Year: 1865

gallant Dam showed that he knew how to take care
of No. l by his eulogics of President johnson and
Secretary Stanton, Lieutenant General Grant, ''and
all Others in authority" as the Episcopal prayer-book
runs Not that they did not deserve all that he said
of them, most of it, only that it showed that he
thought of agricultural matters little it suited his
purpose to speak of them-fOr he certainly ground
some sickles ii not axes on the OCCASION as if had
done the like belorel


The attendance has been very thin at this Fair
until last evening, when the presence of another
General. lighting Joe IoOker."O which was antici-
pated drew great crowd to see him. while prevent
ing one another from seeing the inevitable big
squash, or hearing the noiseless' sewing machines
that we read Of but so seldom see at exhibitions
and their name is legion at this Fair This General
did make a brief, appropriate speech in a corner
that Is In the collation. room-in which he proclaimed
that farming had always been his fayorite pursuit.


He declared that it was his delight not to order others
to do the hard work and select the easy work for him
self but to take hand at the hardest of it. Bravo
old solderfarmer! You told the truth fguratively
then, would not have go far point
out fields now famous in recent historyy where you
have done considerable hard work in the way of
ing!


There is will ease pending before the Surrogate's
Court here to which no less distinguished parsonage
than the widow of President Tyler is party on the
one side, and brother of hers the other-they
being children Of Mrs. Gardner, wealthy lady. The
brother claims have long had the sole charge Of his
mother and to hvae deserved very different treat
ment from what his mothers WILL as it stanus gives
him-for it seems his sister has been left sort of
lions share if not nearly all of the property. This,
he alleges is the result of fraud-that his sister, who
was in Dixie while he here spending his money,
and time for the comfort of their mother, as became
affectonate son, came back at the eleventh
hour, and tried to supplan HMM fact to poison his
mothers mind against him. so that she might leave
him out in the cold at her death.


He further alleges that, having failed to accomplish
her sinister design in this way she sent for arorte
lawyer only three hours before their mother died. and
when she was almost IN drtcuio norris and incapable
of making will, and procured her signature to the
will in dispute, which he insists is no uW OF his
mothers at all but virtually that of his selfish and
dishonest sister, Mrs. Tyler Under these circum-
stances the Surrogae has refused to admit it to pro-
bate and so there is another chance for good pick
ings by the lawyers.


When John Tyler married Miss Gardner-at least,
when he elected to the Vice Presidency, he was
one of the landless poor of the "0ld Dominion "a
tenant to Abel p. Upshur, whom he made one OF his
Cabinet Ministers. In marrying Miss Gardner he
made good thing of it peeunarily or might have
done So probably, had he lived and managed matters


for her in this case with the aptnesso for sharp practice
in will-making and defending that he had the repu-
taton in politics All l have to add Is that, if his
widow is going to be outwitted easily she has, to
quote the famous words of John NJ. Bolts, slept
with John Tyler and taken lessons of him to little
practical purpose!


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the new paper ORION.