The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-10-02

II President johnson should issue a procla-
nation calling upon the Governors of the
4 several Southern States to convene their
Il Legislatures before next December, and re-
commend them to adopt the proposed amend
ment. This done, a new and effulgent
light will be shed over the whole Union,
from the brilliancy of which the radicals will,
with their tallow candles, pale into insignif-
cance.-M ?. Herald.
Anecdotes of the Naturalist Waterton.
The Pail Mall Gazette says CDR.
Hobson, Leeds physician, has just
given to the world sundry reminiscent
ces of most wonderful specimen of
muscular Christianity. The Christian
ity, indeed, Is not precisely of the type
most in favor with the votaries of the
new school, but the muscularity of the
particular Christian in question throws
all the feats of novel and magazine
Christians altogether into the shade
The late Charles Waterton, the York
shire squire-naturalist, the rider upon
crocodiles, and the ardent defender of
the Jesuits, is DIR. Hobson's hero, and
unique hero he must have been. DIR.
Hobson declares that he saw him when
seventy-seven years ofage scratch the
back part of his head with the great toe
to make half the clowns in Jhe London
theatres die of envy,they must be mus
cular Christians themselves.
"The crocodile-riding was one of Mr..
Waterton's humblest feats, for the brute
had been caught by an immense hook
baited with raw flesh, and was being
Herewith dragged along the river shore
by crowd of natives, when Mr.. Wa
terton jumped astride him. But there
is a story of his tackling some rattle
snakes at Leeds in the presence of a
room-full of doctors, which may be con-
tidently recommended to the author of
Guy Livingston, Professor Kingsley,
or Mr.. Lever, when they are in want of
some fresh illustration of the wonders
wrought by pluck. And if this is not
enough, and they have a heroine on hand
who will only be won by stroke of
daring absolutely preterhuman, let
them borrow the account of Mr.. Water
toms hugging the Borneo ourang-ou.
tang in the Geological Gardens in 1861
An old gentleman seventy-eight years
old, entering the cage ola ferocious ape,
and, while clasped in it's horrible en-
brace, studying the formation of it's
hands, and still more, of its teeth, is, it
may be safely stated, thing not likely
to be seen every day in the Regents
Park.
"How these muscular powers were
nourished is as surprising as the powers
themselves. Mr.. Waterton never, in
his whole life, drank wine, spirits, or
beer, delighting in very weak black tea.
For thirty years he never slept in bed,
bat found the hard boards pleasant
couch. Then he was perpetually bleed
ing himself, whenever he felt tight
ness in his chest or any sort of illness,
taking from himself as much as sixteen
or twenty ounces of blood at time,
and letting the blood run till he felt
quite comfortable, when he would bind
up his arm himself as handily as the
cleverest surgeon. As for his HASTINGS,
they were severe to the last degree, ex-
ceeding the severest rules ofthe Roman
church, and no remonstrances either of
priest or doctor, could ever induce him
to diminish them. Yet he lived to eigh-
ty-three, and DR.. Hobson saw him Jump
over fence three feet six inches high,
without touching it with hand or foot,
when he was in his seventy-ninth year
Did Guy Livingstone, or Charles O'Mal-
ley, or anybody else, ever do the like l.?
If the teetotalists, do not Immediately
Mr. Waterton and make him
their petron saint, they have no sense
of gratitude or plety in them.''