The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-26

Few poems have been more generally ad-
nfired or paraphrased In the various tongues
lines:
Mary hnd n little lamb.
Its fleece was white as snow. #5
And every where that Mary went
This lamb was sure to go.
Well, the story IS now current at the ma
uonal capital that the distinguished Secretary
of State, when recently In q ocular crowd Of
his friends. was desired to condense into
prose these immortal verses. Urgently soil
cited, Mr.. Evarts yielded, and wrote as fol-
lows:
'sMary a female judged to be of the race of
man, whose family name ~ unknown, whether
OF native or foreign birth. " lofty or lowly
lineage. and whose appearance. manners and
mental cultivation are involved In the most
profound my stery, which probably never will
be fully ascertained, unless through the most
profound researches OF a historian admirably
trained In his profession, who shall devote the
ablest efforts u his life to the investigation
OF the subject, unintluenced by either passion
or prejudice, and having only In view the
sacred truth, at the same time being utterly
regardless OF the pandlts or censureS OF the
world we are informed by one who, 1t has
been stated. at one time while living In that
part OF the United States known as Massa-
chuSetts, whose fishermen have frequently
been involved ii difficulties with the authori-
ties OF her Majesty Queen Victoria, Queen Of
Great Britain and Empress OF the Indies,
whose domains extend over large share Of
the habitable globe, thereby endangering the
peace which should SO happily exist between
nations of the same blood and language had
an infant sheep, OF which there are many
millions Of various stocks and qualities now
In our country, constantly adding wealth and
prosperity to our republic and enabling US to
be entirely independent Of all other nations for
our supply Of wool. now ample for the use II
factories already busily employed, and for
those which ere long will be constructed in
all parts OF our land, working both by water
and steam power, and In whatever direction
the said Mary Travelled this animal whose
mountain regions in the silent solitudes Or
eternal winter, as the ethereal vapors which
oft float over an autumnal sky, 'darkly, deep
iy, beautifully blue.' OF as the Tactical fluid,
covered with masses of delicate froth found
In the buckets OF the fairy dairy maid whether
meandering through the meadows in mid
summer, gathering the luscious strawberry
stroling in the woodland paths iii search of
wild flowers, visiting the church with Ter
uncles' cousins and annts to listen to the in
spired words which came from the lips OF the
minister of the sanctuary, OF when retiring to
her blissful couch to seek rest and enjoy
sweet repose after the cares OF the day, in
fact every where that Mary went this youth
FIJI sheep influenced, doubtless, by that affec-
ton which is "a oft conspicuously manifested
Inv the lower animals in their association with
human beings. was ever observed to accom-
pany her,
IT is stated that when the pause in the SEN
tence came the Secretary. who had read it
without an inspiration, resumed his solid
countenance, and all mirtnfulness
had departed from the faces Of that once happy
com pany. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. aa.o