Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-26
A "Reminiscences Of Daniel Webster.

A "Reminiscences Of Daniel Webster.
j GEoRsH, KENT contributes the following
to the Boston Adcertiser:; s.
The g Baltimore mol" of 1912, which,
resulted in the death Of the revolutionary
patriot, Gen, Lingan, and the partial de-
structiOn Of the Federal Republican press
of Alexander Hanson, was supposed to
have been largely participated in by
butcher Of that city of the name of Mum
my, whose alleged atrocities were for some
time the subject of newspaper comment
throughout the country. To set himself
right with the public, and, in the instance
to be related, right with his political oppo-
nents, seems to have been an object with
him in after time.
When young man, listened with alb
sorbing interest to a story told by Daniel
Webster of an incident occurring to him
while Member of Congress from New
Hampshire, during the war OF 1872 he
was on his way to Washington, not many
months after the events above referred TO,
and in great haste on some especihi bust
ness. Arriving at Baltimore late in the
evening, in the midst of dark and heavy
rain-stofm, he entered his name on the
hotel register, and inquired for some con.
veyance to carry him on dozen or twenty
miles further towards Washington that
same night. He was informed by the
hotel keeper that he had no team at com
mand, and knew of none to be had at that
time that would be willing to go in such
travelling, and on such "a dismal night.
Mr.. Webster left the landlord to make in
curry for. him while he should take sup
per, stating the extreme urgency OF his
case, and noticing at the time a we'll
dressed but burly looking man inspecting
the hotel register as he left the room.
Finishing a hasty meal, Mr.. Webster
again saw the landlord, who reported his
want of success The same stranger was
found in the bar-room, and Immediately
spokelto Mr.. Webster, offering the service
Of his team. Without knowing who he
was, the offer was at once accepted, in the
eagerness to go on. The stranger very
soon drove up to the door, with span Of
horses and covered carriage, ard offered
himself as driver. They started in the
rain, near midnight, and within a few
miles after leaving Baltimore, had to pass
through dark and dense piece Of woods.
Not word had till then passed between
them, when the driver, in, a deep and
sepulchra! tone. broke the silence by say
ing. " have often thought this an excellent
place in which to commit robbery and
murder -af liyA ~G.u
Rejecting for the moment that he had
committed himself to the guidance of an
entire stranger, and participating some
what in the excitement about the recent
Baltimore atrocities, and the alleged ACTORS
therein, Mr. Websters apprehensions. were
still more aroused when his companion at
once added, perhaps, you don't know
who am Il am Mummy, the butcher
He Immediately entered into an expa-
nation with Mr. Webster about the charges
against him, denying the report of lns ac-
tive agencyin the riot and bloodshed, and
evidently seeking this occasion to set him
self right with a representative OF the then
Federal party, whose name, as even at that
time prominent New England Member
of Congress, he, had obtained from the
hotel register. The drive of a dozen or
fifteen miles was extended far into the
highland, on being landed at the country
tavern door, Webster expected and urged
Mr. Ms putting up the team and staying
at his expense, besides paying HIM liberal. .
ly for his seivices--tO the extent even OF
ten or twenty dollars. Iai llft l
But all this was declined Mr.. Mummy
solitary drive home, in the midst of S
drerching rain and the deep mud, appar-
emily fully satisfied with the favorable i'm
preston he had made on Mr.. Webster's
mind as to the alsity of some Of the az
gravated charges against him. b.
Interesting U. S.Agricultural Facts.
No less than 225, 900 extra copies of the
Agricultural Report for 1869 ara now
passing into the hands OF the people
under frank. The book is a volume Of
7O2 pages, prepared by eight Specialists
Mr. Capron states that rapid progress is
making in raising the standard Of intellect
among farmers that cotton manufactures
are spreading South that American mills,
which in 1860 consumed 20 per cent, now
consume 40 per cent of the crop. The
cultivation Of sugar, vineyards and oranges
at the South is resuming its former success,
with improved implements and fertilizers.
The planting Of new lands In the West
with wheat is removing westward year by
wear, the centre Of wheat production, and
Increasing the distance of transportation
while the railroads, by their combinations
and advance Of tolls to secure dividends
on watered stock, are increasing in equal
| ratio the cost of freights. Mr.. Capron
thinks there is very little to be made, as a
rule, by holding non productive lands for
rise In value; and In support Of this, he
publishes table wherein the increase in
assessed value per annum Of all the lands
in the United States, for the ten years from
1850 to 1860, is given. The department
has distributed 81, 802 packages of seeds,
mostly to members Of Congress, and the
Commissioned INDUCES in the lively faith
that some Of them have "come up" "a.
The statistician, J. r. Dodge, says that
the total value of all the cereals, with hay,
cotton and tobacco, is 81 ,849, us, 843, about
one tenth Of the whole value Of real estate.
Corn, $65S, 532, 700; and then follows hay,
$685., 662, 600; cotton, $303, 100000; wheat,
$247 ,O99, 100; and oats, $137, 347, 900.
The relative values Of the yield per
acre, as affected by prevailing prices, are
in this order Tobacco, potatoes, cotton,
barley, hay, corn, buckwheat, oats, rye,
wheat. H.t
Vermont raises the greatest average
value in corn per acre, viz: $476O New
Hampshire is first in value per acre OF
wheat, and Connecticut in Tobacco, her
average weld being 1901 per acre kans