Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-05-28
WEEKLY HERALD
TUESDAY, NAY q, 1870.


ol q capltOllan habitatioH and q
seatin the State Senate, who seems
to be pursued by an evil genius.
The public has long since discov.
cred that he is greatly given to talk.
ing, for he has since the occupan.
cy of his seat bored his associates
with more than one tiresome
speech, and now it is very plainly
asserted that he is equally addic-
ted TO Undergraduates. OF
course he denies the soft i'm.
parchment. Who would not:
His native modcsty is aroused
at such al intimation. But
1t is nevertheless openly asscr.
ted and he-why lac bears his
blushing honors with becoming
grace, for is he not of the Radical
school? But to his mishaps. They
have been numerous, and to one
not educated in Radical ethics
would long since have discumiit.
ted him. First he was very gent.
~ requested by his landIady, the
other day to leave her house and
never enter 1t again and for him to
go out the back door since she
kept the front door for the en-.
trance and exit of gentlemen.
Now that was cruel and crushing,
but he bore it with the patience oil
Job and was not the least offended
at il.
The same afternoon an iratC
young Committee Clerk attempted
with a dragoon pistol, to scatter
the brains Of the aforesaid humble
Senator to the four winds, Cause
A too great partiality on the par
of the honorable Senator for Ia
dies not bound to him by the holy
bonds of wcdlock, albeit he is al
ready given TO as much marriag,
as the law contcmplates or per
mits, Of this same honorable gen
tleman and statesman, 1t was gen
orally remarked on the streets, ant
very plainly limited at in a speecl
delivered by another Senator up
on the Harrison Harbor Bill, tina.
the above mentioned Senator wa
opposing the bill because Mr.
Harrison had refused to pay hin
q bride Of ten thousand dollars
which he demanded. Modes
youth that. No danger that h
will underestimate himself, though
it is said by his enemies, (all men
let them be never SO good, hav.
enemies,) that il he cannot &c
ten thousand dollars he will acccp
one dollar, Now all good me-
unite in prOnouncing this a Sian
der, of the vilest and most afro
Cious order, for q single look at hi
open countenance will convince an,
one that he will accept no sue
contemplate sum. Yet Islander
GUS people will indulge in sue
declarations. 1t is further as
serted that when he discovered h
could not get the ten thousand dc
handed he threatened anothe
Honorable Senator with oppOsi
ton to q bill in which he was In
terested II he did not throw hi
influence against the odiou
measure of an odious man VIII
would not pay ten thousand do
lars TO purchase an Honorabl
Senator's vote. Now, no san
man will believe a word Of thi
Why the honorable Senator is
Christian and q gentleman, simpl
given to an over.partiality fC
scalawaggery. But this is not IL
sum of the good mans trouble
and misfortunes. That very q
ternoon q bellicose Reprcsentati'
of Irish lineage slapped, in M
the gentlest manner possible, Il
two jaws Of the honorable Sen
tor and made his teeth to chat
like fercely shaken castinets. A
good men unite in condemning
the severest terms the %persecuti'
to which this patient, Job Ii
Senator has been subjected. B
while these trials, humiliation
h~ardships, insults and SANDERS {
painful in the extreme, we {
convinced the honorable gent
man congratulates himself up
the conviction that they but tend
nurifv and preDare, and fit him