New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-10-23
Mrs. Belcher on the Know-Nothings.

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From certain indications, Mrs. Belcher is led
to suspect that her lege lord has become o
Know Nothing Having the characteristic, in
trinity of her sex, she assails him with q view
Of ascertaining what it's all about. sa 81,
Is So yeu thought you'd keep it from me, did
you, Belchers Justasif you could ofcourss.
IIhavent noticed any thing out of the way in
What do you mean W ,ssss a.5a5s5a ss
80, it's all very well to ask what MEAN I,
Didn't it ever strike you thattit1was for me to
ask what you mean by your mysterious con-
ductsau % E--.h0Sf 4 EHM ,3HA8d40 VIZ
I'm as much in the dark as ever &C. - ssss
"0f course you are supposed you would
be- / hadn't the remotest idea you would pre-
tend TO be any thing else, But to proceed 70! You
needn't thing haven't noticed your mysterious
Conversations with Squire 0rray and Deacon
Taft, and others and how only the Monday
ffterwardS, tho Squire elected representa-
tive byga large majority BY the Know Moth
ings.% Of course YOU amt q. Know Nothing
yourself, Mr.. Bslcher don't like these un-
derhand proceedings, for my part. Fyou want
70 do anything, why don't you do it openly
Now, Belcher, want to know what it'so sill.
about. What are these Know Nothings, and
what are their principles, and what are they
trying to do, and how many of them, and"
81 know nothing about it.r'AX S*8AxsS 2st
"Know nothing, @ yes, { supposed you'd
say that That's your motto But you know
you amt in earnest now Come tell me all
about it. -. - go z,zS E ~ -azFa Of ~
"HoW can I, when am just as ignorant as
ssMr. Belcher, this is paltry evasion, and
PC, body knows it better than yourself The
simple fact is that you are not willing to tell
what you know. It's as bad as lie. But,
perhaps, Belcher, you are afraid I will reveal
Che secret. You may rest quite easy on that
point People say that q woman can't keep a
secret, but it's great mistake, as you will find
out, if you will only try me, Belcher Mind j
don't soy any thing against the Know Moth
ings. have no doubt they are a very respect
able party, and acting very properly and all
that, but then don't know.gsIn fact, I've fta-
Zen rather a liking to it, and presume should
IKE their principles very much. So just let
me know what they are, Belcher. that's a dar-
ling d zf.a -.s :i-a &. Il .s A.sa / /.
thing about it, and hope it will satisfy you, %
! at doesn't satisfy me at all, Mr.. Belcher, /
see you distrust me. Pretty conduct in a hus-
band I'd keep secret from the wife of his ho-
som. But it's exactly like you, Belcher, and I
needn't, be surprised at it, not in, the least.
And as for these Know Nethings. I'm very con-
fdent they re a miserable band Of scapegraces,
every one Of them. Apretty set Of principles
| they must have, when they're not fit for q wife
| to know.''1 HI si,'al HtSH 81 sl}la
"You were praising them just now, calling
them respectable, and all that, y 81, 9s' st.,f
ssYou are a provoking man to peryert my
| language in that way. I didn't say they were.
| only said they might be. But I'm very sure
they're not now. % ,...==,, =..57-1 ~ VI
After q momentary pause, Mrs. Belcher re-
sumed in a more coneiliating tone: | dom;
1 know but I've been too hard upon you, Belcher.
| Perhaps you've taken an oath not to reveal
their secrets. But then, you know the Bible
says man and wife are one; 30, Of course, j
wouldn't be telling to tell me. fyou can't tel
the whole, tell me part, at any rate. DO they
/ really put the right thumb to the end of the
nose when they meet, as / read in the paper Of
the other day! Tell me, and won't think &C
hard Of you, Belcher. Laughing! You're 9
restless wretch, Belcher, to laugh at your poor
1 wife, who never did a worse days work thar
| when she promised to become 500 ny oFe
II Mrs Beleher plunged into the depths Of dis;
itress, from which her husband could only e2tri
| cate her by some marvellous fctions respect
ling the Know othings, which were manufao
/ tured to order Mrs. Beloher dried up hel
/ tears, and listened with aYidity. Henceforth
she invariably assumed an air of mystefiou
knowledge whenever the subject of Know Moth
ings was broached. But, between you and me
friendly reader, she knotos nothing about then
/ to this day, z.--=-z--.-..,-5. 8
II The SILENT ORATOR. Sir VIM. Grant, th
very learned Master of Rolls, was a Dstiye 9
Banff. and, for considerable time, represents
that county in Parliaments Though q mos
farcible and easy speaker, scarcely inferior I
any of his time, at the bar or in Parliament, b
was remarkably silent man He was til
most patient of JUDGES. The story is well know
of his hearing an elaborate and lehgthened ar
gument for two days, on the meaning Of an &C
, Of Parliament; and when the counsel FINISHED
j simply saying, f Gentleman, the Act is re
. pealed." On one of his visits to Banff he rod
. out a few miles into the country, accompanie
$ by some friends. The only observation tina
escaned from him was in passing field of peas
. g Very fine peas'' Next day he rode out wit
i the same cortege, and was equally silenti bu
i an nassine the aaraa anat, be nlNtEeredi An