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one of the log huts of the settlers, they talked over the 

 matter, and finally concluded to vote all one way, and 

 for this gentleman. It was a grave and solemn de- 

 liberation, and the sound, political maxims there 

 uttered were worthy of the momentouso ccasion that 

 called them together. Having folded up their some 

 dozen votes, they put them in a little wooden box with 

 a lid to it, and despatched a man with them eighty 

 miles distant to Glen's Falls, fifty of which were 

 through a dense forest. After several days' hard 

 traveling, he reached the place ; but instead of going 

 to the proper authorities, he went straight to the can- 

 didate's house, and opening the box, counted the votes 

 saying, " Here, them's all for you — every one of 'em." 

 The man laughed, and said that he was much obliged 

 for the votes, but they could do him no good, brought 

 in this informal way. 



I caught a terrible drubbing in a school house, the 

 other day, from a Methodist exhorter. Seeing me 

 present, and hearing or surmising that I was from 

 New York, he thought it was a good opportunity to 

 give his opinion of the inhabitants of that wicked 

 city. Among other severe things which he uttered, 

 he said the people were so affected that they could 



