The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-09-01

SENATOR WADE ON PRESIDENTIAL LETTER
WR1TERs-The Boston alias and Bee tells the
following good story of Senator Wade:
During the Presidential canvass of 1874, a
great many speeches were made in Ohio by
Judge Wade, the present able and popular
Senator from that State, in favor of the election
of Henry Clay. One day, in returning from a
weeks tour in the rural districts, he picked up
a Cleveland paper, and found therein Mr.. Clay's
famous Alabama letter. which did so much
damage to his cause in the Northern States,
and lost him New York, and with it the Presi-
dency. Mr.. Wade read the letter with feelings
not at all amiable, and he remarked to friend,
that in the next selection of candidate for the
Presidency, Il shall make it sine qua non
that he can neither read nor write
DoDGE GLoRIFY1NG DoDGE.-On the 25th of
February, 1854, Gen. Augustus Caesar Dodge
delivered speech in the United States Senate,
of which the following was portion:
g Iowa is the only free State which never for
a moment gave way to the Wilmot Proviso.
My colleague, G. w. Jones, who never lodges
a responsibility, or fails to perform duty, voted
for every one of the compromise measures, in
all their phases, stages, and conditions, inclu-
ding the fugitive slave law-the late Senator
Sturgeon, of Pennsylvania, and ourselves, being
the only three Senator's from the entire non
slaoeholding section Of this Union soho roted fer
hu-iSee page l4of Dodge's speech on the Kan
sas- Nebraska Bill.
If a vote cast for the fugitive slave law in
1850 was worth boasting of in open Senate in
1854, it has lost none of its excellence in 1859.
Dubuque Daily Times.
The MEERscHAUM MANIA.-It may chagrin
Young America to learn, but nevertheless it is
a fact, that the meerschaums so popular in this
country at the present day, costing from 81 to
So, are mere shams The genuine meerschaum,
or that portion in which the cigar or tobacco is
placed, is made in Vienna, of clay found in
Asia. This clay resembles the proclaim clay
of this country, and is easily moulded into any
desired shape; and the finer the quality, the
more easily is it colored by the oil of tobacco
The mouthpiece of the meerschaum is made of
amber, a substance resembling rosin, found
along the Baltic Sea. This is valued accord
ing to the size of the piece, and its fitness for
mouthpieces. Some Of them sell as high as
$40, and the bowls for pipes as high as $50, in
consequence of the elaborate carving upon
them. They are made in Vienna, where large
number of persons are employed to meet the
present demand. The price, however, cannot
be considered enormous, when it is understood
that the finest quality of meerschaum cannot
be perfectly colored under three months, and
then it must be in use nearly all the time; say,
for instance, thirty cigars per day smoked
through one, each cigar costing three cents,
would make the cost for ninety days $8l, with
out counting sick headaches, nervousness, &C.
A PATHFINDER angling in the rain was OBJ
served to keep his line under the arch of a
bridge Upon being asked the reason, he re-
piled: Sure, an won't the fishes be crowdin'
there to keep out nv the wet, ye spalpeen?n