, 1859-12-30
A. HUGE JOKE.
Providence bringing Good ont Of Evil
or 1f1e way = Democrat was 81feshe&
for AbQtttlQ uiAul.


One Of the most amusing Of the many Indi-
crous incidents Of the uarper's Ferry excite.
nent has just reached our ears, and a. tho moral
Of it is highly instructive, illustrating both the
wisdom Of Providence and the toDy Of Demoe'
racy, We cannot withhold It from our readers
Mr. Dayless ". uanna, Of Terre Hause, is
very pleasant and estimable gentleman, but
feaIfnlly diseased with Democracy. He il the
law partner Of Mr.. United States Attorney ioor-
bees, and was foreman Of the last Grand Jury
in the last United 5tatcs Court, which our read;
ers will remember was the most deEout Of ali
the Grand Juries that have fallen down and
worshippcd slavery ut the bidding Of John L.
Robinson. In virtue Of these many claims to
the regard Of shareholders, he certainly WIS
justified in expecting the Eindcst possible re-
ceptioa from the people Of Virginia, whenever
he should visit them, and he possibly enter
tanned hope that ii he should 90 to Charleston
General Tai5afesro would meet him with an es-
cort Of honor, and order all tie troops to pre-
sent arms when be passed.
1t was doubtless, therefore, with feelings Of
joy Is well as sadness that he received from
Governor Willard aud Mr. Voorhees,, q short
| to Char1cstoNn to assist them in the sad duty
| Of securing and preparing Cooks body for
| burial lie went, and stopped at Harpers
Ferry, expecting to meet bis friends there.
| Not finding them, he waited n few hours Tor
them to come, and employed the interval in
A
Browns pixies, to use in the campaign Of 1860.
So he says, at least, and we have no doubt Of it.
| He meant to take them with him on his stump
ing tours, md after reading, some heEy
extracts from the book, to hold up the
pike aud say; Here, fellow clti1e1s, Is the l.s
The Republican party. This terrible weapon
got it at Harpers Ferry With my own hands
perfosating the bowels aud shedding the gore
Of our Southern brethern, is . fit emblem Of the
party that now threatens the Union and breathes
blood and destruction upon the South. Look At
il fellow citizens. It Is a fearful weapon. l!
the Republican party gets the power, million.
i and millions Of them will be STEPPED 10 blood q
innocent children, and this mighty Union will
sink down fragmentary wreck into sauGuin'
ary ocean Of gore, with the sun gazing ssdly
On the ruin. and tbe e!oads dripping with M tht
see that u pike thus used vould be y formid
able Democratic wespon, and We have NJ
| doubt that Mr. Hanna manuflctureda q number
Of stirring appeals and patriotic denunciatlon:
while be was earring hts purchhsato bis hotel
Possibly he chuckled with delight at the slauga
ter Of kepublican,sn he was gong to MAKE
with bis pike, and not impossibly he looket
ahead to 4 Congressional seat, and ercn a GOV
ernership, alt earned by gallant charges viii
that pike In his satisfaction, like The milk
maid in her dream. be probably 1nsde an indis
Greet exhibition Of his weapon and his book
| HAA oVAEbS0J saw AAAAAA. AA~ H-SF~e'N-
Terrible dangers we're gathering about him, ant
be, poor innocent, IVES enjoying his; anticlpa
tions Of victories over Rep1bfieanism, and prob
ably Of grand reception at Charlestown, all un
conscious Of Ais peril. lie hired hack ant
drove at onceto Char1estowu. The moment b
landed be was arr<sted aad put uader guard, da'
heuas k<ps 50 t,etaty.f0u hours! Allnight LON
while he slept three soldiers stood over his be-
with loaded muskets. When be asked what he wa
charged With, be WAS told 1lolitioAitns! Whe
he asked upon what grounds, they showed hir
the book and pikc-head which they had take
from bis trunk. His book and his pike, the wear
| ons with which he xpccted tocrush Abolitionis1
had actually got him into jail for beng HI abol
| tionist. We're ever the designs Of the wjcke
50 happily overruted to their own confusion
, Did cyer Democratic folly 30 utterly blast
!, Democratic trick! Nereckon moi, We suppos
. not. The next duF Mr. Hanna was taken befor
General Taliafrrro, and, after rigid cxau.in'
. I ton, be was discharged, though Dir. Voorhee
p | with inconsiderate zeal. Insisted On making
speech for him. 4 wiser, if not Wise, maj
be left that Court, discharged his sad duty .
!. the galows, and came home, where the exec
lenee Of the joke actually squeezed itself out {
him in spite Of his determination never
r breathe it to anybody, and his active efforts
prevent the newspaper correspondents at It
= execution from saying anything about it. :;
:. is the best joke of the year, in our cand'
. | nnfninn.