The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-06-27
CAPITAI, GRINS.

SA4 = L ILL SaSot@SS'
The Fat Contributor is on his travels, ac
cording to the Times and Chronicle, waking
up snakes generally and
Taking the Votes Of the Passengers
l took the steamer General Lytle, of the
Maid line, for Louisville, the otEer evening
and had Delighted trip. After tea,
thought would
TAKE YoTE OF THE PASSENGERS.
This is the period of taking vcoes on board
of railroad trains, steamboats, &C., on the
Presidential question. The result Is trc-
quently published in the newspapers as "a
Straw" though l have observed that no
newspaper ever prints. straw that does not
show the political wind to be scttingin their
direction. When eSsayed to take rute
of the passengers on the General Lytlt the
other nj ght, Lytle did think of the embar-
rassments l would encounter in securing 1t.
am not much in politics, though 1 am prob
ably as much in politics as politics is in me.
ONE VOTE FOR PIERCE.
began with the captain of the Lytle as a
starter. Captain Whitten," said [. ''who is
your choice for President p
"Well," replied the bold commander,
thoughtfully, "Captain Pierce has been as
good president as the old mail line ever
had. Recken he'll do for several years yet." !"
He thought was talking about the Pres
idency of the Louisville mail line, but put
down one vote for Pierce.
THE MATE GOES FOR Me.
I next tackled the mate, who was below,
experimenting some perplexing maneuvers
in freight.
"Mate," said I cheerily, trying to get out
of the way of his men, and getting in their
way worse than ever, as matter OF course,
s'who are you going for ?'
"Who am 1 going for?" roared the mate
angrily, "I'm going for you if you don't get
Uut of this"
1 got out Immediately. I had to do it, or
become his mate.
FAvoRfNG HORACE.
I ascended to the cabin. A scholarly ly-look
ing man was reading. by table. Gle was
reading by lamp, more properly; yet he was
Dy Il tdUle CUO.
"My friend" remarked blandly, as I
produced notebook and pencil, ''do you ia
Sor Horace ?" Gle did favor him little in
his feet.)
"That is fair question" said the scholar
ly-looking man, laying down his book, which
preceived was a latin work of some kind.
"and will answer it without undue circum-
locution. While many of the odes of Horace
are unexcelled, either in his own or any 9TH
er language, yet his verses lack the heroic
ring which true Tyre gives forth when
Virgil sweeps the strings"
told him that Virgil might sweep the
strings, but could he sweep the South !
That was the question.
"Your language, my friend" said [ 'sat-
isles me thatyou are in reality a Greely man."
"How so ?" injured the man of letters.
"You call Virgil poetic lyre."
Down went the scholarly man for Horace.
A MAN OF LETTERS.
I am man of letters, as this letter will
show. Ifshe shows anything else, why let
ter.
It NAV not be generally known by the way,
that letters were invented in Phenicia,
but they we're. That is the reason you can't
Phenicia an education without them See,
it? Finish ye, ch? How's that? Ha j
ANYBODY TO BEAT GRANT.
While was gathering up my straws, two
somewhat intoxicated got very much excited
in discussing the relative fitness of Grant and
Greeley for the Presidency. While one in
sisted that Grant knew nothing whatever
about farming, the other inquired contempt
uously, 'What Grcely know bout war p
He never fired (hic) two-horse-lumbcr wag'n"
He seemed to think that settled Horace.
"NIy friends" said I, ''let us have peace
Why this strife, this contention, this bitter
ness of spirit And all. as Shakespeare
says, for Hecuba. What is Hecuba to you
or you to Uecuba ?"
aOh (hic) you be ID" said the man Of
gin, "anybody to beat Grant"
HOW THE LADIES GO.
My next experiment was among the ladies.
I approached dark-eyed daughter of Ken
lucky, and in father and motherly way,
which the difference in our ages warranted,
said: Daughter, if you could be Grant or
Greely, which would you be-"
"B. Gratz Brown she replied with proud
toss of her head.
There is something I admire in a Ken.
lucky women-they never go back on ma
tive Kentuckian.
II am for Adams" cried an angular old
maid in a shrill voice, "Adams is my mar" "
The ladies ought certainly to favor the Ad-
ans movement, since Mother Eve was the
original Adams woman.
lie WOULDN'T SUPPORT RELATIONS
"I support Grant" put in brawny Hoos,
ier farmer, "and the country will support
him too"
"Well," returned sinister chap, "thc
country may support Grant but you can't
expect the country to support all of Grants
relations into the bargain, can you? This
relation business is played out"
I afterwards ascertained that the sinister
chap had recently ran away from wife and
six children in the east. He don't believe in