Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-08-10
A "Reminiscences Of Old DaVs.

t lRlcHAED YATES, Republican car
4 didate for Governor Of Illinois, dcliy
cred a speech at the Republican Rat
/, iiication Meeting at Springfield, i
, that State, on the 7th, from which W
take the following extract j
| recollcct the first time | ever saw
Mr.. LINCOLN, and | have a grea
= mind to tell you, though | don't know
that / ought to. ["Ycs, go on, g
on. J II was more than a quarter o
a century ago. "a voice, he wa.
'Goung Abe thcn."I was down a
Salem with q friend, who remarked tC
me, one day, III go over and intro
ducc you TO fine Young fellow We
have here-a smart, genial, active
Young fellow, and we'll be certain to
have a god talk" | consented, and
he took me down TO a collection OF
four or I've houses, and looking over
the way | sawa young man partly ly,
Ing or resting Oh a cellar door, In
tcutly engaged in reading. Ny friend
took me up and introduced me to
Young Lincoln, ana | tell You as he
rose up wouldn't have shot at him
THEN ior President. Laughter. ]
Well, after some pleasant converse
ton. for Lincoln talked scnsibly and
generally. then, just as he does uOw,
we al. went up to dinner. | ought
not to tell this on Lincoln. GGreat
laughter and cries Of go on. go
on, You know very well that We
all lived in very plain way in those
times. Tie house was a rough log
house, with 4 luncheon floor and clap
board roof, and might have been built
like So!omou's Temple, without the
sound Of hammer or nail, for there
was no iron in it. [Laughter.l The
old lady whose house it was, soon
provided Us with dinner the prin-
cipal ingredient was great bowl Of
milk, which she handed to each.
Somehow. in serving Lincoln, there
was 4 mistake made, and his bowl
tipped up and the bowl and milk roll
ed over the floor. The good old lady
was in deep distress. and burst out,
"Oh, dear me, that's all my fault"
Lincoln picked up the bowl in the /
best naturei way in the world, re !
to her, Aunt Lizzy, we'll /.
not discuss whose fault it was-ouly, 7
if it don't worry YOU. il don't worry
me-" Roars of laughter and ap-
plausc.l The old lady vas comtorted
and gave him another bowl of milk.
Renewed laughter
My friend Green, who introduced
ne, told me the first time he ever saw
Lincoln, he was in the Sangamon riy-
er, with his pants rolled up some five
Get more or less, [great merrimentl
.!ying to pilot fat boat over a mill
lam. The boat had got so full of
water, that it was very difficult to
manage, and almost impossible to get
I over the dam. Lincoln finally con
rived to get her bow over, so that it
projected d few feet, and there it
tood. But he then invented q new
way Of bai.iag a fat boat. lie bored
. hole through the b)ttom to let the
water run out, and then corked her
p, and she launched right over.
Great laughter.] | think the Cap ,
ain who proved himself so fitted to ,
ayigate the broad,horn over the ,,
am. is no doubt the man who is to
tand upon the deck Of the old ship, :
the Constitution and guide her
atcly over the bIllow and breakers ,
hat surround her. Enthusiastic and
rolongcd applause
| do not mention these hardShips of q,
incoln's early life as eyincing any =
reat merit in themselves. Many a :,
ian among you may say, Il am rail !,
bitter. have done many a hard :
ay ; work, and if that entities him 10
c President, it entities me to be
resident, too All | mean TO say.
regard to his having been a poor, $
lrt-yorking boy, is that 1t don't Il
t him back any.T That's It'll AZ :.
e young man who cour,cd and mar
ed very pretty girl when, on Il
e next morning after the wedding. =,
e presented him with a thousand ~
,Ilars-" Lizzie. (said he,) l like you Is Is
.ry much, indeed, but this thousand >.
'n't set You back any" [Roars Of ~ T..
tighter and cheers.I SO if Lincoln 4, 4
; ali the other qualities of q states ..
IN, ii don't set him back any with n,
who know and love him TO know v,
at he was once hard-working boy. oc
On Tuesday night, at Portsmouth, n
H., Miss Ann Maria Martin, Z!
lighter Of Mr.. Thomas Martin, died w
IN the effects of a singular wound .u an
,civcd on Saturday, when a salute ~ ~
5 fired from the yacht Zinga. Ex- E,
;ting a display Of fireworks from "
; Zinga, as she was coming in, a
ge number Of people had gathered q,
the wharf. \ salute from 2-pound Tux
mon was fired on board the yacht. do'
. wad was of waste cotton, and of an
Irse was very dense and although ele
muzzle Of the gun was judged to sue
far below the wharf, yet, bri
ng pointed toward the people, the ,
struck Miss Martin, broke sever !