The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-25

Washington was a soldier in the true
sense, and, when Lad was given little
| Ratchet by his father. George cut down
some cherry-trees with this, in order 70
get the cherries without climbing the
trees. One day his father discovered
that the trees had been cut down, and
spoke of it to the lad.
Yes. said George, 1 did it with my
! little Ratchet; but I would rather cut
down thousand cherry-trees and tell the
truth about it than be punished for it.
well said, my brave boy exclaimed
the happy father as he emptied George S
toy bank into his pocket in payment for
the trees. You took the words right out
of my mouth "
When Benjamin Franklin visited Eng
land he delighted in shocking the king.
He liked to go to the castle with his
breeches tucked in lis boots, fgurativeIy
speaking, and attract great deal OF at
tention. 1t looked odd to the English OF
course, to sec him come into the royal
presence, and, leaning his wet umbrella
up against the throne, ask the king,
How trader Franklin never put on any
trllls, but lie was not afraid Of crowned
head. He used TO say, frequently, that a
king to him was no more than seven
spot"
After the revolution came an era of good
feeling; then the war of 1872; and then,
in 1875, John Quincy Adams was elected
President.
"He was a baldheaded man" says the
author, warmly, land the country was
given four years of unexampled pros
perity. Yet this experience has not been
regarded by the people as it should have
been Other kinds of men have repeatedly
been elected to that Office, only to bring
sorrow, war debt and bank failures upon
US. Adams was called The old man elo-
quent, and it is said that during his more
impassiOned passages his head, which
was round and extremely smooth, became
flushed, so that, from resembling the cue
ball on the start, as he rose to more lofty
nights his dome Of thought looked more
like the spot ball on billiard table. No
one else in congress at that time had sue
ceeded in doing this
The Florida war 1885 grew out of the
fact that 1.-The Seminoles regretted having
made dicker with the government at too
low price for land. Osceola, the chief,
regretted the matter so much Uhat he
scalped Gen. Thompson while the latter
was at dinner, which shows that the In
dian is not susceptible to cultivation or
the acquisition of any knowledge of table
etiquette whatever. What could be in
poorer taste than scalping man between
the soup and the removed The same day
Mai. Dade with 100 men was waylaid, and
all but four Of the party killed. Seven
years later the Indians were subdued.
Internationally the Indian allows his
alimentiveness to overDalance his group
of organs which show veneration, benevo-
lence, fondness for society, feJes cham
petres, etc, hope, love Of study, fondness
for agriculture, an unbridled passion for
toll, etc"
We now come to swift review of the
Mexican war.
At Cerro Gordo Gen. Scott overlook the
enemy under Gen. Santa Anna and made
such a fierce attack that the Mexicans
were completely routed. Santa Anna
left his leg on the field of battle and rode
away on pet mule named Charlotte
Corday. The leg was preserved and
taken to the Smithsonian Institute. 1t is
made of second-growth hickory, and has
brass ferrule and rubber eraser on the
end. Gen. Taylor afterwards tainted
him with this incident, and, though
greatly initiated, Santa Anna said there
was no use trying to kick" Then came
the fatal catastrophe of the rebellion
Mr.. Nyes narrative here is somewhat
fragmeutary and condensed. 1t will be
sufficient for us to note, as being of
timely interest from the recent wreck of
the Kearsarge, the following incident.
1.-THE Alabama was an armed steam
ship. and the most unpleasant feature of
the war to the federal government, es-
pecially as she had more sympathy and
aid in England than was asked for or ex-
peccted by the unionists. However, Eng
land has since repaid all this loss in vari-
Gus ways. She has put out from s., 000,-
600 to IS, 600 900 into cattle on the plaius
of the northwest, where skeletons of
some may be found bleaching in the sum
mer sun; and l am personally acquainted
with six Americans now visiting England
who can borrow enough In year to make
up all the losses sustained through the
Alabama and other neutral vessels. Capt
Semmes commanded the Alabama, and
of Cherbourg he sent challenge to the
Kearsarge. commanded by Capt. Wins
low, who accepted 1t, and so worked his
vessel that the Alabama had to move
up with iron, lead, copper, tin, German
and dye stuff. At the seventh rotation
the Alabama ran up the white flag and
sunk with a mellow PUNK"
Finally, let US add, to post-bellum days
AMI the present pacific progress of the
country, the author devotes several chap
ters, chiefly of reflective and discursive
character He finds that there is too
much liberty in some places and not
enough elsewhere; he even regrets that
he was not born a foreigner, and, after
thinking it all over, with retrospective
eye on the civil war, he wishes to know
"Who is the bigger ass. the man who
will not forgive and forget, or the mawk-
ish and moist-eyed sniVeller, who wants
to do that all the timel"
We commend this query to the consid-
GRAFTON Of the gentle reader.
OLD CLOTHES.