American Artisan Governors.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 17, 9 March 1870, Page 7

American Artisan Governors.

The death of John Tyler and of Franklin Pierce leaves Mr Millard Fillmore and MiAndrew Johnson as the only surviving exPresidents. Both of these eminent personages struggled up from poverty and obscurity. The following records show a curious parallelism in their early life : " Greenville, Tennessee, Nov. 7. 181 S. " This is to certify that it is my desire that my son, Andrew Johnson, is bound an apprentice to James J. Selby to learn the Taylor's Trade, and that he is to serve him faithfully until he is 21 years old. Andrew Johnson was born iu the year 1808, December 29. "Mary Daugutry, "by Turner Daughtry. *' " Sempronius (N.Y.), June 26, IS2O. " Dear Sir,—Peeling disposed to relinquish my study, I feel anxious to pursue my occupation again. Therefore I shall take the liberty to enquire of you if you have any journeymen engaged to dress cloth ; and if you have not, I should like to hire out to you, and would work cheap as I could possibly afford it. Please to accept my unfeigned respects, and present them to your amiable lady, and allow me to subscribe myself, your unworthy friend, " Z. Cheney." " W. Fir.LMORU. Mr Johnson has often referred with some pride to his humble origin, and there may still be seen over a door in Greenville the sign "A. Johnson, Tailor." When he was Governor of Tennessee he made with his his own hands a suit of clothes, and sent them to Mr Moorhead, Governor of the neighboring state of Kentucky. Governor Moorhead, who had originally been a blacksmith, as a return gift presented a shovel and tongs made by his own hands. The only other Presidents who commenced life as working men were Abraham Lincoln, who served on an Ohio flat-boat, and was afterwards a rail-splitter, and the present President, who was a tanner. It will be remembered that both the surviving ex-Presidents were originally elected as vice-Prosidents.

The village of Ewelf, near Epsom, lias been the scene of a shocking outrage. A man named Haggart, in order to bo revenged upon a woman who had refused any longer to cohabit with him, entered tho house where she lived, and threw a bag of gunpowder upon the fire. Tho perpetrator of the atrocity received such injuries in the explosion that he shortly afterwards died. Two other men in tho house were very seriously, and, it ia feared, fatally maimed; while the women escaped comparatively unhurt.