circuit
bench) came along here, and he hadn't
more'n got into the yard before he
says to me, R says he, bring
that little fellow here. What's his
name? Absalom is it? Well, it's a
good scripture name, land l might
almost have guessed that was it, be-
cause his hair has growed out so long
R, have you ever had this boys
head examined p" "Well," continued
R, "this sort took me back, Gus
I didn't exactly know what the squire
meant by having his head examined
So / told him l believed the old wo-
man tended to that. He laughed
right out at this, and then told me he
meant examined f1rnoIogically. lie
then took Absalom there, in his lap,
and after feelin' round his head for
bumps, as he called 'em, he says to
me, 'R", says he, do good part
by this boy; he's bound to make a
man if you give him half a chance
| for he's got head just exactly like
Bonaparte and General Washington.
III tell you what it is,' said R'
| taddraseinp ZIG very emDhatlcaliy, 'ltS