The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-16
LITERARY NOTES.

ished by j. Madison Cults, purporting to be
record OF numerous conversations with the iate
Senator s. A. Douglas, we find the following
spicy contribution to our political history IN
regard to the passage of the Kansas Nebraska
bil:-
"When the bill passed, the Frees OIL members OF
the two Houses immediately organzo ~ ~. s Of
WashlngtOD and urged the formation OF other as'o, o.
cations each the free states Ior the purpose VI
Ieq1slature Incorporated an Em grant AID society,"
with capital of S5 900 0O0 and Immediately pro-
Colts pstols a b eknie, and Bible. All the trou-
bles Of the territory grew out OF this armed % ano @
forced emigration here would have Deeh no
iTo1b it emigration had been leit 10 It's natural
causes and course. What L say ABOUT hmeu
emgrants is all true have seen at nve CbIeago aSd
howl and grOan before my own door, WIN Uauu9
around their hats inscribed ee1G% Jyhsn renpned % 10
Chicago | was met at Buffalo by q lrend, VINO
brought letters from other friends az Onloago' pro
that would be inevitably killed If did. j M
sisted upon gong, and did so. 1 arrived there III
the morning. went to my hotel and after atew DAYS,
three or iOur issued a notice of speecl to be made
by me in front OF North Market Hail. Auth5 news
papers IN the city denounced me, and published
daily arucles encouraging personal violencs, re-
minding the people that in 1850, on tine passage
OF the compromise measures, had returned anu
succeeded IN quslllng an outbreak against tnOSe
measures, ana that this thing could no. be done
second time. knOw-Noth had, pendng
States for the first time, and in Chiclgo the AMI.
Nebraska men hau organized mo hnOW-NObnlnR
LODGES, and probably included Wlthln these lOuges
nine tenth OF all the men the cItv. 1t was a'cer
tained that they secretly de ermlned and oound
themselves by their oaths not TO allow me 10 SPEAK
lodges ordered by telegraph, aud receiyed Dy eX-
press from New York, the night before was to
speak two hundred and ntty of Colts revo
When the day arrived the flags we're hung at half.
mast on the Shipping in the harbor and for several
hours before tle time appointed, all the church
bals in the CITY tOlled, at which signal the
mob assemoed in force OF about ten thousand.
1 had forty or fifty men who pretended to be
with priUdtety, Dut not haf-a.dozen
were so openly; they were all ahaid. AT tue ap.
pointed hour l repaired 10 the meeting and went
upon the stand, and was greeted oy that unearthly
veil taught ana practised IN the Know-Nothmg
Lodges, a howl no man can initiate. L stood aud
looked at the mob until the howine ceased When
they ceased commenced by saying that i appear
before you to night fo7 the purpose OF vlndlcaung
the provisions OF the Kansas NeoFasKa acI before @DeIore
the sentence was ended the howl began again;
When 1t ceased would begin, and as soon as l
commenced 1t was renewed. at times appealed TO
their pride, as the champions OF free speech, for
hearing; the howhng was renewed; at other
times woula denounce them as set OF towards
who came armed with bowie-knlves and ps.
tOls TO put down one man, unarmed-araid to
hear the truth spoken lest there might be some
honest men among them who would be convinced.
AT time l got hearing for ten or fifteen
minutes, and was evidently making an impression
upon the crowd, when there matched in from the
outside body or three or TOUR hundred men with
red Shirts dressed sailors ana thoroughly armed,
who moved through The crowd immediately IN front
leave it. 1 stood and looked at them until they
ceased Yelling and then denounced them and
put them at defapce, and dared them to snoot
at an una1med man. The pistols began to fire al
around the outside of the crowd, evidently into
several of them hitting men who were near me,
and for several hours this wild confusion and Jury
continued. The wonder is that amid that vast
excited crowd one was so far excited or mad
dened as to fire ball at me. The stand was
crow ded with my enemies, reporters and newspaper
men, and this was unG ou otedy my best protection.
Il stood uDO0 the front OF the STAND, tne MIDST OF
that confusion, from O'Clock in the evening until
II Is at night when suddenly drew my watch iIom
my pocket and looked at II, in from OF the crowd,
and in distinct tone OF voice sara, at an interval
OF silence, ut is now Sunday mornng-Pllg go to
church and you may go TO he'll! and retired
amidst the uproar, intolmy carriage, and rode to
my hotel. he crowd followed the carriage and
came near throwing it of the bridge into the nver
crossed; they had seIzed 1t for that purpose,
and fteO IT, but the driver whipped his horses vlo
lently and dashed through and over them and went
to the fremont House, where retired to my room.
The mob, at least five thousand followed, and COM
menced their howls IN Lake street, fronting my
room. The landlord begged me 10 leave the house,
tearing they would burn 1t up, whereupOn raised
my window, walked out on the balcony, TOOK good
look at them and told them that the day would
come when they would hear me- and then bade them
goodnight"
The Nation says:-It appears that the inge-
nious gourmet to whom the NJ. de Girardin
newspaper, La Libeyte, is indebted foI the sketch
OF dinner published every day in that paper
is the Baron de Brsse, we'll known here as 80
fork Valiant of the most artistic and erudite
type. His skeleton dinners are devoured by al
Paris: literally, by those who can afford to have
them executed by their cooks; in Imagination
by those who are restricted to more moderate
rate of prandial outlay. The Liberte, which
began its career few. weeks since with 200 sub
scribers, owes a goody proportion of the
$4,000 now upon its list to the success of its
''daily dinners" The idea, however, is not due
solely to the fertile br in of NJ. Emile de Grar-
din, the Grand Journal having formerly inaugu
rated its entrance into the world of publicity
by publishing series of "culinary conferences
by that most accomplished of cooks, the eide
Dumas The popular author had promised
after the immense success of his receipts fo
the production of his famous salad and 'cabbagt
soup," to impart to the listening universe thu
secret of another of his most renowned dishes
viz, rabbit Ia musketeer."
Since the days OF Hebel taste for wh6
may be called dialectpoetry has been grown
in Germany which can boast OF several poets VIII
are to the Fatherland what Burns was to Sco
land. The best of these, and the latest, is Frit
Reuter-, who writes in the yernacular Plat
deutsche OF his native province of Mecklenburg
and excellently too we are told-at any rat
yoluminously, his works, which consist of lyrics
idyls, tales, novels, ETC.. filing about doze
volumes. They are to be found on every tabl
in Germany, and, what is more, there has latel
sprung up class of lecturers or traVellin
readers, whose business it is to read Reuter-
productions to large audiences. One OF thes