The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-10-02

pie tact IN the management OF the noun
taineers. When among them, he grailiet
the vanity of the "sovereys," by wearing
their costume, and moreover, dispensin,
freely ''the root of all evi' in buying aspi
rants, friends, and corn juice, (tte latter tb'
most potent,) still the connection was con
junction merely mercenary, as easily to b.
broken as link of sausages, and as easily
joined again (by administering the "filth,
lucre'') as stick of cement.
Zcb having laudable desire TO see the
handle "Hon." attached to his name though
the mountains presented fine field for po
litical experiments; therefore he arraysd
himself in the mountain costume, and choo
sing the centre county, prepared to stick ou
his shingle-
ZEBEDIAH GREEN,
Atty AT LAW.
Though he knew but little of the han
splittings and differences fstwxt tweedle dee
and tweedle dum," as laid down in the stat
utes and reports, yet he Lad the foundation
jaw-perhaps in larger quantities than Lord
Coke.
Immediately on his arrival At his prespec.
tive residence, he was acoosted by an old
gentleman thus
"Strarger, wa'at's yer namef'
"Zebediah Green,"
"Aint any kin to Mike Green, wat sot in
the Legislator sum twenty-five years ago,
and stopped the wind on a couple fellers
down thar, an had 10 cut stick an Iun, an
haint bin heerd from sense?'
elias he many friends here p
"Sum two thousand, reckon, countin the
families WAITS married in. Why, yer can't
go amiss o. the kin on Possum Deer Lick,
Buzzard Plain, Bar, and Patraige Holler
They rules the roost, ;ell you, in Elections
It's an old sayin', as goes the Greens, SO
goes the mountains.'"
"Do look like the Green family" asked
Zeb, concluding, if circumstadces were ia.
vorable, it would be good political invest.
ment TO represent son of the lost Green.
"Wall, stranger, you look powerful like
'em, (scanning Green's phisiog,) mighty
big mouth, thunderin' long nose, an brislly
head but thar heads are roundsr, faces red.
der, am bodies aalter than yours. wouldn't
wonder if yer's Mikes son, thongh he warnl
married when he Left"
81 should not, either" answered Green
dtawmg dowr his face to a pIous length
and speaking as grum as parson. "Aly
father, poor man, came into an adjoining
State at an early day, and married soon after
My mother, salnted being, died soon after
was born. Ever since | can remember, my
father, poor man, (tears were in his eyes,
has been half crazy. He has often told me
of his friends, and of his going 10 the Le-
gislature, but it was so mixed up with fanci.
full stories, that | never believed any of it.'
oyer Mikes SOIL, as sure as yer born" in.
terrupted the old gentleman, seizing Zeb's
hand with The glipe of vice, and doing the
pumphandle at double quick time eyer my
kin, fer my son John married Joe Green's
darter Sal"
The sor of the lost Green was received By
legion of Greens as the 'simon pure )" and
we'll he might be, for he knew the genealo-
gical Green tree, every root and branch, (o
course, as his poor non eomFos mentis fathel
had told him, back to the time when ''the
memory of man runneth not 10 the contrary
Soon the wonderful ''gsnius" of Zeb Green
began 10 develop ITSELF How he could fid
die, play poker, tell stories, make a man
talk up a chimney, half dollar come
through table, wreslle, shoot, masnatise
boys, initiate prayer meeting, sing songs
hop races, and plead law, spread far and
near, and he became the wonderment ard
delight of ALL
AS the congressional election drew nigh
"to be or not TO be" a regular candidate, ant
''face the music" or TO "rake down the
"Hon." per diem and mileage, was the
question. The pros and cons were wei
weighed-bolh alike seemed sure, yet the
latter the easier.
Burton being standing candidate, ant
having no opponent, merely visited the
country towns in the mountains TO ''ante up
the circulating medium as usual, and return
ed home counting his election "fixed fact.'
Some week before the election, report,
simultaneously began 10 circulate through
the mount aims ,hat Burton would not drinl
out of botile-that he was in favor of tax
ing whiskey-that he asked all the mer
from the mountains to eat at the second Ia
ble-that he was too good 10 eat corn bread
and carried wheat bread in his saddle-bags
that he had reported that the children rar
wild in the woods, and that they had to ear
msrk them 10 know them, and that most o
men had brstles on their backs.
A day or two afterwards, another series O.
whispers simultaneously appeared, follow
ing the former. What pity zeb Green hae
not declared himself candidate-!hat he
was in favor Of declaring war on the aboli
,ionists-of reducing the pay 10 one dollar q
day--of abolshing State Prisons and taxes
of making the State build bridges and
roads through the county, and sof raising q
high tax on the importation of mules.
Two days before the election, a messen.
ger arrived In each county town (where the
elections are to be held,) with slip purport'
ing to be from Burton's organ
The HERALD EXTRA.