The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1877-06-21
BULLY GAIL HAMILTON.

The following from the pen of Gal
Hamilton, shows she is well worthy to be
sister-in-law to the gallant Jim Blaine.
Our Government, which had hitherto
existed in three departments, speedily
took on sort of fourth estate and diyid-
ed itself into the legislative, the executive,
the judicial and Stanley Matthews.
There was an angry buzz in South Caro-
lima; Stanley Mathews hid been pokin
his stick into the nest. There was a
scratching behind the arras in Louisiana
Stanley Matthews had been scattering
ratsbane and sugar General Garfield
suddenly found his way into the Senate,
sweetly but acknowledged up with ros-
es; Stanley Matthews head popped up on
the Senate side of the hedge. The South
ern Democrats sat sucking their thumbs
in suspicious silence, while there North
ern brethren were curveting over their
desks to count out the electoral votes,
and 10! Stanley Matthews was distribut-
ing contingent nuts and candy in sealed
cans. There was jar and hitch in the
approaching extra session of Congress;
Stanley Matthews was tugging at the
brakes. So did this Little Busy Bee
Improve Each Shining Hour, till an ad-
miring nation came to put him in the
same relation to the President that the
old divines considered Satan to bear to
the Almighty, mot equal in original pow
or, but making up for it by an Internal
activity"
STANLEY Matthews worried about the
extra session" is pathetic headline with
which one of our Boston Reformers leads
off its Geographic dispatches. 1t strange
ly neglects to bulletin the extra degree of
his worriment, and we are left in painful
suspense as to whether he is only in the
first stage of irritation or the last stage of
insomonia. But a word of the wise men
of Boston is sufficient. A grateful coun-
try will muffle its twelve o'clock bells, bury
its driveaways in tan, and feed out to
Stanley Matthews celery by day and chic
raj by night to soothe his agitated nerves.
A grateful country, do I say? Boston
alone, apparently, could Gull from her
newspaper Offices nurses enough to take
him through brain fever, aad crave OF
heaven no higher boon. What is an ex-
ira session, that it should stand. in the
way of Stanley Mathews. peace of mind?
Extra sessions grow on every bush, but
here is asentury plant-perhaps consid-
ering the occult and continuous character
Of its processes, we might more properly
call it a night.blooming series-upon
whose like we may never look again. 1t
has taken this Republic hundred years
to flower into Stanley Matthews, and shall
rude Congressman scatter its tender pc
tails at their first blossoming2
No. IL the soldiers want money, there
are plenty of bankers in New York to
discount their pay vouchers, and 800 are
as good as 500 for the vagabonds, in
time of peace. No. Laws may stretch
and grumblers resign, and the discharged
soldiers trudge home afoot, but when our
eyes shall be turned to behold for the
last time the sun of heaven, let their fee
BILE and lingering glance see upon the gor-
geous ensign of the Republic, spread all
over in characters of living light, that
sentiment, dear to every true American
heart: 1--WE will not have our Stanley
Mathews worried"