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Show Donn Ptatt JI?cts Parmer Grtelvy at Saratoga. Whilo descending the broad, beautiful beauti-ful stairway of the hotel, the other night, I f.iw my venerable agricultural friend, Horace Greeley, making bis way over tho marble floor, as if lacking heavily again; a head wind. My rural ru-ral friends, who study with amazement all that Horace knows about farming, niu-t not gather from this that I wean to intimate that my old cold-water friend way under the influence of Ktno, By no manner of mean?. I only luep.ii to express the impression the venerable philosopher makes upon mcwl.en he walks. Li, is so peculiar ha: I think, incontiacntiy, of a heavy .ica and head winds. Hallo! Mr. Greeley,". I faitl, shaking sha-king hbs agricultural arm in the heartiest hearti-est way, ''where did you como from ?" "New York," he responded, backing back-ing his journalistic behind against the bannisters of the stairway. ''And an excellent place to come from, is it not?" "I think so, since you have put it under Democratic rule. And you have come to open your agricultural bowels with the waters of Saratoga?" "No, I have not," he replied. "I am trying to harmonize the elements of this Republican party that you freetraders free-traders are striving to destroy." "An contraire, my guide, philosopher philoso-pher and friend. We are striving to purify and perpetuate the srreat party." "ies, by running off such men as Sehenck. See you have run off Schenck." "Thou can'st not .shake thy agricultural agricul-tural locks at us and say thou did'st it." "Yes I can. It was your d d stupid stu-pid hammering at him about the tariff that run him off. And it's a cursed ahame that the tendency of the day is to small potatoes. We are getting men into Congress that the place honors, and we wonder how the devil they got there. Schenck honors the place, lie is a remarkable man, of great benetit to the country, and ought to be sustained." sus-tained." "I acknowledge all that, and discovered discov-ered General Echenck's value long before be-fore you did, and I would be glad to see him returned to the House, and have worked hard to get him in the Senate. But then, Greeley, the trouble trou-ble about Sehenck is his deplorable ignorance ig-norance of the tariff. He don't know an much as you do, and he is as difficult diffi-cult to teach." The venerable philosopher's face, when I uitered this, was a study. It said, plain as words, "Well, 111 be d d! Here's impudence fur you." I don't know what explosion would have followed; but a tall, substantial-looking substantial-looking individual broke through the circle that surrounded us, at,d carted my big potatce off to introduce him to some ladies. |