The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-05-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

Dad Morton, in his unconscious" moments,
sometimes perpetrates joke. The following,
relating to the conversion of his pastor, really
merits preservation. give it in Dads peculiar
pheraseology "
The parson cum to our village, when / wos
q little Teller. His first appearance wos hatterin'
and his sarmons powerful sarchin'. Everybody
thought he alters he'd bin a good Christian, till
Squire Brazee cum to live next US. The Squire
wos dedicated in the same school with the par
sou, down at the academy in --, aud, of
course, knowed all about bis carvings on. He
told the folks that the parson wos q wonderful
bsd boy in school, and that them teachers of
his'n couldn't do nuthin' with him. One morn.
in, durin' prayer time, he stuck bent pin
under Lum .Selleck, and cen most gin him the
lock jaw. Mr.. B, the schoolmaster, couldn't
stand no such actions az them, SO he drawed him
tight over his knee, and guv him sech bastin'
with the fat side of the ruler that he hain't been
able to back slide ssnce.
"Arter this story got out, the parson he'd TO
leave, and b'leeve he's preachin' now down in
York"
Among other interesting facts of De BOWS
statistical view of the United States, the Boston
Transcript mentions that the nonslaveholding
have third greater population than the slave.
country is ne-twelfth of the whole that about
one-third of the white population of the slave
States are slave-owners; that the State of New
York has about one eighth of the population
Of the Union that there is one house to every
Six persons IN the country; that the Roman
Catholics have but one.eleventh as many
churches az the Methodiss; that the nun Der
OF persons who live east of the Mississippi is
twelve times greater than those who live west
thereof; the distance between New York and
New Orleans is more than that between London
| and Constantin1ple, or Paris and st. Peters.
burg; over two-ifths of the national territory
is drained by the Mississippi and its tributa.
ries; of the 1897 political newspapers pub
.lished IN the United States in 1850, $50 were
Wing, and 742 were Democratic There are
four hundred thousand Indians in our terri
| tory; at the close of the Revolution, there were
but 5000 in the old thirteen States, according
to an estimate of Gen. Knox direct and indi-
rect tax paid by each white person in the coun-
try, 81 "a number of real estate owners,
1880, Geo. or one in about 3l9 of the free males
over twenty-one years of age number of Fed
eral Office holders, exclusive of army and navy,)
IS, 456, ninsfold increase since l800-the
population having increased about 6vefold
one-fourth part of the people reside in villages,
towns, and cities the number of people to
dwelling in New York city averages more than
Ii, in Boston nearly 9, in New Orleans 81, in
Richmond about 5; in 81 counties the females
greatly predominant, in l55 the slaves, and in
7 the foreign born.
That peculiar eloquence which takes its
pomp and exaggeration from the associations
of Slavery is now abundant in Congress
Among its orators. Mr.. Kett, of South Caro-.
lima, is eminent. Here ia specimen from his
recent fort on Kansas:
"Our eagles were to be carried as were the
eagles of Rome, until, with the wafture of their
wings, they had famed away the pride and
pomp and power of surrounding nationa, and
this whole continent was embraced in the
meshes of our pro consular despotism. The
old thirteen, like Corinthian shaft, was TO
spire upward to the heavens, but it was to rest
upon dome covering blood and rspine and
tyranny. Has the ghost of this murdered
scheme come back unannealed and blood bolt
ed, to spell your gaze with it's basilisk fascina-
ton? Do you want to conquer States and
provinces, and send forth pro-consuls, covered
with pomp, and backed by legions, to gut
your greed upon plundered wealth and safe
your lust of power on ruined victims? Do you
want q triumphal march to the Capitol, with
the spoils of plundered provinces to deck your
pathway, and enslaved people gathered around
your chariot wheels )"
LAMARrINE AND BIS SUBseRIPTIoN.-The
Paris correspondent of the Manchester Guard
ian writes:
"a rather curious incident of the present
hour is the Lamartine subscription. When
first spoken of, q certain degree of sympathy
was shown On oil hands, and perhaps, if left
to be perfectly independent and national dem.
onstration, large sum might be obtained;
but the moment the Emperor, by his communi
cation through Espinasse, signi6ed that he
made himself the head patron of the bscrip-
ton, the character of the whole was altered
At once the Royalis.s of both shades and the
Republicans fell off from the subscription lists,
and the pure Bonapartists, and people belong
ing to the ranks of indifferentism in political
opinions, only remained. l. is much now if, in
France, Lamarline makes four or five Thousand
pounds (sterlipg; y whereas, what he needs to
settle his pecuniary difficulties is between one
hundred and one hundred and twenty thousand
three millions and odd francs.) This affair
presents somewhat curious statistical proof of
what the force of pure Bonapartism left to itself,
very highly.placed official say: swell, I see
nothing for it, except that the eight millions
Who gave their votes to the Emperor should
each give ten sous piece to Lsmartine. The
answer was, from very moderate politician
who was standing by, Yes but you forget that
there is no direct action here to be exercised !;
| 80 you may probably discover what the eight
millions would have really been, had they been
left to themselves .. -.fi.
alt Is believed, however, that the Emperor's
plan is this: TO let the subscription take it's
course, and when the insufficiency of the sum
| is proved, to come forward and cay g The pub
lie has done too little, bat will do all The rest,
and to beg M. de Lamartine to come and con.
fer with him upon the de6nitive settlement of
| his affairs. If this should really happen, one
other man land q possibly dangerous one still
of the so.cslled 'old parties would be ruined
in public opinion; and this is not TO be disdain'
ed by Louis Napoleon. As it is, Lamartne is
universally blamed for his acceptance of the
Imperial bounty"
A Child ON the Eternal Fitness Of Things.
Mr.. P.s little daughter came running to her
aunt one day, saying
"Aunt Kate, little Matte has swallowed a
button !"
Seeing her terror, her aunt calmly replied,
I" Wen, what good will that do herr" 80
Said the child, very seriously, q Not any good,