The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-28


we have above explained to you. These
things, and we remain, The UNKNowN.'"
ThaddeuS Stevens and James Buchanan.
George Alfred Townsend writes from Lancas-
ter to the Hartford POST
81 have picked up few anecdotes of Stevens
and his neighbor Buchanan.
''Mr. James Skunk, son-in-law of Jerry
Black, relates that he was engaged by the ex-
President to prepare some anecdotes and
sketches of his life. Mr.. Skunk found this
task very onerous by reason of the extreme
Jealousy OF Mr.. Buchanan as TO what should bs
printed of him. He possessed no literary at
taiDments OF the prompt, readable newspaper
Sort and once when he had read some of the
manuscript the old man rubbed his hands
and laughed in his fiat, cold way.
'Ha ha-ha Oh Mr.. Skunk, if my life
were to begin again l would not be- a
lawyer. This journalism is going to be the
big profession in this country. The lawis very
jealous, and it over-disciplines the mind,
making the lawyer unfit for this closet COM
bat OF the newspaper. When one gets a COM
petence by the law he is fit only for a lawyers
politics. Keep to the newspaper, sir Keep to
the newspaper y
ANEcDoTE OF BUCHANAN.
''A soiourner at Wheatland in the latter
years OF MIR. Buchansn's life, related to me,
lu6 Olntf Qay, lulS quaint ana recognizable IN
cideDt of the ex-President:-
''EnteT, with much crude modesty, hat in
hand the son of farmer near by. To him old
Buck, looking his most Arctic countenance
Great anguish and pedal prevarication of the
boy.
'Boy: Mister Bewcannn, sir, if you please
why there's gentleman staying at my
daddy's, and, ah ah! sir. being as he knew
that we knew you, why
GO And whpra is this panklanaO cir % osly ad
buchanan, with an ice cream freezer of a
voice, trembling on the edge of the terrible.
"'He's right here in the hail, sir.
" go bring him in, sir-r-rp
GAS the boy disappeared Buchanan turned
to my informant and said:-
"'Another - Yankee!
"The stranger came in, an officer of some
sort, evidently resolved to sympathize with
Buchanan and take his inventory. Ii he ex-
| pected feeble old presentment of Wolsey
in soliloquy he must have been petrifed with
the old mans height fire and ice together.
! The scene was too much for the third party.
He felt for the intruder, and vanished to spare
him the scene.
"In half hour S. heard the old laugh, cold
and low and measured, of the President. He
peeped in, and found that the man had COM
pletely conquered Buchanan, so that they were
getting on even humorously together.
"'Well!" said old Buck afterwards, 'he
wasn't so bad a man, after all =
STEVENS, BUCHANAN, AND THE DOCTORS.
"Stevens and Buchanan were attended in
! life and to the end by DR.. Carpenter, Demo
crat, whom some rabd people once advised
| Stevens to put away because of the value O
his lite to the country, and the danger of g
copperhead pill. The old man opened his
| door,
"'Go outp he said, Or. Carpenter is my
friend. II you begin to interfere in my house
hold economy, God knows where you vii
stop.
''Stevens sent Buchanan books and favor;
from Washington down to the last. Old Buck
said, in reply to the bystsnders:-
" Thaddeus and l ought to be friends, but
it's his fault. 1t pleased Providence, in his
inscrutable will, to create Thaddeus with a
good head and good heart, but he left the
moral part out OF him.
CDR. Carpenter relates that Stevens took all
his medicine with grim readiness, sayi ng:-
Wen, just fix up anything, and Ill swal-
low it,
'Mr. Buchanan hated medicine, and tried tC
avoid it. He died of gout, and was obliged tc
shorten his rye whisky rations at the last
punch to his chagrin; but Stevens never drank
from middle life to the close thereof without
the Doctors orders. He had been kept alive
during the whole of the last Congress by
stimuants."
A correspondent of the Cincinnati CONNER
ciai writes:-
STEVENS AND LIQUOR.
"When he came to Lancaster, he made ur
his mind never to drink again, and this be
kept until his physicians forced upon hin
Franks beer and Misheer's bitters, and other
Lancaster beverages. He left his estate sc
that his nephew, who is fond of the bowl
shall only get ii after q long and successful
temperance probation. Stevens has often sale
of liquOr:-
"'I have no hate of it, but an abiding fear o
it. 1t is responsible for death, slavery, pre-.
judice, and ali the other Democratic uonu
ments.'
CAT the same time Mr., Stevens was incon
sisent enough to use beer and whisky libe
rally in electioneering. / have talked to twt
or three of his constituents to whom he woulC
say
q james, you go to Franks sometimes