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VOLUME IV. GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17.1857. ,a"~*
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AGENTS. I
W. W. Walkbb, Jr., Columbia, S. C. I
I'ltrai rnadlbv, E?q., Flat Rock. N. C. (
A. M. Pbi>b*, Fairview P. 0., Greenville Dist i
WtLU&tt O. IfAflslTi Ptaufttit Grove. Greenville. ^
C\rr. IL Q Anderson, Enoree, Spartanburg.
^rlertcii ^nftnj.
[Froin the New York Evening Post.]
Nobody's 8ong.
Swift never wrote anything better in verse
than the following lines, from an unknown t
correspondent: J
I'm thinking just now of Nobody,
And all that NobodvV done,
For I've a passion for tfoltody,
That Nobody else would own ;
I bear the name of Nobody,
For from Nobody I sprung ; 1
And 1 sing the praise of Nobody,
As Nobody mine has sung.
ft. t
In life's young morning Nobody e
To me was tender and dear; j
And my cradle was rocked by Nobody. 1
And Nobody was ever near ; (
I was petted and praised by Nobody, j;
And Nobody brought me up; j
And when I was hungry. Nobody t
Gave me to dine or sup. t
t
in.
I wont to school to Nobody,
And Nobody taught ine to road ;
I played in the street with Nobody,
And to Nobody ever gave heed ;
I icconnted my tale to Nobody,
For Nobody was willing to hear ;
And my heart is clung to Nobody,
And Nobody shed a tear.
IV.
And when I grew older, Nobody
Gave me a helping tnrn ;
And by I lie good aid of Noltody
I began my living to earn ;
And hence 1 courted Nohody,
And said Nobody's I'd be.
And asked to marry Nobody,
And Nobody married me.
v.
Thus I trudge along with Nobody,
And Nolmdy cheer* my life,
And I have a love for Nobody
Which Nobody has for his wife.
So here's a health to Nobody,
For " Nobody's now in town."
And I've a passion for Nobody.
That Nobody else would own. ]
j^nlitirnl.
[Fi om the Washington Union.]
Important Correspondence.
To Hi* Excellency, Jatntt Buchanan,
President of the United State*:
The undersign*], citizen* of the United
State*, ?nd elector* of tlie State of Connecticut,
respectfully offer lo your Excellency
this their memorial :
The fundamental principle of the Constitution
of the United Stales and of our polit
ical instilminus. is, that the people shall make
their own law* and elect their own ruler*.
We see, with grief, if not with astonishment,
that Gov. Walker, of Kansas, openly
represents and proclaims that the President
of the United states is employing, through
him, an army, one purpose of which is to
force the people of Kansas to obey laws not
ikeir own, nor <f the United States, but
laws which it is notorious and established
upon evidence, they never made and ruleis
tliey never elected.
We represent, therefore, that by the fore
going your Excellency i? openly held up and
proclaimed, to the greatest derogation of our
national character, as violating, in its most
essential particular, the solemn oath which
the President has taken to support the Constitution
of this Union,
wV ,We call attention further to the fact that
your Exeellenoy is, in like manner, held up
to thia nation, to all mankind, and to all
posterity, in the altitude of M levying war
against (a portion of) the United States "
by employing arms in Kansas to uphold a
bodjr of men, and a code of enactments pur
"^Mmg to be legislative, but which never
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had the election or sanetion, nor consent, of
the people of the Territory.
Wo earnestly represent to your Excellency
that we also ha*e taken the oath to ohev
the Constitution ; and your JExctllency mnv
he assured that we shall not lefrnin from
die prayer that Almighty God will make your
idministration an example of justice and
beneficence, and. with I lis terrible majesty,
orotect our people and our Constitution.
Nath'l W. Taylor. David Smith. ,
r. D. Woolsey. J. 11mwes. ,
flenry Dutton. James F. Rabcoek. |
2has. L. English. G. A. Calhoun. ,
f. II. Brochway. E. H. Gill?crt. (
?li W. Blake. Leonard Bacon. |
lli Ives. I II. C. Kings ey. ,
k Silliman, Jr. B. Sillinian. |
foah Porter. Edward C. Herrick. |
i'hoa. A. Thacher. Charles Ives. ,
. A. Davenport. Win. P. Eusiis, Jr. |
V. Hooker. Alex. C. Twinning. |
>liil.? 1ti?L? I w n:i.k
I\v? ?""inn ?? . i
5. K. Foster. Alfred Walker. !
). S. Lyman, James Brewster,
olin A. Blake. Steph. G. IIul?l?nrd. i
>Vm. !!. Basse!!. ITa* ley Ohnstead.
k N. Skinner. Seag'ove W. Mngill. f
Iorace Bushmell. Amos Townsend. j
'olin Boyd. Timotliv Dwijrlit.
'harlo* Kohinson. David M. Smith. t
Jenry Peck. y
Washington Citv, August 15, 1857.
Gentlemen?On iny recent return to
his city, after a fortnight's absence, your
nemoiial, without <late, was placed in mv '
lands, through the agency 'of Mr. II uatio
ving, of the Post Office Department, to
vhom it had been entrusted. From the
listinguished source whence it proceeds, as c
veil as its peculiar character, I have deem
d it proper to depart from my general rule {j
n such cases, and to give it an answer.
You first assert that "lite fundamental
irinciple of the Constitution of the United J
hate* and of our political institutions is that j(
he people shall make their own laws and
ilect their own rulers." Ycu then express {
our grief and astonishment that I should
tave violated this principle, and, through
3ov. Walker, have employed nn army, " one
ttirpose of w hich is to force the people of 0
Kansas to obey lavet not their otrn, nor of '
he United State#. but laws which it is no- '
orious, and established upon evidence, they
tever made, and rulers the)' never elected." v
\nd, as a corollary from the foregoing, you !
epresent that 1 am " openly held up and
unclaimed, to the great derogation of our .
mlional character, a* violating, in its most
tssential particular, the solemn oath which
he President has taken to sujrport the Contitution
of this Union"
These are heavy charges proceeding from
jentlemen of your high character, and, if
veil founded, ought to consign iryV name to
nfainy. llut in proportion to tK?-ir gravity,
:ointnon justice, to say nothing of Christian
:harity, required that before making them I
fou vhould have clearly a*ceitained that
hey weie well founded. If not, they will
ehound. with witheiing condemnation, up>n
their authors. Have you |>erformed this
preliminary duty towards the man who,
lowever unworthy, is the Chief Magistrate
>f your country ? If so, eithci you or I are
alniring under a strange delusion. Should
Jiis prove to be your case, it will present a
memorable example of the truth that policial
prejudice is blind, even to the existence
if the plainest and most palpable historical
acts. To these facts let us refer.
When I entered upon the duties of the
Presidential office, on '.lie 4th of March last,
what was the condition of Kansttn ? This
l'erritory had l>een organized under the act
jf Congress of 30th of May, 1854. and the
government, in all its branches, was in full
meratiun. A governor, secretary of the
Territory, chief justice, two associate justices,
& inaishal, and district attorney, had been
appointed by my predecessor, by and with
the advice of die Senate, and were all engaged
in discharging their respective duties.
A code of laws had l*en enacted bv the
Vonilrvtiul lom^lutnro ' unrl I>a
were employed in expounding and carrying I
these laws into effect. It i* quite true that j
a controversy had previously arisen respect
ing the validity of the election of members
of the Territorial legislature and of the laws
passed by thein. but at the lime I entered
upon nty official duties. Congress had recognized
this legislature in different forms
and by different enactments. The delegate
elected to the House f Representatives under
a Territorial law, had just completed his j
terin of service on the day previous to my (
iitutwvtirtlinn 1 ti fuot T fiiittul llio mtcorii.
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ment of Kansas as well established as that
of anv other Territory.
Under these circumstances, what was my
duty f Whs it not to sustain the government
? to protect it from the violence of law
leas men, who wete determined to either
rule or ruin ? To prevent it from being
overturned b? force??in the language of
the Constitution, to u take care that the laws
be faithfully executed ?" It was for this
purpose, and this alone, that I ordered a
military forro to Kansas, to act as a potte
comitafut in aiding the civil magistrate to
carry the laws into execution.
The condition of the Territory at the time,
which I need not portray, rendered this pre
caution absolutely necessary. In this state
of affairs, ironld I not have l>cen justly condcmnod
had I left the marshal, unci other
officers of a like character, impotent to execute
the process end judgments of court# of
justice established by Congress or by the
Territorial Legislature under its press authority,
and thus have suffered the government
itself to l>ecomo an object of contempt
in the eyes of the people f And vet this is
what you designate as forcing u the people
r>f Kansas to obey laws not their own, nor
nf the United Statesami for which you
Itave denounced me as having violated my
solemn oath. I ask, what else could I have
done, or ought to have dene? Would you
have desired that I should abandon the Territorial
government, sanctioned, as it had
been, by Congress, to illegal violence, and
thus renew the scenes of civil war and blood
died, which every patriot in the country
had deplored f This would, indeed, Imve
lieen to violate my oath of office, and to fix
\ damning hlot on the character of iny ad
ministration.
I must cheerfully admit that the necessity
'or sending the military force to Kansas to
tid in the execution of the civil law reflects
10 credit upon the character of our country.
3nt let the blame fall upon the heads of the
ruilty. Whence .did this necessity arise?
\ portion of the people of Kansas, unwilling
o trust the ballot-box?the certain Ameri:an
remedy for the rediess of all grievances
?undertook to create an independent gov
irntnenl for themselves. Ilad this attempt
irovetl successful, it would, of course, have
nhveited the existing groverntnent, prcscirbd
and recognised by Congress, and substi
nted a revolutionary government in its
tead. This was a usurpation of the same
haracter as it would be for a portion of the
eople of Connecticut to undertake to estabish
a separate government within ita eliarered
limits for the purpose of redressing
ny grievance, real or imaginary, of which
hey might have complained against the
fgitiinate State Government. Such a priniple,
if carried into execution, would desroy
all lawful authority and produce unicrsal
anarchy.
I ought to specify more particularly a
ondition of affairs, which 1 have embraced
inly in general terms, requiring the presitice
of a military force in Kansas. The
Congress of the United States had most
viselv declared it to ho " the true intent and
neaning of this act (the act orgnizing the
territory) not to legidate slavery into any
territory or State, nor to exclu eit therefrom.
>ul to leave the |?eople thereof perfectly free
0 form and regulate their domestic instiluions
in their own way, subject only to the
Jonslitlition of the United States." As a
intinal consequence. Congress has also precribcd
by the same act that when the Teritory
of Kansas shall be admitted as a State
t "shall be received into the Union, with
?r without slavery, as their constitution may
rcscribe at the time ot their admission."
Slavery existed at that petiod, and still
>xis*.s in Kansas, under the Constitution of
lie United States. This point has at last
neen finally decided by the highest tribunal
known to our laws. How it could even
liave been seriously doubted i* a mystery.?
If a confederation of sovereign States ncqtihe
1 new Teriitorv at the expense of their cone
lion blood and treasure, surely one set of
he paitners can have no tight to exclude
he other from its enjoyment by prohibiting
Item from taking into it whatsoever is re ognized
to he property by the common
:<>iiKtitntioii. Hut when the people ?the
loan Jute residents of sui-h Tenitory? pro
i . r - c.-.. *- ?-?
:eeu 10 ii'Hiue a oxaie constitution, men u is
heir right to decide the question for themelves
whether they will continue, modify,
)r alailish slavery. To them, and to them
done, dives this question belong, free from
ill foeign interference.
In the opinion of the Territorial legislaure
of Kansas, the time had arrived for enering
the Union, and they accordingly passed
a law to elect delegates for the purpose
>f framing a Slate Constitution. This law
ivas fair and just in its provisions. It conerred
the light of suffrage on "every bona
Ude inhabitant of the Territory.'* and. for
lie preventing fraud, and the intrusion of
diizetis of near or distant States, most prop
nly confined this right to those who had
re.?ided therein three months previous to the
-lection. Here a fair opportunity was patented
for all the qualified resident citizens
>f the Territory, to whatever sides they
migh have previously belonged, to participate
in the election, and to express their
pinions- at the ballot la?x on the question
jf slavery. But numbers of lawless men
still continued to resist the regular Territorial
government. TIsev refused either to lie
registered or to vote ; and the member* of
I he convention were elected, legally and
^..i? I...:. -ri..
i* , " iiu'-ui men * cm ii nit ur
Convention will rood Assemble to peiform
ilie solemn dtitv of framing a Constitution
for themselves and their posterity ; and. in
lite state of incipient rebellion which still ex
ism in Kansas, it is my im|>erative dttty to
employ the troops of the United States,
dtonld this become necessary, in defending
lite Convention against violence whilst framing
the Constitution, and in protecting the
"bona fide inhabitants" qualified to vote
under the provision* of this instrument in
the free exercise of the right of suffrage
r* I - ~V
iLe people of the several States.
Yours, verv respectfully,
JAMES BUCHANAN.
Rev. Nathaniel Taylor, I). D.. Rev. Theodore
1). Woolsev, I). D.. L. L. D.. Hon. llenrv
Button. Rev. David Smith, D. D., Rev. J
Ilawes, D. D., and others.
3fii0trllmitoti3 H tailing.
ODE OLD GRANDMOTHER.
BIe?>ed he the children who ha?e an old
fashioned grandmother. As they hope lot
length of days, let them love and honor her
for we can tell thetn they w ill never find an
other.
There is a large old kitchen somewhere ir
the past, and an old fashioned fire plact
therein, with its smooth old jambs of stunt
?smooth with many knives that had beer
sharpened there?smooth with many littlt
fingers that have clung there. There art
andirons, too?the old andirons, with ting>
in the top, wherein many temples of tlamt
have been builded, with spires and turrets
of crimson. Tin re is a broad, worn hearth
by feet that have been torn and bleeding b\
I the way, or been made " beautiful," ant
walked upon floors of tesselaled gold.?
There are tongs in the corner, wherewith wi
grasped a coal, and " blowing for a littii
life," lighted our fir.?t caudle; theie is j
snovei. wnerewun were drawn tortli tl>
glowing embers *n which we saw our firs
fancies ami dreamed our first dreams?th
shovel with which we stirred the sleepy log
till the spaik* rushed up the chimney as i
a forge were in blast below, and wished w
had so many lambs, so many marbles o
so many somethings that we coveted ; ant
so it was we wished our first wishes.
There is a chair?a low, rush botton
chair; there is a little -vh.ee! its the corner, i
big wheel in the garret, a loom in thecham
her. There are chests full of linen and yarn
and quilts of rate patterns, and samplers ii
frames.
And everywhere and always the dear oh
wrinkled face of Iter whose firm clastic ste]
mocks the feeble Raunter of her children1
children?the old fashioned grandmother c
twenty years ago. She the very providene
of the old homestead?6he who loved us al
and said she winhed there was more of us t<
love, and took all the school in the IIollox
for grandchildren beside. A groat, expan
she heart was Iter's beneath that woollei
gown, or that more stately bombazine, o
thai sole heir-h>om of silken texture.
We can see her to day?those mild bin
eyes, with more of Identity in them thai
time could touch, or death do more thai
hide?those e\os that held both smiles am
teais within the faintest call of every one c
us, and soft reproof, that seemed not pax
?ion hut regret. A white tress has escape*
irom Deneawi tier snowy cap; she lias jn*
ie-toifil a wandering lamb to its mother
she lengthened the tether of a vine that wh
>t raxing over a window, a.i she came in, an<
plucked a four-leafed clover for Ellen, Sh
nts down by the little wheel?a tress i
running through her fingers from the di?
latr* disheveled head, when a small voie
cries, 44 Grandma " from the obi red cradh
and " Grandma I" Tommy shouts from th
top of the stairs. Gently she lets go th
thread, for her patience is almost as beaut
fill as her charity, and she touches that li
tie ml baik in a moment, till the youn
voyager is in a dream again, and then d
reels Tommy's unavailing attempts to ha
nexa the cat. The tick of the clock rut
faint and low, anil she opens the myterioi
door, and proceeds to wind it up. We ai
when it shall I e submitted to tliem, for tliei
approbation or rejection.
I have entire confidence in Gov. Walkei
that the troops will not he employed exoep
to resist actual aggression, or in the exeeu
tion of the laws ; and this not until the pow
er of the civil magistrate shall prove una
vailing. Following the wise example o
Mr. Madison towards the llartfo:d Conven
tion. illegal and dangerous, such as that o:
the Topcka convention, will not he disturb
ed unless tlrev shall attempt to perforrr
some act wh'ch will biing them into actua
collision with the constitution and the laws
| In that event, they shall he resisted, and pui
down by the whole power of the govern
ment. In performing this duty, I ehall
have the approbation of iny own conscience
and. as I humbly trust, of my God.
I thank you for the assurance that you wii
" not refrain from the prayer that Almightr
God will make my administration an exam
pie of justice and beneficence.*' You enr
greatly assist me in arriving at this blesser
consummation bv exerting your influence it
(allaying the existing sectional excitementot
the subject of slavery, which lias been pro
ductive of much evil and no good, ant
which, if it cou'd succeed in niiaining it!
onject, would ruin the slave as well as lii:
master. This would be a work of genuln<
philanthropy. Every day of my life I fee
how inadequate I am to perform the duties
of my high station without the continued
support of Divine Providence; yet placing
mv trust in IIim. and in IIim alone, I on
tertain a good hope that lie will enable mt
to do equal justice to all portions of the Un
ion, and thus render me an humble instru
ment in restorini/ iw>ho> nnil limmnm) ?m""?
r all on tiptoe, and we l?ep i? ? breath to b<
lifted up. one hv one. iiud look for the bun
.f dredth time, upon the tin eases of tlx
j weights, and the poor, lonelv pendulum
which goes to and fro hv its little dim win.
dow, and never coine* out in the world ; and
. our petitions nre granted, and we are lifted
f up, and we al! touch with a finger the won.
derfui weights, and the music of tho little
f wheel is resumed.
'* Was Mary to he married, or Jane to be
, wrapped in a shroud I" So meekly did she
| fold the while hands of the one upon her
still bosom, that there seemed to be a pray.
I er in them there ; and so sweetly did she
. wreathe the white rose in the hair of tlie
I other, that one would not have wondered
had more roses budded for company.
How she stood between us and nppreI
bended harm ! llow the rudert of us soft.
ened beneath the gentle pressure of her
. faded and tremulous hand ! Fiom her ra
, I pacious pocket that band was ever with*
j ; drawn closed, only to be opened in our own,
, ! with the nuts site had gathered, the cher,
j ries she had plucked, the little ogoj she had
. | found, the " turn over" she had baked, the
j | trinket she had purchased for us as the pro}
I duct of her spinning, the blessing she had
, j stored for us?the oflVpiing of her heart.
, | What treasure of story fell from those old
I I lips?of good old fairies and evil, of the old
, | times when she was a girl; and we wonderI
ed if ever?hut then she couldn't be hand,Isomer
or dearer?hut that she ever was
'("little." And, then, when we begged her
, j to sing ! " Sing us one cf the old songs
, j you used to sing mother, grandma."
" Children, I can't sing," she always said ;
. and mother used to lay her knitting sofllv
down, and the kitten stopped playing with
the yarr. upon the floor, and the clock ticked
lower in the corner, and the fire died
, down to a glow, like an old heart, that is
, neither chilled nor dead?and grandmother
sang. To be sure, it wouldn't do for the
fiarlor and the concert room nowadays.
>ut then it was the old kitchen and the ol.l
fashioned, and the old ballad, in the dear
old times ; and we can hardly see to write
for the memory of them, though it is a
- hand's breadth :o the sunset.
Well, she sang. Iler voice was feeble
. and wavering, like a fountain just ready to
r fall, but then how sweet toned it was; and
it became deeper and stronger: but it
. could t't g?-o?r sweeter. What *'joy of
grief" it was to sit there around the fire, all
, of us, except Jane, that clasped a prayer to
j her bosom, and her thoughts we saw, when
. the hall door was opened a moment by the
, wind; but then we were not afraid, for
. wasn't it her old smile she wore??to sit
? there around the fire and weep o\er the
. woes of the " Babes in tlie Woods," who
> lay down, side by side, in the gieat solemn
i shadows ; and how strangely glad wo felt
when the robin-redbreast covered them with
leaves; and last of all, when the angels took
| them out of the night into day everlasting.
We may think what we will of it now;
a hut the song and the story heard around
a the kitchen fire have colored the thoughts
n and lives of most of us ; have given us the
e| geims of whatever poetry blesses our hearts,
it | whatever memory blooms in our yesterdays
e I Attribute whatever we may to the school
s and the schoolmaster, the rays which make
if that little day we call life, radiate from tlx
c God swept circle of the hearth-stone,
r Then she sings an old lullablv she sang
] to mother?her mother sang to her; hut
she does not sing it through, and falters ere
! 'lis done. She rests her head upon her
n hands, and it is siicnt in the old kitchen.
. Something glitters down between her fin
it gers and tlie firelight, and it looks like rain
n in the soft sunshine. The old grandmother
is thinking when she first heard the song.
] and of the voice that siing it, when a light|,
haired and light-hearted girl, she hung
a around that mother*', chair, nor saw the
,f shadows of the days to come. Oh ! the
e days that are no more! WIihI spell can
|j we weave to bring them back again ??
o What words can we unsay, what deeds un
v do, to set back, just this once, the ancient
. clock of lime ?
11 St> all our little hands were forever cling
r ing to her garments, and staying her as il
from dying, for long ago she had done live
ing for herself, and lived alone in us. lint
n the olel kitchen want-i a presence to-day
n and the nish-bot?oined chair is tenanlless.
^ I low she used to welcome us when w(
^ were grown, and came back once more tc
l' the homestead.
We thought wo were men and women
but we were child-en there. The old fash
' ioned grandmother was blind in the eyes
, hut she saw with her heart, as she alwayi
did. We threw our long shadows tbrougl
the open door, and she looked dimly up anc
saw tall shapes in the door-way, and shi
says: " Edward I know, and Lucv'a voice 1
can hear ; but whose is the other ?" Itinusi
' l?e Jane's?for she had almost forgotten th?
folded hands. " Oh, no, not Jane, for slu
. ?let me see?she is waiting for mo, isn*
! she!" and the old grandmother wandore<
and wept.
j. M It is another daughter, grandmothei
r. that Edward has brought," says some oo<
is * f?r >'t>ur blessing."
is " Has she blue eyes, my son ? Put he
re hand in mine, for she is my latest born, tb
iiuiuur.u iy.
- child of my old age. Shall I sing you a
song. children I'1 Iler hand is in her pock
c-t an old ; she is idly fuinblirg for a toy, a
, welcome gift to the children thai have corro
' again.
I One of us, men as we thought we were,is
weeping ; she hears the half suppressed sob ;
she says, a<? she extends her feeble hand?
** Ilere, my poor child, rest upon your
grandmother's shoulder; she will protect
you from all harm; come, children, sit
around the fire again. Shall I sing you a
song, or tell you a story f Stir the fire, for
it is cold ; the nights are growing colder.'1
The clock in the corner struck nine, the
bed-time of thoso old days. The song of
life was indeed sung, the story is told ; it
was hed time at last. Good night to thee,
grandmother. The old-fashioned grandmother
was no more, and we miss her forever.
But we will set up n tablet in the
midst of the memory, in the midst of the
heart. Rnd wiit? nn "
, w.? V WHIT HHP
SACRED TO TI1E MEMORY
or THE
OLD FASHIONED GRANDMOTHER.
God bless h< r forever.
English Manners.
I find nil Englishman (o ho him of nil
men w ho stands firmest in his shoes. Thev
have, in themselves, what they value in their
horses, mettle and bottom. On the day of
mv arrival at Liverpool, a gentleman, in
describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, happened to say, " Lord Clarendon
has pluck like a cock, and will fight till he
dies; " and what I heard first I heatd last;
and the one thing the English value is
pluck. The cabmen hare it ; the merchants
Slave it; the bishops have it; the journal*
have it ; the Times newspaper, they say, is
the pluckiest thing in England ; and Sydney
Smith had made it a proverb, that little
Lord John Russell, the minister, would take
command of the channel fleet to morrow.
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It requires, men say, a good constitution
to travel in Spain. 1 say as much of England,
for other causes, simply on account of
the vigor and brawn of the people. Nothing
but the most serious business could give
any one a counterweight to these Raresharks.
though they weie only to order eggs
and muffin for their breakfast. The Englishman
speaks with all his body. His
elocution is stomachic, as tho American's is
labial.
The Englishman is very petulant and precise
about bis accommodation at inns and
on the roads ; a quibbler about his toast and
bis chop, and every species of convenience,
and loud and pugnant in bis expressions of
impatience at any neglect. His vivacity betrays
itself, at all points, in his manners, in
his respiration and tho aiticulate noises he
makes 111 clearing his throat; all significant
of burly strength.
The vigor appears in the incuriosity and
stony neglect, each of the other. Each man
walks, eats, drinks, shaves, dresses, gesticulates,
and in every manner acts and suffers
without reference to the bystanders, in bis
1 own farhion, only careful not interfere with
I -them or annoy them; not tliat he is trained
to neglect the eyes of his neighbors; lie is
really occupied with his own affairs, and
does not think of them. In short, every
one of the.'e islanders is an island himself,
safe, tranquil, incommunicable. In a com*
panv of strangers you would think him deaf;
his eyes never wander from his table and
newspaper. Introductions are sacraments.
He withholds his name. At the hotel he
is hardly willing to whisper it to the clerk
at the book-office. If he gives you his private
address on a card, it is like an avowal
of friendship; and on bearing on being introduced
to you is cold, even though he is
' seeking your acquaintance, and is studying
how he shall serve you.
[Emerson*s English Trails.
Joke fou a Farmer.? A Western New
> York farmer wiitcs as follows to a distinguished
scientific agriculturist, to whom
he felt under obligations for introducing a
P variety of swine:
Respected Sir: I went yesterday, to tho
' fair at M ; I found several pigs of
your species ; there was a great variety of
' beasts, and I was astonished at not seeing
you there!
> Praiswortiiv Act.?The Abbeville Partner
informs us that, lion. J. F. Marshall of
is:-..:-- i -- -
f in?i, i/ianin, nas, at nis own expense erected
a monument over the grave of Lt., F. W?
, Selleck of the Palmetto ltegimenl, who was
4 the first to plant the American colors on the
, city walls afier the battle of Gareta do Pell
i en.
i True politeness may be cherished in the
t hovel as well as in the palace, and the most
? tattered drapery cannot conceal its winuing
? charms.
I Ir*
man should sot out calling everything
by its right name, ho would be knocked
ilown before he got to the coruor of the
' street.
Council Bluffs is the only city north of
,r St. Louis, or west of Iowa city, that sustain*
e * daily newspaper.