uri pitched him over
to be succeeded by Do-Nothings. But to the story. Harrisburg has
wide, clean, brick sidewalks. Many of the poorer sort there kept
geese years ago, and sold or ate their progeny in the days of
November and December--the "_embers_ of the dying year." Jenkins
was up for constable. The question whether geese should run at
large was started. The Harrisburg geese made at times bad work on
the clean sidewalks, as do their examplars, spitting on the _pave_
of Broadway. A delegation of the geese-owners waited on Jenkins.
Seeing that they had many votes, he declared himself in favor of
the geese running at large. The better sort of people, who were in
favor of clean sidewalks, hearing of this, set up an opposition
candidate, who avowed himself opposed to having the sidewalks
fouled by these errant fowls. The canvass waxed warm; a third
candidate took the field; he put himself in the hands of an astute
"trainer" for the political fray. We don't know whether or not this
was before the day when Mr. Cameron counseled in politics at
Harrisburg, but his Mentor bid this new candidate, when the
delegations applied for his views on the all-absorbing issues, to
say nothing himself, but to refer to him, the Mentor aforesaid. And
when the delegations accordingly came to Mentor to find the
position of the third candidate, he said to each, with unction,
"You will find my friend sound on the goose question." Third
candidate was elected. His story got wind, and from that day till
Bull Run all the politicians of the land have striven likewise to
be 'sound on the goose question.'

Therefore let us be duly thankful that the time hath come when it shall
no longer advantage a man to say, 'Lo! I am sound,' or--as PRINCE
ALBERT was reported to reply constantly to his royal consort during
the early years of their marriage--'I dinks joost as _you_
dinks,'--since in these--days vigorous _acts_ and not quibbling words
are the only coin which shall pass current in politics.

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Never was there an institution which required such constant repairing as
'the great Southern system.' One of the latest and most terrible leaks
discovered is that of the danger to be apprehended from an influx of
vile Yankee immigrants after the North shall have been conquered. Unless
this is preven