VOLUME h WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., MAY 14, 1871. NUMBER 10.

For THE CAPITAL. only, that I was a disinterested friend of that your congressman proposes—what ? To devastate For THE CAPITAL. demanded notliing, he knew nothing, and his that the boat should be prepared, and said Into such a town ais this, and during court seen the page and serpent roll over together. your fair fields with weevil," (cheers.) THE FLOWERS. that she would go that day to Jersey. week, I once rode on horseback at the end of FAITH. farming interest which had once elected me, and Then he had drawn near to them. astonishment would have been very sad if- he But I cannot dwell on this phase of the cam- There's beauty in the flowers: She gave as a reason the tomb of her hus- a weary day, passed in a continuous mud-hole, In the crimson blush of twilight * whose continued suffrage and crops were dear to The dragon no longer stirred. had learned that the lady of Hambye, know- paign. I had to meet my competitor. How The morning's Mush, the tranquil skies studded with stumps and ornamented with That tells us the sun is low, my heart. Bah ! What in the name of Jackson, He called the husband of la Fargette, who ing that he was dying for her husband, de- band ; but hardly had she landed at la Roque- Comes a fairy with dew-drops laden. and so forth, was our candidate about when he I met him I need not say. When I was car- Of evening, with their thousand dyes; logs, that a benighted country called a road. The iris-arch the ocean crownB was near by, and they two carried the page a tested him. plate when she told her servants to go on be- From the mountain's crown of snow; broke the postal laws to send his infernal wheat ried off the stand by an enthusiastic and partial fore her, that she would rejoin them, and when Night had already closed in, and I was guided Tripping among Earth's flowers, Beneath the storm-king's dripping powers; short distance to a water source, without his She did not even need to remember that lie over the district ? If it were good wheat even— crowd, the last I heard him say, in his closing they were at a distance she turned all alone to the hotel by the thousand and one boys of She seeks out each faithfnl one if it were weevil proof—how could the fact be quarter of an hour, were the words, "WEEVIL, Or that deep blue stretching away giving any signs of life. Afterwards they had was only a page, a serviteur of little birtli and That trustingly held lip its blossoms towards the house of the leech. the place, and the noise issuing from the bar- proved until after the election, next year ? Heav- weevil, weevil;" while hurtling through the air, at Where silent stars in secret play diseijgaged the seigneur, who was still breath- less means ; the richest man and the most To the gaze of the parent sun. room, no less beastly and disagreeable. I ens ! That had not occurred to me. the heads of speaker, moderator, and committees, Behind the silvery sheen of day, ing, and they carried him to w^here the page noble would have been as repugnant to her. She wished to make him repeat the words Are not more beautiful than they. - On each patiently .waiting floweret from the hands of indignant Democrats, were So near to the death of her husband the idea of her seigneur, hoping that he had wrongly found the landlord shut up in a corner pen, All over the district, where my weevil had gone, There's beauty in the flowers. was lying. This fairy is bade to place my sacks were emptied, and .bitter, vindictive innumerable sacks of weevil. I learned after- reported them the first time, that she had dealing out liquid insanity to his customers. Dewy eyes to behold liis coming La Fargette's husband started to bring up of remarrying was frightful to her. Every- partisan opponents had filled the empty sacks wards that a census of that weevil shower was There's language in the flowers: misunderstood, that he had not spoken at all, To my request for supper and a bed he re- When to nature he shows his face; all the islanders that he could find, with lit- thing reminded her of her seigneur ; the step with the scrapings of their barns, their barrels, taken, and some fifty more sacks were miracu-' Bend o'er them when the sunbeams warm that she had imagined this discourse |in the sponded that I could eat my fill, but there was Then let us learn Christ's lesson ters, and meanwhile he, the leech, had washed from which lie mounted his horse, the dog their boxes, and their bags. Affidavits were pro- lously taken up that day than I had ever sent Their bosoms pulsing to the charm disorder of her first despair. not a bed unengaged or not occupied in the From the loved ones of the sod: That wakes to life their budding youth: the wounds of the injured men. that he loved, his chair at table, and their "Blessed are'the pure in heart, cured by my friends, which stated that on a dark forth. house. I persisted, until the wretch informed They speak of love, and hope, and truth; The pure water of the stream had revived bed. At night she sobbed bitterly upon her When she came near the house she was as- For they shall see their God." o. Y. : and rainy night two Radicals were seen going to This discussion had changed the tide. I gave me that there was a "fellar" in number six And on the air their breath-tones quiver for a moment the Seigneur de Hambye, who ; pillow, and, speaking to the departed as if he tonished by a loud tumult within ; and ad- a barn with a lantern, where they emptied my an honest account to the people of that wheat. Like star-rays on the placid river, vancing she soon recognized the voices of the occupying a dotible bed, and I could "roll in For THB CAPITAL. invaluable seed-wlieat upon the floor, and filled I begged to allow the genuine article one year to Reflecting Heaven's own poesy had even regained the force to speak, but had been alive before her eyes, she vowed to leech and of Harold. there " if so minded. the sacks with the awfullest offal. My wheat, grow. I ventured to predict the future fields, so Amid the dripping minstrelsy. feeling that lie had buta few moments to live, him eternal fidelity, which, alas ! he had not MY ANTI-WEEVIL CAMPAIGN. ' ' Wilt thou speak then ?" Harold was saying. which was proof strong as holy writ, was dishon- often devastated by this insect enemy of agricul- There's language in the flowers. he had demanded if the page had killed the asked. It was dismal, but my only hope ; so after ored by trifles light as air. It was shown up to BY THE HON. S. S. COX, M. 0. ture. I explained learnedly that It was a larva of dragon. Being assured of this, he had Madame Hélène never inquired about Har- "Mercy !" supplicated the leecli. the evening indigestion I climbed the rough prejudiced and gaping voters as "cheat." Itwas There's sadness in the flowers: " Speak, or thou diest !" the pentamerous beetles of the tribe trichop- For we do strew them on the bier breathed a sigh of satisfaction and had called old ; but the servants of the chateau, not stairs to number six. I was told by the land- I had been elected to Congress in 1856, on the worse than chaff. I will not say what these bitter Madame Hélène quickened her steps ; she tera. This was satisfactory. I described tlie Where sleep our dead so cold, yet dear; the page, who had not replied, being without knowing what she had against him, pursued lord to walk in without knocking, and did Buchanan ticket. But, somehow, I was a "Dou- partisans mixed with my unadulterated seed. I snout of the animal—how it digs into the inno- was on the threshold of the house when she recall especially one orator. His name absorbed And plant them on'the grave—rthe germ consciousness.. Then the seigneur had spoken lier with news of him. He was not dead; he so. glns man," though lmrdly a man at that time, in cent grain, and how the grubs burrow, when Of sorrow in the heart's deep urn. a quarter of the alphabet, and he made the weevil was slowly improving; his wounds were heal- caught the words of the leech. It was a cheerless room, Without carpet upon political experience. Kansas, bleeding and what hatched, and consume the seed. Placing my hand Th(jy graced the bridal once, and fell to him, the leech, had charged him with a question paramount. Was there any spot from "He said that his lady should take you for not, was rantipoled after us on our advent into upon my vest, I told how my heart yearned to And rose with the young bosom's swell; message for his lady, and had expired. ing; he was glorious in the island. She would the floor, or curtains to shut out the blank Fallsburg to New Holland, running over two hun- her husband. " Washington, in December, 1857. I was among eradicate this enemy of agriculture from the But when the light was gone, the gloom " What message ?" inquired Madame Hé- willingly have silenced them, but what reason night of the windows that seemed to stare dred miles of arable land ; fronfthe hazel bushes She did not enter, not wishing at least that the first, indeed the very first, to break the ice wheat field. "What! "J exclaimed, "when I Beheld them weeping o'er the tomb. lène. to give ? blindly in on one, and wink as the candle of Red Brush to the corn fields of that classic soil There's sadness in the flowers. . w. K. R. after Douglas' anti-Lecompton speech against the find a class of wheat impervious to these enemies The leech extended to her a ring. Once she had herself taken over to Jersey these words should have been said in her flared in the wind. I found my companion where Logan did not speak what Jefferson re- presence. Kansas policy of the Administration.. It waB also of your daily bread, am I to keep it a secret ? It was their marriage ring. to visit the place where would be the tomb of measuring off his dreams by snores, and un- the first speech in the new hall; hut it is memora- ported—was there one man, woman, or child who The door was half open, and she saw the Never! Let Kansas be blighted, and be bled with "And what did he say ? " she asked. her husband ; the boatman was about to land dressing " rolled in," as the landlord had sug- ble to me for other reasons. That speech cost me had not heard the voice of that orator denouncing MADAME HELENE. leech on the floor under the knee of Harold, my weevil fraud ? the foul curses of civil conflict, but save, oh save, "A word that must not be heard by him," as usiial at la Roque-plate, but she directed gested. My stranger turned over with some- much anxiety end a" couple of postmasters. The the fruitful fields of lovely Licking! Why,-fel- who held his sword at his throat. same " chop " which fed some hungry partisans [TRANSLATED FOB THE CAPITAL, FROM THE FRENCH OF replied the leech, pointing to the page. him to select another place, very far from the thing between a growl and a grunt, as I crept But I look back with delight to those friends low-citizens, the very woodpeckers (cheers for Harold released the leech, who arose all dis- citt off others. The attack on that speech was ter- A. YAQUERIE.] * They went into another room, from which, house of the leecli; and she returned in the to his side. who exercised their faith in my agricultural recti- Cox,) are the enemy of this your enemy. The red heveled and torn. rific, Points of order bristled like quills upon they started out the husband of la Fargette evening without having even pronounced the Tired as I was, I could not sleep. The bed- tude. Faith is so good in the dark. As the elec- oriole and thirblackbird (laughter) alike detest Skakespeare's pet. General Quitman, Bocock of Çontfnued. and the squire. page's name. " Why hadst thou concealed that from me ?" tick felt as if it were stuffed with grasshoppers, tion day approached this faith became more and destroy it. I would rathfer vote for a wood- Y. asked the page. Virginia, Jones of Tennessee, Judge Hughes of necessary. Nothing would do but I must meet pecker (renewed cheers for $ox) than for a man The three remained, she, the leecli, and the One day she was aroused by a noisy excite- and the pillows were of the sort to slip up When the Dame de Hambye had sobbed Indiana, et. alios, first tried, to prevent my speaking my opponent, in debate, on the weevil question. who ridicules my feeble attempt to stay the rava- dead. ment in the court of the chateau. As little "I had sworn secrecy to the dame de Ham- one's nose in the night, and be sneezed out and cried exceedingly without being able to bye, and you could not have made me apeak at all. How I managed to get through I can I agreed to it. It was my salvation. Before the ges of this insectiverous plague ! Let us raise, 01» " Well, then ?" she demanded. curious as she was henceforth of the occur- some time during the day. Besides this, my hardly tell. I liave a dreamy sense, while trem- arouse her seigneur from his death-sleep, except by violence. " day of debate Governor Corwin was sent for. The our banners and in our voices, the inspiring bat- "Madame," said the leech, "these are the rences that might happen, the movement and bedfellow snored abominably. It sounded bling like an aspen, of being recruited by the campaign was in his vein. He seemed to appre- she would have the whole calamitous story "Adieu," said Harold. tle cry, " Down with Weevil and up with Democ- last words of your seigneur : the cries caused her to go to the window. like a giant trying to blow "Old Hundred" sonorous voice of General Banks and the rotund ciate its points. He was a devotee of that racy!" (Cheers.) ' related to lier—how the dragon had Blain and Madame Hélène withdrew quickly behind "Iain dying, but first I wish to reward this ' It was Harold who entered the court-yard through a tin horn, without knowing exactly form of Humphrey Marshall. They shielded me It Is needless to say that this shibboleth was been slain, what her seigneur had done arid the angle of the wall and let the page depart, "Gossip fair and free, page, who has avenged me, and who would and the servants who were feting him. how. I bore this infliction as long as I could, on the points of order. caught up. Every Democratic meeting and pro- said, if lie had thought of her. who returned towards the seaside. Then, In Heaven yclept Euphroiyne— have died for me, by bequeathing to him, if She felt herself totter. She had hoped never and at last gave my friend a dig in the ribs,' But all this is a memory. Sic jacet in the cession was made resonant with the anti-weevil The husband of la Fargette had nothing without entering the house, she went away Globe. By men, heart-easing Mirth." he survives, that which I have most precious to see him again. exclaiming at the same time : He .came. Ha had been Governor, Senator, Sec- cry. Every hickory pole, rising above a sea of to relate, because, at the commencement of towards the place to which her servants had After much acrimony a compromise, called the in the world. My supreme wish, then, is that He was on horseback, clothed in black, and "I say," retary of the Treasury ; but, most of all, he had Democratic heads from a hickory wagon in a the combat, the page and the physician had preceded her. Théy had commenced to Exca- English bill, was introduced by Bill English of Democratic procession, was surmounted by a sack, my lady shall take him for lier husband- very pale ; when he wished to dismount they "Hillo—sh—what is it?" he asked, in a been, and yet was, the rarest of all the Buckeye told him to go far out on the route to warn vate the earth for the sepulcher of the seigneur Indiana. I voted for it. It was thought to be a inscribed with my name as the " anti-weevil can- had to support him. humorists and orators. the peasants not to approach. The combat de Hambye, but she was otherwise preoccu- confused way. safe middle course ;• as Train would say, a " tutis- didate for Congress." "Squatter Sovereignty, Behind him came two peasants bearing his I am sorry to disturb you, but I think it First lie went to Circleville. "What shall I ended, he had returned and had helped the It was consternation to Madame Hélène to pied ; she scarcely looked at the work of the 8»mm ibis"—you know the bird. Eheu! Then and Good Crops." armor—dinted, torn, stained with blood—and began my woes. How little they seem now, since speak about?" said he to the oommittee. That I leech to transport the bodies to a spring of hear such a speech. The supposition that she spades, and had herself carried home again.' my duty to inform you that I walk in my I was elected. I doubled my former majority. his triumphant sword. the great events of the war! I had ran between body, in full chorus, responded, " Weevil. Our water ; but the leech had sent him away sleep." member is dodging the Lecompton issue ; he ig- The next year proved me to be a friend of agri- could ever liave another husband than him Ascending to her chamber and arriving at two fires—the Buchanan Old Lines and the Dou- i again to seek for men and litters. Madame Hélène withdrew from the win- "Well, walk." nores the English bill ; he seeks to defraud honest culture. My wheat, when genuine, was free from whom she beheld without life, seemed to her the last step of the stairs, she found there the glas Young Americas. I have not b«lted much dow. "My christian friend, I am well aware that agriculture by seeking vote3 through weevil. the insect. Millions have been saved to those [ Madame Hélène entered the chamber where a cruel affront. page, who, most respectfully, asked her to since. ^ Soon some one came to say that the page this is a free country, and if a man wishes to Governor, hold him up to thè scorn of an indig- counties. That wheat is yet grown. Republi- the leech was watching at the bedside of the She became indignant with the leech, whom hear him, promising that this should be the My woes were worse when I reached Columbus, desired to present himself to her. She replied walk in his sleep there is no constitutional nant community." Corwin liked the issue. He cans clamored for it as children for Mrs. Wins- page. She spoke low to the leech : she charged never, to repeat that to her, nor last time. Trembling, ànd with much ¿mo- in the summer of 1858. That I was elected that* low's syrup, but' it took several seasons before that she was at prayers, and that she could not provision to prevent him. But I wish to re- told, me afterwards that he enjoyed that cam- I " Can I question him?" J • to any one else ; and she added that the page tion, she signed him to speak. year, from the capital Ohio district, is to me a Democrats would allow their radical neighbors to receive him. mark that if I do walk, you had better not in- paign. I ' ' Madame, he is dying. " was very fortunate not to have had his con- marvel. I think my youthful and unsophisticated have even seed wheat from my brand. On the morrow the same request, and the " Madame," said Harold, " I liave reflected. "Fellow citizens," he began, "your member terfere with me." sincerity saved me. I had endeavored to be very On my return from Congress in 1859, after liar- • "Ali, poor boy!" she said, "who follow sciousness when such things were said. You have done me the great favor to offer me has voted on bothsides of the Lécompton ques- same reply. But, as she perceived that lier "Oh ! walk ; I won't .say a word about it." just. vest, I addressed a meeting, and boldly put this faithfully thy master to the tomb!" "But The poor leech, unlucky messenger, swore the manor of Paisnel. I accept it, and, if you tion. He desires you to forget how he disliked women began to exhibit some surprise, she "Well, don't. When-addressed or inter- How I was elected^ is found in my little story. question : " If my anti-weevil wheat lias proved you," she resumed, "saw all this misfortune?" formidably to be secret all his life long. approve, I will set out this very moment.'' Buchanan and deserted Douglas. He would per- thought it best to make an end of the matter, fered with, I.am apt to get furious. I nearly When I began the campaign I was met by the Re- the salvation of your grain harvests, so have my • "Yes, Madame," replied the leech, brusli- Meanwhile a noise was heard, at first dis- " Very well ; go !" she said. All is pre- publicans denouncing the English bill and all who suade you that he is for free Kansas, and that if and on the third day she' commanded tl;em to brained a poor man with a dog-iron the other the people can't vote directly fo#it, under the antl-Lecompton votes proved tlie salvation of I ing away a tear. tant, then approaching nearer, until soon it pared long since, and you have only to present voted for it. I was a most peculiarly blistered summon the page. night." English bill tliey may vote it