Year: 1872

| ShouiA ASOi Shsulhlul' DOuDlleSs, Ill tnelf
way, they have had good time-they say
they have and it must be so. did not
take advantage of their invitation and
dine or sup with them, for the reason |
could not leave the bridge. However, to
make up for this, they serenaded me with
band of music, if it is lawful to call it
music. Seeing them coming, l thought
surely it was an opposition Embassy.
Said l, to myself, "What fine oppor-
tunity is about to present itself to me to
make a speech" l could remember a
part Of Governor Booths and ex-Govern-
or Haight's San Francisco speeches and
all of Brother Stebbins'. No newspaper
reporter within hearing distance, and the
Heather could not understand a word
spoke. When they arrived at the door,
Prince Pigeyechung asked me if l likee
tune. OF course liked music certainly
l did; and very politely called for my
favorite, which was


Bury your dog in the barn-yard-
Twill scare the coons away"


They struck up the music and just about
the time | thought the air would split
wide open with melody, one of the attaches
of the Embassy ignited about barrel of
fire-crackers Immediately in my rear. l
took dive for the cellar, where L re-
mained for an hour, and when emerged
the Embassy had left and so had my dog.
l have heard the roar of cannon, the roar
of the sea, and some of the best snorers
in the county, but give it as my opinion
that the Embassy made more noise for the
amount of capital invested than ever
dreamed it possible to do.


There has been a mosquito buzzing
about my ears all the time | have been
writing-please hold on, reader, until l
"put him in his little bed " with the butt
end Of pick-handle. p. S.-My dog
was seen to pass the Tower House at sun
set on the same day.l


The Embassy went from here over to
the store and played several tunes. l
have been almost afraid to look over that
way for fear of seeing the flag at half
mast, but l guess Steve did live through
it. Whoopee ! but it's heavy on fellows
nerves.


The 22d of this month is the day selected
for holding National Convention at
Columbus, Ohio. | cannot say by what
party, as that political party has not yet
received its name. What a mixed drift
pile this will be ! Vermont pine, Frorda
live-oak and California tule ! Only think
of the various factions that will be repre-
sented there, all clamerous for their rights.
The soldier, sailor and the DANTE Corpo-
raj the vestal virgins and the stringy-
neclled angular jointed free love squealers;
the thumb-suckers and the rum-suckers
the Knights of Strychnine and the Inde-
pendent Order of Flamingo the pigeon
toes and the long-heels; and, oh my
bleeding country what platform l
am anxious to see it. A man might, by
careful perusal, learn something about
the lost tribes of Israel or the where
abouts of Doctor Livingston. Can Julian
and l think he will be the nominee
stand upon that platform That Con-
vention had better select man who has
been brought up to breaking jams of saw
logs on the Penobscot or Androscoggn
rivers, where they step from log to log as
they feel them sinking under them. |
asked very positive Democrat the other
day if he would support Julian if nomin-
ated, and received for an answer an en-
phatic No! Now, you know, some very
positive men change their opinions occa-
sionally. As Lincoln used to say, let me
tell you little story: My boss is some
what Of a positive man and, by the way,
owned very good horse he was good
under saddle and good in harness, and all
that could be said against him was that
he'd been good horse too long. Old age
came creeping on and blindness with it,
so he was turned out in the pasture to die
but old Turk positively refused to do any
such thing. One day, not long ago, boss
took down his gun, wiped it out and then
put in fresh charge. A hired man asked
him what he was going to shoot $50
ing down in the field to ku-klux old Turk
and put him out of misery" was his
reply. In due time, not hearing the re-
port of the gun, the hired man stepped to
the door to see what the matter was and
found the loaded gun standing against the
fence and boss approaching old Turk with
an armful of hay. | fear it will be just
so with my Democratic friend that on
election day, next Fall, he will be seen
going to the polls with an armful of
Julian hay.


Grant undoubtedly will be the nominee
of the Republicans for the Presidency I;
the nominee for Vice President should be
claimed for the Pacific Coast, and L am
glad to see some of our Republican papers
already urging the name of our worthy
Governor, Newton Booth. / believe
Booth to be the choice of the Republican
party of this coast, without dissenting
voice. l claim the honor of first sug-
gesting his name-can prove it by David,
of the Vest Coast Signal.


More rain and the river rapidly coming
up there's no telling when it's going to
stop, as the weather is warm, and doubt
less some snow is melting that fell last
time. can look from the window as /
write, and see large slide that has just
come down from the Anderson and Sc
lander ditch, wiping out section in its
course of the Cape Horn China ditch.