Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-04-25
WAsnIsroN, April Ia, 1867.

It's DONE SEWARD did it-him and
me The Amerikin Eagle hez coz now
10 screen with redoubled energy. Eff
Tire Nashnel bird wuz angel, shood
remark TO II, Toon yoor harp anoo,"
but II Amt, aud, therefore, such a rekest
WOO be ridiculous. This rhapsody hez
refer, nee to thu Rooshen purchis.
Thr idea originated in these massive
intellek When | wuz here afore, the
Blairs, all of em, wuz crowdin the
sainted johnson for mishun Cowan
wantid q mishun, and so did Doolittle,
and that day pretty much all NV the del
egates TO the Cleveland and Philadelphy
Conversions he'd bin there wantin some
kind Nv place wat they wuzn't per-
tikeler. One gentleman whose nose
(wich trooly blossomed ez the lobster)
betokened long service in the party,
urged that he he'd bin delegate to both
Conversions. "Thank God I" sed John.
son. "Weod that them Conversions he'd
bin made up NV the same men. | wood
then hev bin bored for places only half
ez much ez hev."
l wuZ helpin him out in my weak
way. When the crowd wantin places
become too great for human endoorance
l would say, in a modrit tone, let's go
out and git suthin," and to. wunst fully
half wood exclaim, Thank 700, don't
keer eff do" 1t wuz great relief to
Johnson, but wuz pizen to me. With
the most OF EN-, the gittin Nv ofiises and
free drinks wuz about an ekal thing.
The ofi1ses they wanted WIZ merely the
means to that pertikeler end and so
long ez they wuZ gittin the latter with
out the trouble nv the former, they wuz
content. A good constooshen and a
copper lined stumick carried me thro
this tryin ordeel, until came across a
Boston applicant, who, In conscience NV
the perhibitory law, he'd bin for some
time on short rashens, ard wuZ keen set.
Napoleon he'd then met his Wellington,
and | succumed. The mans talent wuz
wonderful
Secretary Seward wuE in trouble
about the Blair family, pertikerly. He
he'd appointed EN- to Oollekterships and
Turin mishuns, but the crooel SENT,
witch he'd no respeck foraus, took delite
in fastening Nv EN- onto us by perpet-
ooally rejectin EN-. Jest after a long
siege by Montgomery ana the old man,
l sejestid the purchis Nv the Rooshen
Territory, to witch not only they Good be
sent, but thousand Nv others witch we
he'd on our hands and the Secretary wuz
so pleased at the idea that he wept like
child. With vigger wonderful In
one 80 old, he set about gittin testimo-
malls ez to the valyoo NV the territory,
to infooence the SENT in ratifyin the
treaty he wuz agoin to make. And he
wrote to naval offiser about it, who
answered more promptly than ! ever
knowd naval offiser to do, ez fol-
lows -
ats trooly splendid country. The
trade In the skins NV white bears kin be,
eff properly developed, made enormous.
There is seals there, and walruses so
tame that they come up NV their own
akkord to be ketChed.
"P. SIN case the purchis shood be
made, q naval stasheu will be necessary.
May hope that my long services on the
Floridy coast would prove suffishent rec
ommendashen for the command Nv the
depot? May IL
al hev the honor to be" &c.
A distinguished professor wrote:
1.-THE climate is about the style NV
that they hev In Washinton. The Gulf
Stream sweeps up the coast, causin d
decided twist in the i5othermal line,
witch bez the effect Nv maxim it rutber
sultry than otherwise. Anywheres for
six hundred miles back Nv the coast,
strawberrys grow in the open air. l
recommend strongly the purchis.
up. S.-Iu case the purchis is made,
q avnInrin ,iuh tuin hn
May hope that my scientifiik attain
ments are sufiisheutly well known to
700 to recommend me as proper per-
son 80 head the expedshen May |?
Il hev the honor to be" ct settry.
The President wuzn't tavorably in
clined He wuz full NV the old fogy
idea Jhat 1t wuz rather chilly there than
otherwise. He hedn't faith in the iso-
thermal line, ana wuz skeptcle about
the GuIt Stream, 1t wuz his expert
enCe THAT the further north 700 got the
colder 1t wuz. For instance, he remarkt,
that while the people wuz warm toward
him in Virginny, and Maryland last fall,
they become very cold ez he got North.
Wher wu2 the isotherma line and the
Gulf Stream then?
hhbNhilJ "HO Will HSN MS IUhSI re-
markt that the isOthermal line twisted.
He notist tibet the people made it ez hot
for EN- ez he waDtid it e. far north ez
Cleveland, to which Secretary Welles re-
piled, that it only confirmed him in the
opinion that, for platin vessels NV war,
iron wuz preferable 10 pine plank any
time.
seward removed the Presidents objec-
tlons to wunst. He lead his letters witch
set forth the beauties Here wuz whales,
and wulrusses, and seals, and white
bears, and piDe-apples, and wheat, and
sea lions, and fields of ice the year round,
IN CLINT as mild and equable ez the
meridian NV Washinton. The isother-
NAL line wuz more accommodation Their
than in any other part Nv the world. 1t
cork'screwed through the territory so
eZ to grow fine peaches for expectation
to the States, aud ice TO the Sandwich
Islands, Side by side. He drawd pic
tur Nv the white bear a .rushin over the
line and disportin hissef ia fields NV
green peas. Imagine, he remarkt, the
fGl DnIa Eua e.