The Southern Intelligencer. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 1867 Page: 1 of 4
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the roiiilenec of the hospitable
(hike of Richmond wm brilliantly
Miteri on the evening of Juno Ifitfi,
jllA. Urou|>** of officers In various
tipifbrnia «oro seen assembled In (ho
¿I room, many of whom were prob-
ih(y entering Into these gey scenes
|hf iMo ImI Muio, AmoHum the 1a-
ornamented (ho room, many
of w ««entry women might readily
by Ihi dignity of
tMr wanner* from vlvaelousrorelgn-
m with whom they wore mingled,
One of the most attractive of these
wm ftitth Myers, An ar(is( would
wn.wrhifM, liave called hor beau-
tiful, bul there wai a dignity ami
«lnrMter in her face which amply
md fer anything in which she
might hm folien short of (ho Ore
t\m mMx No! really above (ho
iwn# bight, (ho *llgh(ne*s of hor
ftfttre mad# her appear taller (han
mi of the women around her, an
ita Hood ulill, holding (he arm of
to Ikther, Col. Myers, with whom
die hid Just entered, Many an ait*
miring ¿Janee was turned upon the
Mr youtttf girl, and her cheek flush*
4 beyrma its wont \ she looked hur-
riedly around the room, hardly t eem>
B! to notice the officer who was Hot-
ting her hand for a dance. She
aweptod him, however, mechanically,
when a bright smile passed over hor
to.
Copt, Bruce, an officer in the uni-
form of the Life Guarde, was cross-
ing the room towards her. His fig-
ure wae tall and soldier like, his
countenance grata and thought,ftil.
el times almost stern. In years, he
Appeared coneiderably her senior.
Advancing to hor side, ho asked, in
i low voice, if she would spare a few
minutes that evening to stroll with
him in the adjoining terrace. She
oeented to his request in the same
time, a deep blush rising over her
bee. They immediately separatod,
as if to avoid remark, and Edith was
toon waltsing in the brilliant oirele.
The evening wore on, and the gai-
ety was at its height when a hand
vie laid on Edith's arm, and the
trae low voice whispered m her ear:
MI claim you now, at least for a
tine!"
With a beating heart she accepted
the proffered arm, and* making'their
ny through the merry groups that
mronnded them, the two passed out
upon the terrace. They stood silent
for a few moments. The bright
moonlight which poured around them
lighted up the shining leaves of the
imnbs below, and the scent of rare
flowers with whioh the terraoe was
decorated seemed to freshen the eve-
; sir with its fragrance. Edith's
1 trembled as it lay upon her
companion's arm; the flush nad died
from her cheek and left H deadly
pele.
u Miis Myers. I am here to-night
to ik the question whioh deeply in-
whres my future happiness. You
««mot surely bo blina to my long
•toiehed affection for you, and "—
Ai he spoke the shrill blast of a
b>gle was heard suddenly breaking
Jo stillness of the night. Gapt.
"Hoe startod, and his whole framo
••Mied to quiver.
He exclaimed hurriedly, "Edith,
yon hear that sound; it is the signal
Y notion, and ealls me either to
oath or viotory. I have only ft few
KHBjnts more to be with you. Tell
■J I implore you, whether I am to
welcome death as a friend, or to fight
redoubled courage for a life
'luch is doar to you t Good heay-
"Mho has fainted !"
The startling news had been too
for Edith's delicato frame, ant
^>t not been for her lover's sup-
arm she would have stink to
««ground. He dare stay no long-
J w t calling some waiting woman
*° to aid, he imprinted one kiss up-
U to forehead, and hastened flrom
"•house to assemble his men.
L *he following evening, about three
tonrs after sunset, a different scene
Jrea*nted itself. The eonfiiot of the
JV Was over, and the silence of
had suooeeded the storm of the
Groups of soldiers might be
•¡•a dotted over the battle field, oo-
^pied in searching for >the missing
CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14 1861
PUBL18HKR8.
Wft^ a®row the fatal scone,
whero so mAny brAvo wen lay sing-
led And lifclegg At their foot. The
foremost of the two was a young
girl, wrAnped m a loose oloAk whioh
enveloped hor figure; a thiok veil
was drawn over hor faoo and in her
hand she OArried a lantern. She was
followed by An elderly woman, bear-
ing on hor arm a baskot, in whioh
wore two small Husks, one oontAining
WAter And the other filled with bran*
«ly. As tho young girl proceeded
on her senroh the light of her Untorn
fo I on tho nnllid ^Atures of Útose
lying Around hor, And moro titan
onoe she stopned to assuage tho
thirst of the dying man by alminis.
hand* * ^ own
Uour after hour she continued her
search till, ováronme with litigue,
disappointment, and tho horrors of
tho soene Around her, she sat down
on tho ground as if to recover her
strength, And oonslder whA( course
. Sif1 Puww«- Her Attend*
an( followed her example, and while
(hue seAted (hey heard the murmur
of volees approaching. ¡Presently a
party of soldiers appeared, bearing
u. uiaiiKkiluil ni.... . ILi. ma ^
* wounded man en a litter,
had hardly passed,
«f lht> tv
a sudden
They
li
a
y I ' - • ■ Vl«v J V«I1
of the two women, as if ae(ua(ed
i sudden impulse, sprang up
owed (hem. Addressing a vetaran
•f «¡J ^ ike said in a low tone,
11 ®oIdier, ean you (ell me wha(
par( of (he field the « Uh Uuards
oeeupied during (he aedon, and whe«
ther any of their wounded are still
eft behind 1"
lie looked a( her tor a moment
with an air of surprise, and then re«
9lled.
" We are now hearing a sergeant
of their corps to the village of Wa«
terloo, my lady, where some of our
men have Just taken a wounded oflt*
eer.'
The soldiers passed on, and she
rejoined her attendant who, In the
meantime, had risen to meet her.
They followed the party at such a
distance as to keep them In sight
without being observed themselves.
Iu bin luuuuwi mev juroouuaeu lor
some time, till the soldiers halted to
rest for a few minutes upon the
spreading roots of a large oak tree
olose to whioh, in the ooursc of the
day, the Duke of Wellington had
taken up his position. From the
atter oireumstanoe this old tree has
since been distinguished by the title
of " the Wellington oak."
The party soon prooeeded on their
march, still followed by the two fe-
males. Presently they came to a
arm house; this they passed with-
out a second halt; but the young
,;irl and her attendant agreed to en-
ier the yard, where tney seated
thomselves on a stone. Here a
soene of utter desolation presented
itself; bodies of men and horses
were lying about in all directions, as
well as bayonet sheaths and the raes
of olothes which covered the ground,
finding the house unoccupied, they
were glad to turn from the heart-
rending soene, and prooeeded on
their way.
After walking about a mile some
cottages became visible, which they
determined on entering, to ascertain,
if possible, how far they still were
from the village of Waterloo. They
were juBt going up the gate to make
inquiries, when they observed an offi-
cer, with his arm m a sling, leanin
against the wall, apparently wraj
in thought. They approaohed turn,
and the young girl began, in a timid
voioe,
14 Will you kindly direct us to "—
44 Oan it be possible ? " exolaimed
tho officer, suddenly turning around.
" Surely this is Miss Myers* voioe!"
Edith uttered a cry of joy, ex-
olaiming, " Thank Heaven, he is
safe! " And then all the fortitude
whioh had nerved her through these
terrible scenes gave way, and she
burst into an hysteric fit of sobbing.
In a moment her lover stood by
her, his arm Wfc? around her, and her
head lay upoÉflljp breast while bend-
ing down he iHtoered in hor ear,
44 Edith, I neia no other answer
than the love whioh induced vou to
brave suoh soenes in search of me."
•*••• ondglAring yellow silk pocket
handkerohief, broken of these tilings
And beoomo a pAttern of noAtuess.
louhAve seen a man whose hair and
whiskers were ridioulously out, speed-
ily become like other human beings.
You have seen a clergyman who wore
a long beard in a little while appear
without one. You have seen a man
who used to sing ridioulously senti-
mental songs leave them off. You
have seen a man who took snuff co-
piously, and who generally had his
breast covered with snuff abandon
the vile habit.
A wife is tho grand wlelder of the
Pr,un¡ng-kuifo. If Johnson's
wtfo had lived, there would Iiavc been
no hoarding un bits of orango peel t
«o touching all the posts in walking
along tho street} no eating and
drinking with a disgusting voracity,
If Oliver Goldsmith had neon mar-
ried, he would never have worn that
memorable and ridiculous coat,—
Whenever you find a man whom you
know little about oddly dressed, or
talking ridioulously, or exhibiting any
eooentrloHy of manner, you may be
tolerably sure that he Is not a mar*
rled man. For tho little corners are
rounded off, the lUtle shoots are
pruned away in married men. Wives
generally have muoh more sense than
their husbands, especially when the
husbands are elever men. The wlfVs
advlees are like the ballast that
keeps the ship steady, They are
like the wholesome, tneugh painful
shears snipping nff little growths of
selMoneeife and folly, «= MwrnV#
Mill
nIiiiiimun'm tagni
eere.
Many years ago the Legislature of
Tennessee passed an aet to organise
the county of MeNairy, ntítt* Snake,
At that time the country embraced
in the limits of Hnake was oeeupied
by a sturdy set of balMiwoodsmen,
in the limits of Hnake was oeeupied
. „ Jodsmen,
totally^unacquainted with courts, Jail,
ote. The county assembled at the
appointed site for the purpose of
cutting logs, making boards, etc., tu
build a court house and jail. The
only theme of dally conversation,
when the men wero assembled, was
the court, etc. None of them had
3evelopeíl." ''tólncli"ofio"''would"gTve
what his idea was of a court, etc.
Nono, however, wero entirely sat-
isfactory, until Bill SimpBon was
callod on to givo his ideas. Ho Baid
he knew all about a court—that he
had had a lawsuit in North Carolina.
Ono of his neighbor's hogs kept com-
ing where he fed his hogs until it got
fat. One morning he got so d—d
mad that he shot the hog. He
thought it would not do to throw it
away, so he oloaned and salted it.
Shortly after, his neighbor and a
man came to his house, examined the
smoke-house, and took him to town
and put him in a little office.. About
three months after that, this man
came and took him up to a large
room. A large man sat upon a high
bench, a man was sitting at a desk,
about a dozen fine dreBsed men sat
in a place that was paled around.
The man put me in a pen just behind
them.
He then called; in twelve men;
they took seats in a box in front of
the fine dressed men. The man that
was writing cave, the twelve men a
>ook and said something about Bill
Simpson and State. Then one of
the nne dressed men read somethin,
about Bill Simpson and the hog, an<
he and another of the fine dressed
men had the biggest quarrel you ever
heard. I thought they would fight
every minute, Dut they didn't. It
was Bill Simpson and tho hog, and
tho host and Bill Simpson, ana some-
times Mr. Simpson, but d—d^seldom.
After they haa quit quarreling, the
big man talked a while to the twelve
men, and they went out and staid a
a short time and oame baok and said
something to the man at the desk.
The man on the benoh said sondethinp
to the man that put me in office, an
he took me out and tied me to a per
simmon tree and commenced fighting
me with a Cowhide; and it made me
so d—d mad that I shook all the
persimmons off the tree.— Winches
ter Home Journal
A company has been organised
years, when sur
ildren, would Gen.
Often, in after
rounded by his chi
Bruoe relate the oircumstanoes under
whioh he had proposed And been ao-
cepted.
The Evviots ov Marriage.—
Doubtless you have remarked with
satisfaction how the little oddities of
men who marry rather late in life are
pruned aW*y speedily after marriage.
You have found man who used U>
be shabbily and carelessly dressed,
with a huge shirt collar frayed at the
Baltimore, aro invited to attend the
convention, to be held at St. Louis,
next month, for the consideration of
measures for the improvement of the
Upper Mississippi river. Over sev-
en hundred delegates are to be invi-
ted from Chicago and towns ou the
Ohio, Mississippi, Illinois and Mis-
souri river valleys. The railroad
fares and the expenses of the dele-
gates while at St. Louis, will be paid
out of a fund raised for that purpose.
t
Clinsftd by a Monomaniac.
AY JOHN A. SUO'OH.
About a year ago I had occasion
to visit the remoto village of Ravens-
ward on business. Whilo there I
booame the recipient of a oordiAl in-
yitAtion to attend a reception at tho
house of Mrs, Sattorleo.
My first impulse was to decline,
but on maturo deliberation I doolded
to attend, and I did not regret it,
for it was a brilliant affair. Tho
rooms wore filled with tho elito of
U .
Among the many to whom I had
the pleasure of being introduced du-
ring the evening was a ccrtain Mr.
Morrill, lto was a noble lookin
man. Dark complexion, ilnoly-ntou
ded features, rather tail, and
together just suoh a person as was
my "beau ideal" of what nature In-
tonded man to bo, I (bund him to
bo eloquent and witty In tho extreme,
and wo had not oonversod long ero I
mentally pronounoed him tho most
gifted conversationalist I had ever
met,
I was strangely Interested in Mr,
Morrill, and when opportunity oifer*
ed, I asked Dr. Conner, with whom
I was on terms of intimacy, who ho
was that had so strangely interested
me, In answer to my Inquiries, he
told mo that Mr, Morrill was a law*
yer, who stood very high in his pro-
fession, and had been elected to the
Legislature about a month previous,
\ ou would not think, continued
the doetor, that he had ever been a
monomaniac If
A monomaniac Í No,
Well, he has been, Qeme out ou
¡he balcony, and Til tell you about
t, Two years ago, resumed he,
when wo were out of hearing. Mr.
Morrill was prostrated with the brain
fover) he was just beginning to
recover, when we discovered that his
mind was affected, lie imagined
limself deaf and dumb, but in every
other respect he was perfectly sane,
When ho was sufficiently recovered
io admit of his going out, he went to
lis office, and attended to his busi*
ness as well as a deaf man could,
He would converse with his partner
on paper, but nothing *" uld induce
lim to speak. We (nut! various
hey all proved ineffectual. His
wife was in the greatest distress. I
called ono morning and found her
weeping sadly on account of her
lusband. I resolved onoe moro to
;ry to oompel him to speak, and bo-
tare leaving had arranged a plan
with her whioh we hopod would
prove Buooessful. Although simple
you will see how effeotual it proved.
On the succeeding day I repaired to
his house about tne time I supposed
he would be at home to dinner. He
was seated at the dinnor tablo when
arrived. I bowed to him and
passed into the adjoning room. His
wife soon followed me. Wo had
purposely left the door ajar, in order
that he might hear us.
Mary, said I to his wife, I wish
you would leave Morrill and marry
me. He's a mean, stingy oíd rasoal.
If I—.
I'm a mean, stingy old rascal, am
I? said he, rushing in with a pair of
tongs, whioh he haa picked up.
Springing through the open win-
dow I rushed up tne street, running
at the top of my speed. He follow-
ed olose after mé. At first I rather
njoyed tho excitement, but it was
fast becoming serious. I was getting
tired, but dared not stop. He pur-
sued me sq closely that I had not
time to enter a house, soon there
were no houses to enter, for we had
left the village far in the distanoo.
On, on we eped, pursuer and pur-
sued. As you may well imagine, by
this time I was greatly exhausted,
and knowing if I continued my flight
muoh longer I must surely be over-
taken, I determined to turn round
and faoe my pursuer. I faced him
and in a few seoonds ho was up with
me.
Ho immediately aimod a blow at
my head with tne tongs, whioh he
had retained during the pursuit.
I stopped to one side and received
the blow on my left arm, unfortun-
ately shattering the bone. Wo then
olutohed, and immediately oommen-
oed a desperate struggle, lastin
sevoral minutos. In the disable'
condition in whioh the blow of the
tongs had plaood me, I felt I was
slowly but surely being ovorcome
and began to be seriously alarmed
for my safety, when suddenly his
hoMonme relaxed, and he lay mo-
tionless before me on the grass. It
was too much for human nature, and
in the oritioal moment he had sue
cumbed to exhaustion.
In the disabled condition in which
I was myself placed, I could do
very little for him but sit down and
wait for some one to come that way.
I had not waited long, when a farm-
team of oxen and an
oame along. With
er, with
empty wi
the help of a laborer, the farmer got
ua both into the wagon, and boro us
baok to the house we hAd left so
suddenly.
His wife was, of ocurso, muoh
alarmed on beholding him; but I
quieted her by saying this would
probably work an effeotual cure. A
physician was called who dressed my
arm. Mr. Morrill was immediately
put to bed, and before I left t had
the pleasure of soeing him in a
healthftd sleep.
The rest is soon told. He slept
through all the afternoon and night,
and into tho next day, and awoke
with his mind as olear as it now is.
Ho now stands an honorod legislator
and an ornament to his profession.
I recovered outlroly from my injuries
In a few weeks, and I often think of,
but do not rogrot, being chased by a
monomaniac.
Colli Water Nloqueuoe,
Paul Denton, a Methodist preach-
er In Texas, once advertised a bar-
becue, with better liquor than is
usually furnished. When the people
had assembled, a desperado in tne
crowd cried out. " Mr, Paul Denton,
your reverence has lied, You prom-
sed not only a good barbecue, but
better liquor, Where's the liquor T
"There, answered the missionary,
in tones of thuader, and pointing
his long, bony finger at the match*
less double spring, gushing up In
two strong columns, with a sound
like a shout of joy. from the bosom
of the earth, "There," he repeat-
ed, with a loek terrible as lightning
while his enemy actually trembled ai
his fretj "there is the liquor which
dod, the Eternal, brews tor his ehil*
dren, Not in tne simmering still,
over smoky tires, choked, poisonous
gases, and surrounded with the
steneh of sickening odors and cor
ruption, doth our Father In heaven
prepare the precious essence of life,
the pure cold water, But In the
I ado and glassy dell, whero the red
oer wanders, and the child loves to
play , there God brows It} and down
low in the deepest valleys, where the
fountain murmurs and the rills sing;
WfiiW <tk nn *un ¿la., tas 'gvtafoo «mee
old in tho sun; where storm-clouds
rood, and thunder-storms orash,
whore the hurricane howls musio,
and tho big wave rolls the chorus,
swooping tho mareh of God—there
Ho broWB it, boverage of life, health-
jiving water. And everywhoro it is
a thing of beauty, gleaming in the
dow-drop, singing in the ioe gem, till
tlioy seemed turned to living jewels;
sproading a golden veil ovor the set-
' mg sun, or a gauzo around the mid-
ignt moon, sporting in the cataraot,
dancing in tne hail shower; folding
its brignt snow curtain softly around
the wintry world, and weaving tho
many oolored iris, that seraph's zone
of the sky, whoso wrap is the rain-
drops of earth, woof and sunshine
of heaven, all checkered over with
the celestial floWers by the mystio
hand of refraction. Still, always it
is beautiful—that blessed life-water;
no poison bubbles on its brink, its
foam brings not madness and murder;
no blood stains its liquid glass; pale
widows and starving orphans weep
not burning tears in its depths!
Speak out, my friends, would you
exohange it for the demon's drink,
aloohol ?" A shout like the roar of
a tempest, answered, "No!"
Slavery to Punish Crime*
It seems to be taken for granted
that the emancipation amendment
authorizes slavery in punishment of
crime. Is this so sure Y "There
shall bo neither slavery nor involun-
tary servitude, except in punishment
of orime," is one thing. "There
shall be neither slavery, nor involun-
tary servitude except in punishment
of crimo," is another and very differ-
ent thing.
The first authorizes slavery or in-
voluntary servitude in punishment of
orime. Tho second prohibits slavery
absolutely and always, but pormits
involuntary sorvitudo as a ¡)unish-
mont of crimo. The seooud is as if
it read—"Thore shall bo no slavery
forever, and there shall be no invol-
untary servitude exoept in punish-
ment of orime." A comma makes
all the difference.
It would not do to prohibit44 in-
voluntary sorvitudo" absolutely.
Imprisonment to hard labor in State
prison or houBe of correction is 44 in-
voluntary servitude." This could
not well be prohibited. Wo do not
know how tno official copy of the
amendment is punctuated, but we
have little doubt that Congress meant
to prohibit slavery absolutely, but to
permit involuntary servitude as a
punishment.
And what is the 44 involuntary ser-
vitude" permitted? It is not
"«lavwy." Neither Nathan Daue
nor Thomas J «florean would have
used both
used both terms, "slavery and in- (fcnoy of their own, a farmer went to
voluntary servitude, if the meaning' a atoro in a neighboring towu and
and foreo of the two were the same, bought some coods, and nave th® mor.
They undoubtedly understood that
there was a distiction between them.
What, then, is the 44 involuntary ser-
vitude permitted as a punishment
of orime ¥ We apprehend that it
cannot bo servitude to a private per-
son, under his authority, for that is
" slavery." U must bo such u ser-
vitude" tas, under tho oommon law,
or before tho introduction of slavery,
was inflicted as a punishment for
crimo. And this is servitude to the
public, under authority of pulilio
offioers. Tkit servitude Congress
and tho people meant, in adopting
tho amendmout, to permit as a pun-
ishment, and wo apprehend that they
meant to permit uo other sorvitudo,
—Commonwealth,
What Tliey Want.
There is nothing like looking all
issues squarely in the (Hoe, weeding
out the mass of verbiage which sur-
rounds propositions, ami coining down
to naked 1
hear
ment
ked principles, Wo frequently
people growl about tho govern-
■«-about what It proposes to do,
and what they think it ought to do,
When we fallow their ineatu
t
When we fallow their meaning to it
dace of final retreat, and uncover
t from all the tall concealing words
that surround It, we find that they
think the government ought to do
nothing i that like an old maid the
war should die without Issue, The
paper, when change was acarea and
aomo large firms war* issuing oar-
nays toe larmer, " tins is
y, and wheu you get a
Hli, bring it to my place
*ive you a dollar for It,"
admit that they rebelled on a prlnob
tile they then thought, and now think
Is right \ they admit they were whip-
ped, nut they ask the general govern-
ment to proclaim a general amnesty,
and re-admit inte flic halls of legfs--
lation the very men who caused the
war and devastated this country with
bloodshed. They hoot at any idea
of disfranchising or disqualifying
these men fbr omee, because " they
are our best eitlnens," Personally*
John flmlth of Smlthvlile, may oe
pure as an angel, honest as was Aris^
tides, kiu^l and loving as was Saint
John i in short, ho may combine In
his own person all the moral virtues
and intellectual qualities of the bcat-
iflnitt ho tnav. Jhn. fit fptv to«tMiitUa¿
Confederate isms which cling to tho
skirts of secession, ho is unlit for a
soat in Congress. Liko tho young
man in the parable, ho lacks the ono
thing needful for whioh nothing else
oan atone. All that tho govornment
of tho United States exacts is soou-
rity for the futuro. It has tho power
to provide it; it will provide it. We
frequently hear gentlemen talk of tho
Stato granting negro suffrage ; wo
tell them that it is useless. lMie peo-
ple of tho North are not half so cla-
morous for negro suffrage as the
world supposes. They soo that Cuf-
fce is not to bo relied on as a voter.
Some people want tho govornmont to
accept their fidelity to the constitu-
tion, and trust them again. They
ought to know that confidence, like
iety, is a plant of slow growth,
here was a time when people be-
lieved in instantaneous conversion.
But that theory is now pretty well
expunged from the theology of the
day. Can the mind be any more
readily convertod from politioal than
from moral sin ? The people of tho
Northern States say to tho Southern
Eeople, 44 You are very good fellows,
ut you once had a club and a cane,
and vrere mighty near breaking our
heads with them, and we dont intond
that you shall get hold of that club
again." This may be very magnan-
imous, but it has a heap of worldly
wisdom in it.
The people of the North look on
us Bomewhat after the fashion of the
old rat in tho fable. A famous cat
had oaused great havoc among the
rats of a certain mill. Ho had
slaughtered tho young men and tho
maiaons of the crafty race. He had
spared neither its hope nor its beau-
ty. At last they became so wary
that he could not oapturo one for hi
breakfast, and was porforco woll nigh
starvod. He adopted rnanv expedi-
ents to deceive tnom; ana at 1
driven by long fasting, tied his tail
into a hard knot, aiicT hung himself
to a rafter that he might suddenly
drop on tho rata below. They were
all ueceived, save one. Thoy thought
their old oppressor was dead, a rat-
ankerous jubiloe was held ; they
would have rushed into tho danger,
but one old chap who had lost an
oyo, a claw and a piece of his tail in
his numerous confiiots, shook his
head tnd said: nay, nay, though lie
waa stuffed with straw, yet I would
not trust him. 44 So it is with tne
North : they will not trust power in
our hands until thoy fool perfectly
safe."—Flakr'e Bulletin.
A Goon Onh.—During the first
year of the war, saya a Bellows Falls
bought some goods, and gave the mer-
chant a five dollar bill, of which he
wanted seventy-five cents back,—
The merchant counted out the amount
and handed it over to the farmer lie
looked at it a moment Aud inquired s
44What's this?" *
" It's my currency," said the mer-
chant.
.!!'taint good for nothin' whero
1 live,' said the farmer.
** Very well," replied the merchant,
"keep it until you got a dollar's
worth, and bring it to my store, and
I will givo you a dollar hill for it,"
Tho farmer pocketed the change
and departed. A few weeks after he
wout into the same store aud bought
goods to the amount of one dollar,
and after paying over the Ideutieal
soventy-flve cents he took out a hand-
(\il of pumpkin seeds, aud counted
out twenty.flvo of them, and passed
them over to tho merchant,
" Why," says the merchant
"what's this r
" Wal," says the former, " this is
my currency
dollar's wort!.
and I will give you*
The following is the order In which
the original thirteen States adopted
the Constitution of the United Htates,
Acceding to a provision in the Con*
stltutlon, it became binding upon the
States ratifying it when adopted by
nine States, New Hampshire was
the important ninth State t
1. Delaware, December H, ITMT.
ti, Pennsylvania, December \%
1THT. '
ft, New Jersey, December 1#,
IW. , ^
4, Georgia, January á, t?NH,
A, Connecticut, January N, UHM,
Massachusetts, February t,
T. Maryland, April 8, IT88.
8, Houtn Carolina, May áé, 1788,
U. Mew Hampshire, June ill, It88.
10. Virginia, June 1788.
It. New York, July T, 1T88.
12. North Carolina, November IK
1788.
Ll. QI.B4*.I«Wi1. U«MtOO..ilNU,
adopted the Constitution unanimous-
ly and adjourned in a single day.
Tho Convention of Pennsylvania
adopted the Constitution by a voto of
40 yeas to 23 nays.
Tho Convention of New Jersey a-
doptcd the Constitution unanimously.
The Convention of Massachusetts
was composed of about 460 mombers,
and when it met was opposed to a-
dopting the Constitution. The ma-
jority for its ratification was only
nineteen votes.
When the Convention of New York
met, the opponents of the Constitu-
tion were about two-thirds of the
whole body. Alexander Hamilton's
logic and oloquence secured a major-
ity for it.
North Carolina remained out of
the Union more than eight months
after the new government went into
operation. The Convention met and
adopted " a resolution that a bill of
rights and ccrtain amendments ought
to bo laid before Congress and tho
Convention that might be called for
amending the Constitution previous
to its ratification by the State of
North Carolina," and the Convention
was then dissolved.
Rhodo Island remained out of the
Union for upwards of thirteen
months. The General Assembly, in-
stead of calling a Convention to con-
sider the Constitution, referred that
instrument to a diroct vote of the
eoplo at their town meetings. Only
82 voted for the Constitution; 2,708 ^
votod against it.
Subsequently the Legislature call-
ed a Convention, the Governor giving
the casting vote for so doing, in die
smaller branch of the Legislature.
The Convention adoptod the Consti-
of only two votes,
tion by a majority
the yeas being 84
and the nays
32.
Facktiai.—An elder in Michigan,
proaching about the triumphal march
of Christ into Jerusalem, remarked
that44 Christ oame with his dioiples
mounted on an ass, and the men, wo-
men and ohildren came out of tho
city, throwing thoir hats, shawls, clo-
thes, and evon pulling bushes from
trcos to throw in his way; but, *)>itt
of all obstruction*, ho rode into Je-
rusalem in triumph!"
Episcopal.—The following are
the statistics of the Episcopal Church
in the United States, 1867 : Bishops,
84 ; dioceses, 44; priests and dea-
cons, 2,483; whole number of clergy,
2,f>80; parishes, 2,805; confirma-
tions, 12,820; communicants added
last year, 14,130; total members,
161,284; Sunday School teachers,
17, 570; scholars, 157,518; contri-
butions, 4$3,051,689.
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Scott, G. R. The Southern Intelligencer. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 1867, newspaper, February 14, 1867; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth180085/m1/1/: accessed April 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.