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

Dad Morton, in his onconscious" moments,
sometimes perpetrates joke. The following,
relating TO the conversion of his pastor, really
merits preservation. give it in Dads peculiar
pharaseology:
The parson cum to our village, when / wos
g little Teller. His first appearance wos fattern'
and his sarmons powerful ssrchin'. Everybody
thought he alters he'd bin a good Christian, till
Squire Brace cum to live next us. The Squire
wos eddicated 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 wonderful
bad 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 a most gin him the
lock jaw. Mr.. B, the schoolmaster, couldn't
stand no such actions as them, so he drawed him
tight over his knee, aud guv him sech bastin'
with the fat side of the ruler, that he haint been
able to back slide sence.
"Arter this story got cut, 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 non-slaveholding
have third greater population than the slave.
holding States; that the foreign vote of the
country is ne-twelfth of the whole that about
one-third of the white population of the slave
States are save-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.elevenih as many
churches as the Methodists that the number
of persons who live east of the Mississippi is
twelve times greater than those who live ives,
thereof; the distance between New York and
New Orleans is more than that between London
and Constantin2ple, or Paris ard ST. Peters
burg; over two-fifths Of the national territory
is drained by the Mississippi and it's tributa.
ries; of the 1897 political newspapers pub
lished In the United States in 1850, 855 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 sc, 600 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 mum Der Of real estate owners,
1890, 0c0, 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, J
35,456, ninsfold increase since l8O0-the
population having increased about fvefold ;
onefourth part of the people reside in villages,
towns, and cities; the number of people to 9
dwelling in New York city averages more than
ID, III Boston nearly 8, in New Orleans 81, in
Richmond about 5; in 81 counties the females
greatly predominant, in l55 the slaves, and in
I the foreign born
That peculiar eloquence which takes it's
pomp and exaggeration from the associations
of Slavery is now abundant in Congress.
Among its orators. Mr.. Keitt, of South Caro-.
lima, is eminent. Here is specimen from his
recent effort 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 nations, and
this whole continent was embraced in the
meshes of our pro-consular despotsm. The
old thirteen, like Corinthian shaft, was 10
spire upward to the heavens, but it was to rest
upon dome covering blood and rapine and
tyranny. Has the ghost of this murdered
scheme come back unannealed and blood bolt.
ed, to spell your gaze with its baeilisk fascina-
ton? Do you want to conquer States and
provinces, and send forth pro consuls, covered
with pomp, and backed by legions, to glut
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 whees7"
LAMART1NE, AND HIS SUBseR1prIoN.-The
Paris correspondent of the Manchester Guard
ian writes:
GA rather curious incident of the present
hour is the Lsmartine subscription. When
first spoken OF, certain degree of sympathy
was shown on all hands, and, perhaps, if left
to be perfectly independent and national dem
putr a Ia sohf ho obto,pa1.
but the moment the Emperor, by his communi
cation through Espinasse, signi6ed that he
made himself the head patron of the subscrip.
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. Il is much now if, in
France, Larnarine makes four or FIVE thousand
pounds (sterling j 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 a somewhat curious statistical proof of
what the force of pure Bonapartism, left to Itself
is in this country. A few days ago, heard a
very highly.placed official say well, see
nothing for it, except that the eight millions
who gave their votes TO the Emperor should
chCu give q scu oouo picSc W II6IHhrSlnes Inc
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.'
{" 1t is believed, however, that the Emperor's
plan is this: TO let the subscription take its
course, and when the insuficiency of the sum
is proved, to come for ward and cay 8 The pub
lie has done too httle but 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 possibly dangerous one Silly
of the so.called old parties would be ruined
in public opinion; and this is not to be disdain-
ed by Louis Napoleon. As it is, Lamartine is
universally blamed for his acceptance of the
Imperial bounty"
> A Child on the Eternal Fitness Of Things.
Mr.. p. q little daughter came running to her
aunt one day, saying
"Aunt Kate, little Matte has swallowed
button -
Seeing her terror, her aunt calmly replied,
!" Well, what good will that do her q"
Bald the child, very seriously, /" Not any good,
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