The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-06-03
Total...................$2,lo 6,44a S2,OSl, 1907

The Mr.. Hayne appointed to ill Senator
Evans's place from South Carolina is q brother
of Gen. Hayne, famous for his encounter with
Mr.. Webster on the notification question in
1882. he was opposed to his brothers. course
in regard to notification, and is now by the
6re-eaters considered as a conservative. 1t was
supposed Mr.. Chestnut, noted " fire-eater"
orator of South Carolina, would have been ap-
pointed, and the Governors selection of Mr..
Hayne in his stead, indicates his tendencies as
Southern conservative or Union mani. e., q
man who does not believe in dissolving the
Union, if the South cannot have its own
way always on the Slavery question. 1t is re-
ported that it was the intention of the leaders
in the Legislature to elect Mr. Chestnut at the
time Gov. Hammond was chosen to succeed
Mr.. Butler; but the complimentary pit rslity
vote to Gov. Hammond, that the program first
included, Unexpectedly proved majority, and
he was chosen by accident. A somewhat sim
liar slip occurred in Congressional Conven-
ton in the Berkshire district, a few years ago,
when an informal ballot settled the question
long before it was intended it should be settled !;
and everybody felt very awkward, especially
vote" to the successful candidate, intending
when the the real contest came to support diff
ferent man.-Springtfeld Republican.
Story about Lying.
Davidson College, North Carolina, contrib
utes good story of a man with a very bad
habit. AS it is all about lying, the reader may
believe it or not, as be likes:
ain the old North State lives certain John
Long, who draws long bow whenever he has
anything to tell, and his character for truth
and veracity has been below zero for many
years. Captain johnson had been 30 taken in
by one of Johns outrageous stories, that he said
to him, in q pet:
off you make me believe one your lies again
in a month, I'll give you fifty dolarsl"
John pretended to be hurt by the offer, and
went off. A few days after he was riding by
the captains, posthaste, on horseback, when
the captain called out to him:
~ say hello, Johnny stop and tell us q
lie or two this morningi
John rode on, but cried out most dolefully
mo time for lying now brother Jimmy has
Just been killed in the machine, and Pm going
for the old folks" On he went
Captain johnson ordered his horse, and rode
over to see the dead man and offer his services,
but found him alive and we'll, ginning cotton
and in no danger of the machine. Just then,
John rode up and demanded the fifty dollsrs.
The captain declared it was a rascaIly trick
but he would have had to pay the money if
John had not let him OF.
There are twelve ex Governors in the United
States Senate, two in the House, and three in
the Cabinet. Those in The Senate are Hamlin
of Ne, Allen of R. l., Seward of N. Y, Bigler
of Pa, Reid of N. c., Hammond of 8. c., Fitz-
patrick of Ala, Brown of Miss, Bell and John.
son of Tenn, Crittenden of KY, and Polk of
No. and Gov. Grimes of Iowa and Gov Pow.
ell of KY. are elected to the next Senate.
Messrs. Smith of Va. and Quitman of Miss. are
the only ex Governors in the House.
The late Col. McClung, of Mississippi, once
got into dispute in the Office of the Prentiss
House, at Vicksburg, with q rowdy, when, to
end the matter without further delay, he took
the rowdy by the nape of the neck, !" led him to
the door, and kicked him into the street. The
ktckee picked himself up, and wake away, and
here the matter ended.
Some weeks afterwards, McClung was in New
Orleans, and, when walking ND St. Charles
street, saw the fellow he had kicked out of the
Prentiss House, kicking third party out of a
drinking saloon. McClung walked up to his
old acquaintance, once the kickee, but now the
kicker, and. after scanning him closely, said
Look here, my fine fellow, are you not the
man kicked out of the Prentiss House the
other day?"
Soity, sottiy, Coionei, replied the rowdy,
taking McClung by the arm, 4" don't mention
it-Fm the man-but-but-you and knop
,cho to kick"
BIG BLAsrs.-The mightiest of gunpowder
blasts in connection with railway works, if not
the very greatest blast ever exploded, was that
by which Sir William Cubitt blew away, with
one charge OF nineteen thousand pounds Of gun
powder, the entire mass of the Round Down
Cliff, which rose to the height of $50 feet above
the level of the sea, within few miles of Dover,
England. This monster blast, fred by galvanic
electricity at several points instantaneously, ct
once hesved off from the cliff mass of more
than million tons of chalk, which rolled down
upon the beach-the dislodged stuff covering
asPace OF more than fifteen acres, which may
still be seen by the traveller along the South.
Eastern railway, stretching to yards the sea
near the western base of the well-known Shak.
speare's Cliff. By means of a similar blast ON