Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-08-17

MOuOlH tilhCo, uuuOllOOh Will Ills lElcIlQS 10
get up demonstration at home recently in
the quiet town of Readfeld A correspon-
dent of the Age says great efforts were made
to get out crowd. 1t was pretended the
country was going to wreck and ruin, and the
'cussed" Nebraska bill was digging its grave.
About eighty persons were present, one-fourth
patriotic women. The men we're mostly abo-
litionists from neighboring towns, and the he
70 was evidently disappointed at the caste and
thinness of the meeting. He made a speech,
following the peaceable Mr.. Torsey Of Kent's
Hill Seminary, who talked strangely of
''spouting blood" about Nebraska, an express
sion decidedly in bad taste for a teacher of
female seminary, and quiet Christian gentle
man like Mr.. Jersey. But the speech Of the
gubernatorial hero was the marked feature of
the occasion. Says the correspondent -
The hero arose and said it was time for
the meeting to close, but if gentlemen would
remain In their seats he was willing to speak.
1t is useless to say he spoke on the Maine law
Everybody knows that he has spoken upon
this great syllabub Of plianthropic ttCdddZe, an
Ii! his brains are as dry as a squeezed orang &c.
Everybody knows that he will continue to
spout on ii so long as one honest man can be
found stupid enough to believe him honest
He spoke of the nomination Of Judge Paris
as the work of juggling politicians and not the
| free choice Of the democratic party. He ac-
knowledged Judge Paris to be good and
true man, but said he had been most wickedly
] 1upa1 hxy ooonnI,ol l.
wilfully, wickedly and falsely of the democrat
ic party, at a time when he knew proper OPP
portunity would not be given 20 controyeri
him. He spoke jesaitically on the Nebraska
bill, and wound up by saying he had once
crushed the democratic party and tcouH do IL
again"
OFF-HAND TAKINGs, or Crayon Sketches oc the
Noticeable Men Of Our Age, by George w
Bungay. Embelished with Twenty Por
traits on Steel New York, Dewitt 4
Davenport. Bath, W. b. Stearns.
The above is the title Of neatly printed an,
bound volume, just issued, and adorned viii
many fine portraits We have examined N,
work somewhat minurely, and had decided il
our own mind it, merits, when re accidentl,
fell in with the following from the Bostor
Post, which gives our views 50 nearly that ",
copy 80
Sketches of The noticeable men Of oui
age' Among these gentlemen are Faihe
Taylor, John Ross Dix. Moses Grant, George
n. Briggs. Alfred Bum, O. G. Bureinh
Arson Burlingame, AMI many others uf nearl,
equal renown. The sketch of BnrIeigh begin.
IN this wise -" Charles q. Burleigh, IL,
eccentric aud eloquent abolitionist. is brother
10 William Ill. and George Buregh. The cslc
brdted P0ets. lie Is an out aud out come
outer "a nun-compromising RADICAL splen-
did schoar-an ofi-hand orator. He is not s.
genial a. GarrIson-but has more furce-nn
so bitter as Pllisbury. but his severity has Z
keener edge and cuts deeper less eloquent
than Philips, but more logical than he-not s,
blnpt as Foster. hut, like him. he is plair
dealer" Who Mr. George w Buugay il
We do no; know, but lohat he is we do-he i.
as fluent writer Of mere trash az we eve
CHANGED TO read. The foregoing extract is
fair sample Of the whole book and we beseect
our critical readers 10 notice The construction
OF sentences and the selection Of terms Where
are The sketches, by the way, of those ''cele
brated poets," The Burleighsl Mr.. Runga,
should have had these Z" lions " in his menage
RE, even if he allowed some of the = small
deer " Of his present collection 10 escape. II
word, these ''Of-hand Takings " are off
hand cant, of-hand rash-anything but reia
bic facts, recorded by industry and genius
guided BY judgment. To call one half Of the
people whose names are brought forward g The
Noticeable men Of our age = is to insult them
and the reader