Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-09-20
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4 Student Lsoses Obliege. Joins Circus Com
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Several years ago circus company
performed 10 Lauca. ter, New Hampshire.
While there bright and very active
lad attracted the attention OF some men,
bers OF the company, add they persuaded
him to join them and become an eques-
trian. The lads parents were wealthy
people, residing in Concord, the capitol
If the State, and he. Wa at ending the
academy in Lsnca ter. Like most lads
he IVES fascinstsd With the glitter aud
fash Of the circu,, and gladly joined
the company 10 question. Waiting TIL
they reached the next town, he stole
away in the night and enrolled himself
in the sawdust ranks. He became IN
time, q very skillful rider, and seemed
we'll pleased with his svocstion, though
he must have often thought Of his LONE
and friends in Concord. His parents had
made every effort to End him without
success, aud they at length came to
mourn him as dead.
Some three years ago an elder broth
er rec gnized him among the performers
in circus company at Natchez, IN
Mississippi, and persuaded him to
leave the ring and return to his home
aud parents in Concord. The boy. now
almost man, by the way, was cordially
welcomed home. He re-entered the
academy at Lancaster, and applied
himself assiduously to bis studies. He
made rapid progress, indeed, that in a
years time he Was fitted for college. He
entered Dartmouth aud was making
fine progress, WI en-, most unfortunately
for him. circus company performed In
Hanover one day last summer. 1t is
inexplicable to us, but the horses, the
t;nssi and the music had still charm
for him-a .tal charm-and he yielded
to it. He threw the classics ssde, and
rec. tered the arena. 1t is needless TO
say that his conduct excited the most
profound sorrow among his relatives, but
they concluded that it would be useless
to again endeavor to make him abandon
the ring. A few weeks since. while RI
ding in Robinson's circus, At Knoxville,
Tennessee, he was thrown from his
horse. His neck was broken by the fall !,
and he died almost instantly. He was
riding what is technically termed the
"bare-back act" on naked horse, leap
ing s'resmers and through hoops.
We get these particulars from broth
err OF the iIl.fated young man, who pass
ed through the city yesterday, on his
way to Tennessee, to obtain the body OF
the deceased. In former years the VIII
ter of this knew the young mans family
we'll. The young man was strictly So
Der, never using liquor or even tobacco.
His abilities were of superior order,
and while at school, he made remarkable
progress in his studies. Since resuming
his break-neck calling of the ring, his
relatives have often received letters from
him, all breathing tone of deep affect
ion. But he wrote that be could never
be happy in any other pursuit, and must
follow it while he lived.
Why Douglas Appears Before the Peo.
pie.
Some of the Breckenridge boilers af-
feet to be very much astonished that the
candidate for Pres ident of the National
Democrats should accep, of invitations
to address the people. They say that
it Is not only unusual, but very unhe-
coming in candidate for so high an Of
fee. Under ordinary circumstances,
Judge Douglas would, doubtless, have
pursued the usual course of trusting his
cause and Its success to his ardent advo-
Gates aud friends, tn he simple letter
of acceptance of the nomination made
ty the National Democr. tic Conven-
ton. But his bitter and sIcepless enc
mics, among whom may be mentioned
the Federal Administration, with all its
power, patronage and money, have
made it necessary that be should bring
his cause directly before the honest
masses, whose sutfrages he seeks. He
has repeatedly charged that his cores
pondence has been suppressed by the
unscrupulous minions Of Executive DOW
or, and that documents under bis frank
were corruptly withheld from their right
full owners by postmasters and agents
opposed to him. Who, then, can chal-
lenge the right or Contest the propriety
Of the course to which he was driven by
the necessities of the case? He is no
candidate for Executive favor, or the
appreciation Of the upper-crust office
holders who stand with the flaming
sword between him and the sovereign
and incompatible masses who make
Presidents aud place the robes of office
upon men no better, and often not half
so worthy as themselves.
1t is to the people he looks for JUS
ticc and the compensation of reward"
for the lifetime which he has spent in
their service, and in beating back the
swelling tides of abolition fanaticism.
The government oficehoIders and the
expeclant politicians can do him no fur
Their harm, because he is now conf: ont
ing and driving them panic-stricken be.
fore them every day. lie has got
through this uppercrust impeachment to
the honest and justce-doing masses.
And hc.c let the cause of the National
Democracy, with Douglas at their
head, rest until the election day. We
have no fear for the result. His princi-
pies arc theirs, and he is their tavorite,
as they will Indicate IN November next.
Memphis appeal.
THE police force Of New York con-
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