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Nestling at the mountain's base, With its one long, quiet street, Clapsed in Winter's white embrace; Quaint old village, prim and neat; That's the place. Truant arm and shy embrace, Tender vows in willing ear, Kisses on an upturned face, Whispered "Yes, I love you dear." That's the case. iteJanreous. Crockett's 'Coon-Skin. A REMINISCENCE OF AN OLD-TINE CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN. From the Forest and Stream. In 1827 Davy Crockett was elect ed to Congress from Tennessee and during the canvas played the fa mous 'coon-skin trick, which he re lated as follows: "I started off to the Cross Roads, dressed in my hunting skirt, and my rifle on my shoulder. Many of our constituents had assembled there to get a taste of the quality of the candidates at orating. Job Snelling, a gander-shanked Yankee, who had been caught somewhere about Plymouth Bay, and been shipped to the West with a cargo of codfish and rum, erected a large shanty, and set up shop for the oc casion. A large posse of the voters had assembled before I had arrived, and my opponent had already made considerable headway with his speechifying and his treating, when they spied me about a rifle shot from the camp, sauntering along as if I was not a party in business. 'There comes Crockett,' cried one. 'Let us hear the colonel.' cried another, and so I mounted the stump that had been cut down for the occasion, and begani to bush whack in the most approved style. I had not been up long before there was such an uproar in the crowd that I could not hear my own voice, and some of my constituents let me know that they could not listen to me on such a dry sub)ject as the welfare of the nation, until they had something to drink, and that I must treat 'em. Accordingly I jumped down from the rostrum and led the way to the shanty, followed by my constituents, shouting, "Hluz za for Crockett,' and 'Crockett for ever.' "When we entered the shanty Jobwasbusy dealing out his run in a style that showed that he was making a good day's work of it, and I called for a quart of the best, but the crooked critur returned no other answer than by pointing at a board over the bar, on which he had chalked in large letters, 'Pay to-day and trust to-morrow.' Now that idea brought me all up standing; it was a sort of cornering in which there was no back out, for ready money in the West in those times was the shyest thing in all natur', and it was most particularly shy with me on that occasion. The voters, seeing my predicament, fell off to the other side, and I was left deserted and alone, as the Govern ment will be when it no longer has any offices to bestow. I saw plain as day that the tide of popular opinion was against me, and that unless I got some rumn speedily, I should lose my election as sure as there are snakes in Vir ginny-and it must be done soon, or even burned brandy wouldn't save me. "Well knowing that a crisis was at hand, I struck into the woods with my rifle on my shoulder, my best friend in time of need, and, as good fortune would have it, I had not been out more fi;an a quarter of an hour before I treed a fat 'coon, jand in the pulling of a trigger he la dad at the root of atree. I soon whipped his hairy jacket of his back, and again bent my wa3 towards the shanty. and walked ui to the bar, but not alone, for thi. time I had half a dozen of my constituents at my heels. ] threw down the 'coon skin upon the counter and called for a quart of ruin, and Job. though busy in deal ing out rum, forgot to point to his chalked rules and regulations, for he knew that a 'coon was as legal tender for a quart in the West as a New York shilling any day in the year. 'My constituents now flocked about me and cried 'Iuzza for Crockett,' 'Crockett forever,' and finding the tide had taken a turn, I told them several yarns to get them in a good humor, and having soon dispatched the value of the 'coon, went out and mounted the stump without opposition, and a clear ma jority of the voters followed me to see what I had to offer for the good of the nation. -'Before I was through one of my constituents moved that they would hear the balance of my speech after they had washed down their first part with some more of Job Snel ling's extract of cornstalk and mo lasses, and the question being put up it was carried unanimously. It wasn't considered necessary to tell the yeas and nays, so we adjourned to the shanty, and on the way I began to reckon that the fate of the nation pretty much depended upon my shooting another 'coon. While standing at the bar, feeling sort of bashful while Job's rules and regulations stared me in the face, I cast down my eyes and discovered one end of the 'coon skin sticking between the logs that supported the bar. Job had slung it there in tle hurry of business, I gave it a scrt of quick jerk, and it followed my hand as natural as if I had been the rightful owner. I slapped it on the counter, and Job, little dreaming that he was barking up the wrong tree, shoved along another bottle, which my constit uents quickly disposed of with great good humor, for some of them saw the trick, and then we withdrew to the rostrum to discuss the affairs of the nation. "I don't know how it was. but the voters soon became dry again. and nothing would do but we must adjourn to th: shanty; and as luck would have it, the coon skin was sticking bectweeni the logs, as if .Job had flung it there on. puirpose to tempt mc. I was not slow in rais ing- it to tlie counter; the rum fol lowed, of course, and I wish I may be shot if I didn't before the day was over, get ten quarts for the same identicali skin, and from a fellow, too, who in those parts was considered as sharp as a steel trap and as bright as a pewter button. "This joke secured my election, for it soon circulated like smoke among my constituents, and they allowed with one accord that the man who could get the whip-hand of Job Snelling in a fair trade could outwit Old Nick himself, and was the real grit for them in Congress. After the election was over I sent Snelling the price 'of the rum, but took care to keep the fact from the knowledge of my constituents. Job refused the money and sent me word that it did him good to be taken in occasionally, as it served to brighten his ideas; but I after ward learned that when he found. out the trick that had been played upon him he put all the rum that I had ordered in his bill against my opponent. who, being elated with the speeches he hiLd made on the affairs of the nation, could not de scend to examine into the particu lars of a bill of the vender of rum in a small way." "Can vou tell me," asked Twis tem, "the difference between my cook, this morning, and a passen. gei- on a new railroad? One was bakin' shad and the other was shaken bad." He rang the door-bell of a banker. The servant tells him "Monsieur does not receive to-day. "Thai makes nothing to me. My racket is to know if he will give anything.' An exchange says: "Hay smelle that respect Limburger cheese can ot nompete with hay. - OUR NEW YORK LETTER From our own Correspondent. THE GREAT BATTLE BETWEEN SCIENCE AND MUSCLE-ABOUT BAD TEA-OPIUM DENS AND POI SON--A CLERGYJIAN'S EXPERIENCE WITH THE BUNCO STEERERS-CRE NATION ALL THE RAGE-HENCE FIFTEEN STORY HOUSES-THE PULITZERS AND THEIR CUTENESS. NEW YORK, May 28, 1883. The men of science and learning feel exceedingly sad at the defeat of Mitchell, for he was their repre sentative. He was "science" per sonified, and "science" has been beaten out of its boots by the heavy blows of Sullivan. Thus once more is it proven that the fortunes of war rest with the heav iest artillery. You will please bear in mind that at the great contest in Madison Square the other evening, between Sullivan and Mitchell, the ten thousand persons were not all shoulder hitters, bummers and thieves. There were men of stand ing headed by Roscoe Conkling, men of money headed by Belmont, and I am told that the church was even represented by no less an in dividual than brother Beecher. All of the latter sided with Mitchell, who is said to be an M. D,, who given up his practice in order to handle the healthy, and when Mr. Sullivan made mince-meat of him the roof was almost taken off the building by the cheers, not of the learned men, but of the roughs, who, of course, now look with dis dain upon the class represented by Conkling and Co. Speaking of Mayor Low, reminds me that the firm of which he is a member and which his father estab lished, A. A. Low & Bro., would find it quite difficult to amass a fortune as easily now a days as in the past. They are the great China tWa house, and it troilty Stn e TAt ly that the government has estab lished strict rules in preventing the importation of bad teas, and now makes a stringent inspection of all such cargoes that arrive here. No less than 150 chests of tea were con demned last week alone. It ap pears, however, that in the past we all must have been in the habit of drinking-very umwholesome tea. The newspapers are so hard up for a sensation that they arc over hauling various State stories printe d in the past, and repeat them with great exaggerations. To read some (f thle pap)ers one would imnagine that all of our working girls visit opium dens the same as men visit barrooms. It is an unmitigated falsehood. There are no more hard working persons in the world than the factory and shop girls of New York, and if these dens are visited at all, it is by abandoned women. There is far more poison sold in a single toilet shop of New York than in all the opium dens put together. You have heard of the New York "bunco steerers." The are a pecu. liar set of knaves, but with all their bad habits there is a good deal of quiet fun in all their doings. One of their latest exploits is their squeezing $75 from a Boston clergy man, whom they allured in 14th street and took right into their dens. The fun of it was that the down east parson was not in the least dis guised. Every body could tell by looking at him that he was a "ser vant of the Lord," and so when the old fellow was in about $500, the bystanders advised the clerical in genuity in handling the cards. To ward the end however, he had to "pay up" all he had $75, and then he was foolish enough to go to a Police Court and make a com plaint. The New York Cremation So ciety has just held its annual meet ing, with a large increase in mem bership. Speaking of cremation reminds me of the fact that if New York goes on building skyward as we have been doing of late there will be many more human beings cre mated than there are members of the Society just named. The latest addition to our enormous high buildings in an apartment house having no less than fifteen stories. Just think of it that you and your wife and chicks- should be com pelled to live on the fifteenth story of a fiat hoanand ye vt that is what New York is coming to. The island is narrow, small, limited, and if we have no room on the land we can at least build in the sky, until, like that nation of old, we build a Tower of Babel. Thus history al ways repeats itself. The two German Jews, known as Pulitzer Bros., are endeavoring to create an excitement in the news paper world of New York, but out side of Printing House Square the attempt falls flat, stale and unprofi table. New York cares very little who edits a paper or who owns it. In fact with all of our humo rous publications there is really no place in the world where less time is devoted to newspaper reading than in this vast and busy city. These Pulitzsrs are "smart," espe cially Joseph, who has bought the World, and makes the people be lieve that it was with his own money, but neither Albert nor Joseph has any education. They are upstarts without scholastic training and both of them will read ily ascertain that it is much easier to become a first class man in a small town than even a second rate man in a metropolis like New York. Of course the story that Gould is entirely out of "the World" is a mere blind. He still owns fifty per cent. of the stock. RADIX. THE MOST POPULAt MAN IN WASHIINGTON. The Washington correspondent of the Petersburg, Virginia, Mail writes as follows about Senator Vance: The most popular public man in Washington is the Senator from North Carolina; combining the bon hommie of. Mat Carpenter with the wonderful faculty of anecdote of Tom Corwin, the North Carolinian is the life of any circle he may be thrown in. Dull care gathers her threadbare garments about her and hurries away when the genial Vance comes up, and Momus begins to grin. Whenever a combined yell of merriment would come from the ,.oak room, or a roar of laughter from the Senatorial restaurant, one could tell without any wide guess ing who was at the bottom of it all. Dignity drops her cloak when Vance is near, and even the calm St. Edmunds, who wears a mask, would unbend and his shrill laugh ter be heard high above the rest. It is worth the price of an orchestra seat on a benefit night to hear the Senator tell of his first ex perience as a statesman. It seems that he was member of Congress from North Carolina before the war, and-but let hini tell it in his own words as he narrated it to some of the "boys" across thd way where thirsty members and scribes most do congregate : "I, was a big man, I can tell you boys, when I1 was first elected to Congress, some twenty-five years ago. I swelled so that North Caro lina could not hold me. When I came to Washington I imagined the eyes of the whole country were on me, I followed my friend, George Sheridan's example literally. I voted on both sides of every bill that came up. I yelled Mr. Speak er ! every chance I had. I called one member a liar, told another he was a fool, o'gled the ladies in the gallery, cursed the pages, and kept them on the run all the time. I elevated my boots on the desk, spit tobacco juice on the floor, went to the committee room to look at documents, and drove-up PennsyL. vania avenue in an open barouche every evening when the weather was fine. I swaggered into the dining-room. I lounged in the lob by and disported myself every where, supremely conscious that I was the observed of all observers. When I returned home, it was in fine style. We had no railroads in my section of North Carolina, and I chartered a stage coach and rode on top with some of my lady friends, just to show them how my con stituents along the route regarded me. About evening, when the stage stopped at the top of a hill to rest the horses, and directly in' front of a ragged old cabin, its owner, a real piney woods tar heel, stood leaning against the fence; his pair of jeans pataloons hung suspended by one gallus; a hickory shirt open at the throat and an old straw hat, through the holes in which shocks of hair darted through. When he saw me, he spit out about a pint of tobacco juice and shifted the quid to another cheek; he scratched'the calf of his left leg with the toe of his right foot, and taking me in, he drawled out : "Hell and blazes ! Zeb Vance, is that 4ou?" - CALHOUN. Mr. Calhoun spoke like a college professor demonstrating to his class. His position was stationary and he used no gesticulation. His pale and livid countenance indicated the cloister. His voice was sil very and attractive, but very earnest. His eyes indicated quick perception. Starting with the most plausible premises, he would carry you irresistibly along with more plausible reasoning until you would be puzzled to know how much back track it was indispensably necessa ry for you to take to avoid conclu sions which would make it difficult to tell ihe difference between your views and those of a South Caro lina Secessionist. After having heard all the Senators speak, if a stranger, should select the one irrespective of doctrine, who came nearest a saint, he wonld select Mr. Calhoun, and such he is held to this day. College professors in the South were his great admirers and taught his doctrines to their students. Educated clergymen and all fashionable society lost no op portunities of manifesting their admiration of him. "Have you seen Mr. Calhoun?" "Do you think of leaving without seeing Mr. Cal houn?" were questions invariably asked by Southern Congressmen of their constituents visiting Washing ton. And Mr. Calhoun's prestige was so worked up that Southern visitors, both gentlemen and ladies, were aa.mnoh rpet*a +-n'-. him as the President. At the time of his death he was gaining a strong foothold among the scholars of the North, who seemed incapable of re sisting his seductive, comprehen sive and analytic mind. Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire once came to my seat and said: "I am going to astonish you. Mr. Calhoun has just brought me a let ter which he said he had just re ceived from President Nathan Lord of Dartmouth College, and asked me a great many questions about. him and the college. He left me, asserting that President Lord was one of the ablest thinkers and pro foundest reasoners in the country." At that time President Lord was not only the head of the college, but of the Congregational denom ination in New England. He fol lowed Mr. Calhoun's doctrines 'to their natural sequence. and he hr.d to give up his position. No man ever exerted the infiuepce upon his country that Mr. Calhoun did. All the calamities of the late war were the legitimate out-growth of doc trines of which he was a father, and to which the sincerity of his de votion was manifested by his ad vocacy of them in his dying hour.-Congressional Reminiscentces -Johnt Wentworth. SWALLOWED A TOEFEDo.-Little Johnny Botts found a gartersnake in the parks the other day and he brought it home and hid it in the piano. When his sister's young man 'opened the instrument that evening to play "For Goodness Sake" he thought he had 'em and yelled a like Piute on the war-path. They wouldn't believe in Johnny's innocence somehow, and his father said that after dinner he'd attend to his case. When the family sat down to table Johnny solemnly entered the room in his stocking feet and carrying a pillow, which hc placed on the chair before stting down. "What new monkey shine is that?" growled old Botts, "'S-s-s-h, pa," said Johnny, auxiously; "I was playing fireworks with Billy~ Simpson this afternoon and I swal lowed a .torpedo." "Did, eh?" "Yes, and if anything sh6uld touch me kinder hard I might go off and all burst up."-San Fr-ancisco Post. An Illinois girl's toast: "The young men of America-their arms our supporters, our arms their re ward; fall in, men, fall in." ANTETR AdvertUemeam6,11 - $1.00 sqamoatsch 5and bea for:eaeti Double colma adte onaove. Notices ot meea si t S advelems. Sp l Noticen a Locale r per; berof .Inserams wflbe kept Int and charged-accongy. Special contraets made:s tisers, with liberal dedaettuos JOB PRZITZ DONE WITH NAmMn[S j D D TERMS CASH. JEFFERSON DAVfS -'S ' OF BIS CAPTUZE. In the State Library atd Miss., is a crayon portrait ? Davis as he apPearel hen; tured. I asked him if itwa rect, and he replied: .wR you exactly how.it all ,oae had lain- down re .ag garment. I had cavaly pantaloons tucked into th e. i grey blouse and a soft hat. the alarm being given I stepa& of the tent and saw a Fec$ cavalryman thirty or - fortr away. He ordered me -t hak, the same moment Mrs. Davis, over my shoulders a folded,sa ' I saw that my only chanceof was to secure the horse' of the eral. I advanced straight him, feeling .that.he would me, but believing that he miss his target. Had this there would have been a for the possession of the'be As I approached toe soldier. lowered his carbine as if to and at that moment Mrs. rushed up and threw her around me. The soldier a moment, turned his weapon and.I walked back to the31te stood there until made [Cor. Detroit Free Pi' A story is told by the phia Times concerning two of the Legislature from that' A member had wound up a iloquent speech with the qnu "Vox popul, uoz Dei." ii-_ PhiladelpMians Crawforden&4 in, had both been listening; great admiration, and II ing aside, cried to Crawford:;.p wasn't that a fine clmax?" it was grand 1" replied the Ward member. Mankin eyed ford suspiciously for a and then offered to bet $10 take that," said Orafd course I know what he~sM was 'voz po~puli, vao D means 'My God, my God, thou forsaken me !" Macrin~ ed his hand into his poce meekly said: "There's the' AL. didn't know you were sachs good Latin scholar." "I'm sorry to keep you. or your money," said the'.beadk teller to Smithers, "but heres money all in yellow boyg. ~& mind," said Smithers, "I se s worth the wait in gold." "Ella is better 100 ln~ marked Mrs. Brown, with a "but Lucy will get married. "Yes," chimed .in her "gimme Luci-fer matches time." "Is anybody waiting as' said a polite dry goods l~ young lady from the country sir," replied the blushing "that's my fellow outside, wouldn't come in the store. A Baltimore man remaind i trance for three days redenly, they finally had to yell "do~ under his window to rouse i life. Jo says that the best lip msa 4 creation is a, kiss. The should be used with great or it may bring on affection heart. "You said, Mrs. Jones, your fy brella had a straight handle? thought it did, but since it I am quite certain it endedwt hook." Every time a man i snores loud nervous people 1k for an explosion of dynamite We never knew a personW ordinary lumber, but we hv them to dine on shipboard. - ,The briefless young lawyera [wear his old clothes until be win a suit in court. Should music be sold by chord? Draun music should'b em by the pound. Checkers is looke& o square game.