The Placer herald., 1866-01-20

fragrant buds and full-blown flowers
Laughter. Growing savage at Johnson, be
beabors Senator Doolittle. Governor Morton
and calls on the churches to ostracize these
traitors to justice. How Justify he pulls the
rope. Ding dong! Arouse, oh! Africa from
your slumber; your rights are in dange'!-
Ding, dong! To your pulpit. oh Cheever,
and thunder your denunciation. Ding, dong!
Garrison arise! Here is another league
with hell and covenant with dea,hl Ding,
dong! Wendell Phillippics! Ding, dong!
Butler, Dig dig, another Dutch Gap Canal,
and blow up another powderboat At Fort
Fisher. Great laughter Ding! dong?
Boston shake off your lethargy and exalt
your horn! Ding! dong! John Brown, get
out of your body and put on your invisible
knapsack, filed with imperceptible rations,
and with your impalpabe soul march on.
Loud |aug gh'er and applause.] Ding, dong:
Impeach johnson! Rally the pious! Sound
the declaration! The fair flower OF negro
suffrage is pinched in the bud! Uproari
laughter and applause. Well. Wendell
Philips aroused himself declared the South
victorious, johnson three fourth traitor, and
sounded his al rm. lie caught the sound OF
Tiltonian brass, buckled on his armor. and
cried:
.:Thy spirit, Independent, let me share.
Lord OF the Lion Heart AMI Eagle Eye"
daughter When lo all at once the In
dependent bell ceased; it had lost the clap
per. Tilton is yet pulling; but he makes no
no sound. On the 18th comes an apoogetic
article for johnson; and Brother l'eecher
follows it in pastoral to sheep. Why this
conversion9 devoutly pray that the sud-
denness of the conversion may be genuine
1t filled my heart with gratitude. Marvellous
is such sudden turn from virulence and
spite How can it be accounted foI! All!
the best of us may have reasons for weak
ness Duty is not the highest motive with
"Independenl" men. Its owner was coll
ector. lie draws several thousand year
a good off GER it may be. But why should
he lose good fat office when it can be re-
tainel? lie may not be exempt from the
class Deserted by Burns:
mankind are unco' weak,
And little TO be trusted;
| When self the wavering shakes,
| 'T'is seldom well adjusted"
He sends for Tilton and Beecher, the one
for temporal and the other for ghoslly com
fort They confer. Mr.. Beecher opens the
conference with prayer and then lines out
the verse:
"And are we wretchcd yet alive?
| And do we yet rebel
| IT'S wondrous. it's amazing grace
That we are out OF HclG''
loud laughterl-which being sung with
that spiritual PRIDE which apes humility, the
collector, catching the lyric gush, excams:
"Let Independence be thy boast,
Ever mindful what it cost"
Renewed laughter Then with pious
pocket handkerchief, the tears are wiped
from brother Bnwen's eyes. brother TiIton,
goes home to swallow his fiery language, and
take the clipper out of bis bell. and brother
lBeecher to prepare sermon on the heauti-
fuI bealitudes of Andrew Johnson's clemen-
cy. IUproaring Iaughter.] devoutly pray
that when Congress meets these saints may
not be found liks their master, Wendell
Phillips, accusing johnson Of being thrss.
fourlhs traitor.
REPUBLICAN PARTY IN TATTERs.
Our Republican friends, Judging by these
extracts. have been sorely perplexed to find
comport in their President. As the election
approaches they endeavor TO hide the frac'
ture in their party; but time will show it.
The vine YOU ,rail over the tissure will die
when December comes, and 10! the gap in
your edtce, reared by yourselves or, if
drop TO a homlier figure, the Republican
garment, already has parted and partly ex'
posed the human skeleton form. The fabric
was never of the best, considerable shoddy
being mysd with the wool. by dnt of
kueeling in politics and stamping in pulpit.
it has worn it's knees and elbows thread bare
Mr.. Weed may patch the one and Mr..
Greeley button up bis great white coat over
the other, but sooner or later the rents Will
appear TIE garment is already in the
the hands Of "A. Johnson, Tailor" for re
pair. 1t will not do to put good piece OF
Democratic stuff on the rotten texture. Any
housewife will tell you that. President
johnson will order new suit; then look out
for the consequences. Loud cheers
A TERRIBLE PREDIcrIoN- Leon.
a, the rings round the sun, makes this horr
bic prophecy: II observed by the planets
that dreadful plague will commence in
Russia originating in silks brought over from
Egypt, Cairo and Turkey. 1t will extend
across the Baltic sea, desolate Germany.
cause immense mortality in lEogland, aud
then spread to the United States This
dreadful epidemic will spot the people like
leopards, and turn the flesh to q purple
black. The pestilence will carry off such an
amount of mortals that there will not be
enough left to bury the dead, or give them
christian burial. The streets Of our cities,
towns, and villages, will be swarmed with
dead and dying. The grosus aud yeIls of
horror will Gil every breast with consterna-
ton. Confusion will abound on all sides.
| The daa.h b knall will caasa Ia toll a. tha NAL