The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-05
Young America Feeling His Oats.

There is patient in an uptown insane retreat
who believes that he holds on TO one end OF and
regulates the axis around which the world moves,
and that q moments iebnquisbment of his grasp
would result IN general flying 10 pieces OF the uni
compares vain man to a eonceited chantclcer,
who supposed that the sun rose in the heavens SIM
ply 10 hear HIM crow and see him clap his wings.
Travellers tell OF an idiotc Egy ptian Wac informs
strangers that the pyramids wee built Tor his espe
cis! benedt Now we ere not aware that Mr..
concerted, or ldio;ic NOR al ; and yet, judging
from the style OF his wihlng and speaking he
evidently believes that he regulates the move
ments OF bOtn world and sun, and that Cheops
designed his great work as an especial mausOleum
for the Senator from Camden. A man vas hung for
muraer, IN Cleveland, OHIO few months ago, VINO
confessed that he committed the crime simply from
desire TO see himself figure in print We edo not sup
pose that Mr.. Scovel has incurred the risk poltl-
cal extnctOnin in order to have his name daily paraded
at length in the New York apers; on the contrary,
Mr. Stockton and that 1T is his duty to aid repair
ing 1t. But when the youthful Soon, instead OF
quietly voting as he may think best goes out Of his
way TO write silly letters and make Vainglorious
speeches he must not expect to escape the shafts OF
Ttdlcqle. For insI anee, in his communication to
ms enemies have "hunt ed me like partridge in the
mountains, and charge me with daily violating the
ten commandments" He then asks, "What am TO
Hecuba or Hecuba to me, that should weep for
herr Who dares to say that will not into joint
meeting for Field, Vandyke, or GregoryY Al God
created me with brain which is not bind 10 ini1s.
tce, or heart which sides with man when he IS
oppressed do not choose to apologize for that.H
tXhaiu. IN ppSVVh Nv NVANVAVN yVstSINhyl u6
tells us;-
&y reputation is Ps dear to as is that Of any man
upon the floor OF this honorable body. stand upon
moral basis in this matter. CSmiling among some I
the Republican Senators] Yes, see that come there
are Who smile when assert that stand on moral
this question but Is as you yet Will see
but dishonor awaits my retreat. If go down, go
down like the Cumberland, wi her nag flying at the
and at east viii be lett Tor me this consolation
that untarnished honor win survive political defeat
This specimen of grandiloquence will compare
very tavoraply with the remarks of a member OF
the late Mississippi State Convention, who said:-
lam moSsy back, sir, and stand here oday 70 re-
present the county OF Jones'. People said that me
county Jones seeded from Mississippi Yes Sir, we
did gecede from the Confederacy, and Sir we fought
them like dogs; killed them like devils; We buried
down there in the county OF Jones did in their soye-
reign capacity, seccde, and did become mossy-backs
We did fight them ike dogs, end kill them like helltons
1ke heops, / say, sir But dldn't come up here TO
gas sir and surrender my rights to the oor sir ex
pressing only the sentiment that stand up for the
1he time. In suffering county the waits of three
hundred and eighty widowed women and shirt tail
chi dren ascending be.ore the God OF right and ap
peang in tears to the powers appointed for relief
Whatever may be the result OF the contest now
raging at Trenton, trust that Mr.. Scovel will
be sent TO ashineton. With Davis in the Senate
and Banks IN the House. there is already an "abun
dant sufieiency" of Elijah Pograms in Congress. Lei
the name of Scovel be famous in the "ladies ordI
nary" on the battle field, or be written on New
jersey tomb, but let il be entered on the book
of the United States Senate.-N. Y. Commercial al
Oertiser, tCopp erhead)