The Lancaster Ledger

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Brother of the President.

Among all the charges that have been brought by a reckless and unscrupulous opposition against the present administration, that of nepotism, or favoritism to relations, cannot certainly be preferred as will be apparent from the following incident. One day last week a number of worthy and substantial farmers and drovers, who had been attending the Cambridge Cattle Market, congregated in the temporary depot at Porter's station, and the conversation turned on politics.— Some of the assembly were either whigs or freesoilers, and the way the Nebraska bill, the President, Judge Douglas, etc., were handled, was a caution to the friends of non-intervention. Presently, a sturdy looking farmer, with a clear pair of eyes and an honest face, put a question to the most violent declaimer—an out and out abolitionist which immediately arrested the attention of the whole company to himself.

The conversation then proceeded, but had not progressed very far before the sophistries of the abolitionist were exposed and refuted by the plain common sense arguments of the farmer. This was acknowledged on all sides, except, of course, by his opponent; and satisfied with his victory the farmer modestly retired from the place, leaving the company at liberty to scan his arguments and guess about himself at their leisure. 'He talked like a book,' said one. 'Yes—I hardly thought he was so well posted up,' remarked another. 'He looked rough but talked like a lawyer,' observed a third. 'But who is he?' was the question now generally put. At this moment Murray, the depot master, who had been quietly listening to their speculations, stepped forward, and in his quiet way, said: Gentlemen, that is Mr. Henry Pierce, of Hillsboro' county, New Hampshire—brother to the President of the United States.

And that was true. We learn that Mr. Pierce regularly attends the Cambridge Cattle Market every week, with some of the products of his fine farm in New Hampshire and is everywhere esteemed as an honest, high-minded, intelligent and Patriotic American citizen. What an interesting spectacle does this present? Here was the brother of the Chief Magistrate of one of the greatest nations on the face of the globe—a person qualified to fill many respectable posts, yielding handsome pecuniary emoluments—pursuing the hard and humble but ennobling calling of an American farmer, while a word from his brother in office could place him where his purse might be easily and lawfully gorged with the glittering cash of the public treasury. This is one among the many instances of the single-heartedness and usefulness of the President of the United States—Franklin Pierce.—Boston Post.