The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-08-21
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From the New York Independent.

Lenox, we had along very intelligent
dog named Noble. He was learned in
many things, and by his dog-lore excited
the undying admiration.of all the chill
dren. But there were some things which
Noble could never learn. Having on one
occasion seen red squirrel run into a
hole in a stone wall, he could not be per-
suaded that he was not there for ever
more.
Several red squirrels lived close to the
house, and had become familiar, but not
tame. They kept up a regular romp with
Noble. They would come down from
the maple trees with provoking GOODNESS );
they would run along the fence almost
within reach they would cock their
tails and sail across the road to the barn,
and yet there was such welltimed
calculation under all this apparent rash
ness, that Noble invariably arrived at the
critical spot just as the squirrel left it.
On one occasion Noble was so close up
on his red backed friend that, unable to
get up the maple tree, lie lodged in
to hole in the wall, ran through
the chnks, emerged at little distance,
and sprang into the tree. The intense
enthusiasm Of the dog at that hole can
hardly be described. He filed it full Of
barking. He paved and scratched as if
undermining bastion. Standing off at a
little distance, he would pierce tie hole
with gaze as intense and liked as if he
were trying magnetism on it. Then, with
tail extended, and every hair thereon
electrified, he would rush at the empty
hole with a prodigious onslaught.
This imaginary squirrel haunted No
BILE night and day. The very squirrel
himself would run up before his face in
the tree, and crouched in crotch, would
sit silently watching the whole process Of
bombarding the empty hole with great
sobriety and relish. But Noble would al
low of no doubts. His conviction that
the hole had squirrel in continued un-
shaken for six weeks. When all other
occupations failed, this hole remained tc
him. When there were no more chick.
ems to harry, no pigs to bite, no cattle tc
chase, no children to romp with, no ex
peditions to make with the grown folks
and when he had slept all that his dog
skin would hold, he would walk out o
the yard, yawn, stretch himself, and ther
look wistfully at the hole, as if thinking
to himself, "Well, as there is nothing
else to do I may as well try try that hole
again !"
We had almost forgotten this little
trait, until the conduct of the New Yorl
Express, in respect to Col. Fremont's re
: ligon, brought it to mind again. Col
l Fremont is, and always has been, as sounc
| Protestant as John Knox ever was
t He was bred in the Protestant faith, ant
has never changed. He is unacquaintet
s with the doctrines and ceremonies of th
+ Catholic ChuIch, and has never ATTENDED
!; the services of that Church, with two o
r three exceptions, when curiosity, or som
/. extrinsic reason, led him as a witness
!; We do not state this upon vague belief
: We know what we say. We say it upol
n our own personal honor and proper knowl
edge. Col. Fremont never was, and
! not now, a Roman Catholic. He ha
J mover been wont to attend that Churcl
y Nor has he, in any way, directly or ind
st rectly, given occasion for this report.
i 1t is gratuitous falsehood, utter. bal
6 rem, absolute, and unqualified. The ste
: ry has been got up for political effect.
is still circulated for that reason, and lik
other political lies, it is a sheer, unscrr
lous falsehood, from top to bottom, frol
n the core to the skin, and from the ski
ID back to the core again. In all its part
l. in pulp, tegument, rind, cell and seed,
Il is thorough and total untruth, and the
who spread it bear false witness. An
10 as to all the stories of the Fulmer, etc
r as to supposed conversations with FIR
er mont, in which he defended the mas
n and what not, they are pure fctions.-
They never happened. The authors
lg them are slanderers the men who belle,
+ them are dupes the men who spre;
IT. them become endorsers of wi ilful ard CO
IL rupt libelers.
But the Express, like Noble, mas ope
"a, ed ON this hole in the wall, and can nev
Id be done barking at it. Day after day
'al resorts to this empty hole. When ever
thing else fails, this resource remains.